Sociopathic Tendencies.

"[It's] a reminder to markets, which at every opportunity display a rather sociopathic tendency to want to be able to put this epidemic behind them", said Marc Ostwald, chief economist and global strategist at ADM Investor Services in London. I'm not sure "sociopathic" is the best way to describe markets' approach to the coronavirus. What markets want is evidence that the spread of the deadly malady is abating, so we can rule out the worst-case outcome of an outright pandemic and focus more nar

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4 thoughts on “Sociopathic Tendencies.”

But what about those deaths that passed from about 1150 to 1350? It can’t be that 200 patients died in one day, they took past deaths attributed maybe to pneumonia and put them in the bucket of deaths from corona. The mortality rate still remains at 2.2-2.2% anyway, on 60k cases

H, Can I ask what the orange vs green bars signify?

therealheisenberg

February 13, 2020 at 10:48 ams Reply

oh, yeah, so green are days when the number of cases fell from the previous day. orange is the opposite
1. therealheisenberg
  
  February 13, 2020 at 11:18 ams Reply
  
  Or at least it was until this morning. Apparently, adding that giant bar messed up the formatting. It’s fixed now.