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Welcome to the Views Room, a podcast from Reuters' Breaking Views.

I'm Anna Schmansey.

Economies around the world are taking big hits as the rapid spread of the coronavirus prompts

governments to warn citizens to stay at home and companies to shutter operations.

That has already prompted central banks to cut rates and dust off lending support programs

not used since the 2008 financial crisis.

Also rearing its head from that meltdown is the question of when and how government

should bail out companies, not least airlines and hotels. Joining me from their lockdowns in

London and Brooklyn are Peter Thiel Larson and Anthony Curry. Welcome both of you.

Hello. Hello. So, Anthony, maybe I'll, maybe I'll start with you. Why don't you

walk me through, like when we're thinking about bailouts, what really should, what are the

main things the government should be thinking? Well, the first thing he's got to do is sort

out what it thinks its role is. So, you know,

we may well be past this stage anyway already. And Peter's probably got some thoughts on this.

But first of all, it's like, okay, we need to make sure we keep critical parts of the economy going.

And of course, you speak to different politicians. They'll come up what they think are critical

parts of the economy. Is it automators? Is it

oil producers? Is it hospitals? I mean, you could easily say yes to all three of those. Is it

cruise liners? Probably not. But when you get to the stage right now where just about every kind of

industry seems to be in crisis mode, as all of us are now stuck at home in so many parts of America

and certainly parts of Britain and Europe, then you start thinking, okay, is it about just

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