First, the bad news.

SAP Business AI won't generate amusing holiday cards.

But it will personalize career paths for your people

and let you know which suppliers are best,

so you can be ready for the next opportunity.

Revolutionary technology, real world results. That's SAP business AI.

I'm Jack Howe and I write a column for... Oh, jeez, I already screwed up. You ready?

I am ready. Go for it. We're off to a fantastic start.

We'll figure it out.

Ready?

I'm Jack Howe, and I write a column called Streetwise

for Barron's magazine, which I think of as focusing on the intersection of Wall Street and

Squirrel Jokes.

Over the past year, I've written a guide to pretending to understand Brexit. I presented a detailed analysis of

whether Skecher's sneakers are cool and here and there I mixed in some

valuation math or details from conversations with the chiefs of companies like Disney and

CVS. So we had this plan to turn streetwise into a podcast and I'm not going to

tell you I ran out and bought a whoopi cushion for it, but I'm not going to say I didn't do that either.

Suddenly the world has changed, however.

A coronavirus pandemic is taking lives.

It's collapsing economic activity in roiling financial markets.

People are hurting and they're scared.

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