The View co host Sunny Hostin blamed Monday's solar eclipse, and the expected cicada breeding season on climate change.
 

Quote from: formosan on April 12, 2024, 12:49:56 PMThe View co host Sunny Hostin blamed Monday's solar eclipse, and the expected cicada breeding season on climate change.
 

Even if taken a bit out of context, it is still ignorant.

I actually like taking public transit in Singpaore. It is on time, super clean, safe, and relaxing. In Canadian cities, stations are full of aggressive homeless beggars, drug addicts, the smell of piss, and litter everywhere. The buses and rapid transit systems in Canada are in reality travelling homeless shelters. Junkies and bums don't pay to ride, harass everybody.  Besides that, there is the stench and garbage all over the place.

Public transit is for poor people.

Quote from: Odinson on April 15, 2024, 07:31:25 AMPublic transit is for poor people.

Not necessarily in some countries. In North America, it is for people that should be in rehab or jail.

Bahamas, Bahrain, Bermuda, and the Cayman Islands each have zero percent income tax and zero percent corporate tax.

One week we are having a barbeque outside and the next we are clearing snow off of our cars......that is April in Canada.

Quote from: formosan on April 17, 2024, 11:58:07 AMOne week we are having a barbeque outside and the next we are clearing snow off of our cars......that is April in Canada.

Same happens here with summer, we'll get a cool spell and think summer is ending then BAM back up into the 100's we go. I think the seasons just like to give you one last nudge to remind you they'll be back.

Oil is more likely to fall to $75 than to rise to $100.

Geopolitical concerns are now fully baked into oil prices. Bearly all the increase in oil prices (to around $91 a barrel from the mid-70s in February)is attributable to geopolitical concerns rather than supply risks.

Quote from: Thiel on April 18, 2024, 05:15:13 PMOil is more likely to fall to $75 than to rise to $100.

Geopolitical concerns are now fully baked into oil prices. Bearly all the increase in oil prices (to around $91 a barrel from the mid-70s in February)is attributable to geopolitical concerns rather than supply risks.

I'm not saying you're wrong but I don't understand how those concerns are "baked in" when Israel has yet to both invade Rafah and attack Iran again, actions that are sure to raise tensions and/or provoke further strikes against Israel by pro-Palestinian forces in the region further destabilizing conditions in the middle east?

If those estimations are presuming there won't be a broader conflict in the region any time soon they may be... optimistic. If the estimations are ignoring such factors the estimations are highly suspect anyway.

Quote from: Garraty_47 on April 18, 2024, 05:25:23 PMI'm not saying you're wrong but I don't understand how those concerns are "baked in" when Israel has yet to both invade Rafah and attack Iran again, actions that are sure to raise tensions and/or provoke further strikes against Israel by pro-Palestinian forces in the region further destabilizing conditions in the middle east?

If those estimations are presuming there won't be a broader conflict in the region any time soon they may be... optimistic. If the estimations are ignoring such factors the estimations are highly suspect anyway.

What that means is that the market has already baked in any potential supply disruptions under not a worse, but bad case scenario.

Bottom line is that demand is not expected to outstrip supply in the near term. The state of the global economy will be the main driver of prices, not geopolitical instability.

A chokepoint in the Strait of Hormuz would be all it takes to spike price.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday that hackers linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have infiltrated America's critical infrastructure and are biding their time as they wait for the right moment to strike a "devastating blow."

Mr. Wray said in an April 18 speech at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, that the threats posed by China-sponsored hackers are no longer a matter that's over the horizon but that "they're upon us now."

The governor of Massachusetts wants to create state border tolls. Democratic governors are always thinking of new ways to pick people's pockets.

Quote from: Thiel on April 21, 2024, 10:21:39 PMThe governor of Massachusetts wants to create state border tolls. Democratic governors are always thinking of new ways to pick people's pockets.

LOL! I'd never go to that shithole ITFP!