Quick Notes

• 2020-05-29

  GDP minus 52% percent in Q2! (Atlanta Fed)

  Your favorite deity, help us now.

• 2020-05-25

  Even the optimists have doubts now

  Farhad Manjoo feels “the coronavirus and our disastrous national response … has smashed optimists like me in the head.” Wondering what he’ll say when climate breakdown hits for real.

• 2020-05-25

  Nuance in the press is possible even in 2020

  Slate writes: “The Apple-Google Contact Tracing System Won’t Work. It Still Deserves Praise.”

• 2020-05-19

  We need to rethink our value systems

  Indeed we must, on housing, on food, and many other things thrown into focus by COVID-19 and climate breakdown. It’s also the title of a piece by my friends Kaliya Young and Karen Studders in foreign-policy-focused magazine Diplomatic Courier. My question, however: how likely is that we/all/enough of us will, and what’s the next step if we don’t?

• 2020-05-18

  42% percent won't come back

  According to this U Chicago working paper, that many jobs lost in the US due to COVID-19 will not come back.

• 2020-05-04

  Three Russian doctors fall from hospital windows

  Move along, that happens all the time. Civil liberties are fine, what were you thinking?

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