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Not a Recession: New York State Manufacturing Index Falls Into a Major Contraction, The Worst Collapse Since 9/11

The price of gas is falling.

Because the price of energy always falls when economic activity falls off a cliff.

When the factories are working partial hours, and the trucks are shipping fewer shipments, yeah, the demand for energy is going to fall.

This is not the way you want to cause the price of energy to fall, though.

New York Empire State factory gauge plunges in August deep into contraction territory
General conditions index drops 42 points to negative 31.3 -- the second largest decline on record

The numbers: The New York Fed's Empire State business conditions index, a gauge of manufacturing activity in the state, plummeted 42.4 points to negative 31.3 in August, the regional Fed bank said Monday.
This is the second largest monthly decline on record and among the lowest levels in the survey's history, the regional Fed bank said.
Economists had expected a reading of 5.0, according to a survey by The Wall Street Journal.

Unexpectedly!

They expected it to fall to positive 5.0. Instead if plummeted to negative 31.3.

Any reading below zero indicates deteriorating conditions.
Key details: The index for new orders dropped 35.8 points to negative 29.6 in August.
The shipments index fell 49.4 points to negative 24.1.
Unfilled orders fell for the third straight month.
Labor market conditions weakened. The prices-paid index fell 9 points to 55.5, its lowest level in over a year.
In addition, manufacturers were not optimistic about the six-month outlook.
Big picture: Economists were expecting a small retreat in the factory index, not a rout. The U.S. manufacturing sector, which was a strength during the recovery from the pandemic, is facing a steep drop-off in new business.
The New York data, and a similar reading from the Philadelphia Fed, are seen as early indicators for the health of the factory sector in August.

I can't find the numbers for the Philadelphia's manufacturing index for August, but in July, they expected it fall to zero.

Unexpectedly, it fell to negative 12.3.

"The index for new orders declined for the second consecutive month, from -12.4 to -24.8."

Why do liberal Wall Street analysts always massively miss in their predictions, missing high when their beloved Democrats are in office and on the downside when the hated Republicans are in office?

I guess I answered my question.

Posted by: Ace at 03:30 PM

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1 This sounds kind of catastrophic.

But what do I know?

Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2022 03:31 PM (dCxaZ)

2 As manufacturing goes, so goes Joe Xiden.

Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2022 03:31 PM (dCxaZ)

3 ok, I will fetch them.

Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2022 03:32 PM (dCxaZ)

4 Did they ask about pronouns because that's all anyone cares about anymore.

I borrowed some but I'm gonna have to return them at some point

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at August 15, 2022 03:33 PM (76Eal)

5 hiya

Posted by: JT at August 15, 2022 03:33 PM (T4tVD)

6 They haven't gotten the WH memo that Recovery Summer is awesome.

Don't worry, the WH will message and all will fall in line.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 03:33 PM (LvTSG)

7 I was assured there would be no math.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 15, 2022 03:34 PM (O9Lr2)

8 >>The price of gas is falling.

And Chuy is getting larger!

Posted by: Gay Guy from Airplane at August 15, 2022 03:34 PM (i1Cr7)

9 I have a feeling this will be worse than 08. The writing was on the wall in January 07 that there was going to be a recession, but nobody really though too much about....just some lenders going under.

Posted by: Mishdog at August 15, 2022 03:34 PM (6ceHB)

10 The Adults are awesome.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at August 15, 2022 03:34 PM (QYPq3)

11 But look at all the casinos and CBD shops we have!!!!!!

Posted by: Kathy Hochul at August 15, 2022 03:34 PM (lf83v)

12 "Because the price of energy always falls when economic activity falls off a cliff."

Buy the dip.

Posted by: All gp's Are Liars at August 15, 2022 03:35 PM (qpX6U)

13 I survived the food and gasoline inflation in 2006 by getting another job. I'm 17 years older and already employed as much as I can be. Dunno what's gonna give in the next few years, but ugh.

Posted by: Catherine at August 15, 2022 03:35 PM (ZSsrh)

14 The Daily Daddario is perusing the HQ and laughing at the math making an appearance on the front page:

https://tinyurl.com/yc8yfrnj

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 03:35 PM (LvTSG)

15 I don't recall seeing Diesel Prices falling much, if at all.

Posted by: garrett at August 15, 2022 03:35 PM (i1Cr7)

16 It will go up to -20 in Oct, and dems will claim victory. Manufacturing is soaring from post pandemic lows!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 15, 2022 03:35 PM (hwoGt)

17 Must protect the Dems no matter what.. Problem is the folks live with this non-recession recession and they know differently

Posted by: It's me donna at August 15, 2022 03:35 PM (bs+z0)

18 16 It will go up to -20 in Oct, and dems will claim victory. Manufacturing is soaring from post pandemic lows!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 15, 2022 03:35 PM (hwoGt)

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"Inflation is down to 7.9%! We're winning!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 03:36 PM (LvTSG)

19 With Ace's attitude it's no wonder he doesn't get invited to any Washington D.C. cocktail parties.

Posted by: jwest at August 15, 2022 03:36 PM (/BlEx)

20 Schumer and Obama want the economy to collapse. So here it goes

Posted by: CN at August 15, 2022 03:36 PM (VuQO/)

21

It's a GOOD life...

Posted by: Anthony Fremont's parents at August 15, 2022 03:36 PM (DwOcj)

22 Nothing to see her, move along.....nothing to see here.

Posted by: Lieutenant Frank Drebbin at August 15, 2022 03:36 PM (bVYXr)

23 Time For Yet Another Tax Increase!

Posted by: Democrats! at August 15, 2022 03:36 PM (I2/tG)

24 gp, buying the dip requires funding, which already went to food and gasoline.

Posted by: Catherine at August 15, 2022 03:36 PM (ZSsrh)

25 Another reason gas prices have fallen, slightly, is Biden has been raiding the national oil reserve which is now at it's lowest level in years. Trump filled it when oil was cheap. Biden, if he even attempts to refill it, will do so when oil is much more expensive.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2022 03:36 PM (ZLI7S)

26 Quick, arrest Trump

Posted by: Karine Jean Pierre's Brain at August 15, 2022 03:36 PM (dLKvE)

27 So soon after pride Month?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at August 15, 2022 03:36 PM (kiW7y)

28 It's not a contraction. It's a transition to a booming economy.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 15, 2022 03:36 PM (lf83v)

29 Wait until the layoffs start.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 15, 2022 03:37 PM (hwoGt)

30 14 Daddario Toe!

Posted by: All gp's Are Liars at August 15, 2022 03:37 PM (qpX6U)

31 This sounds kind of catastrophic.

But what do I know?
Posted by: kallisto
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It is.

It very much is.

And now with the second largest aluminum plant shut down (because they can't afford to keep it running), just wait.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 03:37 PM (R037X)

32 Think I read we lost 400k jobs too, which was the basis (job growth) of the lie last week that we weren't in a recession despite 2 quarters of negative gdp. Maybe the Trump raid was just "stray voltage" to get off this story. Folks won't notice their unable to make ends meet if we raid Drumpf!

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 15, 2022 03:37 PM (BxYWi)

33 15: Diesel was 5.xx in late June and is 4.xx now here in Colorado. Gas prices were 4.xx and I'm seeing some 3.xx now. But with a great depression starting I don't think cheap fuel will help a whole lot.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at August 15, 2022 03:37 PM (3cGpq)

34 This is all explained with Trump's bad cabinet picks.

Posted by: Regular joe at August 15, 2022 03:37 PM (nnp+f)

35 Went to the grocery store this AM and the keto ice cream I like went from $4.99 to $7.19 in two weeks

Posted by: It's me donna at August 15, 2022 03:37 PM (bs+z0)

36 If I were wrong in my job as frequently as these economic analysts, I wouldn't have a job.

Posted by: LASue at August 15, 2022 03:37 PM (Ed8Zd)

37 Does New York have any manufacturing left?

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 15, 2022 03:37 PM (e+yf1)

38 Related, willowed:
Today’s AAA
National Average
$3.956
Price as of
8/15/22

https://gasprices.aaa.com/
state-gas-price-averages/

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 15, 2022 03:37 PM (yikp0)

39 The economy's appeal is becoming more selective.

Posted by: Ian Faith at August 15, 2022 03:38 PM (PiwSw)

40 23 Time For Yet Another Tax Increase!
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And billions more in government spending!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at August 15, 2022 03:38 PM (MvHI3)

41 Any reading below zero indicates deteriorating conditions.
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Sort of, I think. IIRC how this index works, any reading below zero indicates contraction. Going from +50 to +30 to +10 to +2 shows "deteriorating conditions" because the growth is slowing, but it's still positive.

A crash to -30 is a big, big move into contraction.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 03:38 PM (WWh8n)

42 But Dark Brandon is wearing his aviators.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 15, 2022 03:38 PM (VdGjU)

43 Don't worry, once everyone starts getting their free electric cars, solar panels, heat pumps, and electric car chargers from Joe Biden, the economy will take off!

Your mandatory annual IRS audit will seem trivial by comparison!

Posted by: Democrats! at August 15, 2022 03:38 PM (I2/tG)

44 Actually, manufacturing increased in August when you factor in the evidence that the FBI manufactured against Donald Trump.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 15, 2022 03:38 PM (lf83v)

45 >> Diesel was 5.xx in late June and is 4.xx now here in Colorado.

It is still way north of $5 up here.
Or, at least was last week.
Been watching the sign and waiting for it to drop and it hasn't.

Posted by: garrett at August 15, 2022 03:38 PM (i1Cr7)

46 China's numbers are bad too. I guess we get to see which country straves the most. Imma rooting for China.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2022 03:38 PM (ifUkZ)

47 Wait until the layoffs start.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 15, 2022 03:37 PM (hwoGt)
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Already happening.

And in some places, it's the wypipo getting the ax first.
Minneapolis schools will lay off white teachers first, violating the Constitution and Title VII

https://tinyurl.com/bc8e96rj

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 03:38 PM (R037X)

48 I know.. Let's make the borders wide open !

Posted by: It's me donna at August 15, 2022 03:38 PM (bs+z0)

49 The government can buy aluminum, to sell to manufacturers, then order widgets to be made, then buy the widgets and sell them to an aluminum scrapper!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 15, 2022 03:39 PM (hwoGt)

50 Wall Street analysts always massively miss in their predictions, missing high when their beloved Democrats are in office and on the downside when the hated Republicans are in office?
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TBF, most analists will blow sunshine up your ass to tell you to keep throwing money at them. They tend to believe their own bullshit. And it comes at them from corporate. They know that if the retail side gets spooked, there will be carnage in the markets. Carnage. Which explains Xiden's myopia.

Posted by: he's inside the matrix at August 15, 2022 03:39 PM (GD2o9)

51 But it's not a recession-recession.

Posted by: Whoopi at August 15, 2022 03:39 PM (ftFVW)

52 35 Went to the grocery store this AM and the keto ice cream I like went from $4.99 to $7.19 in two weeks
____________

A cream cheese dip I used to buy went from $1.99 to $5.29 in one week.

I no longer buy it.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at August 15, 2022 03:39 PM (MvHI3)

53 49 The government can buy aluminum, to sell to manufacturers, then order widgets to be made, then buy the widgets and sell them to an aluminum scrapper!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 15, 2022 03:39 PM (hwoGt)

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Then the scrapper can manufacture spoons, and the government can hand out those spoons to people to dig canals by hand!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 03:39 PM (LvTSG)

54 Not a recession until we say it is.

Posted by: The White House Board for Deciding Stuff at August 15, 2022 03:39 PM (OaZlZ)

55 We're boned.

Posted by: Bender at August 15, 2022 03:39 PM (N1tpc)

56 >>Any reading below zero indicates deteriorating conditions.

But, I don't want to go on the cart!

Posted by: The Economy at August 15, 2022 03:39 PM (i1Cr7)

57 A cream cheese dip I used to buy went from $1.99 to $5.29 in one week.

I no longer buy it.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at August 15, 2022 03:39 PM (MvHI3)

I'm not buying the ice cream either

Posted by: It's me donna at August 15, 2022 03:40 PM (bs+z0)

58 Remember "bad vibes" are the only reason why people think the economy is doing poorly!

Hoarders and wreckers need to be cut off from social media, so they don't infect others with their traitorous thoughts!

Posted by: Democrats! at August 15, 2022 03:40 PM (I2/tG)

59 52 A cream cheese dip I used to buy went from $1.99 to $5.29 in one week.

