I thought global warming aka climate change was The WORST!
No matter what, there is always a buck to be made.
Buy when blood is in the streets.
(Nathan Rothschild meant this literally)
I thought Obama was.
Sorry, but I don't buy the End of The World as We Know It talk.
The worldwide Spanish Flu epidemic took more lives that all the casualties of World War I, WHICH ACCOUNTED FOR SOME 16 MILLION DEATHS. The influenza epidemic that swept the world in 1918 killed an estimated 50 MILLION people. One fifth of the world’s population was attacked by this deadly virus. Within months, it had killed more people than any other illness in recorded history.
The three-day fever did not kill directly, but the pneumonia which followed did. Medical facilities at the time were overwhelmed, and the disease did not just strike once and pass, it maintained a large pool of infected and also kept mutating, so earlier immunities were useless.
In one year, the average life expectancy in the United States dropped by 12 years.
And why is this pandemic not widely studied today? Do we have to learn all these lessons all over again?
Hysterics undermines credibility.
There are quite a few West Africans working around some ski resorts.
The author says to buy puts on airline stocks.
Of course they also are advantaged by cheap oil as that’s a big portion of their costs.
So it’s not a lock by any means.