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AMA: COVID-19 and the Economy

AMA: COVID-19 and the Economy

FromPitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer


AMA: COVID-19 and the Economy

FromPitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

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Length:
27 minutes
Released:
Apr 7, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

How bad will this recession be? Why is Congress bailing out big corporations that had record profits last year? What would happen if stock buybacks were permanently eliminated? This week, Nick and Goldy answer your questions about the economy in the time of COVID-19. 

Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com/
Twitter: @PitchforkEcon
Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics
Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer
Released:
Apr 7, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Any society that allows itself to become radically unequal eventually collapses into an uprising or a police state—or both. Join venture capitalist Nick Hanauer and some of the world’s leading economic and political thinkers in an exploration of who gets what and why. Turns out, everything you learned about economics is wrong. And if we don’t do something about rising inequality, the pitchforks are coming.