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How much more can the US Federal Reserve spend on COVID-19?

There’s no real dollar cap on what the Federal government can do, rather the limit is on what is available to buy, and how much it is willing to spend. (There are various institutional limits on spend …
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How likely is a total economic collapse due to the potential coronavirus impact?

As a disclaimer, this is not an answer, rather a long-form explanation of the difficulties of answering. The first leg is uncertainty about the danger of the epidemic. Economists are not medical expe …
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Economics of Justifying N95 masks and Mass COVID testing

Right now, the issue is not so much a dollar cost, rather the physical feasibility of either testing, or the availability of N95 masks. 1) To run a testing programme, a jurisdiction needs the testing …
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Why is the Australian Government financing the stimulus via debt rather than the RBA?

As noted in comments, the reason why the RBA acted the way it did most likely comes down to its legal framework. Before the 2020 crisis, very few countries allowed their central bank to directly fund …
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Should unemployment caused by the government closing non-essential businesses during quarant...

The issue is how we can decompose changes in unemployment into frictional, structural, cyclical, and seasonal. The question has been updated to include the source for the definition of “structural” u …
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The government is issuing massive debt for coronavirus relief - why aren't interest rates ri...

One standard way of determining the fair value of a bond yield (for a country that controls the currency it borrows in) is to say that it is the sum of two factors. The expected (Geometric) average …
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Does price cap in emergency situation (COVID-19) reduce the availability of a good? Does unr...

Capping prices at a low level permanently would presumably lower supply in the long term, but that is not germane to this question. I will attack a slightly narrower version of this question: does ca …
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Why not create money to assist the post-COVID-19 economy?

Those bank accounts are liabilities of the banks. If your scenario of disappearing balances happened, the banks would generate a massive gain, since they own assets, but a lot of their liabilities dis …
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