The financial consequences of the pandemic most likely won't be enough to have a long-term impact on the health of the financial system. There likely aren't going to be a huge number of deaths, there will be no physical damage to infrastructure, and the productive capacity of most countries will be largely unchanged.
But things like this can be a catalyst to bring to the fore inherent problems and weaknesses in economies that can have larger effects. Will that happen? Who knows. But before Covid was a thing, there were still serious concerns with the amount of debt that exists (personal, business, and governmental), the prolonged period of extremely low interest rates which has left federal banks with little leverage in crisis other than printing money, increased income inequality, and the possibility of increased automation upending employment (though I'm a little skeptical on the latter in the short to medium term).
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