I no longer buy it.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at August 15, 2022 03:39 PM (MvHI3)

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We're all gonna be living off of rotisserie chickens and hot dog meals from Costco soon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 03:40 PM (LvTSG)

60 A crash to -30 is a big, big move into contraction.
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This is true. But, then, NY's manufacturing base has been leaving NY since 1969. They still are.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2022 03:40 PM (ifUkZ)

61 But look at all the casinos and CBD shops we have!!!!!!
Posted by: Kathy Hochul

Did Mr. Dildo start franchising?!

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 15, 2022 03:40 PM (ftFVW)

62 I'M NOT DEAD YET!!

Posted by: The Economy at August 15, 2022 03:40 PM (i/w6p)

63 >>And now with the second largest aluminum plant shut down (because they can't afford to keep it running), just wait.

Foiled, again!

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 15, 2022 03:40 PM (i1Cr7)

64 How do people prep in big cities, with little storage space?

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 03:40 PM (R037X)

65 That's a shame

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 15, 2022 03:40 PM (XvPQV)

66 9 I have a feeling this will be worse than 08. The writing was on the wall in January 07 that there was going to be a recession, but nobody really though too much about....just some lenders going under.
Posted by: Mishdog at August 15, 2022 03:34 PM (6ceHB)

Who could have foreseen shuttering the economy for almost two years would have consequences? I agree with you, to be clear. As much as doesn't want to do so, Powell has no other alternative than to hike rates, too, come September and possibly once or twice more. The downturn could last several years, but given all the social stability and unity, people will just keep a stiff upper lip, right? Right?

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 15, 2022 03:41 PM (nMx88)

67 Hard times create strong men.

Strong men create good times.

Good times create weak men.

Weak men create hard times.

Guess which part of the cycle we're on!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 15, 2022 03:41 PM (N1tpc)

68 "We're all gonna be living off of rotisserie chickens and hot dog meals from Costco soon."

Thank goodness for Aldi.

Posted by: All gp's Are Liars at August 15, 2022 03:41 PM (qpX6U)

69 Wait until the layoffs start.

Already starting in the tech industry.

Posted by: Democrats! at August 15, 2022 03:41 PM (I2/tG)

70 64 How do people prep in big cities, with little storage space?
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 03:40 PM (R037X)

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You ID the fattest neighbor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 03:41 PM (LvTSG)

71 I guess I answered my question.

Posted by: Ace

Ace's work is done here.

Posted by: Hands at August 15, 2022 03:41 PM (786Ro)

72 Yeah, but Trump endorsed some candidates that I am unhappy with.

Posted by: Regular joe at August 15, 2022 03:41 PM (nnp+f)

73 57- Funny. I was going to say that sounded like it was beyond the price point at which folks would be willing to buy keto ice cream. Many of us are not going to need "diet" food to lose weight in this economy.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 15, 2022 03:41 PM (BxYWi)

74 We're all gonna be living off of rotisserie chickens and hot dog meals from Costco soon.
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Some of us actually know how to grow stuff, forage, and cook.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 03:41 PM (R037X)

75 Went to the grocery store this AM and the keto ice cream I like went from $4.99 to $7.19 in two weeks
____________

A cream cheese dip I used to buy went from $1.99 to $5.29 in one week.

I no longer buy it.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB

SEE!? The gov. actually SAVED you 1.99!

Posted by: Some Rat at August 15, 2022 03:41 PM (r1z5A)

76 How is Hochul managing the Soup Lines? Is she ahead of the famine or even aware it exits?

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2022 03:41 PM (ifUkZ)

77 But Moo Moo said none of this matters!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 15, 2022 03:42 PM (Qy7kP)

78 >Did Mr. Dildo start franchising?!

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 15, 2022 03:40 PM (ftFVW)

Ask him about his line of multi-tools!

Posted by: Muad'dib at August 15, 2022 03:42 PM (sjdRT)

79 64 How do people prep in big cities, with little storage space?
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 03:40 PM (R037X)

U-hauls, going in a different direction than the one Kevin Williamson described.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 15, 2022 03:42 PM (nMx88)

80 Next up, Biden will increase the chocolate ration from thirty grams to twenty!

All hail Senile Joe!

Posted by: Democrats! at August 15, 2022 03:42 PM (I2/tG)

81 74 Some of us actually know how to grow stuff, forage, and cook.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 03:41 PM (R037X)

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And some of us are idiots who drive our SUVs into our garage doors.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 03:42 PM (LvTSG)

82 Thank goodness for Aldi.
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Amen.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 03:42 PM (R037X)

83 You're not starving, kulak. You're on a crash diet.

Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2022 03:42 PM (0OP+5)

84 Does New York have any manufacturing left?
Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 15, 2022 03:37 PM (e+yf1)
........

I think they manufacture lots of Honduran tortillas these days.

Posted by: wth at August 15, 2022 03:42 PM (v0R5T)

85 Not that have money to burn but not one to notice price as much as if item is missing, yesterday lots of holes on shelves

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2022 03:42 PM (k8B25)

86 Hope that rancid Bidendick is tasty, Dems. Eat up!

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 15, 2022 03:42 PM (AFjjk)

87 Culmination of Recovery Summer!

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 15, 2022 03:42 PM (TNyrE)

88 >>How do people prep in big cities

Truvada. Same as in town.

Posted by: Mayor ete at August 15, 2022 03:42 PM (i1Cr7)

89 General conditions index drops 42 points to negative 31.3 -- the second largest decline on record

In other words, progressive policies are accomplishing exactly what they're meant to.

Posted by: Methos at August 15, 2022 03:42 PM (kOpft)

90 omg I just re-looked at that pic of DOCTOR Jill in the shower curtain/dress. Just when you think your eyes are too stressed from that baby blue mess she's wearing, they set upon her face...and her neck.

She looks like the last chance mama who would always be trying to hug the bouncer right after last call at the Buggy Tavern on Marsh Road.

https://tinyurl.com/bdu33yce

Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2022 03:42 PM (dCxaZ)

91 It's a FUNcession!

Posted by: Hands echoing the ''funemployment'' trope at August 15, 2022 03:42 PM (786Ro)

92 Don't forget to get boosted. It's safe and effective. It also helps unemployment if you end up dying.

Posted by: Max Power at August 15, 2022 03:43 PM (QCc6B)

93 . . . Do you think lowering the prime rate will help ease us through this bump?
I mean 75 was a pretty radical step

Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2022 03:43 PM (xhaym)

94 74 We're all gonna be living off of rotisserie chickens and hot dog meals from Costco soon.
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Some of us actually know how to grow stuff, forage, and cook.
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Some of us know how to buy a six pack, rotisserie chicken and Cheetos and watch Survivor.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2022 03:43 PM (ifUkZ)

95 Why do liberal Wall Street analysts always massively miss in their predictions, missing high when their beloved Democrats are in office and on the downside when the hated Republicans are in office?
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Everyone knows that the steady hands of wise progressive leadership will result in a better economy that otherwise. Oops, I guess not this month. Hmm, not this month either, oh well, next month will be fine. Huh, again, totally unexpected.
or
Everyone knows that lower regulations and a laissez-faire attitude from government will lead to chaos and disruption and women and the poor will suffer. Well this months high growth is certainly unexpected. Wage increases for blacks and hispanics shouldn't have been so high, hmmm. Totally unexpected.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 15, 2022 03:43 PM (fs1hN)

96 73- in other words, seems to me there's a price point beyond which most non- essential products become economically non-viable, and the worse the economy, the lower that point. Don't think anyone will buy a pet rock in a depression.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 15, 2022 03:43 PM (BxYWi)

97 And some of us are idiots who drive our SUVs into our garage doors.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang

DO NOT try this with a mini-cooper. (too soon?)

Posted by: Some Rat at August 15, 2022 03:43 PM (r1z5A)

98 Guess which part of the cycle we're on!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 15, 2022 03:41 PM (N1tpc)

Something tells me it's not...Profit!!!

Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2022 03:43 PM (dCxaZ)

99 Another think that is looming just below the surface is a coming wave of evictions and foreclosures.

https://tinyurl.com/2s48cdpm

Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2022 03:44 PM (ZLI7S)

100 I'M NOT DEAD YET!!
Posted by: The Economy
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Progressives: O come on, do us a favor!

Posted by: Whump at August 15, 2022 03:44 PM (nhAi8)

101 Some of us know how to buy a six pack, rotisserie chicken and Cheetos and watch Survivor.
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More power to ya.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 03:44 PM (R037X)

102 >>Do you think lowering the prime rate will help ease us through this bump?
I mean 75 was a pretty radical step

No. That is/has been a major part of the problem.

Posted by: garrett at August 15, 2022 03:44 PM (i1Cr7)

103 77 But Moo Moo said none of this matters!
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 15, 2022 03:42 PM (Qy7kP)

Demi Troll should be along to brag about his portfolio shortly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 15, 2022 03:44 PM (XvPQV)

104 How do people prep in big cities, with little storage space?
Posted by: SMH

U-Haul. $19.95/day and load up and head to the mountains.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 15, 2022 03:44 PM (nyNes)

105
I don't even pretend to understand the oil market or supply chain. It's crazy shit. Much more complex than most commodities. I've tried to learn about it, but it was more effort than I care to make.

But it doesn't take a huge, pulsating brain to figure out that a decrease in price of a very inelastic good without an increase in supplies can be attributed to a severe fall-off in demand across the economy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2022 03:44 PM (IXpV7)

106 Am I the only one who thinks the media's praise of Brandon is bizarrely condescending?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 15, 2022 03:44 PM (VdGjU)

107 Another think that is looming just below the surface is a coming wave of evictions and foreclosures.

https://tinyurl.com/2s48cdpm
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Already started.

Should snowball this winter.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 03:44 PM (R037X)

108 93 . . . Do you think lowering the prime rate will help ease us through this bump?
I mean 75 was a pretty radical step
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Since the Biden gang destroyed the Trump rally and are facing an election methinks they won't do what they said they would do but will print moar money.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2022 03:44 PM (ifUkZ)

109 When does zebra and ostrich season open?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2022 03:45 PM (89T5c)

110 I have probably 600 pounds of aluminum scap out back, I wrecked the economy holding it

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2022 03:45 PM (k8B25)

111 They could improve the numbers by manufacturing charges against Trump.

Posted by: I Mean at August 15, 2022 03:45 PM (9FBGz)

112 106 Am I the only one who thinks the media's praise of Brandon is bizarrely condescending?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 15, 2022 03:44 PM (VdGjU)

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He finished his plate!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 03:45 PM (LvTSG)

113 thing not think

Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2022 03:45 PM (ZLI7S)

114 >>But it doesn't take a huge, pulsating brain to figure out that a decrease in price of a very inelastic good without an increase in supplies can be attributed to a severe fall-off in demand across the economy.

Stop talking sense. It really makes it hard to not think.

Posted by: garrett at August 15, 2022 03:45 PM (i1Cr7)

115 Demi Troll should be along to brag about his portfolio shortly.
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Which one?

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 03:45 PM (R037X)

116 This post is dangerous disinformation.

A Democrat President is not responsible for rising gas prices but must be credited if they fall.
A Democrat President is not responsible for a bad economy but must be credited if it improves.
A decrease in the rate of inflation month-to-month under a Democrat President is counted as zero percent inflation.
Any economy under 5% positive GDP under a Republican President is the worst economy in 50 years.
Two quarters of negative GDP under a Democrat President is "signs of growth."

You have been reported.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 15, 2022 03:45 PM (6YT2l)

117 They haven't gotten the WH memo that Recovery Summer is awesome.

Don't worry, the WH will message and all will fall in line.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022

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I thought Recovery Summer happened back when Oblahblah was "in charge"? It's still going on? Huh.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 15, 2022 03:45 PM (J2vNu)

118 A cream cheese dip I used to buy went from $1.99 to $5.29 in one week.

I no longer buy it.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at August 15, 2022 03:39 PM (MvHI3)

I'm not buying the ice cream either

Posted by: It's me donna at August 15, 2022 03:40 PM (bs+z0)
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It is just staggering how the high the prices are jumping. And yes, I am no longer buying some items I usually did.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 15, 2022 03:45 PM (IW8z9)

119 How do people prep in big cities, with little storage space?
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 03:40 PM (R037X)
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You ID the fattest neighbor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 03:41 PM (LvTSG)

If you need more space in the burning times, start scoping out which old ladies have nice house/apartments. They're easy to take out.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 15, 2022 03:45 PM (qH6FZ)

120 115 Demi Troll should be along to brag about his portfolio shortly.
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Which one?
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 03:45 PM (R037X)

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I've never denied it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 03:45 PM (LvTSG)

121 Another think that is looming just below the surface is a coming wave of evictions and foreclosures.

Excellent.

