Do you have enough toilet paper? Remember the first days of the pandemic lockdown, when the hunt for toilet paper and the hoarding of it became a topic of conversation? Thankfully, the supply and demand for paper products has come back into equilibrium, even though it did not happen overnight. This imbalance was exacerbated by […]
Doing What You’d Rather Not: The Deleterious Effects of Social Distancing
Who could have guessed that 2020 would usher in a first-ever global lockdown? It has been an economic obstacle course of sorts, with some businesses flourishing while most others lock their doors. In the past, we have witnessed disruptions on a smaller scale when fierce storms, wars, volcanoes, earthquakes, or tsunamis have devastated various regions […]