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This is Post Reports.

I'm Martine Powers.

It's Thursday, April 9th.

Today, how the economy will look after the pandemic?

Water shutoffs in a public health crisis.

And the lockdown ends in Wuhan.

You know, I covered the financial crisis as a reporter

at the Wall Street Journal 12 years ago.

That's Damien Paletta, now an economics editor for the Post.

And I think that experience really scarred me to how quickly things can go

from the good old days to sheer panic.

And so as things kind of continue to improve and as a stock market record highs,

you know, just in the past few months, there was this part of me that said,

you know, the music's going to stop.

And you know, how prepared are we going to be as a country, as an economy

for what's going to happen next?

So, so give us a sense of what the economy looked like just a couple months ago

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