Dow Down Over 1,200 Points as Investors Brace for Long Hard Slog Of Interest Rate Hikes to Tame Brandon's Inflationary Disaster

Yesterday, the Fed raised interest rates 0.5% to reduce inflation. The idea is to make it more dear to borrow money, which in turn will reduce the amount of money flowing out of central banks into the economy, which will then reduce the total amount of money in circulation, which will slightly offset the trillions of excess dollar bills Brandon has poured into the economy, and reduce the rate of increasingly inflation.

Not actually reduce inflation-- this isn't enough of an increase for that -- but slow the climb.

Hopefully.

The markets soared almost 1000 points less because investors believed this would stanch inflation than because 1, they expected Powell to do this, and the market always likes it when they guess right, because it means that they "understand" what's going on which makes them feel confident and makes them think they're smart, and 2, they thought that maybe Powell would be satisfied that he'd done enough and would not continue raising rates further.

But now they've had a day to think this over and they've realized "Boy, what stupid dicks we were to think that anyone, even Powell, would think that a half-a-point rise would be enough to clean up Brandon's inflation."

So now stocks are way down in anticipation of further rate hikes.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared 932.27 points and the S&P 500 gained 2.99%, which were the largest gains for the two indices since 2000. Even the beaten-up Nasdaq Composite popped 3.19%.
It now appears that after a few hours of deep thought, traders have formed a more lasting near-term view that the Fed is far from dovish, has let inflation get out of control, and is still poised to dramatically slow down the economy through a series of 50 basis point rate increases.

"Inflation is still going to be a major problem throughout the rest of this year and beyond," Miller Tabak Chief Markets Strategist Matt Maley said.

Really? Do you think?

It's extremely worrying that people who are in positions of great financial power, and are supposedly very smart, thought that this 0.5% rate hike would be enough to take care of the highest inflation in forty years.

Our "elites" really are shit, aren't they?

Oh boy oh boy, we have to stop these dangerous "populists" and their dangerous ideas about not obeying the "elite wisdom" any longer...

...
Wall Street pros think the selling could continue in the short term on fears of a sharp, Fed-driven growth slowdown as it catches up on rate increases.
"It is much too soon in economic space for the Fed to allow financial conditions to ease very substantially on a sustained basis again, as this would work against the needed cooling of economic activity required to bring inflation under control," warned EvercoreISI strategist Krishna Guhu. "So if the broad easing on the day across the dollar, equities, rates, and credit continues to rip in the days or even weeks ahead, the Fed will likely have to find a way to rein it in."

So here's the reality: It's not going to be single 0.5% basis hike that does the trick. It's going to take a sustained series of 0.5% hikes, and maybe even a full 1.0% hike if inflation won't stop.

And this is going to go on for a year or two. A year or two of constantly tightening up the money supply and therefore tamping down economic activity.

This is going to be grueling. Grueling, miserable, sad, dispiriting, heartbreaking, immiserating, depressing, and, seemingly, never-ending.

And they're going to have to raise interest rates so high they're probably -- almost certainly -- going to crash the economy into deep recession.

And the inflation is such a threat that "deep recession" is now an acceptable alternative to very high inflation which would wipe out retirees' savings.

That's where Brandon has brought us. This moderate, sensible man vouched for by NeverTrump who would bring about a Return to Normalcy.

Via CNBC:

The Federal Reserve is expected to hike interest rates and cut its balance sheet aggressively over the next 16 months, according the May CNBC Fed Survey, and most respondents believe the process will end in a recession...
Respondents, who include economists, fund managers and strategists, see the funds rate hitting 2.25% by year end and rising to a terminal rate of 3.08% by August 2023...
The quick pace of tightening and the stubbornness of inflation leads a majority to believe the Fed will not achieve a soft landing. Asked if the effort to bring down inflation to 2% will create a recession, 57% said it would, 33% said it would be avoided and 10% didn’t know.

They predict the recession won't come until August 2023.... which is strange, because we just had a negative quarter in first quarter 2022 and it seems likely we'll have another in the second quarter.

We'll see what fresh horrors Brandon and his crack team of sociopathic narcissistic hyperincompetents have in store for us.

Posted by: Ace at 03:58 PM

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1 Hey there

Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 03:58 PM (yUjc0)

2 Sponge!

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at May 05, 2022 03:59 PM (SH2Zi)

3 First?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 05, 2022 03:59 PM (kf6Ak)

4 Oh read the content

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 05, 2022 03:59 PM (kf6Ak)

5 They allowed the destruction of the economy because Trump was cracking down on their child sex rings and pointing out the corruption of the Democratic Party while getting the people on his side about it all.

I'm sure they think this is worthwhile.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 03:59 PM (LvTSG)

6 LET'S GO BRANDON!!!! You window licking retard.

Posted by: Orson at May 05, 2022 03:59 PM (re0VI)

7 Buckle up and put on your steel-toed diapers - it's gonna be a long and bumpy ride.

Posted by: 496 at May 05, 2022 04:00 PM (VJsqe)

8 Afternoon morons.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 05, 2022 04:00 PM (ju2Fy)

9 Nice effect, Ace, with the markets seeing a bloodbath.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at May 05, 2022 04:00 PM (SH2Zi)

10 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)

11 Damn you Putin!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)

12 Two and a half years to leaving the department and my deferred comp is getting slaughtered. F*ck you, Biden.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 05, 2022 04:01 PM (XSRBF)

13 Ok, not everything is up under present Biden.

Sorry about that!

Posted by: Trevor Noah at May 05, 2022 04:01 PM (ESjRY)

14 5 They allowed the destruction of the economy because Trump was cracking down on their child sex rings and pointing out the corruption of the Democratic Party while getting the people on his side about it all.

I'm sure they think this is worthwhile.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 03:59 PM (LvTSG)

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I believe every word of this.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 05, 2022 04:01 PM (DcKNO)

15 You will own nothing, and you will like it.

Posted by: The Biden Junta's goal at May 05, 2022 04:02 PM (ESjRY)

16
"Look, Fat. Sniff-sniff. Wella Balsam and titties!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2022 04:02 PM (s2VJv)

17 When inflation comes along you must whip it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 05, 2022 04:02 PM (63Dwl)

18 With all this economic uncertainty, one thing holds it's value through thick and thin -- Modern Art. Call my hotline now to receive your 5% discount for any of my outstanding one-of-a-kind (and sure to appreciate) masterpieces. Call Now!

No yellow.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at May 05, 2022 04:02 PM (PiwSw)

19 A post that would make Monty's Doom look like a shining beacon of light!

Posted by: Draki at May 05, 2022 04:02 PM (8ni2U)

20
WIN vs Bill Wynn. Discuss!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2022 04:02 PM (s2VJv)

21 When inflation comes along you must whip it.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 05, 2022 04:02 PM (63Dwl)

Golf clap

Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:03 PM (yUjc0)

22 ok

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at May 05, 2022 04:03 PM (XvPQV)

23 It is totally Putin's fault I'm printing brazillions of dollars to give to my friends and clients.

Would I lie to you?

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:03 PM (ESjRY)

24 ARGLE BARGLE!

Posted by: Joe Bidumb at May 05, 2022 04:03 PM (y9zdQ)

25

... The Aristocrats!

Posted by: ValJar at May 05, 2022 04:03 PM (5jrs2)

26 yeah, it's infuriating...but also I recall that many folks who thought QE and such were wrong were pretty snotty and aggressive defending it

Posted by: sockamster at May 05, 2022 04:03 PM (OuH7W)

27 So do we just move all the comments from the last thread to this one?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at May 05, 2022 04:03 PM (gTc91)

28 Whatever happened to Monty?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at May 05, 2022 04:03 PM (XvPQV)

29 I'm (29*2)+4. Is it time to pull everything out of my 401k? I think that's what CNBC was recommending.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 05, 2022 04:03 PM (ju2Fy)

30 Wait is this threat where we all "whip it"?

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at May 05, 2022 04:03 PM (ESjRY)

31 To actually kill inflation would take something like 3-4% on top of what has already been done. That gets us close to where interest on the national debt eats up all income tax revenue.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 05, 2022 04:04 PM (5kI0z)

32 DOOF!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)

33 Has Biden blamed greedy corporations for this yet? Pudding time ought be be over by now.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 05, 2022 04:04 PM (Ynyl9)

34 What if Inflation likes it?

Posted by: klaftern at May 05, 2022 04:04 PM (taPSh)

35 They allowed the destruction of the economy because Trump was cracking down on their child sex rings and pointing out the corruption of the Democratic Party while getting the people on his side about it all.

I'm sure they think this is worthwhile.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 03:59 PM (LvTSG)

There's a lot of money to be made in intentionally crashing economies.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2022 04:04 PM (y9zdQ)

36 they should have followed the market and done a 2.5%-3% hike. and that still probably isn't enough.

Posted by: x at May 05, 2022 04:04 PM (uQFwj)

37 Putin's rate hikes.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 05, 2022 04:04 PM (63Dwl)

38 On one level, I know it's stupid to save money but..I'm building up my savings anyway. Gonna get worse.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at May 05, 2022 04:04 PM (XvPQV)

39 It's a decision dilemma that the Fed is putting us in: do I horde cash that dwindles with inflation or do I invest with the stock market going down? I'm buying the dip.

Posted by: Draki at May 05, 2022 04:04 PM (8ni2U)

40 35 There's a lot of money to be made in intentionally crashing economies.
Posted by: ... at May 05, 2022 04:04 PM (y9zdQ)

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Ellipses confirmed for George Soros.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:05 PM (LvTSG)

41 Yes we have no bananas
We have no bananas today

Posted by: Skip at May 05, 2022 04:05 PM (2JoB8)

42 Has Biden blamed greedy corporations for this yet? Pudding time ought be be over by now.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 05, 2022 04:04 PM (Ynyl9)

Kulaks - its those damn Kulaks!

Posted by: Boswell at May 05, 2022 04:05 PM (5iUNf)

43 Biden has introduced billions and billions of new currency with his stupidity.

How much of that new money stayed in the US?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:05 PM (Zz0t1)

44 To actually kill inflation would take something like 3-4% on top of what has already been done

Or just end deficit spending. A year or two of that and we'd have control of inflation.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2022 04:05 PM (ESjRY)

45 It was obvious a year ago that inflation was spiking, they should have started the bigger rate increases a long time ago.

Yes, the second quarter will have negative growth and we'll officially be in a recession before the election. They won't be able to hide it.

Posted by: Bigsmith at May 05, 2022 04:05 PM (OiHwR)

46 10 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)

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Unexpectedly!

Posted by: 496 at May 05, 2022 04:05 PM (VJsqe)

47 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 05, 2022 04:05 PM (arJlL)

48 44 To actually kill inflation would take something like 3-4% on top of what has already been done

Or just end deficit spending. A year or two of that and we'd have control of inflation.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2022 04:05 PM (ESjRY)

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Why won't anyone think of the grafters' children?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:05 PM (LvTSG)

49 Stagflation is a small price to pay to re-establish Republican norms and be rid of Trump's unique brand of fuhrer-like demagoguery.

Posted by: Steve Schmidt at May 05, 2022 04:05 PM (vN+oL)

50 the Fed could kill inflation by ending the growth in the money supply. Never happen.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 05, 2022 04:05 PM (Ynyl9)

51 This is an optimistic outlook tbh.

Posted by: The Vooter at May 05, 2022 04:05 PM (WMHk0)

52 Afternoon.

Dropped my load.

Also, I made a delivery.

Posted by: Robert at May 05, 2022 04:06 PM (j4BnS)

53 i added this:

This is going to be grueling. Grueling, miserable, sad, dispiriting, heartbreaking, immiserating, and, seemingly, never-ending.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at May 05, 2022 04:06 PM (0G13K)

54 Repeating what I said earlier:
Hey, in the midst of all this Supreme Court leak stuff, which I'm beginning to think was done as a distraction...

There's been another Pfizer data drop; I'm still trying to find a decent link summarizing everything, but the rumint says it's pretty bad. Like "Trial size 46,000 with 1,200 deaths" bad.

Hopefully I'll find a real non-twitter link soon; Musk isn't running stuff yet and they're still deleting this stuff as fast as it's posted.

But anyway, keep an eye out.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Cryptid Anarchist at May 05, 2022 04:06 PM (CmVer)

55 Good news for Don LeMon: his sexual assault accuser has suddenly remembered that the sniff-my-fingers sex assault from Donny didn't really happen after all, and so he has dropped his lawsuit!

I wonder how much it cost Donny to get him to forget to remember?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 05, 2022 04:06 PM (k4dH2)

56 DOOF!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)

Yo! How you doing?

Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:06 PM (yUjc0)

57 Whatever happened to Monty?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse

3 Card Monty ?

He's around...

Posted by: JT at May 05, 2022 04:06 PM (arJlL)

58 so what has the fed been doing for the past ten years or so. This is all obama era stuff, I assume:

1. buying stocks to help keep values up
2. buying govt bonds to finance deficit spending

part 2 is really weird to do because basically we're admitting no one else is buying our debt. And we've basically let Congress write budgets that have no adherence to any fiscal concern.

Posted by: sockamster at May 05, 2022 04:06 PM (OuH7W)

59 Pluses: No mean tweets, most twerking tween trannies, and the serious possibility of nuclear war.

Minuses: Uh...none that I can think of.

Posted by: Some DC Insider at May 05, 2022 04:06 PM (ESjRY)

60 All is not lost until Jim Cramer commits suicide on air.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:06 PM (Zz0t1)

61 >>>I'm (29*2)+4. Is it time to pull everything out of my 401k? I think that's what CNBC was recommending.
Posted by: olddog in MO

Wondering if I should take all my stock investments and put it into a stable fund. But at least no.mean tweets

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 05, 2022 04:06 PM (XSRBF)

62 Free money fo erreybody!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 05, 2022 04:06 PM (Y5qcH)

63 I keep saying that I expect the Fed to really turn the screws after the Midterms. They're trying to do the bare minimum between now and then so that they don't get blamed for the recession and subsequent Dem losses. Once the midterms are done, the goal will be to rip the bandaid off quickly so that hopefully there's a recovery by early 2024.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 05, 2022 04:06 PM (wmDcS)

64 If you set your raster effects to scale along with the object, you won't get those chanky-ass drop shadows when you size for production.

Posted by: Jus' Sayin' at May 05, 2022 04:06 PM (YFFTq)

65 Reagan and Volker. Somebody, somewhere, has to have written a report. The entire regime needs to study every move Volker made.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- bitterly clinging to the deplorable life '70s style! at May 05, 2022 04:06 PM (HVZDN)

66 Notice not a single Free Trade UberAlles SuperCon ever calls for the Fed monopoly on setting interest rates be stopped.

It's not free trade if the Gov is setting the central index in the economy. And our Betters in the GOPe are frauds.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 05, 2022 04:07 PM (IEa8U)

67 Lib's of TicTok and other's I follow is tweeting that people are having a hard time finding baby formula. We HAD to use it because my wife stopped producing her own milk, Talk about scary stuff.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 05, 2022 04:07 PM (dKiJG)

68 Just to show how far we've come, and how little some have actually changed, there was once an ad which accused John Roberts of supporting the b*mbing of you-know-whation clinics.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2022 04:07 PM (y9zdQ)

69

Close the damned borders. Drill for every last molecule of fossil fuels. Deregulate every industry you can.Tax holiday for industries that repatriate back to the US. Suspend trade unions. Give incentives for actual trade schools so long as all CRT and DIE are not taught.

In essense, do everything Coolidge, Reagan and Trump did and shit can the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the Square Deal, the Great Society, Carter, Obama, Clinton and the Kalorama Klown Comintern. Forever.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2022 04:07 PM (s2VJv)

70 They raise interest rates to keep money out of the economy but Biden and Congress keep pumping money out of DC. So will raising interest rates help any?

Posted by: 29Victor at May 05, 2022 04:07 PM (MnTZ8)

71 “ This is going to be grueling. Grueling, miserable, sad, dispiriting, heartbreaking, immiserating, and, seemingly, never-ending.”

But Roe v Wade don’t ya know

Posted by: 7man at May 05, 2022 04:07 PM (qwO6y)

72 Whatever happened to Monty?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at May 05, 2022 04:03 PM (XvPQV)

I wish I knew. We could sure use him right now.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 05, 2022 04:07 PM (DRSnL)

73 Back to the past.....1970s here we come....20% mortgage rates and 16% inflation. It's gonna be a hell of a ride.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 05, 2022 04:07 PM (bVYXr)

74 I came of age in the '70s -- college, marriage, changing jobs. The decade didn't seem so horrible to me.

Possibly because I drank a lot.

(Okay, most of the shows on TV were pretty horrible; I'll give you that. But a few shots of Old Crow or Cutty Sark made even those tolerable.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2022 04:07 PM (txdEq)

75 Cheap energy allows increases in economic output to offset/absorb inflation.

That's what Trump will bring Day 1.

That's where we would be now if the election wasn't stolen.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2022 04:07 PM (p0zef)

76 I am going to be so fucked. Our construction loan is at 4.75%. We should have been in the house by now with a locked in low mortgage rate. No telling what it'll be in a month or two.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2022 04:07 PM (WqXpZ)

77 39 It's a decision dilemma that the Fed is putting us in: do I horde cash that dwindles with inflation or do I invest with the stock market going down? I'm buying the dip.
Posted by: Draki at May 05, 2022 04:04 PM (8ni2U)

The answer depends on your age and your immediate to medium term needs for your cash.

PS - And it's not just "horde cash" - it's invest in guaranteed, albeit crappy or sub-inflation returns, which is better than cash...

