The Case For More Federal Action To Combat COVID-19
A Nobel prize-winning economist on what it might take to get our economy growing again.
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We just got off the phone with Paul Romer, the NYU economist who won a Nobel Prize in 2018 for his research on economic growth. We thought it might be a good time to talk about the future of the economy. He scared us. But he also had a plan.
He described the current national conversation over what to do about the coronavirus as a
