The current bout of SARS sweeping the globe (I prefer to use the scientific name SARS-COV-2 vs the generic terms COVID-19 or coronavirus) has, or will have, negative impacts on too many key sectors of the economy to fully enumerate.…

Two competing COVID19 camps have emerged. One group, primarily bulls, suggest that the Corona virus results in a mortality rate somewhere along the lines of an influenza virus. The bullish case centers around this point; while bulls are alarmed that…

The winning, by Bernie Sanders, of the Nevada Democratic primary in solid fashion, coupled with several other wins, in conjunction with the stunningly bad debate by former mayor Michael Bloomberg, suggests that Bernie Sanders has the momentum to potentially capture…

News that 40,000 plus persons have been officially diagnosed as having the newest strain of coronavirus in China have further widened fissures in both the Chinese economy and the government authoritarian model of dealing with the economy. All of this,…

The world’s most poorly kept secret, a sweeping overhaul of the interchange network fee schedule, has been disclosed by Visa Inc. A headline announcement to the media is that certain interchange fees, such as transaction costs associated with certain real…