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Differentiating Economic Impacts
Consider two distinct economic events. Event A is a sudden, unexpected global health crisis that causes widespread business closures and a sharp decrease in consumer spending across all sectors of a country's economy. Event B is a severe blight that destroys the majority of the wheat crop in a country's primary agricultural region, causing hardship for farms in that region and higher prices for wheat-based products. Explain the fundamental difference between these two events in terms of their overall impact on the national economy.
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