$24k? They sure as hell better be putting a lot of money on the hood.

That’s more than the local Ford dealership is moving loaded Fusion SELs for...

1st:

Yeah, I track values of assets/accounts in Quicken, so that means periodically keeping car values up to date.  In the last 6 months, the blue book on my ‘10 Mazda 6 (110k on the odometer) rose about $300.  The blue book on my ‘06 Fusion (60k on the odometer) rose about $2500.  That’s nuts.

YUP!

And we’re all just letting the danger associated with that slide. Because a lot of people who get a positive test for antibodies are getting a false sense of security, thinking that proves they’re immune. Yet we don’t know that the antibodies they do have are even good enough for immunity, and the false positive…

Yeah, I don’t see video evidence at all of protestors trying to break his windows in this clip that they have - you can’t make crap out in that video.

Good points. Not enough distinction is made on those two fronts. I haven’t seen much on COVID as to the particular antibodies being induced - but I know the same basic vaccine methods (and attacking the same basic protein structure) in MERS were showing very good response for neutralizing antibodies. Same point I…

Ludicrous point.  They stopped trials on SARS vaccines ages ago before even getting to Phase II simply for lack of need.  They haven’t “had a million trials” or even been working on it at all.

Almost looks like the frame came pre-bent for you, with the change in direction of styling lines at the bed.

There won’t be a vaccine?

Bullshit.

I’m on the list for volunteers for two of them, which I’ve watched carefully. Both are now in Phase III and both have shown from Phase I and II that recipients are having no problems tolerating the vaccine (unless you consider a slightly sore arm a problem) and that they’re getting…

3rd: This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Stocks are always priced for future growth. But what does Tesla have the possibility to grow into? Essentially another Toyota. Sure, an electrified one, but the odds of ever growing to something bigger or more profitable are essentially nonexistant. Hell, surpassing GM…

“Annual new car sales in the US, once thought to maybe reach 17 million, is now forecast to be around 13 million”

No way in hell do we get to a sales rate of 13 million for Q3 and Q4 the way people are acting right now, pretending that the pandemic is over. 

And if you look at Japan’s COVID numbers, you’d know that our “freedom!” crowd here is destroying our hope of actually containing it. If we had their good manners, everything would be open by now.

Wait - they have a person at the checkout?

Where the hell is there a walmart with employees working a checkout?

“This is all mostly a shot at Harley’s pride, as being among the S&P 500 doesn’t confer companies with any special privileges”

Not entirely true.  Quite a few investment funds limit themselves to the S&P 500 large cap category, so Harley may well find it harder in the future to raise funds via stock offerings.  But…

There was a time when IL, OH, MI, WI, IN were known as the Northwest.

The center of the US population is still in Missouri, but from 1860 to 1980 was in either Ohio, Indiana, or Illinois.

They’re still the central part of the US by most practical definitions.

The flu shot is a vaccine.

And like all vaccines, it isn’t 100% effective. In fact, in a good year, its only about 60% effective. Some years its only 30% effective. That confuses some into thinking it either is useless or it somehow isn’t truly a vaccine. The catch is that the flu mutates very quickly. And so they…

Death rates can plummet when you finally get around to diagnosing mild cases.

Here in Ohio, until just the last week, you could only get a test if you were symptomatic and had known contact with someone who was a confirmed case. Only now can anyone get tested. And not long ago, you could only get a test if you were a…

The saddest thing here is that there is more and more evidence that 100% mask use would squash this thing in a matter of just a couple weeks.

Here’s a graph of the number of daily new cases in a country that imposed mask requirements in late March:

Frankly, it wouldn’t be a bad idea, IF you increased the size of the Escape.

The problem right now is that the Escape, while generally a nice vehicle, has horrid second row space. The Edge fits a market for a family with older kids nicely while the Escape loses practicality. The Explorer is a huge step up in size over…

Not just that, but the economy has been running on debt for years. We saw a huge runup in total debt (household+government+corporate+financial) under Bush from 2000-2008, with debt as a % of GDP going from ~275% to 375%. Under Obama, that declined in his first term, then held steady his second at around 340%. Then it…

Defund the police doesn’t mean that we need to eliminate police. Most places it means to take away the military toys, force them into training to de-escalate situations, change the way they work, etc. Not eliminate them.

In Minneapolis, the police are so far gone that its viewed as hopeless and the only option is to…