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Starbucks Says Its Chinese Virus Plan Will Work in U.S., Too

(Bloomberg) — While for many U.S. restaurants it seems the sky is crashing down, Starbucks Corp. has a unique perspective after having gone through the same thing in China. Their chief executive officer’s message is this: If the strategy to contain coronavirus worked in China, it will work in North America too.“Our team in China defined elevated cleaning protocols for stores,” CEO Kevin Johnson told investors during a meeting with shareholders that was webcast for health reasons. “They basically created a model we are now using around the world, and we know that model worked.”The company now expects 95% of …read more […]

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How Bad Will the 2020 Recession Be?

Economists absolutely love to make forecasts. It’s what they do. And it doesn’t matter if the supporting data for their projections is paper-thin (it often is). It’s when they decline to make a forecast that I get worried. And it has me wondering: how bad will the 2020 recession be?
On Sunday, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced a nearly unprecedented “monetary bazooka.” The central bank cut rates to approximately zero. And relaunched a major bond-purchasing program known as quantitative easing.
Fed watchers like me were expecting such extreme measures from Powell & Co., given the damage the pandemic is doing to …read more […]

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Lufthansa to Cut 95% of Flights in Survival Mode

(Bloomberg) — Three of the world’s leading airlines laid bare the devastation the coronavirus is inflicting on air travel, with Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Delta Air Lines Inc. parking a total of 1,500 planes and Qantas Airways Ltd. laying off close to 30,000 employees in some of the industry’s deepest cuts to date.The measures at Lufthansa, Europe’s biggest carrier, go furthest, with Chief Executive Officer Carsten Spohr saying Thursday he’ll eliminate 95% of seats, shrinking the timetable to a level last seen in 1955. Delta is grounding half the fleet to wipe out 70% of capacity, while Qantas, which has …read more […]