Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Federal Reserve: “Unlimited QE”
March 23rd, 2020Via: Bloomberg: The Federal Reserve on Monday announced a massive second wave of initiatives to support a shuttered U.S. economy, including buying an unlimited amount of bonds to keep borrowing costs low and setting up programs to ensure credit flows to corporations and state and local governments. The Fed will buy Treasuries and agency mortgage-backed […]
Dark Journalist: America Under COG: Northcom X Continuity of Government Revealed
March 23rd, 2020Via: Dark Journalist:
Will the U.S. Government Nationalize Boeing?
March 22nd, 2020Via: AFP: About 12 years after the US government bailed out General Motors and Chrysler, Washington policymakers are debating how to throw Boeing a lifeline as it reels from dual crises over the coronavirus and 737 MAX. The aerospace giant, which manufactures the US presidential jet Air Force One in addition to defense and commercial […]
Inside The Military’s Top Secret Plans If Coronavirus Cripples the Government
March 21st, 2020Via: Newsweek: Even as President Trump says he tested negative for coronavirus, the COVID-19 pandemic raises the fear that huge swaths of the executive branch or even Congress and the Supreme Court could also be disabled, forcing the implementation of “continuity of government” plans that include evacuating Washington and “devolving” leadership to second-tier officials in […]
Dark Journalist: Coronavirus, Continuity of Government, Martial Law
March 20th, 2020Via: Dark Journalist:
Coronavirus: Global Lockdown Underway Without Reliable Data
March 20th, 2020Via: Stat News: The data collected so far on how many people are infected and how the epidemic is evolving are utterly unreliable. Given the limited testing to date, some deaths and probably the vast majority of infections due to SARS-CoV-2 are being missed. We don’t know if we are failing to capture infections by […]
California Issues ‘Stay at Home’ Order
March 19th, 2020It’s definitely getting interesting out there. I see people I knew back in high school on Facebook, the social butterflies, the ones with the big smiles on their faces in the yearbooks, the last ones you would ever guess would prep for anything (other than maybe a cocktail party), showing pictures of themselves buying lots […]
Bill Gates: When Coronavirus Vaccine Becomes Available, Digital Certificates Will Show Who Has Received It
March 19th, 2020Eventually we will have some digital certificates to show who has recovered or been tested recently or when we have a vaccine who has received it. Via: Reddit: I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA about COVID-19:
GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization
March 18th, 2020Mmm hmm. GM’s other WWII mobilization: Hitler’s Carmaker: The Inside Story of How General Motors Helped Mobilize the Third Reich Via: Bloomberg: General Motors Co.’s Mary Barra offered to manufacture hospital ventilators in auto factories shuttered by the coronavirus outbreak, an effort that would echo Detroit’s contribution to Allied powers during World War II.
Trump Invokes Wartime Authority of Defense Production Act
March 18th, 2020Via: USA Today: President Trump on Tuesday invoked the Defense Production Act, a wartime authority that allows him to direct industry to produce critical equipment, to confront the spiraling crisis over coronavirus pandemic. The act was established in 1950 during the Korean War following war powers legislation used during World War II to direct private […]
