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Governors have ramped up calls for additional federal funding to states to deal with the coronavirus crisis. Sen. Mitch McConnell and Rep. Kevin McCarthy pledged not to negotiate with Democrats on the recently proposed $250 billion bill to aid small businesses.

The world’s top oil producers, including the U.S., Russia and Saudi Arabia, came to an historic agreement to cut the production of oil. This latest move aims to end an oil price war that saw the price of crude plummet amid the global economic crisis. 

The Apple and Google joint initiative to develop a contact tracing tool on our smartphones to monitor and reduce the spread of coronavirus presents a complicated privacy challenge. There are no easy answers.

What airline routes are still active? Many domestic and international airlines are temporarily cutting up to 90% of their flight capacity, but if you still need to travel for personal or business reasons, there are still several options.

The similarity between shut-in America and Groundhog Day is obvious. Bill Murray and Jeep have dropped a suite of new social media ads using the same day ad infinitum motif for a little comedic relief.

WWE is resuming live programming for Monday Night Raw, NXT and SmackDown: “We believe it is now more important than ever to provide people with a diversion from these hard times.” Its superstars are none too pleased.
 

The secret history of the first coronavirus. Researchers identified the first human coronavirus called 229E in 1965. Today, we know it as the common cold. (Overlooked fact: Dorothy Hamre, a University of Chicago researcher, was the first to discover 229E.) 

Today's Must-Read

As global financial markets plunged in March, a handful of investors made billions of dollars on the chaos. No one opened Wall Street's eyes more than Universa Investments' Mark Spitznagel. 

“We'd been talking to Mark throughout the month of March as he made staggering returns that captivated traders around the world, says Associate Editor Antoine Gara, who covers Wall Street and banking. “Our exclusive takes you into exactly how Mark made the multi-billion dollar windfall and the real numbers behind his closely-guarded trade.”
 

Beyond the numbers, Gara spoke to Spitznagel from his goat farm in Michigan and had an inside look into what makes this Protestant minister’s son with a net worth of some $250 million tick. “From libertarian views to goat farming self-sufficiency, we connect the dots on his $3 billion-plus windfall all the way back to the lessons he learned as a teenage trading hand working summers in Chicago's once-boisterous futures trading pits.” 

His outlook on the Fed’s save-the-market-and-economy at all costs approach? “There is a limit to sovereign debt and there is a limit to central bank balance sheets,” says Spitznagel. “When I thank the central bankers of the world for my business, I’m not kidding.”

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