# Professor Nouriel Roubini asserts that a large fiscal stimulus is needed to stop a historic recession

1 Faculty News March 18, 2020 ![Business Insider logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/business%20insider%20logo.jpg?itok=0MJSCdPh)>

Excerpt from [Business Insider](https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/dr-doom-nouriel-roubini-give-americans-1000-dollars-great-depression-2020-3-1029008090) -- "The Trump administration must give $1,000 to every American adult or coronavirus will plunge the US into its worst recession in nearly a century, according to [Nouriel Roubini](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/nouriel-roubini)."

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