coronavirus

The Most Realistic Economic Forecast Is Awful

Predictions of a second-half rebound are based on dubious assumptions. By Narayana Kocherlakota March 21, 2020 This is rush hour.Photographer: David ‘Dee’ Delgado/Bloomberg Narayana Kocherlakota is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is a professor of economics at the University of Rochester and was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis […]

Pakistan coronavirus camp: ‘No facilities, no humanity’

More than 1,000 remain there as thousands more are released into impoverished Balochistan https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/19/pakistan-coronavirus-camp-no-facilities-no-humanity?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2wMIwRFYhjXpeZ623KP3QD0AXTovFD5LyjqZcwvVAj9-fYe6rOwmAwWM4#img-1 It was the smell that was the worst. In this dusty camp on Pakistan’s border with Iran, which at one stage held more than 6,000 people, the stench of sweat, rubbish and human excrement hung in […]