COVID-19 UPDATE: USA cases rise +4,024 to 21,677 on 4 states (IL, FL, CT and PA). Survey data reinforces partisanship in viewing this crisis.

COVID-19 remains a global crisis and we realize that many people need to keep up with COVID-19 developments, particularly since we are moving into the more critical stage ("restart economy"), so feel free to share our commentary to anyone who has interest.Today, we saw a trifecta of developments that dampened/tapered expectations around COVID-19.  Dr. Fauci made his testimony and commented on several topics including the risks of re-opening too quickly, how schools are challenged, and downplayed the timeline for vaccine development.  Congress (House Democrats) unveiled the $3T stimulus package but without bi-partisan agreement (=bad) and our Policy Strategist, Tom Block, does not see this bill passing before Memorial Day.  And the third impact was the comments by investment scion, Stan Druckenmiller, who was speaking on the Economic Club of NY webcast, and he generally saw downside risks to the economic recovery and to markets (see discussion at end of this commentary).An abstract of Tom Block's thoughts is below and I highlighted some key thoughts. - this is not a bi-partisan agreement, so the timeline is slower, as Senate Republicans and White House will review it;- there is $1,200 per PERSON, not family and up to $6,000 per family;- Tom expects this to pas...

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