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[da_cheif]

https://twitchy.com/...nference-watch/

[pdx5]

 

We are way up in the sky

[Rogerdodger]

We have a "Government of the Lobbyists, for the Lobbyists, by the Lobbyists" and their Washington cronies.

 

DEF: Cronyism is the practice of awarding advantages between politicians and supportive organizations.

 

Pharmaceutical industry likely to shatter its lobbying record as it works to shape spending bill

The effort to fight back on drug-price increases stands out because of the enormous scope of the campaign waged by the pharmaceutical industry and its allies, which have derailed similar proposals for the past two decades, despite how popular many of the changes are with voters, according to polling data.

 

That puts PhRMA on track this year to beat its own spending recording of $29.3 million in 2019.

“The intensity right now of K Street and the deployment of lobbying and dark money is extraordinary,” said Nick Penniman, chief executive of Issue One, which advocates for transparency in Washington. “It is a frenzied state right now.”

 

Sometimes it's drugs, sometimes it's bombs and bullets...and too often, the lives of young men and women.

Is Covid the best money maker ever?

The US-based EcoHealth Alliance - was awarded a grant in 2014 to look into possible coronaviruses from bats.

EcoHealth received $3.7m from the NIH, $600,000 of which was given to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

In 2019, its project was renewed for another five years, but then pulled by the Trump administration in April 2020 following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. https://www.bbc.com/news/57932699

 

Edited by Rogerdodger, 06 November 2021 - 09:31 AM.

[12SPX]

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wow!!!

[fib_1618]

This has been going on for years : https://youtu.be/rbusP7_QhNU

 

Fib

Edited by fib_1618, 06 November 2021 - 10:03 AM.

[LMF]

Stoli is the good stuff......

[steadyquest]

Another wasted Saturday...

 

Playing devil's advocate with TLT

 

 

 

 

Does $NDX really belong up here?

 

 

 

A favorite poem

AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.

We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.

We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.

With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

The Gods of the Copybook Headings
--- Rudyard Kipling ---

[da_cheif]

yawn 675ono   watch the sky .....snort .....booyah.......DENNY CRANE

 

https://www.siliconi...htxt=world wide

[K Wave]

https://twitchy.com/...nference-watch/

Term Limits...PLEASE!!!

[K Wave]

Another wasted Saturday...

 

Playing devil's advocate with TLT

 

 

Interest rates do appear to be at perhaps at a VERY key moment in time

 

I think there is a good chance that this hourly backtest on TNX holds, and then we leave 1.50 behind for perhaps a long time to come.

 

But......if it fails to hold, then perhaps the time for The Great Bond Crash is not quite upon us yet........

 

Edited by K Wave, 07 November 2021 - 04:11 PM.