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It is not. Funding food stamps is morally superior to taxpayer funding of banks or oil companies

Not true. Your timelines are incorrect US producers were forced to by market forces last week. trump got the US producers together (same time as he asked Saudi and russia) came out of the meeting unable to convince them. US government should not encourage this behavior. In 2008 they told...

Have to disagree. Even when Trump asked Saudis and Russians to cut production, US oil companies refused any commitment. Taxpayers should stop providing puts to fortune 500 companies. This is what is going to kill American Capitalism. Not Bernie.

Republican convention should be rescheduled to May. This will truly own the libruls. If too many get COVID, that is minor sacrifice to get "herd immunity" for all of us.

Not going to be a popular opinion, but blaming Russians and Saudis (and Chinese) for Oil market woes is quite stupid. Fact is American production did not adjust to market realities of demand and storage. They assumed that taxpayer funding will be there and continued production. Moral hazard in...

Given that I am sitting here wasting my time responding to you, your assessment of my standards as rudimentary is quite generous.

They are, compared to their neighbors, Norway and Finland, that are similar in culture, food habits, standard of living etc.

In TX, there is no restriction for my movement. Yes, non-essential public gatherings are restricted. It is perfectly legal for the government to regulate public gatherings.

I would guess urban population density has something to do with this difference and it muddies the analysis. Hence Norway + Finland gives a cleaner picture to get to the impact of government policy. The argument seems to be that the economic cost is too high for the sake of deaths. I am not...

When their population is dying at 10 times that of their neighbors, I am going to disagree with you that it is rational behaviour

There is a specific reason I looked at Norway + Finland. This is as close as we can get to an "everything else being equal" situation, with the only difference being government policy.

I doubt this will be the case. More likely that Swedish people will force their government to start behaving rationally.

Increase in number of fatalities due to COVID since Monday evening Norway + Finland : 50 Sweden : 481

Change in number of fatalities since Monday Norway + Finland : + 29 Sweden : +284 Total fatalities Norway - 150 Finland - 72 Total - 222 Sweden - 1203

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-well-known-measure-puts-the-sp-500-at-35-overvalued-2020-04-13?mod=home-page The data/iassumptions in the article estimates a fair value consistent to a range of 2500-3000 for SP500. Incredible gymnastics they had to do to come up with a negative headline...

Norway and Finland together has more than Sweden's population. Similar culture, geography, food habits etc. # of deaths due to COVID Norway - 134 Finland - 59 Total - 193 Sweden - 919

American also extended exec plat status. Reduced requirements for new qualifiers too. Email sounded desperate

"So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” Donald Trump March 9, 2020