Mark Gongloff, Columnist

These Are Desperate Economic Times. Hold the Moralizing, Please

Better to risk doing too much than doing too little.

Dressmaker Flor Hernandez sells face masks on street in Los Angeles after losing her job to the coronavirus.

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Desperate times call for desperate measures, and these are desperate times for the economy, triggered by the desperate public-health crisis of a global pandemic.