2008 financial crisis 
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SOURCE: Foreign Policy
4/9/2020
The Normal Economy Is Never Coming Back
by Adam Tooze
The latest U.S. data proves the world is in its steepest freefall ever—and the old economic and political playbooks don’t apply.
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SOURCE: Vox
4/9/2020
Can a Pandemic Remake Society? A Historian Explains.
It’s happened before. Here’s what it would take to happen again.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/5/2020
The Worst President. Ever.
Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis has cemented him as the worst president in American history, argues historian Max Boot.
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SOURCE: Foreign Policy
4/1/2020
America Is Ailing—and Leading the World
by Adam Tooze
The coronavirus pandemic has been a humiliation for the United States—and confirmation of its unmatched international power.
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SOURCE: Vox
3/28/2020
What Both the Left and the Right Get Wrong About the Coronavirus Economic Crisis
Financial historian Adam Tooze on the lessons policymakers need to learn, and fast.
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SOURCE: Vox
3/30/2020
“This One Is Scarier”: Obama-Era Officials Say Current Economic Crisis Is Fundamentally Different From 2008
The Great Recession in 2008 was supposed to be a once-in-a-generation economic calamity. Just 12 years later, the United States is facing a far more daunting crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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SOURCE: Tropics of Meta
3/19/2020
Hospice of the Creative Class
by Alex Sayf Cummings
No event has so starkly revealed the brutal inequalities of contemporary capitalism as the coronavirus pandemic.
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SOURCE: The Nation
3/19/2020
The Stimulus Plan That We Need Now
The greatest mistake would be to repeat our errors from the Great Recession.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/19/2020
This Recession is Going To Be Bad. Really Bad.
It is possible that the impending recession could be more devastating than the 2008 financial crisis.
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