Posted by: Nova local at May 05, 2022 04:07 PM (exHjb)

78 The Carter years part two only worse. FJB.

Posted by: Infidel at May 05, 2022 04:07 PM (M0FJx)

79 This all unpatriotic disinformation.
Who's up for a song?

Posted by: Nina Jankowicz at May 05, 2022 04:07 PM (v0R5T)

80 There's a lot of money to be made in intentionally crashing economies.
Posted by: ... at May 05, 2022 04:04 PM (y9zdQ)

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Ellipses confirmed for George Soros.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:05 PM (LvTSG)

I KNEW it!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at May 05, 2022 04:08 PM (XvPQV)

81 Good.

The economy has been set up to favor the borrower for 30 years.

That's how speculative land holding companies have managed to purchase everything in the country on interest only loans or ARMs in hopes of horse-trading with homes and property.

Time to squeeze them and crash the home market and get it back to where a working family can buy one.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 05, 2022 04:08 PM (HqCQE)

82 Soft landing my ass. Fed has never successfully cooled our economy from this level of inflation.

No, the Fed will have to kill the economy in order to wring out the excess.

Volker did it but with serious pain and a much more solid balance sheet. Powell? We'll I just don't know.

Buckle up buckaroos.

Posted by: WisRich at May 05, 2022 04:08 PM (G0vdT)

83 they never should have given Obama a credit card

Posted by: x at May 05, 2022 04:08 PM (uQFwj)

84 Lib's of TicTok and other's I follow is tweeting that people are having a hard time finding baby formula. We HAD to use it because my wife stopped producing her own milk, Talk about scary stuff.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 05, 2022 04:07 PM (dKiJG)

I've always found breast milk more weird than scary. Well not always.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2022 04:08 PM (y9zdQ)

85 All these smart people have PHD’s in Economics. There is a Nobel prize in economics. None of the experts have a clue about monetary policy or how to solve any problem at all. 8 years of schooling and a diploma that is not worth the paper it’s written on.

Posted by: Ron at May 05, 2022 04:08 PM (AtKtr)

86 whatever happens plan for it to be unexpectedly worse then predicted...

Posted by: Inogame at May 05, 2022 04:08 PM (53oGX)

87 someone check to see if Pelosi's husband was buying put options last week.

also check if Biden needs his Depends updated.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 05, 2022 04:08 PM (Ynyl9)

88 79 This all unpatriotic disinformation.
Who's up for a song?
Posted by: Nina Jankowicz at May 05, 2022 04:07 PM (v0R5T)

Rap version of the Horst Wessel Liede?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2022 04:08 PM (s2VJv)

89 I doubt inflation is ending anytime soon. Congress gave itself a 20% raise, govt contractors got a 37% raise this year, and generals are asking for 4x 5% raises in a row.

Posted by: Draki at May 05, 2022 04:08 PM (8ni2U)

90 Lib's of TicTok and other's I follow is tweeting that people are having a hard time finding baby formula.

Can you post wet nurse jobs on Monster.com?

The left is going to make everything old new again!

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2022 04:09 PM (ESjRY)

91 Department Economic Justice goan pay my mortgage!

Posted by: Elsie Freeman-Gastrich at May 05, 2022 04:09 PM (sWM8x)

92 All is not lost until Jim Cramer commits suicide on air.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:06 PM (Zz0t1)

I shouldn't have laughed at this as hard as I did, or at all. But laugh I did!

Posted by: Robert at May 05, 2022 04:09 PM (j4BnS)

93 I don't think the lovely AtC is down on Ace, as was hypothesized in the last thread. She has just now linked here from her current paramour, twitter.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 05, 2022 04:09 PM (0rQxu)

94 We'll see what fresh horrors Brandon and his crack team of sociopathic narcissistic hyperincompetents have in store for us.

Ace, I think you misspelled "crack-addled team of sociopathic narcissistic hyperincompetents."

David

Posted by: David, founder of RAGE (Real American Government in Exile) at May 05, 2022 04:09 PM (bGP4p)

95 39 It's a decision dilemma that the Fed is putting us in: do I horde cash that dwindles with inflation or do I invest with the stock market going down? I'm buying the dip.
Posted by: Draki at May 05, 2022 04:04 PM (8ni2U)

Buy lead

Posted by: 7man at May 05, 2022 04:09 PM (qwO6y)

96 Afternoon.

Dropped my load.

Also, I made a delivery.
Posted by: Robert

New Lot Lizard dropped on the lot? Truckers will be the first to know when pussy inflation begins to drop so keep us updated.

Posted by: The Vooter at May 05, 2022 04:09 PM (IhUL0)

97 Joeconomics.

Posted by: wth at May 05, 2022 04:09 PM (v0R5T)

98 (Okay, most of the shows on TV were pretty horrible; I'll give you that. But a few shots of Old Crow or Cutty Sark made even those tolerable.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2022 04:07 PM (txdEq)

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I keep a cheap bourbon on hand for mixing. I tried Old Crow in that role once. Once.

Posted by: 496 at May 05, 2022 04:09 PM (VJsqe)

99 @86 - truth. Painful truth.

Posted by: Indignatio Vindacatorem at May 05, 2022 04:10 PM (oWBc3)

100 They predict the recession won't come until August 2023.... which is strange, because we just had a negative quarter in first quarter 2022 and it seems likely we'll have another in the second quarter.

Don't put it past them to play some tricks to lie and make second quarter growth positive but just barely to prevent that from happening.

Posted by: buzzion at May 05, 2022 04:10 PM (vMCab)

101 "needed cooling of economic activity" ???

Where has this shithead been the past 2 years and 2 months?

Posted by: Hands at May 05, 2022 04:10 PM (786Ro)

102 Reagan and Volker. Somebody, somewhere, has to have written a report. The entire regime needs to study every move Volker made.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin

The national debt is too high. They should have thought about that before they quadrupled the money supply, and held rates at zero to protect Zero.

Economic growth is the only answer now, as Trump showed, and the illegitimate regime we have now will literally burn this country down before they will allow that.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 05, 2022 04:10 PM (5kI0z)

103 In essense, do everything Coolidge, Reagan and Trump did and shit can the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the Square Deal, the Great Society, Carter, Obama, Clinton and the Kalorama Klown Comintern. Forever.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Correct. 100%

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 05, 2022 04:10 PM (XSRBF)

104 Oh, and I'm betting that a bunch of Congress members pulled out of the market right at the end of last year.

How could they know, right?

Posted by: WisRich at May 05, 2022 04:10 PM (G0vdT)

105 Yes, but Simple Joe told us he's paying down the deficit with nickels and life savers candy, so when your sitting around the kitchen table balancing your budget and trying to figure out how to put food on the table to feed your family, you can rest assured somebody has got your back.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 05, 2022 04:10 PM (LkM8p)

106 Dropped my load.

Also, I made a delivery.
Posted by: Robert at May 05, 2022

***
Remembered from Dr. Demento in the '70s: "Drop Your Load on the Giant Toad!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2022 04:10 PM (txdEq)

107 85 All these smart people have PHD’s in Economics. There is a Nobel prize in economics. None of the experts have a clue about monetary policy or how to solve any problem at all. 8 years of schooling and a diploma that is not worth the paper it’s written on.
Posted by: Ron at May 05, 2022 04:08 PM (AtKtr)

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Paul Krugman at May 05, 2022 04:10 PM (PiwSw)

108 The Carter years part two only worse. FJB.
Posted by: Infidel at May 05, 2022 04:07 PM

Welcome Back Carter...this fall on CBS.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 05, 2022 04:10 PM (RkC6l)

109 Old and Busted Trump Years: What exotic locale should I go to on vacation this year?

New Hotness Biden Years: Hmm should I buy food, gar, or heating oil this week?

Added Bonus: You need heating oil in May.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2022 04:11 PM (ESjRY)

110 "Biden has introduced billions and billions of new currency with his stupidity."

this has been a decade in the making. Maybe 3 decades.

the real tipping point was the addition of fiscally illiterate insane people to the fed.

Posted by: sockamster at May 05, 2022 04:11 PM (OuH7W)

111 Just wait.

If O'Biden's Tax Hikes get passed, things will get even more sporty.

Posted by: garrett at May 05, 2022 04:11 PM (ipzLY)

112 The solution is what it has always been: common sense monetary policy and an attack by space aliens.

Posted by: Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman at May 05, 2022 04:11 PM (vN+oL)

113 It's extremely worrying that people who are in positions of great financial power, and are supposedly very smart, thought that this 0.5% rate hike would be enough to take care of the highest inflation in forty years.

Our "elites" really are shit, aren't they?
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They are, but they are also leveraged up very, very hard and in debt up their eyeballs that they can't service. This is true at all levels, from the government to the corporate to the individual. As long as rates decline, you can just turn the crank again and refinance and continue along. If that stops being true, you get fucked and it happens quickly.

Our elites are shit, but a lot of them don't believe what they're spewing. They're spewing it because the HAVE to spew it. Their entire formative years (younger) or high-performance power years (older) have been in a declining interest rate environment. They don't know how to handle a rising rate environment, and rising rates will kill them. They're fucked and they know it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2022 04:11 PM (DU+/6)

114 OT Amber claims johnny did the Roscoe Arbuckle thing. ( which btw is another fake news story )

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at May 05, 2022 04:11 PM (m51hW)

115 All these smart people have PHD’s in Economics. There is a Nobel prize in economics. None of the experts have a clue about monetary policy or how to solve any problem at all. 8 years of schooling and a diploma that is not worth the paper it’s written on.
Posted by: Ron at May 05, 2022 04:08 PM (AtKtr)

Bruh, if you just short the NYT stock picks you get all the gainz.

Posted by: Brometheus at May 05, 2022 04:11 PM (8ni2U)

116 I need some good news, I'm going over to Zerohedge.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 05, 2022 04:11 PM (Y5qcH)

117 >>>Where has this shithead been the past 2 years and 2 months?
Posted by: Hands

I love how Psaki keeps saying Trump had a hand in this. Totes not delusional.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 05, 2022 04:11 PM (XSRBF)

118 There's been another Pfizer data drop; I'm still trying to find a decent link summarizing everything, but the rumint says it's pretty bad. Like "Trial size 46,000 with 1,200 deaths" bad.
____________

That's 2.6% dead. We can easily absorb those deaths! Why, if 100,000 million got vaccinated, that would only be 2,600,000 deaths! Drop in the bucket! Those folks are expendable! They sacrificed themselves for the greater good!

Posted by: Barky Obama at May 05, 2022 04:11 PM (k4dH2)

119 I keep a cheap bourbon on hand for mixing. I tried Old Crow in that role once. Once.
Posted by: 496 at May 05, 2022

***
After the first few swallows of any strong liquor, your tongue is pretty numb anyway.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2022 04:12 PM (txdEq)

120 89 I doubt inflation is ending anytime soon. Congress gave itself a 20% raise, govt contractors got a 37% raise this year, and generals are asking for 4x 5% raises in a row.
Posted by: Draki at May 05, 2022 04:08 PM (8ni2U)

How did gov contractors get 37% raises and fed gov employees get 2.7%? Damn. This was one fact I didn't know...

Posted by: Nova local at May 05, 2022 04:12 PM (exHjb)

121 I know a guy having a home built who locked his rate at 3% earlier this year but construction delays have cost him his rate lock and now he will end up around 6%. he's lucky. it will get worse because ain't no way the government will ever tighten the gimmedats obese belts.

Posted by: x at May 05, 2022 04:12 PM (uQFwj)

122 OT Amber claims johnny did the Roscoe Arbuckle thing.

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me then a bottle inside of me

Posted by: Most women, I think at May 05, 2022 04:12 PM (ESjRY)

123 I'm retired and in good financial shape, so despite the fact that a lot of people are being hurt, it's good for me. It's a buying opportunity.

Of course, if the burning times come, my position might change.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2022 04:12 PM (ZsR3z)

124
Soft landing? It is to laugh. Depression will be required to get inflation under control. Anyone with any knowledge knew this would be case with the massive monetary expansion started during the '08 crisis to "save the system".

When Volcker did a Volcker, the federal govt had nowhere near the debt is has now. At one time, the federal funds rate went over 20%. I don't think T-bill rates ever got that high, but I know there are some long term notes issued then with a coupon of 17% or somewhere around that.

That would destroy the federal govt today.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 05, 2022 04:12 PM (Mzdiz)

125 And they're going to have to raise interest rates so high they're probably -- almost certainly -- going to crash the economy into deep recession.

And the inflation is such a threat that "deep recession" is now an acceptable alternative to very high inflation which would wipe out retirees' savings.
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And Powell is out talking about "soft landings." They know it's going to decline, they're just trying the old game of spinning it as "it'll be okay. We'll manage it." I don't think they can, and there will be few safe havens. You won't be able to hide out in bonds this time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2022 04:12 PM (DU+/6)

126 This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Paul Krugman at May 05, 2022 04:10 PM (PiwSw)

Dude, you're my favorite column to read! So many tendies!

Posted by: Brometheus at May 05, 2022 04:13 PM (8ni2U)

127 Time to squeeze them and crash the home market and get it back to where a working family can buy one.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 05, 2022 04:08 PM (HqCQE)

A lot of that is also environmental laws restricting the supply of available land, for the planet dontcha know, while demand for homes increases. It's not like an outhouse is really worth three quarters of a mil but when it's the only thing available on the market, well...

Posted by: Robert at May 05, 2022 04:13 PM (RflrK)

128 I need some good news, I'm going over to Zerohedge.

Make sure to read the comments for more cheer!

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2022 04:13 PM (ESjRY)

129 Kevin Mac announces a broad, in depth investigation into the role of the DOJ, FBI and the media in J/6

Aprol fools

Posted by: REDACTED at May 05, 2022 04:13 PM (us2H3)

130 125 And Powell is out talking about "soft landings." They know it's going to decline, they're just trying the old game of spinning it as "it'll be okay. We'll manage it." I don't think they can, and there will be few safe havens. You won't be able to hide out in bonds this time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2022 04:12 PM (DU+/6)

=========

*sells house and children, buys crypto*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:13 PM (LvTSG)

131 >>Soft landing my ass. Fed has never successfully cooled our economy from this level of inflation.

A ot of the Hindenberg landed softly, you know.

Of course, ashes don't weigh much and they take a while to settle down.

Posted by: garrett at May 05, 2022 04:13 PM (ipzLY)

132 So far this has destroyed about 50 grand from my portfolio.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2022 04:13 PM (A3uq/)

133 Silly Ace--

Two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth will no longer be termed a "recession" by the National Bureau of Economic Research while a Democrat occupies the White House, so there will be no recession this year.

This became clear when NBER declared a recession in March of the year before the 2008 election even though the economy grew in second and third quarters, which reveals a corollary that NBER will declare recessions even in the face of economic growth if a Republican occupies the White House.

Posted by: A Concerned Citizen at May 05, 2022 04:13 PM (zcPgo)

134 they never should have given Obama a credit card
Posted by: x at May 05, 2022 04:08 PM (uQFwj)
........

I think my ex-wife gave him my home phone number to put on the application.

Posted by: wth at May 05, 2022 04:14 PM (v0R5T)

135 Apparently Roman generals would have someone standing behind him reminding them they are just mortals.
Biden needs someone like that except he needs to be saying fuck off pervert.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at May 05, 2022 04:14 PM (VdGjU)

136

Just looking, the 10 yr. T-note peaked at around 15% during Volcker. The 30 yr went higher than that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 05, 2022 04:14 PM (Mzdiz)

137 And Powell is out talking about "soft landings." They know it's going to decline, they're just trying the old game of spinning it as "it'll be okay. We'll manage it." I don't think they can, and there will be few safe havens. You won't be able to hide out in bonds this time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2022 04:12 PM (DU+/6)

They only care about the banking/financial industry. When the Fed says, "we'll be fine", they aren't talking about us.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 05, 2022 04:14 PM (Y5qcH)

138 re 85: in 1974, the Nobel prize in Economics was shared by F A Hayek (strong critic of Keynes) and text book millionaire Paul Samuelson (strongly pro-Keynes.)

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 05, 2022 04:14 PM (Ynyl9)

139 It's this Biden Boom we've been experiencing. Knew it would "cool" eventually.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2022 04:14 PM (y9zdQ)

140 Respondents, who include economists, fund managers and strategists, see the funds rate hitting 2.25% by year end and rising to a terminal rate of 3.08% by August 2023...
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That strikes me as optimistic (assuming you like low rates). There's a *lot* of money to pulled out of the system. The Fed shedding a bunch of its balance sheet - which needs to happen - will help, too, but they'll be losing money on every sale. They can't extract everything they put in, not even close. It will also push bond prices down and raise effective interest on new issues regardless of what they do to the funds rate.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2022 04:14 PM (DU+/6)

141 Multimillionaires will be busily jockeying their money around now. They will ride the storm out. Some will even make money. Guess which vlass will be damaged the most?

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2022 04:14 PM (Vr12I)

142 139 It's this Biden Boom we've been experiencing. Knew it would "cool" eventually.
Posted by: ... at May 05, 2022 04:14 PM (y9zdQ)

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This is the strongest economy on record.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:14 PM (LvTSG)

143 Oh, by the by, Psaki is quitting next week.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2022 04:14 PM (A3uq/)

144 While inflation eats away at savings accounts, crashing the stock market will also hit retirees nest egg. And they vote.

Posted by: aNewBanner at May 05, 2022 04:14 PM (bgweb)

145 Rates will have to be 4% or above to make headways into this Inflationary Cycle.

Posted by: garrett at May 05, 2022 04:14 PM (ipzLY)

146
i made a "biden boom" in my pants again, nurse jill

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:14 PM (0G13K)

147 143 Oh, by the by, Psaki is quitting next week.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2022 04:14 PM (A3uq/)

Rats and a sinking ship...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at May 05, 2022 04:15 PM (XvPQV)

148 How did gov contractors get 37% raises and fed gov employees get 2.7%? Damn. This was one fact I didn't know...
Posted by: Nova local at May 05, 2022 04:12 PM (exHjb)

This is why we need the DOOM thread back!
https://tinyurl.com/bdbywsew

Posted by: Draki at May 05, 2022 04:15 PM (8ni2U)

149 Volker did it but with serious pain and a much more solid balance sheet. Powell? We'll I just don't know.
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There were actual budgets back then.
That they at least tried to balance spending against taxes.

