Keeping one’s distance//forwardation; a Masque Judith Goldman
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The eye has never seen, nor the h& touched a dollar.
A. M. Innes, “The Credit Theory of Money”
Or perhaps it is a misunderstanding to peel back skin in order to bare the mechanics of the mirage.
Rosmarie Waldrop, The Reproduction of Profiles
Distance is not a safety-zone but a field of tension.
Theodor Adorno, “Keeping one’s distance,” Minima Moralia
The metrics right here! That’s my metrics. That’s all I can do.
_______, pointing to his head, White House press conference, April 10, 2020
They had supposed this Pit would have supply’d them for a Month or more…
Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year
Nobody wants oil in May
there is hardly anywhere to put it. That’s why speculators // who held contracts for May delivery, // to sell to refineries at the last minute // were left with few options // but to swallow the losses
There’s no available storage anymore // So when it’s minus //
a dollar, they’ll pay you a dollar
crude futures turned // negative, falling below zero
collapse in demand
contract for future delivery at a price premium
you were always planning to sell it to someone else, you // don't really want oil yourself Lots of people want oil // The buyers come, the oil // comes barreling through
To contract future delivery
silent symptoms // or delayed, unusually deferred, but like a barrel // of oil
showing up on your doorstep //
a barrel of laughs
if it has to go, you're going to take a much lower price than you want// you might
even have to pay someone to haul it away
How far the viral cloud // when you laugh // extends
The viral cloud lingers in the air
Touching an object or surface & then touching your mouth nose or eyes
To fix // market inefficiencies
The sweet spot With or without mask the sell price or // the buy price
United States Economic Impact Payment Card Program Fee Schedule
Get cash surcharge-free at any in-network ATM
Out-of-network ATM $2.00This is our fee. We waive this fee for your first ATM Withdrawal You may also be charged a fee by the ATM operator, even // if you do not complete a transaction
The stimulus check is not a loan //
It is An Advance refund of next year’s // tax credit
But you may need your stimulus check to pay your taxes
the IRS sent the money // to a bank Citi Tax works with
the customers had not heard of //
Your Economic Impact Payment may have been directed // to the bank account associated with the refund settlement product or prepaid debit card
The bank sent the payments back to the IRS.
did his taxes through TurboTax, which charged him $80, according to his receipt //
unable to afford that upfront he paid another fee, $40 more, for TurboTax to use his refund // to pay what he owed them
H&R Block’s Emerald Card //
block child payment // because one or more parents is an immigrant
Updated May 6, 2020. The IRS has provided instructions for returning stimulus payments made to deceased taxpayers
The Social Security Administration maintains a Death Master File
But the Fed isn’t an ordinary bondholder prepared to accept higher levels of death
But the Fed isn’t an ordinary bondholder: // By law, it has to pay its profits to // the Treasury
when the Treasury makes payments on bonds held by the Fed —
by paying interest or paying it off at maturity —
almost all the money // moves back to the Treasury // cash
moves from one pocket to another // The Federal Reserve buys the government bonds //
to support // smooth // market functioning
The running of the factory machines // is very limited today
to tour a facility that makes medical swabs //swabs manufactured in the background will be thrown in the trash, the company said // Swabs produced during that time will be //
discarded
workers in // white lab coats, hair nets, & plastic booties worked at machines making swabs // _______ walked through the room
He did not wear a mask for the visit
while other countries have flattened // the curve //
the United States may be prepared to accept higher levels of // death
bulk contracts // to third-party vendors // nurses wearing garbage bags // I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute // injection inside or almost a cleaning // the United States //may be prepared to ration care //
supposing you brought light inside the body, either through the skin or //
some other way //
in April, _______ held up a medical swab alongside a Q-Tip he pulled from his jacket pocket //_______ said swabs & chemical reagents needed for tests are so easy to get
Bare-faced, _______ toured a distribution facility in Pennsylvania that specializes in medical supplies.
Bare-faced, _______ toured a Honeywell plant in Arizona that produces N95 respirator masks
that Honeywell told the White House that Trump & his entourage didn’t need to wear masks.
I asked specifically the head of Honeywell, Should I wear a mask? // & he said, Well, you don’t need one
At the Honeywell plant _______ toured, many employees of the company wore masks. _______’s video showed those employees wearing masks, but he & the executives did not wear them
_______ wore safety goggles during the factory tour but did not wear a mask, //
even though production workers at the facility did / /& a sign was visible that read: Attention: Face Mask Required in this Area. Thank You!
