Dow Jones Cashed in Today

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by Dr Sardonicus

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04/10/20 -- Good Friday, markets closed

The best little "16M jobs lost in 3 weeks, GDP faces 30% drop" market rally $1.8 Trillion in 0-government-oversight Wall Street bailout money can buy. But it's all good, because said money printing doesn't add to the Federal deficit, or something.

[kladner]

The river is swollen up with rusty cans
And the trees are burning in your promised land

Originally Posted by xilman

And there are no letters in the mailbox
and there are no grapes upon the vine,
and there are no chocolates in the boxes anymore,

[LaurV]

Originally Posted by kladner

The river is swollen up with rusty cans
And the trees are burning in your promised land

And some friends have broken limbs...

Ha! One song you two talk about, which I actually know!



(this is authentic, from the neighborhood, photo taken by a local friend, no copyright)

[kriesel]

Originally Posted by LaurV

And some friends have broken limbs...

Ha! One song you two talk about, which I actually know!

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(this is authentic, from the neighborhood, photo taken by a local friend, no copyright)

That photo is no joke. A while back, in two nearby communities, limbs broke. Two men were killed in their cars. Now that's a bad commute.

[richs]

Originally Posted by kriesel

That photo is no joke. A while back, in two nearby communities, limbs broke. Two men were killed in their cars. Now that's a bad commute.

The following happened about 20 miles north of where I live:

https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr...-in-vacaville/

CHP officer Todd Fetterly said branches from a diseased tree fell on top of a Toyota Camry in the slow lane and crushed the driver, a woman in her early 20s.

[LaurV]

Originally Posted by kriesel

That photo is no joke.

Oh sorry! For us (me and the friends) was extremely funny, because I didn't know (until this very moment, following your posts and one PM saying merely the same from a third party), that you can refer to tree branches by calling them "limbs", we thought that the word is reserved to (animal/human) body parts only, and we assumed that is just a bad translation (as so many around here in Thai). We know that falling tree branches is no joke. But the sign still looks funny to us (and we could not miss the opportunity, it was so well in tone with Cohen's song, and one of the rarest moments when we knew without search what these guys are talking about, haha)

[kriesel]

Rock Kendrick was very popular on the UW-Madison campus. He would go to the Memorial Union "after work", encounter people with issues with a kiln or whatever, and fix it for them. He left behind a wife and children. https://madison.com/news/researcher-...a187cd477.html
That followed another tree falling in a nearby community by a few years.
https://madison.com/news/local/root-...72c5ddc4a.html
Subsequently, part of that park was cleared after the trees were inspected.
Seven years ago, I had a 52' tall honey locust fall, going nearly due east, reaching the road pavement with its top branches and leaves by about 2 feet. Had it gone north, it would have gone across my bed. It had a root fungus that made the part below grade soft enough to cut with a spade. It amounted to about half a cord of firewood, and a lot of brush disposed of. So probably around 5000 pounds that fell. http://worldforestindustries.com/for...d-btu-ratings/ That was "only" around 16" diameter. I heard it go down in the evening, and thought someone must have a tree down. Started driving to work the next morning, and saw I was someone. (I've dealt with bigger trees than that, fallen or standing, and bigger fallen limbs, up to about 2x3 feet.)
Like a lot of short words, limb has many meanings. GMP uses it for a group of digits or some such.
Going from bottom to top of a large tree, it's root, trunk, fork, limb, fork, limb, ..., branch,twig, leaf.
Limb also shows up in idioms, such as going out on a limb, meaning taking a risk. (Too far out, it breaks, you fall.)
Forks can generate deep notches in a tree that promote failure later, if bark becomes trapped as it grows larger.

[LaurV]

Originally Posted by kriesel

Like a lot of short words, limb has many meanings. GMP uses it for a group of digits or some such.
Going from bottom to top of a large tree, it's root, trunk, fork, limb, fork, limb, ..., branch,twig, leaf.
Limb also shows up in idioms, such as going out on a limb, meaning taking a risk. (Too far out, it breaks, you fall.)
Forks can generate deep notches in a tree that promote failure later, if bark becomes trapped as it grows larger.

Thanks. We learn as we live... (this is actually good info, no sarcasm!)

Now, back to topic.

[Dr Sardonicus]

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[ewmayer]

Oil markets had a rather interesting day.

Let's see, what are likely "this is great news for the markets!" headlines which will fuel the push to get the Holy DJIA over 30,000? A few candidates:

"US official Covid-19 case count passes 1M, deaths likely to exceed 100,000 by mid-May";

"US jobless rate hits 20%; highest since Great Depression";

"Plans to re-open US economy on wide scale shelved as new outbreaks appear in states which loosened quarantine rules".

[Dr Sardonicus]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

Let's see, what are likely "this is great news for the markets!" headlines which will fuel the push to get the Holy DJIA over 30,000?

Your use of "holy" brings to mind the following:

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

He swore that all other religions were gammon, And wore out his knees in the worship of Mammon.

-- Jared Oopf

-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary