Ignore the bankers – the Trump economy is not worth more coronavirus deaths | Robert Reich
by Robert Reich from Economics | The Guardian on (#51DE9)
CEOs, billionaires and advisers have the president's ear and want people back to work. They are callous - and wrong
Dick Kovacevich, former CEO of Wells Fargo bank, thinks most Americans should return to work in April, urging that we "gradually bring those people back and see what happens".
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Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His new book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a columnist for Guardian US
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