The scale of the economic disaster ahead is only just becoming apparent
The recession caused by the pandemic is happening faster, and may be deeper, than any in living memory.
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David Blanchflower
David Blanchflower is professor of economics at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and a former member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee.
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