{"637115":{"#nid":"637115","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Economist Tells Gwinnett Chamber that Covid-19-related Downturn Is \u0027a Recession by Design\u0027","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA talk by \u003Cstrong\u003EAlfie Meek\u003C\/strong\u003E (ECON 1991)(EI2) to the Gwinnett Chamber was reported in \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/app.meltwater.com\/mwTransition\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gwinnettdailypost.com%2Flocal%2Feconomist-tells-gwinnett-chamber-that-covid-19-related-downturn-is-a-recession-by-design%2Farticle_a800f00c-c8c8-11ea-9113-d725f2cfca9c.html\u0026amp;uId=5d30ea6025ed09300e64668a\u0026amp;cId=56a9a7d66b27d55c8c3a587e\u0026amp;dId=lKaKNS1VqmgKes3u32Qw3Vro1mE\u0026amp;contextId=5f15a811cbd24e6281ed614a\u0026amp;op=open\u0026amp;sentiment=V\u0026amp;isHosted=false\u0026amp;publishTime=1595088000279\u0026amp;id=\u0026amp;name=\u0026amp;type=\u0026amp;transitionToken=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiJ9.eyJob3N0bmFtZSI6Ind3dy5nd2lubmV0dGRhaWx5cG9zdC5jb20ifQ.Ulv4biK2sjNfUeaCnd0h86AZd-_8606r4eAFzOMlY2XELauC5JV_NEZxOPL2h9tdeWZf7NR0KabzQ1W2Pt6Ipg\u0026amp;s=mail-newsletter\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EEconomist Tells Gwinnett Chamber that Covid-19-related Downturn Is \u0026#39;a Recession by Design.\u0026#39;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026rdquo; \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGwinnett Daily Post\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, July 18, 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe economy will not come back quickly or easily from the impact created by the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic, according to the head of the Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute\u0026#39;s Center for Economic Development Services.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe center\u0026#39;s director, Alfie Meek, provided a mid-year economic update to the Gwinnett Chamber of Wednesday. His speech served as somewhat of a preview of what the pandemic could do to the economy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMeek said a realistic scenario is that the U.S. will have \u0026quot;effective control\u0026quot; of the virus and partially effective policy interventions, but he added regional resurgences of COVID-19 would occur.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gwinnettdailypost.com\/local\/economist-tells-gwinnett-chamber-that-covid-19-related-downturn-is-a-recession-by-design\/article_a800f00c-c8c8-11ea-9113-d725f2cfca9c.html\u0022\u003ERead Full Article\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2020-07-20 17:08:20","changed_gmt":"2020-07-20 17:15:43","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"west germany","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.gwinnettdailypost.com\/local\/economist-tells-gwinnett-chamber-that-covid-19-related-downturn-is-a-recession-by-design\/article_a800f00c-c8c8-11ea-9113-d725f2cfca9c.html","dateline":{"date":"2020-07-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-07-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"633711":{"id":"633711","type":"image","title":"Alfie Meek","body":null,"created":"1584893548","gmt_created":"2020-03-22 16:12:28","changed":"1585082095","gmt_changed":"2020-03-24 20:34:55","alt":"Alfie Meek","file":{"fid":"241139","name":"Alfie - head shot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Alfie%20-%20head%20shot.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Alfie%20-%20head%20shot.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":701285,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Alfie%20-%20head%20shot.jpg?itok=QM3LyiSO"}}},"media_ids":["633711"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1282","name":"School of Economics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"184292","name":"alfie meek"},{"id":"602","name":"economics"},{"id":"2695","name":"alumnus"},{"id":"184289","name":"covid-19"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}