Should U.S. Shale Companies Get Gov’t Help to Avoid Bankruptcy?

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There is an increasing call from economists to "let the free market" determine who lives and who dies in the oil and gas industry. We won't lie--we live in dire times. We don't know what the outcome will eventually be. While the world is gripped in COVID-19 coronavirus panic, the Saudis and Russians have flooded the world markets with oil, forcing the price of oil to collapse. Now our own economists are writing that shale companies already teetering on the brink of bankruptcy should be allowed to go under. Don't prolong the agony. There were already on the way out. But is that wise?

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