Shutdown: how COVID shook the world's economy

Part I: Disease X. Organized irresponsibility

Wuhan, not Chernobyl

February: wasting time

March: global lockdown

Part II: A global crisis like no other. Free fall

"Whatever it takes," again

Economy on life support

The toolkit

Part III: A hot summer

NextGen EU

China: momentum

America's national crisis

Part IV: Interregnum. Vaccine race

Debt relief

Advanced economics: taps on

Conclusion.