In our present world, for the first time in our lives, we have seen the following:
a) A complete lockdown of countries globally
b) Zero Economic Activity in many sectors
c) Oil Prices going below zero
d) 30 million Americans have filed for unemployment which is approximately 20% of their workforce. Similar credible data is not available for India, but we can see similar or worse trends here.
e) We are seeing the biggest central bank and government fiscal interventions worldwide. In the US, the first set of monetary and fiscal stimulus was around $4.3 Trillion which is around 124% of their government revenue in 2019 (and more is coming). We have seen negligible fiscal stimulus in India so far and everyone has been waiting for announcements for the last several weeks.
f) Escalation of geo-political tensions (US and China) or Oil Wars (Saudi Arabia and Russia). US and other countries are going after China as the cause of Coronavirus (generated in their Wuhan Lab).
g) Disruption in supply chains leading to shortages of supply for products everywhere and now demand side crisis because of the economic impact.
This means we have a pandemic, an equity market crisis, oil market crisis, bond market crisis, a currency crisis in the making, a supply and demand side crisis all at the same time.
In short, the world is changing at a faster pace than ever before. A few months back words such as contact tracing, social distancing and flattening the curve were not even a part of our vocabulary.