Today on the show, the coronavirus and the economy. Is the world headed towards a Great Depression and how do we come out of it . Ill ask the Nobel Prize Winning economist, paul krugman, ian bremer and Zanny Minton Beddoes. And also coronavirus becomes the excuse for dictatorship. In the last few weeks hungarys government used the pandemic to give its leader unchecked power. Is this the end of democracy in a european country . And india, we will take you inside perhaps the greatest gamble yet, the unprecedented lockdown of some 1. 3 billion people to stave off catastrophe. Will it work . But first, heres my take. Even as were just beginning to confront the magnitude of the shock caused by this pandemic, we need to wrap our minds around a painful truth. We are in the early stages of what is going to become a series of cascading crises reverberating throughout the world. And we will not be able to get back to anything resembling normal life unless the major powers in the world can find some way to cooperate and manage these problems together. The first phase has been the Health Care Crisis in the major economies. The next phase is the economic paralysis, the magnitude of which we are only just beginning to comprehend. In the last two weeks, two weeks, america lost 10 million jobs, exceeding the 8. 8 million total jobs lost during the six weeks during the 2008 to 2010 recessi recession. This is just the beginning. The next thing will be countries defaulting. Italy entered the crisis with the highest level of public debt of the eurozone countries. The countrys debt will skyrocket as it spends money to combat the economic fallout of covid19. Next come the explosions in the developing world. So far the numbers of infected have been low in countries like india, brazil, nigeria, indonesia. Probably because theyre less linked by trade and travel than the advanced world, in addition these countries have tested very few people which is keeping their numbers artificially low. Unless we get lucky and it turns out heat does temper the virus, these country also all get hit and hard. And then there are the oil states. Even as the quarrel between saudi arabia and russia gets resolved, at this point demand for oil has collapsed and will not soon recover. Consider what that means for countries like libya, nigeria, iran, iraq and venezuela where oil revenues make up the vast majority of government revenue and vast majority of the economy. Expect political turmoil, refugees, revolutions, crackdowns, maybe terrorism. All of this might happen on a scale we have not seen for decades. The world has entered this pandemic with two challenges. It is awash in debt golf the and private with public and private debt adding up to 260 trillion. The worlds two leading economies, the United States and china have public and private debt to gdp ratios of 210 and 310 . This would all be manageable if not for the second challenge. This crisis is occurring at a time when Global Cooperation has collapsed and the traditional leader and organizer of such efforts, the United States of america, has abandoned that role entirely. Last month the g7 meeting was not even able to issue a joint statement on the pandemic because the u. S. Refused to sign anything that did not label the disease the wuhan virus. A dispute that sounds like something that comes out of high school. The centerpiece of any global effort would have to be close cooperation between the United States and china. Instead, that relationship is in free fall with each side deflecting blame on itself by blaming th g20 was also a dud. Even the European Union has been late to recognize the seriousness of this crises, the most serious crisis in its existence. Now, what would be achieved by greater Global Cooperation . Well, since so much of the containment strategy involves travel, it would be far more effective if travel bans and advisories were coordinate ecoo. During the 08 and 09 recession, Central Banks helped each other dampen the financial contagion. If iraq and nigeria explode 9 co the cost in refugees and terrorism would make us want to manage their fall. Sharing information will speed up the arrival of treatments and vaccines, and when the time comes to reopen economies, coordinated action on trade and travel would give us all the biggest bang for the buck. The problem we face is broad and global. But unfortunately the responses are increasingly narrow and parochial. For more go to cnn. Com fareed and read my Washington Post column this week. Lets get started. Look at los angeles at rush hour. Freeways that are usually bumper to bumper now empty. Take a look at tparis, it looks like a ghost town. Seeing such stark pictures in these two cities and there are many m more across the globe, its obvious that vast parts of the Global Economy are shut down simultaneously. The question many are asking is will this unprecedented shutdown lead to another Great Depression . This one really global. Joining me now are paul krugman, noble laureate in economics and columnest for the new york times. Zanny minton beddoes, and ian bremer. Paul, let me start with you. I sometimes feel as though were even mislabeling this when we talk about a recession or a depression. We have never seen anything like this. This is more like a great paralysis, mark zandy at moodys says if you look at it now, you have had essentially what would amount to a 75 decline in gdp in the United States. How do we comprehend Something Like this . The metaphor ive been using is that this is its like a medically induced coma where doctors deliberately shut down a lot of the brains function in order to give a patient a chance to a chance to recover from severe blow. What we have seen so far is mostly not a recession in the normal sense. Recessions happen when there is not enough