Not 13 years of continuing resolutions dumping a trillion dollars in borrowed money into the economy

We're so far beyond what could normally fix this it's scary ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2022 04:15 PM (p0zef)

150 New Lot Lizard dropped on the lot? Truckers will be the first to know when pussy inflation begins to drop so keep us updated.
Posted by: The Vooter at May 05, 2022 04:09 PM (IhUL0)

10-4

Posted by: Robert at May 05, 2022 04:15 PM (RflrK)

151 Breaking News

Ted Cruz has absolutely no close friends to tell him he is horrible on the tube

Posted by: REDACTED at May 05, 2022 04:15 PM (us2H3)

152 So far this has destroyed about 50 grand from my portfolio.

Posted by: AlaBAMA

That's all? Lucky you.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 05, 2022 04:15 PM (5kI0z)

153 the left is really hoping getting their bedrock floor of 20% of voters whipped up about abortion will deflect from things like supply chains and the end of the dollar as a reserve currency.

wonder what the next current thing will be

Posted by: sockamster at May 05, 2022 04:15 PM (OuH7W)

154 Biden needs someone like that except he needs to be saying fuck off pervert.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at May 05, 2022 04:14 PM (VdGjU)
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I'd be happy if that's how people greet him when he meets them for the first time. Right in his face.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 05, 2022 04:15 PM (YIVH2)

155 I was going to buy a CD for one year at 0.8%. By the time I got my money together it is at 1.2%. Don't what to do now. Money is setting in a savings account at 0.4 right now.

Posted by: Javems at May 05, 2022 04:15 PM (AmoqO)

156 143 Oh, by the by, Psaki is quitting next week.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2022 04:14 PM (A3uq/)

The next - will be worse.

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2022 04:15 PM (Vr12I)

157 151 Breaking News

Ted Cruz has absolutely no close friends to tell him he is horrible on the tube
Posted by: REDACTED at May 05, 2022 04:15 PM (us2H3)

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But his beard game is strong.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:15 PM (LvTSG)

158 >> they never should have given Obama a credit card

I might have phrased that a bit differently.

Also. Fuck yo couch!

Posted by: Zombie Rick James at May 05, 2022 04:15 PM (ipzLY)

159 Oh, by the by, Psaki is quitting next week.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2022 04:14 PM (A3uq/)

She must've gotten the memo from J-pow and knows the top has come. Time for the dip.

Posted by: Brometheus at May 05, 2022 04:16 PM (8ni2U)

160
Yo! How you doing?
Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:06 PM (yUjc0)

Not bad. Actually working a lot this week. Having to go in and spending all day plus.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:16 PM (Zz0t1)

161 Test

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 05, 2022 04:16 PM (HVZDN)

162 That's 2.6% dead. We can easily absorb those deaths! Why, if 100,000 million got vaccinated, that would only be 2,600,000 deaths! Drop in the bucket! Those folks are expendable! They sacrificed themselves for the greater good!
Posted by: Barky Obama at May 05, 2022 04:11 PM (k4dH2)

"I'm not going to say we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say, No more than 10 to 20 million killed. Tops!

Posted by: General "Buck" Fauci at May 05, 2022 04:16 PM (PiwSw)

163 I keep a cheap bourbon on hand for mixing. I tried Old Crow in that role once. Once.
Posted by: 496 at May 05, 2022 04:09 PM (VJsqe)

Wild Turkey 101 fits the bill. Should be no more than $20 anywhere, high rye mash bill so it holds up well as a mixer, and it is actually an above average sipper. I always have it on hand.

Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:16 PM (yUjc0)

164 Oh, by the by, Psaki is quitting next week.

Boy, I'm gonna miss her.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 05, 2022 04:16 PM (ppBhU)

165 Hey LIVs I know politics is complex and boring and stuff...but...do you care now that Biden took 20% of your wealth through inflation and another 20% by tanking the market intentionally?

Because...he's not done yet.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2022 04:16 PM (ESjRY)

166 >>> The Carter years part two only worse. FJB.
Posted by: Infidel at May 05, 2022 04:07 PM

Welcome Back Carter...this fall on CBS.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 05, 2022 04:10 PM (RkC6l)

I'm thinking this is exactly how the Carter years would have been in the late 70s had they been cursed with our horrid journalists, media, and sycophantic public. And yes it was crap even then, but there was a rational sense that maybe we shouldn't become puppets of ruling class diktat, but rather a bit more rebelliousness then. People knew how to flip off the government and the powerful and not just drop to their knees and assume the Kamala.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 05, 2022 04:16 PM (0rQxu)

167 163 I keep a cheap bourbon on hand for mixing. I tried Old Crow in that role once. Once.
Posted by: 496 at May 05, 2022 04:09 PM (VJsqe)

Wild Turkey 101 fits the bill. Should be no more than $20 anywhere, high rye mash bill so it holds up well as a mixer, and it is actually an above average sipper. I always have it on hand.
Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:16 PM (yUjc0)

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I find my 1.5 liter bottle of Jim Beam Black Label from Costco for about $30 to be acceptable.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:16 PM (LvTSG)

168 After the first few swallows of any strong liquor, your tongue is pretty numb anyway.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2022 04:12 PM (txdEq)

That's also called the Kentucky swish, after that you can really start tasting bourbon.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at May 05, 2022 04:16 PM (XvPQV)

169 The SC leak is a smokescreen for this economic disaster currently unfolding?? Just throwing that out there. With this bunch of evil lunatics in charge, it's conceivable.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 05, 2022 04:16 PM (tiR3O)

170 >>>All these smart people have PHD’s in Economics.

>If you can't move goods thru the supply chain because you sabotaged your energy producers, you may as well be fingerbanging the neighbor's cat.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 05, 2022 04:17 PM (LkM8p)

171 Not 13 years of continuing resolutions dumping a trillion dollars in borrowed money into the economy

We're so far beyond what could normally fix this it's scary ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2022 04:15 PM (p0zef

So much for balanced budgets, debt clocks, and such. They don't even pass budgets any more. They pass continued spending resolutions to keep from defaulting and shutting down the government.

The chickens are definitely inside the compound

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2022 04:17 PM (A3uq/)

172 Oh, by the by, Psaki is quitting next week.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2022 04:14 PM (A3uq/)

I can't wait to see what lying sack of crap they replace her with.

May she burn in Hell very soon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:17 PM (Zz0t1)

173 On the Pfizer data drop, I had an interesting text conversation with a friend two days ago. She is pretty LIV and leans left. She knows I've been anti-vax the whole time.

Out of the blue she texts me about the data drop and focused on the rise in miscarriages. I told her I had known about it for awhile because hospitals were reporting triple the miscarriage rate.

Then she tells me she just had a miscarriage in February and felt guilty because she had gotten vaxxed last year and couldn't stop thinking that the vax caused it.

Told her to not feel guilty. She had been lied to.

Just a sample of 1, but pretty much the last person I expected to be paying attention to this.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at May 05, 2022 04:17 PM (gTc91)

174 Soft landing? It is to laugh. Depression will be required to get inflation under control. Anyone with any knowledge knew this would be case with the massive monetary expansion started during the '08 crisis to "save the system". ...
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 05, 2022 04:12 PM (Mzdiz)
++++
Earlier. The "crush interest rates and shove money into the system like there's no tomorrow" started in earnest after the tech bubble imploded, and they deliberately stoked a ton of asset inflation in housing. When they started raising rates, the ARMs started to be at risk of blowing up which, combined with the vast overextension of credit in both housing and other areas, triggered the financial crisis and then they went all-in on manipulation. We have a 20 year fuckup to deal with.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2022 04:17 PM (DU+/6)

175 RAISING rates? After a GDP contraction? Stagflation is here, boys, and count on it getting worse!

Then again, maybe you already thought about that and hardened yourself mentally. Hyperinflation means food is worth more than useless paper. You are taking the chance to stock up with food you like eating, yes?

Posted by: trev006 at May 05, 2022 04:17 PM (M6q/F)

176 I guess I should probably give up the house search.

Posted by: Augustine at May 05, 2022 04:17 PM (BDZWU)

177 >>Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:16 PM (yUjc0)

Finally scored a bottle of Legent yesterday.

Along with 2 x RH Dareringers and a Willett's Rare batch Rye.

Posted by: garrett at May 05, 2022 04:17 PM (ipzLY)

178 Oh, and Karine Jean-Pierre is taking over as Press Secretary.

Haven't seen enough to give her an initial millicohn rating.

Posted by: WisRich at May 05, 2022 04:17 PM (G0vdT)

179 -
Oh, by the by, Psaki is quitting next week.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2022 04:14 PM-
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Spokespersonning is really cutting into my soul consumption time.

Posted by: Peppermint Commie at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (SchQD)

180 145 Rates will have to be 4% or above to make headways into this Inflationary Cycle.
Posted by: garrett at

it's actually ....

look, in the 70's ... what caused inflation? Did they print 40% of dollars ever made back then? IDK, to be honest. But I doubt that was it. or that it was that bad.

This is weimar stuff. And who knows what actually fixed that.

You have libs in govt who think that public works programs in the 30's paying folks $.25 a day stopped the great depression, and gee...maybe that could work now as well. And then you have the other libs in the fed who think that if we all just agree to social credit scores and green energy, things like supply and demand won't matter. Bottom line: we fucked.

Posted by: sockamster at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (OuH7W)

181 Yo! How you doing?
Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:06 PM (yUjc0)

Not bad. Actually working a lot this week. Having to go in and spending all day plus.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:16 PM (Zz0t1)

Don't work too hard. That's an overrated experience.

Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (yUjc0)

182 Wild Turkey 101 fits the bill. Should be no more than $20 anywhere, high rye mash bill so it holds up well as a mixer, and it is actually an above average sipper. I always have it on hand.
Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:16 PM (yUjc0)

That's a good mixer.
Woodford Reserve (basic level, they have a lot of blends) is also good for mixing and sipping.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (XvPQV)

183 Any ideas who the Psaki Psreplacement will be?

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (Vr12I)

184 Wild Turkey 101 fits the bill. Should be no more than $20 anywhere, high rye mash bill so it holds up well as a mixer, and it is actually an above average sipper. I always have it on hand.

Posted by: Doof

The selection of rye in NoVa right now is pathetic. I don't know why it, in particular, was so affected.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (ZsR3z)

185
The national debt is too high. They should have thought about that before they quadrupled the money supply, and held rates at zero to protect Zero.

Economic growth is the only answer now, as Trump showed, and the illegitimate regime we have now will literally burn this country down before they will allow that.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 05, 2022 04:10 PM

And the fed started raising interest rates two months after Trump got elected to punish him until he called them out.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (bVYXr)

186 176 I guess I should probably give up the house search.
Posted by: Augustine at May 05, 2022 04:17 PM (BDZWU)

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We're probably right about the peak. It's kind of the worst time to buy now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (LvTSG)

187 We paid 11.5% interest rate for our house in 1981, to cure Jimmy's inflation.

This is gonna hurt.

Posted by: pj at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (G1dq6)

188 168 After the first few swallows of any strong liquor, your tongue is pretty numb anyway.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2022 04:12 PM (txdEq)

That's also called the Kentucky swish, after that you can really start tasting bourbon.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at May 05, 2022 04:16 PM (XvPQV)

And I'm the North Carolina swish!

Posted by: Clay Aiken at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (4e+qt)

189 What's the past tense of Psaki?

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (y9zdQ)

190 Just a sample of 1, but pretty much the last person I expected to be paying attention to this.

The question is...what is she going to do now that she realized she was lied to.

The problem is LIVs traditionally say "oh well" and then go vote for the nice Democrat the FNM tells them to after something like this...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (ESjRY)

191 The baby formula shortage has been around a few months. Patera on Appalachia's Homestead has talked about it. She buys it to add to "blessing boxes" that she makes up for people in need. She says there is a way to make up a substitute, but I haven't watched that video.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (YynYJ)

192 Finally scored a bottle of Legent yesterday

......

Legent smells like diesel fuel.

Finishes nice though.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (HqCQE)

193 Psaki's replacement: Karine Jean-Pierre

https://tinyurl.com/y67c34ft

Posted by: 496 at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (VJsqe)

194 I need some good news, I'm going over to Zerohedge.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 05, 2022 04:11 PM (Y5qcH)

Heh

Posted by: MkY at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (Kst20)

195

Pack of Shit will be replaced by Chrissy Blasey Ford...

Posted by: ValJar at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (5jrs2)

196 New spokesNPC is Karine Jean Pierre.

Yes, Karen.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2022 04:19 PM (A3uq/)

197 So thankful my mortg. is locked in at 3%.

Posted by: Infidel at May 05, 2022 04:19 PM (M0FJx)

198 If the terriblly charismatic challenged Lying Ted ever gets a half way decent opponent

he will get to spend some time with his fam

Posted by: REDACTED at May 05, 2022 04:19 PM (us2H3)

199
Don't work too hard. That's an overrated experience.
Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (yUjc0)

Agreed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:19 PM (Zz0t1)

200
FRED chart of M0, monetary base. Behold:

https://tinyurl.com/y2cd5b6w

You see what they did in '08. Blew it out. You'll note they were actually slowly, slowly, unwinding all that until Covid. Then they blew it out like nothing you've ever seen.

That chart right there tells us the story of the ruination of the United States by the smartest people in the room.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 05, 2022 04:19 PM (Mzdiz)

201 176 I guess I should probably give up the house search.
Posted by: Augustine at May 05, 2022 04:17 PM (BDZWU)

Wait for the foreclosures on the adjustable mortgages to come. Gonna be some deals!

Posted by: Brometheus at May 05, 2022 04:19 PM (8ni2U)

202 I'm so glad I went a little overboard buying preferred shares a a year or 2 ago. They've really made my portfolio less volatile on days like this.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 05, 2022 04:20 PM (Y5qcH)

203 54 Thing from Snowy Mountain

Here's the site that has all the docs posted:
https://phmpt.org/pfizers-documents/

Posted by: Toni at May 05, 2022 04:20 PM (PgM6e)

204 186 176 I guess I should probably give up the house search.
Posted by: Augustine at May 05, 2022 04:17 PM (BDZWU)

=========

We're probably right about the peak. It's kind of the worst time to buy now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (LvTSG)

There is a storm of real estate business being done right now.People anticipating matters to only get worse. They are correct in one sense, stupid in another.

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2022 04:20 PM (Vr12I)

205 Apparently Roman generals would have someone standing behind him reminding them they are just mortals.
Biden needs someone like that except he needs to be saying fuck off pervert.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at May 05, 2022 04:14 PM (VdGjU)
Only during a triumph, when they might otherwise believe they were actually being celebrated as gods.

Still. Memento pervii!

Posted by: trev006 at May 05, 2022 04:20 PM (M6q/F)

206 Oh, by the by, Psaki is quitting next week.

Boy, I'm gonna miss her.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 05, 2022 04:16 PM (ppBhU)
........

Don't worry, you'll be able to watch her for hours on end at MSNBC.

Posted by: wth at May 05, 2022 04:20 PM (v0R5T)

207 What's the past tense of Psaki?
Posted by: ...

Psicko

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 05, 2022 04:20 PM (Vxu+H)

208 Has the Fed considered how much of inflation is being caused by supply-chain constraints, rather than by too much money in the system, and therefore what a tightening of the money supply is going to do to the transportation, mining, & farming (i.e. lack of fertilizer) industries?

I think not.

Posted by: MrJimm at May 05, 2022 04:20 PM (w0GHq)

209 Inflation is going nowhere with shit like this:

@ElectionWiz 1h

JUST IN -- AG Merrick Garland announces the U.S. Dept. of Justice is creating an Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ).

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 05, 2022 04:21 PM (IEa8U)

210 Psaki's replacement: Karine Jean-Pierre

https://tinyurl.com/y67c34ft

Posted by: 496 at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (VJsqe)

Oh boy......

Jean-Pierre, the current the principal deputy press secretary, will become the first openly gay person and first Black woman to hold the role of White House press secretary. The White House said that Jean-Pierre would assume the position on May 13.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:21 PM (Zz0t1)

211 ... When Volcker did a Volcker, the federal govt had nowhere near the debt is has now. At one time, the federal funds rate went over 20%. I don't think T-bill rates ever got that high, but I know there are some long term notes issued then with a coupon of 17% or somewhere around that.

That would destroy the federal govt today.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 05, 2022 04:12 PM (Mzdiz)
++++
It would, but unlike in Volker's day the Fed has another option now. They spent a decade vastly expanding its balance sheet. This is how QE worked - they printed money and bought stuff with it, injecting it into the market. They can - and will have to - sell off a lot of that balance sheet. They'll lose money on every asset they sell, but every asset they sell will also pull that much money out of the system. It will also seriously fuck with bond prices.

So they don't have to do it with *just* interest rates, they do have another tool at their disposal and they will probably need to do both and hope they can contain the problem to the point that state finance doesn't fall to pieces. But there will be collateral damage.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2022 04:21 PM (DU+/6)

212 >>This is weimar stuff.

Not quite.

It could be if things keep going this direction and at this speed.

But, we have a lot more going for us than the Weimar Republic did.

We also have a surfeit of retards at the helm...so, your guess is as good as mine.

I just know that in a normal situation 4-6% interest rates appear to be the sweet spot for growth and to keep inflation in check.

Posted by: garrett at May 05, 2022 04:21 PM (ipzLY)

213 Then again, maybe you already thought about that and hardened yourself mentally. Hyperinflation means food is worth more than useless paper. You are taking the chance to stock up with food you like eating, yes?
Posted by: trev006 at May 05, 2022 04:17 PM (M6q/F)

Of course. We're Morons, not morons.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 05, 2022 04:21 PM (DRSnL)

214 178 Oh, and Karine Jean-Pierre is taking over as Press Secretary.

