Dec 142020
 
Debt Rattle December 14 2020

Adolphe Yvon Genius of America c1870   • Data Shows Ample US Hospital Capacity Nationwide (JTN) • ‘Autoantibodies’ May Be Driving Severe Covid Cases (G.) • ‘Like Nothing Happened’: Sydney Restaurants Are Bustling (AFR) • Ivermectin May Improve the Prognosis of Patients With COVID-19 (Science) • Sen. Manchin: Bipartisan COVID19 Relief Plan To Be Released On Monday (JTN) • Electoral College Voting Is Slated For Monday (JTN) • China’s Global Power Tops The US? New Measures Say No! (Brands) •

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Dec 132020
 
Debt Rattle December 13 2020

Detail of a fresco from the House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii, 2nd century BC   • Sputnik V Likely Provides COVID Immunity For 2 Years, Pfizer For Months (Sp.) • Russian Cooperation Saves British Vaccine (MoA) • No Need For Vaccine This Year: Australia’s Chief Medical Officer (Yu) • Global Economy To Contract By 5.6% This Year Due To Pandemic – UN (RT) • Millions Of Working-Poor Americans Forced To Turn To Food Banks (ZH) • SCOTUS Had One

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Dec 122020
 
Debt Rattle December 12 2020

Laura Gilpin The Rio Grande Yields Its Surplus to the Sea 1947   • UK Scientists Identify Drugs That May Help Severe COVID Cases (G.) • AstraZeneca To Collaborate With Russia’s Sputnik V On COVID19 Vaccine (RT) • FDA Authorizes Pfizer’s Coronavirus Vaccine For Emergency Use (JTN) • More Than Half Of New York’s Restaurants Are In Danger Of Closing (Eater) • Gov. Cuomo Suspends Indoor Dining In New York City (Fox) • US Supreme Court Rejects Texas Challenge To

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Dec 112020
 
Debt Rattle December 11 2020

Pierre Bonnard Nude in an Interior c1935   • “We Hadn’t Really Thought Through the Economic Impacts” – Melinda Gates (AIER) • Coronavirus Fact-Check #9: Is The Vaccine Safe? (OffG) • Sidney Powell Plans to Appeal Dismissal of Arizona Election Lawsuit (ET) • Judge Gives Benson OK To Intervene Antrim County Election Case (DN) • AG Barr Concealed Hunter Biden Probes From Public During Election (ZH) • Sen. Grassley Blasts MSM Over Hunter Biden Hypocrisy (ZH) • Sen. Cotton: Circumstances

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Dec 102020
 
 December 10, 2020  Posted by at 9:58 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , ,  39 Responses »
Debt Rattle December 10 2020

August Strindberg Alpine Landscape I 1894   • No Drinking Alcohol For Two Months After COVID19 Vaccine – Russia (NYP) • Uni Of Pittsburgh Medical Center Won’t Require Staff To Take Vaccine (ZH) • ‘95% Effective’ May Not Mean What You Think It Means (Neuburger) • Trump Campaign, 16 Other States Join Texas Motion To Supreme Court (JTN) • Trump To Meet With Ten State Attorneys General Backing Case To Overturn Election (F.) • Sen. Ron Johnson Does Not Rule

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Dec 092020
 
Debt Rattle December 9 2020

Paul Cézanne Curtains 1885   • Many Aren’t Buying Public Officials’ ‘Stay-at-home’ Message (LAT) • Nine Out Of 10 In Poor Nations To Miss Out On Vaccines (G.) • Tenants, Landlords Face Imminent Crisis As Pandemic Lifelines Expire (ZH) • Texas Files Lawsuit To SCOTUS Challenging Election Results In 4 States (JTN) • Professor: Probability of Biden Winning ‘Less Than One In A Quadrillion’ (EW) • Swalwell Suggests Trump Is Behind Blockbuster Axios Report (Fox) • Biden Defense Secretary Nominee

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Dec 082020
 
 December 8, 2020  Posted by at 10:34 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , ,  16 Responses »
Debt Rattle December 8 2020

Salvador Dali The Sick Child. Self-Portrait in Cadaqués 1921   • China’s Sinovac To Double COVID19 Vaccine Output (F.) • We Had the Vaccine the Whole Time (NYMag) • Vilsack Emerges As Biden’s Top Choice For USDA (Pol.) • Biden Picks Retired General Lloyd Austin To Run Pentagon (Pol.) • Barack Obama & the Death of Idealism (Bovard) • A Resolving Picture (Kunstler) • What’s Ahead for New York? Maybe a Budget ‘Nightmare Scenario’ (NYMag) • Swedish Central Bank Governor

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Dec 072020
 
Debt Rattle December 7 2020

René Magritte Promenades d’Euclid 1955   • WHO Looks At Giving COVID19 To Healthy People To Speed Up Vaccine Trials (G.) • Fears That UK Will Not Cope With Brexit And Covid Vaccine Rollout (G.) • Azar Responds To Biden’s Vaccine Distribution Remark (JTN) • Ratcliffe: Interim Durham Report To Deter Biden From Shutting Down Inquiry (WE) • Water Futures to Start Trading Amid Growing Fears of Scarcity (BBG) • No Escape From Our Techno-Feudal World (Escobar) • Election Day

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Dec 062020
 
95% Vaccine Efficacy? Not So Fast

Giorgio de Chirico Piazza d’Italia 1913     A -short- look at how vaccine makers like Pfizer and Moderna get to claim a 90% or even 95% efficacy for their products, with the help of regular Automatic Earth commenter Doc Robinson (not a medical doctor) and his quotes from the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The way the companies report their efficacy may be normal in their circles, but will, in the “normal” world, be experienced as confusing if not outright

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Dec 062020
 
 December 6, 2020  Posted by at 10:31 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , , ,  12 Responses »
Debt Rattle December 6 2020

Pablo Picasso Absinthe Drinker 1901   • Large-Scale Covid19 Vaccination Campaign Kicks Off In Moscow (RT) • The Vaccine Race is a Race Against Capital Flight (Luongo) • US COVID Deaths Projected To More Than Double To 410,000 By January (R.) • Florida Requires Labs To Report ‘Cycle Threshold’ Of COVID-19 Tests (JTN) • COVID Will Drive Global Debt To $200 Trillion By End Of 2020 – S&P (RT) • Bernie Sanders Mocks Those Who Believe The Deep State Exists

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