spending, theres not enough demand more goods. Whats happened instead we have deliberately shut down a large part of the economy because were trying to avoid activities that can spread the disease. We have done that way too late. But its what has to be done. And overwhelmingly what were seeing so far, you know, the 10 million jobs sure it will be 15 million by the end of this week that we lost in the u. S. Are because of that deliberatelyinduced coma. The thats pretty bad in itself. For millions thats a total loss of income. Then we worry a lot people all of us working on this now, theres a second wave, which is because so many people are suddenly impoverished they cant buy other stuff. So you get a severe recession of a more conventional type overlaid on top of this coma that the economy has already gone into. We definitely will see unemployment numbers that are as high as if not higher than anything we saw in the Great Depression. The only question really is how long it lasts. Zanny minton beddoes, does this look different in europe . Again, we have this extraordinary reality that its all happening at the same time and its happening in the richest countries of the world simultaneously. Im afraid it doesnt look different. And i find pauls metaphor grimly appropriate, a medicallyinduced coma. If i might extend that metaphor a little bit, i think what is worrying is that we dont really have a clear exit strategy. I think theres still a view that we will beat this and life will go back to rm noal. Thats just not going to happen. We will almost certainly have periods of undoing some of these restrictions and then putting them on again as the virus comes back. Well damage just as a medicallyinduced coma can leave serious damage if people are that sick, so we will leave serious damage to the economy. Were seeing almost unimaginable figures. The official statistics will be behind again and again. Well have a cascade of figures. Just how bad they get will depend in part how long this goes on for but also how quickly the very equally dramatic government stimulus plan can get to the people that need them, the workers that are being laid off, the companies that need payroll support and right now on both sides of the atlantic, theyre way behind on that. Its just very, very hard to get these enormous programs into gear quickly. So im afraid we are just in the early stages of something that will be much, much worse economically than it is now. Zanny, let me ask you about europe. There have been sort of there does seem to be an interesting difference when europe unemployment is not spiking in quite the same way, theyre approaching it differently. I look at a place like denmark. Explain how that part of the European Response looks different from the american response. So, there are several ways in which the European Response is different. One in particular is whether you basically subsidize firms to keep workers on the payroll, which is broadly the European Response. And Something Like close to 1 million european firms have across countries applied for payroll subsidies. In denmark, 75 , i believe, of the average salary is paid for by the government. In the uk, its more generous, its 80 . The u. S. Broadly has a different approach, which is that theres been a big increase in unemployment insurance, so theres been a huge increase in layoffs. Theres some attempt also through loans that can then be forgiven to help particularly Small Businesses keep people on their payroll but you are seeing, if you will, a classic difference. The u. S. , the tougher capitalism, people get fired, theres much bigger than usual federal support. In europe its much more trying to keep workers paid with the companies that they are currently at. And broadly the European Response, i think, is one that is more likely to keep people getting their salaries, getting income in the shortterm, but it also has interesting consequences. In the United Kingdom where we do have this very generous support from the government nor keeping people on payroll, actually those companies whether its in the Retail Sector that are desperately trying to attract new workers and hire people to do the surge and demand for Home Delivery are finding it quite hard to get workers right now. All right. Stay with me. 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The we really need a period of extreme lockdown to make sure that this thing has that weve brought the pandemic to an end. I keep on seeing people saying economists want the economy to restart. Thats actually not true. The overwhelming consensus of serious economists is that if you want to wait, better to err on the side of staying shut down longer than by starting up too soon. We even have some evidence. In 1918 19 flu pandemic, there was social distancing, many of the same policies were doing now. They varied quite a lot among cities. The cities that did more social distancing and stayed with it not only had much lower death rates, they did better economically. So everything now says this is not the time to worry about gdp. Dont worry about dollars. We need to provide disaster relief. We need to provide aid to people not getting incomes, and that makes it poll rateabltolerable. We need go on as long as it takes. Trying to get things started because you want everybody wants a return to the life we had. Trying to do that prematurely is a recipe not just for a lot more people dying but a recipe for a much longer economic slump. Ian, what we are seeing in china, i think we lost ian. Let me ask you, zanny. What were seeing in china is the return of the economy after a period of a very drastic and dramatic lockdown. Is that a hopeful sign . Because if you look at the way china is reopening its economy, it does seem to suggest that once you get this under control and