The mammoth US unemployment claims in their historical context. pic.twitter.com/UNDwhBMpZt
— Ben Riley-Smith (@benrileysmith) April 2, 2020
Economy is the walking dead. Damn.
Apr
03
Apr
03
HF
Holy fuck.
I agree with this assessment, by the way. I was thinking 12-15 percent yesterday just doing basic math. Anyone who thinks this won’t have an enormous impact for a very long time is a huge dunce, perhaps the biggest ever discovered by science.
Apr
03
Tightening
Wore a shirt yesterday that I haven’t put on in about two years. Used to be a bit loose. Now it’s snug. Still not accustomed to the fabric of my shirts touching my arms so much again. I’ll take it, though.
Apr
03
G Can
The Invention of the AeroPress.
No matter how you make coffee, it all tastes like licking a nasty garbage can to me.
Apr
02
Bum Deal
No. This is bullshit. The times in the past few weeks that we’ve gone to the supermarket, we’ve seen multiple people with 2-6+ huge packs of toilet paper in their carts — enough to last a family of four months.
You can’t tell me that’s not hoarding. Contrarianism just to be contrary doesn’t lead to truth. It’s just another, cooler way of being a dumbass.
Of course there is an upsurge in demand. But the hoarding started before the main body of the crisis even hit. What really started it is news out of Australia that toiler paper was short there due to Covid-19 panic-buying. The hoarder types in the US picked up on that and started buying huge amounts in excess. Hoarding begets hoarding so many people followed the initial hoarders.
That is how it happened, and that article is complete bumbaclot.
Apr
02
Learning Time Not
Motherfuckers who don’t know how the economy works are learning how the economy works.
Ok, no, they are probably not. People don’t learn. But it’s a nice fantasy.
Apr
02
Abnorm
Record 6.6 million people file for unemployment benefits.
This is unprecedented, obviously. It shows the stimulus should have been larger and more immediate. This will not end well.
Apr
02
Face Time
— Siberian Fox (@SilverVVulpes) April 1, 2020
Everyone thinks they’re hard till there’s a gun in their face.
Apr
02
No Op
Until recently tuberculosis was the infectious disease that killed most people per year. 1.18 million.
On an average day 3,231 die from TB.
(1,180,000/365.24=3,231)COVID-19 has surpassed this and is now the world's most deadly infectious disease.https://t.co/wU7x3bxmVx pic.twitter.com/gFRarioWud
— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) April 2, 2020
So much for that “But we should be worrying about the fluuuuuuuuuuuuu” ri-fucking-diculous horseshit all the assclowns were spouting two months ago.
No one who said that or wrote that should ever be allowed to have an opinion on anything again.
Apr
02
Ending
It’s Steve Mnuchin’s Economy Now. The Foreclosure King takes the wheel.
I don’t think people realize the level of screwed we are, but it’s large. This will not end well. Looking at immigration options now (legal or illegal) just in case.
People will think I am overreacting but I’m likely underreacting because I am lazy.