Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "Bloomberg Television" channel.

  1. Go to your bank and ask them to create money out of thin air for you. Then watch the faces. ;-)
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  2. Because China can't attack anything that is actually valuable. Pork is a TINY issue. Total exports are value at $1.8 billion a year and they seem to come mostly from Spain, Denmark and the Netherlands. Those are three major car manufacturing countries, aren't they? ;-)
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  3. The economics of a self-driving cab is not as good as at sounds. First of all, you have to buy it. If it cost's $30k and you are making 30 cents a mile (which is kind of what Elon seems to be promising here), that means it has to drive around for at least 100,000 miles before it even amortizes itself. Now, what happens if that thing causes a pedestrian fatality? Then you are in for a very expensive bill and you will most likely go to jail. Is that really worth it? Please note that a cab operator does not have that problem because his cab driver goes to jail instead. I believe Elon forgot to tell you these little "problems" with the business model.
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  4.  @anteeko  Intellectually speaking it would be so much better for you if you were just an attention troll than if you actually believed that bullshit. ;-)
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  5. WuXi is, at best, a medium size biotech company. It's a supplier of biologics and services. That's nowhere close to the big bucks that the large pharmaceutical companies are making. There is nothing to beat here.
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  6. ​ @pettypractice7872  What about "It's a supplier of biologics and services." did you not understand just now? The point I was making is that WuXi is NOT a competition to the large American companies and it is not even a competition to small biotechs, either. If you want to be specific about CDMOs, then WuXi still ranges behind Samsung Biologics and Lonza. Is the p*ing match over now? ;-)
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  7. The exports into China are worth $1.8 billion in total. That's two days worth of VW revenue. Child, you are out of your mind here. ;-)
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  8. Actually, there was no modern monetary policy during the Great Depression. The reason why it happened in the first place was exactly because conservatism outweighed rational thinking. WW II and the cold war did resolve the Great Depression, but it came at a cost of at least 60 million lives.
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  9.  @ssuwandi3240  I have not seen a single barrel of oil that was traded for worthless Yuan. ;-)
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  10. OK, so that's another $billion in trade. That's less than one day's worth of revenue for the automotive industry. ;-)
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  11.  @eskay2012  Nothing. We will increase prices by a bit, we will increase subsidies by a bit, the world will continue trading in dollars and China will have to devalue the Yuan, again. :-)
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  12. It could have been worse. You always have to keep that in mind. ;-)
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  13. What does China care about interest rates in the US??? That makes zero sense, whatsoever.
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  14.  @BloggerMusicMan  A government that makes its own currency can not run out of money. It may run out of good uses for that money, but the money itself can never be a problem. Compare that to governments that are not in control of their own currencies like Greece. You want to emulate that sh*t show? Why?
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  15. Like what?
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  16.  @terrygibson7143  Venezuela doesn't have any oil to sell. They can't even supply their own population. :-)
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  17.  @terrygibson7143  Yes, that's all very cool. Now if only they had a working drill. ;-)
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  18.  @terrygibson7143  But kid, why don't you like my attention? It's not like anybody in your family is listening to you. ;-)
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  19. The public sector in the US is not competitive with the private sector. It pays very poorly and attracts (except for certain specialists) only people with very limited prospects in the private sector. Would you want to work at the DMV? Why?
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  20.  @MacAutomationTips  DMV is an office job. I have known people in private company offices who made over $100k per year years ago. At the last private company that I worked at everybody was responsible for their own workstation. If they needed something, all they had to do was to ask and if it was reasonable and useful, the company would accommodate it in no time. If your company doesn't work that way, then you need to go to a better company.
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  21. Is that the height of Chinese trolling these days? ;-)
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  22. Xi is gunning for his own legs there. Chinese cuisine depends on pork. CHEAP PORK. Making pork more expensive in China makes little difference to the EU and adds a world of hurt to the poor people of China.
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  23.  @yzy8638  I know that China can't make enough pork to feed the appetite of its people. Tariffs simply make pork more expensive. Every Chinese loses. ;-)
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  24. Who's that?
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  25. Loans China has given to other countries were mostly loans to China. All the belt and road initiative loans went back into the pockets of Chinese companies. It's a hidden Chinese debt problem. On the other hand, at $6000 per capita China's internal loan problem seems manageable. I am not sure if that includes the loans of local governments, which seem to be higher and not covered by revenue.
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  26. @Space Rock I don't see Elon Musk complaining about getting richer by ten billion dollars per month. ;-)
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  27. @Space Rock I don't see the "little" middle class people that I know complaining much, either. COVID was generally good for middle class business. You are, of course, correct. It's good for you that your life sucked before and that it continues to suck... continuity is a good thing. ;-)
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  28. @Space Rock Wow, you are very sensitive. :-)
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  29. @Space Rock I totally got that you need attention. That is why I am giving it to you. ;-)
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  30. @Space Rock I am still here for you, kid.