the numbers of new cases are very small, you can start up again. It is. Show i would caution its quite early days in china. There are there was an increase in infections that came from people returning from abroad and so they shut the country to foreigners in particular. I would point to singapore, which has really handled this in an exemplary manner but singapore on friday brought in a lockdown which it had not had before, because it was seeing cases inkracreasinincreasing. I dont think its going to be binary. I think at some point we have to weigh the costs of keeping the economy shut down with the impact on lives saved and the pandemic. Of course right now i completely agree with paul, its absolutely clear that the right thing do is to lock down. But over time, the costs of the lockdown will increase. And for some countries it wont be possible to do this. And then i think well have to figure out ways to start bringing the economy back to life. I think one of the big differences between now and 1918 and i read that very interesting study about the u. S. Then we have technology in a way we didnt then. One of the underfocusedon areas is how we can harness technology. Not just to get technology as fast as possible to a vaccine or treatment, but technology to trace people, technology to see where people are. Lets use this huge nux infrastructure we got in terms of everybody having a big cell phone in our hand. Will we head towards a surveillance state . Do we need to worry about invasions of privacy, right now i think that stuff is outweighed by peoples desire to know how far the virus has spread, to know whether they had it, to know whether they have been near people who have had it. I think well see businesses reorganize themselves so you can have production lines with social distancing. Restaurant also have much bigger space between tables, and well, i hope, use technology in a much, much more dramatic way than we used it now to know whos had the virus, where there are hot spots and where theres much less of it. Ian, let me ask you about a Bigger Picture about this. Im sorry, we had a little technical difficulty getting you on, which is china is now donating ventilators to new york. Talk about the competition for leadership that is coming out of this with china appearing to be, at least more confident than the United States essentially uninterested. Of course. On a couple of levels. Even though the chinese responsible for the original outbreak with all the travel and coverup, the fact is their economy is going to be back to pretty much 100 , at least on the supply side within the coming weeks, while the americans and europeans are still shut down. They have the medical supply chain. They have the excess medical personnel. They have the ability to learn some lessons from when the americans gave humanitarian aid after previous crisis, some lessons that americans appear to have forgotten. I certainly believe that the americans are capable of implementing real lockdowns and listening to authority. Were clearly capable of putting money into our economy for relief and restart as we need it. But we have completely abdicated leadership internationally. For the developing world that will most need it, for our allies like in europe that were not coordinating with. And the chinese smell opportunity here. They recognize that the global order will look different coming out of this crisis than it did going in. And we really need to be paying attention to what beijing is doing right now. Paul, let me ask you a quick question. We only have a few we have about 45 seconds. One thing that worries me, all of us on this battle line have been to graduate school and social science. Countries are testing differently. Is there a danger that we are making predictions on the basis of very incomplete data here . Yeah. Especially because everything moves so fast. We knew that exponential growth in the disease but also even on the economic thing, were at a point where, you know, Monthly Economic data are already so far out of date that theyre useless. We really are weekly figures which are not right numbers, but were doing what we can. Look, just three weeks ago people i was in contact with people who were debating whether we needed any sort of Major Economic response. Do we really have an economic emergency to justify a large package . Unbelievable now, right . No were probably 15 million jobs down while we were just getting this thing together. We are yeah, turns out were not prepared not just for something of this magnitude but were not prepared for something of this speed. And this is a big problem. Thank you all. We will come back to you because this is not going away. Thanks, ian in particular. Next on gps, hungarys leader, viktor orban, used the coronavirus to grab all power. He was given power this week to rule by president ial decree. 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And dont forget to catch trolls world tour. Lets party people one more time Donald Trumps usual complaints over what he terms fake news which is really news he doesnt like have not gone away during the Coronavirus Crisis. But one leader has taken it further, much further. A new law in hungary calls for up to five years in jail for publishing socalled fake news related to the coronavirus. That is just a minor part of a major measure that will give Prime Minister viktor orban ultimate npower. His personal whims will have no checks or balances. Mike galanos is president of the Central European university, a George Soros Funded institute. And Valerie Hopkins is a correspondent for the financial times. Michael, how did we get here . This is a european country that is essentially slid from a functioning liberal democracy to something very different. This began ten years ago when he won power in 2010. He muzzled the press, cut back on the autonomy of the courts and came after our free institution, Central European university and this is a culmination of a pattern that developed over ten years. It developed frankly because the European Union didnt stop him because successive american administrations didnt stop him and because china, russia and the authoritarian states were too happy to welcome another authoritarian into their camp. Its a story of him getting away with stuff but also a story of him being continuous with what hes been doing since 2010. Fascinating. 