The family of crown shaped coronaviruses has been identified in humans since 1965, originally associated with the harmless common cold. With 7 known types of regal looking coronaviruses known to infect humans, the current COVID-19 cousin is most closely related to the Chinese SARS virus (or COV-2) that appeared in…
The record setting Bull market in stocks since 2009 had reached a parabolic climax in February. The 1st quarter culmination was particularly amazing in that the US economy had been slowing for months and the growing Covid pandemic had already shut down China and begun moving into the rest of…
Consensus forecasts are never precise and during this historic health experiment inducing an economic heart attack to battle a pandemic, wide margins of error in expectations are unsurprising. Normally a forecast miss of 100,000 in payroll estimates is shocking, but adjectives are elusive when describing a consensus miss of 10…
It’s widely assumed that consumer spending and home buying will remain depressed while virus fears are elevated. When the US and most of the globe shut down their economies to slow the Covid pandemic in March, there was no time to examine unintended consequences. With a health emergency projecting Millions…
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…
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