COVID Economy

Oil Can Harry by Nancy OhanianYesterday, Judd Legum's newsletter, Popular Information, revealed that the top recipient of funds intended for

Even if you're not as well-off as David Geffin and sailing your yacht around the Grenadines, wealthy Americans-- particularly wealthy white Americans-- seem less likely to be infected by COVID-19 and less likely to die of it if they are.

Some states-- most of them blue-- pay far more into the federal government than they get out. Kentucky-- like many more economically backward red states-- get much more than they pay in. The 6 states that pay the most per capita for the least return are Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Colorado and Nebraska.

COVID-45 by Nancy OhanianThis list is each state in order of population:

MAGA by Chip ProserMany people woke up this morning and read Peter Bakers' NY Times column, The Cold Calculations America’s Leaders Will Have to Make Before Reopening in the context of Georgia's crackpot governor's decision to start reopening mostly businesses catering to and operated by minorities.

One of the reasons-- there are many-- I'm not planning on voting for Status Quo Joe is because of his career-long goal of wrecking Social Security and Medicare on behalf of the wealthy donors who have financed his entire career. Biden has tried again and again to weaken social safety net programs and he has always been one of the very worst of the austerity politicians in the Democratic Party.

Trumpists are on the march. Members of the GOP Death Cult have been holding noisy organized protests in Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Kentucky, demanding businesses be opened so they get to escape their horrid spouses and get back to their dull, unfulfilling meaningless jobs.

The COVID-KingRemember when the White House was telling everyone masks don't work and not to get them. At the time, we warned DWT readers they were lying and that it was only a matter of time before masks became compulsory. They became compulsory in L.A. last Friday. The country is still a long way off for that to become national policy-- but the Trumpist regime has never been serious about flattening the curve anyway.

On Monday, Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna jointly rolled out a bicameral call for an Essential Worker Bill of Rights to be included as part of a broad emergency relief package that’s needed to address the public health, economic and democratic crises the country is facing right now. The Essential Worker Bill of R

This morning, the IMF released its annual World Economic Outlook report, which predicts that "this year the global economy will experience its worst recession since the Great Depression, surpassing that seen during the global financial crisis a decade ago.