title: Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown
author:  David Wiedemer 
description: "But as bitter as it is, 'Aftershocks' messagethat America has yet to pay its billsdeserves an audience. After all, the authors were right once before." <br /> <b>Michael Casey</b>, <i>MarketBeat, blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat, November 2009</i>
zlib_text: IMAGINATION TAKES FLIGHT
  
  APRIL 18TH–24TH 2020
  Fumbling for an exit strategy
  The shape of the recession
  Should firms pay dividends? 
  The race for a vaccine
  Is Chinawinning?
  The geopolitical consequences of covid-19
  
  By invitation In recent
  years the market
  economy has become the
  market society. The virus
  could reverse that trend,
  says Mark Carney, page 52
  The Economist April 18th 2020
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  Contents
  The world this week
  5 A summary of political
  and business news
  Leaders
  7 Geopolitics and covid-19
  Is China winning?
  8 The oil industry
  A view of the future
  8 Covid-19 lockdowns
  Fumbling for the exit
  strategy
  9 Should dividends be cut? 
  Jam postponed
  10 Voting by mail
  Two myths
  Letters
  12 On Africa, covid-19,
  Mount Everest, Dutch
  swear words, podiums,
  exacting
  Brieﬁng
  13 Producing immunity
  The race for a vaccine
  16 Convalescent plasma
  Survivors as saviours
  United States
  17 Inequality and the virus
  18 Collapsing crime rates
  19 Democrats in array
  20 Military recruitme