If Amazon Breaks, Everything’s Broken
With people not leaving their homes, you’d expect sales to be booming for the home delivery behemoth… And they are. So what’s the problem? The...
Month: March 2020
Why Doesn’t Trump Just Blame John Bolton For Botching Coronavirus Response?
Trump’s former National Security Advisor’s “tell-all” book was due to go on sale today. It didn’t, because Trump’s trying to block it. And we realize...
We May Soon See Color Coded Threat Levels For Coronavirus
Very much like the terrorism threat levels after 9-11 The White House seems to be taking a report out this week from infectious disease modelers...
Trump Is Now Calling COVID-19 “The Chinese Virus”. But If The Global Economy Melts Down, That’ll Very Much Be A U.S.-led Phenomenon
How can banks possibly figure out who to lend money to? Quick answer: they can’t. In order to know that they’d have to have some...
Why The Federal Reserve Cutting Interest Rates To Zero Is Not A Cause For Happiness
The only reason the U.S. central bank would be taking this action is things have gotten unexpectedly bad, unexpectedly fast And it needs to do...
No, The Fed Did Not “Give” $1.5-Trillion To Banks
What the Fed did do was promise banks–if they put up their own collateral–it’d help them stop a train wreck We can’t overemphasize the importance...
Where’s The Light At The End Of The Coronavirus Tunnel?
It’s all about visibility now. And there is none. We keep coming back to the somewhat dismissive statement Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin made to Congress...
Trump Blames Europe For “A Large Number” Of U.S. Coronavirus Infections
Insists U.S. is not in the midst of a “financial crisis” despite huge market plunge Most of the reporting we’ve seen about Trump’s address tonight...
Everyone Who Voted Is A Voter, Just Trying To Do Their Best
This growing narrative of some kind of “establishment” machine coming in and plowing Bernie Sanders under is not fair And it’s not helpful to anyone....
If Trump Truly Believes His Own Tweets, He Should Be Out Doing Rallies
After all, he’s done countless rallies during flu season before… Yet, according to his official campaign events page, he has no upcoming rallies on his...