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Daily View 2×2: 15 April 2020

By Mark Valladares | Wed 15th April 2020 - 7:30 am

Are you sitting comfortably? I hope so, because we might be locked down for quite some time to come…

2 big stories

There’s no avoiding what is the biggest story of the day, the suggestion by the Office for Budget Responsibility that the United Kingdom economy could shrink by 35% in the second quarter of 2020, with 2 million joining the ranks of the unemployed. And yes, it will bounce back to some extent, but as the IMF’s economic counsellor, Gita Gopinath says;

the size of the hit to the global economy, uncertainty about the how long the shock would last, and

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Posted in Daily View | Also tagged coronavirus, doctor who and statistics | 3 Comments

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