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and coming up on today's show, What Should Governments Be Doing to Try to Limit the economic harm of the new coronavirus?

Chinese business schools are continuing to rise in popularity.

Can they compete against big Western players like Harvard or Stanford, and New York joins the city's

rebelling against the cashless society. The number of cases of cases of the new coronavirus has climbed to over 72,000 in China alone, and fresh cases are being reported all over the world.

But now attention is turning to its detrimental economic effects.

In Asia, share prices fell as the effect of the outbreak deepened.

In Germany, a big exporter to China and to the rest of Asia,

investor confidence has also slumped.

And several big companies have warned that the virus will hurt

their profits, among them Apple and HSBC. As the impact grows, what should

governments be doing to try to cushion the blow?

Ryan Avent is the economist's free exchange columnist and he's been writing about this.

Ryan, when economies suffer shocks like the coronavirus outbreak, governments sometimes try to provide

stimulus to offset its effect.

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