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The recent weakness in the dollar makes no intuitive sense to me. With a split senate, the odds of another multi-trillion dollar stimulus package getting through drop to almost nothing. Perhaps it's signaling that the Fed will instead take up the slack by printing trillions instead, but I still would've taken the recent developments as dollar bullish, especially given that Europe is probably going to stimulate hard with the ongoing lockdowns there.

Regardless of how this presidential race turns out, this election looks like a move towards to the political center. With Democrats losing some ground in the House and gaining a bit in the Senate, it's clear the American people have rejected much of the extreme rhetoric of both the right and left. If Joe wins, you'll have a fairly moderate and traditional politician without the congressional support to do anything too polarizing. He will have to govern from the center to get anything done. Hopefully this can be something of a reset from the last two decades of hard swings back and forth between the more radical left and right elements of society. Perhaps the spirit of accommodation will once again creep into government, as the Founders intended. I won't hold my breath, but just maybe we can reset to a more 90s style of governance.

No hyperbole there lol

Ironically, by suggesting mail in ballots were problematic, he probably exacerbated the skew in the ratio even more. He told his base they were unreliable, so they overwhelmingly voted in person. You see that in the PA results. Big Republican lead on election day, but 78% of mail in ballots are going to Biden so far and the gap continues to close.

Must be killing Josh M. not being able to chase these beasts recently.

Holy shite Eta is a fooking monster. Hadn't looked at it since last night. Jeezus!

Britain going back into lockdown, too. I think he was referring to remarks President Trump made at a rally last February, in which he called the virus the Democrats' "new hoax" after the impeachment proceedings. I don't think he meant it literally, but I'm not going to defend his management of this pandemic either. Anyway, I'm sick of politics (Orh feel free to delete), so let's talk snow. Loved your pictures this morning, Steve. Bet the pups were having a ball.

My God...

New Haven wastewater data is very concerning. Suggests an outbreak may be under way in the area.

My money is on E. It was a clusterf&ck with the testing last spring, so the case numbers were probably significantly higher than they are now and we were just missing them. If I remember right, CT had like 11,000 cases and over a 1,000 deaths going into the summer. No way the mortality rate is anywhere near that high. We were just missing a lot of cases.

Super exciting time. I don't think I slept more than a few hours each night that whole week. I was practically psychotic by the time landfall actually happened.

Back in the good ol' days before they developed the base.

Jan '11 was awesome, but I lived in Boston in '15 and it blew everything else away.

The last blast of Feb '15. Probably the high water mark for winter in my lifetime.

My bro just tried the Trillium/Vitamin Sea collaboration. Said it was spectacular.

Here's what we'll do. As it no longer snows in southern CT, I will enter into a snow futures contract with you. You ship me X cubic meters of snow each month on dry ice. Your total snow removal cost drops to nothing. I, in turn, will spread the snow and glaciate it with my hose, thereby making it a marvel of the CT River Valley. I will sell tickets to all and sundry to sled at a buck a run. I'll even have Ryan bring in "Snow Monster" for a cameo. I'll also enter into a snowfall credit default swap of sorts, in case your winter turns out like 2016. Deutsche will underwrite just about anything.

Yep, those were definitely a bright spot in a very tough stretch.

My great grandfather's big brother was a boy scout when the pandemic hit. Unbeknownst to his parents, he sneaked into downtown Richmond with his friends to volunteer carrying the sick to the hospital. Sadly, he quickly caught the flu himself and perished at just fifteen. But yes, bodies everywhere.

Yes. Regardless of outcome, the election is going to cause major problems in my opinion.

It's all political theater.

Too symmetrical.

I believe that qualifies as "f*** you money."

Another one from North Haven. Hope we start getting some stuff out of Branford in the coming days.

Some pretty impressive wind after 2:00 in this video. Could do without all the commentary though.