What is the main part of the discourse // what goes in parentheses
Is hoarding aggressive or // passive aggressive
$1 bottles of Purell on Amazon for $8-$70 each
There’s looting & then there’s looting Use hand Sanitizer for corporate handouts
as persons // with no corpus
quid pro quo of a general substance
hand sanitizer changes hands, // a foreign currency
when we sanitize for 10x the price
upcharging or a sharp markup // Sellers like to sell forward
also to shortsell during a shortage
supply & demand, the sell //
price & the buy price // something not real embedded in // the real
Give me a quote
robbing the same to pay the same
when citing a price no longer in debt to itself, the object //
shifts across contexts,
suggesting new aspects // of the supposed state of things
the opportunity cost as though a living substance //
atomized lifeforce of hand sanitizer
the good is detached from the seller’s world &// attached to that of // the buyer
antibacterial wipes puts paid
When _______ visits a Ford manufacturing plant in Michigan on Thursday, everyone at the facility // will be required // to wear a mask
Whether _______ wears one himself remains to be
Face masks are required to be worn by everyone, in all facilities, at all times, the document reads
Under the section Who needs to wear a face mask? the document states ALL Ford employees, agency, visitors, contractors & vendors Face masks will be provided upon // entry & must be worn at all times //_______ on Thursday did //
not wear a mask for coronavirus protection // during the public part of touring a Ford Motor Co. plant in Michigan, // despite a state law & company policy requiring // facial coverings there
to bet on price // movements with no intention // of taking delivery
what is a hedge a parenthetical remark // a write-off
For what would the future be, // if it could not be something other
than the future?
Man Charged in Scheme to Sell 125 Million Nonexistent Masks
attempting to sell millions of nonexistent respirator masks to the government
// millions of genuine 3M masks //
however a lawyer for the company said it does not // manufacture masks at those sites
unmask, v. (used with object)
to strip a mask or disguise from // to reveal the true character of; disclose; expose // Military. to reveal the presence of, // by firing
unmask, v. (used without object)
to put off one's mask; appear in true // nature
Wearing swim goggles instead of face shields
50 states // all trying to buy the same equipment // then the federal government tries to purchase the same equipment
is when somebody else outbids you, your order just is gone
have sent costs skyrocketing // prices // officials bidding against one another to acquire // in a
offering a much higher price // to pay 15x the usual price
the government has said, // You've got to get out there & compete
_______ tweeted some states & hospitals have insatiable appetites & are never // satisfied
Sometimes when they know they don’t need it, they // want it anyway, _______ said
that the county was told the surgical face masks would be delivered that day, // but that the federal government had taken the N-95 masks // told the government had taken the entire 35,000-mask order
Try getting it yourselves, _______ said
A promise binds a future it cannot // bind // Quantitative
easing it is pageantry to
oil is socially // distanced from its // price
Its barreled body the reflection of something disembodied
no one is taking delivery //
no one is reading the playbook
How do supply & demand// create an equilibrium price? //
Also called a market-clearing price, // herd immunity price //
the law of supply says that at higher prices, sellers will // supply more of an economic good
until the market finds // an equilibrium price
If prior infection prevents a second // infection
as the price of a good goes up, // so does the opportunity cost of buying that good
When they are asymptomatic, people will naturally avoid purchasing a product
Hedging
Oil on a respirator // oil as non-essential essential worker // oil on guaranteed minimum income // oil, with qualified immunity
The United States could begin purchasing U.S.-produced crude oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
the Reserve can take an additional 77 million barrels of crude.
_______ has ordered the Energy Department to fill the reserve “to the top”
There’s looting & then there’s looting
A headstart on the future //
In a formal calculative space // control arrangement // astroturfing
days run together // inside the brackets //
In arrears
America is open // for business // but we need
To disinfect the point of sale
Point of sale // point of contact // contact tracing
How many contact // hours not
touching // the touchscreen
if what makes the present pass is lacking, prorogued
& if you are outstanding in its retraction
The seller pays // the buyer to take it
For its value is nothing // but the force of the buyer’s attachment
sanitizer // mammon // asset // at the Michigan capitol // chambers a round
Suppose the distance reduced to zero, that is to say that the object to be perceived coincides with our body
Whatever the polls direct // when the disinfectedfuture comes due
This is the break-even price // moratorium
on evictions price, the price at which to // print
The money, // print the money // print the money // print the money // print the money //
print the money // print the money // //