Posted by: Blackrock Predatory "Investing" Inc. at August 15, 2022 03:45 PM (h5TKJ)

122 On the positive side, a lot of folks are going to learn how to cook and live on a budget. The government is subsidizing internet service, so my job will be okay. It was grim during the tech bust.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at August 15, 2022 03:45 PM (5HBd1)

123 104 How do people prep in big cities, with little storage space?
Posted by: SMH

U-Haul. $19.95/day and load up and head to the mountains.
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Just rent a Home Depot pickup and never return it.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2022 03:46 PM (ifUkZ)

124 I just made a package of coconut instant pudding, dated best used by mumblemumble. Having colostomy tomorrow. Not solid food is it?.

Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2022 03:46 PM (0OP+5)

125 https://thefederalist.com/from bureaucrat hack to grand jury witch hunt the dojs trump raid smells like spygate
https://tinyurl.com/yc38djwj

Margaret Cleveland digging into this document theft

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2022 03:46 PM (k8B25)

126 Both the NY and Philly numbers indicate an industrial recession, as did the GDP print from Q2, which showed huge declines in fixed investment.

The St. Louis Fed data (which only goes as far as June for most of the data points) is showing things holding up a bit better, because that's national data rather than regional data - but even in the St. Louis dataset, total industrial production has been declining slightly since April. Not big moves, but moves in the wrong direction.

Between total production from the St. Louis Fed and the Empire State and Philly industrial indices, it looks like a manufacturing sector recession is upon us, especially if the themes hold for the next few months.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 03:46 PM (WWh8n)

127 94 74 We're all gonna be living off of rotisserie chickens and hot dog meals from Costco soon.

There would be a lot of kids going hungry if it weren't for Costco rotisserie chickens and Little Caesars hot and ready pizzas.

Posted by: jwest at August 15, 2022 03:46 PM (/BlEx)

128 Do they ever identify who these experts are? I mean, in baseball, they print pitchers records, so if a guy is 1-22, we know it.

I suppose Krugman and Reich are on the short list. (Pun intended.)

Posted by: Eeyore at August 15, 2022 03:46 PM (TgBWG)

129 We're all gonna be living off of rotisserie chickens and hot dog meals from Costco soon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 03:40 PM (LvTSG)

We passed soon long ago.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 15, 2022 03:46 PM (45fpk)

130 That's an incredible drop. Anybody else getting a Depression foreboding?

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 15, 2022 03:46 PM (sVtYq)

131 Be happy. This will help in the fight against climate change.

Posted by: Ripley at August 15, 2022 03:46 PM (MxEKc)

132 This is going to make the arrest of Trump before the midterms certain.

They've got to do something to distract from this.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 15, 2022 03:46 PM (I2/tG)

133 Why do liberal Wall Street analysts always massively miss in their predictions, missing high when their beloved Democrats are in office and on the downside when the hated Republicans are in office?

I guess I answered my question.

Disparate impact indicating bias? No, no! wait! White privilege, white privilege! I want to change my answer. I say White Privilege. Final Answer.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 15, 2022 03:46 PM (cupoy)

134 > She looks like the last chance mama who would always be trying to hug the bouncer right after last call at the Buggy Tavern on Marsh Road.

She looks like Steven Tyler with moobs.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 15, 2022 03:46 PM (eyxn4)

135 I don't see any mention of this at ZeroHedge.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 15, 2022 03:47 PM (63Dwl)

136 And some of us are idiots who drive our SUVs into our garage doors.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang
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But you broke some windows, contributing to the economy.

Posted by: Dem "Economists" at August 15, 2022 03:47 PM (OaZlZ)

137 BOLO for Green Shoots.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2022 03:47 PM (ifUkZ)

138 And some of us are idiots who drive our SUVs into our garage doors.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang

When my mother pulled the garage door down and smashed the back of her SUV, and then put the blame on the architect for making the garage "too short", we knew it was time to take the keys away from her.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 15, 2022 03:47 PM (906pl)

139 Urban prepping:
Either plan to bug out or shelter in place.

Sheltering requires creativity in stacking. But I've seen it done well...converting closets into food storage, bathtub water bags, hallways modified with stacks of food, water....free-standing shelves.

Mormon morons can say more about urban prepping, I'm sure.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 15, 2022 03:47 PM (XvPQV)

140 136 And some of us are idiots who drive our SUVs into our garage doors.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang
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But you broke some windows, contributing to the economy.
Posted by: Dem "Economists" at August 15, 2022 03:47 PM (OaZlZ)

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But I was going to buy a suit!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 03:47 PM (LvTSG)

141 Just reverse the timescale on the graphs. See? The economy is improving, inflation is dropping, everything is peachy keen.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2022 03:47 PM (ynpvh)

142 On August 2, 2022, Kingston, New York became the first Upstate city to adopt rent control.

It is a tragedy.

Kingston used to be home of one of the best IBM plants in the country. Strong middle class workers buoyed the local economy and filled the public schools with children of smart, hard-working parents.

But Mario Cuomo hated IBM because they were successful. He targeted them with taxes and drove them out of New York.

Now, Kingston is a shithole city with rent control and "safe rooms" where addicts can inject themselves in a safe environment.

Progress.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 15, 2022 03:47 PM (lf83v)

143 Survivor's back on?!?!
*runs to TV set*

Posted by: wth at August 15, 2022 03:48 PM (v0R5T)

144 Top US Cruise Lines Cancel Sailings Amid Labor Shortage

https://tinyurl.com/492x3b22

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 03:48 PM (R037X)

145 and yet stock markets are up today ... maybe they think this means trillions more "free money" will be thrown on the fire.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 15, 2022 03:48 PM (Cus5s)

146 That's an incredible drop. Anybody else getting a Depression foreboding?
Posted by: Lady in Black

Dons sandwich board. Walks around downtown.
"The end is near/Eat at Bill's".

Posted by: rickb223 at August 15, 2022 03:48 PM (nyNes)

147 That's an incredible drop. Anybody else getting a Depression foreboding?

For the last fifteen years, the economy has been oriented around the assumption that borrowing money is basically free.

Changing that is going to be a huge, painful, adjustment.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 15, 2022 03:48 PM (I2/tG)

148 No mean tweets!
Rheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Posted by: democrats: Raping The Children We Cannot Kill Since 1973! at August 15, 2022 03:48 PM (jV+aN)

149 She looks like Steven Tyler with moobs.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 15, 2022 03:46 PM (eyxn4)

One of the commenters on the twitter thread wrote she looked like Alice Cooper if he had dyed his hair blonde.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 15, 2022 03:48 PM (PiwSw)

150 Why do liberal Wall Street analysts always massively miss in their predictions, missing high when their beloved Democrats are in office and on the downside when the hated Republicans are in office?
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Could be that they don't want their homes raided.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2022 03:48 PM (OaZlZ)

151 Three quarters in a row is not a recession make. It's the economy fortifying itself. And Poo Tin.

Posted by: torabora at August 15, 2022 03:48 PM (Y274z)

152 Oh yeah, we have seen all the Lefty posts about falling gas prices on Facebook and Twitter. They knifed the patient and are cheering the reduction in blood pressure.

Posted by: Fish at August 15, 2022 03:48 PM (58gfT)

153 My favorite coffee place jumped to the metric system and converted their bag weights to grams. After a bit of math, I got to pay the same amount for 11oz of beans as I used to for 12oz.

I've been assured that this is not inflation.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at August 15, 2022 03:48 PM (wBpKf)

154 They are kiting this market. Have been since July. There is no way they can keep this up until November.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2022 03:48 PM (ifUkZ)

155 I'm more shocked to learn that NY has any manufacturing at all.

Posted by: LASue at August 15, 2022 03:48 PM (Ed8Zd)

156 138 And some of us are idiots who drive our SUVs into our garage doors.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang

When my mother pulled the garage door down and smashed the back of her SUV, and then put the blame on the architect for making the garage "too short", we knew it was time to take the keys away from her.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 15, 2022 03:47 PM (906pl)

Caused by a contraction in housing...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2022 03:48 PM (ynpvh)

157 Southern Munitions is advertising 124gr 9mm (remanufactured) ammo for $249 + tax/shipping

Not bad, if the ammo is any good.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 15, 2022 03:49 PM (XvPQV)

158 Happy days are here again...

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 15, 2022 03:49 PM (JVCkA)

159 >>One of the commenters on the twitter thread wrote she looked like Alice Cooper if he had dyed his hair blonde.

She looks like Iggy Pop.

Posted by: garrett at August 15, 2022 03:49 PM (i1Cr7)

160 Besides canceled sailings, for the cruise ship operators who continue to sail -- many are suspending special offerings while out at sea, such as special events because there's not enough staff.

"There will be pizza available for virtually the entire time most guests are awake," Chris Chiames, a spokesman for Carnival Cruise Line, said in an email. The company also scaled back its complimentary birthday cakes and a chocolate extravaganza buffet, cuts made in part due to low staffing as well as general adjustments to match guest demand, according to Chiames.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 03:49 PM (R037X)

161 "We're all gonna be living off of rotisserie chickens and hot dog meals from Costco soon."

One neighbor is a single mom with two children that tested positive for covid this morning.
Another fell and broke her shoulder last week and can't lift anything.
And a third family had the husband commit suicide two days ago.

Mrs VIA picked up five of them roller chickens from BJ's this afternoon, and is making meals for like twenty people right now. Including home made peach crisp.

But yeh....them chickens are what is keeping the price down for today.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 15, 2022 03:49 PM (1n+EO)

162 figure out that a decrease in price of a very inelastic good without an increase in supplies can be attributed to a severe fall-off in demand across the economy.
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Indeed. Its not rocket science. 5 dollar a gallon gas or even 4 dollar a gallon. Lotta people not hitting the road on summer vacations. Or staying closer - in state camping as opposed to farther trips.

Posted by: Demand is suprising elastic for summer car trips at August 15, 2022 03:49 PM (hWTch)

163 Just reverse the timescale on the graphs. See? The economy is improving, inflation is dropping, everything is peachy keen.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2022 03:47 PM (ynpvh)

Just like playing a country&western song backwards.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 15, 2022 03:49 PM (4I/2K)

164 Caused by a contraction in housing...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2022 03:48 PM (ynpvh)

clever

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 15, 2022 03:49 PM (M+Lyo)

165 Honkeys

Posted by: Stacey Abrams at August 15, 2022 03:49 PM (z9V4B)

166 All is well! All is well!
-Chip Diller

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2022 03:49 PM (HJDAV)

167 154 They are kiting this market. Have been since July. There is no way they can keep this up until November.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2022 03:48 PM (ifUkZ)

It's all about the timing. Most of the morons here thought Biden would be dead or gone by now, too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 15, 2022 03:49 PM (XvPQV)

168 It certainly doesn't help when New York chases every single gun manufacturer out of the state.

Posted by: 40 Miles North at August 15, 2022 03:49 PM (uWF4x)

169 Once a new Covid emergency is declared, (I'm looking at you Mid-terms) evictions and foreclosures will be put on hold.

Posted by: The Economy at August 15, 2022 03:49 PM (i/w6p)

170 Is the Fed quietly stocking up on Xanax?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at August 15, 2022 03:49 PM (MkQ3W)

171 Wait until the layoffs start.

Already starting in the tech industry.

Posted by: Democrats! at August 15, 2022 03:41 PM

I heard an ad on the radio this morning saying tech industry jobs were recession proof. They were touting some online tech school that takes the GI Bill.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 15, 2022 03:50 PM (bVYXr)

172 But Dark Brandon is wearing his aviators.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 15, 2022 03:38 PM (VdGjU)

Dark Brandon is the mover, unmoving. Poised at the center of his web, he knows all and sends his minions to act his bidding to bring about his desired ends.
His movements are hidden, the results misleading, his aims diabolical.
You will realize the outcome when you think the storm has passed, and you will be unable to resist.

Dark Brandon, the man who will bring us a Winter of darkness and pain.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2022 03:50 PM (xhaym)

173 Remember when Bush sent out the $300 check?

Good times....

Posted by: torabora at August 15, 2022 03:50 PM (Y274z)

174 151 Three quarters in a row is not a recession make. It's the economy fortifying itself. And Poo Tin.

