Managing the Economic Fallout of the Coronavirus Pandemic

In this week’s editors’ discussion on Trend Lines, WPR’s Judah Grunstein and Freddy Deknatel talk about the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic and government responses so far, as well as the balance policymakers must strike between containing the outbreak and mitigating the economic impact of doing so.

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