Economics: How the Covid-19 shock is different

How should we think about containing the COVID-19 economic crisis?

3/13/20 – (ZeroHedge, VoxEU.org) The COVID-19 economic crisis is different. It hit the economic giants all at once – the G7 nations and China. And the economic strikes are

Canada warns Russia it won’t rejoin G7 with Putin in power

“I don’t think Russia under Vladimir Putin belongs in the G7. Period,” Canadian PM Stephen Harper

“Canada would very, very strongly oppose Putin ever sitting around that table again. It would require consensus to bring Russia back and that consensus will just not happen.”