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Why do economists all expect this virus to shave only 1% off of China's GDP?
Isn't this sort of a big deal economically speaking or am I missing something?

1368 deaths!!!   So sad...

I remember a James Michener book stating that the Spanish, although they had a head start, never made much success with their colonizing and the reason was their banking system (or lack of). A thoroughly Catholic nation, they held that usury (the illegal act or practice of lending money at unusually high rates of interest) was wrong, which all but made serious investment impossible—the rich king or queen had to sponsor everything and she did so only to plunder lands and add to his or her wealth)
Protestantism changed everything. Lending on interest, even high interest, became a virtue and the underpinning for colonization from England, France, Netherlands, others.
This is not the same as your topic, of course, but it’s the best I can come up with at the moment, and in a vague sense of how banking systems work, it fits. Your clip is more on the lines of the book, ‘The Creature From Jekyll Island.’ Have you read it?
A good topic of discussion. The imposing Greek & Roman architecture of the large banks, meant to convey stability and strength, is illusory. It can all come crashing down, and used to routinely when there would be a ‘run on the bank’—people all wanted their money for some reason of crisis, only to find that the bank did not have it because they had leant it out.
Central banks were devised to supervise and prevent such disasters, but it comes at the societal cost of inflation for all. That’s why a cartoon I love has some old-timer grumbling how “for the price of a postage stamp today, I used to be able to buy a whole damn Cadillac!”

I personally love Red Robin's "Mad Love" gourmet burger.  It must be on my top 3 list of cheeseburgers.

Ask for the "Campfire" sauce for your steak fries. Yummy. It is basically a mix of BBQ and Ranch I'm told.

I personally love Red Robin's "Mad Love" gourmet burger.  It must be on my top 3 list of cheeseburgers.

Ask for the "Campfire" sauce for your steak fries. Yummy. It is basically a mix of BBQ and Ranch I'm told.

Evidently, so does the US State Department, and CIA entities. Some of the best foreign news sources have their accounts banned due to disagreements with US policies or exposure of falsehoods.

Modern society seems so quick to want to muzzle people. 
Black and White
Label and Kill
No discourse. No dissention.
No tolerance of different ideologies.
The modern large corporations use AI to automatically block people. 
It seems to me society allowed crazy people to lie in 1980. Society dealt with it. 
Nowadays people are "shadow banned" and even doxxed online by evil netizen mobs.
Scary....
 
I started off believing in "Free Speech"..... still do.... I have learned though that you cannot be allowed to yell "fire!" in cinema.
There is a line.... it just seems like the world has moved that line way too close to embracing "Big Brother" mentality.

I just showed this to my 4 year old granddaughter, my son, and my wife. I even showed it to myself.
I see it as PINK, WHITE My 4 year old grand-daughter sees it as PINK, WHITE My son sees it as GREENISH/AQUA and GREY My wife sees it as GREENISH/AQUA and GREY

The leveling off of new infections between 2/8 and 2/9 is the type of news the doctors, China, WHO, etc., have been waiting for. (Unless it was a matter of not finishing the input of all the cases due to overworked workers and the weekend staffing levels.)

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