2010 he wins a big election because his opponent, the Prime Minister, said something he made a gaffe on tv. Valerie, let me ask you about this. The judiciary in hungary seemed independent. The press seemed to be a thriving free press what did he do in both cases to neuter them . Wow. Well, thank you very much for having me, first of all. I think its important to know if anybody knows how dangerous an economic crisis is, it is viktor orban. So he, as michael said, he swept into power in 2010 after an economic crash, and i think now this law is geared towards preventing a similar loss of power. And over the course of the last decade hes really focused on first rewriting the constitution, amending it several times and then stacking institutions like the Constitutional Court and regulatory bodies with people loyal to him. Most hungarians will tell you actually the lower levels of the judiciary are still fine and many of them will still make good decisions. But its the highest levels that we have to be worried about. Regarding the press, theres been a real trend of powerful oligarchs tied to the government coming in, taking profitable, interesting independent Media Outlets, buying a majority stake in them and eventually turning them into government propaganda mouthpieces. That was announced, one of the most Important Media outlets that are still independent there are still a number of brave and wonderful journ ifls journalists doing their job h e here, bought a government stake in the paper. That happened the day after this law was passed. In november of 2018, 500 Media Outlets who had systematically been targeted and sort of had their editorial policies affected, shall we say, donated themselves to free for a foundation thats one and managed by orban loyalists. They will publish identical news about how great the government is every day. Michael, describe what some hungarians call Viktor Orbans peacock dance. This shows you, i think, how savvy he is, and that, you know, when hes confronted sometimes, he takes one step too far, he backs off. Well, the optimistic view of this suspension of all parliamentary rule and constitutional rule is that he he ckocontrayed getting external pressure, but i think this is a peacock dance where hes not dancing back, hes consolidating power and will be indifferent to what European Union says, because i think the European Union, the french, the germans are so beep in their own crises they will not mind that basically one european state has turned into a singleparty state in front of their eyes. And i think President Trump has been positively friendly to orban for two years. His peacock dance used to depend on counter pressure, counter pressure from the french, the germans or the americans. He doesnt need do the peacock dance, he just keeps on running. That, it seems to me, is very important here. You cant see whats happening in hungary apart from a basic abdication of the defense of the basic principles of european democratic freedom right across the European Union. And also the retreat of america from any role in defending democracy overseas. Valerie, what do hungarians look at this and think . As often happens in parliamentary systems, it seems to me that orban has about 30 of the population solidly behind him. 10 somewhat supportive but its not a vast majority. What are all these hungarians who are uneasy with all this, what are they saying . What are they doing . Well, orban like many leader now in the Coronavirus Crisis has experienced a bump in his popularity but its unclear how long it will last. Before coming out with an economic package, the government already started proposing laws that had nothing to do with coronavirus or combating the virus like making it illegal to change ones gender identity or something. I think most ordinary hungarians are worried about the very Poor Health System here and the very poor economic measures that may be taken. The Prime Minister has announced that there wont be any special measures other than three months of unemployment for people. So i think theyre very, very scared about what their Economic Future will entail and very worried about their own personal safety and security when it comes to the health system. I think its the measures are not quite so popular, but the opposition in hungary has been quite fragmented for so many years, and in addition to being able to rewrite the laws, the government changed the electoral maps of the country making it more difficult for the opposition to come back. However in the local elections in october, 10 out of 23 of the major cities were won by the opposition, and its possible that that eventually they may be able to make a comeback but it will be ever harder with the new laws imposed, especially now a new proposal announced yesterday that will make all parties give half of their funding to a special Coronavirus Fund administered centrally by the government. Michael, let me ask you very quickly. We have 30 seconds. The European Union provides 6 of hungarys gdp some years. Couldnt it just say stop this . Fareed, if only. Thats clearly the most important lever. But the European Union, i think, is to weak they fear if they apply that lever, hungry will walk. Where hungary will walk to is not clear. I think its a lever that should be applied, but they certainly have had many occasions where they could have brought that hammer down and have not done so. This is just, i think, a sign of the extraordinary fragmenting impact of the coronavirus on the on european politics and on the capacity of european states to act together and act against what i think is a threat to the Democratic Values of the whole continent. Mike galanos, v. All these spring breakers making it clear how difficult it is to lock down america, a country of 300 million people. How about a country of 1. 