Stocks, Treasury yields and oil are clawing back some of the plunge they took a day before, when the S&P 500 had its worst drop in more than a decade.

30 Issues: How to Balance the Toll of the Virus and Economic Pain

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 26, 2020

Jim Tankersley, New York Times reporter covering economics and tax policy and author of The Riches of This Land: The Untold, True Story of America's Middle Class (PublicAffairs, 2020), talks about the Democratic and Republican approaches to threading the needle between controlling the virus and keeping the economy going.

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