America Is Back, Baby!: World Exchanges Melt Down on Slowing US Economy

Happy New Week!

I know the interest in Sh3lving Phas3 Thr33, "PROJ3CT OAKTR33" (new name) is intense and intensifying. I wanted to update: A minor part of Phas3, building a minor booksh3lf, has been compl3t3d with minimal damage. I mean, some damage. Obviously. But minor damage.

Bonus damage is a built-in feature of my construction style.

But meanwhile, the main proj3ct has 3xpand3d in ambition, power, and maj3sty: instead of being two double rows of Ikea shelves (that is, two rows of two shelves connected by a GRANHULT connecter), the proj3ct will now be two rows of tripl3 shelv3s, thr33 shelv3s conn3cted by two conn3ctors each, the length of almost the whole wall.

It will be a Sh3lving Paradis3 hitherto undr3am3d!

Plus, I'm putting up special sp3cial 3xtra bonus sh3lf hanging out below the Main Sh3lving Ass3mbly. For vitamins and suppl3m3nts and things of this natur3.

The last pi3ces of this pi3c3 d3 r3sistanc3 will be delivered Thursday, allowing a w33k3nd build. I will try to get most of my work for Friday done on Thursday, allowing liv3 sh3lving updat3s throughout the day!

To be done pre-build:

1. Find and mark the studs
1.a. Pre-preparation: find my stud-finder. Or, find both of them, and then figure out which is the one that actually works. Then finally throw out the one that doesn't work.

2. Find my stupid saw so I can cut these sh3lves to custom l3ngth. I have literally no idea where this could be, which is weird, because it's a saw and isn't easily misplaceable.

3. Figure out which button makes the drill go forward. Alternately, figure out which button makes the drill go backwards and then order special backwards-threaded screws from Chy-na.

So that's my 3conomy, Jack!

But what about the national economy?

Best economy in history, Fat!

The NYT has a sad:

A sell-off in markets around the world turned into a rout on Monday as investors grew panicky about signs of a slowing American economy, with stocks tumbling across Asia and Europe.
The moves were a sharp reversal in the world's major markets, which for much of the past year have risen to new heights, propelled by optimism about cooling inflation, solid labor markets and the promise of artificial intelligence technology.
The declines were especially pronounced in Japan, where fears about the economy added to other concerns about the damage a strengthening yen could do to corporate profits.
The Nikkei 225 index fell 12.4 percent. It was the benchmark index's biggest one-day point decline, larger than the plunge during the Black Monday stock market crash in October 1987. The Topix index, which includes companies that represent a broad swath of Japan's economy, fell 12.2 percent.
The unease spread to Europe, where the Pan-European Stoxx index fell more than 2 percent in early trading, with every major market on the continent recording declines.

American markets are crashing, too.

And analysts are now speaking of the "Sahm rule," a rule that has successfully predicted every recession for the past 54 years.

Stocks plunged on Monday as U.S. recession fears caused turmoil throughout the global markets.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 1,000 points, while the Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 also fell by 5% and 3.7%, respectively.
A weak jobs report and shrinking manufacturing activity in the world's largest economy, coupled with dismal forecasts from the big technology firms, pushed the Nasdaq 100 and Nasdaq Composite into a correction last week.

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The weak jobs data also triggered what is known as the "Sahm Rule," seen by many as a historically accurate recession indicator.
"The July jobs report is being viewed as a recession warning, and the markets are responding accordingly," said Bill Adams, chief economist at the Dallas-based Comerica Bank.
With the jobless rate unexpectedly rising, the so-called Sahm rule is now in play. Named after former Federal Reserve economist Claudia Sahm, the rule has successfully predicted every recession since 1970.

It stipulates that the economy is in the early stages of a recession when the three-month moving average of the jobless rate is at least a half-percentage point higher than the 12-month low. Over the past three months, the unemployment rate has averaged 4.13%, which is 0.63 percentage points higher than the 3.5% rate recorded in July 2023, crossing that threshold.
Big Wall Street brokerages also revised their Fed rate projections for 2024 to show greater policy easing by the central bank.

So the Fed will begin cutting interest rates to try to stave off the recession. But this, of course, will lead to further rising inflation. High interest rates dampen inflation but also dampen economic growth; low inflation rates spur growth, but also spur inflation.

"The Best Economy In History, Jack!" may now be in the same place as Carter's economy in the seventies, in which there were literally no good moves to make. In a "stagflation" economy, which features the worst of both worlds, low growth and high inflation, you can't cut interest rates to spur growth because that will increase the inflation which is already too high, and you can't raise rates to slow inflation because that will tank an already-weak economy.

A new Rasmussen survey finds that the real unemployment rate is around double what the Regime admits it to be.

And it might be four times more than what the Regime admits.

Rasmussen surveyed nearly 9,000 American adults and found that in July the percentage of Americans who are unemployed and looking for work -- this is the number that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) should report each month -- was 8.4%. The BLS reported a rosy 4.3% unemployment rate last month, up from June's equally imaginary 4.1%.

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Nearly one in 10 work for the government at one level or another. Those workers are supported entirely by tax dollars without producing any material wealth. Every government employee involved in regulation makes it harder for the rest of us to do so.
If you've been keeping track of these numbers in your head, you might notice they don't add up to anything close to 100%. About three percent of adults surveyed answered "not sure" about their employment situation, the kind of answer that I assume involves smoking weed. The remaining 9.7% said they were unemployed but not looking -- i.e., "Not in Workforce."
That means the percentage of Americans who could be working and perhaps would really like to be working but either can't find work or have given up finding work is 18.1%. That's more than four times the official unemployment rate.

I've got good news for everyone, though: Kamala's got this. She will direct all of her expertise and skill to solving this insolvable problem.

Bidenomics is working!

At the beginning of August last year, Kamala Harris praised a jobs report as being an example of "Bidenomics" at work. The term was co-opted by the Biden administration as a means of countering what Republicans were saying about the weak economy. Every good bit of news that came out, they took credit for.
"Bidenomics is working," she said at the time, letting the Biden-Harris administration take credit for the economy that month.

US Vice President Kamala Harris hailed the latest jobs report and praised ‘Bidenomics’ at an event in Washington, D.C. https://t.co/jcAkCvNndL pic.twitter.com/FAaTlsLc9a
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 4, 2023

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:06 PM

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1 Interesting, ace, but where do you stand on the issue of men wearing shorts in public?

Posted by: bed head at August 05, 2024 12:07 PM (Y1sOo)

2 It's Acetime!

Posted by: m at August 05, 2024 12:07 PM (64Zez)

3 Also, FIRST, bitches

Posted by: bed head at August 05, 2024 12:08 PM (Y1sOo)

4 They will find a way to blame this on Trump, somehow.

Posted by: IC - #FJB at August 05, 2024 12:08 PM (ZtyUu)

5 Not frist.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at August 05, 2024 12:08 PM (MkuC5)

6 DAMN YOU, TRUMP!

IT'S ALL HIS FAULT!

Posted by: The Establishment Media! at August 05, 2024 12:08 PM (uxCna)

7 >>>* Find and mark the studs

Easy layup.

Posted by: m at August 05, 2024 12:08 PM (64Zez)

8 Otters and other furries summoned.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at August 05, 2024 12:09 PM (MkuC5)

9 Monday comes from the French, Mon Ami.

Given the name by King Louis III when he had to come up with an excuse why he said it to his lover instead of his wife.

"Well, that's just the day."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 05, 2024 12:09 PM (GBKbO)

10 * Find and mark the studs
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I'm right here, boss.

But no permanent marks. No tats or piercings. A sharpie will do just fine, and will fade with time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:09 PM (HnUIn)

11 Does Axios have a headline up about how this will help Kamala?

Posted by: huerfano at August 05, 2024 12:09 PM (VGOMa)

12 Why is it always Monday?
Hi Ace.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 05, 2024 12:09 PM (t/2Uw)

13 We're screwed.

Only question is if the upcoming fraud is enough to keep us in misery.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 05, 2024 12:09 PM (N1DT3)

14 This recession and the border. That is all Trump should talk about.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 05, 2024 12:09 PM (vsXBg)

15 >>>Plus, I'm putting up special sp3cial 3xtra bonus sh3lf hanging out below the Main Sh3lving Ass3mbly. For vitamins and suppl3m3nts and things of this natur3.

You know the rules, Ace. Pics or it didn't happen.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 05, 2024 12:10 PM (w6EFb)

16 Afternoon, Ace! You missed all the apparel talk on earlier threads today: Bras, shorts, flip-flops, walking sticks...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 12:10 PM (v6JzV)

17 Women and children hardest hit!

Posted by: huerfano at August 05, 2024 12:10 PM (VGOMa)

18 Good afternoon Ace

Posted by: Skip at August 05, 2024 12:10 PM (5W5mu)

19 My hair wasn't on fire until I just saw that Jim Cramer tweeted today that the problem is only one of confidence, not data. Guess I'd better start looking for a job right quick.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 05, 2024 12:11 PM (s9EYN)

20 In the 1980s, it took double-digit interest rates to kill the inflation. America 2024 has no stomach for that strong medicine. We'd rather continue on a course of controlled flight into terrain.

Posted by: Filesystem /gp Corrupted at August 05, 2024 12:11 PM (lyfYv)

21 The last pi3ces of this pi3c3 d3 r3sistanc3 will be delivered Thursday, allowing a w33k3nd build. I will try to get most of my work for Friday done on Thursday, allowing liv3 sh3lving updat3s throughout the day!

Oooh, this should be good.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 05, 2024 12:11 PM (DRSnL)

22 Kamala Krash!!!

Posted by: Archer at August 05, 2024 12:11 PM (IDphi)

23 Meanwhile...
In the Middle East, all out war could exacerbate an already dire economic situation by cutting off oil supply from the region.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 05, 2024 12:11 PM (t/2Uw)

24 Kamala will unburden what little saving you have left from what has been.

Posted by: brak at August 05, 2024 12:11 PM (25k9m)

25 US markets say, "Ok, steady, steady...."

Japanese markets say, "Hold my beer"

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at August 05, 2024 12:11 PM (MkuC5)

26 Destination fucked. So much for selling our house for profit.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 05, 2024 12:11 PM (tlsIq)

27 Someone should ask Kamala to explain why Joe's markets are crashing. The response would be hilarious.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 05, 2024 12:11 PM (/U5Yz)

28 Interesting that Iran appears to be in no hurry to launch the expected war with Israel.

Hamas is being crushed, so they've lost that ally, and it apparently has occurred to the Iranian leadership that they may not survive the war.

(A mass purge of the Revolutionary Guard is underway, to find the traitors who allowed the Hamasoid to get whacked.)

Posted by: The Establishment Media! at August 05, 2024 12:12 PM (uxCna)

29 My investment portfolio has been unburdened of what it once was ...

#KookoonutKommie-laCrash

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at August 05, 2024 12:12 PM (AGgwT)

30 My bad.

"Ok, st3ady, st3ady...."

"Hold my b33r"

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at August 05, 2024 12:12 PM (MkuC5)

31 Only question is if the upcoming fraud is enough to keep us in misery.

STEINER WILL COME

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 05, 2024 12:12 PM (m7sTw)

32 propelled by optimism about cooling inflation, solid labor markets and the promise of artificial intelligence technology.

And tulips.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 05, 2024 12:12 PM (i/TyL)

33 Taxes are going up next year due to the expiration of the PDT tax cuts. Perhaps the rates going up next year is part of the reason there's a sell-off on Wall Street.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2024 12:13 PM (tT6L1)

34 Women and children hardest hit!
Posted by: huerfano at August 05, 2024 12:10 PM (VGOMa)

You must limit the beating stick to the width of your pinky.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2024 12:13 PM (0eaVi)

35 A weak jobs report and shrinking manufacturing activity in the world's largest economy, coupled with dismal forecasts from the big technology firms, pushed the Nasdaq 100 and Nasdaq Composite into a correction last week.
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*All* of the major indices suffer from this weakness. The Nasdaq is the worst last time I checked, but they all have the problem. We have a handful of companies with stupendous influence on the indices because most firms are lumbering zombies with only a few with real - and stupendous - profits. They carry a *lot* of weight in the indices. Add in the AI bubble and it gets worse.

The small-cap Russel 2000 is a much broader index at a different economic sector, and a sector which is historically a major growth component (midsize enterprise is responsible for a ton of innovation and employment). The Russel is up on a one-month comparison - albeit barely. The five-day comparison, though, is down almost 10%, though trying to rebound as is normal after a major sell-off.

Don't get too caught up in the stock market generally and in the Big Three indices in particular. The top is weird because everything is dislocated.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:13 PM (HnUIn)

36 Rumor has it that Senator Sherrod Brown wants to stay so far away from Kamala Harris that he's planning for an extended vacation in Patagonia right after Labor Day.

Posted by: mrp at August 05, 2024 12:13 PM (rj6Yv)

37 I'll wear shorts but not cargo shorts.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 05, 2024 12:13 PM (MeG8a)

38 I understand perfectly about your misplaced saw. I live in a condo with three closets and misplace stuff all the time.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 05, 2024 12:13 PM (t/2Uw)

39 Someone should ask Kamala to explain why Joe's markets are crashing. The response would be hilarious.

I'M NOT ANSWERING QUESTIONS FROM ANYONE ABOUT ANYTHING, BUSTER!

Posted by: Kamala The Terrible! at August 05, 2024 12:13 PM (uxCna)

40 I fear another crash is in the near future.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 05, 2024 12:13 PM (LkLld)

41 propelled by optimism about cooling inflation, solid labor markets and the promise of artificial intelligence technology.

And tulips.

plus green jobs and that "energy transition"

Posted by: brak at August 05, 2024 12:13 PM (25k9m)

42 * Find my stupid saw so I can cut these sh3lves to custom l3ngth. I have literally no idea where this could be, which is weird, because it's a saw and isn't easily misplaceable.

---------------------------------

I've got a sure-fire method for locating anything missing:

Go buy a new one.

Guaranteed the missing item will magically appear (once you can no longer return what you just bought)

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at August 05, 2024 12:13 PM (F4bAW)

43 3003s

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 05, 2024 12:13 PM (m7sTw)

44 Gold is down by $27 so far. Doesn't make sense.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 05, 2024 12:14 PM (/U5Yz)

45 Count me among the unemployed. Caught in a layoff due to slowing business (amongst other things). I'm fine with it though, as things were getting too DEI-ish. Not old enough to retire, seeing my 401K portfolios taking a hit right now. Oh well, such is life.

Best Economy EVA!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:14 PM (ynpvh)

46 33 Taxes are going up next year due to the expiration of the PDT tax cuts. Perhaps the rates going up next year is part of the reason there's a sell-off on Wall Street.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2024 12:13 PM (tT6L1)

Nah.

44% capital gains tax plus an additional unrealized gains tax won't hurt at all.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at August 05, 2024 12:14 PM (MkuC5)

47 36 Rumor has it that Senator Sherrod Brown wants to stay so far away from Kamala Harris that he's planning for an extended vacation in Patagonia right after Labor Day.
Posted by: mrp at August 05, 2024 12:13 PM (rj6Yv)

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But she's gonna sweep PA right next door!

(Well...Philly...)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 05, 2024 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

48 So Trump rally in Atlanta caused market to crash, right?

Posted by: Ripley at August 05, 2024 12:14 PM (GUOwU)

49 Good afternoon all!
Trump has been jumping off the top rope on the Regime all morning long about the economy.
Trump Cash vs. Kamala Crash. Pithy

Posted by: Jmel at August 05, 2024 12:14 PM (qL7Xt)

50 Of course this will likely cause the Fed to drop rates sooner rather than later. Selfishly I rather they didn't .

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 12:14 PM (B1dzx)

51 I would pay money to see the look on ace's face as he searched for a way to make a three with an acute accent mark....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2024 12:14 PM (VoAdT)

52
43 3003s

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 05, 2024 12:13 PM (m7sTw)

58008

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:15 PM (ynpvh)

53
Alternate post title:

This Is Why Fake News Wants To Talk Only About Trump Calling Camelface "Not Black"

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 05, 2024 12:15 PM (bJEkt)

54 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 2h
JUST IN - TRUMP: 'STOCK MARKETS ARE CRASHING, JOBS NUMBERS ARE TERRIBLE, WE ARE HEADING TO WORLD WAR lll, AND WE HAVE TWO OF THE MOST INCOMPETENT “LEADERS” IN HISTORY. THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!'

David Sacks @DavidSacks 12h
Are we allowed to use the word “bloodbath” again yet?

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 12:15 PM (i0CiB)

55 Good luck on shelving project Ace, you know if you got questions you can ask here

Posted by: Skip at August 05, 2024 12:15 PM (5W5mu)

56 >>Oooh, this should be good.

Posted by: bed head at August 05, 2024 12:15 PM (Y1sOo)

57 Trump said pussy.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 05, 2024 12:15 PM (y1Cv5)

58 Obviously, we need to print moar money!

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 05, 2024 12:15 PM (FmapG)

59 Dem political consultants are preparing their candidates for the Big Event by sending each Dem politico a Director's Cut DVD of "Being There".

Posted by: mrp at August 05, 2024 12:15 PM (rj6Yv)

60 Doug Emhoff's ex-wife put out a statement absolving him from knocking up the nanny.

Guess who hasn't put out a statement absolving him.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 05, 2024 12:15 PM (uxCna)

61 Zim, "Girr! Cue up the Doom song!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 05, 2024 12:15 PM (yTqdG)

62 It stipulates that the economy is in the early stages of a recession when the three-month moving average of the jobless rate is at least a half-percentage point higher than the 12-month low. Over the past three months, the unemployment rate has averaged 4.13%, which is 0.63 percentage points higher than the 3.5% rate recorded in July 2023, crossing that threshold.
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Good grief. Everything is fake and gay. Everyone knows that.

The unemployment rate is fake. Fed omnipotence is fake. Corporate profits are fake. GDP is fake.

The yield curve is still *deeply* inverted and has been for months on end. That's a recession indicator, too.

We are in a recession. Go subtract the deficit from GDP - nominal, current-dollar terms - and see what happens. Spoiler alert: it's negative a lot of the time. Our "growth" - even our "stability" - is as fake and gay as the rest of it. It's all borrowed. Every last penny of it and then some. None of it is real.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:15 PM (HnUIn)

63 Remember??

Steve Guest @SteveGuest 2h
JOE BIDEN LAST WEEK: “I cured the economy.”
🤡

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 12:15 PM (i0CiB)

64 Not to worry, comrades -- the stock market and eventual coming economic crashes will be transitory!

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at August 05, 2024 12:16 PM (iW/cS)

65 64 Not to worry, comrades -- the stock market and eventual coming economic crashes will be transitory!
Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at August 05, 2024 12:16 PM (iW/cS)

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The solar system is transitory on a long enough timeline.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 05, 2024 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

66 Trump proposes dropping income tax on social security benefits. Wall Street Journal has spontaneous abortion.

Take 15% of my pay for my entire life, spend it on hookers and blow, give me less than zero ROI, and tax me when you have to give it back?

WSJ = Hive of Scum and Villainy

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at August 05, 2024 12:16 PM (MkuC5)

67 54 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 2h
JUST IN - TRUMP: 'STOCK MARKETS ARE CRASHING, JOBS NUMBERS ARE TERRIBLE, WE ARE HEADING TO WORLD WAR lll, AND WE HAVE TWO OF THE MOST INCOMPETENT “LEADERS” IN HISTORY. THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!'

David Sacks @DavidSacks 12h
Are we allowed to use the word “bloodbath” again yet?

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 12:15 PM (i0CiB)

I approve of those.

Posted by: Elizabeth Bathory de Ecsed at August 05, 2024 12:16 PM (ynpvh)

68
Coconutnomics

Coconomics?

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 05, 2024 12:16 PM (bJEkt)

69 Ikea makes Erector Sets for Betas, right?

Posted by: garrett at August 05, 2024 12:16 PM (BwNH5)

70 Someone mentioned that "Kamala's Crash" was #1 trend on X.

But, no worries!
She takes inflation seriously because it's a serious issue that affects many Americans who can't afford thing like they used to because the prices have gone up so that's a very important issue that they struggle with which is why she takes it very seriously.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 05, 2024 12:16 PM (XBPvm)

71 Gold is down by $27 so far. Doesn't make sense.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 05, 2024 12:14 PM (/U5Y

The market never makes sense. Its movement is based on flawed humans.

