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The administration released the Spring 2020 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. Its purpose is to lay out... Read More
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The American economy's unprecedented jobs rebound masks a difficult truth: For millions of people, the jobs they lost are never coming back. Read More
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The first-to-reopen state maintains a Covid-19 death rate well below those of northeastern statesâ?"though you'd never know it from the... Read More
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The loan program to help firms keep paying their workers had many beneficiaries. Among them was the capital's permanent political class. Read More
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The global pandemic has laid waste to the world economy, and one set of casualties of the steep global recession has been a large swathe of acquisitions that were agreed to prior to the Covid-19 crisis. These transactions were scuttled by the acquirer simply because the post-pandemic value of the company no longer justified the pre-pandemic negotiated price. In two high-profile deals that re... Read More
