Washington Post OpEd: COVID-19 and Market Fundamentalism
President Trump speaks Thursday during the White House coronavirus task force briefing at the White House. (Oliver Contreras/SIPA/Bloomberg News)
Covid-19 is exposing market fundamentalism’s many moral and practical flaws
The philosophy plaguing the Trump administration’s pandemic response
April 10, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
In a time of global pandemic and national crisis, market fundamentalism — the unshakable faith that pure capitalism, private enterprise and market forces have almost spiritual power to remedy any situation — represents a grave threat to our nation…
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