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by aazaa 7y ago
It's easy to understand how Europeans look at Americans is if they're brain-dead. However, the article does nothing to support the thesis that young people in particular are killing other people. It may be true. If so, including e
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by aazaa 7y ago
All of these shutdowns, especially the large ones recently announced, raise the question: how long? How long do we continue and what criteria will be used to begin opening things back up? How long before other parts of the economy begin to
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by aazaa 7y ago
I'm looking specifically for WHO pandemic declarations.
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White House told federal health agency to classify coronavirus deliberations(reuters.com)
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by aazaa 7y ago
Does anyone have a list of previous pandemic declarations and year?
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by aazaa 7y ago
This is AI-generated, right?
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by aazaa 7y ago
Part of the problem is that too many people look at the current state of their communities and conclude everything is all right. What they're failing to consider is that Wuhan, Italy, New York, Seattle, and San Jose are not anomalies.
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by aazaa 7y ago
I'm seeing a lot of unwarranted conclusions in this thread. In vitro work usually goes fast in drug development. The painfully slow process is human testing. The article says nothing about shortening the time from in vitro discovery to
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by aazaa 7y ago
Don't forget the part where the Fed swoops in, making a murky situation even murkier with market manipulation. Expect a massive rally when the Fed announces QE4. Buy the rally at your own risk. The largest DJIA rally in history (15.34%
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Twitter botches fact-check of manipulated Biden video retweeted by Trump(cnn.com)
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You're right.
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by aazaa 7y ago
> The cash equities market is subject to circuit breakers established by the New York Stock Exchange in the wake of the 1987 Black Monday crash. Trading will halt for 15 minutes if the S&P 500 falls 7% to 2,764.3 at any time before 3
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by aazaa 7y ago
This will be blamed on COVID-19, but the problems go much deeper. Last year the Fed lost control of the repo market. the event was widely discounted at the time as an end-of-tax-year fluke. It wasn't. Six month ago, the yield curve inv
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by aazaa 7y ago
This happens against a backdrop of unprecedented manipulation of the financial markets since 2008. The signs are everywhere: - persistent negative-yielding long-term sovereign debt in Europe - Bank of Japan owns 80% of the Japanese ETF mark
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by aazaa 7y ago
Voting isn't the issue. Campaigning is (or will be cited). Not saying it's a good idea, but it's one that will be out there regardless.
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by aazaa 7y ago
This is going to sound alarmist, but so would the idea of politicians putting themselves into quarantine just a few weeks ago. We need to start thinking about postponement of the 2020 election, with COVID-19 cited as the reason. Expect the
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by aazaa 7y ago
Probably no accident that MBS removed his two main political rivals two days ago: https://www.aljazeera.com/ajimpact/saudis-detain-mohammed-bi... The country is in deep trouble. Reigns of terror fed by mineral wealth h
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Solipsism(en.wikipedia.org)
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> It might seem crazy to talk about a recession when jobs are plentiful. Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced a decline in the February unemployment rate to 3.5%, tying a 50-year low. Policy makers cling to the jobs numbers for
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Tracking Covid-19 (Johns Hopkins)(systems.jhu.edu)
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From the paper: > If the neuroinvasion of SARS-CoV-2 does take a part in the development of respiratory failure in COVID-19 patients, the precaution with masks will absolutely be the most effective measure to protect against the possible
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by aazaa 7y ago
For those suggesting that a COVID-19 vaccine can somehow be fast tracked, consider what happens if something goes wrong during deployment to the population. The US has an active, very vocal anti-vax community. They've been growing and
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by aazaa 7y ago
Charts account for splits. A split does absolutely nothing for you as an investor. Instead of one slice of pizza, you own two, but they each cost half as much. By far the most misunderstood concept about investment among the public.
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Under Welch, GE’s mission changed. Its new goal was to become “the world’s most valuable company.” Which is to say, he turned the focus of the company to its stock price. Everything became secondary to that. ... The irony is that GE&#
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by aazaa 7y ago
I suspect it will nurture a massive structural problem few today would understand or care much about. It will be allowed to grow unabated because, frankly, there will be bigger fish to fry. Maybe a little like subprime leading up to 2008. T
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by aazaa 7y ago
For those saying the Fed is running out of ammunition, study what the Bank of Japan has done. It owns close to 80% of the Japanese ETF market currently, with no end to the expansion of balance sheet in sight. After buying long treasuries, i
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by aazaa 7y ago
You're right, I missed it. But I'm still not clear on what exactly happened here. Take this article from the Atlantic: > With Ziemer gone, oversight of the strategy [national biodefense] now falls to Andrea Hall, the senior dir
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by aazaa 7y ago
I'm afraid this just muddies the waters. > Amid warnings from public health officials that a 2020 outbreak of a new coronavirus could soon become a pandemic involving the U.S., alarmed readers asked Snopes to verify a rumor that U.S
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by aazaa 7y ago
> The chart shows cumulative growth in GDP since 2010 compared to the cumulative amount of deficit spending by the federal government. Without that deficit spending, GDP over the past decade is negative. > ... > ... The Modern Mone
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The CDC has stopped disclosing the number of Americans tested for coronavirus(twitter.com)
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