Will Coronavirus Spreading to the West Lead to a Rise in Homeschooling?
"...it will be interesting to see just how many parents give homeschooling a shot ... and ultimately decide to stick with it."
10 March 2020 - 01:48
Michael Snyder: Will This Coronavirus Outbreak Cause a New Financial Crisis and a Horrifying Economic Collapse?
"Predictably, U.S. stocks plunged on Thursday as the bad news came rolling in. By the end of the trading session, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 969 points…"
6 March 2020 - 22:48
Lance Roberts: Federal Reserve’s “Emergency Rate Cut” Reveals Recession Risks
"...there mounting evidence it may not work."
6 March 2020 - 19:48
“We’re Going to Need One Heck of a Lot of Oxygen”: An Exclusive Interview with Dr. John Campbell
"Globally, there’s just not the capacity in terms of intensive care units."
4 March 2020 - 10:34
Lance Roberts: Sellable Rally, or the Return of the Bull?
"Stay alert; things are finally getting interesting."
3 March 2020 - 16:48
Warning Comes that the Coronavirus Could Cause “Shortages” and “Empty Shelves” in the United States
"In China it is becoming increasingly difficult for ordinary citizens to get essential supplies, there have been very long lines to buy face masks in Hong Kong and elsewhere, and in Italy crazed residents have stripped store shelves empty of pasta and other staples in recent days."
28 February 2020 - 22:48
A List of Named Coronavirus Pandemic Victims: Updates
We record here the names of over 600 notable victims of the Coronavirus Pandemic.
27 February 2020 - 16:48
Michael Snyder: Really Big News about the Coronavirus in the United States Just Dropped
"...at the end of January, a team of Indian scientists wrote in a now-retracted, scandalous paper claiming that the coronavirus may have been genetically engineered to incorporate parts of the HIV genome ... Fast forward to new research by a team from Nankai University, which writes that COV-19 has an ‘HIV-like mutation’ that allows it to quickly enter the human body by binding with a receptor called ACE2..."
27 February 2020 - 07:54
Risks to Australia from the Coronavirus Epidemic
"There are three main routes through which the coronavirus epidemic has the potential to disrupt the economies of China’s trading partners, even if the public health crisis itself remains confined to China."
26 February 2020 - 22:48
Our Triple-C Rated Economy: Complacency, Contradictions and the Coronavirus
"The Chairman of the U.S. Fed, Jerome Powell, should understand how supply and demand works, but as a reminder, the less available something is, everything else constant, the more it is worth. Mr. Chairman, your predecessors removed $3.5 trillion of bonds from the market, what did you think would happen to bond prices and therefore yields?"
26 February 2020 - 21:18
The Coronavirus Outbreak Takes an Ugly New Turn
"Out of 18 cremators at a crematorium, 3 were burned out due to overuse. Other 15 in operation 24/7. Many families died out."
24 February 2020 - 10:48
Better Food, Fewer Gadgets: How Mercantilism and Economic Nationalism Will Make Countries More Resilient
"The coronavirus outbreak has ... brutally exposed the shortcomings of globalisation and just-in-time supply chains..."
22 February 2020 - 16:04
Michael Snyder: Most Americans Are Not Taking This Coronavirus Outbreak Seriously, and That Is Potentially Very Dangerous
"Scientists that have studied the virus are telling us that it “could be 20 times more lethal than the flu”, and it binds to human cell receptors much more easily than the SARS virus did."
21 February 2020 - 22:48
Bill Blain: They’d None of Them Be Missed!
"A No Sh*t Sherlock award is winging its way to Goldman for spotting the market is underestimating the economic effects of the Coronavirus and something of a speculative bubble in stocks has developed."
21 February 2020 - 16:47
Hubei Provincial Government Promises Assistance as Foreign Students Run Out of Food and Essential Supplies
Ghanaian students in Hubei Province are appealing to be evacuated "because they have run out of essential supplies, including nose masks, food and water...".
20 February 2020 - 10:48
Michael Snyder: Ten Important Questions the Media Should Be Asking about this Coronavirus Outbreak
"Pankaj R. Patel, chairman of Zydus Cadila, said prices of medicine in India have exponentially jumped in the last several weeks, thanks to much of the medicine is sourced from China."
19 February 2020 - 10:48
Jane Graham Reed: Should the UK Government Trial Prophylactic Black Elderberry Dozes among those Suspected of Contact with COVID-19?
"At present, British Government policy for reducing the spread of coronavirus is for people who may have come in contact with it to be isolated, mostly in their own homes, for two weeks, the possible incubation period of the virus."
18 February 2020 - 17:32