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Paying People To Get Vaccines: The Ultimate Economic Stimulus?

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Among the economic principles you’ll find in textbooks: People do what they find rewarding. As we reported earlier this week, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin stated during testimony before the Senate banking committee that restaurants are in need of significant grants (not loans). Payments Players Might Have The Answer.

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Transcript: Bethany McLean on Pandemic Fails

Barry Ritholtz

And you know, a bad diet tends to be associated with lower economic strata. And so the F d A pushed back and basically the leaders of the pharmaceutical companies said, this is not going to be political. One of the scariest things that happened in the, in that spring of 2020 was that the treasury market almost stopped functioning.