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 12:17 PM (B1dzx)

72 We can atleast sleep wil knowing all fund managers and politicians probably got out of the market at about 2PM on Friday.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 05, 2024 12:17 PM (RVCJO)

73 You must limit the beating stick to the width of your pinky.

Where do I start with that one?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 05, 2024 12:17 PM (obk/l)

74 So Trump rally in Atlanta caused market to crash, right?

The failure to successfully assassinate Trump caused the market to crash.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 05, 2024 12:17 PM (uxCna)

75 So.. Ace can't see his saw?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2024 12:17 PM (0eaVi)

76 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 2h
JUST IN - TRUMP: 'STOCK MARKETS ARE CRASHING, JOBS NUMBERS ARE TERRIBLE, WE ARE HEADING TO WORLD WAR lll, AND WE HAVE TWO OF THE MOST INCOMPETENT “LEADERS” IN HISTORY. THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!'

David Sacks @DavidSacks 12h
Are we allowed to use the word “bloodbath” again yet?
Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 12:15 PM (i0CiB)

Trump must be referring to Barry and Kamala.

Posted by: mrp at August 05, 2024 12:17 PM (rj6Yv)

77 It appears every time Joe opens his mouth to take credit for something, within a matter of days, the exact opposite happens.

I think the DNC needs to figure out a way to muzzle Dementia Joe.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2024 12:17 PM (tT6L1)

78 So the Fed will begin cutting interest rates to try to stave off the recession. But this, of course, will lead to further rising inflation. High interest rates dampen inflation but also dampen economic growth; low inflation rates spur growth, but also spur inflation.
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I'm going to continue being on the other side of this one. We *might* - in a nakedly political pandering move - get one tiny cut. But I doubt even that. The Fed is going to try to avoid *raising* rates to be sure, but I doubt we're going to see any meaningful cuts.

The Fed will either defend the dollar or watch the entire world order crash. Historically, the Fed defends the dollar, and Powell is a Fed traditionalist. The next chairman may move this into an "all bets are off" scenario, but right now I'm standing by my assumption.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:17 PM (HnUIn)

79
biden BEAT the economy

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 05, 2024 12:17 PM (bJEkt)

80 ‘ Rumor has it that Jackson wore shorts at Chancellorsville. Big mistake!’

That’s why the Confederate pickets mistook him for a Yankee.

BLAM!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 05, 2024 12:17 PM (jbnUc)

81 I'm sure Kahmahlah has this completely covered. Right after the line dance with the kiddies and the cackling about how to be a b*tch are done.

Aaaaanny minute now ......

Posted by: shred21 at August 05, 2024 12:17 PM (VdLpC)

82 55 Good luck on shelving project Ace, you know if you got questions you can ask here
Posted by: Skip at August 05, 2024 12:15 PM (5W5mu)

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Though most responses will be some variation of "slap hot iron to it".

Hot iron - it's not just for medicine anymore!

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at August 05, 2024 12:17 PM (F4bAW)

83 Also. Good Morning.

And.

The Rate Cutting is going to make things worse.

Posted by: garrett at August 05, 2024 12:18 PM (BwNH5)

84 Somewhere, I suspect there's an AoSHQ backup server done in an old school dialup BBS sorta way, and many of Ace's posts read like the opening above.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 05, 2024 12:18 PM (qFZnV)

85 60 Doug Emhoff's ex-wife put out a statement absolving him from knocking up the nanny.
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Obviously, nanny's really like putting out and have no standards what so ever.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 05, 2024 12:18 PM (FmapG)

86 57 Trump said pussy.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 05, 2024 12:15 PM (y1Cv5)

He said Pithy?

Posted by: Mike Tyson at August 05, 2024 12:18 PM (ynpvh)

87 Could Joe have ever explained Bidenomics? Could Kamala?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 05, 2024 12:18 PM (FfSAJ)

88 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 05, 2024 12:18 PM (Zz0t1)

89 Has the team of plasterers been dispatched to the Ace Cave yet to fix the holes, divots, and dents from this phase of shelving project? That economic activity alone could pull the economy out of the doldrums.

Posted by: Market Watch at August 05, 2024 12:18 PM (CV8a5)

90 It will be a Sh3lving Paradis3 hitherto undr3am3d!

Standard rules apply, no?

Pics or it didn't happen?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 05, 2024 12:18 PM (Zz0t1)

91 Just think, Joe could almost carry off a press conference using pre recorded answers to questions submitted in advance.

Kamala isn't even able to do that.

Yay us.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2024 12:18 PM (tT6L1)

92 69 Ikea makes Erector Sets for Betas, right?

Posted by: garrett at August 05, 2024 12:16 PM (BwNH5)

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:19 PM (ynpvh)

93
Flashback:

here's biden, 5 years ago, giving advice on how to raise kids:

https://youtu.be/EgFIzPLh71w?si=C-9S6_9OykBeXQ1L&t=17

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 05, 2024 12:19 PM (bJEkt)

94 Doom! Gloom! Calamity! Impending Catastrophe! Just thought I'd get that nonsense out of the way so we can move on to actual informational news.

Wall Street is pushing the market down bigly as we speak - to make SURE Needy Amin wins. It's no laughing matter. They're pulling all the stops, and playing for keeps.

First step. Acknowledge the dire straits we are in, definitely don’t minimize it or ridicule others that are blowing the whistle and waving the red flags, our Republic is at stake. Second step. There are options here, but the first step must be completed first.

you can do nothing to change national or global directions. All we can do is work to elect Democrats.

Good thing nobody wants to take a second step until all the hand wringing is complete!

The way I see this race is that it is now Harris’ to lose. The media getting a hold of a nice horse race bone like a slowing economy is more of a concern to me than the actual economic fundamentals themselves.

tRump is loosing his marbles and it is only going to be worse for him. Not sure if he can hold up thru the election.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 05, 2024 12:19 PM (JCZqz)

95 What does Paul Krugman and his Nobel have to say on this?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 05, 2024 12:19 PM (yTqdG)

96 >>It appears every time Joe opens his mouth to take credit for something, within a matter of days, the exact opposite happens.

I think the DNC needs to figure out a way to muzzle Dementia Joe.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2024 12:17 PM

Much like Shit Midas, Barry Obama.

Posted by: huerfano at August 05, 2024 12:19 PM (VGOMa)

97 WaPo identifies Kamala's VP pick!

https://is.gd/XsilYT

Ted Kaczynski?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 05, 2024 12:19 PM (L/fGl)

98 About three percent of adults surveyed answered "not sure" about their employment situation
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What does that mean? It's binary. You're employed or you're not. Your looking for work or you're not. There is room for shades of gray within the category - "I'm employed, but not well and I don't have enough money or hours" or "I'm looking, but not seriously" - but not in the top-level question.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:19 PM (HnUIn)

99 Verily I say unto you that it would be easier for a Kamala to pass through the eye of a needle than for Bidenomics to lead the American economy beyond the Wildeness and deliver it unto to the Promised Land.

Posted by: Trump 20:24 at August 05, 2024 12:19 PM (vEXxW)

100 Blake, people are going to have to pay taxes on those short term gains if they sell as this run up has been short lived. (Heh)
Losses are limited although they can be carried over.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 05, 2024 12:19 PM (t/2Uw)

101 That means the percentage of Americans who could be working and perhaps would really like to be working but either can't find work or have given up finding work is 18.1%. That's more than four times the official unemployment rate.
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Sure, but it's no problem. Aliens are still finding work.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:19 PM (HnUIn)

102 85 60 Doug Emhoff's ex-wife put out a statement absolving him from knocking up the nanny.

The payoff must have been huge

Posted by: It's me donna at August 05, 2024 12:20 PM (IyPmt)

103 sh3lf fall will be epic.

Posted by: henry at August 05, 2024 12:20 PM (JMDly)

104 OHHH!!! Let's compare to the last stagflation event!!

Let's not forget that we also have 35 trillion, that's $35,000,000,000,000+ in debt that we can barely afford the interest payments on.

In 1980, we had $980 billion. That's $980,000,000,000. 3 whole order of magnitude less than today.

GDP in 1980 as $2.8T. GDP in 2024 is $28.6T.

We're so screwed.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 05, 2024 12:20 PM (N1DT3)

105
Great men build great things.

Godspeed, Ace.

Posted by: Auspex at August 05, 2024 12:20 PM (j4U/Z)

106 94 The way I see this race is that it is now Harris’ to lose. The media getting a hold of a nice horse race bone like a slowing economy is more of a concern to me than the actual economic fundamentals themselves.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 05, 2024 12:19 PM (JCZqz)

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The fundamentals are garbage unless you believe the government which has a terrible track record.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 05, 2024 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

107 Wall Street is pushing the market down bigly as we speak - to make SURE Needy Amin wins...

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 05, 2024 12:19 PM (JCZqz)

Are they talking 'bout Kumala? I mean, Trump ain't black...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:20 PM (ynpvh)

108 3 Also. Good Morning.

And.

The Rate Cutting is going to make things worse.
Posted by: garrett at August 05, 2024 12:18 PM (BwNH5)

Yep. It's a used bandaid that won't stick more than a few seconds.

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 12:20 PM (B1dzx)

109 Clint Russell @LibertyLockPod 7h
Japan held its rates at or near 0% for 15 years. As such, investors began borrowing trillions of yen and investing them in stronger currencies and assets. Essentially, it was a bet that the Yen would continue to fall in comparative value. It worked well... until last Wednesday.

Japan's central bank finally hiked rates a bit, just to .25% which is still insanely low, but it spiked the value of the yen by 7.5% compared to the US$ and forced investors to cover their short positions to the tune of billions. Creating enormous losses
(Trillions?)

This was called the "yen carry trade." It appears to have ended this week. To cover those losses it requires liquidity and liquidity is achieved by selling off other performing assets. Hence, the global sell off.

I figured many of you would be wondering why your portfolios are getting hammered. This is why.

One other major bearish force which I think helped to set this off (I haven't seen anyone else discuss this in detail):

Japan imports most of the oil it needs to function. [rest is about an Israel-Iran war affecting oil imports; prices skyrocket etc.]

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 12:20 PM (i0CiB)

110 sh3lf fall will be epic.
Posted by: henry at August 05, 2024 12:20 PM (JMDly)
++++
Out: "cuffing season"
In: "shelving season"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:20 PM (HnUIn)

111 Find my stupid saw so I can cut these sh3lves to custom l3ngth. I have literally no idea where this could be, which is weird, because it's a saw and isn't easily misplaceable.

ace
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Do you remember where you last saw it?

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2024 12:20 PM (qgGJ7)

112
We are in a recession.

it's not a "recession" recession though

Posted by: MSM at August 05, 2024 12:20 PM (25k9m)

113 At least we have Limeys vs Muzzies to watch. Things are getting interesting.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 05, 2024 12:21 PM (y1Cv5)

114 Where do I start with that one?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 05, 2024 12:17 PM (obk/l)

A few sharp whacks across the buttocks.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2024 12:21 PM (0eaVi)

115 Gold is down by $27 so far. Doesn't make sense.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 05, 2024 12:14 PM (/U5Yz)

Selling to make margin calls.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at August 05, 2024 12:21 PM (l7Kbv)

116 Anyone know how far down Disney fell today?

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 05, 2024 12:21 PM (FmapG)

117 97 WaPo identifies Kamala's VP pick!

https://is.gd/XsilYT

Ted Kaczynski?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 05, 2024 12:19 PM (L/fGl)

He was the bomb!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:21 PM (ynpvh)

118 Doug Emhoff's ex-wife put out a statement absolving him from knocking up the nanny.

and the Italian boxer apologized for offending the dude who pummeled her.

It's a pathology.

Posted by: McCool at August 05, 2024 12:21 PM (Vm5ir)

119 Why are so many people criticizing Kamala? Have they forgotten the fact that she is a black* woman?

Posted by: Dr. T at August 05, 2024 12:21 PM (jGGMD)

120 But, our friendly neighborhood DU watcher posted things where the unemployment numbers are SURE to be revised UPWARD next month........Because THAT has actually happened in Biden's tenure as The Destructor.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 05, 2024 12:21 PM (Zz0t1)

121 When the stock market crashes I expect Joe Biden will get on the television- just like Franklin Roosevelt did, and not talk so much about the princes of greed, but explain "Look! Here's what's happening."

Posted by: Rex B at August 05, 2024 12:21 PM (YAsVi)

122 I saw a guy that looks just like Harris.
Movie, The Wedding Singer.
The guy that sings, Do You Really Want To Hurt Me.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 05, 2024 12:21 PM (J8LnB)

123 Best meme so far: a picture of Pelosi talking on a cellphone, with the caption "Just made her the nominee. I want short on Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Meta, and Tesla. Read that back to me."

Posted by: Ian S. at August 05, 2024 12:21 PM (2ocoG)

124 "Gold is down by $27 so far. Doesn't make sense."

That's only 1%. When everything is down like this, I deploy the phrase 'flight to liquidity,' as if I know what I'm talking about. So that's what it is.

Posted by: Filesystem /gp Corrupted at August 05, 2024 12:21 PM (lyfYv)

125 Markets come back a bit

Posted by: It's me donna at August 05, 2024 12:21 PM (IyPmt)

126 The Rate Cutting is going to make things worse.

make the coming election steal more believable?

Posted by: MSM at August 05, 2024 12:22 PM (25k9m)

127 Ace, there's a Forbes article from January linked in JJs thread where they're trying to explain to LIV types that all of the post Trump "gains" were inflation.

Whats about to happen is much worse when you understand that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - What is the one way speed of light? at August 05, 2024 12:22 PM (6Gcwb)

128 "About three percent of adults surveyed answered "not sure" about their employment situation
++++
"What does that mean? It's binary. You're employed or you're not. Your looking for work or you're not. There is room for shades of gray within the category - "I'm employed, but not well and I don't have enough money or hours" or "I'm looking, but not seriously" - but not in the top-level question.
Posted by: Joe Mannix "

Those are the lifelong welfare recipients who are paid to vote for Dems

Posted by: Ripley at August 05, 2024 12:22 PM (GUOwU)

129 JUST IN - TRUMP: 'STOCK MARKETS ARE CRASHING, JOBS NUMBERS ARE TERRIBLE, WE ARE HEADING TO WORLD WAR lll, AND WE HAVE TWO OF THE MOST INCOMPETENT “LEADERS” IN HISTORY. THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!'

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And McDonald's won't even bring the McRib back!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 05, 2024 12:22 PM (L/fGl)

130 tRump is loosing his marbles and it is only going to be worse for him. Not sure if he can hold up thru the election.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 05, 2024 12:19 PM (JCZqz)
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I did drugs way back when. Nothing I ever used altered reality quite like what these people are on.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2024 12:22 PM (tT6L1)

131 The payoff must have been huge

Hey! I knocked her up, made her get an abortion, gave her a bunch of money, and made her sign an NDA!

I was a lawyer at a Big Law Firm - we're allowed to do that!

Posted by: Doug! at August 05, 2024 12:22 PM (uxCna)

132 Yeah, I saw somewhere that the real unemployment rate is around 24%.

Which was the average rate during ... the Great Depression.

But think about it, if they jiggered with the inflation calculation so many times that it's useless as an actual measure of real inflation, why would they have not done all that an more to the unemployment rate?

I've long said they are counting significant numbers of workers as "no longer looking"--and not part of the official rate--by fiat, rather than fact.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 05, 2024 12:22 PM (XBPvm)

133 98 About three percent of adults surveyed answered "not sure" about their employment situation
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What does that mean? It's binary. You're employed or you're not. Your looking for work or you're not. There is room for shades of gray within the category - "I'm employed, but not well and I don't have enough money or hours" or "I'm looking, but not seriously" - but not in the top-level question.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:19 PM (HnUIn)

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Could be "I've got a job at the moment, but the president of the company has called an emergency all-hands meeting first thing tomorrow."

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at August 05, 2024 12:22 PM (F4bAW)

134
David Sacks @DavidSacks 12h
Are we allowed to use the word “bloodbath” again yet?
Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 12:15 PM (i0CiB)

Is this about farming little kids for adenochrome?

Posted by: Just Lily at August 05, 2024 12:23 PM (RLLZj)

135 130 I did drugs way back when. Nothing I ever used altered reality quite like what these people are on.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2024 12:22 PM (tT6L1)

========

Trump calmly said, "Kamala was Indian until she said she was black."

This is Trump losing his marbles, attacking Kamala's race, and invalidating the lived experiences of black women everywhere.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 05, 2024 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

136 104 OHHH!!! Let's compare to the last stagflation event!!

Let's not forget that we also have 35 trillion, that's $35,000,000,000,000+ in debt that we can barely afford the interest payments on.

In 1980, we had $980 billion. That's $980,000,000,000. 3 whole order of magnitude less than today.

GDP in 1980 as $2.8T. GDP in 2024 is $28.6T.

We're so screwed.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 05, 2024 12:20 PM (N1DT3)

Like one death is a tragedy, 1M deaths is a statistic; the number is so huge that people can't wrap their minds around it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:23 PM (ynpvh)

137 ... This was called the "yen carry trade." It appears to have ended this week. To cover those losses it requires liquidity and liquidity is achieved by selling off other performing assets. Hence, the global sell off. ...
Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 12:20 PM (i0CiB)
++++
*Every* stable or semi-stable carry trade - the Yen was just biggest and first - is predicated on central banks game-playing.

We're rapidly running out of runway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:23 PM (HnUIn)

138 I recently made a rather large change which normally would have resulted in some follow-up actions, but I've been sitting on my ass because I was thinking the retards would do something impressively stupid before November.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 05, 2024 12:23 PM (FnneF)

139 CNN: Kamala's wisdom and sharp intellect will have the economy rebound to new glorious heights. The winter of recovery is quickly approaching. Trust us.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 05, 2024 12:23 PM (/U5Yz)

140 >>sh3lf fall will be epic.

We're rested and ready!

Posted by: Ghana Dancing Pallbearers at August 05, 2024 12:23 PM (Y1sOo)

141 Blake, people are going to have to pay taxes on those short term gains if they sell as this run up has been short lived. (Heh)
Losses are limited although they can be carried over.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 05, 2024 12:19 PM (t/2Uw)

I thought shorts were banned now.......

I'm so confused....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 05, 2024 12:23 PM (Zz0t1)

142 They bought their tickets. They knew what they were getting into.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 05, 2024 12:23 PM (63Dwl)

143 Find and mark the studs

*dusts nails on lapel*
Look no further.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 05, 2024 12:23 PM (W/lyH)

144 [rest is about an Israel-Iran war affecting oil imports; prices skyrocket etc.]
Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 12:20 PM (i0CiB)

Huh. Is this one of the reasons Democrats fund Iran's attacks around the world? 🤔

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2024 12:23 PM (qgGJ7)

145 @103: "sh3lf fall will be epic."

I hope Ace is filming the fourth film back-to-back all Peter Jackson style.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 05, 2024 12:23 PM (qFZnV)

146 As ace's shelves go, so goes the stock market. Praying that ace finds the studs.

Posted by: t-bird at August 05, 2024 12:23 PM (bkfCY)

147 Could be "I've got a job at the moment, but the president of the company has called an emergency all-hands meeting first thing tomorrow."
Posted by: No One Of Consequence at August 05, 2024 12:22 PM (F4bAW)
++++
Then you're employed. Tomorrow might be different and your status will change but today, right now, at the time of the survey, you're employed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:24 PM (HnUIn)

148 >>>I've got a sure-fire method for locating anything missing:
Go buy a new one.

I just did that. I realized it must be in storage and I don't feel like adding that to the list.

Posted by: ace at August 05, 2024 12:24 PM (KRtlO)

149 Vote Harris, she’s slightly more incompetent.

Posted by: Truthbomb at August 05, 2024 12:24 PM (G1tCv)

150 110 sh3lf fall will be epic.
Posted by: henry at August 05, 2024 12:20 PM (JMDly)
++++
Out: "cuffing season"
In: "shelving season"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:20 PM (HnUIn)

I take it Ace has no 3lv3s on sh3lv3s...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:24 PM (ynpvh)

151 Ammo is an investment!

Posted by: Weasel at August 05, 2024 12:24 PM (uGpeQ)

152 113 At least we have Limeys vs Muzzies to watch. Things are getting interesting.
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The limeys need to up their game. So far the Muzzies have three kills on the board with the Limeys showing goose eggs.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 05, 2024 12:24 PM (FmapG)

153 Has the Israel/Iran party kicked off yet?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at August 05, 2024 12:24 PM (DIB8X)

154 147 Could be "I've got a job at the moment, but the president of the company has called an emergency all-hands meeting first thing tomorrow."
Posted by: No One Of Consequence at August 05, 2024 12:22 PM (F4bAW)
++++
Then you're employed. Tomorrow might be different and your status will change but today, right now, at the time of the survey, you're employed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:24 PM (HnUIn)

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I imagine it's gig related.

