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Fighting the recession: money, not debt

The coronavirus crisis is forcing Western policymakers to bend their principles: lawmakers in the United States have just approved 2.2 trillion dollars in emergency spending; the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen,…

La partita economica europea: capire i dettagli

Il 20 febbraio si è conclusa senza esito una riunione del Consiglio europeo dedicata al nuovo quadro finanziario pluriennale. I Capi di Stato e di Governo dell’Unione cercavano senza raggiungerlo un consenso sulle risorse da attribuire al…

Why the pandemic’s data can be misleading

It is imperative to recognize the limitations of the mathematical models with which experts are analyzing scenarios and forecasting the potential death toll of the coronavirus pandemic. The limitations of these models and the wide degree of…

A bazooka of words

“We are at war,” President Emmanuel Macron stressed six times as France slipped into lockdown to halt the spread of the coronavirus. “We are at war (…), fighting an invisible enemy,” US President Donald Trump echoed from the other shore of…