Since economic orthodoxy is so completely embedded in our thinking, escape from it demands more than a short-term spending splurge to prevent immediate economic collapse, vital though that is. We must dig deeper to uncover the economic roots of the mess we're in. Putting it more positively, what do we want from post-coronavirus economics?
Mainstream economics has taught us that the only rational way to deal with an uncertain future is to quantify it, by assigning a probability to every possibility. But even with the best expertise in the world, our knowledge often falls far short. Frequently we struggle to predict which outcomes are more likely. Worse still, there may be outcomes we haven't even considered, futures that no one had imagined, as the pandemic has so vividly shown.
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UAE orders government shakeup as virus erodes economic gains
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates announced a wide-ranging government shakeup on Sunday aimed at creating a more flexible and modern bureaucracy to tackle challenges as the coronavirus and lower oil prices erode what was already sluggish economic growth.
The UAE prime minister and ruler of the emirate of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, published the ministerial changes on his Twitter account, saying the goal was to create a "government that is faster in decision making and is more up to date with changes."
The big factor holding back the U.S. economic recovery: No childcare - The Washington Post
The child-care crunch triggered by the pandemic has rapidly become a crisis for many workers and companies that is hindering the economic recovery, disproportionately harming women and threatening to leave deep scars for years to come.
A consensus is emerging among top economists and business leaders that getting kids back into day cares and schools is critical to getting the economy back to normal. And the American Academy of Pediatrics warned this week that keeping children out of school in the fall would threaten a degree of "social isolation" for children that could lead to mental and physical harm.
India's Retaliation Against China Carries Economic Costs - WSJ
But further steps to roll back economic integration would be at least as painful for India as China.
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July 4th favorites: Hot dog and hamburger economics | Fox Business
Statistics help explain the phenomena: Around 150 million hot dogs are consumed on the holiday, according to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council – and that’s not including the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island.
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Beyond the national holiday, an estimated 20 billion hot dogs are consumed every year. Price tag: $6.2 billion in 2019, when including sausages, according to the council.
Conversely, Americans consumed 2.4 burgers per day on average, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is equivalent to about 50 billion burgers per year.
COVID-19 has exposed economic inequalities | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Buttonwood - Why zero interest rates might lead to currency volatility | Finance & economics
A GENERATION OF English cricket fans know the Aussies are loth to surrender a lead. For much of the past two decades, Australia has been a high interest-rate economy. But not any more. In March the Reserve Bank of Australia ( RBA ) cut its benchmark cash rate to 0.25%. That is the lowest interest rates have ever gone, and as low as they are likely to go. To signal its intentions that rates will stay put, the RBA has pledged to fix three-year-bond yields at 0.25%.
The Australian case is telling. Near-zero interest rates are the norm in rich countries. Very low interest rates are common elsewhere, too. Indeed, among the more prosperous sort of emerging market, only Indonesia, Mexico, Russia and the inflation-prone Turkey have short-term interest rates above 4%. Rock-bottom rates have gone global to a much greater extent than after the financial crisis of 2007-09. And a lot of central banks, like the RBA , are committing themselves to keeping rates low.
India can't replace China at manufacturing, not without paying more: Economics commentator
New Delhi: The Indian government has to provide a lot more support to sustain demand, said Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator at The Financial Times, adding that the government could directly provide more money to the people.
In a conversation with Editor-in-chief Shekhar Gupta at ThePrint's digital Off the Cuff , Wolf said the Centre should have gone stronger on the fiscal stimulus, especially given that the economy is forecast to be headed towards a contraction in 2020-21.
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