https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/19/this-recession-is-going-be-bad-really-bad/?outputType=ampThis recession is going to be bad.
America has done something extraordinary, perhaps unprecedented. In the face of a looming public health crisis, with potential deaths in the thousands or even millions, we essentially made a collective decision to have ourselves a recession. We’ve shut down a significant portion of our economy, knowing that the result will be businesses going bankrupt, huge job losses and people losing their homes.