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Burr’s cellphone seized overnight in inquiry into claims he used private coronavirus briefing to sell stocks before market plunge Senator Richard Burr leaves the US Capitol after voting in Washington on Thursday. Photograph: Erin Scott/Reuters A Republican US senator stepped down from a key committee leadership role in Congress on Thursday after his phone was […] More
Cases of two senators who sold stock after private briefings about the virus have spotlighted the intelligence politicians are privy to Senator Kelly Loeffler sold tens of millions of dollars worth of stocks after a closed briefing on the coronavirus. Photograph: Mary F Calvert/Reuters Stock dealing by some members of the US Congress, or their […] More
Ignore the bankers – the Trump economy is not worth more coronavirus deaths Robert Reich CEOs, billionaires and advisers have the president’s ear and want people back to work. They are callous – and wrong US coronavirus outbreak: live Global coronavirus outbreak: live Read all our coronavirus coverage Defense Secretary Mark Esper and President Donald […] More
Richard Burr, chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, and three other senators sold off substantial holdings before drop amid coronavirus fears Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Republican senator Richard Burr faced demands to resign on Friday after it was reported that he sold off millions of dollars’ worth of stocks just […] More
Seismic risks for the global system are growing, not least worsening US geopolitical rivalries, climate change and now the coronavirus outbreak In my 2010 book, Crisis Economics, I defined financial crises not as the “black swan” events that Nassim Nicholas Taleb described in his eponymous bestseller but as “white swans”. According to Taleb, black swans […] More
