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washparkhorn

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  1. Does anyone know if the Quanah team suffered any casualties in tonight’s game against Seymore?
  2. I am watching flattening yield curve spreads. Look at the yield curve to scale. Personally, hope that is transitory.
  3. Yep. The lack of situational awareness displayed by this goat roper below should disqualify him any type of carry permit or privilege.
  4. Cosplay participants carrying semiautomatics featuring mIlitary-inspired-cosmetic-effects should be a Red Flag for everyone practicing situational awareness.
  5. Negligent marketing was the issue. Remington targeted users of violent video games. which always leads me back to this Bill Hicks performance - I don’t agree with his remedy, but agree with his diagnosis.
  6. I own firearms and get Kind Bar pop up ads.
  7. Opioids and opiates are effective for those experiencing severe and chronic pain from objective pain generators. That population continues to suffer from the actions of those without objective pain generators. Think of cancer patients v. Junkies Weapons manufacturers suffer the same difficulties. Responsible gun owners like myself suffer because of tools parading around with weapons and sociopaths looking to kill anything. Think of Andy Griffith v Johnny Tool with penis envy and Saddam’s sons hunting people.
  8. I hope you are right. Click the share button. Scroll down to β€œcopy” and press the copy button. The go to this thread and press paste. (If that is what you meant with your question).
  9. The NYT will kill the social aspect of the game if there is more than one answer. Bastids.
  10. Wordle 241 3/6 πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Long drive and approach shot leaves a tap-in birdie putt.
  11. More like a wolf pack encircling its prey.
  12. Russian forces moving into attack positions. Fuck Putin.
  13. Wordle 240 3/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  14. I hope Quanah smokes Seymore on Tuesday.
  15. YTD - BTC down 10.29% YOY - BTC down 12.51% 3 mos. performance: BTC down 34.08% β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”- Crypto Booster Bros are not a positive for crypto.
  16. On in 2, then sank the 7 foot birdie putt. Wordle 239 3/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ© πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  17. Lucky as hell. Wordle 238 4/6 πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  18. I agree with Dave on the war in Yemen.
  19. You would enjoy the paper. It is thorough. It’s only 28 pages. The remaining 19 pages are citations to data and prior studies. It’s an easy read. To your point, it’s not a political discussion, so your preference for direct transfers to employers is not part of the issues studied. It is merely compiled data and analysis with policy recommendations when this tool is used in the future. Here is the abstract: The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) provided small businesses with roughly $800 billion dollars in uncollateralized, low-interest loans during the pandemic, almost all of which will be forgiven. With 93 percent of small businesses ultimately receiving one or more loans, the PPP nearly saturated its market in just two months. We estimate that the program cumulatively preserved between 2 and 3 million job-years of employment over 14 months at a cost of $170K to $257K per job-year retained. These estimates imply that only 23 to 34 percent of PPP dollars went directly to workers who would otherwise have lost jobs; the balance flowed to business owners and shareholders, including creditors and suppliers of PPP-receiving firms. Program incidence was highly regressive, with about three-quarters of PPP funds accruing to the top quintile of households. This compares unfavorably to the other two major pandemic aid programs, enhanced UI benefits and Economic Impact Payments (i.e. stimulus checks). PPP’s breakneck scale-up, its high cost per job saved, and its regressive incidence have a common origin: PPP was essentially untargeted because the United States lacked the administrative infrastructure to do otherwise. The more targeted pandemic business aid programs deployed by other high-income countries exemplify what is feasible with better administrative systems. Building similar capacity in the U.S. would enable greatly improved targeting of either employment subsidies or business liquidity when the next pandemic or other large-scale economic emergency occurs, as it surely will. PPP was far less effective and much more costly than the UI in saving jobs. PPP transfer payments to businesses came at a cost of $258,000 per job. That’s ridiculous. As for prosecutions, here is the data from the DOJ. I hope you are right about catching all the bad actors. https://www.justice.gov/criminal-fraud/cares-act-fraud For those who received PPP loans and bemoan all the Commies and Socialists, may they remove the planks from their eyes. That is not directed at you Doc.
  20. You should read the working paper on the effectiveness and efficiency of PPP that provides the data for this chart. I linked it below. We now have enough data to study the effectiveness and efficiency of PPP. And please let me know if that answers your question. I would appreciate your perspective when you have the time to read it. It’s a full access working paper available through MIT. I found it illuminating. https://economics.mit.edu/files/22761
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