China’s coronavirus response highlights investing risks

The breakout and then spread of the coronavirus (or Covid-19, as it is officially known) is an example of a black swan event at its finest.   After first emerging in Wuhan, China at the beginning of the year, the virus has spread extremely rapidly. In doing so it has had a deleterious impact on the economies of almost all of north Asia, and is now hammering countries worldwide as governments begin implementing policies to socially isolate their citizens and mitigate the disease's …