More viral humor…
Coming this weekend… “The Week in Review”
How good are you at punctuation? To try a 10-question test designed for middle-schoolers, click here.
Ready for a little coronavirus humor?
Putting the government’s trillion-dollar coronavirus stimulus bill into perspective – a trillion is a huge number. If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take more than 30,000 years to reach it.
“Please Pass the Salt”
Got some spare time now that you’re stuck in the house all day? Here’s something you can try…
“Learning From China: 7 High-Tech Strategies for Pandemic Containment” by Peter Diamandis LINK
Most of the analysis of the coronavirus pandemic has been scary… even the best of it. But here is an argument as to why we may be overreacting to the virus that I found edifying.
5 Historical Facts About the Stock Market
- Historically, the Dow has been positive 52% of the total trading days and negative 48%. The average daily return is 0.73% when it’s up and -0.76% when it’s down.
- There is no significant difference between the Dow and the S&P 500. The rolling one-year correlation since 1970 is 0.95.
- Between 1980 and 2018, there were 36 corrections. (A stock market correction is a downturn of 10% or more.) That’s 36 corrections in 30 years.
- If there were 36 corrections between 1980 and 2018, there were also 36 recoveries.
- The long-term trend of the stock market is positive, yielding between 8% and 11% annually, depending on how you do your calculations.
George Carlin on Germs and the Immune System
George Carlin was funny… he was brilliant… he was prophetic. Watch an excerpt from his “You Are All Diseased” routine.
Common sense tells us that one of the best ways to prevent the spread of infectious diseases is to wash your hands – but doctors didn’t realize this until the mid-19th century. Click here for a recent article on History.com that explains how they finally figured it out. LINK