See the latest Australian dollar analysis here:

Stocks are up across the region, except locally where traders forgot to fill their buy orders later in the afternoon as the RBA held back on its last rate cut, giving no forecasts for what’s coming down the “V” for vacuous recovery. The rest of the risk complex is still dancing gaily across a sea of sun dapped flowers in joy as they remain confused about the maths behind the rate of change in COVID-19 cases and death rates.
The Shanghai Composite reopened and has launched higher, up more than 2% to 2821 points going into the close while the Hang Seng Index is set to close a little more than 1% higher at 24014 points, remaining just above its high moving average on the daily chart, as this breakout continues in its initial steps:

Japanese share markets are pushing higher as well as the Abe government announces cash handouts as part of its stimulus with the Nikkei 225 closing 2% higher at 18958 points, now getting closer to resistance at the 19000 point level as the USDJPY pair pulled back from its Friday rally, breaking back below the 109 handle as it was getting a little ahead of itself:

The ASX200 gapped nearly 2% higher at the open but nobody was brave enough to buy more shares off each other and snapped back to record a 0.6% loss for the day at 5252 points. Meanwhile the Aussie dollar is now bursting out of the gates as the RBA did almost nothing at its recent meeting, sending the signal to boost the commodity proxy higher, almost up to last week’s high, currently at the mid 61 level:

Eurostoxx and S&P futures are just over 1% with the four hourly chart of S&P futures showing a breakout above the 2600 point resistance level equating to the previous weekly highs and stumbling points – can this get more traction as the morgues move into Central Park?

- Macro Afternoon - January 22, 2021
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Hehehe
This government at the height of the bushfires in Melbourne when our air quality was the worst or amongst the worst in the world didnt tell anyone to shelter in place. Maybe if it was a Chinese bushfire….
We all breathed that crap in!
Yes they say poullted places have more sickness pollution death go hand in hand
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/07/asia/coronavirus-china-us-military-south-china-sea-intl-hnk/index.html
“Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.” H.G Wells….
Bullish depression… I don’t buy that central banks and government stimulus can cover for the massive hole in private sector economic activity. Markets are amusingly similarly priced to last year when life was perfect. Anyway, where’s my f**king money, ScoMo? I want my piece of this global spending spree.
Maybe we peer behind the curtain and finally realise the economy no longer needs humans?! Our b*llsh*t jobs are just to keep us all busy and less revolting.
The economy was tanking before COVID… almost wish I could have known the outcome of that process…
+1
People were just even more blind to it then
Which handout(s) are you expecting?
I don’t know what you mean by “expecting”, but I’ll happily take any.
Still can’t quite get used to seeing empty trams roll past. Super bullish.
The trains too.
Got on one last week( eye surgery so no driving)
– first 6 carriages completely empty.
– the rest had about 1 person per carriage.
Couldn’t have socially distanced myself any better!
NEW ZEALAND: STARTING ON THE PATH OF GETTING LOCAL GOVERNMENT COSTS UNDER CONTROL …
The foundation for the housing affordability crisis has been local government costs getting out of control over recent decades … so they lose the capacity to meet infrastructure responsibilities to their communities and cope with normal growth …
Coronavirus: Auckland Council cuts up to 1100 temporary and contractor staff … Todd Niall … Stuff New Zealand
https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/120879172/coronavirus-auckland-council-cuts-1100-temporary-and-contract-staff?cid=app-iPad
Christchurch city councillors call on residents to push for a zero per cent rates rise … Tina Law … The Press / Stuff NZ
https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/120828761/christchurch-city-councillors-call-on-residents-to-push-for-a-zero-per-cent-rates-rise
New Zealand local government employees are grossly overpaid in comparison with their North American counterparts. To illustrate check out their pay rates in Texas … one of the 5 States where it is mandatory to disclose public servants pay on an individual basis …
Government Salaries Explorer – The Texas Tribune
https://salaries.texastribune.org/
Use The Texas Tribune’s Government Salaries Explorer to review the compensation of hundreds of thousands of state and municipal employees in Texas, including those working for state agencies, counties and public universities. This data is obtained by requesting salary records from those public entities through the Texas Public Information Act.
The Tribune publishes this information because its journalists believe that disclosing how tax dollars are spent is in the public interest. To date, this database contains: … read more via hyperlink above …
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This largely explains why New Zealand housing in its leading metros is the most unaffordable in the English speaking world at 7.0 times annual household income, in comparison with the United States at 3.6 times annual household income …
2020 16th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf
If you have got a problem, it is always a good idea to follow the money.
