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[Zed Head]

Looks like the presser is back on.  Broadcasters are showing the empty podium.  What will today's episode be about?  How will it end?  Watch and find out!

Apparently it's set for 5:30 ET now.  11 minutes,,,

Edited March 22, 2020 by Zed Head

[Av8ferg]

You seem to be arguing both sides.  The guys that are buying up the stock then reselling it at higher prices are setting price "commensurate with the demand".  Economics is hard.

That would be true if it occurred at the local level. Example: I buy 30 generators at my local Home Depot and then sell them in the Walmart parking lot next door at double the cost. But if a guy wants to truck 60 generators from Indiana on his own dime and get generators to the people that need it....I applaud that action. He should be be able to make money doing it. Otherwise no generators....


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[Zed Head]

23 minutes ago, AK260 said:

In my personal experience in strategy / transformational consulting, when a Japanese CEO talks about strategy they are talking about 25 or more years. When their European counterparts do, it’s 5-10. When you get to the US it becomes 3ish years! ? I do course caveat that with IN GENERAL.
 

 

You left out the Chinese - 1,000 years.

[Zed Head]

12 minutes ago, Av8ferg said:

That would be true if it occurred at the local level. Example: I buy 30 generators at my local Home Depot and then sell them in the Walmart parking lot next door at double the cost. But if a guy wants to truck 60 generators from Indiana on his own dime and get generators to the people that need it....I applaud that action. He should be be able to make money doing it. Otherwise no generators....

It's hard to have a discussion about these things unless you decide beforehand what the final result is supposed to look like.  Many people and politicians see things as a competition with winners and losers and they just want to be sure that their side wins.  Others try to find a way where everyone wins.   I think that is the basis of most political problems, they're talking about different goals.

Your argument above is really just about distance, 600 feet versus 600 miles.  But in the end it's the same thing.  One is just more obvious.

[siteunseen]

24 minutes ago, Zed Head said:

Looks like the presser is back on.  Broadcasters are showing the empty podium.  What will today's episode be about?  How will it end?  Watch and find out!

Apparently it's set for 5:30 ET now.  11 minutes,,,

He's going to get mad at the doctor for not agreeing and criticize his height.

 

[Zed Head]

1 hour ago, siteunseen said:

He's going to get mad at the doctor for not agreeing and criticize his height.

Wouldn't be a surprise to find that Trump has been exposed to Rand Paul and they're trying to get him to quarantine.  Crazy times.  You know the press is going to ask, and it's a reasonable question.  

Here we go, the podium is loading up with the usual suspects.  The President arrives...

Really weird that Trump just has to be the one that reads the piece of paper.  Bizarre. 

Pence has the look of somebody watching his boss take credit for all of his hard work.  Watch his face.  Some of us have been there.

Pence is going to get caught, his mask is slipping...

Trump is done and he just burned Pence.  Ignored him completely and brought up the FEMA guy instead, who has been a complete BS'er from the beginning.

Looks like Fauci is out too.  Fauci and Pence were both getting great reviews and being compared to Trump.  So they have to be diminished.

There's a new guy, Navarro, who seems like another BS'er.  Get rid of the guys that know and bring in the BS.  And the brown-noses...

Pence did get to speak and he sounded even more human than usual.  It's a transformation.  He's a real person.

Taking questions but Trump has to BS for a while first.  He seems to be as orange as I've ever seen him.  The more he talks the more you realize how little there is in there.  It's incredible, as he himself would say.

Trump just copied Cuomo almost verbatim.  "If it would save one life".

In Trump's brain the problem can be simplified down to things like hand sanitizer.

Now he's talking about he gave up his $450,00 salary.  I think he has forgotten what the meeting is about. 

Now he's talking about "trying" new things on the sick people.  No testing.  "We have thousands of sick people we can try these things on".  He doesn't understand medicine.

The Surgeon General shows that he is a BSer also.  Asked if undocumented people can be tested without fear, he BS'ed completely around it.  Not even close to answering.  Pence steps up and gives a real answer.  Don't know if he can be believed though.

The press is down to the dumb questions.  Can't believe that some of these people are journalists.

Now it's down to Trump talking about Trump.  Signing out, can't watch any more...

Edited March 22, 2020 by Zed Head

[Reptoid Overlords]

[grannyknot]

[Zed Head]

Just now, grannyknot said:

I've been mulling a theory that the virus actually came from people that let their dogs lick their face.  It's plausible, I think.,

[Av8ferg]

It's hard to have a discussion about these things unless you decide beforehand what the final result is supposed to look like.  Many people and politicians see things as a competition with winners and losers and they just want to be sure that their side wins.  Others try to find a way where everyone wins.   I think that is the basis of most political problems, they're talking about different goals.
Your argument above is really just about distance, 600 feet versus 600 miles.  But in the end it's the same thing.  One is just more obvious.

I disagree that it’s just about distance. Talking a local limited resource and buying all that is available and gouging people that desperately need it is criminal. So how do you increase the needed resource to a population? You have to incentivize it. How do you incentivize people to bring the resource that isn’t in demand to a region it is in demand. This occurred in my city with roofers and drywallers. Roofers came from as the mid-west and every corner of America to put roofs of houses that needed it post Hurricane Florence. Sure they charged much more and GOD BLESS them, because people got roofs on their homes. The story is different with drywall. My neighbor is still not in her house because the city said drywallers couldn’t charge over a specific rate or they would be charged and arrested. So, now 17 months later my neighbors still lives in a rental with no drywall in her permanent house that sustained water damage due to roof failed. We don’t have enough local drywall workers to meet the demand. Did the government policy help her, no it screwed her royally. No drywall business is going to drive a crew from Arkansas to help us when they’re getting $22 a sheet. If it was allowed to go to $60 she would have been in here house now, but no government gets in the way and we still have over 500 homes unlivable here. Thanks government for helping the people, you made it so fair everyone gets the screw. This is why my new house is still incomplete 18 months after breaking ground. Local workers stretched too thin and government mandating prices. That’s just like socialism...everyone gets to be equally miserable.


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[AK260]

[Zed Head]

9 minutes ago, Av8ferg said:

I disagree that it’s just about distance. Talking a local limited resource and buying all that is available and gouging people that desperately need it is criminal. 

You're still talking about distance.  "Local".  What is the magical distance, the break-even distance?  If the Walmart is 20 miles away instead of next door is that okay?  What your locality needs is Federal assistance, it sounds like.

And, the remedy for you is to vote the bad local government out.  Get out the vote.  Make some noise.