Sensationalism Sells and our schadenfreude media must be clamoring for their Starbucks fix to keep up with the proliferating once in a lifetime scary Corona stories. Portraying life as a dystopian disaster film manipulates society’s collective anger with the macabre tracking of daily Covid death counts, bankruptcies and comparisons among states…
With estimated April unemployment already within marching distance of the dire Great Depression levels of the 1930’s, the stock market seems obtuse to have recouped most of its losses for 2020. As a leading indicator, stocks appear to foresee a partial V shaped economic recovery over the next year. March…
After a month of social and economic lock-downs around the world, a few things have become clear. New COVID-19 cases must trend lower for a couple weeks before societal restrictions can begin subsiding. Once the Corona fires are under control short term, then its agreed we need widespread frequent testing…
Hospitably has been quite inhospitable to investors in March. Unemployment claims are about 10 times greater in recent weeks than in the depths of the last Recession. National unemployment is nearly 14% and appears destined to breach 20%. RavnAir Group, the largest regional carrier in Alaska, filed for bankruptcy this…
As the COVID-19 epidemic in China crept into the headlines in early January, the economic uncertainty sent Oil down a modest $10/barrel into the $50’s. When the virus broke out in Europe and the US in late February, the evolving pandemic finally rang alarm bells and crushed Oil consumption forecasts,…
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