{"id":50203,"date":"2020-04-09T12:52:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T16:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=50203"},"modified":"2020-04-09T12:52:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T16:52:41","slug":"straws-lots-of-straws-and-a-mini-boomlet-to-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=50203","title":{"rendered":"Straws. Lots of straws. And a mini-boomlet to show."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While I have dreams, the stock market is grasping at straws and having its best week since the Great Depression.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I dream it&#8217;s all over. There&#8217;s a cure. It&#8217;s called Hydroxychloroquine, with a seasoning of erythromycin. Or maybe it&#8217;s called\u00a0Remdesivir?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I dream there&#8217;s a vaccine. There&#8217;s no bureaucracy and horrid delays in getting the money to the unemployed and the failing businesses.\u00a0 I dream every one of the seventeen million unemployed is employed, overpriced stocks are more overpriced, the federal government will\u00a0 stop playing politics with healthcare supplies and health care workers can get the PPE they need.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Finally someone at the federal will create a plan to solve this and get us out of it. I&#8217;d like to read something like the startup prospectuses I&#8217;m accustomed to &#8212; the extent of the problem ( the opportunities), the resources necessary (people and money) and the step-by-step plan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But I dream.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And the market continues to boom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s sort of reverse panicking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>An amazing chart<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">From the front page of the New York Times<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jobless-claimsjpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Where the jobs are being lost<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-50217\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Job-Losses-750x419.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Job-Losses-750x419.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Job-Losses.jpg 757w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Lost your job? Want a better one?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Learn new, in-demand skills on Trailhead.com, associated with SalesForce.com.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50219\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/skills.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"140\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/trailhead.salesforce.com\/en\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Good news<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You can now buy Girl Scouts cookies on line.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.girlscouts.org\/en\/cookie-care.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>How to Clean and Disinfect Yourself, Your Home, and Your Stuff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">From Wired Science: These are our in-depth best practices for keeping yourself (and just about everything else) clean and virus-free.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Click <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/coronavirus-disinfectant-cleaning-guide\/?itm_content=header-recirc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>This is Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s newspaper<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is today&#8217;s cover. Guess where Rupert&#8217;s heart lies?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50213\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SomeonewakeJoe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"387\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Popular new service<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-50207\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rescue-Team.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"406\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Local strip club<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-50208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/clothed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Wonderful irony<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50224\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Baldman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"541\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Hope on the horizon<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50209\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/foodfunsout.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>And when it&#8217;s all over<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50206\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/YardSale.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Compliments are always nice<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Anon: I told my wife how thankful I was to have someone I enjoyed being quarantined with.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">She said, \u201cMust be nice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Sad day<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Spencertown, NY Country store is closing on Saturday, felled by lack of demand. They sell the world&#8217;s best croissants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Betting on stocks and on biotech<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Most of our stocks are doing well. Our shorts are doing horribly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gilead is a bet on Remdesivir. Sanofi (SNY)is a bet on\u00a0Hydroxychloroquine. The President&#8217;s friends and supporters own lots of SNY. Many of his supporters are convinced\u00a0Hydroxychloroquine cures Covid-19. The Feds have bought oodles of it for the national stockpile &#8212; an interesting gamble with taxpayer money.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Biotech is a hard bet. Self-dealing sometimes works.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Today in my life<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Our 82-year old friend is off 11-days on a ventilator and is recovering from his Covid-19 in ICU. That&#8217;s really good news. The hospital gave everyone in the ICU an iPad so they could communicate with their families. It&#8217;s really had to speak when you first come off the ventilator. I hope Apple gave them the iPads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">These are now my favorite TV headphones:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50228\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/headphones-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They&#8217;re more expensive &#8212; $120 &#8212; than the Sennheiser ones I&#8217;ve pushed over the years. But they&#8217;re much, much better. They&#8217;re Bluetooth, not WiFi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B07MKBGH2V\/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>This afternoon<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This afternoon, I&#8217;ll be trying for a stronger cross-court, one-handed tennis backhand. Meantime, it&#8217;s raining in Columbia County and our beloved family dog, Rosie, who doesn&#8217;t like rain, is reluctant to do her business. My dogie motivation skills are limited. We&#8217;ll see who wins this one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Such are the concerns of being quarantined today in really horrible weather.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">See you tomorrow. &#8212;\u00a0 <em>Harry Newton<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I have dreams, the stock market is grasping at straws and having its best week since the Great Depression. I dream it&#8217;s all over. There&#8217;s a cure. It&#8217;s called Hydroxychloroquine, with a seasoning of erythromycin. Or maybe it&#8217;s called\u00a0Remdesivir? I dream there&#8217;s a vaccine. There&#8217;s no bureaucracy and horrid delays in getting the money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50203"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50234,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50203\/revisions\/50234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}