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Authorities on High Alert About Northern China Virus Outbreak, as Beijing District Is Marked ‘High-Risk’
Authorities on High Alert About Northern China Virus Outbreak, as Beijing District Is Marked ‘High-Risk’ Chaoyang district in Beijing city was officially designated a “high-risk region” for the virus outbreak on April 19. This is the first such region outside of Hubei province, China’s CCP virus epicenter, that authorities publicly acknowledged. Meanwhile, the virus continues to spread in northeastern China’s Harbincity. Pang […]
Demand for Bank Notes in Dollars & Euros Spikes Despite Fears of Covid-19 Contaminated Cash
Demand for Bank Notes in Dollars & Euros Spikes Despite Fears of Covid-19 Contaminated Cash A curious phenomenon. In the United States, as coronavirus concerns grew and state after state went into lockdown, and as consumption plunged and unemployment exploded at a previously unimaginable rate, the amount of physical dollars in circulation spiked to $1.89 […]
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Pandemic and Growth
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Pandemic and Growth There is no way authorities can limit the coronavirus and restore global growth and debt expansion to December 2019 levels. Authorities around the world are between a rock and a hard place: they need policies that both limit the spread of the coronavirus and allow their […]
Pandemic Armchair Philosophy Blog 04-15-2020
Pandemic Armchair Philosophy Blog 04-15-2020 First, a recap. The Pandemic Armchair Philosophy Blog was born in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, and is designed to demonstrate philosophy’s practical side in these challenging times. It encourages readers–and not just professional philosophers–to utilize the hard-wired human propensities to think, imagine and create. It’s of the armchair variety […]
The New COVID-19 Authoritarians Will Only Give Up Power If They Fear Blowback
The New COVID-19 Authoritarians Will Only Give Up Power If They Fear Blowback It was autumn 1989. Momentous things were taking place in the world. The Berlin Wall had fallen. The people of the Eastern Bloc had succeeded at getting to the West through Hungary. The firm line between east and west was wavering. The […]
Covid-19 and the Collapse of Cash
Covid-19 and the Collapse of Cash In my last article I referred to how since fears of Covid-19 in the UK took root in March, cash usage has fallen dramatically. Whilst the drop off has been substantial, the trend of cash payments being in decline is long established. Based on early evidence, the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated this […]
The Coronavirus Is Even More Dangerous Than Previously Thought
The Coronavirus Is Even More Dangerous Than Previously Thought In addition to the lungs, it injures the heart, kidneys, nervous & circulatory systems, intestines and liver Man, the more we learn about the honey badger virus (covid-19), the more we realize what a beast it truly is. Yesterday’s video went into the damage the virus […]
Scientists Discover Alarming Coronavirus Mutation That Could Render Vaccine Useless
Scientists Discover Alarming Coronavirus Mutation That Could Render Vaccine Useless The prospect that SARS-CoV-2, the “novel” coronavirus responsible for causing the illness COVID-19, might be mutating and evolving as it spreads across the globe has been such a terrifying prospect for the scientific community, that medical experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci seem to avoid even […]
Fox News Reports Coronavirus Originated In Wuhan Lab
Fox News Reports Coronavirus Originated In Wuhan Lab Fox News reports that COVID-19 originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology and that “patient zero” was a lab employee who became infected before spreading it in the community – just as we have reported repeatedly over the past three months, in exchange for which Twitter’s “appropriate content” arbiters deplatformed us without reason […]
Large-Scale Disaster: A Sobering Problem – Requiring A Different Approach
Large-Scale Disaster: A Sobering Problem – Requiring A Different Approach Most survival strategies and related tactics today draw upon the methods that worked in much smaller disasters and will likely work to some extent today in similar small-scale disasters. However, large-scale (continental-sized disasters) are quite different in many ways. Q1 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences […]
Far worse to come: COVID-19 collapse of state and local governments
Far worse to come: COVID-19 collapse of state and local governments Another sudden and unexpected factor will transform this year’s elections. Many states, cities and counties are about to, suddenly, run out of money. Wages won’t be paid. Services won’t be delivered. Institutions will shut down abruptly. Many state colleges may fold. And yet most […]
“Worst. Recession. Ever.”
“Worst. Recession. Ever.” When Harry Met Comic-Book-Guy “Worst global downturn since the Great Depression” says the IMF. Actually, it’s potentially worse than that.We are seeing credible (initial) claims in the UK and US that millions/tens of millions are going to be unemployed – again taking us back to black & white memories of long queues of […]
What Might We Learn from COVID-19?
What Might We Learn from COVID-19? COVID-19 has much to teach us about compassion, caring, gratitude, cooperation and truth. We need to thank our news media for keeping us informed, especially at this particular moment when falsity and division abound. Leaders supporting “fake news” and “alternative facts” have failed to address a pandemic in time […]
COVID-19 and the War on Cash: What Is Behind the Push for a Cashless Society? [SHORT]
COVID-19 and the War on Cash: What Is Behind the Push for a Cashless Society? [SHORT] Cash may well become a casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. As these COVID-19 lockdowns drag out, more and more individuals and businesses are going cashless (for convenience and in a so-called effort to avoid spreading coronavirus germs), engaging in online commerce […]