Local government costs started to get out of control, largely thanks to the 1989 forced local government amalgamations.
There are generally two types of local government … the small and the bad.
Well, the markets simply insist everything is awesome again. Talk about detached from reality.
Like a junkie?
on krokodil
no wonder the name.. in Macedonian and Russian means crocodile.
No way?!
I know.. one wouldn’t guess in million years.
Well that cracked me up Peachy.
Completely in line with reality. Markets will be supported no matter what as important people will do whatever it takes.
if you put it that way sir..
Same people who couldn’t manage to wring out 3% GDP growth in 12 years of trying… I fully believe in their ability to induce hyperinflation, but I don’t see how they can manufacture economic activity any better than the Soviet Union managed it.
Understand that market prices don’t represent economic activity. So why would they care about economic activity?
Venezuelan stock market way, way underperformed the inflation of the Bolivar. Without an economy to support share prices, share prices also have no value.
This is awesome!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1hCLBTD5RM&feature=youtu.be
yep, even gold gave $8 of its gains.. someone must’ve found cure and repaid all the debt. It has to be. Going to the pub tonight.
aud up 3.5 % this week. Everything is fixed!! Congrats for getting out of the usd on Fri though. Wish I had followed your advice, although you were offering it as a contraian indicator..
Yeah, that was a lucky decision actually. But it seems the pattern at the mo, friday selloff, monday buy up. I would not have been a happy boy if I decided to wait it out. Would have been punching the screen looking at todays chart!
Nicely timed!
Dumb luck mostly. Just got ofx text saying paid to trust account, so thats a pretty big weight off the shoulders.
That’s why I said just do it whilst its low. Impossible to time it perfect and $AUD always does opposite of what you want it to.
I’m still holding my USD. I think it’s a bear market rally. So does Raoul Pal. Might be time to get some gold soon though. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/whole-worlds-fked-raoul-pal-pulls-no-punches-latest-interview
I’d be surprised if AUD makes it past 0.65
I would still be holding too, but I didnt have much choice. Still got a few in the bank and will wait for the real leg down.
The market’s are nothing more than a crack wh0re pimping themselves for the next hit of gubment money.
a toothless one.
So been looking to get a new set of wheels for the last 3-4 weeks. Timing seems to be pretty good. Had some offers at 10% off list price, holding out for 20%. Or, will go back next month to see what changes.
John Cadogan is as entertaining as ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfK2mz9W-b8
What vehicles are you looking at?
Mazda. She loves the new CX30.
I am perfectly happy with my manual Pajero, so will keep that.
I’d buy now Max, big discounts on offer, wanker friend of mine in Sydney got 35k off a Porsche GT3, rich bastard
What he saved is about what my current car cost
$300K+ yowser!
Where to drive it though….
To get the paper Saturday morning
Old tech car picking up old tech news!
Or was it a Taycan…
If it’s in Sydney you’ll need to wait until 6am Sunday morning to drive it. Nowhere else you can enjoy it.
Not at the moment. There are no cars on the road.
https://youtu.be/zpK_qp2KJTo
Obviously early days but hopefully hydroxychloroquine is helping some of those affected and is an option going forward.
https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/24907/democratic_michigan_lawmaker_praises_trump_anti-malaria_drug_for_saving_her
Trump praises it because he has a stake in one of the makers of the drug.
Is that according to the Daily Beast?
It’s not about politics at the moment, it’s about what works. Hopefully it helps people.
I am serious too. But I am not sure when Trump too a stake. If he took a stake prior to be known this drug will work then he will be pushing for it regardless and will cause millions of deaths. If he bought after the fact then he should be sacked..
I don’t play politics with these things. If the drug works let the world have it so we can go back to “normal” or whatever the state we were before.
Someone her mentioned that it was his son-in-law who had the stake.
It’s being reported that it’s a family trust in a mutual fund, NYT calls it a small financial interest (probably doesn’t even know he has it)
The drug has been around for a long time, is cheap and a lot of producers are donating it. Most countries are signing up to give it a shot as its the only thing that’s hopeful.
There will probably be calls to impeach him again soon.
as I already said, if drug works let’s have it. How Trump ended up having stake in it can be worked out later..
Trump does nothing that doesn’t benefit Trump.
TDS much?
Now is not the time….
Rupert – if you can point to one selfless thing the guy has ever done it would help your case.