Posted by: torabora at August 15, 2022 03:48 PM (Y274z)

Trump did it. It's in the warrant for his arrest.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2022 03:50 PM (ynpvh)

175 Do they ever identify who these experts are? I mean, in baseball, they print pitchers records, so if a guy is 1-22, we know it.

I suppose Krugman and Reich are on the short list. (Pun intended.)
Posted by: Eeyore at August 15, 2022 03:46 PM (TgBWG)

I've never been able to find a record for campaign managers. You'd think that would be fairly easy to find.

Posted by: Wally at August 15, 2022 03:50 PM (FJYfm)

176 Brandon just needs to send out $5000 checks.

Posted by: torabora at August 15, 2022 03:50 PM (Y274z)

177 125 Barky had same kind of documents off secure site for years,
DJT are secured in a house protected by Secret service

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2022 03:50 PM (k8B25)

178 145 and yet stock markets are up today ... maybe they think this means trillions more "free money" will be thrown on the fire.
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That's precisely what they are thinking. One wonders if they get tipped or are they are just going in for another kill the little guy again.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2022 03:50 PM (ifUkZ)

179 The NYS drop is so precipitous that it may be an anomaly. I'd wait until next month's report to draw conclusions.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 15, 2022 03:51 PM (rJ48h)

180 @64 How do people prep in big cities, with little storage space?

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If you want to, you'll find a way. My parents have closets purely for it. Stuff can be stored under beds. If you want it badly enough, you'll figure out how to make it work.

Posted by: junior at August 15, 2022 03:51 PM (aqgsz)

181 One neighbor is a single mom with two children that tested positive for covid this morning.
Another fell and broke her shoulder last week and can't lift anything.
And a third family had the husband commit suicide two days ago.

Mrs VIA picked up five of them roller chickens from BJ's this afternoon, and is making meals for like twenty people right now. Including home made peach crisp.

But yeh....them chickens are what is keeping the price down for today.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 15, 2022 03:49 PM

Your wife needs to be put in for sainthood.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 15, 2022 03:51 PM (bVYXr)

182 "Dark Brandon is the mover, unmoving. Poised at the center of his web, he knows all and sends his minions to act his bidding to bring about his desired ends.
His movements are hidden, the results misleading, his aims diabolical.
You will realize the outcome when you think the storm has passed, and you will be unable to resist."

That's Dr. Mabuse's tagline.

Posted by: All gp's Are Liars at August 15, 2022 03:51 PM (qpX6U)

183 She looks like Iggy Pop.
Posted by: garrett at August 15, 2022 03:49 PM (i1Cr7)
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She's got a lust for life.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2022 03:51 PM (OaZlZ)

184 Dark Brandon, the man who will bring us a Winter of darkness and pain.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2022 03:50 PM (xhaym)

Speaking of which, has anyone heard from Zod Imperial?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 15, 2022 03:51 PM (PiwSw)

185 168 It certainly doesn't help when New York chases every single gun manufacturer out of the state.

Posted by: 40 Miles North at August 15, 2022 03:49 PM (uWF4x)

Don't think they made THAT much of a contribution...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2022 03:51 PM (ynpvh)

186 15 days to flatten the curve flattened everything

Posted by: Hands at August 15, 2022 03:51 PM (786Ro)

187
Does New York have any manufacturing left?

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 15, 2022 03:37 PM

Overall, I think nationwide manufacturing provides ~8% of jobs. When I was young it was between 25 - 33%.

But our betters in the Senate have never been wealthier after six years in office. I wish I understood the connection. Or could catch it on camera.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 15, 2022 03:51 PM (jE276)

188 >>There will be pizza available for virtually the entire time most guests are awake,

How was your cruise?

The weather was just so so but the pepperoni with extra cheese was to die for.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2022 03:51 PM (ZLI7S)

189 Sundowner's sunglasses are hiding his eyes, dilated or blood shot

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2022 03:51 PM (k8B25)

190 Most of the morons here thought Biden would be dead or gone by now, too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

To be honest, he pretty much is.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at August 15, 2022 03:52 PM (MkQ3W)

191 How can I worry about such trivial things like manufacturing output when cream cheese dip and keto ice cream are going through the roof?

Posted by: Regular joe at August 15, 2022 03:52 PM (nnp+f)

192 Getting a job usually means showing up for work.
I guess Hunter is unemployed.

Posted by: torabora at August 15, 2022 03:52 PM (Y274z)

193 thing not think

It's clobberin' time!

Posted by: Thing at August 15, 2022 03:52 PM (786Ro)

194 I know, let's create false and unsustainable demand with a trillion dollar health insurance and green energy subsidy bill and add taxes!

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 15, 2022 03:52 PM (kuD35)

195 hat's an incredible drop. Anybody else getting a Depression foreboding?
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Forebooding? Great Depression Two Electric Boogaloo is going to be lit AF, as the kids say. Instead of brokers jumping off buildings, expect lynch mobs.

Posted by: its not going to be pretty at August 15, 2022 03:53 PM (3WFoF)

196 188 How was your cruise?

The weather was just so so but the pepperoni with extra cheese was to die for.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2022 03:51 PM (ZLI7S)

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*conversations from Hell*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 03:53 PM (LvTSG)

197 The culling of the herd will begin soon.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at August 15, 2022 03:53 PM (Qhnrt)

198 Winter is coming..

Posted by: Zombie Eddard Stark at August 15, 2022 03:53 PM (1n+EO)

199 Your wife needs to be put in for sainthood.
Posted by: Mister Scott
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Yes she does.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 03:53 PM (R037X)

200 Getting a job usually means showing up for work.
_____________

Smoking that much crack is hard work.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 15, 2022 03:53 PM (lf83v)

201 > Mormon morons can say more about urban prepping, I'm sure.

Three months of food, water filtration, lighter with extra flints and fuel, first aid, halligan bar, kevlar gloves, pistol and rifle and ammo.

For food, red beans and brown rice are the most basic you can get that won't slowly starve you of essential nutrients.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 15, 2022 03:53 PM (eyxn4)

202 "cream cheese dip and keto ice cream are going through the roof"

Buy the dip, sell the cream.

Posted by: All gp's Are Liars at August 15, 2022 03:53 PM (qpX6U)

203 Spelling alert! Colonoscopy not colostomy. Scared myself. So do I eat the pudding?

Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2022 03:53 PM (0OP+5)

204 Dare I match my Italian fag shoe's against Brandon's aviators?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 15, 2022 03:53 PM (VdGjU)

205 This is not the way you want to cause the price of energy to fall, though

No, Mr. O'Spades. This is *exactly* how we want it to fall.

Posted by: Your Betters at August 15, 2022 03:54 PM (xttsV)

206 200 Getting a job usually means showing up for work.
_____________

Smoking that much crack is hard work.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 15, 2022 03:53 PM (lf83v)

There may be an opening at some research facility for someone like Hunter...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2022 03:54 PM (ynpvh)

207 Hyperinflation, a depression, blackouts, shortages of everything, and terrorism/crime everywhere.

You wanted change LIVs...you got it!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 15, 2022 03:54 PM (ESjRY)

208 Urban prepping:
Either plan to bug out or shelter in place.

Sheltering requires creativity in stacking. But I've seen it done well...converting closets into food storage, bathtub water bags, hallways modified with stacks of food, water....free-standing shelves.

Mormon morons can say more about urban prepping, I'm sure.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Always remember: 16 eye drops 💧 of plain, unscented bleach to a gallon of water.
Liquid bleach stores for three months. Powdered pool chlorine last a long time.

https://bit.ly/3QGhpLQ

Posted by: rickb223 at August 15, 2022 03:54 PM (nyNes)

209 Is the Fed quietly stocking up on Xanax?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at August 15, 2022 03:49 PM (MkQ3W)

Xanax addiction is a real thing, and the withdrawal symptoms are . . . Anxiety, and panic attacks.
Oh, and it is possible to achieve a tolerance to it and require greater amounts for the same relief of symptoms.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2022 03:54 PM (xhaym)

210 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 15, 2022 03:49 PM

Your wife needs to be put in for sainthood.
Posted by: Mister Scott

Amen

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at August 15, 2022 03:54 PM (MkQ3W)

211 Spelling alert! Colonoscopy not colostomy. Scared myself. So do I eat the pudding?
Posted by: Eromero

Kind of a shitty thing to do to the techs...

Posted by: MkY at August 15, 2022 03:54 PM (t459v)

212 Do not eat the pudding in the colostomy bag.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 15, 2022 03:54 PM (BxYWi)

213 No Mr. Deplorable, I want you to die.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2022 03:54 PM (ZLI7S)

214 So do I eat the pudding?
Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2022 03:53 PM (0OP+5)

Please don't.

Posted by: Your Gastroenterologist, looking up your squeekhole at August 15, 2022 03:55 PM (4I/2K)

215 Your wife needs to be put in for sainthood.
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Yep. But I am old enough to remember not locking your door was normal.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2022 03:55 PM (ifUkZ)

216 Say goodbye to a large chunk of western NY if Corning is having rough times.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2022 03:55 PM (89T5c)

217 212 Do not eat the pudding in the colostomy bag.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 15, 2022 03:54 PM (BxYWi)

Ugh. Definitely NOT Chocolate...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2022 03:55 PM (ynpvh)

218
Xanax addiction is a real thing, and the withdrawal symptoms are . . . Anxiety, and panic attacks.

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Xanax withdrawal can be lethal. One of the very few drugs where that's actually a real risk.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2022 03:55 PM (IXpV7)

219 I have a feeling this will be worse than 08. The writing was on the wall in January 07 that there was going to be a recession, but nobody really though too much about....just some lenders going under.
Posted by: Mishdog at August 15, 2022 03:34 PM (6ceHB)

I think we're sliding into the Greater Depression. The Masters of the Universe (tm) thought that they could place everybody in the world in House Arrest just so they could get rid of President Trump, and THEN flood the market with trillions of dollars to "jump-start" the economy. Instead, these fools in their hubris have devalued the dollar (by what, 30%?), snarled the supply-chain, and people have just stopped working.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 15, 2022 03:55 PM (pJWtt)

220 They are kiting this market. Have been since July. There is no way they can keep this up until November.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2022 03:48 PM (ifUkZ)

It's all about the timing. Most of the morons here thought Biden would be dead or gone by now, too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water \
I still find him useful.

Posted by: Xinnie the Pooh at August 15, 2022 03:55 PM (Pq+AB)

221 The NYS drop is so precipitous that it may be an anomaly. I'd wait until next month's report to draw conclusions.
Posted by: mr tmz at August 15, 2022 03:51 PM (rJ48h)
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Yeah, it's *huge.* If next month shows major surging expansion, then it was probably a fluke. If next month is negative or only very mildly positive, that's a bad sign. This is like the GDP reports over the past 9 months, where Q4 was a blowout positive but it was all on inventory expansion and was otherwise a recessionary print. Singing about how good times are back again in Q4 was grossly premature.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 03:55 PM (WWh8n)

222 And a third family had the husband commit suicide two days ago.

The left sees each heritage American if offs, either through crime, formal suicide, or fentanyl as a victory.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 15, 2022 03:55 PM (ESjRY)

223 Liquid bleach stores for three months. Powdered pool chlorine last a long time.

https://bit.ly/3QGhpLQ
Posted by: rickb223 at August 15, 2022 03:54 PM (nyNes)

How fast does bleach go bad? I have stuff in glass bottles I've used on and off for a while.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 15, 2022 03:55 PM (XvPQV)

224 Hyperinflation, a depression, blackouts, shortages of everything, and terrorism/crime everywhere.

You wanted change LIVs...you got it!
Posted by: 18-1 at August 15, 2022 03:54 PM (ESjRY)
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They will click their remotes to change the channel.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2022 03:55 PM (OaZlZ)

225 Oh, also a solid knife. A Benchmade fixed blade is cheap and reliable.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 15, 2022 03:55 PM (eyxn4)

226 Do not eat the pudding in the colostomy bag.
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But it looks like Haggis.

Posted by: Fergus MacDumbshit at August 15, 2022 03:55 PM (lf83v)

227 "Does New York have any manufacturing left?"

Do we?!? Buy our 2022 New York Manufacturers Register listing 15,716 companies, for only $234, and find out.

