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Research from this year's Jackson Hole meeting of central bankers and economists suggests the pandemic may well affect consumers and investors' decisions for the rest of their lives.

Central banks will need lots of help to keep things on an even keel.

And chicken or pasta.

Chicken or pasta.

Chicken or pasta. With so many flights Chicken or pasta. Chicken or pasta.

With so many flights curtailed or avoided,

which in-flight meal you'd like isn't being asked so much in the air.

But here's the funny thing.

Those meals are selling like hot cakes on the ground.

First up, though.

On Friday, Abe Shinso announced he would be standing down as Prime Minister of Japan.

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care, the health of the treatment of and the body of not very to get to take a decision of the 65-year-old has long suffered from a chronic bowel disease but his condition has worsened. Mr. Abe said he didn't want his illness to get in the way of decision-making, and he

apologized to the Japanese people for failing to complete his term in office.

Last week, that term as Prime Minister became the longest since the post was created

for a post-imperial Japan, and it isn't even his first time in the role.

He'll remain until a successor is chosen, a successor who will face

some pressing challenges. So the press conference where Mr. Abe announced his decision to resign

was somber, to say the least. Noah Snyder is our Tokyo Bureau Chief. I ran into one of his

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