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Re:S&P 500 triggers 15-minute trading halt for the second ti... by odyssey7 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @05:12PM (#22561786)
I was speaking to the strategies that could be employed vs what we’re actually doing, and I am concerned that what we’re doing will cause a recession.

To relate the strategy to that formal definition of a recession, if everybody stayed home for a month this quarter, we might lose 1/3 of the quarter’s GDP. But if that break is structured so that it’s expected and we resume normal activity afterward, then in the next quarter we would see the GDP “grow“ a ton, if only back to normal because people are working and spending for the full three months, and we would cleanly avoid this formal definition for a recession.

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Re:S&P 500 triggers 15-minute trading halt for the second ti... by jsight on Thursday March 12, 2020 @06:57PM (#22562887)
Oh, I understand what you are saying now. I think the issue is that government officials aren't comfortable defining an endpoint right now. There are a lot of unknowns as to what could stop the spread at this point.
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