Posted by: Manufacturer's News at August 15, 2022 03:56 PM (qpX6U)

228 155 I'm more shocked to learn that NY has any manufacturing at all.
Posted by: LASue at August 15, 2022 03:48 PM (Ed8Zd)

You can avoid the taxes and environmental/Labor enforcement. You just have to understand how kickbacks work.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 15, 2022 03:56 PM (cupoy)

229 Yep. But I am old enough to remember not locking your door was normal.
Posted by: Puddinhead
___

There are still places where locking the doors isn't neccessary.

I live in one.

But yeah, it's not normal nowadays.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 03:56 PM (R037X)

230 218
Xanax addiction is a real thing, and the withdrawal symptoms are . . . Anxiety, and panic attacks.
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Xanax withdrawal can be lethal. One of the very few drugs where that's actually a real risk.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2022 03:55 PM (IXpV7)

Alcohol, Heroin...there are a few.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2022 03:56 PM (ynpvh)

231 Do not eat the pudding in the colostomy bag.

/Puts down spoon

Look fat, no one gets between me and my pudding.

Uh...what's a colostomy bag

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 15, 2022 03:56 PM (ESjRY)

232 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 15, 2022 03:49 PM

Your wife needs to be put in for sainthood.
Posted by: Mister Scott

Amen
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable

Concur !

Posted by: JT at August 15, 2022 03:56 PM (T4tVD)

233 Say goodbye to a large chunk of western NY if Corning is having rough times.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2022 03:55 PM (89T5c)
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Yeah. I hope not, for their sake. And I'd like to go back to the Corning glass museum at some point, too, from a purely selfish standpoint. That is one of the best museums (as far as the museum itself and how well it worked) that I have ever been in.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 03:56 PM (WWh8n)

234 Cheapest coffee in my store this morning, $5.99 for a twelve oz. bag.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 15, 2022 03:57 PM (qH6FZ)

235 and the withdrawal symptoms are . . . Anxiety, and panic attacks.
==
Hooo booooy. You left out the fcuking HALLUCINATIONS.

Trust me. Panic attacks are not the withdrawal symptom you are worried about.

Posted by: Xinnie the Pooh at August 15, 2022 03:57 PM (/uRTy)

236 I'm just saying, if Nazi Germany was in a state of economic collapse before invading Poland, Hitler would have been gone before Christmas 1939.

Posted by: trev006 at August 15, 2022 03:57 PM (fHh8u)

237 236 I'm just saying, if Nazi Germany was in a state of economic collapse before invading Poland, Hitler would have been gone before Christmas 1939.

Posted by: trev006 at August 15, 2022 03:57 PM (fHh8u)

He would've blamed the JOOOS.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2022 03:58 PM (ynpvh)

238 Anybody else getting a Depression foreboding?
==

Depression if we're lucky. Collapse if we aren't.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at August 15, 2022 03:58 PM (MkQ3W)

239 This busty, bespectacled brunette is cautiously pessimistic about the state of the manufacturing economy:
https://is.gd/ftns93

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 03:58 PM (WWh8n)

240
Heroin...there are a few.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2022 03:56 PM (ynpvh)

I don't think heroin withdrawal alone can kill someone (though I might be wrong). I think it's just related phenomena, like junkies going back to the needle with lower resistance, having a seizure that results in injury, etc.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2022 03:58 PM (IXpV7)

241 At least grocery prices have stabilized, by stabilized I mean rose "1.3% from June to July, marking a 13.1% increase compared to last year." Eggs have risen 38% for the year.
https://tinyurl.com/2pg66suv

Posted by: Dr Spank at August 15, 2022 03:58 PM (bFbj9)

242 The NYS drop is so precipitous that it may be an anomaly.
________________________

I don't know if you are from New York, but one only needs to walk around see a state that is entirely crippled economically.

People don't work, store and restaurant are closed for good, crime has driven consumers out of state, vacation spots like Lake George and Lake Champlain are at 50 percent or less of business. Just take look around. The drop is real and it isn't getting better.

Posted by: Fergus MacDumbshit at August 15, 2022 03:59 PM (lf83v)

243 The Corning glass museum is pretty cool.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2022 03:59 PM (89T5c)

244 189 Sundowner's sunglasses are hiding his eyes, dilated or blood shot

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2022 03:51 PM (k8B25)

++++
No doubt about it. Notice Dr. Jill in her killer dress was wearing shades. Soon, everyone around Bogus Biden will be wearing sunglasses, both outside and in.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 15, 2022 03:59 PM (IW8z9)

245 Water disinfectant from Clorox:

Clorox

https://bit.ly/3bWNvnO

Posted by: rickb223 at August 15, 2022 03:59 PM (nyNes)

246 Good. When the economy tanks and a depression has set in across the land and everyone is working at Arby's for minimum wage then the democrats will be happy.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2022 03:59 PM (X/UGK)

247 238 Anybody else getting a Depression foreboding?
==

Depression if we're lucky. Collapse if we aren't.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at August 15, 2022 03:58 PM (MkQ3W)

The have meds for that...
https://is.gd/lRbBjM

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2022 03:59 PM (ynpvh)

248 The culling of the herd will begin soon.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at August 15, 2022 03:53 PM (Qhnrt)

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It was established in a post by Ace last Friday that we are all cattle now. So, this is expected.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 15, 2022 03:59 PM (TNyrE)

249 Wait until President Biden reads about this in tomorrow's paper. He'll be furious!

Posted by: Brain Dead Lefty at August 15, 2022 03:59 PM (JCZqz)

250 OK, taking horde advice, but I'm still hungry.

Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2022 03:59 PM (0OP+5)

251 ThisIsFine.jpg

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 15, 2022 03:59 PM (q5ky+)

252 At least grocery prices have stabilized, by stabilized I mean rose "1.3% from June to July, marking a 13.1% increase compared to last year." Eggs have risen 38% for the year.
https://tinyurl.com/2pg66suv
Posted by: Dr Spank at August 15, 2022 03:58 PM (bFbj9)
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Zero.

Posted by: White House Board for Deciding Stuff at August 15, 2022 04:00 PM (OaZlZ)

253 OT but has anyone else watched The Terminal List? I found the first few episodes tough, mostly because our hero has a concussion and brain tumor and you're not quite sure he isn't crazy ( he isnt) since the setup is presented as reality (especially first scene). Anyhow, stick with it- it's good, especially ep 6.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 15, 2022 04:00 PM (BxYWi)

254 At least grocery prices have stabilized, by stabilized I mean rose "1.3% from June to July, marking a 13.1% increase compared to last year." Eggs have risen 38% for the year.
https://tinyurl.com/2pg66suv
Posted by: Dr Spank at August 15, 2022 03:58 PM (bFbj9)
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"Zero inflation" was such bullshit. Comparatively flat month-to-month inflation does not mean there was some decline in prices back toward normality. It's still up radically year on year.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 04:00 PM (WWh8n)

255 252 At least grocery prices have stabilized, by stabilized I mean rose "1.3% from June to July, marking a 13.1% increase compared to last year." Eggs have risen 38% for the year.
https://tinyurl.com/2pg66suv
Posted by: Dr Spank at August 15, 2022 03:58 PM (bFbj9)

========

"No one is noticing this because polls in August."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:00 PM (LvTSG)

256 Depression if we're lucky. Collapse if we aren't.
==
See, if you are going to stage a coup, you have to have the population busy doing something else, like staying alive. So it'll be collapse, with a side of coup d' tat

Posted by: so you got that going for ya at August 15, 2022 04:00 PM (nhAi8)

257 Corning is just fine.

Posted by: Houghton Family Trust at August 15, 2022 04:00 PM (O3Jtm)

258 And I'd like to go back to the Corning glass museum at some point, too, from a purely selfish standpoint. That is one of the best museums (as far as the museum itself and how well it worked) that I have ever been in.
_________

I went there once as a kid. It was very interesting. I especially like the glass blowing demonstrations. Still have some of the pieces I bought there.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at August 15, 2022 04:01 PM (MvHI3)

259 It was established in a post by Ace last Friday that we are all cattle now. So, this is expected.
___

Some of us on the lower rungs of the economic ladder knew this for quite some time prior to ace figuring it out.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 04:01 PM (R037X)

260 That's Dr. Mabuse's tagline.
Posted by: All gp's Are Liars at August 15, 2022 03:51 PM (qpX6U)

Dr. Mabuse lacked a goal. He just enjoyed messing with people.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 15, 2022 04:01 PM (XvPQV)

261 240
Heroin...there are a few.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2022 03:56 PM (ynpvh)

I don't think heroin withdrawal alone can kill someone (though I might be wrong). I think it's just related phenomena, like junkies going back to the needle with lower resistance, having a seizure that results in injury, etc.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2022 03:58 PM (IXpV7)

Just looked it up...quote from website re: Heroin withdrawal: "Contrary to common belief, heroin withdrawal actually has a low fatality rate", e.g. yes, you can die from it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2022 04:01 PM (ynpvh)

262 So does this mean that Machines for Sale is going out of business?

Posted by: wth at August 15, 2022 04:01 PM (v0R5T)

263 184 Speaking of which, has anyone heard from Zod Imperial?

friend of mine had a zod imperial. big black thing built by uralvagonzavod.

Posted by: kulak anachronda at August 15, 2022 04:01 PM (oY6Yp)

264 Depression foreboding?
Yep, I’m depressed.

Posted by: RI Red at August 15, 2022 04:01 PM (ZVQcg)

265 Sodium hypochlorite only lasts 12 months past the date of manufacture.

Calcium hypochlorite only lasts 24 months past the date of manufacture.

The pills you get in bottles have expiration dates on them, but they don't last nearly as long as you'd think. Also, the water needs to be fairly clear for it to work. Turbid water or water with growth in it requires a much higher dose than what's in the directions.

This is why I have a life straw gravity filter. I don't want to have to remember to change out my water purification tablets every 30 months or whatever it is.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 15, 2022 04:01 PM (eyxn4)

266 Sundowner's sunglasses are hiding his eyes, dilated or blood shot

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2022 03:51 PM (k8B25)
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Maybe he's had another eye bleed.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2022 04:02 PM (OaZlZ)

267 253 OT but has anyone else watched The Terminal List? I found the first few episodes tough, mostly because our hero has a concussion and brain tumor and you're not quite sure he isn't crazy ( he isnt) since the setup is presented as reality (especially first scene). Anyhow, stick with it- it's good, especially ep 6.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 15, 2022 04:00 PM (BxYWi)

The book is pretty good and I like Chris Pratt.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 15, 2022 04:02 PM (XvPQV)

268 It's not a depression, and if it was it would be a good thing since there are too many of you plebs. Or poo-tin's fault.

Look over there - we took Trump's passport!

Posted by: Dark Brandon's Handlers at August 15, 2022 04:02 PM (ftFVW)

269 At least grocery prices have stabilized, by stabilized I mean rose "1.3% from June to July, marking a 13.1% increase compared to last year." Eggs have risen 38% for the year.
https://tinyurl.com/2pg66suv
Posted by: Dr Spank at August 15, 2022 03:58 PM (bFbj9)

========

"No one is noticing this because polls in August."
==
No. That's not what I said. I said they were happy about gas prices being down in the threes!!!!

Posted by: Indignant Financial Analist at August 15, 2022 04:02 PM (nhAi8)

270 259 It was established in a post by Ace last Friday that we are all cattle now. So, this is expected.

==========

We're all actors?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:02 PM (LvTSG)

271 At what point do they start paying people on their lunch breaks, so they can buy stuff before the price goes up again in the afternoon.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 15, 2022 04:02 PM (TgBWG)

272 It was established in a post by Ace last Friday that we are all cattle now. So, this is expected.

==========

We're all actors?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:02 PM (LvTSG)

I'd better start buying cocaine

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 15, 2022 04:03 PM (XvPQV)

273 Here's a mid-day pick me up. Sure things are looking bleak but at least most of us didn't bust out our cars rear window because we didn't open the garage door high enough.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 15, 2022 04:03 PM (qH6FZ)

274 I went there once as a kid. It was very interesting. I especially like the glass blowing demonstrations. Still have some of the pieces I bought there.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at August 15, 2022 04:01 PM (MvHI3)
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Yeah. It was interesting but I was also blown away by the quality of the museum. Glass is actually pretty hard to display effectively, especially in a building that itself has a lot of glass - lots of windows, lots of glass dividers, etc - and they did a simply sensational job of it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 04:03 PM (WWh8n)

275 That's Dr. Mabuse's tagline.
Posted by: All gp's Are Liars at August 15, 2022 03:51 PM (qpX6U)

I thought you meant OUR Dr. Mabuse.

