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    ⚡️ France’s health-care system was once rated the best in the world. How did it fail to lead on the coronavirus?

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  2. It's dangerous to handle oil if you don't know what you're doing, even when it's packaged in an exchange-traded fund

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  3. It makes sense for the ECB to follow the Fed and buy higher-quality corporate junk bonds. These companies employ people too

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  4. Nope, too busy trying to safety remove the crowbar from our toddler's grasp

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  5. "This immigration ban will function as a bookend to Trump’s first term, when the Muslim ban fulfilled a campaign promise that helped him get elected in 2016," writes

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  6. The coronavirus has seemed to put an end to the war on plastic: 🛍From Maine to Hawaii, plastic-bag bans have been suspended or postponed 🚫In San Francisco, reusable shopping bags have simply been outlawed

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  7. 🐅Tiger King averaged a whopping 19 million viewers at any given minute over the first 10 days of its release

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  8. "As older whites cling to power, climate change bears down on the young — who wonder what, exactly, they stand to inherit"

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  9. The Senate Intelligence Committee's report on Russian interference in the 2016 campaign contains some unfortunate redactions, says

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  10. Luxury logos aren't a good look with underpaid nurses and cashiers risking their lives on the coronavirus front lines

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  11. Economic policy is about to get a lot more political, says the former head of the Minneapolis Fed

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  12. Once lauded as a beacon in the fight against the coronavirus, Singapore has reached an unenviable milestone: the most cases in Southeast Asia

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  13. There’s been a lot of optimism lately in markets that “the worst is behind us” when it comes to the pandemic. Slumping oil prices suggest it will be a slow road to recovery

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  14. A new Great Depression is a real possibility, writes

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  15. 🚨Reminder: South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Ohio have seen Covid-19 case counts jump within the past few days

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  16. Too much decentralization can also bring problems, as the disunited U.S. responses demonstrate. But France is at the other extreme

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  17. France has made some poor choices: ➡️In 2013, decided against a national mask stockpile ➡️Refused to give regulatory permission to 75 regional labs to perform up to 300,000 tests a week in March, according to French magazine Le Point

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  18. Aside from factors like luck or the unpredictability of infections, the French public believe the problem was not enough state intervention and spending. But the idea the state lacked power or financial resources going into this crisis is unconvincing

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  19. France’s strict lockdown measures were initially supported by the public, but are now seen as a symptom of a slow crisis response. Confidence in Macron has taken a hit, picking up slightly only after a recent speech admitting to “weaknesses”

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  20. . has a tip for small businesses trying to get a PPP loan

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