If that were true he would never have run for President in my opinion, nor would he refuse the Presidential income.
I personally can’t stand politics in either country but this is not the time…. people need to lift their vision a little bit and this includes myself, we all need to be better.
It would be a bit more selfless to refuse the presidential income – if he wasn’t using the presidency to make a fortune for his businesses and those of his family. I get the PR optics 101 of it, but he’s making far more than he ever would have got paid as a salary.
Without going into them – there are motives far more in line with his historical behavior that better explain why he ran for president and align far more accurately with his behavior since becoming president, than altruism or selflessness.
And just in case anyone missed this gem, especially for MiBo..
https://www.realestate.com.au/news/coronavirus-buyers-cheeky-tactics-to-try-and-secure-bargain-deals/
LOL! Now buyers are “preying” on vendors! And the REA wants buyers to be “reasonable”!!!! LOL, fvck you chunts, you deserve everything coming.
I second that ^fvuck you chunts ^
Fvck me …… 1
“She suggested vendors speak with quality agents” … lol mythical beast
lol rocking horse shyt
Serious chutzpah.
…but keep your boots on the throats of renters priced out of the market and refusing to pay willy prices for property…
Yes, how dare anyone try to drive the best deal for themselves.
I’m not going to be content until every one of these scumbag agents are covered in a thick coat of my faeces.
Well. There’s a vivid image.
Vivid, but nice.
You pooist mate?
Anyhow, every freedom fighter should have a signature move to be remembered by. Why can’t mine be poo?
I thought that’s Ermo’s move , didn’t know he’s sharing it with you
No, he has himself covered with other people’s poo.
Massive difference.
fck it.. I am opening my second red.. fck them cnvts.. just fck em.
My piss head mates have got me onto the house party app and Ive been on the piss 2 arvos on a row.
Are the bottlos still open?
Anyone up for an MB house party ?
I’m in cnvt.
Yeah nah yeah.
…..
Nah
What!?,… Why not?
Worried your milkshakes aren’t good enough?
Worried you’ll try to find out….
That is “priceless”
Ex bid
“Agents are urging property buyers to be reasonable and not take advantage of vendors who are vulnerable to the uncertain market conditions.”
I just snorted great jets of milk out of my nose, and I’m not even drinking milk right now.
That may be the finest feat of creative thinking I’ve ever seen expressed here on MB, or anywhere in the world ever, really.
Fcuk those cnuts.
How is that not an Onion or Betoota article…
Lol. Now they are playing the victim. How do they sleep at night.
In the Five Years I tried to buy a home. I never had the upper hand in property negotiations. The vendors had all the power and there was always another party willing to make a counter offer. Even in the depths of the crash of 2017 someone offered $50k more than me (with conditions), when the same property 3 years earlier had sold for 200k less (770k) and I offered $900 and other party $950k.
To be in a position to low ball right now would be awesome and I’d love to do it if I was a potential buyer right now.
Stand by (I hope)
Yep, will take some time, and even then, best not to be too obviously vulture like. Be really nice, explain that it’s the most the bank will lend you, you really like the house, and then BAM low low low
https://youtu.be/IYH7_GzP4Tg
There’s nothing stopping you lobbing a few for fun.
And the inhumanity to RE agents just gets worse
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/real-estate-agents-abused-as-coronavirus-rent-strike-grows-20200407-p54hwo.html
You have had this coming for long time chnuts …
Oh the humanity.
Won’t somebody think of the Real Estate Agents?
No.
‘Full Circle’ how is this not a spoof article, life has come full circle indeed after years of ‘vendor bids’ in auctions, negotiating higher after the auction, dummy bids, no accurate pricing on advertisements and so on etc. I think they mean the parties over, but don’t rub it in pretty please.
Anyone heard any update on Boris?
It’s hard to tell. He looks the same as he did before getting it.
For what it’s worth, BetFair have suspended their market on who will be the next British PM.
Ruh roh
Rih Rah
Kiwi mich?
The Queen tipped her hat during the address …
Show us some leg!
anyway.. I know few of you bought into ALK, did anyone sell today?
No, did you, I got in at 54 cents, should I have sold ya got me worried now 🤪
I didn’t sell either. Someone has been buying for the last 5 trading days but today after 3:40pm they were shameless. Not sure if it is insiders buying on the back of leaked assays of institutional investors building stakes for themselves or a client who might be preparing take over bid.
