Death is Inevitable

Death is Inevitable

The recent absence of our lord and savior, Donald Trump, in the Fox News GOP Debate has me questioning whether or not it is worth it to go on living.  What is the use living in a world where a lowly news reporter can bully a potential world leader into backing out of one of the most important presidential debates?  On top of that, death is inevitable, so what is the point of even living?

I am just kidding, of course.  But in all seriousness, I think that it is crazy how Megyn Kelly has so much power in these debates.  I do not understand why a right-wing news outlet would let their own staff member defile the reputation of a high-quality debate by using her own biases to bring down Donald Trump's campaign.

Donald Trump is the most reputable and most qualified candidate to act as our president.  He is the only person who has stuck to his guns on major issues such as abortion, health care, and CHI-na.  We need Trump to make America great again, and Megyn Kelly is standing in our way.  She should be drawn and quartered for her attacks against The Donald so that people understand that nothing will stand in the way of progress.

Help.

Red

Red

Apples, tomatoes, blood, raspberries, strawberries, lipsticks, rubies, roses, ketchup, meat, peppers, firetrucks, cardinals, radishes, licorice, cherries, hearts, ladybugs, watermelon, Elmo, Republicans, Starbucks cups, Ferrari, Big Red, cranberries, lobsters, Mars, holly, Tabasco, scarlet tanagers, barns, fire hydrants, vermilion flycatchers, pepperoni, crimson rosellas, The Crimson Chin, red pandas, parrots, crabs, starfish, tomato sauce, fire ants, bricks, hematite, Darth Maul, salami, Sith lightsabers, foxes, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Rudolph's nose, Nazis, Angry Birds, lasers, Santa, Christmas, Valentine's Day, red squirrels, clay, Red M&Ms, YouTube, red crayons, stop signs, traffic lights, hotline phones, Blinky, Mario, red velvet cake, Louis Vuitton Red Bottoms, Yeezy 2 Red Octobers, catsup, British telephone booths, British double-decker buses, red Crocs, red-handed, Coca-Cola, red balloons, red wine, Solo cups, Communism, Russia, China, Beats by Dre, Red Cross, Cincinnati Reds, Air Canada, Swiss Army, pentagrams, fire, Red Sox, hot dogs, Jell-O, redrum, Red Robin, Chili's, Chick Fil-A, Staples, begonia tubers, dahlia tubers, geraniums, nasturtiums, marigolds, lobelias, poppy, Santander, salvia, scarlet fever, chickenpox, cowpox, rashes, McDonald's, American stripes, rust, maple trees, Canadian flag, North Korea, and red paint are all red.

What is your favorite color?

We're Screwed

We're Screwed

Recently, "The Big Short" depicted how the events leading to the housing crash of 2007 and why the big banks failed.  It was a well timed film, because today, we are on the verge of another economic crisis.

In the 2007 crash, the housing market collapsed because people with subprime mortgages could not afford to pay their bills and the shares and futures that these mortgages were dependent on started to decline.  These shares and futures were bundled in collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs.  The shares in these CDOs did not need to meet the same standards as those in a prime mortgage, so they were filled with volatile stocks and commodities that were likely to decrease in value.  When the shares that these mortgages were built on failed and the owners could not make up the deficit, the banks were forced to foreclose on their properties in order to keep from losing money.  Because so many people had subprime mortgages and all of their houses were being foreclosed, the banks were left with nothing and the economy collapsed.

The same thing that happened in the United States in 2007 is happening today.  Chinese mortgages are not built on CDOs, but their entire market is in jeopardy, meaning that their housing market is destined to collapse as well.  The Chinese markets have dropped more than 12% since the year began., and almost 40% since June.  The Chinese have been focusing less on exports, and domestic industries took a toll.  Many Chinese companies saw little growth this year, and it is showing in their market's decline.  The Chinese government were forced to close their market today after it dropped more than 7%.  To top it off, large-scale investors were previously restricted from selling stock, and this expires tomorrow.  Fear will lead to panic selling tomorrow, and many of these investors will dump their shares, causing the market to fall even further.  When it opens tomorrow on Friday, January 8, the market will plummet.  This will have rippling effects across the entire world economy, as China has 17% of the world's wealth.  We are currently looking at a recession equal to or greater than that of 2008.

We're screwed (unless the market rebounds next week).

Edit: Never mind.