You ain’t seen nothing yet!

Economic shocks are not new; they occur with frightening regularity. Unfortunately for planners, the origins and particular circumstances of an economic crisis makes them as unpredictable and their effects difficult to deal with. All that governments can usually do is to react with whatever weapons available. Better times will come, it’s just a matter of how long this takes. There is also the challenge of, as much as possible, ameliorating the long-term damage that any crisis will engender