Did not feel like a normal everyday insider trading as those guys are very primitive and will go all in rather than being strategic. Not sure what to make of this but someone is buying big and it’s not your Hot Copper idiot crowd.
Only after 3:40pm they went wild.. prior to that there were very careful.. very sophisticated which made lot of seller go to them rather than them chasing the sellers.
I’m enjoying the ride so far
keep an eye on them as there will be lots of news coming over the next 4 weeks.
Boda – next DD hole assays are due any day now and last DD hole assays in 3 weeks or thereabouts.
St Antonio – maiden recourse that market expects at least 300k Oz and this will be in addition to their Rosewell 440k Oz that is adjacent to it. Only 3-4km from their plant.
Peak Hill – metallurgical tests for their refractory gold deposit – this will be released in the quarterly report and is expected to be positive as science made huge improvements in the last 15 years.
I will cheers
Good work Niko
Geez even th3 slutty cheerleader domain is a bit downbeat on rental market
https://www.domain.com.au/news/sydney-rental-properties-offered-at-half-price-to-secure-tenants-amid-coronavirus-pandemic-946886/?utm_campaign=strap-masthead&utm_source=smh&utm_medium=link&utm_content=pos5&ref=pos1
Hey enough of the misleading intros.
Unacceptable behaviour from Divya.
I reckon. If I see “slutty cheerleader”, that’s what I expect to get. Not more RE agents crying.
https://www.investing.com/news/coronavirus/japan-set-to-announce-coronavirus-emergency-finalise-near-1-trillion-stimulus-2133098
Japan goes full r*tard with almost a trillion USD in stimulus. I pity the next generation.
The next generation will have all the same resources to make stuff from no matter if we have no debt or all the debt now.
Money and debt are mere accounting tricks used to control the distribution of stuff at the present time.
Until someone builds an actual time machine and we start stealing actual goods from the future then future generations will remain unnaffected.
At an individual level debt is consumption now at the cost of reduced consumption later, but someone has to be on the other end of that debt so what it really is is consumption transferred between 2 parties now, as without that time machine we can’t bring future items for consumption now.
Exactly: When confused by money, think real resources.
We actually are stealing goods, as well as liveability, from the future by printing money to consume resources that we would not have done in a sound money system that observes constraints. We left sound money behind so that the USA could wage the Vietnam War more effectively, how many people have we killed using the proceeds of free debt creation? Anyway I assume we won’t see a global debt jubilee any time soon, but if we do, that may well be even more misery we heap on future generations.
What a joke … all the wars before it … and all the rampant consumption of natural capital for a quick profit too boot.
Ad hoc ergo propter hoc monkey goo mind swill … barf …
Harsher words than usual from you, obviously you’re more upset than the typical hit and run comment
My line trimmer did that this morning. But I backed-off the choke a little then it ran fine.
money supply doesn’t limit resource consumption, it doesn’t create men to work, it doesn’t create resources to exploit, all it does is change the price of those resources and how they are distributed.
Maybe the debt will have to be cancelled at some point?
Just saw an ad for the Good Friday Appeal raffle, check out the “bonus prize”:
“Scenic 15 Day ‘Jewel of Europe’ River Cruise for two worth $25,580”
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2020-good-friday-appeal-tickets-95541357773?aff=GFALandingPage
Lucky they went with the car as 1st prize, hard time selling tickets when people don’t have jobs let alone if the 1st prize was a ticket on a plague ship.
It’s the AirBnB IP hoarders that I will be happiest to see lose their shirts. Especially the Tassie ones. They deserve a special spot in hell.
May they get to share their dingiest, most overpriced rental with The Cardinal for eternity
Honestly , it’s amazing that after 12 years of bashing your heads into the wall , you still believe that the natural order will reassert itself and asset prices will collapse in a deflationary Armageddon
We have literally had the blackest swan imaginable and it got pumped full of 12gauge and eaten
If you’re still a bear at this point I don’t even know what to say
Seek help
Seek hedges
Meh, we’ll see. I’ve been wrong for 14 years now (wrong in the sense that what government and banks and stupid speculators has been doing to drive house prices that is), whats another year?
Lower teh rates will fix thing!
What to do about the gates closed thingy though…
MOAR debt and future generations will fix teh thing!
If you look at Econimica, there’s not gonna be too many people in those future generations either… but whatever, let’s just do hyperinflation because shares must always go up.
If Future Generations can’t pay off the debt it’s because they didn’t have ENOUGH OF A GO
They will hate us more than Millennials hate the Boomers and we’ll deserve it.