Is a side hustle a job? What if that's all you have?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 05, 2024 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

155 $35,000,000,000,000

Growing at $1,000,000,000,000 per quarter.

"Call an emergency meeting. Announce an 'emergency rate cut'"

--Darwin

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at August 05, 2024 12:24 PM (MkuC5)

156 Those are the lifelong welfare recipients who are paid to vote for Dems

Posted by: Ripley at August 05, 2024 12:22 PM (GUOwU)

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Then it would have been 33 instead of 3%.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at August 05, 2024 12:24 PM (iW/cS)

157 Maybe it's all the horror and slasher films I've been watching lately, but couldn't the US raise interest rates, tank the economy, but let the inner city people eat the invading hordes?

Win...win....

Posted by: Stateless at August 05, 2024 12:25 PM (jvJvP)

158 The way I see this race is that it is now Harris’ to lose.

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And she's just the girl to do it!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 05, 2024 12:25 PM (L/fGl)

159 117 97 WaPo identifies Kamala's VP pick!

https://is.gd/XsilYT

Ted Kaczynski?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 05, 2024 12:19 PM (L/fGl)

He was the bomb!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:21 PM (ynpvh)

and that ticket would be a blast!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:25 PM (ynpvh)

160
you can do nothing to change national or global directions. All we can do is work to elect Democrats

———-

That’s the solution!

Help me….

Posted by: Piper at August 05, 2024 12:25 PM (p4NUW)

161 I should have sold some of my stock a week ago.

Oh well.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 05, 2024 12:25 PM (hB7mE)

162 Ooh, I'm Shelfin' my life away
Lookin' for a better way for me
Ooh, I'm Shelfin' my life away
Lookin' for a sunny day

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 05, 2024 12:25 PM (NtVYv)

163 Do you remember where you last saw it?
Posted by: ... at August 05, 2024 12:20 PM (qgGJ7)

In the middle of a piece of wood?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2024 12:25 PM (0eaVi)

164 "The Rate Cutting is going to make things worse.
Posted by: garrett

The plan is to stimulate the economy before the election and the inflation kicks in after. If it fails to save the election the inflation can be blamed on Trump

Posted by: Ripley at August 05, 2024 12:25 PM (GUOwU)

165
Are we in the "but the fundamentals of the economy are strong" phase in the Gaslighting, yet?

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 05, 2024 12:25 PM (8t4YC)

166 I've never queried Sharon about any prior employment. Now, I'm not sure I need to, because it appears Sharon has at least a passing acquaintance with accounting practices.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2024 12:25 PM (tT6L1)

167 >>We're rapidly running out of runway.

We can't see the runway for the trees at this point.

Posted by: garrett at August 05, 2024 12:26 PM (BwNH5)

168 The Saxons are finally angered.

Posted by: Archer at August 05, 2024 12:26 PM (IDphi)

169 Today is a civic holiday in Canada, so the Canuck markets are closed. We might have gotten lucky, there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2024 12:26 PM (nK4uM)

170 Eeyore was a market optimist.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 05, 2024 12:26 PM (Aqu9a)

171 No, 18 per cent overnight bank interest rates to shore up the dollar ain't happenin'. Ever. Do the math. Er, Arithmetic.

Has the US government ever went "TILT" ?

Because that's what would happen. Now they can save the markets, or they could save the dollar, (in theory) but they can't save both.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 05, 2024 12:26 PM (aOYfI)

172 I imagine it's gig related.

Is a side hustle a job? What if that's all you have?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 05, 2024 12:24 PM (GBKbO)
++++
Ah, good point. That could be a part of it.

Technically, at that point, you're self-employed but your business is failing. It should *probably* land in the "underemployed" stat, but there is plenty of room for ambiguity in this new world of pseudo-employees.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:26 PM (HnUIn)

173 I thought shorts were banned now.......

Arizonans hardest hit.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 05, 2024 12:26 PM (dZVON)

174
Brief joke time:

What's the difference between a chickpea and a lentil?

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 05, 2024 12:27 PM (8t4YC)

175 Has the Israel/Iran party kicked off yet?

The Iranians are apparently getting cold feet.

Israel takes out the oil facilities on Kharg Island, and the Iranian economy collapses.

Posted by: Doug! at August 05, 2024 12:27 PM (uxCna)

176 Hi, Ace

WEB Forum org, agenda/2024/01/stability/risks24

But the questions is: Are we prepared for this uncertain world. Signs suggest that we're not addressing the need for risk mitigation to ensure we can navigate the current crises, both in the short and long term.

In part, "During the COVID-19 crisis, we witnessed some positive developments in terms of risk mitigation through global corporations, such as the rapid development of vaccines. But we did not respond as well to the crises that followed: the supply chain issues that plagued us as economies were rapidly released from lockdowns; the Russian invasion of Ukraine that triggered an energy crisis, which fueled inflation in the G7 economies and, for the first time since the 2008 Great Financial Crisis, interest rate increases; and the stronger US dollar, which had consequences for countries and businesses with dollar-denominated energy bills and debts."

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at August 05, 2024 12:27 PM (NFX2v)

177 Somebody's going to try to corner the Tulip market and then everything'll go to hell.

Posted by: mrp at August 05, 2024 12:27 PM (rj6Yv)

178 >> I thought shorts were banned now.......

Only the white ones. After memorial Day.

Posted by: garrett at August 05, 2024 12:27 PM (BwNH5)

179 I'm no economist but I've seen enough crashes to understand that they are all over-corrections at some point. Makes me wonder if TPTB like to shake out the little or scared investors to grab bargains when it's over.
But if you're scared or believe we're headed to a bad economic place, grab every loose dollar you have and put it in CDs before the rates go down.

If you're gutsy, wait a few days for the worst of the fall to be over and pull all your money out of CDs (take the penalty) and get ready to buy at a discount.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 05, 2024 12:27 PM (FCbAQ)

180 173 I thought shorts were banned now.......

Arizonans hardest hit.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 05, 2024 12:26 PM (dZVON)

I would expect that from the Book thread, where pants are required...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:27 PM (ynpvh)

181 Any day now, Zelensky and his freedom fighters will be marching in the Streets of Moscow.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 05, 2024 12:27 PM (FmapG)

182 I’m pretty sure Harris is a myth, like Sasquatch only dumber.

Posted by: Truthbomb at August 05, 2024 12:27 PM (G1tCv)

183 I intended to move my entire S&P portfolio to an annuity account in April but only ended up doing 3/4 of it after second guessing my strategy. Looking at the bright side that I saved most of it.

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 12:27 PM (B1dzx)

184 172 Ah, good point. That could be a part of it.

Technically, at that point, you're self-employed but your business is failing. It should *probably* land in the "underemployed" stat, but there is plenty of room for ambiguity in this new world of pseudo-employees.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:26 PM (HnUIn)

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Not bad for an illiterate asshole.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 05, 2024 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

185
And it's not one's a legume, like some dork said in the Food Thread!

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 05, 2024 12:27 PM (8t4YC)

186 Kamalanomics

Posted by: It's me donna at August 05, 2024 12:28 PM (IyPmt)

187 Afternoon ace. That's authentic shelf speak gibberish.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 05, 2024 12:28 PM (kCLO6)

188 ... Now they can save the markets, or they could save the dollar, (in theory) but they can't save both.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 05, 2024 12:26 PM (aOYfI)
++++
Historically, the Fed will - at the very last moment and not even a nanosecond before - defend the Dollar. My bet remains that the Fed remains true to form. The markets can take a flying leap - including the bond markets.

Once Powell is out, we'll see. For now, I'm betting on tradition.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:28 PM (HnUIn)

189 Two new polls show Harris up.
Wonder what they will look like tomorrow.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 05, 2024 12:28 PM (t/2Uw)

190 I’m stocking up on pew pew related brass today.

#KamalaCrash tanned, rested and ready!

Posted by: Jak Sucio at August 05, 2024 12:28 PM (Aoykm)

191 At least we have Limeys vs Muzzies to watch. Things are getting interesting.
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The limeys need to up their game. So far the Muzzies have three kills on the board with the Limeys showing goose eggs.
Posted by: Pudinhead at August 05, 2024 12:24 PM (FmapG)

Oh, the muzzies have way more than that. The 3 kills are just the most recent ones.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 05, 2024 12:28 PM (N1DT3)

192 189 Two new polls show Harris up.
Wonder what they will look like tomorrow.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 05, 2024 12:28 PM (t/2Uw)

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The CBS poll is garbage. Haven't seen the other.

Also, neither have an incentive to accurately trying to predict the election.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 05, 2024 12:28 PM (GBKbO)

193 186 Kamalanomics

Posted by: It's me donna at August 05, 2024 12:28 PM (IyPmt)

It blows and sucks at the same time, while in a kneeling position.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:28 PM (ynpvh)

194 I cured the economy.”
🤡
Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 12:15 PM (i0CiB)
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With a vaccine

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2024 12:29 PM (qgGJ7)

195 Only strippers should trust polls!

Posted by: Weasel at August 05, 2024 12:29 PM (uGpeQ)

196 About three percent of adults surveyed answered "not sure" about their employment situation

I deal drugs and steal copper wire for a living, but I'm not sure if I should admit that to you

Posted by: Not Sure at August 05, 2024 12:29 PM (25k9m)

197 Kamala Krash

Posted by: Archer at August 05, 2024 12:29 PM (IDphi)

198 To cover those losses it requires liquidity and liquidity is achieved by selling off other performing assets. Hence, the global sell off.

Ah, so yet again, it's everyone else being screwed by hot-shot investors playing stupid games with other people's money.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 05, 2024 12:29 PM (hB7mE)

199 I like gold, everyone should own some (and pray to God they never need it) it's been a reasonably good hedge if one purchased back in the heady days of $275

However

It has always gone down when it should be skyrocketing. Always. When things really go bad, shit-in-your-messkit FUBAR, it goes down. If it were an accurate barometer of financial stupidity and political instability, it would be trending about 8,000 an ounce, and nobody with a few amalgam fillings on the street would be safe from roving gangs of plier-wielding "youths".

Posted by: Common Tater at August 05, 2024 12:29 PM (aOYfI)

200 All our economic problems are caused by Trump saying Kamala wasn't really black. And Vance's weirdness.

And Ace's shelves.

Posted by: Eeyore, the weird donkey at August 05, 2024 12:29 PM (1bNHn)

201 189 Two new polls show Harris up.
Wonder what they will look like tomorrow.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 05, 2024 12:28 PM (t/2Uw)

Whatever "they" want it to but you can be sure it will be up

Posted by: It's me donna at August 05, 2024 12:29 PM (IyPmt)

202
quick, put biden on Mt. Rushmore!

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 05, 2024 12:29 PM (8t4YC)

203 Has the Israel/Iran party kicked off yet?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at August 05, 2024 12:24 PM (DIB8X)

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Over/Under on how many nukes DogEater has sent to Iran on pallets?

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at August 05, 2024 12:29 PM (iW/cS)

204 In the 1980s, it took double-digit interest rates to kill the inflation. America 2024 has no stomach for that strong medicine. We'd rather continue on a course of controlled flight into terrain.
Posted by: Filesystem /gp Corrupted at August 05, 2024 12:11 PM (lyfYv)

You say that like it's a bad thing, but isn't that what every landing actually is?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 05, 2024 12:29 PM (FCbAQ)

205 What does that mean? It's binary. You're employed or you're not.

Imagine you're a contract arsonist, either in a city or in the Western forests. How much confidence do you have in Kamala winning?

Posted by: t-bird at August 05, 2024 12:29 PM (sZIeh)

206 I saw a guy that looks just like Harris.
Movie, The Wedding Singer.
The guy that sings, Do You Really Want To Hurt Me.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 05, 2024 12:21 PM (J8LnB)

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Ah, the Arquette brother turned sister. Who is now mort.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 05, 2024 12:29 PM (DRSnL)

207 202
quick, put biden on Mt. Rushmore!

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 05, 2024 12:29 PM (8t4YC)

The backside.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:29 PM (ynpvh)

208 So Trump rally in Atlanta caused market to crash, right?
Posted by: Ripley

It was a leaky drinking fountain.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 05, 2024 12:30 PM (vEXxW)

209 Aquarium of the Pacific would have more visitors if they like rented guns so you could shoot the otters.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 05, 2024 12:30 PM (obk/l)

210 I cured the economy.”
🤡
Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 12:15 PM (i0CiB)
--------

With a vaccine
Posted by: ...

So is this selloff the cardiac arrest or turbo cancer?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 05, 2024 12:30 PM (dZVON)

211 Just turned on the Young Thug trial.

I have little clue about this case, but there were ex parte shenanigans by the black judge. They replaced the judge with a chick and are in the middle of some motion. The witness is spewing gobbledegook, but I would choose her over Kamala.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 05, 2024 12:30 PM (ufFY8)

212 This shapely investor has put her wealth in all the right places. She's not worried about Joe's economy.

https://tinyurl.com/j6fy7fba

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 05, 2024 12:30 PM (/U5Yz)

213 What's the difference between a chickpea and a lentil?

I've never paid money to watch a lentil....

Posted by: brak at August 05, 2024 12:30 PM (25k9m)

214 44 Gold is down by $27 so far. Doesn't make sense.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Actually it does, gold is a store of wealth and usually goes down in price during deflation/recessions and prices go up with inflation/war/uncertainty. Silver often follows but in the past had industrial uses (photography etc.) that stabilized prices. That is not present anymore so recently I think it tends to fluctuate with gold prices but would have to actually look deeper to see the correlation.

Same thing is happening to crypto--it has fallen and to a modest extent--oil and commodities are flat due to the impending reduction of demand by a slowing world economy.

Inflationary cycles almost always end in a bust.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2024 12:30 PM (qdbNv)

215
Ah, so yet again, it's everyone else being screwed by hot-shot investors playing stupid games with other people's money.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 05, 2024 12:29 PM (hB7mE)

The top 1% own 50% of market shares. They're jumping ship and f*cking the little guy's 401k because he can't sell everything off so easily, or doesn't know how.

It's another case of 'the rich get richer......'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 05, 2024 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)

216 ... Signs suggest that we're not addressing the need for risk mitigation to ensure we can navigate the current crises, both in the short and long term. ...
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at August 05, 2024 12:27 PM (NFX2v)
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LOL. Wow. What an incisive bit of insight.

"Risk mitigation" in this context means, "deal with the debt. Stop adding to it and get back to surplus - at all levels - to dig out of the hole." That in turn means, "the end of the current Party power system and potential breakup - soft or hard - of major political entities and serious damage to global power class."

Ain't gonna happen. We're riding this thing until it augers in.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:30 PM (HnUIn)

217 Pre-preparation: find my stud-finder. Or, find both of them, and then figure out which is the one that actually works. Then finally throw out the one that doesn't work.

The raw poetry here almost makes me want to weep.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at August 05, 2024 12:30 PM (rIBZP)

218
quick, raise the min wage, again!

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 05, 2024 12:30 PM (8t4YC)

219 Has the Israel/Iran party kicked off yet?

The Iranians are apparently getting cold feet.

Israel takes out the oil facilities on Kharg Island, and the Iranian economy collapses.

-

They're waiting for assurance that the US will stay true to their word and continue supporting them.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - What is the one way speed of light? at August 05, 2024 12:30 PM (6Gcwb)

220 Every stud finder I've ever had at best gives me a 50/50 chance of finding an actual stud. I can go over the same stud-less section of wall three times and get at least one false positive.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 05, 2024 12:30 PM (CwhoI)

221 202
quick, put biden on Mt. Rushmore!
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 05, 2024 1

Is under an option?

Posted by: Piper at August 05, 2024 12:31 PM (p4NUW)

222 Kamalanomics
Posted by: It's me donna

Kamalamentum!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 05, 2024 12:31 PM (L/fGl)

223 211 Just turned on the Young Thug trial.

I have little clue about this case, but there were ex parte shenanigans by the black judge. They replaced the judge with a chick and are in the middle of some motion. The witness is spewing gobbledegook, but I would choose her over Kamala.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 05, 2024 12:30 PM (ufFY

Does he take offense at being called a Thug, or does he embrace the Thug life in court?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:31 PM (ynpvh)

224 The PPT is hard at work, or bargain hunters maybe.

The NASDAQ has trimmed it's losses considerably.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 05, 2024 12:31 PM (aD39U)

225 >>Just turned on the Young Thug trial.

The Georgia Court System is so incredibly fucked up...

Posted by: garrett at August 05, 2024 12:31 PM (BwNH5)

226 Because that's what would happen. Now they can save the markets, or they could save the dollar, (in theory) but they can't save both.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 05, 2024 12:26 PM (aOYfI)
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The bunch currently running things are incapable of counting to 2 if you spot them 0 and 1. It doesn't matter what they do, they'll probably fail at both.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2024 12:31 PM (tT6L1)

227 I hereby lay claim to the planet Mercury and its 10 mile thick layer of diamonds.

Posted by: Archer at August 05, 2024 12:31 PM (IDphi)

228 "I’m pretty sure Harris is a myth, like Sasquatch only dumber.
Posted by: Truthbomb"

Not true. On a quiet, moonlit night, far from civilization, you can hear her cackle in the distance. It is bone chilling

Posted by: Ripley at August 05, 2024 12:31 PM (GUOwU)

229 Women and children hardest hit!
Posted by: huerfano at August 05, 2024 12:10 PM (VGOMa)

You must limit the beating stick to the width of your pinky.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2024 12:13 PM (0eaVi)

Pinky is too little and will break.
Thumb.
That's the genesis of "rule of thumb" so I've been mislead to believe.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 05, 2024 12:31 PM (FCbAQ)

230 I'm picturing Ace's saw to look like the saws the Stooges used after Moe has dragged it across Curly's skull.

In truth, Moe and Curly left show business for a while when vaudeville was dying, went home to Brooklyn, bought property, and built four houses on Bath Avenue. Only one still stands to this day, after street widening and such.

Posted by: The House That Moe Built at August 05, 2024 12:31 PM (CV8a5)

231 Breaking News..... Dewey Beats Truman !!!!!!!!!

Posted by: CBS News at August 05, 2024 12:31 PM (qpLSv)

232 Iranians better not sleep.
Their beds might explode.

Just saying.

Posted by: Mossad Love Note at August 05, 2024 12:31 PM (ufFY8)

233 Get fourth and fifth jobs! Put your money in an S&P index fund that gets a 15% return year over year! If you're working two work from home jobs you're scum and you're stealing! Buy my book you pathetic lazy losers!

Posted by: Dave Ramsey, boomer meme incarnate at August 05, 2024 12:32 PM (q1Zxb)

234 Yeah, I don't know where I fall on the "employment" scale. Because the government pays me a stipend for being a caregiver and pays Pooky disability. So, do I get paid for work I do? Yes, but it's a stipend for the majority of it and DDHQ is very, very part-time contracting.

Posted by: pookysgirl, warping statistics as usual at August 05, 2024 12:32 PM (dtlDP)

235
What's the difference between a chickpea and a lentil?

I've never paid money to watch a lentil....
Posted by: brak

That's even better than mine:

It doesn't cost $50 for a lentil on your chest.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 05, 2024 12:32 PM (8t4YC)

236 Is this the time to go long on cricket farms?

Posted by: mrp at August 05, 2024 12:32 PM (rj6Yv)

237 39 Someone should ask Kamala to explain why Joe's markets are crashing. The response would be hilarious.

I'M NOT ANSWERING QUESTIONS FROM ANYONE ABOUT ANYTHING, BUSTER!
Posted by: Kamala The Terrible! at August 05, 2024 12:13 PM (uxCna)

____________________________

But I have taken the initiative by hiring Gene Sperling (Biden's lead economic advisor) to head that aspect of my campaign. We've also made advances to Roman Polanski to teach Kintergarden.

Posted by: Orson at August 05, 2024 12:32 PM (dIske)

238 >>This shapely investor has put her wealth in all the right places. She's not worried about Joe's economy.

Pass. Looks too much like AOC.

Posted by: Ghana Dancing Pallbearers at August 05, 2024 12:32 PM (Y1sOo)

239 227 I hereby lay claim to the planet Mercury and its 10 mile thick layer of diamonds.

Posted by: Archer at August 05, 2024 12:31 PM (IDphi)

Jupiter is said to have diamond rain...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:32 PM (ynpvh)

240 I like gold, everyone should own some (and pray to God they never need it) it's been a reasonably good hedge if one purchased back in the heady days of $275

However

It has always gone down when it should be skyrocketing. Always. When things really go bad, shit-in-your-messkit FUBAR, it goes down. If it were an accurate barometer of financial stupidity and political instability, it would be trending about 8,000 an ounce, and nobody with a few amalgam fillings on the street would be safe from roving gangs of plier-wielding "youths".

