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Mar 11th, 2020, 11:06 PM
#64321
Re: Post Race!
I hope one day I can own something
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Mar 12th, 2020, 09:19 AM
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Mar 12th, 2020, 03:37 PM
#64323
Re: Post Race!
[color=-navy]Its actually raining today and no not sprinkling but heavy rain. [/color]
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Mar 12th, 2020, 10:07 PM
#64324
Re: Post Race!
I'd rather not own debt. My only debt currently is my student loans which will hopefully be paid off by the federal government. Not because of Bernie, but because I work in the public sector.
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Mar 12th, 2020, 10:08 PM
#64325
Re: Post Race!
The rain was very nice today. One of my favorite things is to be nice and dry inside and watch the rain through the window.
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Mar 12th, 2020, 10:08 PM
#64326
Re: Post Race!
But there must be some chemical in the rain that causes amnesia, because everyone forgot how to drive.
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Mar 13th, 2020, 10:18 AM
#64327
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Mar 13th, 2020, 11:56 AM
#64328
Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by dclamp
The rain was very nice today. One of my favorite things is to be nice and dry inside and watch the rain through the window.
On the few rainy days in this desert that I live in, I do my best to enjoy it. I'll sit and look out into the back patio and remember all the days of rain I've hiked in. Being warm and dry is especially nice when you haven't been.
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Mar 17th, 2020, 09:59 AM
#64329
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Mar 17th, 2020, 02:25 PM
#64330
Re: Post Race!
Was reading an article about the senate wanting to make changes to the sick leave section of the relief bill congress passed. I figured politics as usual. Then I saw this change,
The revised legislation also specifies that employers could exclude health care workers and emergency responders from either paid leave provision, amid fears of staffing shortages among medical providers. The original measure would have given that power only to the Department of Labor.
That is incredibly perverted. The very people that put their health at risk to help others and are probably the most likely to be infected, you don't want to insure they get paid sick leave, you want to try and forces them to come to work. My daughter is a critical care nurse and has already said that she has accepted the fact she will get infected but plans on working till she does. I hope that part of the bill is changed, got a feeling it might blow up in their face by angering the very people their depending upon.
edit: Dam, just realized I posted this in the wrong thread.
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Mar 17th, 2020, 02:36 PM
#64331
Re: Post Race!
It's not totally wrong. It's the post race, so you're entirely on topic.
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Mar 17th, 2020, 02:44 PM
#64332
Re: Post Race!
There is no on topic in post race
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Mar 17th, 2020, 05:25 PM
#64333
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Re: Post Race!
Get some nuts
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Mar 17th, 2020, 05:57 PM
#64334
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Mar 18th, 2020, 02:54 AM
#64335
Re: Post Race!
So our government seems more worried about giving us cash than they are about giving us testing. I told my kid if I die don't call the authorities until they cash my check. lol
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Mar 18th, 2020, 05:47 AM
#64336
Re: Post Race!
I think the cash is a sensible measure to get through the inevitable economic impact that's going to come from this. But, yeah, tests too. Surely.
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Mar 18th, 2020, 09:33 AM
#64337
Re: Post Race!
They can pass out cash far more easily than they can fix all the shortages around tests in this country.
Hopefully, they won't be passing out cash to EVERYBODY. I don't think that I should get it, but I probably will. The people who need it are the ones who are out of work or quarantined. It's probably too hard to target the right people.
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Mar 18th, 2020, 10:31 AM
#64338
Re: Post Race!
The cash isnt enough to really help people. Plus Newsome just stated that the state has a surplus of 21 billion. So then why are they always saying we are broke and need more taxes?
Plus, whats the point of giving cash if we still cant buy toilet paper? lol
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Mar 18th, 2020, 11:51 AM
#64339
Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by RobDog888
Plus, whats the point of giving cash if we still cant buy toilet paper? lol
Welllll........it IS paper.......
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Mar 18th, 2020, 02:35 PM
#64340
Re: Post Race!
23 trillion national debt and yet anytime they want they seem to be able to check their pocket and find an extra trillion. Never have understood how that works.
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Mar 18th, 2020, 04:09 PM
#64341
Re: Post Race!
It works because nobody cares about the deficit.
I'm pretty much a deficit hawk, but I find I kind of have to sit on my hands these days. The deficit is HUGE, but the debt is Treasury bills, which are dirt cheap. The interest rate is so low they're barely worth having, though I have my share, as well. The reason people hold them is because it's the safest stash for cash in the world today. Yeah, the returns are pretty poor, but they're quite reliable, too, so in times of doubt, people pour into US debt. So, with interest rates down around 1%, and people buying hand over fist, it's practically free money for the government. All of us who have treasury bills are the ones loaning them the money, which means lots of Americans, but lots of foreign sources, as well. The world will pay the US bills, even with a puny interest rate, as long as everybody trusts that the US government is good for it.
That's particularly ironic, in this case. After all, there's talk of giving all taxpayers some chunk of money. I don't need it, so what would I do with it if they gave me a check? I'd put it into my rainy day bond fund...which would mean that they'd be going into debt to give me money that I'd use to buy a bit more government debt. That seems very circular.
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Mar 18th, 2020, 04:35 PM
#64342
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I hate the debt too. I knew the debt was tied to the bonds but what I don't understand is where did this trillion they're going to give people come from? Was it just sitting in a safety deposit box some where. Is there some type of emergence fund somewhere. Or is it lets fire up the presses and print another trillion?
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Mar 18th, 2020, 08:58 PM
#64343
Re: Post Race!
