The impact on business caused by COVID-19 is beyond what any person could have expected as the United States entered 2020. In the span of a few months, more than 20 million people in the U.S. lost their jobs, erasing 10 years of job gains. Unemployment in the United States was 3.5% in February 2020. Two months later in April, it was 14.7%. In May, a surprise unemployment rate announcement of only 13.5% was celebrated (as opposed to what had been the expected rate of 19.0%). The U.S. Fed Balance Sheet increased from $4 trillion in 2019 to…Read more
My Old Man
“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass.’ ‘We’re
