On Tuesday treasury has estimated Australia's economy will shrink by between 10 and 12 per cent by June, the equivalent to $50 billion with weekly losses of $4 billion.
This is one of the topics we discussed this morning with Max Tani, Professor of finance at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Canberra.
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