French statisticians think GDP down 35%

Measuring the economic fallout from the coronavirus is fraught with uncertainty, but the French statistics office estimates that economic activity is currently running a whopping 35% below normal. If so, the downturn in France, and presumably elsewhere, may be even bigger than we had thought.

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