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A Coronavirus Recession Will Be Tricky to Fight
Blunt-force instruments such as rate cuts won’t be enough.
This calls for stimulus.
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A shortage of coronavirus tests has America’s epidemiologists fighting a disease they can’t see. Economic policy makers, meanwhile, are fighting a recession they can’t envision.