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Our family enjoys the fun and refreshment of water slides and lazy rivers. At most water parks, there are also one or two spots where large buckets hang overhead filling little by little with water. The closer the bucket gets to being full, the larger the crowd grows beneath in anticipation—children and adults alike wait for the outpouring. Then SUDDENLY the bucket tips and a great flood of refreshment crashes down on all below!

You won’t see empty streets, lockdowns, quarantines, or face masks. No one is working at home as a matter of policy. There are no restrictions, only “recommendations.”

Digital Dollars

As the U.S. Treasury — which manages the revenues and minting duties of the American government — has kicked off emergency efforts to save a pandemic stricken economy, the attention, at least in financial markets, often turns to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.

But what has flown largely under the radar screen was Mnuchin’s choice last week of Brian Brooks to head up the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), an independent arm of the Treasury.

Texas is more invested every day in promoting increased and thorough hand washing, disinfecting surfaces and social distancing to reduce cases of the rapidly spreading novel coronavirus, COVID-19.