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Inside Covid-19: Following the smart money; rock star economists on where we're heading - Ep 11

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In episode eleven of Inside Covid-19, we hear how the smart money is playing the investment markets; a special treat as two rock star economists (Mariana Mazuccato and Martin Wolf) share how the world will change through Covid-19; the WHO shatters the myth of the virus only killing the elderly; a potential breakthrough in treatment through transfusions of the plasma of the previously infected; and smart investors are accumulating shares of Cloud and online retail companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2 Apr 2020 1PM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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