Haven't seen enough to give her an initial millicohn rating.
Posted by: WisRich at May 05, 2022 04:17 PM (G0vdT)

Her spouse is Suzanne Malveaux, former CNN White House correspondent. You can probably guess the wattage from that datapoint.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 05, 2022 04:21 PM (4e+qt)

215 FRED chart of M0, monetary base. Behold:

https://tinyurl.com/y2cd5b6w

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 05, 2022 04:19 PM (Mzdiz)

Mmmmmm FRED pron

$6.5 trillion pump of glory. I'll never get gainz like that.

Posted by: Brometheus at May 05, 2022 04:21 PM (8ni2U)

216 If the terriblly charismatic challenged Lying Ted ever gets a half way decent opponent

He's probably safe. The Dems Texas bench is more than a little thin. Even R2B2, which is what passes for a charismatic Dem here, ultimately could not beat him.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 05, 2022 04:21 PM (ppBhU)

217 Oh and Chris Wallace's show is being moved to HBO Max.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2022 04:21 PM (A3uq/)

218 I can't wait to see what lying sack of crap they replace her with.

May she burn in Hell very soon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:17 PM (Zz0t1)

I know this is insane but I almost feel like it might be a dude. Maybe a white tough talkin qwerty type. Eh I can't suss these fucks out. But it wouldn't surprise me.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2022 04:21 PM (y9zdQ)

219 @ElectionWiz 1h

JUST IN -- AG Merrick Garland announces the U.S. Dept. of Justice is creating an Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ).
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 05, 2022 04:21 PM (IEa8U)

Oh fuck off.....RIGHT off.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:21 PM (Zz0t1)

220 Memento Mori: https://youtu.be/q7VnD6Dqx4M

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2022 04:21 PM (ESjRY)

221 Finally scored a bottle of Legent yesterday.

Along with 2 x RH Dareringers and a Willett's Rare batch Rye.
Posted by: garrett at May 05, 2022 04:17 PM (ipzLY)

Very nice. Legent is a favorite of mine. As is the Willett rye. I still haven't tried the Rabbit Hole stuff you suggested.

I'm cracking open a bottle of something special tomorrow in honor of Mrs. Doof's birthday. We will be raising our glasses frequently to her memory. If you're so inclined, you raising one in her honor would mean a lot.

Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:21 PM (yUjc0)

222 Any ideas who the Psaki Psreplacement will be?
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (Vr12I)

Joy Behar.

Posted by: Robert at May 05, 2022 04:22 PM (RflrK)

223 196 New spokesNPC is Karine Jean Pierre.

Yes, Karen.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2022 04:19 PM (A3uq/)

Oh, great.

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2022 04:22 PM (Vr12I)

224 Biden needs someone like that except he needs to be saying fuck off pervert.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at May 05, 2022 04:14 PM (VdGjU)

Biden doesn't care. Whatever his current mental state is, polls and logic don't fit. He'll lose the Senate and House, get impeached, and still give speeches about how the moral of the cornpop story is universal gay kid schools

Posted by: sockamster at May 05, 2022 04:22 PM (OuH7W)

225 Only during a triumph, when they might otherwise believe they were actually being celebrated as gods.

Still. Memento pervii!
Posted by: trev006 at May 05, 2022 04:

You're right

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at May 05, 2022 04:22 PM (VdGjU)

226 33 Has Biden blamed greedy corporations for this yet? Pudding time ought be be over by now.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 05, 2022 04:04 PM (Ynyl9)

_________________________________

Last week he specifically stated that high food and gas prices were somewhat being caused by price gouging. No specifics...no details...just a blanket statement.

Posted by: Orson at May 05, 2022 04:22 PM (re0VI)

227 Psaki's replacement: Karine Jean-Pierre

https://tinyurl.com/y67c34ft

Posted by: 496 at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (VJsqe)

Was not expecting that to be a safe for work link

Posted by: Brometheus at May 05, 2022 04:22 PM (8ni2U)

228 All is not lost until Jim Cramer commits suicide on air.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:06 PM (Zz0t1)

He punches one of his sound effects as he kicks the chair out.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 05, 2022 04:22 PM (44ww/)

229 I know this is insane but I almost feel like it might be a dude. Maybe a white tough talkin qwerty type. Eh I can't suss these fucks out. But it wouldn't surprise me.

......

Swing and a miss.

If you had "black dyke", you're a winner

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 05, 2022 04:22 PM (HqCQE)

230 And the fed started raising interest rates two months after Trump got elected to punish him until he called them out.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (bVYXr)
++++
They should have raised rates. They should have raised them a lot sooner, but the Trump economic growth was an ideal time to try to stop the monetary madness without blowing everything up.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2022 04:22 PM (DU+/6)

231 (mfers)
it is part of the plan... a country without a stable economy is worthless and not a world power. I can't imagine the end of the next two years without bloodshed.

Posted by: Silent at May 05, 2022 04:23 PM (CrU4U)

232 Ace, keep up the pressure on those syllables.

Posted by: Holy Crap at May 05, 2022 04:23 PM (ItGQC)

233 Not only interest rate increases

but

STOP PRINTING MONEY AND WASTING IT YOU DUMB DEMOCRAT FUCKS!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 05, 2022 04:23 PM (iDcra)

234 >>Legent smells like diesel fuel.

Finishes nice though.

Smells more Irish than a Bourbon normally does, but it has a very nice profile and finish (as noted).
I enjoyed the glass or two I had last night.

But it won't replace the Dareringer as my goto.

Posted by: garrett at May 05, 2022 04:23 PM (ipzLY)

235 Well I got the qwerty right. That was pretty obvious though.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2022 04:23 PM (y9zdQ)

236 The New Stagflation is gonna be lit AF!

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at May 05, 2022 04:23 PM (II3Gr)

237 Have plumbing leak, not a easy one, up through the floor

Posted by: Skip at May 05, 2022 04:23 PM (2JoB8)

238 I just don't believe our society could withstand "Volker" type interest rate hikes of the 20% variety. Our Fed is way too political to do what they have to.

I also think rampant inflation is one of those things the people in charge pretend they are upset about, but secretly like. Sort of like the price of gas getting near $5 a gallon. They just don't want the wrath of voters.

Inflation is a backdoor form of socialism. It wipes out debts and punishes savers.

Posted by: Blago at May 05, 2022 04:23 PM (bTx6q)

239 Then she tells me she just had a miscarriage in February and felt guilty because she had gotten vaxxed last year and couldn't stop thinking that the vax caused it.

Told her to not feel guilty. She had been lied to.
____________

We were all lied to. If these numbers are accurate and the Pfizer vaccine trial resulted in 2.6% of participants dying and then the government goes out and insists people get these shots and says that they're "completely safe and effective," that is an outrageous abuse of public trust.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 05, 2022 04:23 PM (k4dH2)

240 The left: Trump is owned by big corporations

Also the left: Big corporations will price gouge you the second they can!

Also, also the left: Well of course big corporations are price gouging now that Biden is president. They don't want him to help you!

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2022 04:24 PM (ESjRY)

241 224 Biden doesn't care. Whatever his current mental state is, polls and logic don't fit. He'll lose the Senate and House, get impeached, and still give speeches about how the moral of the cornpop story is universal gay kid schools
Posted by: sockamster at May 05, 2022 04:22 PM (OuH7W)

=======

You want to really kick Biden and the left in the balls with only Congress in your hands?

Individual budget and appropriation bills by department. "Defense, 100% funded from 2018 levels."

"Education, 0% funded by 2018 levels."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:24 PM (LvTSG)

242 "We also have a surfeit of retards at the helm...so, your guess is as good as mine."

I thought the demon lizards in charge would be better at something. But if they are, it ain't economics.

this is like the fire sale in sopranos. they're just gutting us now before they burn the place down

Posted by: sockamster at May 05, 2022 04:24 PM (OuH7W)

243 One bourbon you can't seem to get a hold of right now is Buffalo Trace. I blame Joe Rogan.

Posted by: Augustine at May 05, 2022 04:24 PM (BDZWU)

244 This busty and scantily-clad brunette is horrified by the inflation and has no idea what to do about it:
https://is.gd/JvMKCz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2022 04:24 PM (DU+/6)

245 The White House said that Jean-Pierre would assume the position on May 13.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:21 PM (Zz0t1)

So what? All the rest of us assumed the position on 1/20/21.

Posted by: Robert at May 05, 2022 04:24 PM (RflrK)

246 >>I'm cracking open a bottle of something special tomorrow in honor of Mrs. Doof's birthday. We will be raising our glasses frequently to her memory. If you're so inclined, you raising one in her honor would mean a lot.
Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:21 PM (yUjc0)

Mom's B-Day is tomorrow.

When I get home from Dinner, I will raise a glass to the Memory of your beloved.

Hope you have been doing well, buddy.

Posted by: garrett at May 05, 2022 04:24 PM (ipzLY)

247 I wonder how Peter Doocy is going navigate that Intersectional minefield...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 05, 2022 04:24 PM (PiwSw)

248 Weird, precious metals are all down too.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 05, 2022 04:24 PM (UuD2k)

249 >>> I need some good news, I'm going over to Zerohedge.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 05, 2022 04:11 PM (Y5qcH)

Heh, you will finally find out who's responsible for all of this. ZERO HEDGE COMMENTS: The dinosaurs all dying off, it wasn't a meteor. Also, the bad Jurassic Park sequels. Because they're sneaky like that.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 05, 2022 04:24 PM (0rQxu)

250 But it's not a Depression depression!

Posted by: Whoopsi! Goldberg at May 05, 2022 04:25 PM (oedLL)

251 breaking news

Elizabeth Warren is changing her name to "Siouxanne"

Posted by: REDACTED at May 05, 2022 04:25 PM (us2H3)

252 This busty and scantily-clad brunette is horrified by the inflation and has no idea what to do about it:

It does not appear to me that she knows nothing about inflation.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2022 04:25 PM (ZsR3z)

253 Psaki's replacement: Karine Jean-Pierre

https://tinyurl.com/y67c34ft

Posted by: 496 at May 05, 2022 04:18 PM (VJsqe)
..........

She doesn't look French. Hoo-boy, Peter Doocey gonna be raaayycyst!

Posted by: wth at May 05, 2022 04:25 PM (v0R5T)

254 102 Reagan and Volker. Somebody, somewhere, has to have written a report. The entire regime needs to study every move Volker made.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin

The national debt is too high. They should have thought about that before they quadrupled the money supply, and held rates at zero to protect Zero.

Economic growth is the only answer now, as Trump showed, and the illegitimate regime we have now will literally burn this country down before they will allow that.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 05, 2022 04:10 PM (5kI0z)

Even if you had a Volcker right now, you'd need to have a Reagan that could take the political heat for the recession that he caused, and stay the course until it's done. Biden should have taken the punch bowl away on 20 Jan 2021. If he did, he'd be in halfway decent shape right around now. Too late now.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 05, 2022 04:25 PM (4e+qt)

255 I just tried to explain the market's recent gyrations and the accompanying reasons to someone unfamiliar with the ways of high finance. She said, "It just seems like they're a bunch of mercurial children." Bingo!

Posted by: Rusty Trawler at May 05, 2022 04:25 PM (1gif2)

256 Out of the blue she texts me about the data drop and focused on the rise in miscarriages. I told her I had known about it for awhile because hospitals were reporting triple the miscarriage rate.

Posted by: Dave in Fla
___

There's all sorts of weird things going on that even the pro-vax crowd is starting to ask questions. I'm open that it could be coincidence, but just really seems to be a lot of illnesses that shouldn't be happening are happening to people I know.

Posted by: Blago at May 05, 2022 04:26 PM (bTx6q)

257 I just don't believe our society could withstand "Volker" type interest rate hikes of the 20% variety. Our Fed is way too political to do what they have to. ...
Posted by: Blago at May 05, 2022 04:23 PM (bTx6q)
++++
It might not. The government finances certainly wouldn't. But what that comes down to is the Fed. Does the Fed continue playing politics as they so often do - both then or now - or do they stop and defend the Dollar and the postwar global finance system?

My bet is on the latter, but it is very much an open question and guessing wrong will have severe consequences.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2022 04:26 PM (DU+/6)

258 We were all lied to. If these numbers are accurate and the Pfizer vaccine trial resulted in 2.6% of participants dying and then the government goes out and insists people get these shots and says that they're "completely safe and effective," that is an outrageous abuse of public trust.

I studied the Scottish data when it came out. In the summer of 2021 they got about half their population to take the clot shot. They also had 2500 extra deaths over the year before.

They weren't COVID deaths, and there was no other explanation for them besides the clot shot itself. Their population is around 5M, so if half of that got the clot shot that means 1% of the people that took it died.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2022 04:26 PM (ESjRY)

259 I'm cracking open a bottle of something special tomorrow in honor of Mrs. Doof's birthday. We will be raising our glasses frequently to her memory. If you're so inclined, you raising one in her honor would mean a lot.
Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:21 PM (yUjc0)

Done! Incidentally, tomorrow is also my sister's birthday. The crazy one.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 05, 2022 04:26 PM (DRSnL)

260 I'm very impressed Ace remembered Gerald Ford's folly!

Posted by: CloseTheFed at May 05, 2022 04:26 PM (LeNk3)

261 Saying this is Brandon's fault, instead of Putin's/Trump's/MAGA Nation's/TheCurrentThing's fault is exactly why MinTru must thrive!

Posted by: Jen Psaki at May 05, 2022 04:26 PM (a3Q+t)

262 217 Oh and Chris Wallace's show is being moved to HBO Max.

is this a joke?

Ugh, this is worse than stagflation

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:27 PM (0G13K)

263 Rabbithole is still under $69 here at my local.

Has gone up in Missoula, though. $80+ there.

Posted by: garrett at May 05, 2022 04:27 PM (ipzLY)

264 I just tried to explain the market's recent gyrations and the accompanying reasons to someone unfamiliar with the ways of high finance. She said, "It just seems like they're a bunch of mercurial children." Bingo!
Posted by: Rusty Trawler at May 05, 2022 04:25 PM (1gif2)
++++
Nice. Mercurial is a great word.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2022 04:27 PM (DU+/6)

265 Red State is talking about Barnette blowing away Oz at a debate - she seems like a very interesting candidate, I wonder if that debate is enough to raise interest in her?

Posted by: tommy Chong at May 05, 2022 04:27 PM (trdmm)

266 >>Incidentally, tomorrow is also my sister's birthday. The crazy one.

Aunt Jordan?

Posted by: garrett at May 05, 2022 04:27 PM (ipzLY)

267 The 1970s had Battle of the Network Stars with Barbara Bach and Pam Dawber. So it wasnt so bad

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 05, 2022 04:27 PM (qLd+Q)

268 Maybe the Powers that Be are secretly hoping that our little proxy war with Russia over Ukraine might blossom into something bitter, as to distract further from this ongoing economic disaster.

Posted by: Thrawn at May 05, 2022 04:27 PM (Rl7KJ)

269 One bourbon you can't seem to get a hold of right now is Buffalo Trace. I blame Joe Rogan.
Posted by: Augustine at May 05, 2022 04:24 PM (BDZWU)

It's not his fault. It's B Trace's fault. They can't keep up with demand. Their products are all outstanding. But they make too many varieties of essentially the same stuff. Not sure why their business model is the way it is, but it must work for them.

Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:27 PM (yUjc0)

270 >>> One bourbon you can't seem to get a hold of right now is Buffalo Trace. I blame Joe Rogan.
Posted by: Augustine at May 05, 2022 04:24 PM (BDZWU)

All these bourbons were cheap as hell in the aughts. Pappy wasn't even too bad a few decades ago. I don't know what it was but they sure did get good marketing.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 05, 2022 04:28 PM (0rQxu)

271
Another point I've read. We've been in era of secularly declining interest rates for decades. Just look at the charts, goes up, peaks around the '80s, then starts to come down.

Many firms out there are structured based on that. They will not survive a reversal, of secularly increasing rates. They've piled up a bunch of debt, and their business model cannot support making the coupon on that debt with increasing rates.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 05, 2022 04:28 PM (Mzdiz)

272 197 So thankful my mortg. is locked in at 3%.
Posted by: Infidel

you have a powerful incentive to not sell your home or pay off the loan early. there is a shit ton of housing inventory that won't be sold any year soon.

Posted by: x at May 05, 2022 04:28 PM (uQFwj)

273 This busty and scantily-clad brunette is horrified by the inflation and has no idea what to do about it:
https://is.gd/JvMKCz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2022 04:24 PM (DU+/6)

I got some inflation happening and I know she damn well knows what to do with it.

Posted by: Robert at May 05, 2022 04:28 PM (7POYZ)

274 A gay black woman. How predictable

Posted by: Bigsmith at May 05, 2022 04:28 PM (OiHwR)

275 Zerohedge stories are some of the most insightful you'll find - they've been one of the best sources on the Clot Shot, the Steal, and the war in Ukraine.

But...if you read the comments you'll find out Jews, collectively, are responsible for every bad thing that ever happens...even when they are on the receiving end of them...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2022 04:28 PM (ESjRY)

276 Once the midterms are done, the goal will be to rip the bandaid off quickly so that hopefully there's a recovery by early 2024.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 05, 2022 04:06 PM (wmDcS)

Don't disagree. Hopefully recession in early-mid 2023, back on our feet early 2024 and gaining steam Nov. 2024. Suddenly, Biden praised for leading us a d re-election. MSM

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 05, 2022 04:28 PM (NW9xb)

277 The left: Trump is owned by big corporations

Also the left: Big corporations will price gouge you the second they can!

