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Debt Rattle April 26 2020

Apr 262020

April 26, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 11:08 am Finance Tagged with: airlines, antibodies, commemoration, DOJ, FBI, Flynn, hydroxychloroquine, Mueller, mule business, Mumbai, tracing apps, WWII 23 Responses »

Unknown Spanish Influenza 1918 • Australia’s Coronavirus Tracing App Set To Launch Today (G.) • Germany Flips On Smartphone Contact Tracing, Backs Apple And Google (R.) • WHO: No Evidence COVID-19 Antibodies Protect From Potential Re-Infection (BBG) • WHO Warns Against Coronavirus “Immunity Passports” (Vox) • Mumbai Is Trying To Stop COVID19 With Hydroxychloroquine (IT) • Trump, Putin Issue Joint Statement Promoting Unity (JTN) • UK Scientists Warn Over Grim Virus Data (G.) • US Airlines Receive Extra

Debt Rattle April 25 2020

Apr 252020

April 25, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 11:17 am Finance Tagged with: Amazon, Bank of China, Banks, Bolsonaro, bonuses, coronavirus, Covid19, cruise ship, Fentanyl, Japan, plaque, PPP, small business, strokes, testing, Trump, Winnie, Wuhan 46 Responses »

Jack Delano “Untitled” near Durham, North Carolina 1940 • Wuhan Was The Fentanyl Capital Of The World. Then Coronavirus Hit (LAT) • ‘Wuhan Plague’ Plaques Are Popping Up Around Atlanta (Vice) • Trump Owed Tens Of Millions To Bank Of China (Pol.) • Trump Doesn’t Owe Bank of China Money (Christopher Balding) • Small Business Owners Asked To Sign PPP Loans Without Forgiveness Pledge (IC) • Small Business Rescue Earned Banks $10 Billion In Fees (NPR) • People In

Debt Rattle April 24 2020

Apr 242020

April 24, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 11:02 am Finance Tagged with: censure, coronavirus, Covid19, Fed, insects, labradoodle, Larry Summers, relief package, restrictions, Steele, stimulus, ventilators, whistleblower, WTO 43 Responses »

Banksy Girl With a Pierced Eardrum (and face mask) 2020 • Americans Prioritize Staying Home, Worry Restrictions Will Lift Too Fast (CBS) • Doctors Rethink Rush To Ventilate (R.) • First Known US COVID19 Death Occurred On Feb. 6 In Santa Clara County (SFC) • Chinese Scientists ‘Unable To Judge’ If US Lab Is Virus Source (Global Times) • House Passes $484 Billion Coronavirus Relief Package (Hill) • Fed Balance Sheet Increases To Record $6.62 Trillion (R.) • No,

Debt Rattle April 23 2020

Apr 232020

April 23, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 11:00 am Finance Tagged with: Azar, Bloomberg, Chinagate, Democrats, Georgia, labradoodle, narcotics, NYT, pathetic, PPE, small business, Taleb, tracing, Trump, Turkey, UK 44 Responses »

Jack Delano Union Station, Chicago, Illinois 1943 • Not a Black Swan but a Portent of a More Fragile Global System – Taleb (NYer) • Coronavirus Started Spreading In US Much Earlier Than Thought (CoD) • Coronavirus Study Points To Vast Number Of Cases Under Radar In China (SCMP) • How Does Coronavirus Kill? (ScienceMag) • Many Small Businesses Say Loans Won’t Get Them To Rehire (AP) • Congressional Democrats Do Little To Improve ‘Pathetic’ Coronavirus Deal (IC) •

Small Business Firings to Start

Apr 222020

April 22, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 3:28 pm Finance Tagged with: Amazon, bankruptcies, Banks, coronavirus, government, jobs, legislators, loans, Main Street, pandemic, PPP, small business 12 Responses »

Saul Leiter Man in straw hat 1955 The following was written by Bruce Wilds, who runs the Advancing Time blog. Bruce is a small business owner in the Midwest. I get lots of articles sent to me, but hardly ever publish any (sorry I can’t send everyone a reply) because they’re not what I think this site should be. But with this article it’s different. I think what Bruce describes is interesting, important even. The US has

