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Reimagining the Economy

What if COVID-19 checks were a regular occurrence?

by David Brancaccio , Erika Soderstrom and Alex Schroeder

Jun 24, 2020

"You just get a much bigger fiscal bang for the buck," says Mark Blyth, the economics professor and author of "Angrynomics."

"We're managing to do it right now in the COVID pandemic. We send people checks," Blyth says. "Imagine if those checks were endowment checks."

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