I was actually thinking of Moriarty

Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2022 04:03 PM (xhaym)

276 238 Anybody else getting a Depression foreboding?
==

Depression if we're lucky. Collapse if we aren't.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at August 15, 2022 03:58 PM (MkQ3W)

Why would I get depressed when they've increased the chocolate rations from 30g to 24g?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 15, 2022 04:03 PM (KbCG3)

277 260 That's Dr. Mabuse's tagline.
Posted by: All gp's Are Liars at August 15, 2022 03:51 PM (qpX6U)

Dr. Mabuse lacked a goal. He just enjoyed messing with people.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 15, 2022 04:01 PM (XvPQV)

=========

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse takes him further. He wishes to see a reign of crime to overturn the existing order.

Lang put Nazi words directly into Mabuse's mouth in the sound feature. It was banned. Lang fled Germany.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:03 PM (LvTSG)

278 People don't work, store and restaurant are closed for good, crime has driven consumers out of state, vacation spots like Lake George and Lake Champlain are at 50 percent or less of business. Just take look around. The drop is real and it isn't getting better.
---------------
The NY Slide started in 1969. I was up in Skenattles during Hillary's Prez Run and I saw moar Confederate Flags being flown up there then I have ever seen anywhere down south. Things just get worse. It would seem worse has picked up speed with Biden at the helm.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2022 04:03 PM (ifUkZ)

279 You have to break a few eggs to make a socialist omelet.

By the way, you are the egg.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 15, 2022 04:03 PM (lTGtQ)

280 I found the first few episodes tough, mostly because our hero has a concussion and brain tumor and you're not quite sure he isn't crazy ( he isnt) since the setup is presented as reality (especially first scene). Anyhow, stick with it- it's good, especially ep 6.
==
Agree. I thought it was going in a bad direction after the first couple episodes. Lefty wet dream. Nope. It goes in the opposite direction. Nothing wrong with that. A rare thing these days.

Posted by: Not Joe Bob Briggs at August 15, 2022 04:04 PM (/uRTy)

281 272 We're all actors?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:02 PM (LvTSG)

I'd better start buying cocaine
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 15, 2022 04:03 PM (XvPQV)

=========

Wait...you stopped?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:04 PM (LvTSG)

282 It was established in a post by Ace last Friday that we are all cattle now. So, this is expected.
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The point is moo.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2022 04:04 PM (OaZlZ)

283 Been to Corning Factory Museum long ago,

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2022 04:04 PM (k8B25)

284 "Why do liberal Wall Street analysts always massively miss in their predictions?"

Because "inflation" is just a made-up word that economists use. It has no bearing on citizens or the industries we rely on for fluffy niceties like food and heating oil.

Posted by: red speck at August 15, 2022 04:04 PM (gS3OW)

285 All we need to do is redefine contraction. It only looks bad because people want FJB to look bad.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 15, 2022 04:04 PM (hwoGt)

286 She looks like the last chance mama who would always be trying to hug the bouncer right after last call at the Buggy Tavern on Marsh Road.

https://tinyurl.com/bdu33yce
Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2022 03:42 PM (dCxaZ)

I was hoping the link was to the last chance mama.

Posted by: clutch at August 15, 2022 04:04 PM (9UmRs)

287 This is why I have a life straw gravity filter. I don't want to have to remember to change out my water purification tablets every 30 months or whatever it is.
Posted by: bonhomme
___

Thanks for this!

I already have LifeStraws for personal use, and a LifeStraw pitcher.
Yeah, I like Lifestraw.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 04:04 PM (R037X)

288 279 You have to break a few eggs to make a socialist omelet.

By the way, you are the egg.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 15, 2022 04:03 PM (lTGtQ)

And the omelet is not for the hoi polloi, either.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2022 04:04 PM (ynpvh)

289 All of us thinks the governmint needs to help businessses owned by Gays and Lesbians which will helps recover this county from the Trump rescesssion.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at August 15, 2022 04:04 PM (X++p7)

290 Update:

Dolley's anger has subsided. She has actually become understanding while admitting that she's not normally understanding.

I sense a plot...I must protect my purity of essence...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:05 PM (LvTSG)

291 Moo
*chews cud*
Moo

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 15, 2022 04:05 PM (4I/2K)

292 You have to break a few eggs to make a socialist omelet.

By the way, you are the egg.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 15, 2022 04:03 PM (lTGtQ)
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Still waiting to see a commie get an omelet out of it...

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2022 04:05 PM (OaZlZ)

293 There are enough Americans eating from the Gov't trough that cow may be only one of the metaphors for what we've become.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2022 04:06 PM (ynpvh)

294 This is why I have a life straw gravity filter. I don't want to have to remember to change out my water purification tablets every 30 months or whatever it is.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 15, 2022 04:01 PM (eyxn4)

Do they make water purification devices that purify in volume? Sucking through a straw to fill a kettle or something larger is a pain.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 15, 2022 04:06 PM (MujTL)

295 Posted by: Farmer Bob
___

Haven't watched nor will I.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 04:06 PM (R037X)

296 And Chris Pratt is rubbing it in the faces of every lefty out there on social media crowing over viewing numbers for his "highly controversial right wing story"...so there's that too.

Posted by: H Badger at August 15, 2022 04:06 PM (n/0Nw)

297 At what point do they start paying people on their lunch breaks, so they can buy stuff before the price goes up again in the afternoon.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 15, 2022 04:02 PM (TgBWG)

Zimbabwe has just issued its first Gold ounce currency, and is promising to issue smaller denominations since the 1800 USD value is half of a decent yearly income there.

That is the fastest way to get out of a hyperinflation.

Oh, and I heard a rumor that Germany recently asked for the rest of their Gold be repatriated and got told it wasn't available at the moment.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2022 04:06 PM (xhaym)

298 I sense a plot...I must protect my purity of essence...

On the one hand Gen Ripper agrees. OTOH, couples that uh...don't protect their purity of their essence tend to stay together longer and be happier

Posted by: Obligatory at August 15, 2022 04:06 PM (ESjRY)

299
We're all actors?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:02 PM (LvTSG)

And that's when the shooting started, your Honor.

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at August 15, 2022 04:06 PM (cupoy)

300 By the way, if you haven't stocked up on non-perishables, the clock is almost at midnight.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 15, 2022 04:06 PM (lTGtQ)

301 273 Here's a mid-day pick me up. Sure things are looking bleak but at least most of us didn't bust out our cars rear window because we didn't open the garage door high enough.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 15, 2022 04:03 PM (qH6FZ)

+++

Oh so very true.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 15, 2022 04:06 PM (IW8z9)

302 239 This busty, bespectacled brunette is cautiously pessimistic about the state of the manufacturing economy:
https://is.gd/ftns93
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 03:58 PM (WWh8n)

She doesn't look very smart. Nice cleavage makes up for it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 15, 2022 04:06 PM (XvPQV)

303 Pronounced "Skinny Atlas"

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2022 04:06 PM (89T5c)

304 Been to Corning Factory Museum long ago,
Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2022 04:04 PM (k8B25)
---
Did you get corned?

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2022 04:06 PM (OaZlZ)

305 302 She doesn't look very smart. Nice cleavage makes up for it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 15, 2022 04:06 PM (XvPQV)

=========

Gravity will take care of that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:07 PM (LvTSG)

306 Top economists have assured me this is transitory.

Posted by: VegetABLE Von Shartpants at August 15, 2022 04:07 PM (I+ZWa)

307 295- ok

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 15, 2022 04:07 PM (BxYWi)

308

“Oil prices made a partial recovery after an important decline and wholesale gasoline turned upward in the past few days,” said Trilby Lundberg with the Lundberg Survey. “This may indicate that the drop in gasoline, which has been very dramatic, may be coming to an end.”

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 15, 2022 04:07 PM (63Dwl)

309 Big Ramen is making a move on the market to try to force us into a recession.

The old Wall Street saying is "When the economy is shot, Ramen's hot."

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 15, 2022 04:07 PM (/Uk31)

310 Beartooth,

https://lifestraw.com/collections/lifestraw-home

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 04:07 PM (R037X)

311 And Chris Pratt is rubbing it in the faces of every lefty out there on social media crowing over viewing numbers for his "highly controversial right wing story"...so there's that too.

A story just came out that he's a big Pale Penis Patriarchy because he was paid more than some woman I've never heard of to appear in one of the recent Jurassic Park movies. So they're fighting back.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 15, 2022 04:07 PM (ZGrMX)

312 > I must protect my purity of essence

So, hiding the credit cards?

Posted by: me at August 15, 2022 04:07 PM (9p+wn)

313 On the good news from the CEO of Pfizer, 4 doses of the Pfixer vaccine, has tested positive.

Sometimes you have to take joy in the little things.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2022 04:07 PM (ZLI7S)

314 I'm watching the silent film Dr. Mabuse. 4.5 hours, have to watch it in chunks.

But good Lord, "fashionable" women dressed in unflattering shit back then. Here, put these shapeless draperies on. A triumph!

Posted by: spindrift at August 15, 2022 04:07 PM (h5TKJ)

315 Oh, and I heard a rumor that Germany recently asked for the rest of their Gold be repatriated and got told it wasn't available at the moment.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2022 04:06 PM (xhaym)

Simon Peter Gruber: "Hook....line...and sinker!"

Posted by: Thrawn at August 15, 2022 04:07 PM (Rl7KJ)

316 14 more ham and eggers step forward as whistleblowers to claim FBI is now the Stasi, according to Jim Jordan.

Grist for all those investigations Kevin McCarthy promises to run. Haha.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 15, 2022 04:08 PM (M1UiX)

317 Dolley's anger has subsided. She has actually become understanding while admitting that she's not normally understanding.

I sense a plot...I must protect my purity of essence...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:05 PM (LvTSG)

Aw. You're going to have another baby! Congrats in advance!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 15, 2022 04:08 PM (XvPQV)

318 Yeah, but can't we just like... pretend it's actually good, and then those good vibes will make it good?

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 15, 2022 04:08 PM (LZpcP)

319 314 I'm watching the silent film Dr. Mabuse. 4.5 hours, have to watch it in chunks.

But good Lord, "fashionable" women dressed in unflattering shit back then. Here, put these shapeless draperies on. A triumph!
Posted by: spindrift at August 15, 2022 04:07 PM (h5TKJ)

==========

Is this my fault? I think this is my fault.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:08 PM (LvTSG)

320 Gas prices have not fallen because Biden released oil from strategic reserves. Gas prices have fallen because many of the refineries east coast to west have completed annual shutdowns/mainainence, a lot of it that was put off because of covid over the last two years. Many in my trade that chase refinery shutdown overtime $$$ literally followed work east to west. Ended here in the Bay Area and Long Beach end of July. You can probably track the prices falling regionally just by following refinery shutdowns.

Posted by: JROD at August 15, 2022 04:08 PM (0jZnq)

321 Yeah, but can't we just like... pretend it's actually good, and then those good vibes will make it good?
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 15, 2022 04:08 PM (LZpcP)
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Absolutely. Party 'til the money runs out!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 04:09 PM (WWh8n)

322 How fast does bleach go bad? I have stuff in glass bottles I've used on and off for a while.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,

It doesn't go bad in 3 months but it does begin to degrade. Pool shock is a much better alternative. One lb treats 13.5k gallons.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at August 15, 2022 04:09 PM (MkQ3W)

323 Sometimes you have to take joy in the little things.

That's what she said.

Posted by: Sun Tzu at August 15, 2022 04:09 PM (4I/2K)

324 Hochul will become a Recession Denier.

Hey, Cathy, mebbe more booster shots will work! Or Masks!

Posted by: Flyover at August 15, 2022 04:09 PM (Rbu5d)

325 304 Been to Corning Factory Museum long ago,
Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2022 04:04 PM (k8B25)
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Did you get corned?

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2022 04:06 PM (OaZlZ)

Watch out for the hole in the back...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2022 04:09 PM (ynpvh)

326 Sorry, Farmer Bob, but I have no interest in watching Hollyweird's propaganda.

Even if it's geared to "conservative audiences".

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 04:09 PM (R037X)

327 https://lifestraw.com/collections/lifestraw-home
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 04:07 PM (R037X

Thanks! Much obliged.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 15, 2022 04:09 PM (MujTL)

328 Keystone RV manufactering in Elkhart, IN is closing doors with the loss of over 300 jobs. (Thor I dustries) but, not a.recession.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at August 15, 2022 04:09 PM (3Or4S)

329 I'd better start buying cocaine
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 15, 2022 04:03 PM (XvPQV)

=========

Wait...you stopped?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:04 PM (LvTSG)

It was either keep buying coke or keep buying ammo. Prices are still very high. For ammo.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 15, 2022 04:10 PM (XvPQV)

330 “This may indicate that the drop in gasoline, which has been very dramatic, may be coming to an end.”