Debt Rattle April 22 2020

Apr 222020

April 22, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:47 am Finance Tagged with: approval, biblical, coronavirus, Covid19, excess deaths, Heathrow, Missouri, Pelosi, primary cause, screening, Shalala, tests, UK 23 Responses »

DPC Yard of tenement, Manhattan, New York City 1900 • In US COVID19 Can No Longer Be Listed As Primary Cause Of Death (Salon) • England, Wales COVID19 Death Toll 41% Higher Than Government Figures (FT) • UN: Coronavirus Pandemic ‘Will Cause Famine Of Biblical Proportions’ (G.) • Missouri Is Suing China Over Coronavirus Impacts (CNN) • CDC’s Failed Coronavirus Tests Were Tainted With Coronavirus (AT) • CDC Chief Warns Second COVID-19 Wave May Be Worse (R.) • The

The Peak

Apr 212020

April 21, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 6:07 pm Finance, Primers Tagged with: Anne Frank, China, containmennt, coronavirus, Covid19, heroes, Hussman, infectivity, lockdown, models, nurses, peak, relaxation, US 21 Responses »

Gordon Parks Muhammad Ali in training 1966 There are times when you think: now things must be easy to comprehend, but as it turns out, they are still not. Let me try once more. See, I was thinking it must have become much easier to gauge the impact in the US of COVID19 when I published the graph below from TheNewAtlantis.com a few days ago. That the stories about seasonal flu etc. at least should be dead and buried,

Debt Rattle April 21 2020

Apr 212020

April 21, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:58 am Finance Tagged with: airlines, antibodies, asymptomatic, blood vessels, coronavirus, Covid19, moral hazard, mortgage payments, mutation, NHS, oil, testing, zoo 24 Responses »

Ben Shahn “Scene in Jackson Square, New Orleans” 1935 • Coronavirus’s Ability To Mutate Has Been Vastly Underestimated (SCMP) • WHO Warns That Few Have Developed Antibodies To COVID19 (G.) • LA Infections 40 Times Greater Than Known Cases In Antibody Tests (R.) • Getting A Handle On Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection (Scripps) • Coronavirus Attacks Blood Vessel Linings All Over The Body (SCMP) • Through No Fault of Their Own (Ben Hunt) • US Economic Shutdown Too Tight For

Debt Rattle April 20 2020

Apr 202020

April 20, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:37 am Finance Tagged with: children, coronavirus, Covid19, Cuomo, debt, Defense Production Act, earnings, Germany, immune system, masks, oil, swabs, testicles, testing, Trump, unemployment, WHO 44 Responses »

Paul Caponigro Backlit Sunflower, Winthrop, MA 1965 • 20 Million COVID19 Tests Per Day Needed To Fully Open US Economy (ABC) • Without More Tests, America Can’t Reopen. And We’re Testing The Wrong People (Atl.) • Trump To Use Defense Production Act To Increase Swab Production (CNBC) • Israel Launches New ‘Contactless’ Roadside COVID19 Testing Booths (DM) • US Coronavirus Study Warns Sick Children Could Overwhelm Health System (SCMP) • Testicles May Make Men More Vulnerable To Coronavirus

Debt Rattle April 19 2020

Apr 192020

April 19, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 11:13 am Finance Tagged with: bailout, Boris, buybacks, care homes, children, coronavirus, Covid19, homeless, Japan, pandemics, PPE, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Wuhan 60 Responses »

Unknown A couple wearing smog masks, London 1953 • Did COVID19 Outbreak Start Months Earlier And Not In Wuhan? (RT) • New Wave Of Infections Threatens To Collapse Japan Hospitals (AP) • Florida Prison System Begins To Reveal Ravages Of Coronavirus (MH) • UK Care Home Deaths ‘Far Higher’ Than Official Figures (BBC) • Anger In Sweden As Elderly Pay Price For Coronavirus Strategy (O.) • A Scam To Enrich Execs: COVID19 Bailouts Fuel More Share Buybacks (Feierstein) •

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