The United States is an unrivaled economic powerhouse. It accounts for 4% of the world’s population yet captures a whopping 24% of the world’s gross domestic product—the total value of goods and services produced by a country in one year.

The Covid 19 outbreak set the field, but the direct cause of oil’s crash last week reads from an old playbook. WTI has been on a freefall losing over $16 in two days, prompting a wider stock market sell off that created another Black Monday as the Dow dove 7% in a single day. The […]