MONEY TALKS

are all counting the cost of coronavirus. Much of it is still unknown: how many lives lost, how many families broken. With the stakes so high, it might feel uncomfortable to weigh up the pandemic’s financial cost. But most of us – including governments – have no choice but to do just that. “This will rewrite economics textbooks,” says Lacey Filipich, author of . “Governments are expecting a recession – which is where the economy hasn’t grown for