On The Beach in Hysteria Mode

March 13, 2020

You ever feel like you've just heard the bell ring for the 13th round of a 12 round fight? Well, that's how I'm feeling with all the news about the spreading coronavirus, and the crashing and recovering and crashing markets. All of which has me thinking about the end of times, a zombie apocalypse, and whether I have enough bourbon, ice cream and cookies in the house to last. What's rattlin' around in what's left of my mind is pretty grim stuff  -- and the three videos below pretty much express what I'm thinking. 


The final scenes from that wonderful 1959 film "On the Beach," starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins:


I've seen the lights go out on Broadway
I saw the mighty skyline fall
There are not many who remember
They say a handful still survive
To tell the world about
The way the lights went out
And keep the memory alive:


President Trump's February 28, 2020, speech in South Carolina:

Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus . . . And this is their new hoax . . . And so far we have lost nobody to coronavirus in the United States, nobody, and it doesn't mean we won't, and we are totally prepared, it doesn't mean we won't, but think of it, you hear 35,- and 40,000 people, and we lost nobody, you wonder if the press is in hysteria mode:



On The Beach in Hysteria Mode (BrokeAndBroker.com Blog)

What can happen to a company if coronavirus sends every employee home (CNBC.com)

SEC Adopts Amendments to Reduce Unnecessary Burdens on Smaller Issuers by More Appropriately Tailoring the Accelerated and Large Accelerated Filer Definitions (SEC Release)

Amendments to Reduce Unnecessary Burdens on Smaller Issuers by More Appropriately Tailoring the Accelerated and Large Accelerated Filer Definitions (Statement by SEC Chair Clayton)

Statement on Amendments to Reduce Unnecessary Burdens on Smaller Issuers by More Appropriately Tailoring the Accelerated and Large Accelerated Filer Definitions by SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce

Statement on the Rollback of Auditor Attestation Requirements by SEC Commissioner Allison Herren Lee

Bergen County Man Charged With Stealing Millions From Lenders And Corporations In Wire Fraud Scheme (DOJ Release)