Also, also the left: Well of course big corporations are price gouging now that Biden is president. They don't want him to help you!
Posted by: 18-1

Also, also, also the left: How dare DeSantis go after big corporations!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2022 04:28 PM (WqXpZ)

278 269 One bourbon you can't seem to get a hold of right now is Buffalo Trace. I blame Joe Rogan.
Posted by: Augustine at May 05, 2022 04:24 PM (BDZWU)

It's not his fault. It's B Trace's fault. They can't keep up with demand. Their products are all outstanding. But they make too many varieties of essentially the same stuff. Not sure why their business model is the way it is, but it must work for them.
Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:27 PM (yUjc0)

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I have never, ever been able to find a bottle of any of their brands on any liquor store shelf in the Low Country. When I first started looking, I would ask if they had Blanton's. I stopped asking because I was tired of people laughing at me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:28 PM (LvTSG)

279
In essense, do everything Coolidge, Reagan and Trump did and shit can the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the Square Deal, the Great Society, Carter, Obama, Clinton and the Kalorama Klown Comintern. Forever.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

I was going to say I didn't think you missed anything; but, I would sincerely wish you would add 'all solar and wind' boondoggles to your list.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 05, 2022 04:29 PM (sQ6GQ)

280 262 217 Oh and Chris Wallace's show is being moved to HBO Max.
is this a joke?
Ugh, this is worse than stagflation
Posted by: Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:27 PM (0G13K)

yeah because people sign on to HBO just to watch a washed up son of a ex-celebrity do interviews with aging boomers who no one remembers anymore.

Posted by: tommy Chong at May 05, 2022 04:29 PM (trdmm)

281 Cheers and prayers for Mrs. Doof tomorrow.

Posted by: Iris at May 05, 2022 04:29 PM (DibdT)

282 Doof, when I get off work tomorrow I will turn up a Wild Turkey 101 in remembrance of Mrs. Doof.

Posted by: Eromero at May 05, 2022 04:29 PM (gktX6)

283 In old irrelevant news, a Zerohedge post remarks on the current story that US intelligence helped kill a lot of Russian generals in Ukraine. Then the question: What possible reason would there be to leak this except to push the US into direct war with Russia?

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at May 05, 2022 04:29 PM (sWM8x)

284 I don't know anyone who has HBO MAX. Is that the sex channel?

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 05, 2022 04:29 PM (DcKNO)

285 >I'm cracking open a bottle of something special tomorrow in honor of Mrs. Doof's birthday. We will be raising our glasses frequently to her memory. If you're so inclined, you raising one in her honor would mean a lot.
Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:21 PM (yUjc0)
***

We shall drink heartily and sing songs in her honor!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 05, 2022 04:29 PM (anj39)

286 My kitchen table accountant is telling me that I'm going to have to sacrifice and scale back from Val-u-rite Premium to Val-u-rite Silver. It's a transitory situation.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 05, 2022 04:29 PM (LkM8p)

287 Red State is talking about Barnette blowing away Oz at a debate - she seems like a very interesting candidate, I wonder if that debate is enough to raise interest in her?
Posted by: tommy Chong
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I remember one of the several times Trump was running for President, he said he wanted Oprah as his VP. He really vets these people I'm sure.

Dr. Oz looks like just handing over a seat to the Dems to support someone has basically has zero history of being a conservative (but maybe I'm wrong)

Posted by: Blago at May 05, 2022 04:29 PM (bTx6q)

288 Interesting. A wrecked US economy means a wrecked Chinese economy?

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2022 04:30 PM (Vr12I)

289 The Biden administration will go down as the racist token administration.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:30 PM (Zz0t1)

290 Don't disagree. Hopefully recession in early-mid 2023, back on our feet early 2024 and gaining steam Nov. 2024. Suddenly, Biden praised for leading us a d re-election. MSM
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 05, 2022 04:28 PM (NW9xb)

because of how long we've been screwing things up, this "recession" is going to look a whole lot like that one in the 30's, and last just as long.

Posted by: tommy Chong at May 05, 2022 04:30 PM (trdmm)

291 Trace and Eagle show up here a lot, but they sell out fast.

I like the Eagle.
The Trace isn't worth the premium they get for it, imo.
Several other bourbons I prefer are actually cheaper.

Posted by: garrett at May 05, 2022 04:30 PM (ipzLY)

292 Mom's B-Day is tomorrow.

When I get home from Dinner, I will raise a glass to the Memory of your beloved.

Hope you have been doing well, buddy.
Posted by: garrett at May 05, 2022 04:24 PM (ipzLY)

Happy birthday to your mom! And thanks in advance for lifting a glass to my beloved. Been doing ok. Ups and downs as expected, but I'll get through.

Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:30 PM (yUjc0)

293 One bourbon you can't seem to get a hold of right now is Buffalo Trace. I blame Joe Rogan.
Posted by: Augustine at May 05, 2022 04:24 PM (BDZWU)

Looking at a freshly opened bottle of BT right now there on my bookshelf.

**smiles to self**

Posted by: Diogenes at May 05, 2022 04:30 PM (anj39)

294 What possible reason would there be to leak this except to push the US into direct war with Russia?

When Trump was president the FNM pushed a story that Russia was paying the Taliban to kill Americans, with the follow up that means we should nuke Moscow.

So...does that mean Russia should do the same thing to us?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2022 04:30 PM (ESjRY)

295 I wanna know why Trump bitches about the turle incessantly and then gives Frank Luntz's gloryhole pal a pass ????

Posted by: REDACTED at May 05, 2022 04:31 PM (us2H3)

296 A gay black woman. How predictable
Posted by: Bigsmith at May 05, 2022 04:28 PM (OiHwR)
.........

You misspelled HISTORIC !

Posted by: wth at May 05, 2022 04:31 PM (v0R5T)

297 Former MSDNC twit Karine Jean-Pierre will be replacing future MSDNC twit Jen Psaki on May 13 as Joey's press secretary.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2022 04:31 PM (ptqGC)

298 Done! Incidentally, tomorrow is also my sister's birthday. The crazy one.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 05, 2022 04:26 PM (DRSnL)

Thanks, Jordan. And happy birthday to your sister!

Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:31 PM (yUjc0)

299 It's not his fault. It's B Trace's fault. They can't keep up with demand. Their products are all outstanding. But they make too many varieties of essentially the same stuff. Not sure why their business model is the way it is, but it must work for them.
Posted by: Doof

Making your own. North Georgia Still Company makes beautiful copper stills. They are backed up a year out on shipping. Orders come in faster than they can build them.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2022 04:31 PM (WqXpZ)

300 The fed ought to jack interest rates by half a point every month until they almost hit the point of collapsing the government to try and stop the inflation. We ought to open up drilling again to get fuel prices back down. We ought to stop putting corn in our fuel tanks and use it to feed people. We ought to stop paying illegal aliens' welfare, and we ought to drastically cut back on citizens' welfare programs. Those things would at least stabilize the economy.

Not one of those things will be done.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 05, 2022 04:31 PM (5kI0z)

301 >>I would ask if they had Blanton's.

Is there a China Town close to you?

Because the last 3 bottles of Blanton's I have been able to find all came from Chinese Liquor Stores where I still have no idea what was said during the transaction.

Posted by: garrett at May 05, 2022 04:31 PM (ipzLY)

302 The James Madison @ 278-
I can't gew my paws on a bottle of Old Grand Dad 114.

Posted by: Eromero at May 05, 2022 04:32 PM (gktX6)

303 >>> There's all sorts of weird things going on that even the pro-vax crowd is starting to ask questions. I'm open that it could be coincidence, but just really seems to be a lot of illnesses that shouldn't be happening are happening to people I know.
Posted by: Blago at May 05, 2022 04:26 PM (bTx6q)

This is true but we're never allowed to focus on anything. Or at least the masses aren't. There's this continual spinning of plates, cultural, secular, crises that keep getting thrown at just, to keep us dashing about, never reexamining things. It's always just, "look squirrel!".

Posted by: banana Dream at May 05, 2022 04:32 PM (0rQxu)

304 Do you think the average person/ household over or underestimates their financial strength?

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2022 04:32 PM (Vr12I)

305 It's not his fault. It's B Trace's fault. They can't keep up with demand. Their products are all outstanding. But they make too many varieties of essentially the same stuff. Not sure why their business model is the way it is, but it must work for them.
Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:27 PM (yUjc0)

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I have never, ever been able to find a bottle of any of their brands on any liquor store shelf in the Low Country. When I first started looking, I would ask if they had Blanton's. I stopped asking because I was tired of people laughing at me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:28 PM (LvTSG)
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I kid. But seriously it has been frustrating. I was at their distillery back in December on the way home from Tennessee and the guy at the gate told me they were out. I was in Cincy last month for a comedy show and I went over the bridge to Kentucky and checked three liquor stores before I gave up.

Posted by: Augustine at May 05, 2022 04:32 PM (BDZWU)

306 20 state AG's, led by Virginia's AG, have signed a letter to the Biden junta's DHS, objecting to the unconstitutional creation of the Ministry of Truth, and are threatening to sue if it is not stopped.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 05, 2022 04:32 PM (k4dH2)

307 Don't disagree. Hopefully recession in early-mid 2023, back on our feet early 2024 and gaining steam Nov. 2024. Suddenly, Biden praised for leading us a d re-election. MSM
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal
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My big fear is we're in uncharted territory here and we might not just "bounce back" if our underlying currency is toilet paper.

I thought all the QE, ZIRP, TARP and all the rest under Obama would have reared its head a lot sooner, but it took a while to finally materialize and here we are.

Posted by: Blago at May 05, 2022 04:32 PM (bTx6q)

308
Making your own. North Georgia Still Company makes beautiful copper stills. They are backed up a year out on shipping. Orders come in faster than they can build them.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2022 04:31 PM (WqXpZ)

Actually illegal in Texas, even for personal consumption.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:32 PM (Zz0t1)

309 I'm cracking open a bottle of something special tomorrow in honor of Mrs. Doof's birthday. We will be raising our glasses frequently to her memory. If you're so inclined, you raising one in her honor would mean a lot.
Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:21 PM (yUjc0)
***

We shall drink heartily and sing songs in her honor!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 05, 2022 04:29 PM (anj39)

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We're attending the funeral of a friend's wife tomorrow. Will raise a glass later to your sweetheart and his.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2022 04:33 PM (ptqGC)

310 301 Is there a China Town close to you?

Because the last 3 bottles of Blanton's I have been able to find all came from Chinese Liquor Stores where I still have no idea what was said during the transaction.
Posted by: garrett at May 05, 2022 04:31 PM (ipzLY)

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This is Charleston, SC. No, I can't say there's much of a Chinatown around here.

My sister lives in Louisville, and we've started talking about going up there for something like a week over the summer. Maybe in the Bluegrass State, I can find some.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:33 PM (LvTSG)

311 This is true but we're never allowed to focus on anything. Or at least the masses aren't. There's this continual spinning of plates, cultural, secular, crises that keep getting thrown at just, to keep us dashing about, never reexamining things. It's always just, "look squirrel!".
Posted by: banana Dream at May 05, 2022 04:32 PM (0rQxu)

watchoo talkin' bout, Willis?

Posted by: Ukrainians for Aborition Rights at May 05, 2022 04:33 PM (trdmm)

312 The WH press corps is gonna be walking on eggshells.

Posted by: wth at May 05, 2022 04:33 PM (v0R5T)

313 This is going to be grueling. Grueling, miserable, sad, dispiriting, heartbreaking, immiserating, depressing, and, seemingly, never-ending.

--

The most disgusting thing of all is that none of this needed to happen. They made it happen. And now this is what we're going to live with for the foreseeable future.

Not to mention, and to put a fine point on it, but stolen elections have consequences.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 05, 2022 04:33 PM (sVtYq)

314 nah, just remember that after the crash of 2008, the idiot adults got to be in charge and they had very wrong ideas. And we left them in charge. But why wouldn't we?

We (the gop) let:
1. teachers turn our kids into feral rioting gheybois
2. immigration run amok
3. the fed actively ruin the dollar

these, I would assume, would be key things the GOP would address...but no. the left , like rust, never sleeps. never loses a hill without dying over and over on it. We just spent 30 years giving up.

Posted by: sockamster at May 05, 2022 04:33 PM (OuH7W)

315 We will be raising our glasses frequently to her memory. If you're so inclined, you raising one in her honor would mean a lot.
Posted by: Doof

I'll help with that as long as you don't mind a sipping Añejo tequila raised in her honor.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 05, 2022 04:33 PM (sQ6GQ)

316
It shall have wriggled its way back to even by election day.

Posted by: Braenyard, whistling past the graveyard at May 05, 2022 04:34 PM (WSVNe)

317 305 I kid. But seriously it has been frustrating. I was at their distillery back in December on the way home from Tennessee and the guy at the gate told me they were out. I was in Cincy last month for a comedy show and I went over the bridge to Kentucky and checked three liquor stores before I gave up.
Posted by: Augustine at May 05, 2022 04:32 PM (BDZWU)

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If I go to Kentucky this summer, I'm hoping to find either Blanton's, BT, or Elmer T. Lee.

One of the three, and I'll be happy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:34 PM (LvTSG)

318 I thought all the QE, ZIRP, TARP and all the rest under Obama would have reared its head a lot sooner, but it took a while to finally materialize and here we are.

Posted by: Blago at May 05, 2022 04:32 PM (bTx6q)

Dem chickens gotta come back to roost sometime.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 05, 2022 04:34 PM (trdmm)

319 I have never, ever been able to find a bottle of any of their brands on any liquor store shelf in the Low Country. When I first started looking, I would ask if they had Blanton's. I stopped asking because I was tired of people laughing at me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:28 PM (LvTSG)

Best to just look for regular B Trace. Unless you're OK with 80 proof whiskey. If so, Benchmark or Ancient Age can be easily found. They are both made by B Trace.

Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:34 PM (yUjc0)

320 Happy Cinco de Quatro, bitches!

Posted by: The Lightbringer at May 05, 2022 04:34 PM (ptqGC)

321 Doof, I will raise a glass in Mrs Doof's honor tomorrow. I had a rough time in the first year after my wife's death. I'll have a good thought for you tomorrow as well.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 05, 2022 04:34 PM (Qy7kP)

322 319 Best to just look for regular B Trace. Unless you're OK with 80 proof whiskey. If so, Benchmark or Ancient Age can be easily found. They are both made by B Trace.
Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:34 PM (yUjc0)

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Benchmark is theirs? Well, I guess I can find one.

That $10 bottle is passable liquor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:35 PM (LvTSG)

323 Ben Foster with another great looking movie out soon, this one about famous Czech warlord Jan Zizka, called: "Medieval":

https://tinyurl.com/Is-This-Something

Michael Caine is also in this, looking very Zod-like.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 05, 2022 04:35 PM (n8rd/)

324 I just wanted to enjoy my last great years before I'm too old. Instead, we all have to deal with the left's "I hate America" bullshit and their destroying it from the inside.

Fuck them.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 05, 2022 04:35 PM (DcKNO)

325 304 Do you think the average person/ household over or underestimates their financial strength?
Posted by: kraken

I know I'm fucked if SHTF

Posted by: sockamster at May 05, 2022 04:35 PM (OuH7W)

326 Happy Cinco de Quatro, bitches!
Posted by: The Lightbringer at May 05, 2022 04:34 PM (ptqGC)

May the Fifth be whiskey.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:35 PM (Zz0t1)

327 Aunt Jordan?
Posted by: garrett at May 05, 2022 04:27 PM (ipzLY)

I don't think my sister is old enough to be your mom. Plus, she doesn't have any sons.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 05, 2022 04:35 PM (DRSnL)

328 SHERIFF: Masturbation disagreement leads to murder at Florida homeless camp

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 05, 2022 04:35 PM (xPl2J)

329 If I go to Kentucky this summer, I'm hoping to find either Blanton's, BT, or Elmer T. Lee.

One of the three, and I'll be happy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:34 PM (LvTSG)

I visit Kentucky often. You might find B Trace. Unlikely to find the others. Let me know if you're going. I'll give you some suggestions.

Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:36 PM (yUjc0)

330
Welcome Back Carter...this fall on CBS.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Handle it, Roy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 05, 2022 04:36 PM (63Dwl)

331 We were all lied to. If these numbers are accurate and the Pfizer vaccine trial resulted in 2.6% of participants dying and then the government goes out and insists people get these shots and says that they're "completely safe and effective," that is an outrageous abuse of public trust.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB
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WOULDN'T THAT BE ABOUT 200 TIME MORE THAN THE ACTUAL COVID NUMBERS... WHICH WERE PUMPED UP.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 05, 2022 04:36 PM (iDcra)

332 willowed- so the guys REALLY get shirts?!

Posted by: free tibet at May 05, 2022 04:36 PM (ft44D)

333 329 I visit Kentucky often. You might find B Trace. Unlikely to find the others. Let me know if you're going. I'll give you some suggestions.
Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:36 PM (yUjc0)

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Will do.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:37 PM (LvTSG)

334 I'm voting for Kathy Barnett until she isn't running
Having a very good conservative and Black woman blows the doors off any other candidate

Posted by: Skip at May 05, 2022 04:37 PM (2JoB8)

335 Suckin' in the 70's reimagined as Suckin' in the 2020's

Posted by: SFGoth at May 05, 2022 04:37 PM (KAi1n)

336 This transitory inflation seems to be taking longer than I expected. But what do I know...the two weeks we spent flattening the curve felt like years to me.

Posted by: Simple Stevo at May 05, 2022 04:37 PM (SOV+T)

337 I think there's been an explosion of whiskeys from corporate liquor conglomerates. Well, every type of alcohol. I go to the ultra mega wine store and there's a new brand.

So, IDK. But if you want great value bourbon, get Evan Williams. IMHO.

