
April 3, 2020
From Mark Mandula: Thoughts on the COVID-19 Pandemic Part IV
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues at full strength in much of the United States, it is becoming clearer that the economic damage done by the virus will be widespread and significant. The first inkling of this unsettling fact appeared last week when an unprecedented surge in jobless claims was announced. From the prior weeks, data of 282,000 claims came the stunning news that the current weeks total was about 3.3 million. At that point, equity and other markets in the United States nearly came unglued and the optmisitic chatter was that this would be the highest claim that would occur in the COVID-19 period. Most economists and experts had predicted that the number of claims would be nowhere as high as the 3.2+ million that wa actually reported.
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