Walter Reed to close?

A Hospital Closes Because Staff Don’t Want To Walk Too Much?

Apparently WRAMC is built on land owned by the District of Columbia. In an effort to subsidize the over-budget subway system, the city purposefully disallowed sufficient parking spaces to be built on the WRAMC site. The idea was to force staff to take the subway to WRAMC. The closest subway is a 20 minute walk from the hospital.

I’m not interested in the argument set forth by the author but more so by the closure of Walter Reed. I am 100% for green efforts especially for federal services but considering that the medical staff is on their feet all day long makes for a compelling argument to make the hospital more accessible. I’m not so sure the author of this article understands what is physically required from the staff and patients.

Today is the first day of school. I’ll be taking an intro to chem class this semester at a local community college, I am concerned about taking a class on the semester system since it would overlap with my Spring quarter at UCSD come March. The positive side is that this is an intro to chem class and not Chem I, which would make it less distracting from my upper division work at UCSD. It has been over 6 years since I’ve taken chemistry and I fell just 8% short of passing the districts petition test which would have allowed me to go directly to Chem I. It is a bit depressing to be spending time in an intro class when I have so much course work to complete, I hope the 16 weeks I’ll spend in class & lab will pay off come Chem I.

I feel fortunate to be a student in such an economy. I have been an equities and derivatives trader for over 5 years and was very fortunate to have worked with some very talented quantitative traders  during the long bull market and subsequent correction. I subscribe to various regression theories and the following image is what I consider to be an accurate analysis of market prospects. (click for larger image)

Room to fall

I better stop before I turn this into a finance blog

I have one last tidbit to share however: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2187rank.html

The US is now at the bottom of the world wide list of account balances.