Posted by: Common Tater at August 05, 2024 12:29 PM (aOYfI)

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Like many "trading markets," it appears to be rigged.

To echo Mannix above: everything is fake and gay, all the way down ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at August 05, 2024 12:32 PM (iW/cS)

241 About three percent of adults surveyed answered "not sure" about their employment situation
++++
What does that mean? It's binary. You're employed or you're not. Your looking for work or you're not. There is room for shades of gray within the category - "I'm employed, but not well and I don't have enough money or hours" or "I'm looking, but not seriously" - but not in the top-level question.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:19 PM (HnUIn)

Sometimes you shake off the meth hangover and stumble down to the gloryhole to find all the sports are taken. Early bird gets the worm, so to speak.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 05, 2024 12:32 PM (U7wke)

242 >>Every stud finder I've ever had at best gives me a 50/50 chance of finding an actual stud. I can go over the same stud-less section of wall three times and get at least one false positive.

Pull the baseboard and locate the studs just above the sill.

Or, locate the outlets and attached studs and work off those. 16" center to center.

Posted by: garrett at August 05, 2024 12:32 PM (BwNH5)

243 Tax lien filed against Anita Dunn in Maryland. Accident?

Posted by: Piper at August 05, 2024 12:32 PM (p4NUW)

244 Has the Israel/Iran party kicked off yet?

The Iranians are apparently getting cold feet.

Israel takes out the oil facilities on Kharg Island, and the Iranian economy collapses.
Posted by: Doug! at August 05, 2024 12:27 PM (uxCn

Israel issued a statement right after the assassination in Iran that gave Iran an out to save face by saying any 'Full 'attack would be met with an overwhelming response . Implying that Israel would somewhat over look a minor response .

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 12:32 PM (B1dzx)

245 239 227 I hereby lay claim to the planet Mercury and its 10 mile thick layer of diamonds.

Posted by: Archer at August 05, 2024 12:31 PM (IDphi)

Jupiter is said to have diamond rain...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:32 PM (ynpvh)

I'd name the mining ship "Lucy" so she'd be in the sky with diamonds.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:32 PM (ynpvh)

246 The media will try to sell you that the stock market fall was halted by the announcement of the emergency Fed meeting.

And not that most of the major retail investment sites went "offline."
Preventing individuals from cutting their losses by selling.
While the institutions were still able to keep selling. And opening shorts.

Also, the market moves way faster than the dinosaur media--it's already priced in a Fed rate cut: There won't be anything but a short-lived spike if they do cut.
Which is why they won't cut.
Cuts are long-term not "save Kamislais campaign."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 05, 2024 12:33 PM (XBPvm)

247 This chilly brunette is having such trouble in the current economy that she can't even afford a brassiere:
http://tiny.cc/02sdzz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:33 PM (HnUIn)

248 "Trump Cash vs Kamala Krash"

Love DJT.

GOPe would be suspending their campaign right about now and apologizing for being a Republican.

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2024 12:33 PM (qgGJ7)

249 It has always gone down when it should be skyrocketing. Always. When things really go bad, shit-in-your-messkit FUBAR, it goes down. If it were an accurate barometer of financial stupidity and political instability, it would be trending about 8,000 an ounce, and nobody with a few amalgam fillings on the street would be safe from roving gangs of plier-wielding "youths".
Posted by: Common Tater
=====
Gold goes down simply because it is a precursor of deflation (which in modern terms is less than 3-4 pct or so) and less demand due to decreasing income, shift to other assets, etc.

Like a house, art, gold is not actually an investment in the traditional sense but actually a store of wealth. People flock to it in inflationary times and demand/price slumps in relative deflationary times.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2024 12:33 PM (qdbNv)

250 Sh3lv3y rides again.

Posted by: XTC at August 05, 2024 12:33 PM (6Uni8)

251 Find and mark the studs

*dusts nails on lapel*
Look no further.
Posted by: Diogenes

Dad joke 4,384:

Walks into Home Depot. Picks up stud finder. Points at self. Declares loudly, "Found it!"

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 05, 2024 12:33 PM (3fGPY)

252 Turn those machines back on!!

Posted by: Mortimer Duke at August 05, 2024 12:33 PM (Aqu9a)

253 The person hemming and hawing about employment may have a vested reason to keep quiet about their job: It's an under the table job without which they'll have trouble putting food on the table.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2024 12:33 PM (tT6L1)

254 As noted previously, you should probably take some profits at this point, and move some money from tech into other sectors like pharmaceuticals and defense.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 05, 2024 12:33 PM (XV/Pl)

255 My rule of thumb is unemployment & inflation numbers from the govt are at least 3x more.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 05, 2024 12:33 PM (Rbu5d)

256 Ace's saw is right where he always puts it. Right next to the shelving screws, but someone put a box of roofing nails in front of it and he can no longer see it.

* wives everywhere after helping hubby find the mustard on the same shelf in every fridge they've owned since 2011 but now the ketchup bottle is slightly in front of it rendering it invisible to the male gaze.

Posted by: Just Lily at August 05, 2024 12:33 PM (RLLZj)

257 227 I hereby lay claim to the planet Mercury and its 10 mile thick layer of diamonds.
Posted by: Archer

You will need SPF 50!

Posted by: Coppertone Tan at August 05, 2024 12:34 PM (CV8a5)

258 The fucking limeys need to eliminate some muzzie mayors. Up their game a bit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 05, 2024 12:34 PM (y1Cv5)

259 The deficits are way, way way WAY too large to "service" at normal or historical interest rates. At least it looked that way to me 20 years ago. I doubt the situation has improved since then.

Even 9 or 10 per cent would be catastrophic to the seemingly endless confetti-buck fed cannon.

Monetary inflation is the one thing they can't paper over with showers of phony baloney currency. But, they will give it the old College Try.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 05, 2024 12:34 PM (aOYfI)

260 Will the center (of the shelves) Hold?

Posted by: illiniwek at August 05, 2024 12:34 PM (Cus5s)

261 http://tiny.cc/02sdzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:33 PM (HnUIn)

But......she's wearing SHORTS!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 05, 2024 12:34 PM (Zz0t1)

262 Steve Guest @SteveGuest 2h
JOE BIDEN LAST WEEK: “I cured the economy.”
🤡
Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 12:15 PM (i0CiB)

"Cured" like a ham. It's done.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 05, 2024 12:34 PM (FCbAQ)

263 What does that mean? It's binary. You're employed or you're not. Your looking for work or you're not. There is room for shades of gray within the category - "I'm employed, but not well and I don't have enough money or hours" or "I'm looking, but not seriously" - but not in the top-level question.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:19 PM (HnUIn)

You've lost your job, but are of an age that you can say, "Fuck it, I'm retired." Unless a really juicy offer comes along.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2024 12:34 PM (nK4uM)

264 237 39 Someone should ask Kamala to explain why Joe's markets are crashing. The response would be hilarious.

They are not gonna ask her anything.. She will coast to the "convention" and it will be all unity and love. The media will give it glowing coverage while attacking Trump and after her coronation Kamala will retire to her basement and wait for early voting in September to take her over the finish line to the Presidency... I wish I was kidding

Posted by: It's me donna at August 05, 2024 12:34 PM (IyPmt)

265 But......she's wearing SHORTS!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 05, 2024 12:34 PM (Zz0t1)
++++
She's a girl. Different rules.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:34 PM (HnUIn)

266
Tomorrow's fake news headlines:

Republicans "pounce" and "seize" on Stock Market Woes.

and

Republicans Take Glee with Stock Market Unrest

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 05, 2024 12:34 PM (8t4YC)

267 Somebody's going to try to corner the Tulip market and then everything'll go to hell.
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Dim bulbs.

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 12:35 PM (i0CiB)

268
The top 1% own 50% of market shares. They're jumping ship and f*cking the little guy's 401k because he can't sell everything off so easily, or doesn't know how.

It's another case of 'the rich get richer......'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 05, 2024 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)

Ever get the feeling that our lives are basically a long con and we're the marks?

Posted by: It would explain a lot at August 05, 2024 12:35 PM (q1Zxb)

269 You've lost your job, but are of an age that you can say, "Fuck it, I'm retired." Unless a really juicy offer comes along.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2024 12:34 PM (nK4uM)
++++
Then you're unemployed and not looking. Not in labor force.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:35 PM (HnUIn)

270 261 http://tiny.cc/02sdzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:33 PM (HnUIn)

But......she's wearing SHORTS!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 05, 2024 12:34 PM (Zz0t1)

The economy is not so bad yet; she still has clothes.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:35 PM (ynpvh)

271 We'd rather continue on a course of controlled flight into terrain.
Posted by: Filesystem /gp Corrupted at August 05, 2024 12:11 PM (lyfYv)

You say that like it's a bad thing, but isn't that what every landing actually is?
Posted by: OneEyedJack

Technically the best landings are controlled flight onto terrain, not into terrain.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 05, 2024 12:35 PM (hB7mE)

272 @228 then you can hear tree knocks as Kamalafoot bashes her head against an oak

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 05, 2024 12:35 PM (kCLO6)

273 I hereby lay claim to the planet Mercury and its 10 mile thick layer of diamonds.

Posted by: Archer

I DON'T want Uranus.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 05, 2024 12:35 PM (3fGPY)

274 Iran is the noisy guy at the bar who beats his chest and swears he'd beat your ass if his chick wasn't there.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 05, 2024 12:35 PM (CwhoI)

275
Bloodys done
Mimosas done
Gin lime spritz in progress

Posted by: Auspex at August 05, 2024 12:35 PM (j4U/Z)

276 247 This chilly brunette is having such trouble in the current economy that she can't even afford a brassiere:
http://tiny.cc/02sdzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Poor girl needs some support. I volunteer to be the person to uplift her.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 05, 2024 12:35 PM (/U5Yz)

277 Iran is the noisy guy at the bar who beats his chest and swears he'd beat your ass if his chick wasn't there.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 05, 2024 12:35 PM (CwhoI)
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The chick won't be there for long, then. She wants to see him fight.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:36 PM (HnUIn)

278 With millions of new citizens, we'll run out of things and cheeseburgers quicker.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 05, 2024 12:36 PM (J8LnB)

279 We'd rather continue on a course of controlled flight into terrain.
Posted by: Filesystem /gp Corrupted at August 05, 2024 12:11 PM (lyfYv)

You say that like it's a bad thing, but isn't that what every landing actually is?
Posted by: OneEyedJack

Technically the best landings are controlled flight onto terrain, not into terrain.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

Fly Auger Air

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 05, 2024 12:36 PM (3fGPY)

280 That SOB Trump !!!!!!!!!!!
I am tired of Trump screwing up my 401 K and for destroying the Economy so that I cannot find a job that pays $500,00 a year with no experience.

Posted by: Mike Hunt at August 05, 2024 12:36 PM (qpLSv)

281
The economy is not so bad yet; she still has clothes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:35 PM (ynpvh)[

So, you're saying I should be rooting for an all out economic melee?

Hmmmm.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 05, 2024 12:36 PM (Zz0t1)

282 Trying to time the market is a fool's game. There is no way an individual investor can trade as fast as the big guy's algorithms.
One might make a killing one day and then get slaughtered the next. It hardly ever balances out in one's favor. Ask me how I know....

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 05, 2024 12:36 PM (t/2Uw)

283 242 >>Every stud finder I've ever had at best gives me a 50/50 chance of finding an actual stud. I can go over the same stud-less section of wall three times and get at least one false positive.
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Do you have a measuring tape?

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 05, 2024 12:37 PM (FmapG)

284
Are they gonna blame "profit takers" or "shorters?"

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 05, 2024 12:37 PM (8t4YC)

285 Fly Auger Air
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 05, 2024 12:36 PM (3fGPY)
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catchy. You think we should rename our airline?

Posted by: United at August 05, 2024 12:37 PM (tT6L1)

286 Came in here to be first.

Was only 300th. Everyone is so active.

Posted by: eleven at August 05, 2024 12:37 PM (fV+MH)

287 284
Are they gonna blame "profit takers" or "shorters?"
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 05, 2024 12:37 PM (8t4YC)

Trump... He questioned Kamala's blackness !

Posted by: It's me donna at August 05, 2024 12:37 PM (IyPmt)

288 The economy is not so bad yet; she still has clothes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:35 PM (ynpvh)[

So, you're saying I should be rooting for an all out economic melee?

Hmmmm.......
Posted by: Sponge

Eco Fracas.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 05, 2024 12:37 PM (3fGPY)

289 But......she's wearing SHORTS!!!
Posted by: Sponge

Which are perfectly fine on a young woman.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 12:37 PM (v6JzV)

290 Somebody's going to try to corner the Tulip market and then everything'll go to hell.
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I know exactly where to plant my tulips to get out ahead!

Posted by: kamala at August 05, 2024 12:38 PM (i0CiB)

291 Fly Auger Air
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 05, 2024 12:36 PM (3fGPY)

"On it!!!!"

- - - - Boeing

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 05, 2024 12:38 PM (Zz0t1)

292 The PPT is hard at work, or bargain hunters maybe.

The NASDAQ has trimmed it's losses considerably.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 05, 2024 12:31 PM (aD39U)

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The "Plunge Protection Team" for those unaware ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at August 05, 2024 12:38 PM (iW/cS)

293 Was only 300th. Everyone is so active.

it's all those "not sure" if they're employed

Posted by: brak at August 05, 2024 12:38 PM (25k9m)

294 157 Maybe it's all the horror and slasher films I've been watching lately, but couldn't the US raise interest rates, tank the economy, but let the inner city people eat the invading hordes?

Win...win....
Posted by: Stateless

From what I've seen of inner-city Blue Metro urban youths, they're not so great at killing their targets. Lots of wounded targets and bystanders. South American gangs, however...

Yeah, my money might be on the illegal immigrants.

Posted by: Military Moron at August 05, 2024 12:38 PM (JCZqz)

295 Yes, it is an asset class. Or more properly, money par excellance. In the extreme, currencies are not accepted.

When WWI spooled up overnight, thousands of wealthy tourists were stranded on the continent. In those days, people traveled on letters of credit through banks, cleared through London probably. Well, overnight all that went away. I have an old newspaper, that was actually saved because one of my ancestors was killed (on the way to a funeral no less) by a train.

It was a great headline "Nothing But Gold Or Silver Acceptable for Payment!" for the goldbugs, I suppose.

My point is the gold market has been rigged for decades. The official price by the Treasury is $42.22222 although they won't sell any for that.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 05, 2024 12:38 PM (aOYfI)

296 I'm a-ridin' this thing all the way down! Yee-Haw!

Posted by: Major Kong at August 05, 2024 12:38 PM (Aqu9a)

297 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:33 PM (HnUIn)

LOL But she was able to pay whatever the posting fee for models was for "boobies online" or they just accept any poor soul who needs a job?. Such charitable people.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 05, 2024 12:38 PM (dTTBf)

298 Trying to time the market is a fool's game. There is no way an individual investor can trade as fast as the big guy's algorithms.
One might make a killing one day and then get slaughtered the next. It hardly ever balances out in one's favor. Ask me how I know....
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 05, 2024 12:36 PM (t/2Uw)

I am holding on tight, scared shitless. I have saved a lot of money over the last 20 years. I hope it doesn't evaporate !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 05, 2024 12:38 PM (NtVYv)

299
Which are perfectly fine on a young woman.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 12:37 PM (v6JzV)

But REAL women in 1794 didn't wear shorts!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 05, 2024 12:38 PM (Zz0t1)

300 271 Google AI sez of CFIT: "Controlled flight into terrain: An aviation accident where a pilot unintentionally flies an airworthy aircraft into the ground, water, an obstacle, or a mountain while under control of the aircraft. "

Posted by: Filesystem /gp Corrupted at August 05, 2024 12:38 PM (lyfYv)

301 Could be "I've got a job at the moment, but the president of the company has called an emergency all-hands meeting first thing tomorrow."
Posted by: No One Of Consequence at August 05, 2024 12:22 PM (F4bAW)

We've had four rounds of layoffs in the last twelve months but the economy is sure to improve. *insane laughter* *chugs half a bottle of Jack*

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 05, 2024 12:39 PM (U7wke)

302 [i ]Like a house, art, gold is not actually an investment in the traditional sense but actually a store of wealth. People flock to it in inflationary times and demand/price slumps in relative deflationary times.
Posted by: whig

That and it re-hypothecated to the n^th by the same investment firms that are dumping stonks.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 05, 2024 12:39 PM (IG4Id)

303 >>> 284
Are they gonna blame "profit takers" or "shorters?"
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 05, 2024 12:37 PM (8t4YC)

hoarders and wreckers, duh

Posted by: commie style guide at August 05, 2024 12:39 PM (FnneF)

304 We're all Major Kong now.

Posted by: eleven at August 05, 2024 12:39 PM (fV+MH)

305 Everyone seems to forget that Kamala took an economics class in undergrad. What has Trump ever done except swim in a pool of his misbegotten gold coins?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Weird Dude at August 05, 2024 12:39 PM (nsnF6)

306 In the 1980s, it took double-digit interest rates to kill the inflation. America 2024 has no stomach for that strong medicine. We'd rather continue on a course of controlled flight into terrain.
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We also had a budget much closer to being balanced.
And almost zero debt relative to today.
No level of Fed interest rate will fix this now.

It is the highest level of "finding the next biggest sucker" scam by those who today are saying a rate cut will fix all this:
You are the sucker they're trying to get to buy on the hopium that good times are just around the corner.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 05, 2024 12:40 PM (XBPvm)

307 Iran is trying to talk Hezbollah into attacking Israel in it's place. You know, be it's proxy.
However, people fleeing Hezbollah controlled areas and Hezbollah big wigs in hiding. Wonder if they are taking Khameni phone calls?
Khameini invited Nasrallah to visit Teheran for talks.
Hahahaha

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 05, 2024 12:40 PM (t/2Uw)

308 * wives everywhere after helping hubby find the mustard on the same shelf in every fridge they've owned since 2011 but now the ketchup bottle is slightly in front of it rendering it invisible to the male gaze.

Posted by: Just Lily at August 05, 2024 12:33 PM (RLLZj)

THIS!!!! For Pete's sake, USE YOUR EYES, MEN!!!!

Posted by: pookysgirl never moves the parmesan either at August 05, 2024 12:40 PM (dtlDP)

309 I've found that the best stud finder for me is a rare earth magnet. Hit a screw and go up and down to confirm.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - What is the one way speed of light? at August 05, 2024 12:40 PM (6Gcwb)

310 GOPe would be suspending their campaign right about now and apologizing for being a Republican.
Posted by: ...

Most of teh GOPe and their associated donors and staffers actually hate common people. The only reason they have not become full on Democrats is that they would have to deal with even smellier people that are POC. They prefer to lord over the peasants in their GOPe aristocracy while they can still get some more grift. Then they will flee to other nations like locusts.

Something similar happened with the Venezuelans that were connected with their two political parties pre Chavez. They were upper class and quite comfortable looting the oil revenues while the lower classes languished. Chavez broke their uniparty and took power legitimately because most of the Venezuelans had enough of the nasty looting upper classes there.

The cure in that case was worse than the disease and Chavez simply cut out the middle man and grifted directly from the oil revenues to the extent that the economy crashed and has never recovered in a state that should be fabulously wealthy. Maduro is simply Chavez on steroids and without any popularity.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2024 12:40 PM (qdbNv)

311 Like a house, art, gold is not actually an investment in the traditional sense but actually a store of wealth. People flock to it in inflationary times and demand/price slumps in relative deflationary times.
Posted by: whig at August 05, 2024 12:33 PM (qdbNv)

Gold usually acts countercyclically. It goes up during recessions, which is also when you see deflation. Commodities in general correlate with inflation, but for gold that impact is swamped by its use as a safe haven asset.

Under hyperinflation inflation will dominate its price movement, but in more ordinary times it works more like US Treasuries.

Posted by: Someguy's phone at August 05, 2024 12:40 PM (z5Wk1)

312 I just checked because why not. One 401(k) is down by a quarter point, the other is up by a half point (one-month chart).

Whatever. It'll be worth something or it won't be. If I live long enough to use it, I guess I'll find out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:40 PM (HnUIn)

313 ValuJet has entered the chat.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 05, 2024 12:40 PM (y1Cv5)

314 Pull the baseboard and locate the studs just above the sill.

Or, locate the outlets and attached studs and work off those. 16" center to center.
Posted by: garrett at August 05, 2024 12:32 PM (BwNH5)

Maybe on an older home. With a newer built, you can't be sure the illegals did sixteen inch centers.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2024 12:40 PM (0eaVi)

315 Every stud finder I've ever had at best gives me a 50/50 chance of finding an actual stud. I can go over the same stud-less section of wall three times and get at least one false positive.