Posted by: sockamster at May 05, 2022 04:37 PM (OuH7W)

338 The Commie/Libs (BIRM) got their way in 2020 with spending massive amounts of borrowed money on "CoVid" "Stimulus", and also printing even more massive quantities of it, and now they've fucked themselves in another election year.

Only problem is, they don't act like they care; almost like voting doesn't matter.

Hmmmm.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 05, 2022 04:37 PM (n8rd/)

339 It's all Putin's fault

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 05, 2022 04:37 PM (eMEkg)

340 Do you think the average person/ household over or underestimates their financial strength?
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2022 04:32 PM (Vr12I)

Honestly? I think the average person doesn't even consider financial strength. They're happy if they can pay the bills every month.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 05, 2022 04:38 PM (DRSnL)

341 SHERIFF: Masturbation disagreement leads to murder at Florida homeless camp

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A disagreement? Is this like when guys stand around the grill and disagree on how to stack the coals?

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 05, 2022 04:38 PM (sVtYq)

342 >>This transitory inflation seems to be taking longer than I expected.

Almost as if it is transitioning into a REAL FUCKING PROBLEM.

Posted by: garrett at May 05, 2022 04:38 PM (ipzLY)

343 Everything is ghey now. From the Daily Mail, two male South American river dolphins become sexually aroused playing with an anaconda:

https://tinyurl.com/3r2mheak

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2022 04:38 PM (ptqGC)

344 I think the Covid stimulus was a double whammy because they paid lots of people to not work for way to long and screwed up the supply chain.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 05, 2022 04:38 PM (UuD2k)

345
A disagreement? Is this like when guys stand around the grill and disagree on how to stack the coals?
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 05, 2022 04:38 PM (sVtYq)

I've never be a part of this situation.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:38 PM (Zz0t1)

346 "QE, ZIRP, TARP"

I'm going to adopt those as my pronouns.

Posted by: SFGoth at May 05, 2022 04:39 PM (KAi1n)

347 Well, shit, if we have another 33 billion to send to Ukraine why wouldn't our money keep its value?

Sarc/

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 05, 2022 04:39 PM (DcKNO)

348 >>SHERIFF: Masturbation disagreement leads to murder at Florida homeless camp

OVER THE LINE!

Posted by: Walter Sobcek at May 05, 2022 04:39 PM (ipzLY)

349 All these bourbons were cheap as hell in the aughts. Pappy wasn't even too bad a few decades ago. I don't know what it was but they sure did get good marketing.

It's all driven by scenesters and hipsters. Liquor goes through these trends. A decade or so ago, it was classic cocktails. So you'd see these 22-year-old assholes in fedoras drinking French 75s and whatnot. Now it's bourbon. Houston has at least three significant bourbon societies at this point, all driving up demand for whatever they decree the current thing to be beyond any reasonable possibility of supply so that they become allocated at liquor stores and practically available only on the secondary market at hyperinflated prices. I'd resent it less if these dumbshit whippersnappers cared about the product, but they have all the sophistication of "people say I need that bourbon with the horsey on the top." So now trying to find it is like traveling to Nigeria to buy yellowcake. Tulipmaniac assholes.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 05, 2022 04:39 PM (ppBhU)

350 SHERIFF: Masturbation disagreement leads to murder at Florida homeless camp
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 05, 2022 04:35 PM (xPl2J)
........

So that's where Pete lives?

Posted by: wth at May 05, 2022 04:39 PM (v0R5T)

351 "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 05, 2022 04:39 PM (a3Q+t)

352 Sorry to those moron brokers but screw those those Ivy League Wall Street schizo grifters. It's a good old boys club of self fulfilling prophecy narcissists and manipulators.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 05, 2022 04:39 PM (27hQX)

353 The Commie/Libs (BIRM) got their way in 2020 with spending massive amounts of borrowed money on "CoVid" "Stimulus", and also printing even more massive quantities of it, and now they've fucked themselves in another election year.

Only problem is, they don't act like they care; almost like voting doesn't matter.

Hmmmm.
Posted by: Sharkman

But let's be honest here, Trump actively pushed all of this. He was outbidding both Dems and Republicans on stimulus thinking it would help him in the election.

We got mad at Obama bailouts and things like Solyndra and Cash for Clunkers etc, what Trump did with PPP and mailing people checks was easily 1000x worse.

Posted by: Blago at May 05, 2022 04:39 PM (bTx6q)

354 Red State is talking about Barnette blowing away Oz at a debate - she seems like a very interesting candidate, I wonder if that debate is enough to raise interest in her?
Posted by: tommy

I watched it. She did a very good job. Oz was an arrogant asshoe.

Posted by: Infidel at May 05, 2022 04:39 PM (M0FJx)

355 SHERIFF: Masturbation disagreement leads to and then the murders began

Posted by: x at May 05, 2022 04:40 PM (uQFwj)

356 Everything is ghey now. From the Daily Mail, two male South American river dolphins become sexually aroused playing with an anaconda:

https://tinyurl.com/3r2mheak
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2022 04:38 PM (ptqGC)

Ohferchryssakes.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:40 PM (Zz0t1)

357 320 Happy Cinco de Quatro, bitches!

Posted by: The Lightbringer at May 05, 2022 04:34 PM (ptqGC)

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That always sounds more intelligent in the original Austrian.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kraken of Misinformation Online at May 05, 2022 04:40 PM (9Oiym)

358 I've never be a part of this situation.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:38 PM (Zz0t1)

Masturbating or grilling?

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 05, 2022 04:40 PM (DRSnL)

359 Slowly seeing office complex I work at starting to come back

Posted by: Skip at May 05, 2022 04:40 PM (2JoB8)

360 Learning to operate a still would be something that will come in handy and pay well. Always wanted to do this. Maybe its time to have a talk with the deeply southern baptist wife and her parents.

Posted by: The Vooter at May 05, 2022 04:40 PM (IhUL0)

361 351 "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 05, 2022 04:39 PM (a3Q+t)

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Yes.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 05, 2022 04:40 PM (DcKNO)

362 351 "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 05, 2022 04:39 PM (a3Q+t)

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"DEATH! DEATH! DEATH! FORTH EORLINGAS!"
-Theoden, King

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:40 PM (LvTSG)

363 I have never, ever been able to find a bottle of any of their brands on any liquor store shelf in the Low Country. When I first started looking, I would ask if they had Blanton's. I stopped asking because I was tired of people laughing at me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:28 PM (LvTSG)

Best to just look for regular B Trace. Unless you're OK with 80 proof whiskey. If so, Benchmark or Ancient Age can be easily found. They are both made by B Trace.
Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:34 PM (yUjc0)

+1
I havent' seen Blantons since the Scamdemic started. I get the occasional Eagle Rare. I am finding plenty of BT, oddly enough.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at May 05, 2022 04:41 PM (XvPQV)

364 Speaking of alcohol, I recently thought I was dying. I found I was peeing pure dark red. [sorry for the image I won't mention it again] I thought I had ebola. So I did what I would normally do if I did actually contract ebola and I waited 24 hrs to see what happens. "So my insides are melting let's just see if it gets worse".

Well, everything returned to normal. So I started going through things I ate and drank and I found a Peanut Butter Milk Stout beer I bought had huge amounts of dye. So actually I was dyeing. Get it? Get it? So it was the beer. And yeah I like to drink strange beer occasionally. It's like the wealthy heiress that likes to dress down and then visit the truck stops for a little bit o the strange except I just buy weird beer. No biggie.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 05, 2022 04:41 PM (0rQxu)

365 A friend of my husband's is an orthopedic surgeon who makes moonshine as a hobby. It's actually pretty smooth and good.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2022 04:41 PM (ptqGC)

366 Just finished watching Tucker Carlson's interview with Brandon Straka on Fox Nation's Tucker Carlson Today.
I highly recommend it... Wow!

Posted by: redridinghood at May 05, 2022 04:41 PM (NpAcC)

367 I think the Covid stimulus was a double whammy because they paid lots of people to not work for way to long and screwed up the supply chain.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 05, 2022 04:38 PM (UuD2k)
++++
It was absolutely, mind-bendingly insane. The ecstatic money-printing in the aftermath of 2008 caused a shit ton of inflation, but it was largely contained in the capital and - sadly - housing markets. The Fed bought bonds from the banks and the banks chased returns elsewhere. The COVID printing was insanely huge, and they just dropped it out of helicopters. They engaged in indiscriminate printing and distribution. Lots of other problems with that, too, and moral hazards like you describe but it was also a kind of printing and distribution they could *not* control.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2022 04:41 PM (DU+/6)

368 We were all lied to. If these numbers are accurate and the Pfizer vaccine trial resulted in 2.6% of participants dying and then the government goes out and insists people get these shots and says that they're "completely safe and effective," that is an outrageous abuse of public trust.

I studied the Scottish data when it came out. In the summer of 2021 they got about half their population to take the clot shot. They also had 2500 extra deaths over the year before.

They weren't COVID deaths, and there was no other explanation for them besides the clot shot itself. Their population is around 5M, so if half of that got the clot shot that means 1% of the people that took it died.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2022 04:26 PM

They pulled the swine flue "vaccine" in 1976 after it caused 64 deaths and hundreds, possibly thousands of significant mental issue cases. I got it in the Army and two guys in the 3rd Infantry Division I was in died from that shot.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 05, 2022 04:41 PM (bVYXr)

369 >>This transitory inflation seems to be taking longer than I expected.

Almost as if it is transitioning into a REAL FUCKING PROBLEM.
Posted by: garrett at May 05, 2022 04:38 PM

#TwoWeeks

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 05, 2022 04:41 PM (a3Q+t)

370 This busty and scantily-clad brunette is horrified by the inflation and has no idea what to do about it:
https://is.gd/JvMKCz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2022 04:24 PM (DU+/6)

She seems nice.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 05, 2022 04:41 PM (Qhnrt)

371 SHERIFF: Masturbation disagreement leads to murder at Florida homeless camp ----

Argument whether dominate hand better than non dominant hand.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 05, 2022 04:41 PM (27hQX)

372 A still just gets you white lightening. Making a whiskey or a bourbon takes the right barrels and a place to store them.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 05, 2022 04:42 PM (UuD2k)

373 And very sure Kathy Barnett was at the January 6 rally, heard her on talk radio that day

Posted by: Skip at May 05, 2022 04:42 PM (2JoB8)

374 361 351 "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 05, 2022 04:39 PM (a3Q+t)
Yes.
Posted by: Seems Legit at May 05, 2022 04:40 PM (DcKNO)

And now we await the end of the Fourh Age.

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2022 04:42 PM (Vr12I)

375 >>This transitory inflation seems to be taking longer than I expected.

--they lie about everything.

Posted by: sockamster at May 05, 2022 04:42 PM (OuH7W)

376 Thank you to all who will be raising a glass to Mrs Doof's memory tomorrow. She was simply an amazing woman. One of the greatest things about her was her love of honoring those she loved on their birthdays. If you told her your birthday once, she would remember it forever. She'd be among the first to send a happy birthday text to everyone she cared about. She would find out WAY ahead of time what your favorite candy or snack was, and she'd have that attached to a birthday card. She had the greatest heart ever! Gonna be a lot of emotions tomorrow, but we WILL be celebrating her birthday!!

Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:42 PM (yUjc0)

377 Maybe its time to have a talk with the deeply southern baptist wife and her parents.
Posted by: The Vooter at May 05, 2022 04:40 PM (IhUL0)

Tell her you're just making homemade disinfectant.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 05, 2022 04:42 PM (DRSnL)

378 Posted by: Blago at May 05, 2022 04:39 PM

Trump didn't do that, Congress did.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 05, 2022 04:42 PM (bVYXr)

379 OT:

I've been itching to fill a decorative space on a shelf in the media room, and I have decided that I am seriously lacking in Lord of the Rings stuff. So, the space must be Lord of the Rings themed.

I do not know what to put in it, though. I want it Rohan related (statues of the Nazgul are badass and awesome, but they seem to be wrong for the one LOTR thing in a room), but I cannot find a decent small statue of Theoden or anything.

It is a problem. A first world problem, one might say.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:42 PM (LvTSG)

380 Masturbating or grilling?
Posted by: Jordan61

Imagine the amount of money a Twitch channel could make pulling off an ASMR based on baiting and grilling.

Posted by: The Vooter at May 05, 2022 04:42 PM (IhUL0)

381 "you're goin' too hard, that's gonna chafe" - F1

"shut up, I know what I'm doing" - F2

Posted by: Florida Men at May 05, 2022 04:43 PM (sJHOI)

382 " the stubbornness of inflation "
See, it's not that these smart people are really dumb. It's that inflation is stubborn.

Posted by: Fool Otto at May 05, 2022 04:43 PM (DB16e)

383 367 I think the Covid stimulus was a double whammy because they paid lots of people to not work for way to long and screwed up the supply chain.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 05, 2022 04:38 PM (UuD2k)
++++
It was absolutely, mind-bendingly insane. The ecstatic money-printing in the aftermath of 2008 caused a shit ton of inflation, but it was largely contained in the capital and - sadly - housing markets. The Fed bought bonds from the banks and the banks chased returns elsewhere. The COVID printing was insanely huge, and they just dropped it out of helicopters. They engaged in indiscriminate printing and distribution. Lots of other problems with that, too, and moral hazards like you describe but it was also a kind of printing and distribution they could *not* control.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2022 04:41 PM (DU+/6)

The greatest Error.

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2022 04:43 PM (Vr12I)

384 Funflation is back, bitches!

Posted by: Dr Spank at May 05, 2022 04:43 PM (ANH3w)

385 oh right, the covid comes through and America's response was to dump several trillion dollars on us. Let the country take 2 years off.

Trump played along, or was rolled along. It's a shame. He shoulda vetoed a few budgets in his day.

Posted by: sockamster at May 05, 2022 04:43 PM (OuH7W)

386 So I did what I would normally do if I did actually contract ebola and I waited 24 hrs to see what happens. "So my insides are melting let's just see if it gets worse".

------

I lol'd

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 05, 2022 04:43 PM (DcKNO)

387 Thank you to all who will be raising a glass to Mrs Doof's memory tomorrow. She was simply an amazing woman. One of the greatest things about her was her love of honoring those she loved on their birthdays. If you told her your birthday once, she would remember it forever. She'd be among the first to send a happy birthday text to everyone she cared about. She would find out WAY ahead of time what your favorite candy or snack was, and she'd have that attached to a birthday card. She had the greatest heart ever! Gonna be a lot of emotions tomorrow, but we WILL be celebrating her birthday!!

Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:42 PM (yUjc0)

God bless her. She sounds like an angel.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2022 04:43 PM (ptqGC)

388 374 361 351 "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 05, 2022 04:39 PM (a3Q+t)
Yes.
Posted by: Seems Legit at May 05, 2022 04:40 PM (DcKNO)

And now we await the end of the Fourh Age.
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2022 04:42 PM (Vr12I)
===

Tolkien speculated we were either in the 5th or 6th age IIRC.

Posted by: Augustine at May 05, 2022 04:43 PM (BDZWU)

389 I've been waiting on this inflationary spike ever since the beginning of QE. Even if Biden wasn't a senile old bastard being manipulated by Globalist Communists, this inflationary spike was baked into the cake. It had to happen. Simply had to.

We've printed money faster than our growth in providing goods and services. In a closed system, that would be enough to generate inflation. In an open system of fiat currency on a global scale, only international confidence in our currency as a safe haven could prevent inflation under these circumstances. Well, that's shot to shit now.

Our debt crossed the trillion mark under Reagan. It's went up like a bottle rocket, starting with the end of W's stupidity through Obama's reign of error. Trump kept on keeping on with the madness, and Biden said "hold my beer". Honestly, how could a massive drop in the value of the dollar have been avoided over two decades of printing currency like madmen as the national debt multiplied like tribbles ?

Posted by: Glowie is the new Troll is the new Conspiracy Theorist at May 05, 2022 04:43 PM (2Or5V)

390 Gal Gadot look-alike Elsa Patacky kicks all kinds of ass in "Interceptor":

https://tinyurl.com/Grrrlllzzz-Rule-Boyzzzz-Drule

Posted by: Sharkman at May 05, 2022 04:43 PM (n8rd/)

391 So I did what I would normally do if I did actually contract ebola and I waited 24 hrs to see what happens. "So my insides are melting let's just see if it gets worse".

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 05, 2022 04:43 PM (kf6Ak)

392 I have to hand it to the left. When they see opportunity, they take it. Covid pandemic? Let's pay people $15/hr to stay home. Call it enhanced unemployment!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 05, 2022 04:43 PM (t3/qz)

393 I think the Covid stimulus was a double whammy because they paid lots of people to not work for way to long and screwed up the supply chain.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
___

It fucked with our culture, it was basically a pilot program for Universal Basic Income and people got a taste and never want to get up and go to work ever again.

A lot of this PPP stuff did the same thing, a company got govt money to keep someone on the payroll and basically do nothing.

Posted by: Blago at May 05, 2022 04:44 PM (bTx6q)

394 >>It is a problem. A first world problem, one might say.

I think I might have the 'Bookends' that came with the Deluxe DVDS?

If you want them, I will try and locate them.

Posted by: garrett at May 05, 2022 04:44 PM (ipzLY)

395 Yeah, the biggest knock on Trump here is his poor personnel selections, but I've always thought his biggest weakness was spending like a Democrat.

I still support him and I'll still vote for him, but that shouldn't be ignored.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at May 05, 2022 04:44 PM (sWM8x)

396 Maybe its time to have a talk with the deeply southern baptist wife and her parents.
Posted by: The Vooter at May 05, 2022 04:40 PM (IhUL0)

Tell her you're just making homemade disinfectant.
Posted by: Jordan61

Jordan knows this talk won't end well. Lol
I've put a pin in it. Thanks for the save.