I see you can’t even wait for trading to open today… sounds like a very scientific assessment on your part.
what makes me think that you are not as smart as you think you are is your certainty….
chortle
The saddest part is you don’t have to be a genius to work it out
Even the stupidest buy and hold mums and dads get it
I call it the MacroBusiness middle-intellect trap : the website attracts people who think they are too smart to just play along, but too dumb to work out what is actually happening
SAD!
What’s really sad is if you turn out to be wrong, you’ll just vanish into the ether, never to be heard from again.
Whereas if you turn out to be right about this thing that everyone here and most market participants were aware of, you’ll continue to pester everyone around you for the remainder of your life however long that will be.
There is literally zero chance that I turn out to be wrong in the medium or long term
Stockmarkets only go up
Property prices only go up
Fiat currency only goes down
Maybe I’ll disappear for a month or two, but I’ll be back
have you ever considered why you keep hurting yourself ?
I used to be like you once
I honestly think it’s more a mental illness than a lack of intellect
Could y0u be less obvious about your tr0lling, so that when I talk to y0u, I don’t feel so stup1d for engaging?
When is the NIKKEI going to hit ATH if it’s so inevitable that the market always goes up? It’s only been 31 years, plenty of time left.
Yeah , the Nikkei, tulips , beanie babies and bitcoin
Good luck with that
Shut up c#&t you told me to sell mine at $300. Its $7350
I don’t think so
I bought bitcoin to buy drugs when it was double digits then lost my key and forgot about it until it was 4 figures
I would have told you to sell at 20k though – not that anyone could get a meaningful amount of money out
How much are you still holding mig ?
It’ll be sad next week with 20k dead Americans and your fantasy in the toilet paper…
20k wow
much dead
0.005% of the population
Anyway, 20k fewer old/crippled Americans is good for the stock market, not bad …
Aaaah, chatting with Coming
Come for the humility, stay for the compassion!
Midddle-intellect trap – I like it. I really like it.
I really like coming! (…that’s what she said, haw haw haw! Chortle!)
Be careful of what you wish for. The only way to save the market now is to open the floodgate to immigrants. You’ll be surrounded by cashed-up chinese communists, who, even I can’t stand.
Ideological repetitive indoctrination with side of cult social mores Coming ….
I think you’re counting chickens before they have hatched. If you think this thing is over, well I think you’re jumping the gun. Financial markets are being juiced, but demand has collapsed. Do we just go back to share buy backs? It can’t last forever.
Fed will buy stocks if it has to, but it won’t because fiscal deficits will do the work
Huge differences between this and the Nikkei anyway
-PE ratio of the Nikkei was 100x
-at the top, it was literally parabolic . You had to have bought in a period of a few specific months to not be in the green now
-boj monetary response was timid. JPow has increased liabilities by trillions in a few days : 50% more than the entire GFC already
-plaza accord and asynchronicity with other markets hamstrung Japanese fiscal and monetary response
-lack of natural resources, and negative population growth hamstrung fiscal and monetary response
-japan is a cohesive , racially homogeneous and honourable society. They wouldn’t degrade themselves and their people just to protect asset holders
By comparison, we have trump, scomo, BoJo (for the moment), the tribe etc
https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/japan/pe-ratio
It seems it was 71x. at the peak Which is a very high p/e indeed. But the levels were much more reasonable in the early 80s and then early 90s.
Anyway, you’ll have a whole list of rationalisations for why things didn’t work out, if the market comes back in 30 years and we’re facing the same problem, and you are still a perma-bull. It’s all post-hoc. Way before coronavirus, everyone was aware that all the stops would be pulled out to save the stock market if it came to that. The question here is simple, can the establishment response really save the stock market? My view is that there’s no substitute for a functioning economy, no number of bond purchases can substitute that. I’m not going to feel like a genius if I turn out to be right, because the binary option here is really simple and none of us truly know whether the CB and fiscal responses will do the trick.
Fwiw I’m long property and stocks. So I somewhat agree Coming that they will do everything to protect assets, but why didn’t they manage it in 08? Do you think they learnt the lessons in 08 so they don’t make them again this time? Have they been rehearsing for this moment? Does this mean stocks can never truly revert to mean again? Is this the new normal? I just don’t see it. The bull run has ended, do we face a depression with rising asset prices? I’m just not convinced, but I agree fiat is only useful for day to day transactions. Everything else. Pointless.
I don’t know what everyone is afraid of.
