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As Coronavirus Spreads, Default Risk Is On The Rise

We talk to Roben Farzad (@robenfarzad), host of Public Radio’s Full Disclosure, about why defaults, both personal and corporate, pose the biggest danger to the economy right now.

We also discuss the particularly risky, indebted U.S. oil industry which is still reeling from a price war initiated by Russia and Saudi Arabia on Monday.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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