Predictions from Zero_Sum and a heart felt greeting.

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From time to time you’ll hear a comment like, “Why are we worried about a few old people dying that we must lock down entire nations?” Good question, here’s my response.

The west for all intents and purposes are boomer geriatric economies where the old control most of the consumer purchasing power. Generation X, Generation Z, and my generation of Millennials for all intents or purposes are a bunch of indebted broke indentured wage slaves living on the economic geriatric corporate crony capitalistic plantation.

If a virus threatens the lives of a majority of our older boomer geriatrics our economies would simply shut down and collapse overnight because with them having all the money being the largest consumers nothing is allowed to threaten them. Also, this is where we’re at as a society in the west ever since a majority of women thought it was a good idea not to have children, get married, or reproduce in large numbers. With that in mind these current trends seem pretty irreversible. [ I sometimes wonder if it would take nothing short of a global nuclear war to get women in mass to open their legs and vaginas up for reproduction since nothing else other than being wealthy seems to do the trick anymore given stringent sexual hypergamy or prevailing radical feminism everywhere.]

So with all that in mind, Covid-19 is a boomer remover and without our older geriatrics consuming spending money our economies would never survive, with this lockdown we’re just protecting our largest financial consumer base in the general population. With all that in mind I think this explains our dying western societies quite adequately.

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The segment later edited out of the recorded interview.

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Sure, and I am not saying you are wrong. ACtually I think we’ll be very lucky if 1) the lockdown is not extended beyond that and or 2) the lockdown comes back in second and possibly third waves of the disease. One thing the lockdowns do is slow down the spread. End the lockdown and it can speed up again.

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Lol where do you find this shit? Like do you go looking for it with something in mind, or do you come across it accidentally, find it funny, and then decide to post it?

Yeah, something like that for the comedic funny effect randomly coming across stuff. :laughing:

Know your martial laws, what and how they work.

When can the Posse Comitatus Act be superseded by martial law and what is this called?

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Begin.

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The Fed’s Prayer

The Fed is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in greenbacks:

He leadeth me beside deep pools of liquidity.

He restoreth my balance sheet:

He leadeth me in the paths of ponzi for his name’s sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of trillions in debt,

I will fear no losses: for thou art with me;

Thy plunge protection team and thy zero-bound interest rates they comfort me.

Thou preparest unearned income before me in the presence of mine enemies:

Thou anointest my head with currency; my bank accounts runneth over.

Surely profits and bonuses shall follow me all the days of my life:

And I will dwell in the house of Wall Street forever.

Amen

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Only five more Carnival Cruise ships left stranded at sea with passengers unable to port and set anchor. Gosh, I really hope those people that decided to go for an international vacation knowingly through a global viral pandemic are alright.

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“Dow surges 1,600 points even as U.S. braces for ‘hardest and saddest’ week of the pandemic”

Yo, Zero, reassure us it’s just a blip!!! :wink: :laughing: :wink:

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[b]'With astonishing swiftness, the pandemic has shut down both longstanding and new businesses, leaving veteran workers and recent hires in nearly every type of industry without a paycheck. In just three weeks, more than 16 million Americans have lost their jobs — more losses than the most recent recession produced over two years.

‘It’s as if “the economy as a whole has fallen into some sudden black hole,” said Kathy Bostjancic, chief U.S. financial economist at Oxford Economics. Many Wall Street analysts concede that at this point, forecasts are not much more than gussied-up guesses: The purposeful and sudden halt in economic activity has no precedent, and no one knows when the restrictions on movement and commerce will be lifted.’[/b] NYT

Meanwhile the Dow is up another 475 points.

Capitalism. Go figure it, eh, Joker? :wink:

One MSM take on Wall Street’s current “boom”: nytimes.com/2020/04/10/upsh … e=Homepage

[b]'What on earth is the stock market doing?

Death and despair are all around. The number of people filing for unemployment benefits each of the last two weeks was about 10 times the previous record — and is probably being artificially held back by overloaded government systems. Vast swaths of American business are shuttered indefinitely. The economic quarter now underway will most likely feature Great Depression-caliber shrinkage in economic activity.

Yet at Thursday’s close, the S&P 500 was up 25 percent from its recent low on March 23. It is down only about 14 percent this year — and is up from its levels of just 11 months ago. There are answers as to why (more on that below). But that doesn’t take away the extremity of the juxtaposition between an economy in free fall and a stock market that is, in the scheme of things, doing just fine.'[/b]

Yo, Joker, where you been?

Or, sure, at least conjure up Wendy. :wink:

Re the previous post:

what happens if thousands, perhaps millions of small businesses in the West go out of business
while
the government boosts the biggest corporations.

Waht does that do?

It takes more out of the middle class and the working classes. Most get shifted downward. It consolidates power in even fewer people.

And that’s what makes the stock market happy.

Cause the stock market is a tool for people not doing labor to make money. And who is that?

Washington Post Headline:

[i]Wall Street powers through waves of bad economic news to one of its best months in decades[/i]

Yo, Joker!

Please come back and…

1] explain this
2] reassure us that you are in no way backing off from your prediction of the Dow at 10,000 points or lower.

My own best guess? The class struggle is still a bust.

Yo, Joker!!

The Dow is fast approaching 30,000…here and now!

What the fuck happened!!! :wink:

No, seriously.