Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Mummelmann]

vivster said:

John2290 said:

Oil Prices are in the negative. This is worse than the the fucking Virus by a mile. We've fucked ourselves, the war economies are coming. 

Isn't it just the oil companies that are fucked?

Back home (in Norway), the effect of this would be much more severe since oil and gas companies are more or less state-owned and the industry makes up about 35% of the total GDP. The state would essentially tank (pun intended). In a market where the interest and ownership are largely private though, the consequences are much less dire. So, yeah, I think and hope you're right. The oil industry has extremely high profitability and productivity rate per capita and employee, so the actual number of layoffs would be much smaller than if another sector or industry was hit as hard.