This Looks Like a Depression, Not a Recession

Until we have a vaccine, we are barreling toward economic catastrophe

Steve LeVine
Marker
Published in
10 min readApr 1, 2020

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JJust weeks after the stock market crashed in 1929, President Herbert Hoover assured the country that things were already “back to normal,” Liaquat Ahamed writes in Lords of Finance, his Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the financial catastrophe. Five months later, in…

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Steve LeVine
Marker
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Editor at Large, Medium, covering the turbulence all around us, electric vehicles, batteries, social trends. Writing The Mobilist. Ex-Axios, Quartz, WSJ, NYT.