Coronanomics 101 Remember “too big to fail,” the rationale for the government’s bailout of banks and large corporations during the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis? Doing so was challenged as creating an unacceptable “moral hazard,” the danger that American companies thereafter would rely on the government...
Winter Has Come It’s Economic Winter in America … and it’s cold. How much colder might it get? Very cold indeed! In a period of 4 short weeks, a sudden Covid-19 medical and economic blizzard dumped record “snowfalls” on Washington State, California, New York, Illinois, Florida, the...
Panic Attack The February 18th TLR (“The China Virus”) addressed the potential healthcare-medical and healthscare-economic consequences of the Coronavirus. It pointed out that governments and healthcare providers will continue to take appropriate steps designed to avoid a healthcare pandemic: “However, past results are not...
The China Syndrome Virus China has been a breeding ground for all types of unpredictables. China’s yearning for exotic foods, its history and culture, and its wild economic trajectory have made it a veritable petri dish for of all sorts of health, economic and political...