Posted by: The Vooter at May 05, 2022 04:44 PM (IhUL0)

397 https://tinyurl.com/Grrrlllzzz-Rule-Boyzzzz-Drule
Posted by: Sharkman at May 05, 2022 04:43 PM (n8rd/)
++++
You might win the prize for "longest tinyURL ever posted."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2022 04:44 PM (DU+/6)

398 394 >>It is a problem. A first world problem, one might say.

I think I might have the 'Bookends' that came with the Deluxe DVDS?

If you want them, I will try and locate them.
Posted by: garrett at May 05, 2022 04:44 PM (ipzLY)

=======

The Argonath? I had those at my dad's house, but I don't know if they are still there. If you are willing to part with them, I'd love to take them off your hands.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:44 PM (LvTSG)

399 "low and slow, is the way to go" - F1

"shut up, fast and hot, baby". - F2

Posted by: Florida Men at May 05, 2022 04:44 PM (sJHOI)

400 388

Tolkien speculated we were either in the 5th or 6th age IIRC.
Posted by: Augustine at May 05, 2022 04:43 PM (BDZWU)

I miss out on EVERYTHING!

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2022 04:44 PM (Vr12I)

401 I will look the next time I am in the basement. If there, they are yours.

Posted by: garrett at May 05, 2022 04:45 PM (ipzLY)

402 All that's missing from the 70s are the long gas lines. I expect we'll see those soon.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2022 04:45 PM (ptqGC)

403 401 I will look the next time I am in the basement. If there, they are yours.
Posted by: garrett at May 05, 2022 04:45 PM (ipzLY)

========

Noice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:45 PM (LvTSG)

404 "Medieval":

https://tinyurl.com/Is-This-Something

Michael Caine is also in this, looking very Zod-like.
Posted by: Sharkman
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Good, they didn't try to emote some foney baloney accents. That's a 1+ from the get go.

Posted by: Braenyard, whistling past the graveyard at May 05, 2022 04:46 PM (WSVNe)

405 390 Gal Gadot look-alike Elsa Patacky kicks all kinds of ass in "Interceptor":

https://tinyurl.com/Grrrlllzzz-Rule-Boyzzzz-Drule
Posted by: Sharkman at May 05, 2022 04:43 PM (n8rd/)

She's cute but I'll pass on female-starring action movies. If it's actually good, I'll watch it some day in the future. But I'm betting much on it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at May 05, 2022 04:46 PM (XvPQV)

406 I'm voting for Kathy Barnett until she isn't running
Having a very good conservative and Black woman blows the doors off any other candidate
Posted by: Skip at May 05, 2022 04:37 PM (2JoB

Good choice. She’s impressive and a true maga unlike the Oz freak.

Posted by: 7man at May 05, 2022 04:46 PM (qwO6y)

407 Trump played along, or was rolled along. It's a shame. He shoulda vetoed a few budgets in his day.
Posted by: sockamster
___

He definitely could have steered some of the excesses into a more conservative direction.

Like instead of mailing people checks, make it something like a payroll tax rebate. or give businesses a tax holiday instead of bullshit loans, etc.

I can understand the need for stimulus but Trump basically signed on to every stupid liberal wish list program.

Posted by: Blago at May 05, 2022 04:46 PM (bTx6q)

408 A *cheap* bourbon starts at $20 for a fifth?

I'm glad I quit that world! When I was using, Old Crow went for about $5 a fifth, Cutty Sark for $6.50 (and that was special occasion likker for me). Grocery stores in Lousy-ana sell liquor right there, so they usually had their house brand available for $4-5. (This was the Ford and Carter years, for your reference. Gas was .55/gal. and a new Ford could be bought for $5K.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2022 04:46 PM (txdEq)

409 >>> Thank you to all who will be raising a glass to Mrs Doof's memory tomorrow. She was simply an amazing woman. One of the greatest things about her was her love of honoring those she loved on their birthdays. If you told her your birthday once, she would remember it forever. She'd be among the first to send a happy birthday text to everyone she cared about. She would find out WAY ahead of time what your favorite candy or snack was, and she'd have that attached to a birthday card. She had the greatest heart ever! Gonna be a lot of emotions tomorrow, but we WILL be celebrating her birthday!!
Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:42 PM (yUjc0)

That is wonderful. There are people that made us all better people by showing us how they remember and care for others. She sounds very special, a blessing.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 05, 2022 04:46 PM (0rQxu)

410 Thanks to Oprah, we have:

Barry Obama

Dr. Oz

Dr. Phil

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2022 04:47 PM (ptqGC)

411 Congress hasn't produced a legitimate constitutionally mandated budget in over two decades. The Fed has been buying securities to prop up the market for over a decade, despite it being illegal by their own rules. Our betters demand that we vote on science, instead of proving it. They also demand that we obey whatever ludicrous idea they come up with. Democrats believe that threatening the supreme court will force them to change their opinion of the constitution.

We are led by the laziest and most corrupt people to be found in the entire population.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 05, 2022 04:47 PM (5kI0z)

412 The Gop will allow the Dems to outflank them on these issues governing in a pragmatic way. You laugh but it has happened every single time the last 3-4 decades.

Posted by: The Vooter at May 05, 2022 04:47 PM (IhUL0)

413 Do you think the average person/ household over or underestimates their financial strength?
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2022 04:32 PM (Vr12I)

Honestly? I think the average person doesn't even consider financial strength. They're happy if they can pay the bills every month.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 05, 2022 04:38 PM (DRSnL)

Muh Mastercard isn't maxed out and i ain't been fired yet! I am doing real good!

Posted by: Sum Dood at May 05, 2022 04:47 PM (Z32m1)

414 410 Thanks to Oprah, we have:

Barry Obama

Dr. Oz

Dr. Phil
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2022 04:47 PM (ptqGC)

Diabeetus

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 05, 2022 04:47 PM (Y5qcH)

415
Masturbating or grilling?
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 05, 2022 04:40 PM (DRSnL)

Masturbating while grilling, perhaps?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:47 PM (Zz0t1)

416 I do have beef and bean burrito to make so better get on it. Then think do I want to tackle plumbing leak

Posted by: Skip at May 05, 2022 04:48 PM (2JoB8)

417 Gonna be a lot of emotions tomorrow, but we WILL be celebrating her birthday!!

{{Doof}} I will raise a glass as well. God bless you and your family.

Posted by: Jewells45 at May 05, 2022 04:48 PM (nxdel)

418 Happy Birthday to Mrs Doof!

Thank you for sharing your memories of her, Doof. I appreciate hearing about her - she sounds so lovely!

Posted by: Moki at May 05, 2022 04:48 PM (JrN/x)

419 There is too much free speech in this comment section.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 05, 2022 04:48 PM (t3/qz)

420 There is no joy in Mudville.......

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kaliforniaistan at May 05, 2022 04:48 PM (EIf/B)

421 Happy Cinco de Quatro, bitches!

Posted by: The Lightbringer at May 05, 2022 04:34 PM (ptqGC)

Which pendejo ordered the Interesting Mexicans?

Posted by: Los Coyotes at May 05, 2022 04:48 PM (wBpKf)

422 Depression, stagflation, high prices - none of it will make one bit of difference here in Maskachusetts (regular gas now $4.02/gal). Because even the Dems who 'disapprove' of Stinkfinger and are watching their wallets vanish into thin air will never vote GOP.

What isn't Trump's fault is the fault of Big Oil / Big Grocery / Big Pharma. SCOTUS is an evil reich-wing cabal ready to strap women to rape tables and force them to carry the fetus to term.

The rich aren't paying their fair share. Faux Nooz is a propaganda organ disseminating lies and hatred.

They might not vote Democrat, but they will never vote for the GOP.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2022 04:48 PM (2JVJo)

423 >>This transitory inflation seems to be taking longer than I expected.

Almost as if it is transitioning into a REAL FUCKING PROBLEM.

Posted by: garrett at May 05, 2022 04:38 PM (ipzLY)

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$10 trillion in debt spending here, $10 trillion in debt spending there, pretty soon you're talking ~~real~~ imaginary money ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Kraken of Misinformation Online at May 05, 2022 04:49 PM (9Oiym)

424 This busty and scantily-clad brunette is horrified by the inflation and has no idea what to do about it:
https://is.gd/JvMKCz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2022 04:24 PM (DU+/6)

She seems nice.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 05, 2022 04:41 PM (Qhnrt)

She looks like a wild ride

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at May 05, 2022 04:49 PM (XvPQV)

425 Gonna be a lot of emotions tomorrow, but we WILL be celebrating her birthday!!
Posted by: Doof

A wonderful woman!!

Posted by: Tonypete at May 05, 2022 04:49 PM (bJxw1)

426 I'm in the midst of a Tolkien re-read. I came away with a much deeper appreciation of The Silmarillion. In the past some of it felt like a slog. I'm in Unfinished Tales now.

Posted by: Augustine at May 05, 2022 04:49 PM (BDZWU)

427 but I cannot find a decent small statue of Theoden or anything.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:42 PM

One does not simply find an AtC-size statue of Thorden.

Posted by: Boromir at May 05, 2022 04:49 PM (a3Q+t)

428 Ace grew up on apartheid Endor where he was protected in his rich fuzzy ewok enclave, shielded from the effects of anti-Wookie propaganda.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 05, 2022 04:49 PM (t3/qz)

429 411 Congress hasn't produced a legitimate constitutionally mandated budget in over two decades. The Fed has been buying securities to prop up the market for over a decade, despite it being illegal by their own rules. Our betters demand that we vote on science, instead of proving it. They also demand that we obey whatever ludicrous idea they come up with. Democrats believe that threatening the supreme court will force them to change their opinion of the constitution.

We are led by the laziest and most corrupt people to be found in the entire population.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 05, 2022 04:47 PM (5kI0z)

True. A legitimate budget hasn’t been produced maybe since Newt.

Posted by: 7man at May 05, 2022 04:50 PM (qwO6y)

430 The Covid stimulus included increasing unemployment benefits. Why ? Unemployed is unemployed. Whether related to Covid or not. Giving away more money didn't help fight Covid .

And the amount was ridiculous. An extra $300 a week regardless of what your prior employment income was.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 05, 2022 04:50 PM (27hQX)

431 Masturbating while grilling, perhaps?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:47
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Don't put the white sauce on my meat, please.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 05, 2022 04:50 PM (ju2Fy)

432 This busty and scantily-clad brunette is horrified by the inflation and has no idea what to do about it:

//

I like the body but I hate pierced nippies. wnb 2/10

Posted by: sockamster at May 05, 2022 04:50 PM (OuH7W)

433 Do you think the average person/ household over or underestimates their financial strength?
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2022 04:32 PM (Vr12I)

Around me, the average household doesn't even take the time to make an educated guess. And it wouldn't matter, they're too dumb to do so and too timid to accept an uncomfortable conclusion anyway.

Anecdata; during the ice storms that we made it through several years ago, people around me ran out of food and started having serious issues with lack of heat about day four into a seven day power outage with no ability to get on the roads. These people all have nice $200K homes on one acre lots - but apparently, no idea of keeping two weeks of groceries on hand.

Posted by: Glowie is the new Troll is the new Conspiracy Theorist at May 05, 2022 04:50 PM (2Or5V)

434 (This was the Ford and Carter years, for your reference. Gas was .55/gal. and a new Ford could be bought for $5K.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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That was the year of the Canadian Club.

Posted by: Braenyard, whistling past the graveyard at May 05, 2022 04:51 PM (WSVNe)

435 The country is run by Smaug now.

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2022 04:51 PM (Vr12I)

436 419 There is too much free speech in this comment section.
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Would you like to hear a song?

Posted by: Nina Jancabitch at May 05, 2022 04:51 PM (sWM8x)

437 -
She seems nice.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 05, 2022 04:41 PM (Qhnrt)
She looks like a wild ride

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards -
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Back off, she's taken.

Posted by: Mr. Toad at May 05, 2022 04:51 PM (SchQD)

438 lost my ass in the last down turn so I bought farmland instead this time around.

Have to work harder to make my investments grow but so far no one has figured out how to take this investment away.

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at May 05, 2022 04:51 PM (4TZI4)

439 >>> A friend of my husband's is an orthopedic surgeon who makes moonshine as a hobby. It's actually pretty smooth and good.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2022 04:41 PM (ptqGC)

My wife and I were touring apple cider distilling places, whatever you call them, through the Virginias. We also stopped at a corn liqueur still and I bought some. I can't say I enjoyed the taste, it tasted like candy corn, but with very high proof. Interesting though.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 05, 2022 04:51 PM (0rQxu)

440 I can't wait to go shopping with my wheelbarrow full of money....like in the olden days of the Weimar Republic.

Or Zimbabwe.

Woohoo!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 05, 2022 04:52 PM (w5kDF)

441 DOCTOR Jill just said "Latinos." What? Didn't she get the memo and the brainwashing treatment to say "Latinx?"

Posted by: Gref at May 05, 2022 04:52 PM (AMIL/)

442 Gal Gadot look-alike Elsa Patacky kicks all kinds of ass in "Interceptor":

https://tinyurl.com/Grrrlllzzz-Rule-Boyzzzz-Drule
Posted by: Sharkman at May 05, 2022 04:43 PM (n8rd/)

Notice how Netflix's logo at the end forms from a rainbow colored explosion........subtle.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 05, 2022 04:52 PM (Zz0t1)

443 That's almost impossible, even with computers.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 05, 2022 04:52 PM (vuisn)

444 440 I can't wait to go shopping with my wheelbarrow full of money....like in the olden days of the Weimar Republic.

Or Zimbabwe.

Woohoo!
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 05, 2022 04:52 PM (w5kDF)

So, go long on wheelbarrow futures?

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2022 04:53 PM (Vr12I)

445 1 "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 05, 2022

***
Clearly I need to reread The Trilogy, as it was once known. It's been a loooong time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2022 04:53 PM (txdEq)

446 DOCTOR Jill just said "Latinos." What? Didn't she get the memo and the brainwashing treatment to say "Latinx?"
Posted by: Gref

What are you stuck in 2021? It is Latine now. Jeez. Get with the times.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 05, 2022 04:53 PM (t3/qz)

447 443 That's almost impossible, even with computers.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 05, 2022 04:52 PM (vuisn)

========

I used to bullseye womprats in my T-16 back home, and they're not much bigger than two meters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:53 PM (LvTSG)

448 441 DOCTOR Jill just said "Latinos." What? Didn't she get the memo and the brainwashing treatment to say "Latinx?"
Posted by: Gref at May 05, 2022 04:52 PM (AMIL/)

'Latine.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 05, 2022 04:53 PM (3NKiY)

449 445 Clearly I need to reread The Trilogy, as it was once known. It's been a loooong time.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2022 04:53 PM (txdEq)

==========

There is only one book!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:53 PM (LvTSG)

450 1 DOCTOR Jill just said "Latinos." What? Didn't she get the memo and the brainwashing treatment to say "Latinx?"
Posted by: Gref at May 05, 2022

***
The plural is "Latinices," Jill. Get with it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2022 04:54 PM (txdEq)

451 I'm cracking open a bottle of something special tomorrow in honor of Mrs. Doof's birthday. We will be raising our glasses frequently to her memory. If you're so inclined, you raising one in her honor would mean a lot.
Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2022 04:21 PM (yUjc0)

It will be our honor.

*starts practicing*

To Mrs. Doof!

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at May 05, 2022 04:54 PM (TmRCR)

452 DOCTOR Jill just said "Latinos." What? Didn't she get the memo and the brainwashing treatment to say "Latinx?"

Posted by: Gref at May 05, 2022 04:52 PM (AMIL/)
===

So last year. Today it is "Latrine."

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 05, 2022 04:54 PM (iDcra)

453 I used to bullseye womprats in my T-16 back home, and they're not much bigger than two meters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:53 PM (LvTSG)

Who the fuck ARE you?
-should have been the reply

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 05, 2022 04:54 PM (3NKiY)

454 445

Clearly I need to reread The Trilogy, as it was once known. It's been a loooong time.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2022 04:53 PM (txdEq)

I do that every few years. So applicable to our times. Sucks that Mordor is in DC now.

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2022 04:54 PM (Vr12I)

455 This busty and scantily-clad brunette is horrified by the inflation and has no idea what to do about it:
https://is.gd/JvMKCz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2022 04:24 PM (DU+/6)

Yeah, no. Much too young for my taste. I'm not a fan of unmolded clay.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2022 04:54 PM (2JVJo)

456 frodo could at least rest knowing the ring was dumped on him through no action of the shire. We're tasting the effects of every gop surrender since 2008.

Posted by: sockamster at May 05, 2022 04:54 PM (OuH7W)

457 It's all Putin's fault, and if you don't believe that, you are a traitor!

Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden! at May 05, 2022 04:55 PM (I2/tG)

458 So last year. Today it is "Latrine."
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 05, 2022 04:54 PM (iDcra)

LATRINE!!!!!
-great movie

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 05, 2022 04:55 PM (3NKiY)

459 This is true but we're never allowed to focus on anything. Or at least the masses aren't. There's this continual spinning of plates, cultural, secular, crises that keep getting thrown at just, to keep us dashing about, never reexamining things. It's always just, "look squirrel!".
Posted by: banana Dream at May 05, 2022 04:32 PM (0rQxu)
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HEY! I had nothing to do with any of this!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 05, 2022 04:55 PM (YIVH2)

460 A few things. This market is going to drop further. Part of the rate hikes and the Fed QT is to cool off the market. They're trying to will next quarter into positive territory. It may happen. But it will be adjusted i to negative territory. Even Yellen admitted this is all the result of too much spending, which by the way Congress wants to do more of. $ 22 billion more for COVID schemes and $33 billion for Ukraine. You know because Congress is good like that. We will see a recession and it ain't gonna be in August 2023. Probably in the spring. Oh and by the way during this time the labor market gets worse, as does housing and consumer credit, most of which is linked to rate. People on the lower income end will once again take it in the ass. But Let's Go Brandon.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 05, 2022 04:55 PM (8R679)

461 A *cheap* bourbon starts at $20 for a fifth?
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A handle of Evan Williams is around $22 around here.

