Introduction We have seen it happen before, from the crises of 2009 to COVID 2019, and now headlines across news channels: contracts become hard or impossible to perform, lawyers review contracts, and parties invoke "force majeure". But word on the so called (wall) street is that everyone is beginning to think they can now invoke force majeure to excuse either their own non-performance or those who are receiving notices of force majeure from their counter parties excusing non