Medical professionals knew that a viral, global pandemic was not a matter of if but when. Where was the plan? If closing schools and businesses was a known policy to fight infectious disease, why was there no communication to the public that this could happen? Now is not the time to point fingers, but to…
This Week in Women – COVID-19 Week Two
It was another wild week for financial markets and for the day to day lives of Americans. Thursday’s 10% decline in U.S. stocks was the largest single day drop since the October 1987 crash. It was followed by an equally historic gain of 9.5% on Friday, as the President declared the COVID-19 coronavirus a national…
Panic Mode
The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic today. Italy reported a 31% increase in deaths related to the virus. Stocks tanked, officially entering bear market territory. Negative headlines are coming too fast and furious. People are in full blown panic mode. When humans see danger, the brain pumps out stress hormones adrenaline and…
This Week in Women – COVID-19 Edition
It was another wild week on Wall Street, with stocks trading up and down more than 2% every day. Monday was up, Tuesday down, Wednesday up 4.4%, then down Thursday and Friday. It was enough to give investors whiplash. Meanwhile there are growing numbers of confirmed COVID-19 coronavirus cases in the US. These numbers will…
It’s Too Late
It’s too late for containment. “COVID-19” coronavirus is here and spreading in communities all over the United States. China, the second largest economy in the world, has shut down major manufacturing facilities for over a month. Supply chain disruption is already happening. Corporations are cancelling business travel. Schools are closing. The Tokyo Olympics might be…
This Week in Women – Markets in Turmoil Edition
What a week! The S&P 500 Index declined 11.50% and the Dow lost more than 12%. Every day felt like a sucker punch, and it was weird to feel relieved when the market closed down ‘only’ 1.5% on Friday. The importance of having a plan in place before things get bad was on full display….
Mardi Gras Selloff of 2020
Did you know today is Ash Wednesday and that yesterday was Mardi Gras day, the end of carnival season? If not then you definitely not live in New Orleans like I do. While our streets were filled with floats, plastic beads, costumes, glitter, and revelry for the sixth and seventh day in a row, the…
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19th Amendment, 19 Women: The New York Philharmonic’s 2020 Program Celebrates Suffragists NPR, Weekend Edition “Less than 3% of the music presented on the concert stage is written by women,” says Deborah Borda, the orchestra’s president and CEO, and one of the architects of Project 19. That’s worldwide, not just in the United States, which…
Do You Ever Wonder What It’s All About?
Every now and then I read a book that rocks my world. This was the case last week when, while holding my newborn daughter in my arms, I read When Breath Becomes Air, a memoir written by a young man, a neurosurgical resident, who knows he is dying from cancer. Lucky for us readers, he…
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House Votes to Eliminate Deadline on Adding ERA to Constitution Natalie Andrews, Wall Street Journal The effort to pass the ERA has seen a revival as of late, as more state legislatures have voted to ratify the 24-word amendment to the Constitution that says “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by…
