22-08-2020 18:02 via sltrib.com

Paul Krugman: Stocks are soaring. So is misery.

On Tuesday, the S&P 500 stock index hit a record high. The next day, Apple became the first U.S. company in history to be valued at more than $2 trillion. Donald Trump is, of course, touting the stock market as proof that the economy has recovered from the coronavirus; too bad about those 173,000 dead Americans, but as he says, “It is what it is.”But the economy probably doesn’t feel so great to the millions of workers who still haven’t gotten their jobs back and who
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