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"Lloyd Blankfein, who ran Goldman Sachs Group Inc. until 2018, helped kickstart the calls to get back to work on Sunday when he tweeted that “extreme measures to flatten the virus ‘curve’” were sensible “for a time” but could crush the economy: “Within a very few weeks let those with a lower risk to the disease return to work.”

His longtime deputy, Gary Cohn, who left the bank to become Trump’s top economic adviser, asked if it was time “to start discussing the need for a date when the economy can turn back on.” Without clarity, businesses “will assume the worst,” he said."

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@design_RG I dunno, everyone I know wants to go back to work because they need money.. I mean sure they would rather do nothing and get money anyway, but who doesnt want that all the time?

@freemo An interesting part of the article is the information that the first rumblings about resuming economic activity came from those people, all billionaires, and later the same day the US president posts his famous, ALLCAPS " the solution cannot be worse than the disease"tweet, and stats pushing for a reopening "by Easter".

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