Especially with US equities. There’s no limit to what will be spent in order to maintain the status quo. Trump will sign off on everything he’s re-election partly depends on it. They can spend $20 trillion it won’t hurt the US dollar.
Just pig out. Get the feed bag on and start chowing down.
If the S&P500 goes down to 2000 I’ll just load up on more.
The US Fed is constitutionally prevented from buying US stocks.
That is a procedure that can be overwritten in time but we’re all going to get forewarning.
Until then, no, there is no way that the US Fed can directly buy stocks to prop up the market. They can sell an infinite amount of bonds to banks at 0% but, they still carries a cost to the banks. Is, there is friction in the transmission mechanism.
And the Eurodollar shortage that has been squeezing global financial markets for the last 4 years has already sapped all extra liquidity from the US banks, so they are a bit skint in terms of ability absorb another trillion of US bonds.
Wow a bit early to call it. Try sportsbet, they might be willing to handover a mil $ paying out this early.
Duuuuuuude!
What does mine say?
Doooooooooooodeeeeeee
And thennnnnm?
Bill Gates trying to jump start the 7 best looking vaccine candidates
https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1246457825720553472
he shouldn’t be allowed to be involved in anything best looking.
Reusa will be involved. Anything with tasers and he’s in
2020 is one for the history books for sure ….
……Pussy Galore just checked out too ( well the actress who played her ) …..won’t affect Reusa …..he has it on tap permanently….
She’s coming off the wall he reckons, not because she’s dead, just a little old he was saying
Old she is indeed ……imagine trying to get that character and name through the LGBTQI whatever whatever filter into a movie today …..
I dunno, Dick Pound is still in service.
Penetrazio Vaselini
where is harold?
Up ya duff
Hope he hasn’t got them Wuhan Bat Sniffles
V shaped discovery.
Posted earlier in the day about injured swollen knee
Should’ve worn knee pads.
Amateur!
Was on crutches shuffling round the house like a broken old man this morning.
Antiinflams kicked in properly this arvo about 6 so gingerly up and about. That’s what makes me think it’s gout, if it was soft tissue damage wouldn’t go away that quick. But surprising to have it as high as the knee.
In the morning missus didn’t greet my suggestion that I p!ss in a pickle jar in bed with howls of delight.
Sounds like AIDS
Could be. I didn’t double wrap when I did you.
How excruciating was the pain ? Gout is apparently crazy even to the touch.
This one one is not as bad, but being in the knee means you can’t bend in any direction or put any pressure on without going “oh fvck”. At the wrong angle, it’s like a small vegetable knife being put into the joint.
In the past I’ve had it so bad in the big toe joint that after the inflamation and sweling went down, the skin peeled off like a sunburn. That’s when it’s like a hundred hot needles into the toe joint and no-one is allowed to come near, in case it is bumped.
It is a terrible affliction, but I have no-one to blame but myself.
If it makes any difference, we blame you too…
He’s busy sponsoring tonight’s MacroBusinesd show
Just finished practice.
But only doing easy stuff (yousician) not speed work.
FCKEN
Also have to learn Another Brick in the Wall solo for mate who I refretted his black strat for FCKEN. To check out how the electronics are. Haven’t got past the first doodleoodle oodle do do. Because it’s just hippies noodling. But I’ll have to get started on it soon. fcken.
Belay that sh1t. Go for the “Comfortably Numb” solo. Now that’ tasty.
Just looking up the settings. It appears there is a not insignificant proportion of the internet devoted to this.
Be that as it may, I think I’ll do it on a VOX emulator on the neck pickup. With a 3 or 4 times short delay.
Michael blurry says lockdown cure worse than disease and he’s a doctor. Lockdowners are wrong game set match.
This is a guy who is talking about his own self interest, nothing more.
That ‘miracle drug’ touted is shown to be effective in one clinical trials, but ineffective in another one, so the jury is still out on this one.
We’re all talking our own self interest. I guarantee that you Ronin don’t own a building company that’s set to loose big time if a full lockdown goes ahead.
That doesn’t mean you can dismiss his view. What we are dealing with now is destroying people’s lives. Human beings Were not designed to live like this and it will have devastating effects. Once again the answer is simple. Isolated the old and vulnerable and let the rest of us get on with it.
That approach, currently bring tried in Sweden, doesn’t work. While the elderly are more vulnerable, healthy young people will end up sick as well, and 2% is too big a number to ignore. Once the number of dead reach a significant number the shutdown will happen, and if you’re going to shutdown anyway, best to do it hard right at the start.
