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In some places, public officials and private business owners moved with stunning speed. In others, paralyzing hesitancy, defiant bravado or blithe disregard dominated. But by Monday, it was clear everywhere that most of the American economy was grinding to an unparalleled halt and would remain that way for months.
California took some of the most aggressive steps to curb the spread of the coronavirus, with San Francisco and its surrounding counties telling residents to shelter in place and not leave their homes unless necessary. Primary elections in Georgia, Kentucky and Louisiana were postponed.
On the East Coast, Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey recommended a blanket curfew from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. for his states nine million residents. In New York, owners, waiters, chefs and bartenders arrived for work Monday as if for a funeral, ordered to close by Tuesday morning.
On Wall Street, brokers and analysts were acting as if an economic collapse were inevitable, despite the Federal Reserves emergency moves on Sunday night to stoke economic growth through an aggressive bond-buying program. The S&P 500 fell nearly 12 percent on Monday and global oil prices slid below $30 a barrel, the lowest level in more than four years.
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bdamomma
(63,837 posts)huh you POS tRump, Mr. Putin must be very proud of his puppet.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The lowly wage slaves are incapacitated, but there shouldn't be any problems in the United States. We have the masters of the universe, those captains of industry, the caliphs of capitalism, the job creators ready to spring into action. They've been the beneficiaries of unprecedented tax cuts and regulatory relaxation for years. Now is their time to step forward and bless the nation with all the money they're sucked out of the national Treasury.
Right? Why do I hear the thunder of a thousand private jets taking off for foreign lands?