ShutdownFrom the author of Crashed comes a short, high speed history of how Covid 19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us now. When the news first emerged from China about a new virus in December 2019, risk averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they could never have predicted the total economic collapse that would follow in COVID 19's wake, as stock markets fell faster and harder than at any time since 1929,