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HFE Webinar: Coronavirus crisis
If "lockdown to protect public health” caused 20%-plus contractions of economic activity in China, will they have the same impact on the world's largest advanced industrial economies?
The unraveling of global financial markets
Market conditions today may be a signal that financial crisis and economic crisis have become entangled with epidemiological crisis.
Emergency webinar (REPLAY): Covid-19’s global economic impact
Join us Thursday an hour of economic theory, factual evidence and experience-based assessment of how this crisis might evolve.
We are entering a new world of deficit spending and central bank financing of it.
70% of respondents polled in HFE's webinar today expect the coronavirus to cause a drop in global GDP bigger than during the 2008-09 financial crisis.
10:30EDT Webinar: HFE has mined the hard data for coronavirus shock precedents—natural disasters, financial crises, etc—to gauge the potential impact. We'll also be analyzing the effectiveness of government and central bank policies introduced so far.
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Market conditions today may be a signal that financial crisis and economic crisis have become irrevocably entangled with epidemiological crisis.
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As we feel sorry for ourselves over declines in equities and our shaky financial systems, let us remember there is a place called Japan, where equity prices remain lower than they were in 1988, and where the economy languishes in a secular depression caused by depopulation.