Welcome to Dysfunctional America — Market Mad House

The coronavirus pandemic exposes the horrifying reality of a dysfunctional America.

Frighteningly, 83,629 Americans had died of coronavirus as of 13 May 2020, Worldometers . In contrast India reported 2,535 coronavirus deaths, the People’s Republic of China reported 4,633 coronavirus deaths, and Russia reported 2,212 coronavirus deaths on the same day.

No informed person will mistake India or Russia for well-governed countries. Yet those nations’ leaderships appear to have coronavirus under control. Conversely, the world’s most powerful nation appears incapable of coping with COVID-19.

America’s Dysfunctional Leadership Classes

One small news story demonstrates just how dysfunctional America’s leadership classes have become. On 8 May 2020, Vice President Mike President Mike Pence (R-Indiana) took time out from his duties as chair of the White House’s coronavirus taskforce to meet with a group of food industry executives, The Cincinnati Enquirer.

Moreover, the food executives; whose industry is threatened by employee infections and supply-chain disruption interrupted their important work to meet with a politician. Disgustingly, news photographs show Pence and food executives; such as Kroger (NYSE: KR) CEO Rodney McMullen. in…