A Tale of Two Countries
On New Year’s Eve, 2019, America faced one of its most prosperous times in history, with a stock market at an all-time high, record low unemployment for Americans from all walks of life, and GDP growth rates finally back on track at a pace unseen since 2008. The country had every reason to look optimistically to the future. And as the majority of the population went about their lives, the world as we knew it literally came to a standstill overnight. All of a sudden, Oscar Wild’s realization, “to expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect”, could not have been more accurate.