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It’s Not 1918 Again. The Economic Pain Is Worse
A quick bounce-back seems increasingly unlikely.
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If you haven’t seen it already, a decent thing to watch in pandemic lockdown is the movie “1917.” It’s not relaxing by any stretch; it’s a solid hour and 59 minutes of hair-on-fire panic. But it is strangely reassuring, in that what you’re going through is probably not as bad as being shot at by Germans for two hours.