Ha, first time I ever noticed the hood ornament is bowling!

The Navy could likely pick up some mothballed cruise ships on a deep discount soon.  Bonus, already painted white!

Is it because I am red/green colorblind? :-) I drive a Carbon Gray MKVII GTI, and when they came out with the Golf R specialized color service a few years ago, I was seriously, SERIOUSLY, looking at upgrading to get something that would stand out. Maybe from the Lava Orange family. Alas, my fiscal good sense prevailed.

I’d still take toaster-shaped over fake vented, plastic clad, amorphous blobs trying to look 300% more powerful than they are. I dig the style of this this. I mean, it’s nor for THIS 44 year old guy, but the color combo alone is something different in a sea of same.  And that wraparound rear window still does it for…

Damn, he sent that minivan for a ride.

Only if I can have the engine from that thing first, because it sounded suh-weeeeet!

See, this is EXACTLY why car dealers need to stay open. This guy is now carless, and in desperate need of an 84 month loan on a new ride.*

The US has extremely weak labor laws, although some states are more protective than others. Still, Labor is on a 5 decade losing streak here, with no sign of stopping the slide. I often think of something I read on this very site: Labor often forgets its class, Capital never does. Capital will always rally the troops…

That is the point. The US has 50 different unemployment systems, covering a wide range of competencies. If unemployment benefits could be funneled through an employer as wages, albeit reduced, those folks would still have a job, maybe sitting home for a while, but could return immediately. The jobs & hiring process…

And is superior to the American system of layoffs. With a furlough/leave system, folks are still employees, you can get them back in the office with a simple email and life goes on. A layoff requires essentially re-hiring people an all the HR paperwork that goes with it. And that’s assuming they have not gone…

Right, the fixed costs, they can’t be cut.  That is a key takeaway.  And why there is so much talk about rent strikes and not paying mortgages, the fixed-cost issue.  Good luck with the store!

Excellent question, and good to be thinking about this before you enter the working world!

It’s not like the CDC headquarters is anywhere near Georgia, news takes time to travel.

I think his point is that the compressed air is, at some point in its life, compressed using electricity. I suppose hospitals probably have some triple-redundant backup for compressed air (diesel, etc.). I also think the “without electricity” phrase could be misconstrued by some to mean you could take this to say, a…

Concur.  We had a 2009 Fit, and it looks classic and timeless next to this blob.

Those “unconstitutional” wealth transfer programs (in quotes because they are most certainly constitutional, or else in the decades since the New Deal & Great Society they would have been killed in SCOTUS, so like it or not, but that’s just a simple fact) have been primarily responsible for the economic stability of…

Exactly. Save when times are good, spend when bad, that is Government Fiscal Policy 101 for sustainability. And those tax cuts generated nowhere near the additional economic activity and government revenue to offset them. Our FY2020 deficit was already going to be 33% of government income, now it will be 100% of…

On the backs of $1 trillion deficits wrought by steroid-infused tax cuts? Certainly bad in the long run, the virus just stepped in to crap on it early. And those tax cuts and pressure to constantly lower interest rates leave the Fed and Congress precious little room to maneuver when it hits the fan. Anyone can…

Agreed. The “even” is what does it. The Board is a group that does not need their GM paycheck to pay the bills, so to imply that “even” they are sacrificing is a slap in the face to the people who really will. The correct hierarchy in such a crisis is the cuts start much, much deeper at the top and are reduced down…

Lesson 1 of a crisis: never squander its political potential, damn the consequences to the actual crisis.