Yeah, he doesn't have a good record on this. But rest assured, he's appointed Larry Kudlow to the coronavirus task force. So, there's that.

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California briefing on "community spread" of Coronavirus. 8,400 people to be monitored. Only good news, California, unlike the federal government, still has a fully-staffed and functional infectious and emerging disease response infrastructure. This ...

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Yeah. Fauci just said at the live briefing a year to 18 months. The good/bad news: the yearlong lead time will be needed to fight NEXT YEAR'S infections.

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Fed and ECB both claim monetary policy not the answer. But, what else can they do? Actions by gov't/policy? LOL.

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And full of cocaine for just as long.

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This is not a crisis that you can just bullshit yourself through, yet that's what's happening. They are floating the idea that the Chinese developed this as a bioweapon, to win the trade war. WTF? The guy supposedly in charge of response in the US ...

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S&P looking to HALO jump.

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So much for the recovery in equities. Dead quarantined cats don't bounce.

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When you fire the entire pandemic response team and don't replace them, odds are better than even that you're pretty much will get caught with your pants down. In 2018, the Trump administration fired the government’s entire pandemic response chain ...

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Hard to believe that Gilead is having a hard time finding patients to test its "promising" Coronavirus drug, but that's what they're saying.

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That's a bit of a downtick. Soon to offer free hazmat suit with test drive.

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If it's an older virus, we may need an older cure. Bloomberg reports a "new" treatment that shows promise. It's a 3,000 year-old remedy.

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And here's the Deutsche Bank trading desk

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Funny, because of the implied truth we know... here's me as new forex trader:

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Fed is supposedly independent, but Trump has been beating up Powell forever to weaken dollar. But why would he? Stocks are at high levels and econ data has been mostly good. Right now, Fed has very few bullets to fight a downturn. If somehow Trump ...

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Off topic: Parasite named best picture at Academy Awards. Very timely film and worth seeing.

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IMO bitcoin can become a safe haven asset. World is sitting on a powderkeg, ready to explode. Central banks racing toward bottom at a time they can least afford to do this. Possibility of more restrictive laws on moving money. Bitcoin an obvious ...

The rise of CRYPTO - Bitcoin, LTC, Ether, Dash, Monero

Bitcoin is up on Coronavirus fears. non-correlated asset, risk off tone, US-China relations continue at odds. Can't see the virus situation getting better any time soon.

The rise of CRYPTO - Bitcoin, LTC, Ether, Dash, Monero

"could" is the operative word there and yes, it could happen. But this is straight math. (I was told that there would be no math) What it leaves out is that there will be countermeasures taken against the (math) that may render it untrue. World ...

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