The Food Supply Chain in Crisis
Meat processing plants, which were slow to institute effective protective measures for employees, have started to close amid mass cases of worker illness. Then yesterday President Trump signed an exec...
29 Apr 202010min
Letting States Go Bankrupt
With states facing their worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has suggested that he favors states declaring bankruptcy over additional federal aid....
28 Apr 202010min
Defining Essential Businesses
States that are starting to reopen parts of their economies are starting from different places. Decisions about whether companies were essential in the first place were made on a state-by-state basis ...
27 Apr 20209min
American’s Growing Unemployment Mess
This week brought 4.4 million unemployment claims, a drop from recent weeks, but still a dire sign for the economy and for working Americans. Dan and New York Times tax and economics reporter Jim Tank...
23 Apr 20209min
Tech Tracks Coronavirus
Last week, Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launched Rt.live, which tracks the infection rate of COVID-19 in each state. Dan is joined by Kevin Systrom, who discusses what Rt.live can...
22 Apr 202012min
Oil Breaks the Internet
Oil prices suddenly went negative Monday evening, a sign that oil supply is outpacing demand as travel by planes and cars dramatically decreases — but the historic nature of this price drop also speak...
21 Apr 20208min
Shake Shack Serves up its Loan
Shake Shack on Monday announced it would give back the $10 million it received via the Paycheck Protection Program, in the midst of circulating criticisms of the program’s application process and how ...
20 Apr 20209min
Europe’s Cautious Reopening
A handful of countries in Europe are attempting to reopen parts of their economies, and the rest of the world is watching for signs of success and strategies that can be emulated — but also for second...
17 Apr 20208min