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

The regime has been torquing the fuel numbers for several weeks, in order to push futures down. That can't last forever. Look up EIA versus Gasbuddy for details.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 15, 2022 04:10 PM (lTGtQ)

331 14 more ham and eggers step forward as whistleblowers to claim FBI is now the Stasi, according to Jim Jordan.

Grist for all those investigations Kevin McCarthy promises to run. Haha.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 15, 2022 04:08 PM (M1UiX)
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Pay NO attention to these white supremists!!!

Posted by: Merejerk Garland at August 15, 2022 04:10 PM (OaZlZ)

332 What we need is another $3 trillion spending plan to boost NY manufacturers.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 15, 2022 04:10 PM (hwoGt)

333 Unexpectedly, I must unexpectedly say this is unexpectedly unexpected.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at August 15, 2022 04:10 PM (mZOHK)

334 326-ok

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 15, 2022 04:10 PM (BxYWi)

335 Honestly, I wished they had ramen when I was in college. We were stuck with fucking popcorn to fill our guts. I pretty much hate popcorn these days.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2022 04:10 PM (ifUkZ)

336 We're not voting our way out of this.

Posted by: brak at August 15, 2022 04:10 PM (j5Tg0)

337 Oh, and I heard a rumor that Germany recently asked for the rest of their Gold be repatriated and got told it wasn't available at the moment.
Posted by: Kindltot

Open up some of those mountain warehouses in Austria. Should be able to find German gold there.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 15, 2022 04:10 PM (nyNes)

338 279 You have to break a few eggs to make a socialist omelet.

By the way, you are the egg.

i thought i was the walrus

Posted by: kulak anachronda at August 15, 2022 04:11 PM (oY6Yp)

339 Wreckovery Summer '22

Smell the success!

And Joe's skid-marks!

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 15, 2022 04:11 PM (WmGrA)

340 306 Top economists have assured me this is transitory.
___________

It's great news!!! It means the economy is doing wonderfully well! Better than ever!!! You deplorables are just too stupid to understand what a great job Biden is doing!!!

Posted by: Paul Krugman at August 15, 2022 04:11 PM (MvHI3)

341 335 Honestly, I wished they had ramen when I was in college. We were stuck with fucking popcorn to fill our guts. I pretty much hate popcorn these days.

generic mac ampersand cheese in my day.

Posted by: kulak anachronda at August 15, 2022 04:12 PM (oY6Yp)

342 > Do they make water purification devices that purify in volume? Sucking through a straw to fill a kettle or something larger is a pain.

This is what I have:

Lifestraw Mission 12 liter gravity filter hanging bag
https://bit.ly/3SQeXV4

Posted by: bonhomme at August 15, 2022 04:12 PM (eyxn4)

343 We're not voting our way out of this.
Posted by: brak
==
That's a fact, brak.

Posted by: Dominion voting systems at August 15, 2022 04:12 PM (aoY1z)

344 Watt's up with that link on fudging gas numbers.

https://tinyurl.com/m8798uac

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 15, 2022 04:13 PM (lTGtQ)

345 Do they make water purification devices that purify in volume? Sucking through a straw to fill a kettle or something larger is a pain.
Posted by: Beartooth

YT is chock full of videos on making water purifiers with 5 gl buckets and a charcoal filter.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at August 15, 2022 04:13 PM (MkQ3W)

346 It was either keep buying coke or keep buying ammo. Prices are still very high. For ammo.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 15, 2022 04:10 PM (XvPQV)
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So you had to choose between hookers AND blow?

Posted by: Hunter at August 15, 2022 04:13 PM (OaZlZ)

347 Pretty sure the Sun is transitory too (along with everything else except God and maybe the universe) it's really the referent time scale that matters

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 15, 2022 04:13 PM (BxYWi)

348 OT but has anyone else watched The Terminal List?

Saw it, I liked it. The flashbacks were a bit too repetitive (especially the bird hitting the window, which played about 15 times an episode) but it mostly worked. Except that the idea that a journalist for thinly disguised Buzzfeed would ever go against the Deep State.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 15, 2022 04:13 PM (ZGrMX)

349 328 Keystone RV manufactering in Elkhart, IN is closing doors with the loss of over 300 jobs. (Thor I dustries) but, not a.recession.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at August 15, 2022 04:09 PM (3Or4S)

No, they were just, um... "freed up" to pursue other economic opportunities.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 15, 2022 04:13 PM (Rl7KJ)

350 She looks like the last chance mama who would always be trying to hug the bouncer right after last call at the Buggy Tavern on Marsh Road.

https://tinyurl.com/bdu33yce
Posted by: kallisto

It's the ghost of dives past!!!

Posted by: Blue Hen at August 15, 2022 04:13 PM (cY9wR)

351 ¡Aye, caramba!, as Chuy might say.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 15, 2022 04:14 PM (a3Q+t)

352 >>Honestly, I wished they had ramen when I was in college. We were stuck with fucking popcorn to fill our guts. I pretty much hate popcorn these days.

3 staples of my college existence, popcorn, ramen noodles and Kraft macaroni and cheese.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2022 04:14 PM (ZLI7S)

353 So you had to choose between hookers AND blow?

LOL

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 15, 2022 04:14 PM (/Uk31)

354 That's a fact, brak.
Posted by: Dominion voting systems at August 15, 2022 04:12 PM (aoY1z)

Dominion's a side show. The mules and the toilet flush were where the actual action happened.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 15, 2022 04:14 PM (ZGrMX)

355 Lifestraw Mission 12 liter gravity filter hanging bag
https://bit.ly/3SQeXV4
Posted by: bonhomme at August 15, 2022 04:12 PM (eyxn4)

I'm pretty sure Science Says you can achieve the same results by just pouring your water through a used surgical mask.

Posted by: spindrift at August 15, 2022 04:15 PM (h5TKJ)

356 He would've blamed the JOOOS.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2022 03:58 PM (ynpvh)

True, but he couldn't claim they run the country after six years. Kind of kills the dictator cred.

Germany nearly had full employment under Hitler, and while much of that was devoted to military pursuits they did end up subjugating Europe. The point is, Biden is facing attacks in Ukraine (and likely Taiwan) during a time of major stagflation.

Posted by: trev006 at August 15, 2022 04:15 PM (bWLVH)

357 348 OT but has anyone else watched The Terminal List?

Saw it, I liked it. The flashbacks were a bit too repetitive (especially the bird hitting the window, which played about 15 times an episode) but it mostly worked. Except that the idea that a journalist for thinly disguised Buzzfeed would ever go against the Deep State.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 15, 2022 04:13 PM (ZGrMX)

The series end (last scene) felt so tacked on. Had no place at all and seemed to be one of those things they did to make it seem just that much smarter. I hated it but enjoyed the series overall.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 15, 2022 04:15 PM (KbCG3)

358 354 That's a fact, brak.
Posted by: Dominion voting systems at August 15, 2022 04:12 PM (aoY1z)

Dominion's a side show. The mules and the toilet flush were where the actual action happened.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 15, 2022 04:14 PM (ZGrMX)

=========

If Dominion is all powerful, Liz Cheney wins her primary tomorrow.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:15 PM (LvTSG)

359 289 All of us thinks the governmint needs to help businessses owned by Gays and Lesbians which will helps recover this county from the Trump rescesssion.

Mary is so right again. I want Mary to be our next POTUS !

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 15, 2022 04:15 PM (66jxp)

360
On the good news from the CEO of Pfizer, 4 doses of the Pfixer vaccine, has tested positive.

Sometimes you have to take joy in the little things.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2022 04:07 PM

Oh, but it gets better. His treatment regimen includes a Pfizer drug that was only tested on the un-vaccinated. Which he is not.

I'm hoping for a side effect of permanent ED but will settle for incontinence.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 15, 2022 04:15 PM (jE276)

361 omg I just re-looked at that pic of DOCTOR Jill in the shower curtain/dress. Just when you think your eyes are too stressed from that baby blue mess she's wearing, they set upon her face...and her neck.

She looks like the last chance mama who would always be trying to hug the bouncer right after last call at the Buggy Tavern on Marsh Road.

https://tinyurl.com/bdu33yce
Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2022 03:42 PM (dCxaZ)
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It looks like the costume a B-movie space soldier would wear for the "formal dress" scenes. Imagine it in black and covered with regalia. Like in "Mars Attacks."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 04:15 PM (WWh8n)

362 309 Big Ramen is making a move on the market to try to force us into a recession.

The old Wall Street saying is "When the economy is shot, Ramen's hot."
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 15, 2022 04:07 PM (/Uk31)

I like ramen. Perfected my own seasoning for it.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at August 15, 2022 04:15 PM (Qhnrt)

363 >>Honestly, I wished they had ramen when I was in college. We were stuck with fucking popcorn to fill our guts. I pretty much hate popcorn these days.
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You had hot meals!

We were lucky if we got a cold spoonful of gravel.

Posted by: Yorkshire Man at August 15, 2022 04:16 PM (OaZlZ)

364 Economists had expected a reading of 5.0, according to a survey by The Wall Street Journal.
________________

What did the astrologers predict? They can't be any more inaccurate than the economists.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at August 15, 2022 04:16 PM (pmpob)

365 OT. Sent to me by one of my Gen Z sons. Pretty funny.

"What Gen-Z Will Be Like As Parents"

https://tinyurl.com/yckvy7et

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 15, 2022 04:16 PM (e+yf1)

366 On the bright side, the Rats are planning on raising taxes soon

At least they can "invest" in lots of unwanted projects

Glad I'm half delirious each day, or I would be miserable.

Posted by: Baldy at August 15, 2022 04:16 PM (htBGg)

367 I think the recession was a month of so ago. The depression will arrive by Christmas, if not sooner.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 15, 2022 04:16 PM (bkUtD)

368 356 He would've blamed the JOOOS.
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I blame the JOOOS for closing all the good delis. I can't find a decent Deli anywhere around here and I live next to DC. Where did all the JOOOS go? I want a proper corned beef sandwich.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2022 04:17 PM (ifUkZ)

369 And in some places, it's the wypipo getting the ax first.
Minneapolis schools will lay off white teachers first, violating the Constitution and Title VII

https://tinyurl.com/bc8e96rj
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 03:38 PM (R037X)
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Yeah, that's going to cost the school district a ton. No way that stands up.

Posted by: Black JEM at August 15, 2022 04:17 PM (xWZcb)

370 360. I vote for cardiac cripple

Posted by: CN at August 15, 2022 04:17 PM (VuQO/)

371 Speaking of pizza making one soon with pepperoni

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2022 04:17 PM (k8B25)

372 o they make water purification devices that purify in volume? Sucking through a straw to fill a kettle or something larger is a pain.

Check backpacking/camping stores.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 15, 2022 04:17 PM (nyNes)

373 369. It's part of their union contract.

Posted by: CN at August 15, 2022 04:17 PM (VuQO/)

374 > Honestly, I wished they had ramen when I was in college. We were stuck with fucking popcorn to fill our guts.

They didn't have spaghetti noodles?

Posted by: bonhomme at August 15, 2022 04:17 PM (eyxn4)

375 The DOJ and FIB have come out with a statement : "If you say that America is in a recession, you are a domestic terrorist."

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 15, 2022 04:18 PM (u4CEu)

376 "Your wife needs to be put in for sainthood.
Posted by: Mister Scott
___

Yes she does."

She has a huge heart, and has never met a stranger. Simply a friend she hasn't met yet.

I truly don't deserve her.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 15, 2022 04:18 PM (1n+EO)

377 This just in: manufacturers making "Whip Inflation Now" buttons are reporting a bumper year. Yay us!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at August 15, 2022 04:18 PM (pmpob)

378 Big Ramen is making a move on the market to try to force us into a recession.

The old Wall Street saying is "When the economy is shot, Ramen's hot."
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 15, 2022 04:07 PM (/Uk31)
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Ramen is a classic Giffen Good, and yeah, the old Wall Street saying is true.

