Panic contagion more dangerous than virus
Fallout: if China doesn’t contain the outbreak timeously, a global recession will hurt us badly
06 February 2020 - 05:00
In the growing speculation of what China’s 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak will do to the world economy, an economist at Goldman Sachs summed up the threat in one pithy line.
"Just because you missed dinner out or a haircut in the first quarter, you wouldn’t necessarily get more of those in the second quarter,"..
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