Confirm readings with a sewing pin. If the wall is textured, nobody will ever notice the tiny holes.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 05, 2024 12:40 PM (/y8xj)

316
THIS!!!! For Pete's sake, USE YOUR EYES, MEN!!!!
Posted by: pookysgirl never moves the parmesan either at August 05, 2024 12:40 PM (dtlDP

I thought I was the only one..My husband can never find anything

Posted by: It's me donna at August 05, 2024 12:41 PM (IyPmt)

317 Khameini invited Nasrallah to visit Teheran for talks.
Hahahaha
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 05, 2024 12:40 PM (t/2Uw)

He can use the guest house.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 05, 2024 12:41 PM (aD39U)

318 Back to work for a hour

Posted by: Skip at August 05, 2024 12:41 PM (5W5mu)

319 I thought shorts were banned now.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 05, 2024 12:23 PM (Zz0t1)

People railing about shorts always brings to mind the scene from "Animal House" where Kevin Bacon is screaming "all is well".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 05, 2024 12:41 PM (U7wke)

320 19 My hair wasn't on fire until I just saw that Jim Cramer tweeted today that the problem is only one of confidence, not data. Guess I'd better start looking for a job right quick.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 05, 2024 12:11 PM (s9EYN)

We made good money off Cramer's endorsement of Apple back in 2010 - but a stopped clock is right twice a day (unless it's a 24 hour clock)

He recently implied Harris would be better for business, but what made me really suspect he's being influenced by his network bosses were his full-throated enthusiastic support for the clot-shot - saying people who refused were 'selfish' as I recall, and his embrace (now tempered) of the electric cars.

I think he is good at spotting trends and profiting off them early. I don't like his continual promotion of his 'investment club'.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 05, 2024 12:41 PM (QGaXH)

321
I thought I was the only one..My husband can never find anything
Posted by: It's me donna at August 05, 2024 12:41 PM (IyPmt)

This usually occurs when she decided on a whim that it didn't need to go in the same spot it's been for the last 12 years and moved it to another shelf.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 05, 2024 12:41 PM (Zz0t1)

322 315 Forked stick FTW.

Posted by: Filesystem /gp Corrupted at August 05, 2024 12:42 PM (lyfYv)

323 "...I know the interest in Sh3lving Phas3 Thr33, "PROJ3CT OAKTR33" (new name) is intense and intensifying. I wanted to update: A minor part of Phas3, building a minor booksh3lf, has been compl3t3d with minimal damage. I mean, some damage. Obviously. But minor damage."

Somehow ace, I don't think anybody is going to be putting in a FOIA request for your progress on the shelving project.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 05, 2024 12:42 PM (qsUzh)

324 Gold $2419.20
Silver $27.43

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 05, 2024 12:42 PM (3fGPY)

325 Hugo Chavez’s daughter is worth $4B apparently. Funny that.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 05, 2024 12:42 PM (y1Cv5)

326 The top 1% own 50% of market shares. They're jumping ship and f*cking the little guy's 401k because he can't sell everything off so easily, or doesn't know how.

It's another case of 'the rich get richer......'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 05, 2024 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)

Ever get the feeling that our lives are basically a long con and we're the marks?
Posted by: It would explain a lot at August 05, 2024 12:35 PM (q1Zxb)

———

We are just cogs in a machine.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 05, 2024 12:42 PM (QnIJ2)

327 308 * wives everywhere after helping hubby find the mustard on the same shelf in every fridge they've owned since 2011 but now the ketchup bottle is slightly in front of it rendering it invisible to the male gaze.

Posted by: Just Lily at August 05, 2024 12:33 PM (RLLZj)

THIS!!!! For Pete's sake, USE YOUR EYES, MEN!!!!
Posted by: pookysgirl

My wife moves items frequently from place to place without informing me and her placement makes sense to her but not to me.

Problem is, that I am the cook in the household and when she moves my food products where I cannot find them, I get a mite bent out of shape.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2024 12:42 PM (qdbNv)

328 308 * wives everywhere after helping hubby find the mustard on the same shelf in every fridge they've owned since 2011 but now the ketchup bottle is slightly in front of it rendering it invisible to the male gaze.

Posted by: Just Lily at August 05, 2024 12:33 PM (RLLZj)

THIS!!!! For Pete's sake, USE YOUR EYES, MEN!!!!

Posted by: pookysgirl never moves the parmesan either at August 05, 2024 12:40 PM (dtlDP)

Men just want to see what's in a woman's heart; her 80085 get in the way.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:42 PM (ynpvh)

329 This is the part where I ask if one of the president's will come out in public and speak to the crisis, or will it be another social climbing Georgetown intern coming out to say, "Nah, It'll be alright."

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 05, 2024 12:42 PM (uBBbP)

330 The internet is great for deep dives, I "discovered" one of the X-15 pilots from back in the day whilst searching something else. A guy named Robert White, I think, he was the first to get Air Force astronaut wings. Flew at 300,000 feet or whatever, and was captured in WWII as a fighter pilot. Re-activated for Korea. Served in combat over Viet Nam too. Commanded this, designed more planes, etc etc.

There's a picture of him in silver flight suit, and Chuck Yeager (in dress blues no less!) discussing the flight at a dry lake bed. In those days it was legal for them to advertise Wheat Chex on Space Patrol. You want to grow up and fly X-15s too, don't you Timmy? Well be sure to eat a balanced breakfast buddy!

Posted by: Common Tater at August 05, 2024 12:43 PM (aOYfI)

331 Somehow ace, I don't think anybody is going to be putting in a FOIA request for your progress on the shelving project.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

It would just all be redacted anyway.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 12:43 PM (v6JzV)

332 JOE BIDEN LAST WEEK: “I cured the economy.”

Like epoxy. It's now permanent.

Posted by: t-bird at August 05, 2024 12:43 PM (710OU)

333 One might make a killing one day and then get slaughtered the next. It hardly ever balances out in one's favor. Ask me how I know....
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 05, 2024 12:36 PM (t/2Uw)
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Way back when, before HFT became a thing, I bought stocks here and there. I used two pieces of information when buying stock: P/E and Debt to Income to determine value. After the crash, I realized I no longer trusted the balance sheet of companies, because I was pretty sure they were marking stuff as assets that should have been moved to the debit side of their balance sheet. Funny thing, over all, my approach did make me a few dollars. Not a lot, but, I didn't lose my shirt.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2024 12:43 PM (tT6L1)

334 >>Maybe on an older home. With a newer built, you can't be sure the illegals did sixteen inch centers.

Other Outlet / Switch boxes will show you/confirm if you are dealing with 16 centers.

Posted by: garrett at August 05, 2024 12:43 PM (BwNH5)

335 This usually occurs when she decided on a whim that it didn't need to go in the same spot it's been for the last 12 years and moved it to another shelf.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 05, 2024 12:41 PM (Zz0t1)

Or another room.
Or to the garage
Or to the thrift store

Posted by: mrp at August 05, 2024 12:43 PM (rj6Yv)

336 309 I've found that the best stud finder for me is a rare earth magnet. Hit a screw and go up and down to confirm.
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A decent compass works. Find one stud and measure to the next. Confirm with the compass.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 05, 2024 12:43 PM (FmapG)

337
Or another room.
Or to the garage
Or to the thrift store
Posted by: mrp at August 05, 2024 12:43 PM (rj6Yv)

This.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 05, 2024 12:44 PM (Zz0t1)

338 Look at Ace, being all resultist, holding people up to actual measures rather than just intentions or skin color or party affiliation. Be better Ace.

Posted by: Bete at August 05, 2024 12:44 PM (BKMOA)

339 Haven't checked my Roth in the last couple hours, but it was down 1.5pct at the open. It is NOT diversified, and has way too much cash.

So, I am not worried.

BUT, I think the economy is in for a rough ride in the near future, probably worse than it is now.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 05, 2024 12:44 PM (ufFY8)

340
Every stud finder I've ever had at best gives me a 50/50 chance of finding an actual stud.

They pretty much suck because builders don't use a lot of nails. I gotta about 5 methods. One is turn lights off and use a flashlight to the side of the wall. The odds that a dimple is going to show up where the nail got bashed and never given enough coats of drywall are pretty damn high. From there measure. Another method is educated guess. If you have a wall outlet it is certainly attached to a stud. Use a finishing nail and tap tap tap. If you hit wood, determine the center of the stud. If you don't hit anything move over half an inch and try again until you hit wood. Sometimes outlets are to the left of the stud, sometimes to the right. Once you score, measure from there.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 05, 2024 12:44 PM (RKVpM)

341 320 19
...but a stopped clock is right twice a day (unless it's a 24 hour clock)

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 05, 2024 12:41 PM (QGaXH)

Biden's clock is analog without hands...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:44 PM (ynpvh)

342 Technically the best landings are controlled flight onto terrain, not into terrain.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 05, 2024 12:35 PM (hB7mE)

Excellent point, and quite a distinction between them.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 05, 2024 12:44 PM (FCbAQ)

343 The internet is great for deep dives, I "discovered" one of the X-15 pilots from back in the day whilst searching something else
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Man, you should've seen it back before 2004 or so.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - What is the one way speed of light? at August 05, 2024 12:45 PM (6Gcwb)

344 The Topix index, which includes companies that represent a broad swath of Japan's economy

If someone asked me what "Topix, with an 'x'," was, I'd say "a dating site for journalists," or maybe "the Dollar Store version of Hot Topic."

"A Japanese financial index" would not have been in my top ten guesses.

Posted by: mikeski at August 05, 2024 12:45 PM (DgGvY)

345 I refuse to believe Kamala is up/favored/will win.

I just can't.

2016 Hillary, as much as I loathed her, made perfect sense in prospect: first woman, established vs unknown, boring vs unpredictable, etc.

2020 Biden, as much as I loved Trump's "America First" policy and what it did for the economy, I totally get why Biden would have been favored: four years of media onslaught and hyping up every nothingburger as the biggest gaffe in history, Covid shutting down the world, etc.

2024 Kamala? Seriously? Where is her appeal coming from? Dems supporting her makes perfect sense. They don't care who the nominee is. The (D) after the name just means "puppet for the big government deep state." But why would independents swing to her? I just don't see any intangible working in her favor like there was in 2016 and 2020, one of which Trump won, and the other he greatly increased his number of votes.

Posted by: Shenanigans at August 05, 2024 12:45 PM (pZ0Mr)

346 So is it time to put on the colander face masks and assless chaps yet?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 05, 2024 12:45 PM (u73oe)

347 260 Will the center (of the shelves) Hold?
Posted by: illiniwek at August 05, 2024 12:34 PM (Cus5s)

The shelving cannot hear the shelvener

Posted by: Rough Ewok slouching at August 05, 2024 12:45 PM (q1Zxb)

348 This will inevitably affect my retirement finances, obviously.

Fucking with my legally, morally and ethically obtained retirement finances isn't going to go unanswered.

And I'll say no more about that.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 05, 2024 12:45 PM (hKoQL)

349 During the COVID-19 crisis, we witnessed some positive developments in terms of risk mitigation through global corporations, such as the rapid development of vaccines. But we did not respond as well to the crises that followed:

Like people discovering that the "vaccine" existed before the "disease" or the mass die-off of people who took the "vaccine" or whatever the fuck Intel and Boeing were thinking.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 05, 2024 12:46 PM (U7wke)

350 "wives everywhere after helping hubby find the mustard on the same shelf in every fridge they've owned since 2011 but now the ketchup bottle is slightly in front of it rendering it invisible to the male gaze.
Posted by: Just Lily"

If wives would just stop turning it around and leave it in the same orientation we wouldn't have this problem.

Posted by: Ripley at August 05, 2024 12:46 PM (GUOwU)

351 Prechter: "We don't have a market bottom of any consequence"

Cavootoh: "I just sharted"

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at August 05, 2024 12:46 PM (MkuC5)

352 289 But......she's wearing SHORTS!!!
Posted by: Sponge

Which are perfectly fine on a young woman.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

https://tinyurl.com/2s3u8k4s

This leggy model like shorts, but prefers short skirts, as they show off her legs much more appealingly.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 05, 2024 12:46 PM (JCZqz)

353 If wives would just stop turning it around and leave it in the same orientation we wouldn't have this problem.
Posted by: Ripley at August 05, 2024 12:46 PM (GUOwU)
++++
Also, learn to load the damn dishwasher.

Posted by: Imma run away now at August 05, 2024 12:46 PM (HnUIn)

354 Every stud finder I've ever had at best gives me a 50/50 chance of finding an actual stud.

Ain't that the truth?

Posted by: Recently Divorced Karen at August 05, 2024 12:46 PM (/U5Yz)

355 Does ace wear shorts while he shelves?

Posted by: occam's brassiere at August 05, 2024 12:46 PM (pXeye)

356 I loaded up on cheap freestanding bookshelves before K-Mart evaporated. I have eight of them in sight at this moment. Loaded up with crap that needs to be seriously winnowed.

Posted by: Filesystem /gp Corrupted at August 05, 2024 12:46 PM (lyfYv)

357 Frack it, let's stop the preliminaries and start shooting

Posted by: Archer at August 05, 2024 12:47 PM (IDphi)

358 it seems like the Dow, Nikkei and Bourse are all failing to set her up to win. Why is money so sexist/misogynistic and Indianphobic?

Posted by: jimmymcnulty at August 05, 2024 12:48 PM (m7IZx)

359 "So is it time to put on the colander face masks and assless chaps yet?
Posted by: Duke Lowell "

I hate when that happens.

Posted by: eleven at August 05, 2024 12:48 PM (fV+MH)

360 327
My wife moves items frequently from place to place without informing me and her placement makes sense to her but not to me.

Problem is, that I am the cook in the household and when she moves my food products where I cannot find them, I get a mite bent out of shape.
Posted by: whig

Most refrigerators are pretty small in comparison. Move a few things.

What I hate is I organize everything. I have clear bins, some made for produce specifically, a lazy Susan for condiments, etc. Why is it so dang hard to put things back? Why take an apple, decide you don’t want it, and then put it beside the container you just took it out of?

Posted by: Piper at August 05, 2024 12:48 PM (p4NUW)

361 https://tinyurl.com/2s3u8k4s

This leggy model like shorts, but prefers short skirts, as they show off her legs much more appealingly.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 05, 2024 12:46 PM (JCZqz)

There have been times in my life when I would have hit that.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 05, 2024 12:48 PM (aD39U)

362 Posted by: It's me donna at August 05, 2024 12:41 PM (IyPmt)

LOL. So true. Sometimes I have to give explicit instructions. "It's on the second shelf approximately two inches away the right corner of the fridge", although to be fair sometimes our fridge is so full of things that is hard to find things. I probably need to clean out the old jars more often.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 05, 2024 12:48 PM (dTTBf)

363 *holds stud finder to chest, makes beeping sound*

*laughes while the gf rolls here eyes*

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 05, 2024 12:48 PM (CIS44)

364 Bidenomics is still working.

Posted by: Roy at August 05, 2024 12:48 PM (z+ik4)

365 335 This usually occurs when she decided on a whim that it didn't need to go in the same spot it's been for the last 12 years and moved it to another shelf.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 05, 2024 12:41 PM (Zz0t1)

Or another room.
Or to the garage
Or to the thrift store
Posted by: mrp at August 05, 2024 12:43 PM (rj6Yv)

We can't find stuff because you keep fucking with our shit, despite having asked you hundreds of times to stop fucking with our shit.

Posted by: What's mine is mine, what's yours is mine at August 05, 2024 12:48 PM (q1Zxb)

366 I just don't see any intangible working in her favor like there was in 2016 and 2020, one of which Trump won, and the other he greatly increased his number of votes.
Posted by: Shenanigans at August 05, 2024 12:45 PM (pZ0Mr)

I'm with you....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 05, 2024 12:48 PM (IyPmt)

367 I have a ton of obsolescent computer books that need relocation chop chop.

Posted by: mrp at August 05, 2024 12:48 PM (rj6Yv)

368 Bonus damage is a built-in feature of my construction style.
......

Cleanup is a bitch.

Posted by: wth at August 05, 2024 12:48 PM (v0R5T)

369 Bidenomics is still working.
Posted by: Roy at August 05, 2024 12:48 PM (z+ik4)
++++
As well as it ever did.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:48 PM (HnUIn)

370
White double clasp belt or sans-a-belt pants: the classic summer dilemma.

Posted by: Auspex at August 05, 2024 12:49 PM (j4U/Z)

371 Ah, so yet again, it's everyone else being screwed by hot-shot investors playing stupid games with other people's money.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 05, 2024 12:29 PM (hB7mE)

Don't panic, don't sell, things will be back to stable in a few weeks and you take take stock of the situation.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 05, 2024 12:49 PM (U7wke)

372 Carpenters somehow find studs by rapping on the wall with their knuckles. They'll ask me if I can hear the difference and it honestly always sounds exactly the same.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 05, 2024 12:49 PM (ogTiX)

373 Don't panic, don't sell, things will be back to stable in a few weeks and you take take stock of the situation.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 05, 2024 12:49 PM (U7wke)

Unless it's 2008.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 05, 2024 12:49 PM (aD39U)

374
What I hate is I organize everything. I have clear bins, some made for produce specifically, a lazy Susan for condiments, etc. Why is it so dang hard to put things back? Why take an apple, decide you don’t want it, and then put it beside the container you just took it out of?
Posted by: Piper at August 05, 2024 12:48 PM (p4NUW)

——-

My wife says that too, but then I look around and 90% of the mess in the pantry is her doings.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 05, 2024 12:49 PM (QnIJ2)

375 Forget the fridge. It sometimes takes me hours to find, like, 3 items in the supermarket.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 12:49 PM (v6JzV)

376 332 JOE BIDEN LAST WEEK: “I cured the economy.”

Like epoxy. It's now permanent.

Posted by: t-bird at August 05, 2024 12:43 PM (710OU)

He put dirt on it and then placed a hot iron.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:49 PM (ynpvh)

377 There have been times in my life when I would have hit that.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 05, 2024 12:48 PM (aD39U)

Every man has things that are regretted later in life.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at August 05, 2024 12:49 PM (MkuC5)

378 Howdy Ace, Horde

Look, stock markets may be crashing. But the important thing is that globalist billionaires will be okay.

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 05, 2024 12:49 PM (JcnCJ)

379 So is this selloff the cardiac arrest or turbo cancer?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 05, 2024 12:3

Penile and vaginal necrosis...

Not as common as the other two, it gets you VERY CONCERNED, and even people not usually interested in crap like this are still curious...

Posted by: Stateless at August 05, 2024 12:50 PM (jvJvP)

380 In my latest column, I prove that Ace's shelving project is going to be fine. Any doubts about its success are simply unfounded.

Posted by: Jim Cramer at August 05, 2024 12:50 PM (Y6IkP)

381 I've been immune to market forces and have lived in blissful retirement since 8/20/07 by cashing out and putting all assets into Margaret Keane originals. They never go out of fashion. Prices have gone through the roof since she passed on in 2022.

Posted by: Big Eyes, FTW! at August 05, 2024 12:50 PM (CV8a5)

382 At this point, if Biden addressed the economic situation, the DOW would drop another thousand points...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 05, 2024 12:50 PM (MeG8a)

383 >>Carpenters somehow find studs by rapping on the wall with their knuckles. They'll ask me if I can hear the difference and it honestly always sounds exactly the same.

The voids...get this...sound hollow.

Posted by: garrett at August 05, 2024 12:50 PM (BwNH5)

384 Ha!

Oh, I remember. Search engines that worked. It was like a light switch being thrown.

All of a sudden, standard search phrases no longer produced good results. Just page after page of bullshit. I had a website, a primitive one, but it was good. It got a lot of traffic. That was still an operating mechanism for page placement.

All that went away. Worse, they actively prevent accurate searches to be possible, it would appear.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 05, 2024 12:50 PM (aOYfI)

385 My wife moves items frequently from place to place without informing me and her placement makes sense to her but not to me.

It's a kitchen game like, "Where's Waldo?" except with foodstuffs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 05, 2024 12:50 PM (dTTBf)

386 There have been times in my life when I would have hit that.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

Lol...it's Dylan Mulvaney.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 05, 2024 12:50 PM (JCZqz)

387 I like gold, everyone should own some (and pray to God they never need it) it's been a reasonably good hedge if one purchased back in the heady days of $275

Although, arguably, if you cannot touch your gold, you do not own gold.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 05, 2024 12:50 PM (U7wke)

388 And it (unemployment) might be four times more than what the Regime admits.
........

Oh no. Have I been lied to again?