The model to look at is New Zealand, which will be the first Western country to be completely free of coronavirus.
Why is 2% too big a number to ignore?
The world seems to have no trouble ignoring the 3.8% mortality rate (global average) for under-5s. Source: https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-survival/under-five-mortality/ (Quote: 1 in 26 children died before reaching age five in 2018)
Maybe he should’ve said 2% of citizen voters is too hard to ignore.
Remember Burry is aspergic and doesn’t understand human / social things too well. Good with numbers though!
He is a medical doctor that hasn’t practiced medicine in 20 years. Has no access to government figures and modelling and as stated above, has a dog in the hunt.
Just FYI to all you mofos trying to bait me on the PedoPell – no one on this page BTW – you should see my history on this blog on this very subject and realise I’ve been very restrained…
You decrepit Pellophiles!
I’ll see you in Hades
Word is around Ballarat they’re calling him OJ Pell.
Yup. Good call 👍
Carl says hi.
The people of Bllarat know what went down.
When the Vic police went to Rome to interview Pell, a number (12-16) locals who had been assaulted by Pell and his felllow priests, left Ballarat to travel to Italy to witness the Vic police interviewing Pell.
They were seen off by thousands of ballarat citizens who lined the streets and cheered them on.
There was a go fund me to get them there. I think I donated. One of the genuine use cases for the site tbh.
Good excuse if anyone gets called up for jury duty. “Your honour, a jury of my peers was recently labelled unreasonable by the High Court after making a considered decision. This is not a situation that I will put myself in. If I am empanneled my verdict will be: I don’t know.”
Yup. Activist judges making precedent from the bench!
Ghost of Howard
Agree. Those Victorian Court of Appeal judges need to get back to basics. They had a shocker. Well two did.
Go to Pell.
(Does that flag me as a GenX?)
Underrated banger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH2P_pVze6s
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0aqLwHP4y6Q
Crikey…imagine them doing the haka.
Dear god.
Last straw for Catholicism and I’m a catholic too
https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/pope-raises-eyebrows-with-comments-about-unjust-sentence-hours-after-george-pell-conviction-overturned/news-story/601b1ff2e958adcfa47f9ff0783c2d3c
My son is not getting christened
Good.
Someone’s playing games
In these days of #Lent, we’ve been witnessing the persecution that Jesus underwent and how He was judged ferociously, even though He was innocent. Let us #PrayTogether today for all those persons who suffer due to an unjust sentence because of someone had it in for them.
https://twitter.com/Pontifex/status/1247438777586298880?s=19
Same, f l the Catholic Church hirachy
Always difficult when the rule of law replaces mob rule.
Just got sent a stat dec from hq in sf that has to be signed and filed before attending client site. Lol! Luckily I’m a dev not someone chasing billable hours….
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Olé olé olé olé
Football hooligans need a YobKeeper subsidy.
Suck that counterfeitfiat
So I’ve started a sarcasm club.
It would mean the world to me if you joined.
Only if its a flat fee. As in flat.
Discworld till i get a new podcast!
That sounds great!
Is it a club where everyone is equal ?
Yes but some are more equal than others.
Imperial’s Neil Ferguson: “We don’t have a clear exit strategy”
https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2020/04/04/1586015208000/Imperial-s-Neil-Ferguson—We-don-t-have-a-clear-exit-strategy-/
So , Austria and Denmark now rolling back their lockdowns
Maybe learned something from their Swedish neighbours
I’m sure Australia will be doing the same shortly after Easter, as I predicted
I’ll take that bet
FFS mate Austria isn’t a neighbour of either any more than you in Sydney are to me Coming 😂
While Sweden, with the highest death rate amongst the Nordic countries, is preparing to increase their lockdown.
Narcissism means never learning anything.
Trump 2020
Kevin 07
My wife’s sister ….. many many years
Dude. Seriously? Sounds easy what’s her #whatsapp
Dude seriously ….. u don’t wanna know.
Sigh
Content blocked again…
definitely won’t be as long as many expect but won’t bet on an actual time frame. Shame, permanent working home has been the best thing ever with no travel time.
The people that set policy and in government expect level of shutdown until Nov. and the bin chicken only today said it extends until we get a vaccine.
Putting money on that narcissistic psychopath Coming’s “prediction” is a long long shot.
I’ve ejected him from my herd. Just don’t bother. He could be right or wrong. I don’t care.There’s far more interesting conversations elsewhere.
