Stocks Slump Again As COVID-19 Aid Bill Stalls In Congress

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell about 3% on Wall Street Monday as Congress hit another roadblock in talks to inject nearly $2 trillion into the coronavirus-weakened economy. Even an extraordinary flood of support for markets from the Federal Reserve wasn’t enough to lift stocks, as frustration with Washington and the number of virus cases rise.


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Krugman points out a lot of other bullshit in the republican bill in some other tweets. Big one is blocking funding to medical facilities that take a lot of medicaid folks!

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Still early, but the trend is bound to get only worse for Donnie, as the Trump Pandemic hits the red states in biblical proportions.

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Can’t the RethugniCONS like Sen Kelly Loeffler (insider trading BS) reign their bottomless GREED for once since it’s a pandemic and think of the less fortunate Americans that will suffer because they want the $500 Billion #TrumpSlushFund for “secret” recipients?

#BloodOnYourHands Greedy RethugniCONS!

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" Stocks Slump Again As COVID-19 Aid Bill Stalls In Congress"

Hint:
Keep Trump off the podium.

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"“The President is an underdog now in his bid for a second term,”

Virus isn’t doing him any favors either,other than putting his ineptitude on fall display for everyone to see.

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Futures for tomorrow are already down another 3%.

And Donnie hasn’t started talking yet.

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Sweden, whose effort has been led by the epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, has been mocked as “corona lite”. Sverige means Sweden in this joke photo.

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However, look at these numbers! Maybe it was worth it to put an epidemiologist on the ground in Wuhan at the start of this outbreak.

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Senator McConnell is pulling one of his bait-and-switch routines. Glad to see the Democrats holding out…for now anyway. That so-called leader of the Senate is a danger to everyone. I wish he would simply go home and self-isolate until he put out of office.

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This will get Democrats to vote for it

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:nauseated_face::face_vomiting:

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IMO tRump won’t be satisfied until he owns all 20 of the biggest point losses ever… at this point he is stuck at 18 of the top 20

While Senate Republicans and Democrats seem to be on the same track, Speaker Pelosi, together with her new neo-Marxist extortionist wing, have chosen to never let a pandemic go to waste.

What I want to know is, on which side does Joe Biden plan to plant his size-12s on? Which side is Andrew Cuomo going to land? This should get interesting. Stay tuned.

Trick question, right?

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Let me see if I understand … Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, is not herself part of “her new neo-Marxist extortionist wing,” but she is allied with it?

How large is "her new neo-Marxist extortionist wing”? And how new is it?