Posted by: wth at August 05, 2024 12:50 PM (v0R5T)

389 Nice to see the Blog is doing well enough to be 3 tier shelving worthy.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Weird Dude at August 05, 2024 12:50 PM (nsnF6)

390 Blake, because I was an Independent contractor for many years, I had a Keogh account which I always fully funded every year. I had a client who worked for Fidelity. His job was to oversee the mutual funds to make sure that they followed the rules.
I decided that was the way to go. Researched and picked a number of funds covering different categories of stocks. I have weathered a number of these storms and so far they have not disappointed.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 05, 2024 12:51 PM (t/2Uw)

391 Nearly one in 10 work for the government at one level or another. Those workers are supported entirely by tax dollars without producing any material wealth. Every government employee involved in regulation makes it harder for the rest of us to do so.
Then my real full-time job pays the taxes that pay my Social Security and Nave retirement? Am I trapped on some relentless tax hamster death wheel?

Posted by: Eromero at August 05, 2024 12:51 PM (scfxi)

392 Lol...it's Dylan Mulvaney.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 05, 2024 12:50 PM (JCZqz)

I've been pretty drunk before.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 05, 2024 12:51 PM (aD39U)

393 I bet Ed Morrissey doesn't have 3 tier shelving.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Weird Dude at August 05, 2024 12:51 PM (nsnF6)

394 Every man has things that are regretted later in life.
Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at August 05, 2024 12:49 PM (MkuC5)

In some cases, that would be surviving infancy.

Posted by: Bad luck at August 05, 2024 12:51 PM (q1Zxb)

395 290 Somebody's going to try to corner the Tulip market and then everything'll go to hell.
-----------
I know exactly where to plant my tulips to get out ahead!
Posted by: kamala at August 05, 2024 12:38 PM (i0CiB

Can I interest you in some blockchain?

Posted by: The crypto market at August 05, 2024 12:51 PM (uBBbP)

396 Trump should 1337 $p34k his tweets now too

Posted by: Halfhand at August 05, 2024 12:51 PM (WB6YK)

397 367 I have a ton of obsolescent computer books that need relocation chop chop.
Posted by: mrp at August 05, 2024 12:48 PM (rj6Yv)

Have a fire pit?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 05, 2024 12:51 PM (N39Ws)

398 Gold usually acts countercyclically. It goes up during recessions, which is also when you see deflation. Commodities in general correlate with inflation, but for gold that impact is swamped by its use as a safe haven asset.

Under hyperinflation inflation will dominate its price movement, but in more ordinary times it works more like US Treasuries.
Posted by: Someguy's phone
========
Gold does not do well in economic shocks initially (store of value) but can do better afterwards depending on the times (wars, shortages, etc), government policies, etc.

Use Macrotrends 100 year of gold prices and you can see the peaks and valleys.

Energy is actually a better proxy for the economy as gross energy demand goes up in a functioning economy and goes down in a non functioning one.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2024 12:51 PM (qdbNv)

399 What a day, what a day!

Been coal mining non-stop for the past 36 hrs. Time to have a bologna sammich and then back at it. I just love those little carts you lay down on to ride!

LETS DANCE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O445CcK0qY

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at August 05, 2024 12:51 PM (5hfjS)

400 Khameini invited Nasrallah to visit Teheran for talks.

==

yeah, do that Nasrallah

Posted by: runner at August 05, 2024 12:51 PM (V13WU)

401 BUY BUY BUY !
OR SELL SELL SELL !

Posted by: Jim Cramer - Investment Pro and Media Personality at August 05, 2024 12:52 PM (v0R5T)

402 372 Carpenters somehow find studs by rapping on the wall with their knuckles. They'll ask me if I can hear the difference and it honestly always sounds exactly the same.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 05, 2024 12:49 PM (ogTiX)

Big-time amateur here but I've been able to do that a few times. Wall is also harder in those spots. You can feel a little flex where it's open behind.

Funny story. My FiL came to help me hang a TV. He kept tapping the wall to find the stud.

You seriously would've thought we were shooting at the wall with the amount of holes he put in the thing. Managed to miss every stud. Was impressive.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 05, 2024 12:52 PM (KbCG3)

403 So has Mamala dearest picked her VP flunky yet ? I imagine when she does her numbers will go up more.. At least they will make it look like they did

Posted by: It's me donna at August 05, 2024 12:52 PM (IyPmt)

404 Lol...it's Dylan Mulvaney.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 05, 2024 12:50 PM (JCZqz)

I've been pretty drunk before.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

I imagine it's like drunkenly trying to unlock your door in the dark at 3am. "I can't quite find the hole or get it in. Wait, this is the wrong key. Let me feel around a bit more ."

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 05, 2024 12:53 PM (JCZqz)

405
I forget what movie it was but the husband insisted all the labels of the products in their pantry faced forward. He had a lot of other issues too, but that was the one that made me laugh. His wife plans some involved escape. Fun movie.

But all the cans in our pantry face forward. I check. It only takes seconds to load them like that.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 05, 2024 12:53 PM (RKVpM)

406 Mrs O'Spades: I am tired of the toenail fungus ads on the blog

Ace: Shut your mouth! Toenail fungus ads paid for your 3 tier shelving!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Weird Dude at August 05, 2024 12:53 PM (nsnF6)

407 Other Outlet / Switch boxes will show you/confirm if you are dealing with 16 centers.

Posted by: garrett at August 05, 2024 12:43 PM (BwNH5)

You mean the boxes that are horizontal, the plugs upside down, the four light switches that do nothing unless one is up, if two are up, no lights come on? Those boxes?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2024 12:53 PM (0eaVi)

408 Idiots Guide To DOS 2.3 is always an entertaining read.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at August 05, 2024 12:53 PM (MkuC5)

409 367 I have a ton of obsolescent computer books that need relocation chop chop.
Posted by: mrp
=====
Better World Books takes donations and might be in your area. They resale the resaleable ones and pulp/recycle the ones that are not.

Got a lot of obscure books from them over the years for various projects back when I was doing active research.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2024 12:53 PM (qdbNv)

410 I like gold, everyone should own some (and pray to God they never need it) it's been a reasonably good hedge if one purchased back in the heady days of $275

Although, arguably, if you cannot touch your gold, you do not own gold.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Physical gold like bullion or coins vs gold stock certificates.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 05, 2024 12:53 PM (3fGPY)

411 404 Lol...it's Dylan Mulvaney.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 05, 2024 12:50 PM (JCZqz)

I've been pretty drunk before.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

I imagine it's like drunkenly trying to unlock your door in the dark at 3am. "I can't quite find the hole or get it in. Wait, this is the wrong key. Let me feel around a bit more ."

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 05, 2024 12:53 PM (JCZqz)

LOL
I've never been that drunk (outside my abode)...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:54 PM (ynpvh)

412 The first time I saw The Crying Game, I told my wife that the black lady singing was hot, but her hands were enormous.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 05, 2024 12:54 PM (ogTiX)

413 She has picked Shapiro, they are just making people think there is great thought being out into it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Weird Dude at August 05, 2024 12:54 PM (nsnF6)

414 Doug Emhoff's ex-wife put out a statement absolving him from knocking up the nanny.
====
How??
It was dark one night and he got lost on his way back from the bathroom?? We had an open marriage and I encourage him to bang the help in lieu of a Christmas bonus? Seriously what does that sound like?? What kind of people are we dealing with?

Posted by: A normalish person at August 05, 2024 12:54 PM (QB3IK)

415 344 If someone asked me what "Topix, with an 'x'," was, I'd say "a dating site for journalists," or maybe "the Dollar Store version of Hot Topic."

"A Japanese financial index" would not have been in my top ten guesses.

many machines on ix. top machines. better than those on richese.

Posted by: third atage guild navigator at August 05, 2024 12:54 PM (Pk+76)

416 Is this French dressing expired in 2005 still good?

Posted by: Hangry Hank at August 05, 2024 12:54 PM (CV8a5)

417 >>You mean the boxes that are horizontal, the plugs upside down, the four light switches that do nothing unless one is up, if two are up, no lights come on? Those boxes?

They aren't floating there no matter how fucked up they are. They are anchored on one side.

Posted by: garrett at August 05, 2024 12:54 PM (BwNH5)

418 Then my real full-time job pays the taxes that pay my Social Security and Nave retirement? Am I trapped on some relentless tax hamster death wheel?
Posted by: Eromero
......

Look, over there! JD Vance is weird.

Posted by: wth at August 05, 2024 12:54 PM (v0R5T)

419 As we lose a trillion, Biden is in DE. Yay.

Posted by: Piper at August 05, 2024 12:54 PM (p4NUW)

420 BabylonBee: Historic: Kamala Harris Becomes First Black Woman To Destroy World Economy

Posted by: SMOD at August 05, 2024 12:54 PM (RHGPo)

421 Seriously what does that sound like?? What kind of people are we dealing with?
Posted by: A normalish person at August 05, 2024 12:54 PM (QB3IK)

Dems that will win at all costs.. Talk about a cult

Posted by: It's me donna at August 05, 2024 12:55 PM (IyPmt)

422 Turn those machines back on!

Posted by: Archer at August 05, 2024 12:55 PM (IDphi)

423 Is this French dressing expired in 2005 still good?
Posted by: Hangry Hank at August 05, 2024 12:54 PM (CV8a5)
++++
No.

But it might not be toxic.

Give it a shot.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:55 PM (HnUIn)

424 It is working, since the plan is to destroy the US ...

Posted by: steevy at August 05, 2024 12:55 PM (HJ9BW)

425 I forget what movie it was but the husband insisted all the labels of the products in their pantry faced forward. He had a lot of other issues too, b

Sleeping With The Enemy

Creepy scene when she opens the cabinet and sees the cans aligned, and realizes he found her and was in the house.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 05, 2024 12:55 PM (ufFY8)

426 412 The first time I saw The Crying Game, I told my wife that the black lady singing was hot, but her hands were enormous.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 05, 2024 12:54 PM (ogTiX)

My response to the "unveiling" was: "That chick's got a dick!"...
::: there are no chicks with dicks, only guys with boobs :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:55 PM (ynpvh)

427 "seems like the Dow, Nikkei and Bourse are all failing to set her up to win. Why is money so sexist/misogynistic and Indianphobic?"

I wonder if Powell will move quickly to give a couple quarter point rate cuts, to "save the markets" for Kamala. Or maybe just print a trillion or two and Buy the Market?

I say "let 'em crash".

Posted by: illiniwek at August 05, 2024 12:55 PM (Cus5s)

428 Then my real full-time job pays the taxes that pay my Social Security and Nave retirement? Am I trapped on some relentless tax hamster death wheel?
Posted by: Eromero
======
Been that way since civilization existed. Pharoahs had lots of useless projects too that sucked the marrow from the population bones too.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2024 12:55 PM (qdbNv)

429 >>> 360
==
What I hate is I organize everything. I have clear bins, some made for produce specifically, a lazy Susan for condiments, etc. Why is it so dang hard to put things back? Why take an apple, decide you don’t want it, and then put it beside the container you just took it out of?
Posted by: Piper at August 05, 2024 12:48 PM (p4NUW)

Are you sure that's the humans, not the cats?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 05, 2024 12:55 PM (FnneF)

430
Tomorrow's fake news headlines:

Republicans "pounce" and "seize" on Stock Market Woes.

and

Republicans Take Glee with Stock Market Unrest
Posted by: Soothsayer

Republicans "talking down" the economy

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 05, 2024 12:55 PM (63Dwl)

431
Nice to see the Blog is doing well enough to be 3 tier shelving worthy.

No person needs more then one set of book shelves.

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at August 05, 2024 12:55 PM (RKVpM)

432 Pantry items should be arranged in alphabetical order if at all possible.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 12:56 PM (v6JzV)

433 353 If wives would just stop turning it around and leave it in the same orientation we wouldn't have this problem.
Posted by: Ripley at August 05, 2024 12:46 PM (GUOwU)
++++
Also, learn to load the damn dishwasher.
Posted by: Imma run away now at August 05, 2024 12:46 PM (HnUIn)

This. Why are all the plate sizes mixed together with frying pans and cereal bowls?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 05, 2024 12:56 PM (uBBbP)

434 Have a fire pit?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 05, 2024 12:51 PM (N39Ws)

Pretty soon, we'll all need burn barrels. Nice for warming hands on a cold winter's night.

Posted by: mrp at August 05, 2024 12:56 PM (rj6Yv)

435 Future headline!!!

DOW CRASHES!!! LOSES TWENTY THOUSAND POINTS IN 6HOURS!!! DOOM!

One month later.....
Headline
The Dow fell twenty thousand points and no one noticed or cared. "It's like people are really heartless about our suffering", said one stockbroker.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 05, 2024 12:56 PM (4XwPj)

436 I bought a box of Little Debbie's cakes Friday and the "best buy" date is today already. Those things will be fine a year from now.

Posted by: steevy at August 05, 2024 12:56 PM (HJ9BW)

437 414 Doug Emhoff's ex-wife put out a statement absolving him from knocking up the nanny.
====
How??
It was dark one night and he got lost on his way back from the bathroom?? We had an open marriage and I encourage him to bang the help in lieu of a Christmas bonus? Seriously what does that sound like?? What kind of people are we dealing with?

Posted by: A normalish person at August 05, 2024 12:54 PM (QB3IK)

https://youtu.be/Xxu7Ko2JSlI

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:56 PM (ynpvh)

438 Pantry items should be arranged in alphabetical order if at all possible.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 12:56 PM (v6JzV)

By height.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 05, 2024 12:56 PM (aD39U)

439 Shades of 2008

… perhaps Harris should suspend her campaign to deal with the economy

Posted by: SMOD at August 05, 2024 12:56 PM (RHGPo)

440 340
Every stud finder I've ever had at best gives me a 50/50 chance of finding an actual stud.

They pretty much suck because builders don't use a lot of nails. I gotta about 5 methods.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 05, 2024 12:44 PM (RKVpM)

If it's an outside wall you can use a thermal scope. Not worth buying one to just use as a stud finder, but if you already have one it works great. Studs probably won't show on an inside wall as everything is the same temp.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (VGRuw)

441 Suckers put their money in the stock market. Bury it in the backyard. Or put it in a strongbox on a strong shelf.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (pXeye)

442 Best by even

Posted by: steevy at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (HJ9BW)

443 I wonder if Powell will move quickly to give a couple quarter point rate cuts, to "save the markets" for Kamala. Or maybe just print a trillion or two and Buy the Market?

I say "let 'em crash".
Posted by: illiniwek

Depends on a lot of information but a half a percent drop is probably not going to cut it with the other economic problems going on. That leaves out potential oil price shock if the Middle East goes up in flames. Take out Kharg Island and energy prices will soar.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (qdbNv)

444 when the burning times come, money invested in ammo will pay off better than money invented in gold

Posted by: Lord Humongous at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (25k9m)

445 Market was up huge the last two months. So this is a "crash" only in the sense that it corrected to about June. You can't cover the big declines without also covering the big gains.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (iFTx/)

446 I look forward to the Downfall parody of Ace's inevitable shelving collapse.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (JCZqz)

447 Then my real full-time job pays the taxes that pay my Social Security and Nave retirement? Am I trapped on some relentless tax hamster death wheel?
Posted by: Eromero at August 05, 2024 12:51 PM

Yes. Why do you ask?

Or more specifically, why are you wasting time asking, when you could be producing?

Posted by: Your Aristocratic Elite, now with more aristocraticness at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (a3Q+t)

448 Wait wait...I know the answer to the current economic meltdown...

Print more money to give to Ukraine, illegals, and government clients
Bring in more illegals
Regulate some more crap

Posted by: Every democrat apparently at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (oZhjI)

449 I saw Relentless Tax Hamster Death Wheel open for Bang Tango at Crest Theatre in '91.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (jPIt3)

450 The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee
Historic: Kamala Harris Becomes First Black Woman To Destroy World Economy
https://buff.ly/3WxH9i7

Posted by: kamala at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (i0CiB)

451 Suckers put their money in the stock market. Bury it in the backyard. Or put it in a strongbox on a strong shelf.
Posted by: occam's brassiere at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (pXeye)

Confederate Bonds.

*touches nose*

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (aD39U)

452 Isn’t clownworld fun?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (y1Cv5)

453 How does one absolve someone cheating on you and knocking up your nanny?

I was a royal c**t and I deserved it?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (XV/Pl)

454 The Biden economy is so bad his own job was outsourced to an Indian.

Posted by: Darles Chickens at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (uIvDK)

455 My wife moves items frequently from place to place without informing me and her placement makes sense to her but not to me.

Problem is, that I am the cook in the household and when she moves my food products where I cannot find them, I get a mite bent out of shape.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2024 12:42 PM (qdbNv)

Add to the fun that Pooky's got memory issues, so I can tell him several times in one week that I moved something and he'll still forget that I told him.

Posted by: pookysgirl is very patient... most of the time at August 05, 2024 12:58 PM (dtlDP)

456 It's going to get worse. Anyone see how basically every major brokerage "froze" and customers couldnt get into their accounts? I'm sure it's a total coincidence.

Posted by: Blago at August 05, 2024 12:58 PM (wMRY8)

457 439 Shades of 2008

… perhaps Harris should suspend her campaign to deal with the economy
Posted by: SMOD at August 05, 2024 12:56 PM (RHGPo)

Haven't you heard ? She's not responsible for any of it.. She's new and improved

Posted by: It's me donna at August 05, 2024 12:58 PM (IyPmt)

458 423 Is this French dressing expired in 2005 still good?
Posted by: Hangry Hank at August 05, 2024 12:54 PM (CV8a5)
++++
No.

But it might not be toxic.

Give it a shot.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:55 PM (HnUIn)

It's now Montezuma's dressing...it'll make you run for the border.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 12:58 PM (ynpvh)

459 431
Nice to see the Blog is doing well enough to be 3 tier shelving worthy.

No person needs more then one set of book shelves.
Posted by: Bernie Sanders at August 05, 2024 12:55 PM (RKVpM)/

Exactly, Crazy-haired secular Jew grasshopper.

Posted by: Marie Kondo at August 05, 2024 12:58 PM (PiwSw)

460
Sleeping With The Enemy

Creepy scene when she opens the cabinet and sees the cans aligned, and realizes he found her and was in the house.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 05, 2024 12:55 PM

That was it. Julia Roberts. Thanks.

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at August 05, 2024 12:58 PM (RKVpM)

461 I have a ton of obsolescent computer books that need relocation chop chop.

Classics like "The Windows ME Power User's Bible?" I just made that title up but it probably exists.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 05, 2024 12:58 PM (/y8xj)

462 My Beanie Baby collection is going to finally pay off~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 05, 2024 12:58 PM (IG4Id)

463 It is just boomers who have been hoarding their wealth who lost out anyway. It has been redistributed to the utes, where it belongs.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Weird Dude at August 05, 2024 12:58 PM (nsnF6)

464 445 Market was up huge the last two months. So this is a "crash" only in the sense that it corrected to about June. You can't cover the big declines without also covering the big gains.

yep and also a "correction" happens every August I can remember bc people pull money out to pay for tuition

btw

ouch

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 05, 2024 12:58 PM (s3qiR)

465 If you can't find a stud in a wall you should probably consider engaging in another activity...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 05, 2024 12:58 PM (MeG8a)

466 The Dow fell twenty thousand points and no one noticed or cared. "It's like people are really heartless about our suffering", said one stockbroker.
Posted by: Madamemayhem

1987 Crash was like that. Not every crash presages a recession and most intelligent people already knew that the market was overvalued but quite a few were trading on momentum.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2024 12:59 PM (qdbNv)

467 Best by even
Posted by: steevy at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM

Pfft. Always bet on black!

Posted by: Wesley Snipes, playing Wesley Snipes at August 05, 2024 12:59 PM (a3Q+t)

468 Bang Tango. Band I haven’t thought of in 30 years.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 05, 2024 12:59 PM (y1Cv5)

469 Paging Janet Yellen! Paging Janet Yellen!

Please pick up the green courtesy phone at the main lobby desk.

Thank you.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 05, 2024 12:59 PM (K/1/x)

470 The real advantage enjoyed by the Biden - Harris team is that no recession can occur unless they declare it. Sort of an economic Lysenkoism. That old nonsense about two straight quarters of negative growth has officially been declared 20th century thinking.

"To understand the significance of economic Headwinds can only be truly understood by someone of significance who also is economic in the understanding of economics and significant with the Headwinds. Or Something."

Kamala Harris
(But don't quote me!)

Posted by: JB1000 at August 05, 2024 12:59 PM (YjOFQ)

471 I wonder if Powell will move quickly to give a couple quarter point rate cuts, to "save the markets" for Kamala. Or maybe just print a trillion or two and Buy the Market?

