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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReuters: Hedge fund manager Singh calls Trump's handling of coronavirus 'an incredible gift'
130,000+ are dead, but hey the markets were propped up long enough to help hedge funds protect their portfolios!
Trump has justified his public assurances that the virus will quickly go away by arguing he needs to be "a cheerleader" for the United States to avoid creating "havoc and shock." The United States has the highest number of confirmed coronavirus infections and deaths in the world.
"We simply never believed 'what happens in China stays in China,'" Singh wrote in a letter to investors last week that was seen by Reuters. "Trump talking down COVID-19 risk gave investors an incredible gift -- it kept markets resilient much longer than they should have, and enabled us to ensure our portfolio was sensibly positioned."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hedgefunds-axon/hedge-fund-manager-singh-calls-trumps-handling-of-coronavirus-an-incredible-gift-idUSKCN24E2VX
Nevilledog
(51,122 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)Not that it wasn't blindingly obvious that the administration had one and only one concern about the effect the virus would have on America - and it most certainly wasn't the sickness and death of millions of Americans.
The 1% must be protected at all times.
sop
(10,193 posts)HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)of our society, from government to corporate to the personal.
So many lessons we will most assuredly not learn.
marybourg
(12,633 posts)as I heard tRump was going to be pResident.
Volaris
(10,272 posts)What a fucking reptile.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Cha
(297,322 posts)insisting it was a "democrat hoax".. while he staged rallies and golfed in his stupid cart.
Fuck your "gift".. asshole, Singh.. go to these poor people's funerals and spout your fucking "..gift..".
DSandra
(999 posts)The government is more interested in keeping order and calmness than being honest.
I remember Stephen King's "The Stand" where the government repeatedly denied even the existence of the virus of the story.
Even during the Spanish Flu, governments were more worried about censoring the news during the war rather than saving lives.