Posted by: dartist at May 05, 2022 04:56 PM (+ya+t)

462 The answer depends on your age and your immediate to medium term needs for your cash.

PS - And it's not just "horde cash" - it's invest in guaranteed, albeit crappy or sub-inflation returns, which is better than cash...
Posted by: Nova local at May 05, 2022 04:07 PM (exHjb)

Exactly

Posted by: Draki at May 05, 2022 04:56 PM (8ni2U)

463 441 DOCTOR Jill just said "Latinos." What? Didn't she get the memo and the brainwashing treatment to say "Latinx?"
Posted by: Gref at May 05, 2022 04:52 PM (AMIL/)
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'Latine.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 05, 2022 04:53 PM (3NKiY)
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Yeah, I believe the Luntz polling went so badly the Identity Politics Mavens were forced to coin a new term.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at May 05, 2022 04:56 PM (TmRCR)

464 Tolkien speculated we were either in the 5th or 6th age IIRC.
Posted by: Augustine at May 05, 2022 04:43 PM (BDZWU)

I miss out on EVERYTHING!
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2022 04:44 PM (Vr12I)

be interesting to find out that we're actually in the 25th or so.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 05, 2022 04:56 PM (trdmm)

465 What's the past tense of Psaki?

Psee-ya

Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist at May 05, 2022 04:56 PM (Vu7A1)

466 Tampax in the boy's room!
There'll be Tampax in the boy's room.
Teacher don't you fill me up with your rules
Cause everybody knows that Tampax is allowed in school.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 05, 2022 04:56 PM (anj39)

467 The same voting machine companies that stole the election fro Hugo Chavez in VZ stole the election for Joey Pedo Biden in the USA. However people have made great efforts in the speed of destruction from VZ to the USA.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 05, 2022 04:57 PM (iDcra)

468 Poor Fredo, I mean Frodo.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 05, 2022 04:57 PM (vuisn)

469 Yeah, I believe the Luntz polling went so badly the Identity Politics Mavens were forced to coin a new term.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at May 05, 2022 04:56 PM (TmRCR)

which is still just as stupid as the first one they tried.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 05, 2022 04:57 PM (trdmm)

470 A *cheap* bourbon starts at $20 for a fifth?
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A handle of Evan Williams is around $22 around here.
Posted by: dartist at May 05, 2022

***
Anybody seen the top of my head? I had it just a moment ago.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2022 04:57 PM (txdEq)

471 Now there will be a thriving black market selling 'loosies'- but this time they will be tampons!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 05, 2022 04:57 PM (3NKiY)

472 468 Poor Fredo, I mean Frodo.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 05, 2022 04:57 PM (vuisn)

It's lonely out on the rowboat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 05, 2022 04:58 PM (3NKiY)

473 Yeah, I believe the Luntz polling went so badly the Identity Politics Mavens were forced to coin a new term.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at May 05, 2022 04:56 PM (TmRCR)

Kevin McCarthy needs to step up his game.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 05, 2022 04:58 PM (3NKiY)

474 The recent gas price hikes have not even worked their way through the pricing chain yet. That can take a while for large companies to factor in. So not only will these higher interest rate not stop inflation, it will probably get worse So we have higher price AND higher interests rate to look forward too.

Hope the Brandon voters are enjoying their new normal with the adults in charge.

Posted by: Ripley at May 05, 2022 04:59 PM (MxEKc)

475 I sacrificed a lot of fun to be able to be debt free and prepare for early retirement. The debt free is helping right now but my retirement nest egg has been raided by a bunch of snakes.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 05, 2022 04:59 PM (27hQX)

476 347 Well, shit, if we have another 33 billion to send to Ukraine why wouldn't our money keep its value?

Sarc/
___________

We have even more billions than that to spend on providing hotels for illegal aliens for months at a time, "free" cell phones and cell service, plane rides around the country to the destinations of their choice, food stamps, and who knows what else.

Oh, and now Biden is transferring VA doctors and nurses from that system, which is already short-staffed and leaving vets without care for months at a time, to the border, so they can provide "free" medical care to the millions of illegal aliens that the Biden junta is aiding and abetting the cartels to bring across our border.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 05, 2022 04:59 PM (k4dH2)

477 'Latine.'
==
Sounds too much like Latrine. Not going to work either.

Posted by: and that's my optimistic view at May 05, 2022 04:59 PM (x2n2H)

478 This market is going to drop further. Part of the rate hikes and the Fed QT is to cool off the market. They're trying to will next quarter into positive territory.

Posted by: Marcus T

I can guarantee you that they will report positive growth for Q2, despite the fact that it will be a lie. They will revise it after the election. Two quarters of negative is a recession, and they will not report that.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 05, 2022 04:59 PM (5kI0z)

479 446 DOCTOR Jill just said "Latinos." What? Didn't she get the memo and the brainwashing treatment to say "Latinx?"
Posted by: Gref

What are you stuck in 2021? It is Latine now. Jeez. Get with the times.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 05, 2022 04:53 PM (t3/qz)

Crap! My bad. It's a good thing "whites" will not change. It's bad practice to change the name for you enemy. It confuses the foot soldiers.

Posted by: Gref at May 05, 2022 05:00 PM (AMIL/)

480 This busty and scantily-clad brunette is horrified by the inflation and has no idea what to do about it:
https://is.gd/JvMKCz
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Brunette???

Posted by: SFGoth at May 05, 2022 05:00 PM (KAi1n)

481 I just got a spam text for job positions.

One of them looked interesting: Grinder $13-15/hr.

Imagine that, getting paid to rub my pelvis on people.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 05, 2022 05:00 PM (UuD2k)

482 The recent gas price hikes have not even worked their way through the pricing chain yet. That can take a while for large companies to factor in. So not only will these higher interest rate not stop inflation, it will probably get worse So we have higher price AND higher interests rate to look forward too.

Hope the Brandon voters are enjoying their new normal with the adults in charge.

Posted by: Ripley at May 05, 2022 04:59 PM (MxEKc)
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No. Mean. Tweets. FTW

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 05, 2022 05:00 PM (iDcra)

483 "DEATH! DEATH! DEATH! FORTH EORLINGAS!"
-Theoden, King
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:40 PM (LvTSG)

Aggshully, that was Eomer.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 05, 2022 05:00 PM (906pl)

484 -
Poor Fredo, I mean Frodo.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 05, 2022 04:57 PM (vuisn)

It's lonely out on the rowboat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 05, 2022 04:58 PM
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At least on the return trip.

Posted by: Al Neri at May 05, 2022 05:00 PM (SchQD)

485 One thing I will note: a LOT of this spending was done during the beginning of the covid lockdowns. Even if Trump had been allowed to take office, he would be getting all the blame right now. It might not have been as bad, but the bill would have still come due.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 05, 2022 05:00 PM (3NKiY)

486 This Emperor is no good. Praetorian Guard should install a replacement.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 05, 2022 05:00 PM (kf6Ak)

487 It fucked with our culture, it was basically a pilot program for Universal Basic Income and people got a taste and never want to get up and go to work ever again.

A lot of this PPP stuff did the same thing, a company got govt money to keep someone on the payroll and basically do nothing.

Posted by: Blago at May 05, 2022 04:44 PM

I had bartenders bitch at me for not asking for PPP money until I told them that they got more $$$$ on unemployment than they would if they came to "work" while out bar was closed for seven months.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 05, 2022 05:01 PM (bVYXr)

488 >>> Now there will be a thriving black market selling 'loosies'- but this time they will be tampons!
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 05, 2022 04:57 PM (3NKiY)

Damn, I just about forgot when the leftist thing was: Rombley will outlaw tampons! That and the "What about the gaffs!" and "binders full of women" crap and this worthless dipshitted numbskull still joined their side.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 05, 2022 05:01 PM (0rQxu)

489 NOOD

Posted by: Skip at May 05, 2022 05:01 PM (2JoB8)

490 I sacrificed a lot of fun to be able to be debt free and prepare for early retirement. The debt free is helping right now but my retirement nest egg has been raided by a bunch of snakes.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 05, 2022 04:59 PM (27hQX)
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Me too. We were suckers.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 05, 2022 05:01 PM (iDcra)

491 "I can guarantee you that they will report positive growth for Q2, despite the fact that it will be a lie. They will revise it after the election. Two quarters of negative is a recession, and they will not report that."

Agree completely. You're going to See some real Houdini magic.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 05, 2022 05:01 PM (8R679)

492 Speaking of rereading LoTR: Clearly they are too long for me to take out of the library and finish in 3 weeks, so I suppose I have to buy a set of all 3 books. When I read them originally, it was the '70s, and so my edition was one of the Ballantine paperbacks. Are there trade editions out there, you know, the larger size pages? (No, I don't need large *print*, thankyouverymuch. Just a bigger format.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2022 05:01 PM (txdEq)

493 I sacrificed a lot of fun to be able to be debt free and prepare for early retirement. The debt free is helping right now but my retirement nest egg has been raided by a bunch of snakes.
==
I feel your pain.

Yet you are still better off having been wise. You aren't in the middle of double digit inflation trying to service debt, which will likewise have rising interest rates.

Posted by: and that's my optimistic view at May 05, 2022 05:01 PM (DrHqK)

494 Aggshully, that was Eomer.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

Negative.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 05, 2022 05:01 PM (n8rd/)

495
Kevin McCarthy needs to step up his game.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 05, 2022 04:58 PM (3NKiY)
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Yes...next to Democrat political activists he's the most interested in the latest Luntz polling.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at May 05, 2022 05:02 PM (TmRCR)

496 483 "DEATH! DEATH! DEATH! FORTH EORLINGAS!"
-Theoden, King
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 04:40 PM (LvTSG)

Aggshully, that was Eomer.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 05, 2022 05:00 PM (906pl)

=========

https://youtu.be/8Tgi-j56ueU?t=134

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at May 05, 2022 05:02 PM (LvTSG)

497 To Mrs. Doof.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 05, 2022 05:02 PM (n8rd/)

498 We received two covid checks.It was absurd.

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2022 05:02 PM (Vr12I)

499 Nood. Missing bold close tag, but the Ghost of Endor fixed it quickly.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 05, 2022 05:02 PM (a3Q+t)

500 Posted by: Ripley at May 05, 2022 04:59 PM (MxEKc)

It's been my contention that corporations have taken advantage of the inflation and used it as an opportunity to increase their prices beyond the real inflation of their cost to produce.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 05, 2022 05:03 PM (27hQX)

501 I sacrificed a lot of fun to be able to be debt free and prepare for early retirement. The debt free is helping right now but my retirement nest egg has been raided by a bunch of snakes.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter
___

No debt here. No credit cards, no mortgage, no car payments.
No nest egg either, but we're filling up our basement.

Posted by: SMH at the exploits of The Ghost of Endor at May 05, 2022 05:03 PM (AxTbI)

502 Imagine that, getting paid to rub my pelvis on people.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

The Paolo, how you say, is unsurprised by this.

Posted by: The Paolo at May 05, 2022 05:03 PM (bJxw1)

503 Even Yellen admitted this is all the result of too much spending, which by the way Congress wants to do more of. $ 22 billion more for COVID schemes and $33 billion for Ukraine
____________

A lot of that supposed "covid" money was spent on goodies for illegal aliens. Expect to see more of that.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 05, 2022 05:03 PM (k4dH2)

504 Small, but important, nitpick.

"Inflation" is what the politicians did to the money supply.

"Rising prices" are the inevitable response to inflation. Rising prices are not inflation.

The reason this matters is that there actually is a villain in this story, and that villain always seeks to escape culpability by blaming ordinary people who are forced to raise prices to offset the damage caused by the villain.

When we call rising prices "inflation" we are abetting the villain's escape. We should stop helping the very people who are hurting us by adopting their continuously misleading language.

Posted by: jc at May 05, 2022 05:05 PM (N1WXz)

505 438 lost my ass in the last down turn so I bought farmland instead this time around.

Have to work harder to make my investments grow but so far no one has figured out how to take this investment away.

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at May 05, 2022 04:51 PM (4TZI4)

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Isn't it time for a national 90% annual tax on property, including taxes on unrealized profits and losses?

Posted by: ShainS -- Kraken of Misinformation Online at May 05, 2022 05:05 PM (9Oiym)

506 This busty and scantily-clad brunette is horrified by the inflation and has no idea what to do about it:
https://is.gd/JvMKCz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Gym bunnies like her with pierced nips with florescent white barbells and with a matching piercing and jewelry on the hood are 100% marriage material. I would see billions of my enemies suffer and die in order defend this.

Posted by: The Vooter at May 05, 2022 05:05 PM (IhUL0)

507 It's extremely worrying that people who are in positions of great financial power, and are supposedly very smart, thought that this 0.5% rate hike would be enough to take care of the highest inflation in forty years.

Our "elites" really are shit, aren't they?

Everyone should have learned that lesson back in 2008. "The Big Short" ring a bell? Recall the scene in that movie where they were calling Dr. Michael Burry an idiot for thinking he was smarter than everyone in the government.

He was/is. And he has the money earned to prove it.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at May 05, 2022 05:05 PM (Do5/p)

508 but my retirement nest egg has been raided by a bunch of snakes.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter
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Ur toys r mine
_Joey B.

Posted by: Braenyard, whistling past the graveyard at May 05, 2022 05:07 PM (WSVNe)

509

Latrina. Latrina. I just met a girl named Latrina.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 05, 2022 05:07 PM (63Dwl)

510 Way OT question:

Why don't we load our nuclear waste it on a rocket and fire it towards the sun?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2022 05:08 PM (WqXpZ)

511 The reason this matters is that there actually is a villain in this story, and that villain always seeks to escape culpability by blaming ordinary people who are forced to raise prices to offset the damage caused by the villain.

Posted by: jc at May 05, 2022 05:05 PM

Yep. Similar to how everyone blames "COVID" or "the Pandemic" for the bad economy. A bad flu virus did not cause anything. The politicians using that bad flu virus as justification to shut down the worldwide economy and enact tyrannical policies is what caused all the issues.

But the villains all pass the blame to "the Pandemic".

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at May 05, 2022 05:09 PM (Do5/p)

512 Someone said they know how to mix and seal it with glass and ceramics then store it in wooden barrels in the same mine that they took it from.

Posted by: Braenyard, whistling past the graveyard at May 05, 2022 05:10 PM (WSVNe)

513 OK, this is insane. Our broke-dick administration announced plans to begin replenishing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Puddin justified the draw-down of cheap Trump SPR oil as a way to reduce price pressure on gasoline. Now they're going to replace it with expensive oil, claiming this will increase US production.

I don't have a PhD in Economics, but this sounds like horseshit to me.

http://bitly.ws/qGsN

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at May 05, 2022 05:12 PM (sWM8x)

514 It's been my contention that corporations have taken advantage of the inflation and used it as an opportunity to increase their prices beyond the real inflation of their cost to produce.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 05, 2022 05:03 PM (27hQX)

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I think there's some truth to this. I drive all over Northern Arizona for work, and usually the gas pricess vary -- sometimes significantly -- among different areas.

When they all shot up a couple months ago, the price looked arbitrary and uniform everywhere -- and remained that way until just yesterday when they rose again. Almost as if an oligarchic collusion of price fixing at an arbitrary level (near round numbers): $4.49 for regular, $4.99 for premium

Posted by: ShainS -- Kraken of Misinformation Online at May 05, 2022 05:12 PM (9Oiym)

515 So, go long on wheelbarrow futures?
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2022 04:53 PM (Vr12I)

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Always looking for a good opportunity.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 05, 2022 05:16 PM (DcKNO)

516 Elsa Packtaki is Chris Hemsworths' wife, so if you can compete with Thor...

Posted by: Sassy at May 05, 2022 05:28 PM (xSICi)

517 So the Putinflation is heading for a Putcession?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 05, 2022 05:28 PM (Wg1SU)

518 Inflation wont go down until the budget is balanced. All other measures just nibble at the edges and will not prevent inflation but will make a lot of things worse.

Posted by: wodun at May 05, 2022 05:30 PM (lFga6)

519 Where's the US manufacturing base that's going to "pull us up by our bootstraps"? Last I checked, these same economic "experts" offshored the US manufacturing base to communist China, Mexico, Turkey and Southeast Asia.

Posted by: MrToad at May 05, 2022 05:41 PM (8F7ke)

520 I'm experimenting with making extracts for cooking, and asked the liquor store for the cheapest vodka and bourbon they had (what you're extracting covers the taste of the liquor, so no need for anything good). They gave me Bar-In and Kentucky Gentleman. Will find out how they worked at the end of June.

Posted by: Ann Wilson, aka Empire 1 at May 05, 2022 05:48 PM (y0zVi)

521 New spokesNPC is Karine Jean Pierre.

Yes, Karen.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2022 04:19 PM (A3uq/)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karine_Jean-Pierre

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 05, 2022 05:51 PM (Zvtjl)

522 I see I'm late to the party, I sold off most of my big money makers about two weeks ago. I had a bad feeling but it was still very lucky that I more or less anticipated the market downturn. Now to figure out when the market bottoms out so I can buy back in. That could be awhile.

Posted by: Bill R. at May 05, 2022 07:06 PM (wzzJf)

523 144 While inflation eats away at savings accounts, crashing the stock market will also hit retirees nest egg. And they vote.
Posted by: aNewBanner at May 05, 2022 04:14 PM (bgweb)

But their votes don't count, and neither does yours.

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at May 05, 2022 08:20 PM (9qiMu)

524 It was the low interest rates that already wiped out retiree savings. High interest rates are what allow people to "live off the interest".

When rates drop, retirees must burn their actual savings so they can eat.

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525 When does the interest that banks pay go up?

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