The modern calendar is one of the most enduring of human institutions, as old as Christianity itself. Only an historically monumental and compelling event could cause it to be modified. That event is here now. No, it’s not the Coronavirus. It’s the inexplicably radical, suicidal overreaction to it and the emerging financial catastrophe it is producing. Our government’s go-to solution to self-caused problems is to spend our grandchildren’s money. In an attempt to put back what it took away, having dictated who can continue to work and who cannot, the spend is in the multiple trillions this time. In the current era, the government seems incapable of acting without creating winners and losers. In the 2008 crisis, the government allowed the loss in housing values to fall solely on borrowers. Even though Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) rules, properly applied, called for marking down the value of collateralized mortgage investments...