Trump Tests Extremely Negative for Corona

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkffnHnaPAU

Zero lower bound. Stocks can go to infinity w/inflation, bonds cant. How has a Japanese version of EDV done, when 30yr rates can only move between 0% and .5%

You could say cold/flu is part of the human herd genome, and like cancer, its so much like us that the immune system has trouble distinguishing it. It'll get worse every year because the population is aging. Even stranger is self/non self with consciousness. Are you the same person you were 10 years...

Took a stray to the vet to see if she needs to be spayed, $100 for vaccines and exam and they couldnt tell. Is that right?

What's his salary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyz79sd_SDA

Protests over the 08 bailout in NY. Cant do that now can ya

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VprJo2jeWOk

Last year: H3N2 overwhelms hospitals.

I'm on board with this theater if it musters the political will to move the homeless into a zoo.

Deep State/Fourth Estate grabbed Trumpy by the p** He cant call it overhyped, and has to concede everything to end the recession before election. Whats happening with his tariffs? Best part is, his supporters (more inclined to be paranoid) prefer the narrative that this cold virus will end the world

Only the Fed would buy long bonds with negative rates. When does it make sense to underweight them in the PP?

Looks like I fell for the narrative that you can get a deal on downgraded investment grade bonds because institutions are forced to sell them. I bought FALN, this chart is performance since launch. Trounced by stocks and Vanguard's junk fund. Any reason to keep? Any scenarios where it could outperfo...

How low can the 30 year go before investors just pay to warehouse gold/cash

So the Fed was accurately reporting inflation through the 60s-80s? Then they cranked up rates...so they did everything right?

Non profits can hire extra administrators and pay them exorbitant salaries.

Xan your not wrong, net profit expectations are part of the equation to value a company. The word "dividend" is narrowly defined as a forced quarterly withdrawal. It's not always a good thing.

> Except people who already think medicine is a cartel will cry foul Ahem. Those of us who recognize the cartel, aren't ideologues. The government review sounds like a good idea, maybe with some crowdsourcing (allowing the Internet to review the case and provide input) A lot of the time, people who ...

> well never forget those who retired in 1964 had flat markets for 20 years .... 2000 took 13 years to get back inflation adjusted

What was going wrong in the real economy to cause this.

"Today the world’s gold stock is about 170,000 metric tons. If all of this gold were melded together, it would form a cube of about 68 feet per side. (Picture it fitting comfortably within a baseball infield.) At $1,750 per ounce – gold’s price as I write this – its value would be $9.6 trillion...

This is not sustainable forever obviously. Why not. plz be concrete - what specific businesses are getting billions of new money in the repo market and what are they buying with it.Why does the Fed have to intervene as opposed to letting the market set the rate. eg I'd loan to the repo market for 1...

> demand for U.S. dollars and treasuries outstrips the supply

Why then does the Fed need to buy bonds from the treasury (indirectly) . They should be able to sell off their balance sheet to all these global bond-hungry investors

Why is margin legal. Does it help the economy?

Dont most people hate their jobs? Thats why retirement is hyped. & he's bad with money

Even better, illegals so they can be paid less.

Pug, how does the dental industry weed out those who dont have the dexterity to do good surgery

> A 60 year old chiropractor buddy of mine closed his practice and learned to drive a semi-trailer last year bc he couldn't make enough in his practice. Is that what you want? Yeah. Markets. But there may be some strong-arming/monopoly issues where the insurance companies can steal your cash patient...

In 50 years robots will farm, build houses and cars, and fight wars. Millions out of work, meanwhile the population will be older and nursing homes 30k/month. We need more doctors to bring that cost down. I'm skeptical the AMA is allowing the maximum number of qualified people through. A bit off-top...

Its called not being an idealogue. Pug's salty cuz he doesnt want to admit the ADA/AMA are cartels that inflate wages by restricting supply of doctors.

But speaking of Fedbucks, are they a better idea than having the gov directly own and operate, for example, gas companies?

FedBucks. A debit card that can be spent on utilities, health care, healthy food, child care, education and transit.

Total market funds dont trade. If you randomly pick a basket of stocks you get a value tilt because you dont get seduced by growth stories. Now that everyones talking about value, dunno if it'll continue to outperform.