The number of infection isn’t as important as shutting down the unknown community infection, since it only took ONE Italian super-spreader to start the epidemic in Italy. The virus, not our prediction and model, will decide whether we remain in shutdown.
Little bit of a primary school level exercise for you. Read this story:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-07/coronavirus-sweden-adopting-more-flexible-approach/12118422
After reading please state the statistics relating to population, infections and deaths in Sweden. Please comapre them to the same from Australia (hint we aren’t looking for opinions and attitudes, although that old chunt in the navy uniform is asking for a corona death with that hubris).
A recent study saying that closing school have very little effect on COVID-19 transmission, published yesterday.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(20)30095-X/fulltext
I expect it will be used by a lot of people to justify ScoMo’s stance on not closing school. The problem is : the ‘research’ can only come up with a pittance of articles which fits their research criteria, There is almost no data regarding the effect of school closure by itself, because it’s always been done along with other social distancing measures. For instance, Singapore has recently closed down its school, and they’re closing down everything else as well along with it. The lack of evidence means the effect of school closure is currently unknown, so I have no idea how they can make the conclusion that closing school only prevents 2-4% of death.
@Coming – what drugs were you planning to buy with your bitcoin? I’ve got some A-Grade Jenkem if you’re interested
Changa and you’re on
I wish Coming a silent
Exodus
Not from this blog
Just assisted breathing.
All the beast..
Poetically not actually.
Coming and i, we’ve done this dance for a long time – wish me praxis
Well, I liked it.
To squirrel, and the kiwi and all the other degenerate Catholics. Beware! You are the new witches and I’ll burn you at the stake!!
Just read those comments, can’t believe how many people are still defending the Catholic Church. disgusting
Death is the ignominy
That generations have sought
To free and relieve.
I’ll krill you all if have to
Believe that
Well, sounds like euphoria out there. Dow futures up 800 points. US ten year yield shooting up. On what?
Need a little blowoff top to set up the next leg down, I guess. Every talking monkey is saying buy now / FOMO / the only way is up…
Yep … but if a few Ch11’s start rolling in……then …..
At this rate it’ll hit a new peak by the end of the week!!
Here’s someone actually talking about earnings (and trading volumes) … instead of just yelling “printing forever” and “buy!” – what the?! He’ll be drummed out of town at this rate! 😉
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/07/citi-market-bounce-an-aftershock-and-pretty-horrific-earnings-to-come.html
Yes, a blowoff top for sure
The rapture is right around the corner
Any minute now
I’ll skill you all (sic)
Australia have 119 new COVID-19 cases today, bringing the total to 5918, a 2.0% increase. It is a slight increase from yesterday, but statistically it is insignificant. In Tasmanis, 8 of the 9 new cases linked to North West Hospital, which is worrying. If we can get it below 100 it will be an important psychological milestone. We are now back at the same number of cases as around the 18th March, which now seems like a long time ago.
ScoMo have come up with a model where a business can reduce their rent based on their reduced turnover, capped at 50%, or the rent can be deferred until lockdown ends and paid back over 12 months. No idea if that’ll apply to other outgoings as well. : like all policy thought up by ScoMo, it is very light on details. During this period the landlord is not allowed to evict or call in personal guarantees, but the question remains : what if the landlord evict anyway? Still no details on what the residential rental eviction memorandum will look like, however the Tasmanian model seems to be dead.
Boris Johnson is in ICU and requires oxygen : only one step away from ventilator and the 30% survival rate. If he doesn’t survive the battler to be the next British PM will become very, very messy.
Funnily enough my missus said yesterday what if the queen takes control.
I pooh pooh’d the suggestion.
But Charles has had it and recovered…….
That’s what she said but the oil well went limp with the pumping.
You know where the Queen’s gonna go after she abdicates?
Down to King’s Cross, with all the other old queens.
Great bouquet, earthy tones, acrid palette with overtones of f#ck everyone very much.
I believe I know that vintage. Late Harvest boomer, if I’m not mistaken.
Pell Delicatessen
Husband just said how it is quite “bright” outside right now. For midnight. Solar minimum stuff?
Well I suppose there is a solar minimum every night at around midnight… 😉
… but there is also a full moon tonight.
So nothing too out of the ordinary there… 😁
Lol. That must be it. I am seeing solar minimums everywhere. Was just an odd comment now of all times.
😁
Tell him to stop playing with the security lights and go to bed.