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Not hardly hopefully a year from now we will have forgotten most of this and will be enjoying an economic renaissance not seen in years.

I do not share your level of optimism.

The last time the Oil patch had this low a price for a barrel of Oil, there were large numbers of bankruptcies and the Houston economy from 1984 through 1990 was in deep doodo.

Now we have this level of bankruptcies throughout the country

The Sunday political talk shows 5/24/20

Below the FreeRepublic Sunday talk show thread link.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3848024/posts

The major talking points of the day

We need to remove lock down but we might all die.

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): White House Coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx; Mark Parkinson, American Health Care Association; Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-Ark.); and Tom Day, Bugles Across America. Panel: Josh Holmes; Donna Brazile; Jonah Goldberg. (Gag, barf—Wallass, is this CNN?)

Highlight of Fox News Sunday:
Scarf lady again does great job. Where is Fauci?

Link to Fox News Sunday Below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=favUD-ExT2c

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien; Gov. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio); Dr. Peter Hotez, Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development; and Dr. Dan Barouch, Center for Virology and Vaccine Research. Panel: O. Kay Henderson, Radio Iowa; Andrea Mitchell; Jeh Johnson.

Highlight of Meet the Press:
None other than a Harvard graduate tells us what we should do. Because WE are too stupid to do it right.

Link to Meet the Press show below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU8Yjlqx0JQ

https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-may-24-2020-n1213966

FACE THE NATION (CBS): National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien; former Sec. of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff; former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb; Eric Rosengren, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; and Geoffrey Ballotti, Wyndham Hotels Group. Panel:

Highlight of Face the Nation
Scarf lady does not think increases in positive tests necessarily means we should go back on lock down

Below the link to Face the Nation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUf6Vy7V5o

THIS WEEK (ABC): White House coronavirus response coordinator: Dr. Deborah Birx; Tom Bossert; and Dr. Atul Gawande, the New Yorker. Panel: Rahm Emanuel. Panel: Jonathan Karl; Pierre Thomas; Julie Pace.

Highlight of This Week with George Stephanopolous

Scarf lady again assures us it will be all right.

Link to This Week below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl1M5ehEDQE

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Economic stimulus White House senior advisor Kevin Hassett; Gov. Phil Murphy (D-N.J.); Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.); Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.).

Highlight of State of the Union
Rick Scott brags about how well Florida is doing

Link to State of the Union below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72oR2p1MxdU

SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): Sec. of Health and Human Services Alex Azar; Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.); Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.); Former Acting US Attorney General Matthew Whitaker: Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif). Author Gordon Chang (“Nuclear Showdown”).

Sunday Morning Futures:

HHS CZAR AZAR does much better than last week

Link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRU8ipANFWY

Not everything looks good. But you have to remember little driving has occurred for some weeks,even fewer planes flying now put people back in cars burning lots of gas and back in the air and things start turning around for big oil.