“I think the first order of business will be to get the spread of the virus under control and then resume economic activity… We’re not experts in pandemics over here. We don’t get to make that decision. I would say though that we would tend to listen to the experts. Dr. Fauci said something like the virus is going to set the timetable and that sounds right to me.”
— Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, in a NBC News interview.
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