I think they wanted someone they could control and Biden is involved with all the corruption so who better to make sure it gets swept under the rug than Biden.
I also think they dug their heels in and stuck with a shitty candidate/game plan instead of pivoting.
I got a Fox News notification during my drive home and decided to watch the presser. I found it really annoying with the two breaking news interruptions and then they just cut out early. I had to use a YouTube stream to continue listening. Is this considered normal?
Anyways, the beat down by Trump was highly entertaining.
Every time I hear that phrase I think of this Tucker Carlson video. That laugh is hilarious.
Hopefully the United States will give other countries the courage to follow. I could see Japan, Hungary, Brazil, and some others following suit. Or even if they don't maybe the organization will bankrupt itself without the US to fund the whole damn thing.
I'm not going to pretend to understand how the overall market acts the way it does, especially right now, but what I have somewhat figured out is it is a combination of -
- Federal Reserve playing with things behind the scenes
- Market sentiment - if everyone is positive and keeps buying it doesn't have to reflect the real world as the market should be future looking
- Rest of the world is shit so we have inflows of cash to keep things up from other countries; also reserve currency
- interest rates so low that the stock market is one of the few places for an actual return
I personally haven't touched any of my stocks during this whole COVID nonsense besides one "fun" play stock that I liquidated end of Feb. I have additional money but I honestly have no idea what to do with it at these market valuations.
I played around with a few numbers and some of the articles looked pretty damn similar, but were definitely different titles and post dates. What specific numbers do you use? I'd like to be able to show others this as proof, but I'm not 100% sure I'm quite seeing it yet. edit: I used Google search and random combos of 3 digits.
I know this doesn't particularly answer any of the questions you asked but it definitely got me thinking
- The perfect time for public infrastructure is when people are indoors so the work can be done more efficiently and less disruptions
- The idea of funding this with zero interest goes back to days before the FED. Government debt doesn't carry interest.
Just some thoughts for discussion. I've been lurking for years now and now that we've drifted away from Reddit I'll probably start posting more.
this is excellent