Trumpocalypse: No hanky/lanky

I haven’t followed the thread today, but has Trump remarked yet about his bankrupt casino in New Jersey?

My Taj Mahal was better than this Taj Mahal, anything?

 

Harvard scientist predicts coronavirus will infect up to 70 percent of humanity

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Eat Arbys

 

We needed a good purge

 

It is essentially the Earth’s way of self correcting its problems

 

hopefully it kills off a good % boomers before the election

 

$10K in the US, $4.69 in Sweden. But yeah, socialism, can’t have (more of) that.

 

Anyone have any FMLA horror stories?

last week my wife had an emergency cesarean to deliver our son at 30 weeks gestation. She has not been at her new employer long enough to qualify, and while they did grant her 12 weeks of leave, they applied it retroactively and expect her back to work at the beginning of April. Even if our son suffers no complications from being premature, my wife will have been back to work for a month before he'd be allowed to come home

 

My BFF is on a ski trip in Italy right now so I probably need to cut my losses there. Sounds like a major outbreak is underway.

 

I’m sorry for your loss

 

Trump is Dolan and the American people are Gooby.

 

Yeah us minority shareholders care too

 

congrats!

 

You love to see the compassion from employers. They truly care about their greatest assets.

 

I guess trump was right, walls do work.

 

why would anyone expect repercussions?

 

Very few people in this board have 401k’s and are at retirement age. Further, people who have a 401k and are at retirement should have already changed their asset mix to be more risk averse. A falling price means we get those stocks at a discount, so let it fall.

 

Stocks did well today actually

 

That sucks.

 

Also most Americans don’t have a 401k or other retirement vehicle so — as others have said — who fucking cares about the day-to-day ups and downs of the Dow

 

I was just waiting for him to tweet some tweet about how a deal with China was close so he could manipulate the stock market again.

 

I have two kids who will be withdrawing funds from their Education IRAs this summer/fall as they begin to pay for university expenses. Both Education IRAs follow the S&P500. Am I allowed to be slightly bummed?

 

I’ll have to check the rulebook but I think only a moderate amount of being bummed is allowed, so you’re good.

 

I mean, yeah, it's no fun watching several thousand dollars of their college funds evaporate today, but I also figure that the markets will bounce back as soon as these outbreaks are contained.

Also slightly worried because we're supposed to fly into Milan in June, but again this will likely have passed by then

 

True.

 

1. We are more than due for a correction/recession so this is gonna happen a number of times and there will also be large bumps upwards
2. The Dow is a stupid metric to use
3. Most people don’t have money in the stock market or mutual funds
4. Using total points instead of percentage of the market is dumb

 

Yeah it’s only a loss if they were to with ldraw their funds today, otherwise they are likely way up over time and if they were planning on using funds they likely switched to a more risk averse balance of stocks and bonds.

 

How many future college students do you know who actively manage their EIRAs?

 

I don’t disagree that there are a very small number of people who should be bummed about a bad day on the market, they could be among those few.

 

Aren’t we supposed to buy when the market is down?

 

This is very similar to what happened to my wife, except she was on bedrest for about two months before our daughter was born at 31 weeks. She was back at work about a month and a half before our daughter came home because her fmla had started so early. Legitimate maternity leave reform can’t happen soon enough.

 

Woody harrelson crying using money as tissues . gif

if they lost several thousand today then that means their funds are valued at like $80k+ so I’m sure they’ll somehow get by

 

My wife was in that same boat. She'd been on bed rest as a patient in the hospital for a month before last week. Thursday was her first night home since early January

 

I did not know there was a remake !:

 

lmao

 

Slight credit to msnbc for kinda facing the music and agreeing to make some changes. Prolly won’t stick, but who knows

 

more likely they’ll be halfway measures and suck

 

One of the great pre-Star Wars movies for 70s kids, along with Towering Inferno, Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake, and The Exorcist. Of course nothing touches Jaws.

 

The president of the United States is treated like a 6 year old

 

This will probably end up happening in a week or less.