I say "let 'em crash".
Posted by: illiniwek

Depends on a lot of information but a half a percent drop is probably not going to cut it with the other economic problems going on. That leaves out potential oil price shock if the Middle East goes up in flames. Take out Kharg Island and energy prices will soar.
Posted by: whig

___

The market had already priced in multiple rate cuts and a perfect soft landing.

But yes, my guess is Powell will come in and "do something" so he's not the guy at the helm when it all comes apart.

Posted by: Blago at August 05, 2024 12:59 PM (wMRY8)

472 Doug Emhoff's ex-wife put out a statement absolving him from knocking up the nanny.
====
How??

Dicke Titten

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 05, 2024 12:59 PM (ufFY8)

473 This. Why are all the plate sizes mixed together with frying pans and cereal bowls?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 05, 2024 12:56 PM (uBBbP)
++++
This comes down to a fundamental disagreement on methodology.

Most women I have met subscribe to the "just in time" model of dishwasher loading. As dirty dishes are made, they go into the dishwasher promptly to keep the counters and sink neat. Since the final dish volume and distribution is unknown, it results in what appears to be haphazard loading. It wasn't haphazard in fact, it was due to a data deficit.

The other approach is the "capacity optimized" model of dishwasher loading. In this approach, dirty dishes are cached nearby - on the counters or in the sink - until it approaches a volume approaching a full load. Then the dishwasher is loaded all at once and optimized for maximum capacity, then immediately run. The upside is greater loading efficiency. The downside is that it looks messy during the dirty dish production stage.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:59 PM (HnUIn)

474 374
My wife says that too, but then I look around and 90% of the mess in the pantry is her doings.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August

My pantry had wood bins, glass bins and it’s all labeled. In the bins are dividers. For example, the snack one has places for protein bars, granola bars, apple sauce, etc.

Posted by: Piper at August 05, 2024 12:59 PM (p4NUW)

475 What does Jim Cramer advise? Don't do that.

Posted by: t-bird at August 05, 2024 12:59 PM (710OU)

476 Remember kids, when the U.S. economy catches a cold, the rest of the world gets the flu. The U.S. economy currently has avian flu + swine flu. The world economy overall is probably coming down with pneumonia.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at August 05, 2024 12:59 PM (W+kMI)

477 quite a few were trading on momentum.
Posted by: whig at August 05, 2024 12:59 PM (qdbNv)

Yes .. err .. um .. quite.

Those dumbasses.

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 05, 2024 12:59 PM (aD39U)

478 Wait wait...I know the answer to the current economic meltdown...

Print more money to give to Ukraine, illegals, and government clients
Bring in more illegals
Regulate some more crap

Posted by: Every democrat apparently at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (oZhjI)

--------------

"And ban ALL forms of carbon. REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at August 05, 2024 01:00 PM (jPIt3)

479 Then my real full-time job pays the taxes that pay my Social Security and Nave retirement? Am I trapped on some relentless tax hamster death wheel?

One fun variant on this I've been considering...I own my house. Well...I have a loan. If I don't make my loan payments my bank will take my house until I pay off the loan.

I also have real estate taxes. And just like the bank loan if I don't pay my regular tax payment the government will take possession.

But...I can't just "pay off" the government taxes can I? So do I even own it or am I renting it from the government?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 05, 2024 01:00 PM (oZhjI)

480 Suckers put their money in the stock market. Bury it in the backyard. Or put it in a strongbox on a strong shelf.
Posted by: occam's brassiere at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (pXeye)

Confederate Bonds.

*touches nose*
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (aD39U)

Chateau Pavie Wine !

Posted by: runner at August 05, 2024 01:00 PM (V13WU)

481 The world is just panicking at the thought of Trump winning.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Weird Dude at August 05, 2024 01:00 PM (nsnF6)

482 Am I trapped on some relentless tax hamster death wheel?
Posted by: Eromero

I saw Tax Hamster Death Wheel open for The Eagles of Death Metal at Red Rocks in '06.

Posted by: mikeski at August 05, 2024 01:00 PM (DgGvY)

483 It's adorable that people actually think that Kumswalla is picking anyone...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 05, 2024 01:00 PM (1FWWQ)

484 Is there a standard metric that takes the government portion out of GDP? I'm interested in any correlation between the value added GDP (which doesn't include the NVA Uncle Sam portion) and the real net jobs numbers (Legal residents, not illegals, as related to total participation numbers, not unemployment rate).

Posted by: jj at August 05, 2024 01:00 PM (rnZPx)

485 You'll need plenty of everything numbnuts. It isn't an "either or" proposition. Good luck

Posted by: Common Tater at August 05, 2024 01:00 PM (aOYfI)

486 Can't wait for Joe/Barry to start bleating for another $60B payout to Ukraine.

Posted by: mrp at August 05, 2024 01:00 PM (rj6Yv)

487 Add to the fun that Pooky's got memory issues, so I can tell him several times in one week that I moved something and he'll still forget that I told him.
Posted by: pookysgirl
======
I have those senior moments too from time to time. But generally, I organize something that I use frequently and I want it left alone as I have always been absent minded.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2024 01:00 PM (qdbNv)

488 453 How does one absolve someone cheating on you and knocking up your nanny?

I was a royal c**t and I deserved it?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (XV/Pl)
Was she hot like Arnold’s nanny?

Posted by: Eromero at August 05, 2024 01:00 PM (scfxi)

489 The American Rescue Plan actually rescued the U. S. Department of Labor Pension and Benefits so it could rescue huge multi-employer unions.

>WH Briefing room, December 08, 2022
FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces Historic Relief to Protect Hard-Earned Pensions of Hundreds of Thousands of Union Workers and Retirees

American Rescue Plan prevents pension benefit cuts of roughly 60% in the next few years for over 350,000 Central States Pension Fund workers and retirees
------
>ABA, 09/21/23, Issue: Summer 2021
2021 Single Employer and Multiemployer Defined Benefit Pension Plan Provisions: The American Rescue Plan Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
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>Taxpayer Bailout of Multiemployer Pension Plans and Government-mandated Project Labor Agreements, March 17, 2021 | ABC News, GA-PLAs, Ga-PLAs-Federal-Legislation, GA-PLAs-State & Local

“Small businesses work hard to provide good benefits for their employees and call the concession to these plans a costly bailout,” said Peter Comstock, senior director of legislative affairs at Associated Builders and Contractors in a March 11 interview with Construction Dive.
---
How does it work when it all falls apart?

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at August 05, 2024 01:01 PM (NFX2v)

490 Funny story. My FiL came to help me hang a TV. He kept tapping the wall to find the stud.

You seriously would've thought we were shooting at the wall with the amount of holes he put in the thing. Managed to miss every stud. Was impressive.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 05, 2024 12:52 PM (KbCG3)

+++++

This is me exactly! I was trying to hang a bicycle pulley on the garage ceiling and could not find a stud to save my life. I was sweating bullets because the floor above the garage had radiant heat.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 05, 2024 01:01 PM (ogTiX)

491 What does Jim Cramer advise?
Posted by: t-bird at August 05, 2024 12:59 PM (710OU)
-

https://tinyurl.com/bdfe9v5d

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 05, 2024 01:01 PM (K/1/x)

492 If you can't find a stud in a wall you should probably consider engaging in another activity...
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 05, 2024 12:58 PM

Or in a meat market.

Posted by: Caren Cougar at August 05, 2024 01:01 PM (a3Q+t)

493 The other approach is the "capacity optimized" model of dishwasher loading. In this approach, dirty dishes are cached nearby - on the counters or in the sink - until it approaches a volume approaching a full load. Then the dishwasher is loaded all at once and optimized for maximum capacity, then immediately run. The upside is greater loading efficiency. The downside is that it looks messy during the dirty dish production stage.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) a

Those dishes needed to soak! (this is always my claim)

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 05, 2024 01:01 PM (CIS44)

494 This chilly brunette is having such trouble in the current economy that she can't even afford a brassiere:
http://tiny.cc/02sdzz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:33 PM (HnUIn)

Vee have ways to warm zem up.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 05, 2024 01:01 PM (VwHCD)

495 Doug Emhoff's ex-wife put out a statement absolving him from knocking up the nanny.
====
How??

Dicke Titten
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop
___

Didnt they already admit to all of it?

Posted by: Blago at August 05, 2024 01:01 PM (wMRY8)

496 This comes down to a fundamental disagreement on methodology.

Most women I have met subscribe to the "just in time" model of dishwasher loading. As dirty dishes are made, they go into the dishwasher promptly to keep the counters and sink neat. Since the final dish volume and distribution is unknown, it results in what appears to be haphazard loading. It wasn't haphazard in fact, it was due to a data deficit.

The other approach is the "capacity optimized" model of dishwasher loading. In this approach, dirty dishes are cached nearby - on the counters or in the sink - until it approaches a volume approaching a full load. Then the dishwasher is loaded all at once and optimized for maximum capacity, then immediately run. The upside is greater loading efficiency. The downside is that it looks messy during the dirty dish production stage.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:59 PM (HnUIn)___

They go in the dishwasher the instant they are used. There is no other model. Otherwise you have dirty dishes and shit piled up in the sink or whatever. Nasty.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 05, 2024 01:01 PM (iFTx/)

497 Good afternoon everyone. Time to break into my stash of Tastycakes.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2024 01:01 PM (WXNFJ)

498 Doug Emhoff's ex-wife put out a statement absolving him from knocking up the nanny.

Kerstin Emhoff: "Sure, sure, I know... it just happened. Coulda happened to anybody. It was an accident, right? You tripped, slipped on the floor and accidentally stuck your dick into the nanny."

(parts stolen from Last Boy Scout)

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 05, 2024 01:01 PM (N39Ws)

499 484 Is there a standard metric that takes the government portion out of GDP? I'm interested in any correlation between the value added GDP (which doesn't include the NVA Uncle Sam portion) and the real net jobs numbers (Legal residents, not illegals, as related to total participation numbers, not unemployment rate).

it would be intereting

either way 1 in 10 being govt jobs is so incredibly low! it's BS. it's more than half esp if you include "goat-adjacent"

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 05, 2024 01:01 PM (s3qiR)

500 Will the president be making a statement? Who is the president?

Posted by: steevy at August 05, 2024 01:01 PM (HJ9BW)

501 456 It's going to get worse. Anyone see how basically every major brokerage "froze" and customers couldnt get into their accounts? I'm sure it's a total coincidence.
-------------------------------
yep - Schwab was basically down for 2 hours - so much for real time trading or loss prevention for the little guy.

Posted by: theATL at August 05, 2024 01:02 PM (BYfP9)

502 481 The world is just panicking at the thought of Trump winning.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Weird Dude at August 05, 2024 01:00 PM (nsnF6)

But...I was told Kumala's up in the polls...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 01:02 PM (ynpvh)

503 Doug Emhoff's ex-wife put out a statement absolving him from knocking up the nanny.
====

Okay, but how about the poor girl on the other side of this coin?

Posted by: Piper at August 05, 2024 01:02 PM (p4NUW)

504 The other approach is the "capacity optimized" model of dishwasher loading. In this approach, dirty dishes are cached nearby - on the counters or in the sink - until it approaches a volume approaching a full load. Then the dishwasher is loaded all at once and optimized for maximum capacity, then immediately run. The upside is greater loading efficiency. The downside is that it looks messy during the dirty dish production stage.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 12:59 PM (HnUIn)

Get out of my kitchen, dangit! I knew I heard something weird in there!

Posted by: pookysgirl, grabbing a stuffed penguin for defense at August 05, 2024 01:02 PM (dtlDP)

505 I just put stuff in the dishwasher where it will fit, and where it will not create a racket by bumping up against other stuff.

And the plastic stuff always goes on the top shelf.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 01:02 PM (v6JzV)

506 "The Best Economy In History, Jack!" may now be in the same place as Carter's economy in the seventies, in which there were literally no good moves to make. In a "stagflation" economy, which features the worst of both worlds, low growth and high inflation, you can't cut interest rates to spur growth because that will increase the inflation which is already too high, and you can't raise rates to slow inflation because that will tank an already-weak economy.
=
Yeah, when your entire approach to economic growth is borrowing money to make the numbers look better in the short term, eventually you reach the unavoidable point where the bill comes due.

Posted by: Methos at August 05, 2024 01:02 PM (Dnobf)

507 They go in the dishwasher the instant they are used. There is no other model. Otherwise you have dirty dishes and shit piled up in the sink or whatever. Nasty.
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 05, 2024 01:01 PM (iFTx/)
++++
Rinse them.

I fully subscribe to the capacity-optimized model. Rinse them off, stack them in the sink, load at all once, minimize hand-wash other than the obligate hand-wash.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 01:02 PM (HnUIn)

508 Perfect timing by the master Biden:
https://tinyurl.com/22ybcbt7

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 05, 2024 01:02 PM (t/2Uw)

509 There was a suspect major economic crisis shortly before the 2008 election.

Posted by: davidt at August 05, 2024 01:02 PM (i0F8b)

510 This chilly brunette is having such trouble in the current economy that she can't even afford a brassiere:
http://tiny.cc/02sdzz

Posted by: Joe Mannix

That woman is showing her ankles!! How tawdry!!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2024 01:02 PM (WXNFJ)

511 offen sock

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 01:03 PM (i0CiB)

512 445 Market was up huge the last two months. So this is a "crash" only in the sense that it corrected to about June. You can't cover the big declines without also covering the big gains.
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (iFTx/)

So if you discovered the US markets are completing a massive bull market wave that started in 1877 you'd say...?

Posted by: Ralph Nelson Elliott at August 05, 2024 01:03 PM (MkuC5)

513 yep - Schwab was basically down for 2 hours - so much for real time trading or loss prevention for the little guy.
Posted by: theATL

The list I saw was

Vanguard
Schwab
Fidelity
E Trade
Ameritrade

were all down.

pretty obvious this was done to "cool" markets

Posted by: Blago at August 05, 2024 01:03 PM (wMRY8)

514 483 It's adorable that people actually think that Kumswalla is picking anyone...
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 05, 2024 01:00 PM (1FWWQ)

Love to see her interview questions list.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 05, 2024 01:03 PM (uBBbP)

515 Was she hot like Arnold’s nanny?
Posted by: Eromero at August 05, 2024 01:00 PM

Umm, could you please start reviewing us, to help counter TJM's reviews?

Thank you!

Posted by: The Mannix Women at August 05, 2024 01:03 PM (a3Q+t)

516 his is me exactly! I was trying to hang a bicycle pulley on the garage ceiling and could not find a stud to save my life. I was sweating bullets because the floor above the garage had radiant heat.
Posted by: Oglebay at August 05, 2024 01:01 PM (ogTiX)

Maybe those are joists, IDK.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 05, 2024 01:03 PM (ogTiX)

517 The Biden economy is so bad his own job was outsourced to an Indian.
Posted by: Darles Chickens at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (uIvDK)

Heh!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2024 01:03 PM (nK4uM)

518 372 Carpenters somehow find studs by rapping on the wall with their knuckles.
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I have several electronic stud finders, some of them pretty expensive. The best stud finder I've found is a simple magnet. Move it around on the wall until it hits a nail head. A vertical line from that point is the stud.

https://tinyurl.com/52j7fadp

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 05, 2024 01:03 PM (woPEM)

519 493 The other approach is the "capacity optimized" model of dishwasher loading. In this approach, dirty dishes are cached nearby - on the counters or in the sink - until it approaches a volume approaching a full load. Then the dishwasher is loaded all at once and optimized for maximum capacity, then immediately run. The upside is greater loading efficiency. The downside is that it looks messy during the dirty dish production stage.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) a

Those dishes needed to soak! (this is always my claim)

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 05, 2024 01:01 PM (CIS44)

Modern dishwashers are like Kumala; they suck at what they do.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 01:03 PM (ynpvh)

520 That woman is showing her ankles!! How tawdry!!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2024 01:02 PM (WXNFJ)

She has ankles?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 05, 2024 01:04 PM (VwHCD)

521 Retail accounts undoubtedly are stacked up waiting to clear trades whilst the big boys with straight T-1 fiber optic lines into the trading bourses are running all the server farms out in Utah at full cycle to get in front by a trillionth of a second. You folks will get a trade cleared by tuesday or wednesday easy. Maybe.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 05, 2024 01:04 PM (aOYfI)

522 They aren't floating there no matter how fucked up they are. They are anchored on one side.
Posted by: garrett at August 05, 2024 12:54 PM (BwNH5)

I think I found one once that wasn't. Just barely holding on to a stud at the edge. All houses in my area are built by illegals now. They use more than sixteen inch centers to save the cost. I've started from corners and get a hole punched through into nothing at sixteen inches. But, anyway....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2024 01:04 PM (0eaVi)

523 439 Shades of 2008

… perhaps Harris should suspend her campaign to deal with the economy
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But, but, Bidenomics is working and the economy is the best it's been in years!!

Also that is supposed to be Biden's job, or the job of whoever is telling him what to do this week. Or maybe the economy can't be managed between 11-4 each day.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at August 05, 2024 01:04 PM (W+kMI)

524 Okay, but how about the poor girl on the other side of this coin?
Posted by: Piper

Who cares about that skank? Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find.

Posted by: James Carville at August 05, 2024 01:04 PM (JCZqz)

525
either way 1 in 10 being govt jobs is so incredibly low! it's BS. it's more than half esp if you include "goat-adjacent"
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 05, 2024 01:01 PM (s3qiR)

———

Schools and medical spending both add people to the labor force that is mainly or solely supported y the government dollars.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 05, 2024 01:04 PM (QnIJ2)

526 Was she hot like Arnold’s nanny?
Posted by: Eromero
__

Not quite as gross, but close.

Overweight, homely white woman.

Posted by: Blago at August 05, 2024 01:04 PM (wMRY8)

527 re Emhoff's ex's absolution...what she's really saying is: "I don't give a flying fuck about that asshole, and never really did".

Posted by: occam's brassiere at August 05, 2024 01:05 PM (pXeye)

528 488 453 How does one absolve someone cheating on you and knocking up your nanny?

I was a royal c**t and I deserved it?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (XV/Pl)
Was she hot like Arnold’s nanny?
Posted by: Eromero at August 05, 2024 01:00 PM (scfxi)

Pictures I saw were not very flattering. When you hear a guy is boffing his kid's nanny you often picture a hot 22 year old working her way through college. Doug's nanny wasn't that. Not even close. But skillz, I guess.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 05, 2024 01:05 PM (N39Ws)

529 The Red Wave FINALLY arrives...

Posted by: SaveFarris at August 05, 2024 01:05 PM (sjZjb)

530 Suckers put their money in the stock market. Bury it in the backyard. Or put it in a strongbox on a strong shelf.
Posted by: occam's brassiere at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (pXeye)

Confederate Bonds.

*touches nose*
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (aD39U)

Chateau Pavie Wine !
Posted by: runner at August 05, 2024 01:00 PM (V13WU)

Franklin Mint plates.

Posted by: Archer at August 05, 2024 01:05 PM (IDphi)

531 Rinse them.

I fully subscribe to the capacity-optimized model. Rinse them off, stack them in the sink, load at all once, minimize hand-wash other than the obligate hand-wash.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 01:02 PM (HnUIn)

It took me years to get Pooky away from his rinsing method, which closely resembled a Dutch grandma keeping her water bill under $10.

Posted by: pookysgirl believes in the power of water at August 05, 2024 01:05 PM (dtlDP)

532 Overweight, homely white woman.
Posted by: Blago at August 05, 2024 01:04 PM (wMRY

This is about me isn't it?

Posted by: Little Debbie at August 05, 2024 01:05 PM (MkuC5)

533 Retail accounts undoubtedly are stacked up waiting to clear trades whilst the big boys with straight T-1 fiber optic lines into the trading bourses are running all the server farms out in Utah at full cycle to get in front by a trillionth of a second. You folks will get a trade cleared by tuesday or wednesday easy. Maybe.
Posted by: Common Tater
___

Seems more sinister to me. You couldnt even log in.

I could understand order flow being disrupted or delayed, but you cant even look at your account?

Posted by: Blago at August 05, 2024 01:05 PM (wMRY8)

534 This chilly brunette is having such trouble in the current economy that she can't even afford a brassiere:
Posted by: Joe Mannix

I learned this morning from Sponge that the numbers and letters used in brassiere references have meaning.

Posted by: J. Random Moron at August 05, 2024 01:06 PM (a3Q+t)

535 Franklin Mint plates.
Posted by: Archer at August 05, 2024 01:05 PM (IDphi)

Ha! I'm going to have to deal with stacks of collector plates when my mother passes.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 05, 2024 01:06 PM (aD39U)

536 They go in the dishwasher the instant they are used. There is no other model. Otherwise you have dirty dishes and shit piled up in the sink or whatever. Nasty.
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 05, 2024 01:01 PM (iFTx/)
++++
Rinse them.

