It Isn’t Just the Virus: Financial Impacts of R0

In This Issue
Week of 2/03/2020
Vol. 25 Issue 5

It Isn’t Just the Virus: Financial Impacts of R₀

• The Current State
• About the Numbers
• Origins and Nature
• It’s All About R-Naught
• The World
• Economic Damage

The Viral Economy

Upgrades

• The INVNT/IP Digest

Ethermail

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It Isn’t Just the Virus: Financial Impacts of R₀

This week we are going to take a pattern-based look at the most important financial question of the moment (at least based on media coverage) – not Brexit, not the faux trial in the US Senate, not the equally fake China trade deal – but the matter of what economic impact the novel coronavirus may have on the global economy.

In addition to bringing some new perspectives on how to view this soon-to-be-pandemic event in the main text of this Global Report, we are also initiating a new section with weekly coverage, updates, and new original metrics on this question in each future issue of the GR, until the crisis passes.

When you’re done reading today’s issue, you should have a more original and more pragmatic view of the current status of this threat, what it means financially, and how to consider its progress using new metrics going forward. We hope this will help move our members out of the noise storm based on fear and other political agendas and into a viewpoint through which they can make more informed personal and corporate financial decisions.