Jeff, an 11% owner of the Amazon stock, just earned $5.6 billion on Thursday. This has moved him to an all time high of over $180 billion in net worth. Though, Amazon lost 15% of its value in the weeks of March, it seems to reaching new milestones in our present day online-only world. What could this mean for other small businesses and companies which operate solely on an offline basis? In a post coronavirus world, will it be possible for businesses that operate largely in a physical location to survive or will we see a paradigm-shifting change in our lives to majorly using online services?

What can we learn from the new outbreaks of Covid-19 in Australian cities and Hong Kong. Where are countries possibly going wrong? Is it too early for countries to relax their lockdown restrictions? What can the UK, which has recently started relaxing its outdoor policies learn from the new clusters found in Hong Kong and Australia?

If today's banks were run as they did in 2008, what could that imply to present day lockdown world? Have banks really become more resilient or do they still face the too big to fail conundrum?

I read this article about how avoiding a lockdown didn't help Sweden with preserving their economy ( https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articl...-trade-off) I live in India and i was thinking whether this is applicable in India, where there are millions of daily wage workers and a huge unorganised sector. Is the trade off between lockdown and the economy applicable here? What are your thoughts?

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