that front john for now thanks very much indeed that's john hendren live for us in chicago laurence kotlikoff is a professor of economics at boston university he's joining us from boston massachusetts via skype we appreciate your time so thank you very much indeed donald trump has been saying that the u.s. economy is going to come back strong is it. well i don't think i don't think he has a game plan for ending the crisis because if you just wait for the curb to flatten and then you let people out. there might be better behavior but in terms of social distancing but you know frankly i wouldn't boston when you go to the supermarket people are not that isn't apart from each other they are more often wearing masks and gloves but i don't think that's going to be sufficiently protective against this virus and i think if it were the case we would not be not have seen a usual option in china so until we have a game plan there's only 2 ways out of this. because if you just open things up and the virus spikes again then everybody locked up inside again and this will just continue so i don't. get it we

i'm joined by laurence kotlikoff via skype he's a professor of economics at boston university good to have you with us live on al-jazeera said donald trump is determined that the economy will bounce back but looking at today's job list figures that doesn't reflect the hope that he has. now i think he is in continues to be in living in his fantasy land or fantasy world so we have about trying to a 1000000 people now i'm unemployed my guess is that that could go to 30000000 in another month or so. we're likely to see. this quarter. being something like 35 percent below its peak so we're talking numbers which we have which are surpassing what we saw in the great depression by a considerable margin and we saw in the great depression alcoa dropped by 26 percent between 10291933 here we're talking about that's a 3 year period. now where we're talking now about out we're dropping just in 3 months by 30 by perhaps 40 percent indeed i mean this road user wants. me to draw the world obviously has changed in the 100 years since the great depression of the 1930 s. i wonder what the difference is