by John Mauldin
Gold Seek
[…] I am widely known as the “muddle through” guy. I describe problems then explain how we will get through them, slowly but surely.
That analogy isn’t appropriate for problems like the coronavirus, which actually kills people. The most seriously affected victims are not muddling through at all, and there are way too many of them. And those who are still waiting for government aid are certainly not muddling through. As we will see below, unemployment rates are anything but “Muddle Through.” This will be the slowest and most difficult Muddle Through of our lives.
But thankfully, we are starting to see the curves bend. The lockdowns and distancing appear to be stabilizing the number of new cases. We aren’t out of danger but this is encouraging.