While it’s not our intent to minimize the current difficulties — health, financial and otherwise — that this pandemic is inflicting on so many, we do want to shine a light on how our glasses might be at least 33% full right now. Here are 14 ways life might be getting better as result of COVID-19.
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Whether we end up calling it a “W-shaped recovery” or a “double-dip depression,” the U.S. will likely endure another severe downturn in the fall or winter as a second wave of Covid-19 infections batters fragile economies and health-care systems. There are two basic preventive measures we should start doing now.
Expect a bumpy path for U.S. markets in 2020 as the economy comes back online, followed by a potentially more solid recovery in 2021.
Mohamed A. El-Erian has a long memory for financial crises. As the former CEO and co-CIO of PIMCO, he helped lead the bond giant through the Great Recession, and was a voice of economic reason for investors. Before that, he worked for 15 years at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where his main focus was on crisis countries and debt issues. I caught up with Dr. El-Erian to discuss how the current crisis and the response to it will shape the U.S. and global economy in five to ten years.
Political scientist Ian Bremmer says there are silver linings in the “depression” brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, he said, the world may have needed this crisis to happen.
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Here are six remnants of COVID-19 that the author believes will influence us as we move forward and will be indelibly etched in our society forever.
Life after COVID-19 according to 30 experts.
For some organizations, near-term survival is the only agenda item. Others are peering through the fog of uncertainty, thinking about how to position themselves once the crisis has passed and things return to normal. The question is, ‘What will normal look like?’ While no one can say how long the crisis will last, what we find on the other side will not look like the normal of recent years.