Thanksgiving this year will be like no other: Americans are scrapping flights and curbing driving plans while health officials urge them to skip travel altogether. But holiday plans are the least of the nation’s worries: America’s hospital workers are overwhelmed as infections in the world’s worst-hit country skyrocket, and the U.S. failure to restrain the pandemic has now claimed a quarter million lives. European hospitals are also buckling, and in Asia, Hong Kong is bracing for its fourth wave. 

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What you’ll want to read this weekend

Assuming President Donald Trump eventually agrees to relinquish power after having lost the U.S. election, President-elect Joe Biden will be the oldest president in U.S. history. Biden’s cabinet may shape the economic future of young Americans, who are 23% poorer than three decades ago. 

Boeing’s 737 Max, which crashed twice, killing 346 people, is coming back, now that regulators contend its fatal defects have been remedied. Boeing’s future may depend largely on whether travelers trust the troubled plane enough to step aboard. The mother of a pilot killed when his 737 Max plummeted into the Java Sea called the return premature.

Tesla will soon be the biggest-ever addition to the S&P 500, and if its shares post another big rally, founder Elon Musk could pass Bill Gates to become the world’s second-richest person (behind Jeff Bezos). Morgan Stanley, for the first time in a long while, rates Tesla a buy.

Elon Musk

Japan’s wild bears are heading for town since there are fewer humans to scare them off (and it’s been a bad year for acorns). Nepal is trying to unfreeze the economy around Mount Everest. And to fight global warming, the world’s richest families have joined a secret club on green investing.

If you never liked turkey, free yourself from the tyranny of tradition with alternative recipes. Here are 88 holiday gift ideas fit for our new routines.

What you’ll need to know next week

• Biden may announce his pick for Treasury Secretary.
• U.K. and French government to set more plans to fight Covid.
• Lam gives policy speech amid Beijing’s Hong Kong crackdown.
• New York City Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade will be on TV.
• Black Friday may reveal strength of the battered U.S. consumer.

What you’ll want to read in Businessweek

Prince Andrew Helped This Bank Woo Dictators

The late Jeffrey Epstein may be the most infamous financier the U.K.’s Prince Andrew has ever had dealings with, but there’s another one, a bank, with less of a public profile. Emails, documents and interviews show Andrew helped a secretive Luxembourg financial institution pitch services to the world’s dictators and kleptocrats.

Prince Andrew

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