I fully subscribe to the capacity-optimized model. Rinse them off, stack them in the sink, load at all once, minimize hand-wash other than the obligate hand-wash.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 01:02 PM (HnUIn)
_______

I quick rinse and then right into the DW. I can't stand dishes in the sink. If you can't estimate what your dish use will be over the next 24-48 hours so as to pre-optimize capacity, then I'm not sure what to tell you. LOL.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 05, 2024 01:06 PM (iFTx/)

537
They go in the dishwasher the instant they are used. There is no other model. Otherwise you have dirty dishes and shit piled up in the sink or whatever. Nasty.
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 05, 2024 01:01 PM (iFTx/)
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My ex wife, we didn't have a dishwasher, subscribed to the "pile them in the sink and wash them just before the next meal because we need the dishes" model.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2024 01:06 PM (tT6L1)

538 Carpenters somehow find studs by rapping on the wall with their knuckles.
---
I have several electronic stud finders, some of them pretty expensive. The best stud finder I've found is a simple magnet. Move it around on the wall until it hits a nail head. A vertical line from that point is the stud.

https://tinyurl.com/52j7fadp

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 05, 2024 01:03 PM (woPEM)

It all goes to shit if you're working in a plaster house.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 05, 2024 01:06 PM (VwHCD)

539 Modern dishwashers are like Kumala; they suck at what they do.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 01:03 PM (ynpvh)
++++
Most modern dishwashers are spectacularly effective. What's wrong is usually the detergent.

Detergent pods suck, because there's no detergent - and its various agents that are *excellent* at breaking up solids and grease - in the high-temperature initial wash phase (before the door opens to release the detergent). Detergent pods are now so dominant that many dishwashers no longer have a two-stage detergent dispensing system. This is extremely detrimental.

Do this experiment: buy a box of old-fashioned powdered dishwasher detergent. Any brand. Use both detergent cups if available and if not, then toss some detergent into the tub, loose, before starting the dishwasher. Run the dishwasher. Be amazed by the results.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 01:06 PM (HnUIn)

540 At least it's not beany babies.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 05, 2024 01:06 PM (aD39U)

541 The dishwasher wars, they have begun.

I don't rinse my dirty dishes, just scrape off the big hunks, and into the machine they go. Sometimes they sit for a day or two. Doesn't matter, they always come out clean. Same with pots, pans and baking dishes. They come out clean - every when they go in with baked on goo.

Miele for the win.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2024 01:06 PM (WXNFJ)

542 My wife moves items frequently from place to place without informing me and her placement makes sense to her but not to me.

Same. Wife rearranges the kitchen on a regular basis. But I do both the shopping and the cooking. It's really annoying.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 05, 2024 01:07 PM (U7wke)

543 517 The Biden economy is so bad his own job was outsourced to an Indian.
Posted by: Darles Chickens at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (uIvDK)

Heh!
-------
Epic burn!!

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at August 05, 2024 01:07 PM (W+kMI)

544 Will the president be making a statement? Who is the president?

a) Hell if I know
b) Hell if I know

Turn left and leave stage. Oh! They mean me!

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 05, 2024 01:07 PM (710OU)

545 when the burning times come, money invested in ammo will pay off better than money invented in gold
Posted by: Lord Humongous at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (25k9m)

What, are you going to sell or barter ammo to someone who may kill you with it?
Unless you actually are Lord Humongous, you're just a store house of ammo to the ruthless.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 05, 2024 01:07 PM (FCbAQ)

546 (parts stolen from Last Boy Scout)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 05, 2024 01:01 PM (N39Ws)

Knocked her up, too.

Posted by: enough BS at August 05, 2024 01:07 PM (2NXcZ)

547 76. Trump must be referring to Barry and Kamala.
Posted by: mrp

Can't be K. Must be Valerie.

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at August 05, 2024 01:07 PM (NFX2v)

548
My ex wife, we didn't have a dishwasher, subscribed to the "pile them in the sink and wash them just before the next meal because we need the dishes" model.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker i

Sounds like you DID have a dishwasher

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 05, 2024 01:07 PM (CIS44)

549
Republicans "talking down" the economy
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Classic.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 05, 2024 01:07 PM (8t4YC)

550 498 Doug Emhoff's ex-wife put out a statement absolving him from knocking up the nanny.

Kerstin Emhoff: "Sure, sure, I know... it just happened. Coulda happened to anybody. It was an accident, right? You tripped, slipped on the floor and accidentally stuck your dick into the nanny."

(parts stolen from Last Boy Scout)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 05, 2024 01:01 PM (N39Ws)

It happens.

Posted by: French pole vaulter at August 05, 2024 01:07 PM (uBBbP)

551 Not quite as gross, but close.

Overweight, homely white woman.
Posted by: Blago

Hey! We get a lot more freaky action than you think!

Posted by: Katie Hill at August 05, 2024 01:07 PM (JCZqz)

552 Suckers put their money in the stock market. Bury it in the backyard. Or put it in a strongbox on a strong shelf.
Posted by: occam's brassiere at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (pXeye)

Confederate Bonds.

*touches nose*
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (aD39U)

Chateau Pavie Wine !
Posted by: runner

Bennie Babies

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at August 05, 2024 01:07 PM (rIBZP)

553 You folks will get a trade cleared by tuesday or wednesday easy. Maybe.
Posted by: Common Tater

Ironically US markets went to 1 day settlement a couple of months ago.... Or was it even that long?

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at August 05, 2024 01:08 PM (MkuC5)

554 Okay, but how about the poor girl on the other side of this coin?

The nanny? Who cares, Kamala has probably never even met her.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 05, 2024 01:08 PM (/y8xj)

555 In Gremlins 2, the Manhattan skyscraper ...
At the stock exchange you see a gremlin with a green banker's visor and a phone in each hand, croaking "buy buy buy" and "sell sell sell".

I rate him as a non-indicator, not negative like Jim Cramer.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 05, 2024 01:08 PM (cf/0E)

556
There was a suspect major economic crisis shortly before the 2008 election.

Posted by: davidt at August 05, 2024 01:02 PM

Trump should suspend his campaign and get back to Washington immediately. Worked for me. I got called Maverick which made me proud.

Posted by: Zombie John McCain at August 05, 2024 01:08 PM (RKVpM)

557 Posted by: Piper at August 05, 2024 12:48 PM (p4NUW)

the roles are reversed in our house. I constantly have to clean up after my darling bride. she'll leave k-cups on the counter despite the fact that the garbage can is literally two steps away. Butter knives, spoons, etc. She leaves cabinet doors open (like that kitchen scene in The Sixth Sense), and after work she disrobes and leaves a trail of socks, pants, bra, and work shirt on the floor like she was just taken up in The Rapture.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Misunderstanding Comments for Humorous Effect at August 05, 2024 01:08 PM (xPJvm)

558 Suckers put their money in the stock market. Bury it in the backyard. Or put it in a strongbox on a strong shelf.
Posted by: occam's brassiere at August 05, 2024 12:57 PM (pXeye)
++++
Most of my accounts are at the Bank of Sealy.

The rest of them are handled by the First National Sock.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 01:08 PM (HnUIn)

559 I had no problem logging in to my account.
Had it open shortly before open til about 10a.

Didn't trade but saw my values being updated real time.

Might have just been me.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 05, 2024 01:08 PM (ufFY8)

560 Sounds like you DID have a dishwasher
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 05, 2024 01:07 PM (CIS44)
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Nominally, she was, because she was a stay at home mom.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2024 01:09 PM (tT6L1)

561 Did Doug Emhoff's ex wife excusing him for his affair with the nannie end her statement with, "And Vote for Kamala to prove you're not racist or sexist?"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 05, 2024 01:09 PM (dTTBf)

562 555 In Gremlins 2, the Manhattan skyscraper ...
At the stock exchange you see a gremlin with a green banker's visor and a phone in each hand, croaking "buy buy buy" and "sell sell sell".

I rate him as a non-indicator, not negative like Jim Cramer.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 05, 2024 01:08 PM (cf/0E)

=======

Speaking of Joe Dante, I just got my 4K of Matinee in the mail.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 05, 2024 01:09 PM (GBKbO)

563 Perfect timing by the master Biden:
https://tinyurl.com/22ybcbt7
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 05, 2024 01:02 PM (t/2Uw)
-

Is this guy still there?

https://tinyurl.com/356a8xrx

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 05, 2024 01:09 PM (K/1/x)

564 557 Posted by: Piper at August 05, 2024 12:48 PM (p4NUW)

the roles are reversed in our house. I constantly have to clean up after my darling bride. she'll leave k-cups on the counter despite the fact that the garbage can is literally two steps away. Butter knives, spoons, etc. She leaves cabinet doors open (like that kitchen scene in The Sixth Sense), and after work she disrobes and leaves a trail of socks, pants, bra, and work shirt on the floor like she was just taken up in The Rapture.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Misunderstanding Comments for Humorous Effect at August 05, 2024 01:08 PM (xPJvm)

The last part might not be a bad thing...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 01:09 PM (ynpvh)

565 @552
@540
@462

🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at August 05, 2024 01:09 PM (V13WU)

566 Most modern dishwashers are spectacularly effective. What's wrong is usually the detergent.

Detergent pods suck, because there's no detergent - and its various agents that are *excellent* at breaking up solids and grease - in the high-temperature initial wash phase (before the door opens to release the detergent). Detergent pods are now so dominant that many dishwashers no longer have a two-stage detergent dispensing system. This is extremely detrimental.

Do this experiment: buy a box of old-fashioned powdered dishwasher detergent. Any brand. Use both detergent cups if available and if not, then toss some detergent into the tub, loose, before starting the dishwasher. Run the dishwasher. Be amazed by the results.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

______

The EPA took the phosphates out of dishwasher detergent. Literally because phosphates help plants grow "too much".

Much less cleaning power now.

You can buy Cascade Fryer Boil Out that basically has the "old" formula and helps things out.

Posted by: Blago at August 05, 2024 01:09 PM (wMRY8)

567 I've been in on Schwabb's ThinkorSwim app all day.

Maybe it is just a new logon problem.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 05, 2024 01:09 PM (aD39U)

568 I've put my retirement in commemorative C3PO coins.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 05, 2024 01:10 PM (cf/0E)

569 The last part might not be a bad thing...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 01:09 PM (ynpvh)

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Misunderstanding Comments for Humorous Effect at August 05, 2024 01:10 PM (xPJvm)

570 The last part might not be a bad thing...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 01:09 PM (ynpvh)
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I'd say "horde mind" but, seems more like a healthy normal male response.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2024 01:10 PM (tT6L1)

571 I don't understand why Schwab thought Think or Swim was a good name.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 05, 2024 01:11 PM (ogTiX)

572 nood

Posted by: weew at August 05, 2024 01:11 PM (13rTF)

573 And gee, this is only 2 weeks away from the Harris Coronation at the DNC convention in Chicago. Heh. OTOH Trump really will have his work cut out for him in his second term.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at August 05, 2024 01:11 PM (W+kMI)

574 The EPA took the phosphates out of dishwasher detergent. Literally because phosphates help plants grow "too much".

Much less cleaning power now.

You can buy Cascade Fryer Boil Out that basically has the "old" formula and helps things out.
Posted by: Blago at August 05, 2024 01:09 PM (wMRY

++++
Phosphates help, but even phosphate-free detergents work much better if you allow the dishwasher to work properly by giving it a dose it can consume during pre-wash.

Also, pro tip: go to Ace Hardware and buy a tub of TSP. It's available and dirt cheap. Add a pinch of it to your detergent (whatever kind you use) in the main dispenser. It costs next to nothing to add the phosphates back in and it is a lot cheaper than buying special-purpose detergents.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2024 01:11 PM (HnUIn)

575

NOOD cuckery

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 05, 2024 01:11 PM (8t4YC)

576 I quick rinse and then right into the DW. I can't stand dishes in the sink. If

^^This.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 05, 2024 01:11 PM (ufFY8)

577 I've been in on Schwabb's ThinkorSwim app all day.

Maybe it is just a new logon problem.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)
___

It just started working (for me) about 30 minutes ago. For several hours I had been locked out.

Outages have been pretty widespread from what I gather

Posted by: Blago at August 05, 2024 01:11 PM (wMRY8)

578 The only solution to this is to send all our money to Ukraine!

And all our ships to to the Persian Gulf!

Posted by: DaisyB at August 05, 2024 01:12 PM (AbL8c)

579 The dishwasher wars, they have begun.

I don't rinse my dirty dishes, just scrape off the big hunks, and into the machine they go. Sometimes they sit for a day or two. Doesn't matter, they always come out clean. Same with pots, pans and baking dishes. They come out clean - every when they go in with baked on goo.

Miele for the win.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2024 01:06 PM (WXNFJ)

I don't own a dishwasher; never have. I hand-wash my dishes, and stack them in the sink until I decide to wash them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2024 01:12 PM (nK4uM)

580 and after work she disrobes and leaves a trail of socks, pants, bra, and work shirt on the floor like she was just taken up in The Rapture.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Misunderstanding Comments for Humorous Effect at August 05, 2024 01:08 PM (xPJvm)

The last part might not be a bad thing...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 01:09 PM

Assuming he takes advantage of it.

Posted by: J. Random Moron at August 05, 2024 01:12 PM (a3Q+t)

581 Overweight, homely white woman.
Posted by: Blago at August 05, 2024 01:04 PM (wMRY

Yeah, now. But the young pics of Najen Taylor are OK.

Posted by: enough BS at August 05, 2024 01:12 PM (2NXcZ)

582 I put my dishes in the dishwasher immediately after use. I put every item in a specific place. Large plates always go to one side of bottom rack, small to the other, serving dishes in front of them. Glasses and glassware on second rack and utensils on third rack. Everything has its place. Very organized. I run it every third or 4th day, depending. I wash my pans and sharp knives by hand.

Hubby doesn't touch anything in it or put anything in it. He has been known to put a dish in the sink if I'm not home. He does zero dishes.

Meanwhile, he has laundry issues and washes and folds everything himself. It's quite nice. He does an amazing job.

Works great for us.

Posted by: Just Lily at August 05, 2024 01:12 PM (RLLZj)

583 I constantly have to clean up after my darling bride. she'll leave k-cups on the counter . . .
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Jeeze oh man! On the counter? She could hurt herself putting them up there. Of course, if not for that, you could trip over those things.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2024 01:12 PM (WXNFJ)

584 Trying to get my post-layoff health insurance. Was on phone for an hour on hold when I was forced to do a callback. 45 minutes later, got a callback, told me to resolve it online. Online chat said would take about 3 minutes to get a response...not been waiting for 20 minutes...

Almost like dealing with a Gov't agency...or maybe I am.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 01:12 PM (ynpvh)

585 NOOD Doug Emhoff

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2024 01:12 PM (ynpvh)

586 nood emhoff murdered bastard

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 01:13 PM (i0CiB)

587 Suckers put their money in the stock market. Bury it in the backyard. Or put it in a strongbox on a strong shelf.

*opens up ancient safe which holds the family's tulip fortune...*

Uh-oh.

Posted by: t-bird at August 05, 2024 01:13 PM (710OU)

588 Too late to say I can't use a stud-finder because it keeps pointing at me?

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 05, 2024 01:13 PM (/l9qm)

589 Phosphates help, but even phosphate-free detergents work much better if you allow the dishwasher to work properly by giving it a dose it can consume during pre-wash.

Also, pro tip: go to Ace Hardware and buy a tub of TSP. It's available and dirt cheap. Add a pinch of it to your detergent (whatever kind you use) in the main dispenser. It costs next to nothing to add the phosphates back in and it is a lot cheaper than buying special-purpose detergents.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
___

Yes! I do that also.

And I just learned (despite now being middle aged) that there is a "divot" to put detergent for the pre-wash (usually on the detergent door) Helps a lot.

Never knew that!

Also have the box of TSP.

Posted by: Blago at August 05, 2024 01:13 PM (wMRY8)

590 Has Mike Pence come out for Harris yet?

Other Republican's that support Harris.
The Harris campaign's effort includes former Govs. Bill Weld of Massachusetts and Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey, former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, and 16 former Republican members of Congress, including Kinzinger and Reps. Joe Walsh of Illinois and Susan Molinari of New York. All have been notable critics of Trump in the past.

Posted by: Recently Divorced Karen at August 05, 2024 01:15 PM (/U5Yz)

591 Does Israel have a stock exchange?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 01:15 PM (v6JzV)

592 Domestic market indexes are about 2.5-3 percent down right now which is not a huge bloodbath.

Euroland markets were already sour and are averaging a bit less of a loss right now.

Japan still seems to be the epicenter of the crash due to internal factors (BoJ raising rates last week or so).

What we do not know yet is how the meltdown in Japan affects all the elaborate hedging and derivative markets which are pretty much opaque to outsiders.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2024 01:16 PM (qdbNv)

593 Sorry, the crash is all my fault. I just got brave enough to move some of my savings into a mutual fund. I knew this would happen.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at August 05, 2024 01:17 PM (ntcB5)

594 Biden knew this crash was coming, which is why he got on that random jet to Nowhere.

Posted by: Sniffing Teens On Any Continent at August 05, 2024 01:19 PM (CV8a5)

595 590 Has Mike Pence come out for Harris yet?

Other Republican's that support Harris.
The Harris campaign's effort includes former Govs. Bill Weld of Massachusetts and Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey, former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, and 16 former Republican members of Congress, including Kinzinger and Reps. Joe Walsh of Illinois and Susan Molinari of New York. All have been notable critics of Trump in the past.
Posted by: Recently Divorced Karen
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Last vestiges of the dying NE GOPe and looters in the Midwest. New England has marched steadily into becoming the Dems new Solid South even as they hemorrhage people living there and economic growth to other states. That uppercrust sort of GOP developed hatred for average folks and believe they should be led by obvious patrician and hereditary wealthy leaders such as themselves. Nepot babies and grifters are what makes up the GOPe today.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2024 01:20 PM (qdbNv)

596 591 Does Israel have a stock exchange?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
======
The big one is in Tel Aviv. Dunno about any others.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2024 01:21 PM (qdbNv)

597 Wish people would stop talking about the stock market and economy as if they are the same thing. They decoupled years ago when the Fed pissed in the US dollar punchbowl. The fed president promises more inflation and stonks go up.
The Zimbabwe stock market soared millions of percent. How's their economy been doing?
The US stonk market is still full of 5 trillion (leveraged into much more) fedbux just from 2020 alone. And another 2t of govt supplies debt every year. Nominal stonk returns do not reflect the economy when a fiat currency can be manipulated by bureaucrats as they please

Posted by: FunkySeeFunkyDo at August 05, 2024 01:24 PM (PZ42z)

598 I'm late so no one will probably see this but, I haven't believed a single thing the government has reported in a long time.

I operate a small business that is an arcade - in a mall. I see first hand when things take a turn for the worst, since even cheap fun gets axed from budgets first.

This silent recession has been going on since October of last year. Last November was the worst performing November I've seen in 16 years in business - even compared to 2020. This last month I saw one of my slowest July's on record too.

Historically, and I have my own earnings data to back this up, both November and July are generally in my top 5 months. Except for under Cumalanomics, that has suddenly changed.

This is another case of socialism failing but Kamala *should* take all the credit, given how often Pudding Brains calls her President anyways.

Posted by: Commodore Shaggy at August 05, 2024 01:49 PM (qjn3q)

599 Capitalistic roaders! Kulaks!

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at August 05, 2024 01:50 PM (iNp3L)

600 Mother pus bucket!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 05, 2024 01:53 PM (3Fz6p)

601 ace: "2. Find my stupid saw so I can cut these sh3lves to custom l3ngth. I have literally no idea where this could be, which is weird, because it's a saw and isn't easily misplaceable."

If you're anything like me, you loaned it to that asshole buddy of yours, Chad, two years ago, and he never returned it.

Posted by: Pastafarian at August 05, 2024 02:11 PM (wb+Cg)

602 TSP in Laundry works too!

Posted by: catman at August 05, 2024 02:18 PM (4HMlb)

603 I found the easiest way to locate a stud is to find a wall outlet. They fasten to a wall stud, so there you are. Read the tape measure.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 05, 2024 03:21 PM (hKoQL)

604 Our economy has been Sovietized, and is now just average.

It's worse than yesterday, but better than tomorrow.

Posted by: Another Anon at August 05, 2024 03:42 PM (QNMaY)

605 If you believe the American economy is back, I have a time share condo for you in Port au Prinec.

Posted by: Jane at August 05, 2024 08:35 PM (bXvrr)

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