Shaped across the uk economic recovery im joined by my guest Benjamin Cohen he is the director of the Free Market Institute professor of economics at Texas Tech University as well as a senior fellow with the independent institute and in los angeles we cross to he is an independent economic and geopolitical analyst as well as a former commodities trader all right gentlemen crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciating lets go to los angeles 1st here i said in my introduction i guess probably the most important question there is as we come out of this pandemic and its all going to be about the economy and its everything were going to think about for the next few months if not years is about recovery so infer a very simple question will it be a v. A you or an l go ahead well weve been hit. L. Shaped depression since the 2008 financial crisis i mean only the true Economic Data on unemployment inflation g. D. P. And the like have been warped o