What's The Best Fix For a Recession?

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

New York Times Opinion

New York Times, Journalism, News, Society & Culture, Ross Douthat

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🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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As the coronavirus pandemic sends financial markets into a tailspin, strains gig economy workers and threatens the survival of businesses large and small, the columnists debate what policymakers should do to avert a virus-induced economic recession. Ross shares his own account of an increasingly American experience: feeling sick and waiting days for the results of a coronavirus test to come back. And an escapist recommendation worth a binge. For background reading on this episode, visit nytimes.com/theargument.

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0:00.0	I'm Michelle Goldberg.
0:01.2	I'm Ross Douthon.
0:02.5	I'm David Lee and Hart.
0:03.9	And this is the argument.
0:10.8	This week, a firsthand experience with coronavirus testing.
0:15.4	They took a very quick no swab from each of us,
0:18.8	and we were supposed to get results in three days,
0:21.0	and I took my son home.
0:23.5	Then, what is the right government response
0:26.1	to the looming recession?
0:27.9	Clearly, we need to start sending people money,
0:30.1	and sending people more money than we're sending them.
0:33.7	And finally, a recommendation.
0:36.3	There has to be a period between collapse and sleep,
0:39.3	and that's what television is for.
0:43.6	A new drive through coronavirus testing site is up and running
0:46.8	in the metro Atlanta area.
0:48.1	There's a number of cases grows.
0:49.5	There's a new warning tonight.
0:50.6	The US does not have enough coronavirus test kits
0:53.6	to meet the current demand.
0:55.0	The White House plans to set up 47 drive-through
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