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Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Expected/Unexpected Consequences of the Coronavirus Shock

China’s Divorce Spike Is a Warning to Rest of Locked-Down World
“Although China publishes nationwide statistics on divorce only annually, media reports from various cities show uncouplings surged in March as husbands and wives began emerging from weeks of government-mandated lockdowns intended to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. Incidents of domestic violence also multiplied. The trend may be an ominous warning for couples in the U.S. and elsewhere who are in the early stages of isolating at home: If absence makes the heart grow fonder, the opposite might be true of too much time spent together in close quarters.”

Critics of Stock Buybacks Will Outlast Coronavirus

The coronavirus may sink the cruise-ship business

Covid-19 Changed How the World Does Science, Together