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Covid-19: Could Hydroxychloroquine Be the Answer?(medscape.com)
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Medical authorities in China have said a drug used in Japan to treat new strains of influenza appeared to be effective in coronavirus patients, Japanese media said on Wednesday. It's very important to consider the source here. Get
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by aazaa 7y ago
> “There are people coughing in here. There aren’t paper masks. We are getting unlimited unpaid time off, but I still need to pay bills and rent. I can’t take that unpaid time off,” they said. It's only a matter of time before Amazo
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by aazaa 7y ago
> He says the “physical reality” of the market is that oil is pumped out of the ground and has to be consumed or stored. When the cost of storage goes high enough -- or space runs out -- companies might pay customers to take it. Wild. Ki
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by aazaa 7y ago
After all this, stocks are still overvalued by historical standards: https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio Perhaps surprisingly, this even ignores the inevitable hit to earnings Q1 will bring. Factor that in, and fair v
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by aazaa 7y ago
> last page is result of experiment mentioned above The last slide is a bibliography. The second to the last is a slide is in vitro results. There's not one shred of new clinical data in that presentation from what I can see. What&#
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by aazaa 7y ago
Chloroquine is real, but in vitro work is a long, long way from human treatment. The paper you linked is an in vitro study only. There isn't even any preliminary animal data.
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Rescue Pledge Triggers Biggest Treasury Bond Rout Since 1982(bloomberg.com)
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by aazaa 7y ago
> I understand he is pushing the idea that instead of telling people who feel sick to self isolate and only call a hospital (and get tested) if they have respiratory problems, to instead test them early, and if the are positive, provide
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Federal Reserve reopens crisis-era primary dealer credit facility(finance.yahoo.com)
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by aazaa 7y ago
1. The video is linked in the article. 2. The linked PDF is just a generic presentation about COVID-19 testing.
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by aazaa 7y ago
Call me skeptical. The details in this article are insufficient to draw many conclusions. There is no paper, although a YouTube video (in French) is linked. The article doesn't make it clear whether Raoult was being interviewed, or the
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Carnival, Celebrity, Costa Cruises work to bring back stranded ships passengers(usatoday.com)
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Fed unleashes commercial paper funding to support non-bank companies(finance.yahoo.com)
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by aazaa 7y ago
The interview here is compelling. Yang's book is even more compelling. But what Yang doesn't do here or in his book is make a powerful case to fiscal conservative spelling out just how universal income will avoid demolishing the e
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Our Advise: It is time to carefully pick up some stocks based on crushed valuations, but the market is not likely bottoming. It’s hard to say are we two weeks away or months away from market bottoming. You'll know it's time t
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by aazaa 7y ago
The Fed can, and will do much, much more. The signal here should be read as "whatever it takes to avoid a depression." Among other steps, this is likely to mean: - Negative-yielding long-term treasuries - Direct purchase of stocks
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by aazaa 7y ago
> “I want to thank Google. Google is helping to develop a website, it’s gonna be very quickly done, unlike websites of the past, to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location,” Trump s
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A Bank in Midtown Is Cleaned Out of $100 Bills(nytimes.com)
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Why Flu Strikes in Winter(sitn.hms.harvard.edu)
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Hand hygiene and risk of influenza virus infections: Review and meta-analysis(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by aazaa 7y ago
Does anyone have a link to an actual policy document explicitly stating the UK's herd immunity policy? The link is a tweet from a random guy. Herd immunity is the default, and it's also being pursued by the US, despite statements
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Carolyn Wang, communications lead for Verily, told The Verge that the “triage website” was initially only going to be made available to health care workers instead of the general public. Now that it has been announced the way it was, h
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by aazaa 7y ago
Bear market rallies can be explosive. It's part of the capital-destruction process.
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Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in markets(cnbc.com)
248 points by aazaa 7y ago|349 comments
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by aazaa 7y ago
> I bought a put last week for 2k (CMG) and now its worth 18k. You should really spell out the risk you're taking to get a return like that.
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by aazaa 7y ago
The financial hit from this and other event closures, travel restrictions, supply chain disruptions, and lost wages is going to be massive. Asset prices and employment reports do not in any way reflect what's in store.
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by aazaa 7y ago
> ... A sudden and sustained increase in companies tapping credit lines could eventually strain banks if conditions become so dire that borrowers won’t be able to meet their obligations Echoes of 2008. The ensuing chain reaction turns a
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It’s Time to Cancel the U.S. Presidential Campaign(foreignpolicy.com)
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by aazaa 7y ago
The headline is what brought many participants to this discussion. It's a part of the article, and comment-worthy. This looks like an editorial, for which it seems that at least some authors choose their own titles. For example, see: &

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