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102: The COVID-19 Crash - The Pandemic That Shook Global Markets (February-March 2020)
102: The COVID-19 Crash - The Pandemic That Shook Global Markets (February-March 2020)
<p>In this episode we turn to the most recent major market shock in our series: the COVID-19 Crash of February and March 2020—a global event unlike any before it, where a non-financial crisis, a deadly virus, brought the world economy to its knees in weeks.</p><p>This is the story of how an emerging infectious disease, first detected in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, escalated into a pandemic that caused the fastest stock-market crash in history.</p>