There is a push for the latter, and it may happen. Printing money is generally thought to push up inflation, and eventually it must, but inflation has been so low for so long that there are plenty of people who think that a bit more inflation would be good. Not too much, but a bit.
If that isn't done, then, yeah, it's pretty much just sitting around in safety deposit boxes. It's a huge number, but compared to the global pool of wealth, it's trivial. Right now, EVERYTHING is selling. Stocks are tanking, but bonds are down, as well, as is gold, oil, and economically significant metals like copper. If everybody is selling, then where's the money going? If people are selling, then somebody is buying. They're just not paying as much. The same number of stocks are out there, you can just buy them for a LOT less than you could a month and a half back. So, if all the big hedges are selling, then there's a whole lot of money that is going out of the market, and it has to go somewhere. Right now, it's going into cash. That's...something unusual, as far as I can tell.
A quick look wasn't able to show me how much money has been pulled out of stocks and bonds, thus far, but I think it's tens of trillions. If that's moving into cash positions, then that's the money that would buy the new bonds the government sells to cover the trillion dollars. Of course, they have to sell bonds that are attractive enough that people holding that money want to buy them, which is why bond interest rates are going up. If people don't want to buy your bonds, you have to offer a higher interest rate to entice them. Considering the trillions of dollars involved, that higher interest can creep up by tenths of a percent at a time, as every tenth of a percent would entice some small percentage to buy, but a small percentage of trillions is still a very large number.
Frankly, I'd be happy to see bond yields increase. I use a bond fund as a rainy day fund because bank accounts offer so very little. Bond funds don't offer all that much, either, especially if the bonds are primarily ultra-safe US treasury products, but every little increase in yield helps.
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Mar 19th, 2020, 07:49 AM
#64344
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When it comes to rain, can it possibly wash away the coronavirus in the streets?
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Mar 19th, 2020, 02:26 PM
#64345
Re: Post Race!
Its raining here today. hard too. Will we be clean and released from quarantine? Nope
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Mar 19th, 2020, 08:54 PM
#64346
Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by RobDog888
Its raining here today. hard too. Will we be clean and released from quarantine? Nope
I wish it would rain here so the folks will stay inside their homes, they are actually outside even while we are supposed to be in home quarantine, I don't know who is supposed to enforce the home quarantine thingy here, it makes me sad that so many are not following the order.
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Mar 20th, 2020, 06:51 PM
#64347
Re: Post Race!
I am pretty certain that I will get fat staying home, eating all the food and snacks that I have purchased.
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Mar 21st, 2020, 05:31 AM
#64348
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What food and snacks? - my supermarkets' shelves are empty
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Mar 21st, 2020, 10:22 AM
#64349
Re: Post Race!
Shelves are getting filled fast, over here. They're just emptying even faster. Have to shop in the morning to get stuff.
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Mar 21st, 2020, 01:07 PM
#64350
Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by dclamp
I am pretty certain that I will get fat staying home, eating all the food and snacks that I have purchased.
It's been known to happen,
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Mar 23rd, 2020, 10:46 AM
#64351
Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by dee-u
I wish it would rain here so the folks will stay inside their homes, they are actually outside even while we are supposed to be in home quarantine, I don't know who is supposed to enforce the home quarantine thingy here, it makes me sad that so many are not following the order.
the news had show this weekend how many people were out at the beach, hiking and doing various other social activities. The complete opposite of distancing
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Mar 23rd, 2020, 12:22 PM
#64352
Re: Post Race!
My hiking is pretty much distancing, but there's too much snow in the mountains. When I'm hiking I maintain the required 6 miles of separation from everybody. I expect to exceed that on a hike this summer.
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Mar 23rd, 2020, 01:18 PM
#64353
Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
It's been known to happen,
Where did you get those photos of me!?
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Mar 23rd, 2020, 01:19 PM
#64354
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I am glad to have a government job and be considered essential. Seeing a lot of people laid off from their jobs right now, couldn't imagine. Hopefully these people were smart enough to have a safety net.
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Mar 23rd, 2020, 02:33 PM
#64355
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the news had show this weekend how many people were out at the beach, hiking and doing various other social activities. The complete opposite of distancing
Yeah, we've got the same breed of idiots over here. By all accounts Snowdon had it's busiest day in years
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Mar 23rd, 2020, 03:14 PM
#64356
Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by dclamp
I am glad to have a government job and be considered essential. Seeing a lot of people laid off from their jobs right now, couldn't imagine. Hopefully these people were smart enough to have a safety net.
It's shrinking day by day.
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Mar 24th, 2020, 08:26 AM
#64357
Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by dclamp
I am glad to have a government job and be considered essential. Seeing a lot of people laid off from their jobs right now, couldn't imagine. Hopefully these people were smart enough to have a safety net.
I feel the same way, there are a lot of people here who are only surviving by the day and they are the ones mostly affected by these "lockdown" in our area right now.
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Mar 24th, 2020, 09:51 AM
#64358
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Another day of employment. The court system needs to stay open and actually get back to full operations or we will shut down permanently
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Mar 24th, 2020, 11:46 AM
#64359
Re: Post Race!
I've been thinking about this, and have to ask: What does the court system have to do with this? I haven't heard them being particularly in trouble, nor particularly involved.
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Mar 24th, 2020, 11:57 AM
#64360
Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I've been thinking about this, and have to ask: What does the court system have to do with this? I haven't heard them being particularly in trouble, nor particularly involved.
I'd say just another social distancing precaution. You ever been in a jury pool or traffic court?
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