How Bad is COVID-19 Really?
COVID-19 is significantly worse than you probably think it is. To understand how seriously we need to take COVID-19, let’s compare it to some other major disease events like the worst flu season on record and the worst pandemic in US history. COVID-19 vs The Flu To compare the same time frame of a year […]
When Will The Pandemic End?
There have been over 20 major disease events in recorded history. Each lasted between less than a year to more than a decade, averaging 2-4 years. Those pandemics followed several predictable paths that provide us insight into when the pandemic will end. Status Quo At the time of this writing, an estimated 165,000 Americans have […]
The SBRA: Saving Small Business
By Dillon Zwick The Small Business Reorganization Act (SBRA) was signed into law in August 2019 and went into effect February 19, 2020. The timing of the new law couldn’t have been better. It has never been easier or cheaper for a small company to restructure through a court approved process. The SBRA accomplishes the […]
The Road to Recovery
By Dillon Zwick How do you account for panic in a financial model? What do you do when no one can forecast the future with certainty or accuracy? Economic forecasts have never been as divergent as they are now. The major financial institutions project Q2 GDP to range from -9% to -50%. The maps we […]
Toilet Paper Panic: Managing Emotions During a Crisis
By Dillon Zwick & Sean Sparks, LPC Executives are not exempt from the panic people feel during times of great uncertainty and duress. We often think of panic expressed by someone erratically pacing back and forth while making hurried and irrational decisions, but panic is much more than this Hollywood portrayal. Panic is defined as […]
The Only Thing We Are Missing Is Actual Zombies
By Dillon Zwick What is happening right now? Once a country breaches a certain threshold, COVID-19 confirmed cases double every 3 days – the US is one of those countries. On average it takes 10 days for someone to seek medical care from the time they were infected. That 10 day lag period is why […]
COVID-19 and the Workplace
By Eden Minucci The impact of Covid-19 on the workplace, like its impact in other areas, is rapidly evolving with simultaneous developments on numerous fronts. State and local governments have passed declarations and ordinances to free up resources and encourage social distancing. On March 18 the first U.S. law directly responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, […]
Mitigating the Economic Impacts Coronavirus
Prepared by Meadowlark Advisors J. Cooper Crouse & Dillon Zwick 03.02.20 Update Introduction The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of the risks presented by the Coronavirus to global markets, international supply chains and the companies relying on those markets and supply chains to do business. As of this update, China is, […]