Well, ladies and gentlemen, exciting times to be alive. It's getting real, huh?

Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to helping you live a rich and meaningful life now,

while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less,

although lately it's kind of turned into COVID Central around here.

Hope you'll just stick with me.

I've actually tried three times in the last couple of days to record a couple

of the shows and for a variety of reasons I have not been able to get it done. I've been traveling

this week in Louisville, Kentucky, had a great

meet-up with a bunch of listeners last night and anyway sat down and did a couple

of shows and I got several times into it and I just couldn't get it done and but this evening I feel like I got to turn the mic on so it's late at night here on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 and it's been a momentous day and a momentous evening in the news of the day. And so I wanted to just to get

on the microphone, share with you a few ideas specifically about the flu pandemic, the emerging COVID-19 pandemic.

It's going to get worse before it gets better,

but I'm going to try to give you some positive things to think about.

And then I'll try to give you just a few ideas

on economics, but I will continue to talk about some other things.

Certainly things are being affected, left, right, and center all over the place.

So let's begin.

The news is coming fast at the moment.

This evening, President Trump announced

that the United States is, in addition to banning travel from South Korea and China the United States is

banning travelers from Europe except the United Kingdom for the next 30 days.

That's a significant development.

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