Weathering the Storm

Bob Hughes is a senior Research Fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research with over 25 years’ experience in economic and financial markets research. He was formerly the head of Global Equity Strategy for Brown Brothers Harriman, where he developed equity investment strategy combining top-down macro analysis with bottom-up fundamentals. On this edition of This Is DesignIntelligence, he explains how COVID-19 (and our response to it) caused a historic shutdown of the economy and an unprecedented contraction of activity, why our understanding of the disease is critical to understanding the changes to the economy, and the most important things business leaders should be paying attention to in order to guide their firms through the uncertainty ahead.