All signs are pointing to a global economic crisis of proportions not seen in decades in the face of the coronavirus pandemic crisis. The International Monetary Fund estimated last Wednesday that the global economy would shrink by 3 percent in 2020, a slowdown 30 times worse than what the world experienced in 2009, when the global financial crisis caused growth to shrink by 0.1 percent. The new forecast contrasts sharply from the IMF’s projections just three months ago, when the organization ant