Notes From All Over -- Part 2 -- October 9, 2020

If I purposely check the stock market, I post at least a quick note on the blog. I haven't purposely checked the market in several weeks. When it gets crazy on the down side, I quit watching until the dust settles. Today, I finally looked when I saw the Xilinx story. I was curious. When did I last check out the market. Doing a google search on the blog the last time I posted the word "Dow" was September 15, 2020.

I can't recall if it was before that or after that, probably after, I bought some shares in something "on margin" I would get a lot of dividends in late September. I don't know how that turned out. It's all for the grandchildren decades from now. 

But, wow, the market is again, doing well. 

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Idle Ciphering

The number of cases is quite irrelevant but it is what it, so let's take a look.

Weekly new cases per 100,000 people in North Dakota, link here: 346 / 100,000.

Population of North Dakota: 762,062

Working backwards: 2,637 weekly new cases in North Dakota.

Population:

• Fargo: 124,844
• Grand Forks: 56,948
• Bismarck: 73,000
• Mandan: 22,519
• Minot: 47,370
• Dickinson: 22,739
• Williston: 27,096

Fargo/Bismarck: 197,844

• 2,637 / 197,844 = 1,323 / 100,000

Fargo/Bismarck/Grand Forks: = 254,792

• 2,637 / 254,792 = 1,036 / 100,000

Fargo/Bismarck/Grand Forks/Minot = 302,162

• 2,637 / 302,162 = 873 / 100,000