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  31. Trump will buy it from him for 100 million dollars... to be paid by Elon Musk to Trump. :-)
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  32. Emperor Xi doesn't have any clothes and soon his people will be starving. ;-)
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  33. I don't understand what is stopping China from making EVs in the US. Tesla has been making EVs in China for years. All you are really saying is that the West is more agile in producing in China than China is in producing in the West. That's not good advertisement for China. It shows that China is not competitive, not even at the level of industrial production. ;-)
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  34.  @yzy8638  It takes five years or more to build a modern semiconductor factory... something China simply can't do. ;-)
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  35.  @yzy8638  It takes no time at all for a troll to feel sorry for himself. ;-)
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  36. Nobody knows why Xi does the things he does. Even his analysts fail to see a common theme or appreciable rational strategy. Personally I have come to the conclusion that we have entered another age of irrational politics similar to that before WW I. No matter where you look, Trump, Johnson, Putin, Xi, it's all men of questionable mental capacity. Putin used to be the most rational but something broke in the man. Maybe he got exposed to too much sun while riding bare chested. Xi is a Chinese career politician who only knows one thing: how to rise through the ranks. He never had a real program and Boris Johnson was always an empty gas bag on any level. He was mostly propelled by his hair, which is far superior to that of Theresa May. Trump, on the other hand, just proved that the fear of the Founders was well supported: the voter can not be trusted.
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  37. What did? Monetary policy hasn't changed.
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  38. Yes, so why is China doing this nonsense? It will make pork more expensive to poor Chinese and do nothing about their automobile import problem. The rich in China will continue to drive Mercedes and BMW. That's just how shallow Chinese are. ;-)
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  39. That has never stopped anybody from using a social network. ;-)
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  40. The consumer in the EU gets cheaper pork. Why do Chinese trolls not understand basic economics? Because Xi doesn't understand it, either. ;-)
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  41.  @yzy8638 China can't make a cheap car in Europe. If it could, it would have done it, already. Tesla, OTOH, is making high quality cars both in Europe and China. Tesla is way better than any Chinese car company. ;-)
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  42.  @jacksmith-mu3ee  What's up with the desperate need for attention anyway? Is your Mom partying with a strange new Dad, again? :-)
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  43.  @jacksmith-mu3ee  What's up, Jack? Cold basement today? ;-)
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  44. I like Joe Biden, but he is the master of unforced mistakes.
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  45. What's up with the broken Chinese keyboard? ;-)
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  46. EU farmers are always protesting, come rain or shine. China can't make them do something that they are already doing. ;-)
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  47. Mostly with boredom. Most Muslims either don't care or they are so afraid of their government that nothing will happen. What you are seeing on tv are a few unemployed young men who can't get a wife and are sexually extremely frustrated.
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  48. It has been for many decades. :-)
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  49.  @icecube3645  So you are basically saying that China wants to punish innocent people because it can't get to those that it really wants to attack? That's what really, really weak people do, Dude. :-)
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  50.  @Hellodd99  What are they going to attack next? French bread and Greek olives? ;-)
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  51.  @Hellodd99  Because it will tank the Chinese economy even faster. ;-)
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  52. You can go to WuXi biologics this minute and order e.g. an antibody manufacturing service. Absolutely nobody will stop you. Oh, wait, you don't even know what antibodies are and you don't have a buck fifty to your name. ;-)
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  53. There is no need for developing countries to pay back their debts. They usually just default in the end.
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  54. That's not news.
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  55.  @icecube3645  Yes, Xi is. He will set China back economically by at least 30 years. ;-)
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  56.  @yzy8638  Not according to economists. According to population forecasts which are very precise over these time scales. The real symptom of China's demise is that it can't even fully employ the few young people it has left. :-)
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  57. The last masculine politician was Arnold Schwarzenegger and he is a Democrat. ;-)
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  58.  @nm1978  The Palestinians are returning that stolen land right now and they will be getting out soon. Gaza will finally be free for economic re-development. ;-)
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  59. More and more rich Chinese are enjoying those luxury products outside of China. There is a constant outflux of educated, affluent Chinese. They are taking their children with them. If we want to be nasty, one could say that the rats are leaving the sinking ship. ;-)
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  60. Yes. Just like China has subsidies for solar panels. The EU imports solar panels worth over $25 billion a year. It exports pork to China worth $1.8 billion. It's safe to say that the EU receives more Chinese subsidies due to cheap renewable energy products than China receives from the EU through pork sales. China is such a loser. ;-)
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  61. Top ten pharmaceutical companies in the world by marketcap. Do you see China on the list? I don't. ;-) 1 Eli Lilly LLY $578.3B 🇺🇸 U.S. 2 Novo Nordisk NVO $452.8B 🇩🇰 Denmark 3 Johnson & Johnson JNJ $377.7B 🇺🇸 U.S. 4 Merck MRK $263.9B 🇺🇸 U.S. 5 AbbVie ABBV $261.2B 🇺🇸 U.S. 6 Roche ROG.SW $222.4B 🇨🇭 Switzerland 7 AstraZeneca AZN $212.2B 🇬🇧 UK 8 Novartis NVS $201.1B 🇨🇭 Switzerland 9 Pfizer PFE $181.3B 🇺🇸 U.S. 10 Amgen AMGN $152.0B 🇺🇸 U.S.
