Joel Gross's Blog

Why has no government set a $50b prize for a cure or vaccine for the coronavirus?

Or $1b for the delivery of 10,000 operational ventilators?

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/How-to-respond-to-COVID-19

Instead let better management take over via a streamlined bankruptcy process. American Airlines has been a nightmare for years. Give someone like Richard Branson a chance to buy and run it.

I ordered a rifle a couple of weeks ago from Turner Outdoorsmen in Long Beach. I was going to swing by to pick it up today, so I called in to see if it was ready. They told me it was ready, but there was a 4 hour line in front of the store and they had sold out of all of their ammo.… read more “4 Hour Line At Gun Store In LA, Ammo Shortage”

Here are some of my ideas to stop or slow the spread of the coronavirus / covid 19:

Waive all rent and mortgage payments through the end of the year.

Fine anyone who does not have a good reason to be out $200.

Any company that can have employees work remotely and chooses not to should be legally liable to those employees if they should become ill.… read more “Coronavirus Law Ideas”

I am trying to automate some of my investing actions to make it easier by using the interactive brokers API. I actually really like the model of asynchronous programming, but I am slow at it. I also decide to learn a new way of storing data. I am using pandas instead of sql this time. I also could not use my usual language of PHP and have to use Python.… read more “TWS API”

For years I have been saying that the markets are way overpriced and should come down. I have had most of my money and bonds and things like that for the last four years and missed out on the big run up in the market. However, a few weeks ago I decided the market was totally unsustainable and ended up putting a third of all my investments into puts on the most overpriced stocks in the market.… read more “Lucky Timing”

I find myself doing a lot more math for business now. Not easy accounting math. Math like multiple variable power regression analysis. I really wish I’d understood more in school and paid more attention and had someone that showed me the practical purpose of math.