This is literally the end of this. Biden is going to win (bar some sort of illness, major scandal, etc) The only reason I see Sanders staying in is to be able to get something out of the administration, or to get Biden to change certain policies that he'll implement and he can tell his supporters he did something.

Sanders (IMO) is a little too old to be running for President again, so this is probably his last chance. He probably is hoping for some sort of extraordinary circumstances to help him out here. Or a cabinet role, like I said before. VP is off the table, as Biden has said that HE WILL pick a woman to be his VP.

I didn't know this was something that was so common out of the US, but I guess this is something that I'm going to have to talk about for a bit. I don't think this is going to happen in a place like the US, because it's not common for the US to control an entire company or industry.

Though I do know that for one of the companies here, it's not surprising to see, Alitalia. This was a rumor for the past couple years that this was happening, and a crisis like this, where airlines are hurting badly, is the perfect time to nationalize it.

I am going to stress that if that in any country this is typically going to be the last thing that a country is going to do, and it's only going to be done because the company in question employs a LARGE amount of people in the country. Give it a few years after this recession and the companies are going to be privatized again. It's a bit of a cycle I guess in the EU.

In the US we just pump money into certain companies -- think of the bailouts which saved GM, the bank, etc -- and then we get stock for it and then sell this. That's what we do here (commonly)

No I don't think so, i think that this was the democratic process at work. If you want to argue about a state being open or closed primary system or something like that, I'd be able to entertain it. But I don't think these discrepencies changed the vote in anyway and I think we're fine when it comes to peoples votes actually counting.

If you want to say that the three moderates backing Biden at the same time and dropping out at perfect time before Super Tuesday is rigged? Then I'd have to disagree with you (not saying you as OP, just in general) because while that may not be ethical in your mind -- the voters did still decide that they would be going from one moderate (Klobuchar, Pete) to Biden. So I think that's just the democratic process at work here.

I don't think so.

Exactly. This is the problem that we're facing in the US as well. You've got people saying, well we don't have that many confirmed cases so it isn't that bad. But yeah, while we don't have that many confirmed cases that doesn't mean anything if we're not ACTUALLY TESTING PEOPLE.

That's why politicians know this is very serious. I saw an article the other day about Louisiana, where they had tested about 60 people (at the time of the article being written) and I think somewhere in the realm of 28-30 were positive. That's fucking horrid.

This is going to get MUCH MUCH worse.

I don't know if I would go as far as nationalization of industries, though I do think certain government (unsure on if the US will go this far) on telling their industries that they desperately need them to make certain goods. This would kinda be like a war time economy, where the government is telling industry that they need certain goods made. In a war time it is more forecful, but who knows what will happen when we're in a time of chaos and panic and people need certain things.

We'll see what happens in the coming days. Going to get much worse before it gets better.

Depends on the amount you trade and the assets that you're trading with. I'd say for most people that the answer is yes and that it would help in saving some fees, but it really depends on if you're trading enough to warrant it and if you think that Binance and Binance Coins are worth it to be holding.

How much in a typical month would you be trading? As the savings would be in the realm of 50 percent if you were to use Binance coins for fees, which is pretty substantial. I'd make sure to compare the deposit/withdrawl fees with other platforms though, as those can bite into any sort of profits if you're going to be trading on Binance.

Not going to need a whole plumbing system to setup a whole bidet right now. Could honestly just go to Amazon and buy an attachement for your system and get a bidet. See here - https://www.amazon.com/bidet/s?k=bidet

But yeah, all your stuff is fine. If you truly think that shit is going to hit the fan then I'd recommend buying a gun and some ammo, then again that's if you think we're going to break out into all out warfare. Further, I'd also stock up on Alcohol and other snacks that you'd like to ensure you can limit your visits to the grocery store ^ As Spend said.

No, it's not a hoax. It's a respiratory illness that is now a pandemic. About 200k people have it (that is out of those that have been tested, I truly think this number is much higher) and people are dying of it.

The vast majority of people are losing money from this. The stock market is crumbling, bitcoin is crumbling, unsure on real estate, crude oil is crumbling in price (good for consumers, bad for investors) b/c of a trade war, there is a shortage of certain necessities around the world.

Even if a few people could make money here, this is horrible situation that no one is happy to be in right now.

I've seen this on the news in the last few days, heard from some friends, and some college students have confirmed it as well, people are literally having their last hurrah by having Coronavirus parties and then going into self quarantine. I don't understand how some people could be so stupid and not understand that you're NOT SUPPOSED to be around people on this time and you're literally defeating the purpose of a quarantine if you were to do this.

I'm going to assume that other people have seen this as well, so I'd love to hear what other people think about how stupid everyday people are.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/18/fears-lockdown-parties-will-increase-global-spread-of-coronavirus
https://time.com/5804089/us-coronavirus-social-distancing-party/

Pretty much exactly what I was thinking. I'd like to point out that if Obama tried to do this (and I know that he did pass certain stimulus packages after the great recession) the Republicans would've been up in arms saying that this wasn't fiscally responsible and that the country wouldn't be able to afford it.

