The state establishes the curriculum and determines which textbooks are to be used. The entire operation is run in a top-down, command-and-control manner, much like the military...
After trying hard to ignore the deadliest global pandemic in decades, and pretending it would have no impact on future sales or demand, US corporations are starting to fall like viral dominoes, with one after another slashing guidance.
This is all as the WHO and the EU keep insisting that nothing and nobody should interfere with free movement of goods and people across borders, presumably for fear of setting a precedent for anti-globalization forces.
...it is difficult to remember a time when the potential turbulence we face has been so broadly ignored by the “market” and so overlooked by the Fed and politicians.
"All of the new Democrats that came in and put Nancy Pelosi in charge and gave the Congress the ability to control this president, I bough-... I got them."
