Being from NYC, Cassidy Drummond hasn’t seen her family since January due to COVID-19. But with the help of her friends and professors, she built a support system that helped her through the semester.

As soon as COVID-19 hit the U.S., the stock market started a downward dive. In part because the country has enjoyed such a long bull market, it has been tough to watch investments and retirement accounts take such a sudden, severe hit. Tough, but not unprecedented, says V.V. Chari, the economic department’s Paul Frenzel Land Grant Professor of Liberal Arts.

n the last five weeks, more than 26 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits. The only sensible solution is dramatically to expand testing capacity, to trace potentially infected people and to isolate them.

The stats are a clear sign that the economic crisis brought on by the coronavirus is the worst since the Great Depression. UMN economics professor V. V. Chari is quoted.

In a Fox9 article, Professor Chris Phelan is interviewed about how the US should respond to the economical impact of COVID-19. “The economist in me simply wants to emphasize that the costs we’re paying for this kind of shutdown per week are enormous,” said Phelan. “So we better see the benefits being enormous as well.”

"Right now, we are all flying blind. We do not know if 700 or 7,000 or 700,000 Minnesotans have been infected. Testing a random fraction of the population would go far in allowing us to make evidence-based state policy, even if the tests are imperfect." Economics professors, V.V. Chari and Christopher Phelan's op-ed for the Star Tribune about structuring an economically sustainable quarantine.

The coronavirus crisis is taking a serious toll on the economy. Job losses are mounting, and the stock market has declined sharply during the past few weeks. Timothy Kehoe, the Distinguished McKnight Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Minnesota discusses the current economic situation. An episode from Diologue Minnesota.

Concerning the COVID-19 spread, should Minnesota still invest in fossil fuels? V V Chari, Paul Frenzel Land Grant Professor of Liberal Arts and an advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, is featured in a CityPages article.

Through Simran Sahi’s Global Seminar, economics undergraduates gained a deeper understanding of London, its relationship to trade, and how Brexit may change it.