This will drag down the profitability of the S&P 500 and make it more expensive by most every metric. It is worrisome because it affects a lot of people's investments. Also it doesn't really properly reflect the slowdown making the stock an especially dangerous investment, more so than Apple.

Sadly, tariff wars actually also breed competitors as we encourage production in other countries besides our own in retaliation, especially when it comes to rebranding and relabeling goods produced in Asia.

The US has advantages as more and more Covid related drugs to prevent morbidity pass through the FDA. This will keep the death rate down. That said, there needs to be ways to diagnose other deaths besides lung infections from Covid. This is one vector that can lead to more people dying.

Nothing good will come of it for Slack. After all, if someone wanted to do something against Microsoft with antitrust it would have gone after Microsoft's OS and Office long ago or its OS licensing model that is so messed up even Microsoft can't explain it and tells you to buy their subscription that makes them recurring revenue.

We are now in a world with falling demand. This is preventing inflation, but at a monumental loss of jobs. There is plenty of oil in the world still. Demand may not increase as rapidly as in the past, but neither will it go away at these prices.

Eventually wind, solar, fission and maybe fusion will replace a growing demand for energy, but for now it will be lucky to offset the growing energy demand from population growth. The bigger issue is Russia's relationship with Saudi Arabia and OPEC as they are the low cost producers for the foreseeable future.

Decreasing benefits going into a Presidential election is a hell of a way to insure your own party's defeat. That said, if he wants to being the budget more into line he should end the tax cuts that are purely adverse to our long run fiscal solvency.

This is not about inflation or the Federal Reserve. It is based on the fact silver production is slowing down due to Covid, which makes sense.

We should use foreign oil and the US should buy and discontinue pumping small oil fields to save for future use rather than pouring oil into salt mines which contaminates it in the Federal Reserve. This will cut demand and support domestic prices.

Apple's share price has reflected a potential slowdown for years now. More worrisome is Tesla being added to the S&P who's expansion is also limited despite what people say.

It's not as bad as the initial spike but it is still bad. Sadly the temporary unemployment is becoming permanent and without government support this will be worse and worse for those unemployed and those jobs serving the community.