News Roundup - May 13, 2020
Below is a sampling of news articles that caught our eye as they relate to the economic response to Coronavirus. They are non-exhaustive. Some links may be behind a paywall. We will update this on weekdays.
- Geopolitics and technology threaten America’s financial dominance by Matthieu Favas
- Incomes have crashed. How much has unemployment insurance helped? by Ryan Nunn, Jana Parsons, and Jay Shambaugh
- Spanish herd immunity is still far off, study finds by Daniel Dombey and Camilla Hodgson
- Fiscal stimulus ‘worth it’ to tackle pandemic, says Fed chief by James Politi and Martin Arnold
- Soaring Prices, Rotting Crops: Coronavirus Triggers Global Food Crisis by Yaroslav Trofimov and Lucy Craymer
Researchers across the globe are putting together incredible resources for understanding and tracking the coronavirus pandemic. It can be quite hard to keep up with it all. To help, Lukas Lehner has put together an incredible resource pulling it all together: "A Tracker of Trackers: COVID-19 Policy Responses and Data"