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May 17, 2020 Alarm from US Federal Reserve President Jerome Powell: US economy may not recover until late 2021. "Assuming there is not a second wave of the coronavirus, I think you will see the economy steadily recover in the second half of this quest. year, "said interviewed by the CBS.

"For the economy to fully recover, people will have to be fully confident and this may have to wait for a vaccine to arrive." But he added: "It will take some time to return. It could last until the end of next year. We don't really know."

Powell added that Parliament may have to approve even more emergency funds than the $ 3 trillion already authorized. 

The number of Americans claiming unemployment benefits since mid-March, a way of measuring the impact of the restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the virus, has exceeded 36 million.