Writing for his favorite eponymous publication, media mogul and informal advisor to the Trump Administration Steve Forbes published a short list of actions the government should urgently take to keep capital flowing to a corona-battered U.S. economy. In a nutshell, here’s what Forbes […]
Tag: Covid-19
Dr. Carri Chan, Columbia Business School: How Hospitals Manage A Coronavirus Surge
With Covid-19 spreading quickly, intensive care units (ICUs) across America are bracing for a wave of new patients. Experts project up to 2 million ICUs visits during the outbreak. Nationwide, there are approximately 75,000 ICU beds, and on average 85% of them are already occupied. Demand for ICUs will quickly outstrip supply—unless […]
Coronavirus, Butter and Oil: As We Brace for Pandemic, We Also Need to Inoculate Ourselves Against Group-Think
Daniel McGroarty, TES GeoPolicy Editor As the world wakes each morning to new numbers mapping the Coronavirus’ spread, along comes a piece by Andrew Butter provocatively titled, “What China Knows About the Coronavirus that Oil Traders Don’t Know.” Read it in full at SeekingAlpha. Butter watches global oil markets, and he’s noticed […]
What coronavirus tells us about globalization (and vice versa)
“The unintended consequences of coronavirus.” By Sergio Beraldo, courtesy of IREF A new type of virus is holding the world in suspense by evoking images of the worst Hollywoodian nightmares. It is known that it spread out of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, China, and then quickly propagated throughout mainland China, at […]