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  62. Also trillion dollar AI companies. China still makes mp3 chips for talking dolls, though. Lots and lots of them. :-)
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  63. Most of it went to the rich, as always. Poor people just don't know how to save. ;-)
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  64. An average full stack developer can build a Twitter equivalent in a month, if not less. The problem is to get users to sign up... Meta doesn't have that problem. It already has far more users than Twitter.
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  65. So are you. ;-)
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  66. Israel doesn't have to do anything. They can and will do what they want. Who is going to stop them? Your whining? Get a life.
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  67. You are right. Dr. Bleach all the way next time. ;-)
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  68.  @rsplayervid  What inflation? You mean the supply crunch? Try buying certain things like electronics components. Many are not available. Two years ago I never had a problem buying any quantity of anything I needed. Today I have to redesign entire circuits because I can't buy the components.
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  69. The Chinese never stopped smoking, though. Today they are inhaling Xi's emissions. ;-)
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  70.  @yzy8638  Awh, you are so cute when you are feeling sorry for yourself. ;-)
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  71.  @juanramos8562  Americans will buy whatever Americans will buy. China has no influence over that. At most you are telling me that China's president Xi is clueless about the world economy. It can't be brow-beaten.
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  72.  @Eric-yf2nu  Who does China owe this debt to??? ????
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  73.  @Eric-yf2nu  So you can't even tell me who they owe this money to? Dude. That's lame. :-)
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  74.  @Eric-yf2nu  Ah, it's "ever changing different parties". Very precise information, indeed. Or just plain bullshit. I will go with the latter. :-)
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  75.  @Eric-yf2nu  I simply asked a question and you didn't have an answer. No need to feel sorry for yourself.
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  76. Is that why China destroyed almost all of its very pretty historical buildings to replace them with non-descript Western architecture? ;-)
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  77.  @yzy8638  I have been in China. I have seen the empty and often half-built carbon copies of the same high rise apartment block. ;-)
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  78.  @jacksmith-mu3ee  I am waiting for freedom and democracy in China, too. It's not going to happen. ;-)
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  79. Dude... EU pork exports into China were worth $1.8 billion. That's about two days worth of VW's annual revenue. Most of that went to Spain, Denmark and the Netherlands. Those are three major car manufacturing countries. Oh, wait... did I just do sarcasm on the internet? ;-)
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  80. Please leave the crazy at home. We don't need it over here.
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  81. Oil going up is not inflation. That's supply and demand. It's good for the oil industry, anyway. They have been losing enough money. All that war talk is just your mind on drugs.
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  82. It's already divided into winners and losers. BRICS is just the new name the losers have given themselves. It's a rather poor PR choice, if you ask me. ;-)
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  83.  @xman1533  China's population is shrinking irreversibly (it has 4-2-1-0 families now) and even with that it has youth unemployment rates of 20%. 10% of all young Chinese men will never be able to have a wife and will either be involuntary celibates or will have to resort to prostitution to satisfy their sexual needs (putting millions of poor Chinese women over the course of the 21st century into the world's oldest profession as a consequence). India has a GDP per capita of $2400 (below Bangladesh now) and is ranked around 130th in the world by GDP and PPP per capita. India's poor men are even worse off than Chinas and the Indian sexual slave trade with girls from poor provinces is bar none in the world. Where do you see winners there, exactly? These are highly unstable societies with enormous structural problems that are leading to endless misery. ;-)
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  84. Yes, China assembles high tech products FOR THEM in slave labor facilities owned by Taiwanese billionaires. I can feel China's pain. The economic realities have "humiliation" written all over them. ;-)
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  85. I can't drive what China doesn't bring to the US. Nothing stops Chinese car makers from bringing their products over. Tesla built a Gigafactory in China in less than a year. What stops the Chinese from building one in the US in six months? They are simply admitting that they can't even compete with US innovation when it comes to building production facilities in another country. China is a very large country... of complainers. ;-)
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  86. Twitter was the ultimate dopamine hit model. Where else could you destroy yourself in 140 characters or less? :-)
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