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Long before the coronavirus crisis began, the share of payments made using paper money had been falling. But the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated us towards a cashless future. Is the end of cash ahead? Or is that exaggerated?Ben Chu (The Inde
Joe Biden is going to inherit a United States ravaged by the Covid crisis, with surges in coronavirus cases and deaths. But he'll also need to deal with a country divided on a huge range of issues, including economic policy. What is Bidenomics?
The coronavirus pandemic has forced governments around the world to borrow huge sums and push up their public debts in order to support businesses, protect incomes and save lives. How long will it be before the government can realistically bala
Digital technologies, such as Zoom, WhatsApp and Amazon have helped people during coronavirus lockdown restrictions around the world. Share prices in big tech firms have soared as a result, but what does this mean for the rest of us?Ben Chu (T
The coronavirus pandemic has emptied cities of workers, bars and restaurants have been closed and public transport systems have been bankrupted. But will Covid mark the end of the era of the 'Triumph of the City' and usher in a period of urban
The Covid-19 pandemic is a health crisis, but also an economic one. Economists and epidemiologists are now working together, merging their models and creating the new discipline called “epi-macro”. But how will it work? And will governments lis
The coronavirus pandemic has underlined the many deep social and economic fractures within countries - divides of race, class, education and income. But will it end up exacerbating them too? Could the pandemic end up making for a more equal pla
Could Covid-19 provide a chance to reset international trade relations? Can the US and China reach a ceasefire in their trade war? And what will become of Britain after Brexit?Ben Chu (The Independent) and Lizzy Burden (The Telegraph) speak to
The coronavirus crisis has plunged us all into a world of quite extraordinary economic confusion. What are the implications of this confusion? Should it change the way policymakers think? Should it prompt reform of the discipline of economics i
During the Covid-19 crisis we have tended to look to national governments to act, expecting them to pull every lever available to protect life. But have we been looking in the wrong place? Are local, state and regional authorities – often with
Recent decades have seen an unprecedented peak of economic global connectedness. But that trend was visibly weakening well before the coronavirus pandemic and now many think the coronavirus crisis might put globalisation into reverse. But is th
Lord Peter Mandelson and Hamid Mamdouh join CoronaNomics to discuss Covid-19's impact on world trade. Even before the coronavirus pandemic, global commerce was under severe strain. Economic nationalism, trade wars and a crisis within the World
The United States of America is the most prosperous, the most powerful, country in the world. But it’s also the nation that has suffered the highest number of deaths from this coronavirus pandemic. The US job market also seems to be suffering m
Cass Sunstein & Stephen Reicher on using psychology to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. The careful study of how ordinary people actually make decisions and how those decisions can be influenced has been at the vanguard of innovative policy
With the majority of the world’s population in lockdown and the world consequently heading for what may well end up being the biggest economic shock of modern times, the world is looking to vaccination as the only way to return to prosperity an
Has pandemic has caused financial markets to disconnect with the real economy?Ben Chu (The Independent) and Lizzy Burden (The Telegraph) speak to Jim O'Neill (former UK Treasury Minister & chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management) and Willem
The world’s poorest countries may not be able to respond to the pandemic with financial rescue packages, healthcare and other support - leading to warnings of dire economic fallout, infection rates and even mass starvation. So what can be done?
How should policymakers balance life and death with jobs, incomes, mental health and education? Is there a way we can consider all these factors at the same time? Do we have the statistics to do it? And are the measures we’re currently using al
With countries all over the world on lockdown, is capitalism effectively on pause? What are the long-term impacts? Is the pre-crisis system of free-market capitalism capable of guiding the response?Ben Chu (Economics Editor of The Independent)
Since the beginning of March, Western government have stepped in and become involved in their economies on a scale never seen in peacetime. But are governments getting involved in the right way?Ben Chu (The Independent) and Lizzy Burden (The T
Amidst huge global uncertainty, one thing we can say for sure is that recession is coming, brought on by lockdowns ordered by governments in order to prevent the spread of a dangerous new coronavirus. So what does success look like?Ben Chu (Th
The pandemic began in East Asia but governments there - from China, to South Korea, to Japan, to Taiwan and Singapore - have been credited with coping far more effectively than some of their counterparts in the West. So are there lessons to be
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