Corona!

With the global pandemic going on, people aren’t allowed to leave their house. Money can't go into circulation from being cooped up in your bedroom all day. This has taken a huge toll on our economy, and resulting from this the stock market crashed, and has only continued to lower. The DJI, or dow jones industrial average, measures the stock of the 30 largest companies. Currently that stock is measured at -217.55, or (.90%). This is very low. The driving cause of this, like I had mentioned previously is the lack of money going into circulation. With people not allowed to leave their homes, gas, restaurants, shopping, and many other businesses take a huge hit, and who knows if they will be able to remain open after this pandemic. In the next 6 months to a year, I think many restaurants will close, but slowly begin to reopen. As well as that, I think our country will start to reopen, but some states will do it too early and need to close again. Hopefully that will not be the case, but with florida already reopening beaches I feel like it could happen. I think this will affect peace and conflict a lot, because once we begin to get back to “normal” we are going to realize we no longer have access to many of the resources we need, so many countries will be reaching out to each other, but I'm afraid Donald Trump will ruin that for our country, and demand with no return. I also feel as if we wouldn't help countries with all the rescources we are able to help with, which will create conflict. 

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