It almost feels like the one week stoppage for study is vaccine theater.
And the post-study press release is already written.

They have every incentive to poo-poo any problems.
right?

I'm a believer in using a realtor to sell.
Today, at this moment, I'm not sure I see the value.

We are planning to sell our main house. I could sell it on Facebook in 48 hours, I think.

It seems like a perfect storm. Supply lag in new home construction after the 08 bust Interest rates below the free or real market forces rates->People want to buy houses Wild money creation and stock market record highs->people feel rich Lockdowns->Working from home->People want to move Bingo, OSB f...

Back to inflation...

Hearing from two friends in Toronto area. Houses are over 1 million, and bidding wars.
Lake cottages up north are way over 1 million, sometimes 2 million, and bidding wars.

I just think this can't end well.

If I got full on COVID, I’d probably have a tough time.

I once had a vaccine passport. It wasn't called that, but it was a yellow passport sized booklet that listed my vaccinations for diseases in third world countries. I misplaced it at some point. It did function like a passport. I can't recall if I had to show it at borders, or send it to embassies in...

I've put a kit onto one bike. And owned a different clunky one. I used to want to electrify a Downtube Nova. I know there were people on Endless Sphere who had done them. I guarantee you there is someone in NYC who does this type of thing. Here is the Nova: https://www.downtube.com/downtube-nova-lig...

Even 2008 was no problem for paper gold like Gld I've held GLD since 2008. I don't like all of the counter party risks, but it was easy to get into. I'm a typical gold fan in that I don't forsee ever selling any. From that standpoint, GLD sucks. I mean, I don't really own gold, yet I pay 0.40% fees...

Another odd one is Bullion Vault. Through them, you buy allocated metal, and the storage costs are very low. The catch is that you are a fractional owner in a bar of gold. So practically speaking, it doesn't feel much different to than unallocated at Perth Mint. OTOH if you hold complete gold bars, ...

I don't think anything has really changed in regards to Perth Mint. If you buy unallocated metal, you're really just buying a paper claim on metal. At least Perth Mint seems to be a stronger counter party than a lot of others. And, you can buy and store allocated metals at Perth. Last time I looked ...

If you mean sick right now, yes, the owners and a couple key people of the small business my son works for. The owner, his wife, the right hand man, and the wife of the sales guy. Those are the only ones I know at the moment, but I'm in an older age group so most of my contemporaries have been vacci...

Here is a recap of what the new law does. This is written and published on a Georgia NPR website so it should not be a conservative source. I don't see any problems at all. BTW if you haven't heard, the no food or drink to people in line is to prevent electioneering, candidate branded water bottles,...

I'm not a fan of boycotts in general, but this is just getting to be too much. The inference by all of these companies and leagues and shows is that if you don't hold the proper views, you are deplorable. I'd be a fool to take that and keep giving them my money. I agree that if they all do it, for i...

Regrettably I'm going to boycott MLB, and any other companies that deserve it. This issue is only the latest, with more to come. I hope Georgia holds firm, and is followed by double digits worth of other states. It's time to stand up. I need to start a secession clock website modeled after the dooms...

I seem to be wired to be an inflation hawk. I tend to see inflation everywhere, but it sure looks like we are on the Japan track, and have been for some time now. I agree with doodle's sentiment that the PP does a good job at all of this. As time goes by, I spend less and less energy trying to out-t...

Wow. There's been a spate of spam calls to my mom's old home phone (which I monitor on Google Voice) expressing interest in her house. I can guess why. On the other hand - my aunt's home in a nearby suburban town was sold last summer for a pretty soft price (about what it would have sold for pre-CO...

^ Neo-nihilism in one sentence. Everyone who is alive today is so because at some points their ancestors won territorial battles. People need to deal with it. Reparations, borderless socialism, and other such ideas are just nonsense which create negative energy and victimhood. Not that being nonsens...

That was the most unprofessional news interview with a supposed scientist I've seen in a very, very long time. When I looked at the data, it turns out that hospitalizations have dropped markedly, mainly in the 60 and older crowd who are now mostly vaccinated, but "cases" (i.e. positive te...

Taken somewhere between the wet market and the lab:

I'd like to remind people that skepticism is an important part of scientific discovery. After all, we all know the earth is flat because all the smart people say so! Never mind that it is also in their own best interest to say it. Anyway, here is a tweet, that got tagged by Twitter, by infectious di...

mathjak107 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 7:31 am Or They both are safe and once again the conspiracy, doomsayer ,glass is always empty crowd is wrong again

That's fine. You represent the authoritarian crowd. You've made that clear.

Two things that can be true at once are that the polio vaccine was feared but turned out safe, and the current one is feared and turns out to be bad.

I hope not.

We are becoming an MMT government finance system. In that, the main purpose of taxes is to punish wealth, or deter or encourage certain behaviors. I haven't seen where MMT looks at taxes as a form of punishment... They seem to focus on taxation as an inflationary pressure relief valve. As far as di...

We are becoming an MMT government finance system. In that, the main purpose of taxes is to punish wealth, or deter or encourage certain behaviors.

mathjak107 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 28, 2021 12:51 pm Here are the details


https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/govern ... garden-and

Really not much different than getting a chip implanted in you with all of the things anyone might want to know about you.