swenson founding partner at investment banking firm brick mcadam welcome to you all. first of all of this a big question for all of you combined global major international economies putting trillions of dollars into fighting into trying to recover from the global effects of the coronavirus or will it be enough to stave off a major global recession or minimize a recession. general expectation is that many countries for have to do more but we've just had for example the fed in the states putting extra to over 2 trillion years done as in liquidity into the market so it's obviously been understood that what has been done so far despite quite another fiscal stimulus as we've seen a number of countries probably isn't going to be enough but very much going to depend on how quickly we get out of this and there are of course a number of countries that are already showing some sort of signs that they have an exit strategy so we might see the beginnings so maybe getting out of this lockdown to so many places a facing right this minute but it's going to be very tentative so the l

all right let's introduce our panel in london greg swenson partner at investment banking firm brig mcadam in maryland robert scott senior economist at the economic policy institute and in washington d.c. jeff hauser executive director at the revolving door project at the center for economic and policy research welcome to you all jeff let me start with you many of the restrictions have been put in place in the u.s. . now you have this 4.8 percent contraction that's happened and the restrictions were put in place before this is only really hinting at how bad things will get. absolutely the 2nd quarter the economy the worst in american history the intentional debt reduction in economic activity is unprecedented it's necessary if anything it's actually insufficient in terms of how much america is complying with you not stay at orders but if that 2nd quarter the economic statistics are going to be a bloodbath and the reality is can be even worse robert when will the bulk of the pandemics economic impact be felt most i think we're going to see it in the 2nd quarter certainly but and we we could

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