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Podcast: Spotlight Hawaii
Episode: Economist Paul Brewbaker joined Spotlight Hawaii to talk about the state’s economic outlook in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Description: Economist Paul Brewbaker of TZ Economics joined Spotlight Hawaii today to talk about the state’s economic outlook in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. With the increasing numbers of positive coronavirus cases, he says the news is not good.
“It’s pretty basic, everybody. The epidemiological problem is the economic problem. You don’t solve the economic problem until the epidemiological problem is solved, until we mitigate and contain spread of the novel coronavirus,” he said.
Brewbaker argued that containing the virus and bringing the case count back down is the only way to ultimately...