Figuring out what the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak will be is both a necessary and, at the moment, potentially futile exercise. Necessary, because policy makers, businesses, investors and people living their day-to-day lives need some baseline of what to expect. Otherwise, they risk, on the one hand, falling into a dangerous complacency or, on the other, an overreaction that causes problems of its own. Potentially...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 06, 2020 12:02 UTC