3 billion . We will take you inside historys largest ever lockdown when we come back. When it comes to autism, finding the right words can be tough. Finding understanding doesnt have to be. Together, we can create a kinder, more inclusive world for the millions of people on the autism spectrum. Go to autismspeaks. Org on march 24th, Prime Minister modi made a National Address to tell citizens that at midnight, four hours from then, the nation would be on lockdown for at least three weeks. It is the biggest lockdown ever ordered in history. Almost all of indias 1. 3 billion people are subject to it. Sounds like many western nations . No. Theres a big difference. In order to help us understand all that the indian journalist joins us. The extraordinary nature of this lockdown, giving people no time to prepare must have thrown india into which is already a functioning anarchy, it must have made it pretty chaotic. Chaotic would be an understatement. When the Prime Minister announced that the nation would effectively shut down, the first instinct of the country was to be fearful but also applaud him and understand the inef vitabily of the decision and how extraordinarily difficult it would be. People did not anticipate things not planned at all. What we saw in the first 72 hours after the lockdown was hundreds of thousands of poor people literally fleeing the cities they work in. These are indias migrant workers. They are the poorest of the poor. Theyre estimated to be 45 million my grant workigrant wor wagers. Because the Prime Ministers address did not make any message about economic packages and economic rehab billtation whili announced the lockdown, there was massive panic. There were poor men carrying 5yearold children on their shoulders, women kaer r carryin lifes possession and little children walking hundreds of miles. Its been called the mass exosos of people. Just four hours was given for the country to shut down. So people are now worried. So many men and women i met while reporting this story said to me the poverty were going through, the loss of jobs, the loss of wages, the absence of food, that will kill us before the coronavirus does. The theory behind this, which i think most people understand, was that you needed to take very tough even brutal measures because and try to suppress the virus, which is still in low numbers in india, because if it did spiral, the Indian Health care system is really one of the worst in the world, right . Yeah. Like i said, i think we got the theory, we got the logic and the country did rally behind the Prime Minister when he first made the announcement but i think theres a sense now that the execution and the planning has not been up to the mark. And i dont mean to be an arm chair analyst saying this ive been out on the ground reporting this story. We understand this is 1. 3 billion, we understand how difficult this is, but the fact is the evidence on the ground tells you, fareed, this should have been done earlier. The golf shoovernment should han itself time for the most vulnerable indian people. About 250 million indians live below the poverty line. Just imagine that in relation to the United States entire population. 45 million, as i said, are transient workers, daily wagers. 92 million indian homes, households live in one room. So when you tell these households stay at home what are you really saying to them . So the challenge before india right now is the socioeconomic crisis, the specter of starvation, the fear of hunger, that does not become a bigger crisis than the coronavirus infection. We understand the logic of the lockdown. We just wish as citizens and reporters covering this story that the government had given itself much more time to plan it better keeping the most vulnerable and most impoverished citizens in mind. Finally, tell me how this impacted modi and his leadership style . Last night he called for a kind of National Period of darkness and lighting of lamps. What is it what has he turned this into . I think modis great skill is to turn every disruptive moment in politics into a test of patriotism. That is how he handled other things, one of his biggest mistakes when he took 80 of indias cash out of circulation. The lockdown is not seen as a whimsical decision by him, but in many corners its seen as a decision he rushed to without giving enough time for planning it and planning it properly. That said, modi does have a kind of teflon advantage almost, and hes managed to convert this moment also into a sort of test about whether youre standing with india or against india. The other thing thats happened its a horrible thing to say at this point but its true it enables 30 of indias confirmed cases are linked to religious groups barkha, i have to we will get back to it. Thats another important part of it sorry, i have to let you go. No problem. Thank you so much. Next on gps, can our politics come together like our scientists do . Its the next one. You always drive this slow . How did you make someone i love . That must be why youre always so late. I do not speed. And thats saving me cash with drivewise. My son, he did say that you were the safe option. 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