The 2020 mentions “Curbing Wall Street Abuses” but the Democrats’ relationship with finance is complicated. — Over the last several decades the American economy has become much more reliant on finance to generate economic growth and profits, which is often referred to a “financialization.” In the late 1940s finance, insurance and real estate accounted for about 10% of the value added in the U.S. …

State Responses to COVID-19, State Reputations and Long-Term Economic Health By Profs. Christopher Witko and Michael Nelson The most important thing governments could do to get the economy back up and running is to contain COVID-19. But, in the absence of any national strategy to contain COVID-19, the tradeoff between…