A couple of days after Elon Musk announced plans to fly two private citizens around the moon in a SpaceX rocket ship by the end of next year, a white paper from Jeff Bezos' Blue Origins has surfaced that proposes setting up an Amazon-like delivery service at the south pole of the moon by the middle of 2020. Meanwhile, Richard Branson yesterday launched a third company in the space space.

McDonald's came to the ball with fast food and - after a few spins on the floor with salads, oatmeal and other enticing suitors gussied up in healthy raiments - it is sticking with it. It's also revamping delivery worldwide with the launch of a mobile "order and pay" app this year that will accommodate curbside pickup and it told those assembled at its investors conference in Chicago yesterday that it is "experimenting" with other ways of getting Big Macs and new menu items to the masses.

It's only a few weeks old but it already has a moniker - The Trump Slump - although a slowdown in tourism dollars was already evident before the administration's immigration policies, which put a real damper on foreigners' desire to travel to the United States.