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03/06/2020 / By JD Heyes

Billionaire investor Ray Dalio warns of “worst-case scenario” with Coronavirus that could wipe out savings and destroy markets

Billionaire investor, hedge fund manager and founder of one of Bridgewater Associates said in an online post this week that the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) has the potential to become a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. Worse, he noted, though admitting he’s no virus expert, he believes that if the outbreak becomes a global pandemic and ordinary people with […]

03/04/2020 / By JD Heyes

Global shippers now losing a billion dollars a month as pandemic-induced slump hits the world’s product transport infrastructure

What do you get when you combine a ‘just-in-time logistics’ economy with a global slump in the most common form of transportation for getting goods to market — shipping? In short order, you get chronic shortages of virtually everything. And that seems to be the course we are on right now, thanks to effects of […]

03/01/2020 / By JD Heyes

British health secretary issues shock warning that entire CITIES could be shut down over coronavirus if spread continues

Just when you thought maybe the Wuhan coronavirus’ global spread may be petering out and that the world could take a step back from the pandemic abyss, another alarming report surfaces to make you think conditions are not improving at all. We already know that the virus has spread well beyond the borders of China, where it […]

02/23/2020 / By JD Heyes

China’s economy continues to collapse as domestic car sales plunge a whopping 92% on spread of Wuhan coronavirus

Chinese President Xi Jinping finally made a public statement about the rapid, uncontrolled spread of the Wuhan coronavirus over the weekend, and it wasn’t optimistic. As reported by the South China Morning Post and republished by POLITICO, Xi made an “unprecedented” teleconference call that was open to every county government and military unit throughout the […]

02/20/2020 / By JD Heyes

Wuhan coronavirus threatens to DESTROY commerce throughout China as just 34% of businesses have enough cash flow to stay open for longer than a month

If Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread throughout China at its current rate and the government finds no good way to control it, millions of workers are going to be laid off from their jobs as two-thirds of small-to-medium businesses fail. According to a Google translation of a Yahoo! Taiwan story, the virus is continuing […]

02/19/2020 / By JD Heyes

RIPPLE EFFECT: Huge disruptions in pharmaceutical supplies reported in INDIA after Wuhan coronavirus disrupts production in China

As we’ve been reporting now for several weeks, the spreading Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) is much worse than the Chinese government has said. There are thousands more infections, according to various reports, and plenty more deaths — so many, in fact, that funeral homes are paying more than $143 an hour in order to attract enough […]

02/16/2020 / By JD Heyes

China’s power consumption plunges as coronavirus pandemic shutters factories; economic numbers certain to plunge next

Several analysts have been keeping an eye on China’s internal economic activity as another way of gauging how severe the coronavirus spread really is and how drastic the government’s actions are to contain it. Over the past few days, these analysts have been able to piece together a number of indicators suggesting that a) the […]

02/15/2020 / By JD Heyes

Chinese factory employees forced to return to work amid widening coronavirus outbreak, then get QUARANTINED

The Chinese economy grew at double digits for nearly two decades because the country literally became the world’s factory, producing everything from toys to computer components. But when the coronavirus outbreak began, the Communist government had to quarantine tens of millions of people in an effort to contain it. In doing so, thousands of Chinese […]

02/14/2020 / By JD Heyes

Commerce and economic activity in China comes to virtual standstill amid worsening coronavirus outbreak

What would happen if the world’s second-largest economy were to grind to a halt for any length of time? And what impact would the collapse of the second-largest economy have on global commerce, especially if that country was responsible for grinding out the lion’s share of consumer goods and spare parts for most of the […]

02/11/2020 / By JD Heyes

Is another subprime mortgage bubble just over the horizon? Industry seeks to eliminate debt-to-income rules that caused the last one

About a decade ago, thanks to crazy loose government rules that allowed mortgage companies to offer insanely low payments and interest rates on insanely expensive property to people who had no ability to pay for it, we seem on the precipice of repeating that disaster. In 2007, the bottom fell out of the U.S. housing […]

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