Annie Lowrey
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Ricardo Arduengo / Getty This Summer Will Scar Young Americans for Life
With jobs and internships canceled, Generation Z is entering a summer of uncertainty—and the damage could last forever.
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Chip Somodevilla / David Degner / Joe Raedle ... Don’t Blame Econ 101 for the Plight of Essential Workers
They’ve been systematically devalued for years. But they don’t have to be.
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Elena Dorfman / Redux The Small-Business Die-Off Is Here
Many small businesses won’t survive, and that will change the landscape of American commerce for years to come.
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Jeff Roberson / AP Cancel Rent
Even before the pandemic, three in five renters could not come up with $400 in an emergency. How are they supposed to get by now?
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Getty / The Atlantic Millennials Don’t Stand a Chance
They’re facing a second once-in-a-lifetime downturn at a crucial moment.
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Drew Angerer / Getty The Economy Is Collapsing. So Are Trump’s Reelection Chances.
This year’s projected headline numbers look dire for the president.
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Getty images / The Atlantic We Need to Start Tossing Money Out of Helicopters
It’s the best option in such extreme circumstances.
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Aleksandar Dickov / Shutterstock / Paul Spella / ... Where Is the Government?
Many businesses are already insolvent, have already shut down, have already lost their employees.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters An Invitation to Corruption
As long as lawmakers are allowed to trade individual stocks, disaster profiteering is always a risk.
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Drew Angerer / Getty This Is Not a Recession. It’s an Ice Age.
No one alive has experienced an economic plunge this sudden.
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Sarah Silbiger / Bloomberg / Getty As Usual, Americans Must Go It Alone
Our political system is not set up to move quickly and boldly.
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Bryan R. Smith / AFP / Getty The Fed Did Not Just ‘Spend’ $1.5 Trillion
Despite criticism from the left, there’s a strong progressive case for the Fed’s actions.
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Timothy A. Clary / AFP / Getty The Stock Market Is Tanking. Do Nothing.
Timing the market is a game for professionals, not amateurs. And most professionals are terrible at it too.
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Seth Wenig / AP The Coronavirus Recession Will Be Unusually Difficult to Fight
Consequences will linger even after the virus dissipates.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Young People Don’t Care About the U.S.S.R.
Older people still see socialism and communism as dangerous, authoritarian political systems, whereas younger people are more likely to see them as economic systems, and to care far less one way or another.
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Mark Felix / AFP / Getty Just How Rich Is Michael Bloomberg?
Imagine Yankee Stadium filled with individuals worth $1 million each; Bloomberg is richer than all of them combined.
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Berniephobes Are Wrong
Wall Street fears the rise of the Vermont senator. The rest of America has less to worry about.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic The Great Affordability Crisis Breaking America
In one of the best decades the American economy has ever recorded, families were bled dry.
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Associated Press Trump Didn’t Make This Economy
The low unemployment rate, decent wage growth, and solid corporate earnings are all artifacts of a long expansion, not signs that a very stable genius in the White House has unleashed American enterprise.
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Contributor / Getty What Do Wolfdogs Want?
The animals are a human creation. They belong neither in homes nor in the wild.
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