Mar 20, 2020

How will we know when the coronavirus crisis is over?

We have decent real-time data on the virus. The economy? Not so much. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images

Today, we'll tell you what to keep an eye on. Plus: A few stories from a tidal wave of layoffs, and is Boeing too big to fail?

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COVID-19

COVID-19 stimulus proposals revive stock buyback debate

by Amy Scott

Mar 20, 2020

The big U.S. airlines spent almost all of their free cash flow buying back their own shares in the last decade. Now they want government aid.

Sen. Chuck Schumer said U.S. airlines are short on cash because "they spent billions on stock buybacks."

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Boeing is in line for a bailout under "too big to fail" theory

by Jon Gordon and Jack Stewart

Mar 20, 2020

The aircraft maker is also a space and defense company, "a huge provider of government services," one expert says.

Boeing directly employs about 150,000 people but relies on the broader aerospace industry with 2.5 million jobs.

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Should the Fed decide who gets bailout cash?

by Sabri Ben-Achour

Mar 20, 2020

That authority was curbed during the 2008 financial crisis. Some are arguing that power should be returned.

The Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C.

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Music from the episode

Becoming a Tree Richard Houghten

Magic Spell This Is The Kit

Dirty Harry Gorillaz

Low Season Poolside

From Home, to Work, and Back.. Tall Black Guy

Bassackwards Kurt Vile

Occasional Magic Yppah

Sleight of Hand Wild Nothing

The team

Nancy Farghalli Executive Producer

Maria Hollenhorst Producer II

Sean McHenry Director & Associate Producer II

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