A completely new type of recession

This coronavirus recession isn’t anything like a “normal” one. The fall in output will be sudden and vast. The huge policy response means the recovery should be much quicker than normal too. But the scale of the economic dislocation and the risk that the virus lingers mean a swift recovery is not guaranteed.

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