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10-01-2021, 10:04 PM
#441
Originally Posted by Davexl
Also,
Trump's Taiwan policy ends much as it started — by blowing up status quo
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...o-trump-biden/
All science is either Physics or stamp collecting - Ernest Rutherford
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10-01-2021, 11:26 PM
#442
Originally Posted by Davexl
This will cause consternation amongst New Zealand's rice Christians. They will have to become more anti-American than the radical left to prove themselves worthy of their stipend.
Boop boop de do
Marilyn
Diamonds are a girls best friend.
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11-01-2021, 12:05 PM
#443
'Descended into madness': second Republican senator says Trump must go
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...rity-joe-biden
Excerpt:
"Crow, a former US army ranger, said he had “raised grave concerns about reports that active duty and reserve military members were involved in the insurrection” and asked that “troops deployed for the inauguration … are not sympathetic to domestic terrorists”. The readout said McCarthy agreed and said he was willing to testify publicly in the coming days."
All science is either Physics or stamp collecting - Ernest Rutherford
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11-01-2021, 12:24 PM
#444
A little reassurance is called for...
Why Wall Street can disregard protests, assassinations and riots
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/07/investing/stocks-civil-unrest-history/index.html
Excerpt:
"That was the case in after the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, during civil rights marches in the South in 1965, following Vietnam War protests in 1967 and outrage after Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in 1968.
Stocks were volatile during that tumultuous decade, and they often slipped in the wake of specific news events. But in each of those four years the S&P 500 wound up with a gain, with stocks up 14% annually on average."
All science is either Physics or stamp collecting - Ernest Rutherford
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11-01-2021, 06:16 PM
#445
Originally Posted by Davexl
Out of idle curiosity, was there anything worth preserving in the status quo ante?
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12-01-2021, 10:15 AM
#446
with armed protest in all 52 states possible some cash on hand for a dip might be an idea.
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12-01-2021, 11:42 AM
#447
Originally Posted by GTM 3442
Out of idle curiosity, was there anything worth preserving in the status quo ante?
Probably not - with attitudes hardening on both sides. Unfortunately, that ups the risks for Taiwan another notch. They seem to be used to the pressure...
All science is either Physics or stamp collecting - Ernest Rutherford
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12-01-2021, 12:33 PM
#448
From one dangerous man to another...
Pompeo is laying ‘landmines’ in U.S.-China relations before Biden takes office, ex-Australian leader says
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/11/pomp...ustralian.html
Excerpt:
The move could mark the end of the “one China policy,” said Rudd, who’s now president of Asia Society Policy Institute.
The one China policy is the principle in which the U.S. and the international community recognize that there’s only one Chinese government — under the Communist Party of China in Beijing.
“That has been the mainstay of strategic stability for the last 40 years or so,” said the former Australian leader.
All science is either Physics or stamp collecting - Ernest Rutherford
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12-01-2021, 12:44 PM
#449
Member
Originally Posted by Waltzingironmansinlgescul
with armed protest in all 52 states possible some cash on hand for a dip might be an idea.
I think this is very prudent. I have been selling steadily over the past two weeks. I think there is great potential for things to turn very ugly in the US over the next couple of weeks at least and markets could well take a hit.
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12-01-2021, 01:30 PM
#450
Originally Posted by Swala
I think this is very prudent. I have been selling steadily over the past two weeks. I think there is great potential for things to turn very ugly in the US over the next couple of weeks at least and markets could well take a hit.
The risks are very real.............
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/10/i...ead/index.html
"Eurasia Group, the political risk consultancy, called out a divided United States as the top risk for 2021. Domestic political dynamics, along with the country's
mismanagement of the pandemic, will make it difficult for President-elect Joe Biden to reassert America's global leadership role despite his best efforts, according
to Ian Bremmer, the group's president.
"The US is by far the most politically dysfunctional and divided of all the world's advanced industrial democracies," Bremmer tweeted last Thursday.
The big question, though, is whether political chaos will feed a longer-term erosion of faith in the US dollar, the world's preeminent reserve currency. For now,
the risk seems limited, in part because of the sheer volume of trades in dollar-denominated assets.
But as Eurasia Group points out, America's global dominance faces real headwinds. One piece of evidence: Europe has just finalized an investment agreement with China,
designed to rebalance its trading relationship with the world's second largest economy, despite US concerns.
"Biden's term opens the era of the asterisk presidency, a time when the occupant of the Oval Office is seen as illegitimate by roughly half the country,"
the group said in its 2021 outlook. "Such a political reality has never occurred in another G7 country, but it's the reality of the world's most powerful democracy today.""
"There is something wrong with a regime that requires a pyramid of corpses every few years." George Orwell.
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