
It's been an interesting week. We've got the Kansas City Chiefs winning the Super Bowl. I don't know what to say about the debacle in Iowa, but really what's on everyone's mind is how will a Coronavirus affect stock markets and your investment portfolio? Now there are precedents, so we can talk about this. The SARS virus, there's Avian Flu and there's Ebola. What are the threats? Why would markets be so upset? Well, the biggest threat we're concerned about is these travel bans - especially in China. One of the things that's been learned with Ebola in Africa is the stricter the travel ban, the harder people will work to actually violate it. The other threat is what does it do to economic consumption and global GDP markets? We do know from history that travel bans rarely work. We also know from history that this type of...
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