Posted on 04/17/2020 7:07:18 PM PDT by ransomnote
Mark
Bag-storm IS The Quiet Storm personified. lol.
oh my that’s FUNNY!!!!!
Had to look twice to get it.
I like it, thank you!
Today was the lowest day of new cases since March 30th.
Needs a few days of confirmation ... but YAY!
United States COVID-19 Confirmed Cases
Date New Total Linear Model
Cases Cases Since
Actual Actual 4/2/2020
3/14/2020 2,717
3/15/2020 761 3,478
3/16/2020 1,167 4,645
3/17/2020 1,717 6,362
3/18/2020 1,407 7,769
3/19/2020 5,911 13,680
3/20/2020 5,605 19,285
3/21/2020 7,462 26,747
3/22/2020 8,478 35,225
3/23/2020 11,107 46,332
3/24/2020 8,816 55,148
3/25/2020 13,870 69,018
3/26/2020 16,635 85,653
3/27/2020 19,363 105,016
3/28/2020 19,448 124,464
3/29/2020 17,892 142,356
3/30/2020 22,003 164,359
3/31/2020 25,151 189,510
4/1/2020 27,005 216,515
4/2/2020 28,698 245,213 245,213
4/3/2020 32,740 277,953 277,216
4/4/2020 34,123 312,076 309,219
4/5/2020 25,544 337,620 341,222
4/6/2020 30,576 368,196 373,225
4/7/2020 31,916 400,112 405,228
4/8/2020 32,020 432,132 437,231
4/9/2020 33,618 465,750 469,234
4/10/2020 35,551 501,301 501,237
4/11/2020 31,942 533,243 533,240
4/12/2020 27,289 560,532 565,243
4/13/2020 26,623 587,155 597,246
4/14/2020 26,937 614,092 629,249
4/15/2020 30,468 644,560 661,252
4/16/2020 35,221 679,781 693,255
4/17/2020 30,550 710,331 725,258
4/18/2020 29,521 739,852 757,261
4/19/2020 24,413 764,265 789,264
4/20/2020 . 821,267
4/21/2020 . 853,270
4/22/2020 . 885,273
4/23/2020 . 917,276
4/24/2020 . 949,279
4/25/2020 . 981,282
4/26/2020 . 1,013,285
4/27/2020 . 1,045,288
4/28/2020 . 1,077,291
4/29/2020 . 1,109,294
4/30/2020 . 1,141,297
5/1/2020 . 1,173,300
Thanks for the update, it is going in the right direction.
Yep. Saw that one coming.
Right out of the derp playbook.
Hear! Hear! Another great post from Ransomnote!
I'll admit to a real, actual LOL on that one, you devil.
Ain't she a peach?
That is hilarious and totally in context lol ... this pandemic has the best memes ;)
Ad hominem arguments don't work for me. Besides, apart from the 2000 mega-correction, Gilder was totally right about the "telecosm". I'm listening to the audiobook. The book was actually written in 2015, when Gilder was no fan of candidate Trump. Gilder also has a lot of favorable things to say about China and its leaders.
Nonetheless, the gold standard recommendation resonates with me, and Gilder argues very cogently in favor of it. He traces the beginning of the economic malaise (which resulted in Trump's election) to 1971, when Nixon -- on the advice of Milton Friedman, no less -- took the U.S off the gold standard. This act began the 40+ year shafting of the American worker. During this period, productivity increased by 240% but wages increased by only 8%. Gilder argues that disconnecting the dollar from gold enabled the elites to repetitively manipulate the currency to their benefit, reserving almost all the gains in productivity to themselves. Friedman thought that currency was the one area where government should have a monopoly. Gilder says that Friedman was very naive about the potential for corruption.
... reasonable people can disagree.
- Ransomnote
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How does that work? Someone disagreeing with me is, by definition, disagreeable. Disagreeable ain’t reasonable. That’s like two whole different words! Spelled different and everything!
Now, since I’ve proven that the world does, in fact, spin around me (prove it every time I indulge in the sacred fermented hops and barley), we can all just get along by going along with me.
See how reasonable I am?
YAY!!!
counting blessings!
No, me.
And to expound on your theory;
When two people disagree, only one of them is right.
Science.
Okay, forget about Gilder.
The real gold standard ended as a result of WWI.
The Great Depression was a direct result of the central banks attempting to return to the gold standard as it existed in 1914, resulting in a ferocious deflation.
What Nixon did was stop the redemption of US Dollars (USD) for gold at $35 per ounce, which was untenable. Gold was long gone as the “Standard” ... USD was the de facto standard since the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944.
The “Shafting of the American Worker” was due to the STRONG VALUE of the US Dollar compared with other currencies, not its weakening. Dollars were backed up by a lot of things, including the fact you had to have US Dollars to purchase OPEC oil. Sheesh!
NAFTA and the WTO were put in place by the collusion of the GHWB and Clinton administrations, who we now understand were two sides of the same coin. These horrible trade deals enabled globalist bankers to facilitate the export of American factories and jobs to nations with much weaker currencies.
Don’t get me wrong. Gold can be a very fine investment. I have had a lot of luck with it in my investment life, both mining companies and metal. But there will be no return to a “Gold standard,” nor should there be.
If you partake in the hops and barely disagreement is naturally apparent and reasonable.
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