Record Spike in US Jobless Claims – 16.5 million in three weeks

Record Spike in US Jobless Claims – 16.5 million in three weeks

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-09/third-week-of-big-u-s-jobless-claims-sees-6-61-million-filings

Jobs Aren’t Being Destroyed This Fast Elsewhere. Why Is That?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/opinion/coronavirus-economy-saez-zucman.html

European Approach to Limiting the Damage to the Labor Market

https://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2020/03/germanys-kurzarbeit-program.html 

Pandemic Socialism?

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/covid19-pandemic-requires-socialism-by-willem-h-buiter-1-2020-04