Surveillance: Virus Impact on Americans With Gallup's Younis
Bloomberg Surveillance
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🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Carmen Reinhart, Harvard Kennedy School Professor of the International Finance System, says the coronavirus, Saudi-Russia oil war, and risk of debt defaults have created a perfect storm for emerging markets. Mohamed Younis, Gallup Editor in Chief, reports that 52% of working Americans say their financial situation has already been affected by the coronavirus. Oliver Chen, Cowen Senior Equity Research Analyst, says the speed and viability of consumer spending post-crisis will be challenging. Shahab Jalinoos Credit Suisse Head of FX and Macro Trading Strategy, expects dollar strength to be relatively short-term. Julia Coronado, MacroPolicy Perspectives Founder & President, says the effectiveness of U.S. fiscal stimulus measures will determine if businesses can stay open and restart operations.
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| 0:26.6 | Apple Podcasts, we bring you inside. Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keene. |
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| 0:57.5 | With us now with a broader picture of the emerging markets is Carmen Reinhart. She is at Harvard Kennedy School, but far more |
| 1:05.9 | than that has been our most astute academic on the linkages of the developed world to emerging |
| 1:12.4 | markets. |
| 1:13.0 | Carmen, John and Lisa really want to dive into emerging markets. |
| 1:16.0 | I totally agree with them. |
| 1:18.0 | But I've got to ask you, in your magisterial effort with Ken Rogoff, back to the Spanish armada, I remember reading your chapter on |
| 1:28.4 | that this time is different in the Spanish armada. What does your tome say about pandemics? What in your study of |
| 1:36.7 | 800 years with Ken, what did you learn about pandemics? |
| 1:43.0 | Tom, I recently wrote a piece for a project syndicates basically saying this time it's truly |
| 1:50.3 | different because we haven't lacked pandemic in history, but the kind of policy reaction to try to save lives by basically shutting down economy is this is this |
| 2:09.4 | this time is different it's new. So the idea of using past pandemics to throw light on what's going |
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