After the vaccine euphoria it could be back to square one with Covid ‘escape’ variants
After celebrating the arrival of a coronavirus vaccine in record time, markets now fear political fallout and threat of a new variant
26 January 2021 • 2:05pm
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The next black swan for financial markets could well be an escape variant of Covid-19.
This is fast becoming the greatest potential threat to economic recovery and exorbitant asset prices. It has overtaken the risks of an inflation scare this Spring, leading to another taper tremor from the US Federal Reserve.
they don t want trump, obviously. they think it would be a disaster. it would be a one off thing. weird year, tsunami. he ll lose. cruz represent as threat to them in the sense he s a senator from texas. he becomes a very powerful force within the republican party even if he loses. so here s what you write, bill, in the week lie standard. if we had not suffered through seven tedious years with barack obama of liberalism and dangerous political correctness fewer of our political citizens would be susceptible to the charms of donald trump. no obama, no trump we suspect. indeed no jeb bush and the prospect of a bush-clinton race, no trump. but we are where we are. the trump opera buffa is going