What Ever Happened to More Stimulus?

This is what coronavirus purgatory looks like: Our present economic doldrums are brutal for service workers and tolerable for white-collar workers. Congress is deadlocked over a second coronavirus relief bill. And the market is performing as if help is on the way. 

Guest: Jordan Weissmann, Slate’s senior business and economics correspondent. 

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