The Japanese property developer Yoshiko Mori controls, Mori Building, is moving ahead with a massive $5.4 billion project to redevelop 8.1 hectares in the heart of Tokyo amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Now is the time when government must be indispensable, whether in public health, income support for the unemployed, or in assisting businesses struggling with lockdowns.
Global stock markets and investors command more computing power, better software, faster networks, and the intense focus of tens of millions of individuals betting their own money.
Giving every adult American $1,200 may be an expedient and certainly a popular measure for President Trump, it doesn’t do much to help households whose breadwinners are rendered jobless.