While North Carolina and other states have largely recovered from the economic costs of the shutdowns of 2020 and 2021, the same can’t be said for the economic costs of the federal government’s policy errors during the pandemic. By adding trillions of dollars to the federal debt while vas...
By October 2020, the trend in violence against civilians has roughly returned to pre-lockdown levels. Other countries, such as Uganda, also implemented strictly enforced policies. Fig. A5, in the Supplemental Online Appendix, documents trends in Uganda where the government strictly enforced a ban ...
The shutdown was profoundly strange and has had lasting effects on our national psyche. But memories fade, circumstances change, opinions shift. Three years later, the decision by local, state and federal government officials to limit spread of the virus continues to spark rancorous battl...
By mid-March 2020, it was clear that a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) had reached the shores of the United States. State-mandated lockdowns temporarily shuttered many nonessential businesses, the U.S. government instituted travel bans to many countries, and, among businesses still open, many ...
government will basically issue an IOU to the market and the rest of the world to borrow money. It will then pay this back with income from taxes and other sources over the next several years. "So that's going to be a very very huge debt," Qu said. Beyond U...
government will get an additional 100 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, expected to be delivered in the second quarter of 2021 if authorized. Shares of the company were up 2.8% at $161.30 after the bell. The government has ordered a total of 200 million ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Echoing a discredited conspiracy theory, vulnerable Republican Sen. Joni Ernst is suggesting government statistics on coronavirus infections and deaths have been inflated.
In fact, “if economic trends continue at this rate, one in five business owners anticipates they won’t make it until the end of the year,” Kevin Kuhlman, the vice president of federal government relations for the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), a nonprofit small-busines...
2022). In late January 2020, the Chinese government imposed three stringent containment policies in various cities to prevent the rapid spread of the disease (Fang et al. 2020; Qiu et al. 2020), which considerably reduced the transmission rate and spread of COVID-19 (Alekseev et al. 2022;...
The Swiss government’s laissez-faire approach exploded into a diplomatic stand-off in early December as the country refused to force its ski resorts to close, to theanger of its Alpine neighbours. On December 18, however, Bern was forced to order a nationwide shutdown of restaurants, bars ...