Crazy how things change so quickly.

Is this what's actually being reported on right now? I hadn't seen any numbers up to this point, but I really want to read into the specifics of a program like this. Seems a bit weird to say you're giving every American that amount of money, but not flesh out EXACTLY who is going to be receiving it (in this proposed plan, as nothing is official at the moment)

Talking about Quarantines and curefews coming soon, just saw some info on NYC. NYC's Mayor, Bill DeBlasio, just stated that they may soon follow San Francisco and issue a shelter in place order to all people who live in NYC. In simple terms, this means that residents would be prohibited, by law, from leaving their homes except under limited circumstances -- these would include going to work, doctor, grocery store, etc.


https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/17/new-yorkers-should-be-prepared-for-a-shelter-in-place-order-mayor-bill-de-blasio-says.html

This is the craziest news to me, though I did see a few upstate NY towns already establishing a curfew of around 10pm -- pretty much to stop the night life. NYC already has social gathering places -- bars, restaurants, etc closing at like 9-10? (they can deliver food all night though)

Oh yeah, you're most likely right when it comes to the toilet paper portion of things.

Though yes, hand sanitizer, wipes, soap, etc are going to have a higher demand for a little while -- but people are going to be unsure of how long that is going to last. That's what is going to cause these companies to be a little reserved about increasing supply so quickly. Gradual stuff yeah, but these companies don't want to be sitting on an abundance of product because they thought this was going to be horrible for years.s

One of the biggest problems here is that certain companies are not going to be able to keep up supply and they're not going to increase supply as they know that this demand boost is temporary. I'm going to use the stupid example of toilet paper for a second, just for examples sake.

Think of toilet paper companies for a second, they're not going to want to want to increase supply massively to keep up with demand because there is most likely a large amount of money that would go into increasing supply. This sort of demand increase isn't from something that's sustainable -- like a population increase -- it's from something which isn't, which is a crisis that will end at some point. This means that at a certain point, if this goes on for long enough, stores are going to run out of certain products (maybe not toilet paper in particular, but yeah) and they're not going to be replenished very swiftly because the companies dont want to waste product if this ends abruptly (as it could, we're literally day by day at the moment)

That's my little take on the matter.

I mean at the end of the day this isn't about money, or about something like that. It's about trying to save the most people for their own particular county. I highly doubt that CureVac came into the room and said I can make enough vaccines for all countries in the world, and then BIG BAD ORANGE MAN SAID NO ONLY FOR ME.

It probably went along the lines of -- I can make this amount of vaccines, and Trump said he wants them all for his own people. Wouldn't that make the most sense to you?

I didn't mean collectively, I was comparing each individual EU nation against the US. Think of Germany (83M) vs the US (330m) in terms of population. That's what I meant here, no more no less.

I don't know if I would call this corruption, and I doubt he did it in a malicious manner. I think Trump was doing this to ensure that the US would have enough vaccines for their own people -- that's the gist of this. Germany (and the rest of the EU nations) aren't that populous compared to the US -- so the US would require a much larger amount of vaccines.

Trump is looking out for his nation, and that's the plan here.

I doubt he walked into the meeting and said hey -- I want you to make vaccines for this infectious virus that is plaguing the world, and let the other nations die while you only produce for me. He probably said -- hey I need a large amount of vaccines, and the company said well if you need that amount for your people we'd be unable to make it for other countries.

That's the gist here in my mind, Trump isn't a monster here. Just caring about the people who elected him and thats it.

Ah look at that Trump was tested and doesn't have the corona virus,so we're all good on that front. The market is taking a tumble though -- and that is going to be something that Trump is going to have to explain.

Though I do think that the administration took a SHARP turn on how they're handling this. At first Trump was attacking the media, and attacking the Dems, pretty much doing everything that he'd do to deal with a crisis before this. Though thew public doesn't like that when it comes to this, and Trump was able to notice that quickly enough, he's taken a sharp turn and has (in the last few days) showed the public that he's willing to take drastic action to ensure that the people are safe. And even if you don't like it, we all can admit that that is what the majority of Americans want to hear in a period of uncertainy.

So yeah, here we are.

My next portion of that expained that if the administration is able to show that they're doing everything they can do to combat this -- then Americans may not be so quick to blame the administration for inaction and may understand that.

But I don't think thats what happening now. The Media has said that Trumps response to the coronavirus isn't good enough and that they're not doing enough to combat this. This is going to make people VERY VERY angry.

So yes, we're putting my MAYBE to the test. We'll only know in November of 2020

While this does sound very nice, I'm also assuming that you live somewhere where this is possible. Going to need a GOOD deal of space to be buying in bulk like that. Wouldn't be possible in someplace like Manhatten (or any big city with too high of property costs tbh)

Kinda wish I stocked up on a ton of stuff at this point. But a bidet works too