(Bloomberg Opinion) -- A large part of managing the economic disruption from the coronavirus crisis has been keeping businesses and individuals afloat amid the shutdown of large parts of the economy.

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Breadcrumb Trail Links Investing Turns out millennials have been sitting on an abundance of savings and they are using that to aggressively buy the coronavirus dip Author of the article: Published Apr

Published 17 April 2020 comments Share page About sharing Image source, AFP By Faisal Islam Economics editor @faisalislam How do you co-ordinate economic policy across the globe, when an invisible ene

Perhaps what happened in the stock market 100 years ago can offer clues. Bespoke Investment Group recently posted this chart of the stock market during the Spanish flu from 1918-1919, in which an esti

The United States is embarking on a rapid-fire experiment in borrowing without precedent, as the government and corporations take on trillions of dollars of debt to offset the economic damage from the

WSJ News Exclusive Business Amazon Retools With Unusual Goal: Get Shoppers to Buy Less Amid Coronavirus Pandemic Retailer cancels Mother’s Day promotions, uses other tools to limit strain of order sur

It’s the End of the World Economy as We Know It Experts suggest there will be “a rethink of how much any country wants to be reliant on any other country.” By Published April 16, 2020 Updated April 20

As the COVID-19 death toll in the United States continues to climb, American stocks are, in a grim divergence, recovering lost ground. It isn’t clear precisely why locally-listed equities have risen i

States Are in a Quandary as Taxes Evaporate and Virus Spending Soars With businesses closed and obligations mounting, state governments are looking at a mix of remedies. A shopping district in Short N

Bristol, N.H., on Newfound Lake, has lost hundreds of jobs during the coronavirus pandemic. Credit... John Tully for The New York Times ‘This Is Going to Kill Small-Town America’ Once the coronavirus

Published 14 April 2020 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images By Szu Ping Chan Business reporter, BBC News The global economy will contract by 3% this year as countries around the world

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Economic Pain Will Persist Long After Lockdowns End President Trump has predicted an economic boom once stay-at-home and other restrictions are lifted. But economic activity is likely to remain subdue

The week began with a warning that America was about to enter the worst days of a once-in-a-generation pandemic that would kill thousands of Americans and overrun hospitals and medical supplies. Brace

Everything Is Awful. So Why Is the Stock Market Booming? Investors are betting that powerful interventions from Washington will protect the long-term profitability of major companies. By April 10, 202

Global Trade Sputters, Leaving Too Much Here, Too Little There As the pandemic stretches on, consumers and businesses could run short of some products in months to come. Empty shelves at a Brenham, Te

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The coronavirus, like other plagues before it, could shift the balance between rich and poor. By Walter Scheidel Mr. Scheidel is a professor of classics and history at Stanford University. In the fall of 1347, rat fleas carrying bubonic plague entered Italy on a few ships from the Black Sea. Over…

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Published 8 April 2020 comments Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Coronavirus has halted many global deliveries By Andrew Walker BBC World Service economics correspond

Social distancing and other aggressive efforts to stop a pandemic will help the economy recover better after a public health crisis like the current coronavirus outbreak, a new study finds. The study

4 Min Read (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co's top boss, Jamie Dimon JPM.N , on Monday said he sees a "bad recession" in 2020, and that the largest U.S. bank could suspend its dividend if the coronaviru

Evan Schade, 26, and Kaitlyn Gardner, 23, lost their jobs in Kansas City, Mo., and have just over $1,000 between them. Credit... Shawn Brackbill for The New York Times Young Adults, Burdened With Debt

The Intelligent Investor An account called @Nonrelatedsense showed that some of the smartest minds in investing are learning, and having fun, on Twitter By Jason Zweig July 19, 2019 11:00 am ET Illust

WSJ News Exclusive Economy State Shutdowns Have Taken at Least a Quarter of U.S. Economy Offline Eight in 10 U.S. counties are under lockdown orders, according to a study, and they represent nearly 96

The Covid-19 Slump Has Arrived But we’re already botching the response. April 2, 2020 By Opinion Columnist Over a normal two-week period we’d expect around half a million U.S. workers to file claims f

The Unemployment Rate Is Probably Around 13 Percent It’s almost certainly at its highest level since the Great Depression. Here’s how we estimated it. By Published April 3, 2020 Updated April 16, 2020

A Widening Toll on Jobs: ‘This Thing Is Going to Come for Us All’ After the initial impact of shutdowns on a few industries, the coronavirus pandemic is leaving a much broader swath of unemployment. C

Personal Finance Some businesses suspend their contributions to employees’ 401(k) plans rather than reduce health benefits in pandemic April 1, 2020 Amtrak is one of the companies shrinking its 401(k)

Why the Global Recession Could Last a Long Time Fears are growing that the worldwide economic downturn could be especially deep and lengthy, with recovery limited by continued anxiety. St. Peter’s Squ

In the last month, the $21 trillion U.S. economy endured a remarkable and disorienting reversal, plunging from prosperity into an unprecedented deep freeze. The coronavirus has left businesses from gi

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The Nordic Way to Economic Rescue In the face of the pandemic, Denmark is effectively nationalizing private payrolls, in contrast to the patchwork American system. A view of central Copenhagen. In Den

The financial crisis of 2008 was caused by homeowners defaulting on their mortgages en mass thanks to risky loan products that were destined to fail. The bonds those mortgages were bundled into collap

2008: Traders at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange despairing early in the financial crisis. The author recalls shocked reactions when — with the market plunging and others boasting they’d had the fores

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One Simple Idea That Explains Why the Economy Is in Great Danger What happens when a major section of machinery that is supposed to run perpetually suddenly grinds to a halt? We are about to find out.

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