Analysis: For Biden, ambitious economic plans may wait on battle with Covid-19

The Democratic party's sprawling presidential primary last spring offered a wide-open debate on economic policy ranging from the merits of wealth taxes and other ways to ease US economic inequality to aggressive proposals for reducing reliance on fossil fuels.

Yet even a "blue wave" victory next month giving Democrats control of the White House and both chambers of Congress may strand that sort of transformational economic thinking on the sidelines until the battle against the coronavirus is won...