(Giffen Goods are one of two categories of goods that violate the rules of supply and demand, in that demand rises as prices increase. The reason is that these are special goods. They are always inferior goods that usually have small or moderate baseline demand but get more popular - out of necessity - when real incomes are under serious pressure. When you lose your job or inflation hits you and you can no longer afford what you want - say, eggs or meat or fancy mac and cheese - you still need to eat and will buy the inferior good, even if it clocks in at a higher price. Higher demand activity in Giffen Goods is another recession indicator.)

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 04:19 PM (WWh8n)

379 Minneapolis schools will lay off white teachers first, violating the Constitution and Title VII

Also violating at least one SCOTUS decision.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 15, 2022 04:19 PM (ZGrMX)

380 377 This just in: manufacturers making "Whip Inflation Now" buttons are reporting a bumper year. Yay us!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at August 15, 2022 04:18 PM (pmpob)

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"We've left the presses idle for decades, but we always knew this day would come."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:19 PM (LvTSG)

381 If inflation is just a technical word economists use, Manufacturing Index Falls Into a Major Contraction must be like, quantum physics stuff man.

Posted by: some f'in squad member, I can; gtbe bothered to see which one at August 15, 2022 04:19 PM (fWbjv)

382 Schumer and Obama want the economy to collapse. So here it goes
Posted by: CN at August 15, 2022 03:36 PM (VuQO/)

I agree. It isn't possible for a government to do all it takes to crash an economy and not think they mean to crash the economy. This is all deliberate.

What form it takes I don't know, but something really big and bad is coming, and soon. I can feel it.

Posted by: troyriser at August 15, 2022 04:19 PM (ogIek)

383 Kallisto-that should come with a warning

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2022 04:19 PM (k8B25)

384 Also violating at least one SCOTUS decision.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 15, 2022 04:19 PM (ZGrMX)

Minneapolis School System: "SCOTUS has made its decision; let them enforce it!"

Posted by: Thrawn at August 15, 2022 04:19 PM (Rl7KJ)

385 omg I just re-looked at that pic of DOCTOR Jill in the shower curtain/dress. Just when you think your eyes are too stressed from that baby blue mess she's wearing, they set upon her face...and her neck.

She looks like the last chance mama who would always be trying to hug the bouncer right after last call at the Buggy Tavern on Marsh Road.

https://tinyurl.com/bdu33yce
Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 202

There's a picture around of young doctor Jill sitting on Biden's lap supposedly taken when she was his kid's babysitter. She was probably 20 and he was ...not 20. I think that's why she still dresses like a trashy 23 year old; its how she got him.

Posted by: LASue at August 15, 2022 04:19 PM (Ed8Zd)

386 "Zero inflation" was such bullshit. Comparatively flat month-to-month inflation does not mean there was some decline in prices back toward normality. It's still up radically year on year.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 04:00 PM (WWh8n)

Year on year inflation is the first derivative. Month to month is the second derivative.
First derivative is still way up.

Posted by: clutch at August 15, 2022 04:20 PM (9UmRs)

387 356. My Taiwanese neighbor is blaming " joos". He is busy counting the ones in the administration. I think there are ugly days coming for the country

Posted by: CN at August 15, 2022 04:20 PM (VuQO/)

388 I don't know that it was tacked on- clues were there- Admiral saying that's a Langley question, the one uncovered account. I didn't see it coming and thought it sucked, but felt like it fit.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 15, 2022 04:20 PM (BxYWi)

389 374 > Honestly, I wished they had ramen when I was in college. We were stuck with fucking popcorn to fill our guts.

They didn't have spaghetti noodles?
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There were no microwaves in the dorms back then. But every kid had a fucking popcorn maker. I did discover Dinti Moore Beef Stew, though. Needed a hot plate make it work.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2022 04:20 PM (ifUkZ)

390 Eh, New York is more than 10 miles from me.

/

Posted by: Bete at August 15, 2022 04:20 PM (FHFTy)

391 My Taiwanese neighbor is blaming " joos". He is busy counting the ones in the administration. I think there are ugly days coming for the country
Posted by: CN
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Coming?

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 04:20 PM (R037X)

392 And in some places, it's the wypipo getting the ax first.
Minneapolis schools will lay off white teachers first, violating the Constitution and Title VII

https://tinyurl.com/bc8e96rj
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 03:38 PM (R037X)
==
Yeah, that's going to cost the school district a ton. No way that stands up.
Posted by: Black JEM at August 15, 2022 04:17 PM (xWZcb)
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Litigators cheer, start perusing yacht catalogues.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at August 15, 2022 04:20 PM (pmpob)

393 The have meds for that...
https://is.gd/lRbBjM
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Mrs. Sock wanted to know what I was laughing at. I declined to share.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at August 15, 2022 04:21 PM (MkQ3W)

394 385. Katharine Hepburn was wise to wear turtlenecks

Posted by: CN at August 15, 2022 04:21 PM (VuQO/)

395 Saw it, I liked it. The flashbacks were a bit too repetitive (especially the bird hitting the window, which played about 15 times an episode) but it mostly worked.

----

Exactly my take. Liked it. But I think what happened was Pratt & Fuqua sold an 8 episode arc to Amazon, had the material for 6, and padded it with the frankly astounding number of flashbacks.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2022 04:21 PM (IXpV7)

396 It gets worse. Look at the real estate report which they also tried to draw a happy face on by saying it's at "bottom". It's the worst collapse ever in that market. Also consider the jobs report. More people then ever working two jobs and some are predicting a downtrend in openings. The decrease in corporate earnings and the upcoming Democrats tax hike is going to kill everything

Posted by: Marcus T at August 15, 2022 04:21 PM (OTvdu)

397 Do they make water purification devices that purify in volume? Sucking through a straw to fill a kettle or something larger is a pain.
Posted by: Beartooth

Berkey filtration systems.
We've had one for years, they're awesome. Did in the counter.

Posted by: Flyover at August 15, 2022 04:21 PM (Rbu5d)

398 For those keeping score at home, 'can; gtbe' is a miss on the apostrophe, followed by a space instead of a delete, then another miss on the apostrophe, and a miss of the space bar.

So, just a little but outside.

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 15, 2022 04:22 PM (fWbjv)

399 364 Economists had expected a reading of 5.0, according to a survey by The Wall Street Journal.
________________

What did the astrologers predict? They can't be any more inaccurate than the economists.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at August 15, 2022 04:16 PM (pmpob)

I know, right? What's wrong with those guys?

Posted by: Climate Scientists at August 15, 2022 04:22 PM (cupoy)

400 More people than ever working two jobs and some are predicting a downtrend in openings.
___

Yep.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 04:22 PM (R037X)

401 Yeah Buddy

Just got back from the store. Noticed gas at $3.11 here in the upstate of SC.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at August 15, 2022 04:22 PM (R5lpX)

402 It is now illegal to threaten the FIB. Some guy got himself arrested today, not for doing anything but, instead, for opening his big mouth and talking. Your speech is illegal, prole.

Posted by: Levrenti Garland at August 15, 2022 04:22 PM (t3vBp)

403 My Taiwanese neighbor is blaming " joos". He is busy counting the ones in the administration. I think there are ugly days coming for the country
Posted by: CN at August 15, 2022 04:20 PM (VuQO/)
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You obviously taught him your white supreme antisemitism!

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2022 04:22 PM (OaZlZ)

404 391. We're barely getting the bad times. But you can hear the hurricane howling in the background.

Posted by: CN at August 15, 2022 04:22 PM (VuQO/)

405
There's a picture around of young doctor Jill sitting on Biden's lap supposedly taken when she was his kid's babysitter. She was probably 20 and he was ...not 20. I think that's why she still dresses like a trashy 23 year old; its how she got him.

Posted by: LASue at August 15, 2022 04:19 PM (Ed8Zd)

++++

"got him" The very idea is vomit worthy.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 15, 2022 04:23 PM (IW8z9)

406 395- agree, could have been done in movie length. Did, however, enjoy the brevity with which Steve Horne was dispatched. Demonstrated he was a wannabe nothing.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 15, 2022 04:23 PM (BxYWi)

407 Banquet frozen pot pies and Kraft Macaroni&Cheese. Each were 4/$1 and would fill your belly after a 10hour day working a summer job in 1977.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 15, 2022 04:23 PM (4I/2K)

408 How to make a big water filter:

https://youtu.be/paiqCNaKg8c

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 15, 2022 04:23 PM (9WSy4)

409 388 I don't know that it was tacked on- clues were there- Admiral saying that's a Langley question, the one uncovered account. I didn't see it coming and thought it sucked, but felt like it fit.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 15, 2022 04:20 PM (BxYWi)

Problem was, it served no purpose within the story. It was just a thing that happened at the end.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 15, 2022 04:23 PM (KbCG3)

410 403. I'll take him off my Chanukah party list.

Posted by: CN at August 15, 2022 04:23 PM (VuQO/)

411 Do they make water purification devices that purify in volume? Sucking through a straw to fill a kettle or something larger is a pain.
==
the brand name is lifestraw - but they have 5 liter and 8 liter sized options and clean storage option.

its a resevoir that gravity drains through a filter, you have to drain it into a container to have it filter. The flow is not super high rate. But you can probably get a couple gallons an hour.

Posted by: but ask garrett at August 15, 2022 04:23 PM (xKvBb)

412 Our GDP has increased from -1.6% to -3.4%.... and that is a gooooood thing. It is more than twice as good.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 15, 2022 04:23 PM (u4CEu)

413 Oh, but it gets better. His treatment regimen includes a Pfizer drug that was only tested on the un-vaccinated. Which he is not.

I'm hoping for a side effect of permanent ED but will settle for incontinence.

Posted by: Divide by Zero

Coronary at the State of the Company speech.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 15, 2022 04:23 PM (nyNes)

414 363
'We were lucky if we got a cold spoonful of gravel.'

You had gravel. We had to wait for Christmas morning for our spoonful of gravel.

And that is if we were lucky.

Posted by: Another Yorkshireman at August 15, 2022 04:24 PM (a1ycR)

415 413. Fauci took pavloxid too

Posted by: CN at August 15, 2022 04:24 PM (VuQO/)

416 The have meds for that...
https://is.gd/lRbBjM
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Mrs. Sock wanted to know what I was laughing at. I declined to share.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable

Where does one find that? Or is it some esoteric find the power within you BS?

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 15, 2022 04:24 PM (ftFVW)

417 I want a proper corned beef sandwich.

Posted by: Puddinhead
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Dammit Puddinhead, they are all busy controlling the weather. Moose out front should have told you.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 04:25 PM (CXr4y)

418 Gas is just under $5 a gallon here. I hope it stays low awhile longer. I still need to do the move.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 15, 2022 04:26 PM (9WSy4)

419 Merrick Garland just released a statement:

"The Department of Justice believes in the fair application of the Law. We are concerned that certain domestic agitators within white supremacy extremist groups are instigating insurrection against the US Government over the inevitable prices increases that all American patriotically welcome. These extremists shall be prosecuted and arrested under the fullest extent of our laws. Make no mistake, if you are an anti- bread price extremist, you will be prosecuted...

Posted by: Boswell at August 15, 2022 04:26 PM (+Cgut)

420 Do they make water purification devices that purify in volume? Sucking through a straw to fill a kettle or something larger is a pain.
==
the brand name is lifestraw - but they have 5 liter and 8 liter sized options and clean storage option.

its a resevoir that gravity drains through a filter, you have to drain it into a container to have it filter. The flow is not super high rate. But you can probably get a couple gallons an hour.
Posted by: but ask garrett

Bing Big Berkey.
berkeywaterfilter.com

Posted by: rickb223 at August 15, 2022 04:26 PM (nyNes)

421 124 Eromero at August 15, 2022 03:46

If someone else didn't answer already, yes the pudding is solid food.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at August 15, 2022 04:26 PM (BjGT6)

422 What did the astrologers predict? They can't be any more inaccurate than the economists.

The astrologers suggested everyone crank the Joe Osborn bassline from "Let The Sunshine In".

Posted by: Ian S. at August 15, 2022 04:26 PM (ZGrMX)

423 378 Interesting. I knew about Veblen goods. Any male who has ever dated a female understands Veblen goods. But I hadn't heard of Giffen goods.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 15, 2022 04:26 PM (e+yf1)

424 Video shows Shanghai shoppers scramble to break out of Ikea store after snap lockdown announced.

https://tinyurl.com/9veeuccf

ace's. Worst. Nightmare.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 04:26 PM (R037X)

425 417 I want a proper corned beef sandwich.

Posted by: Puddinhead
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Dammit Puddinhead, they are all busy controlling the weather. Moose out front should have told you.
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There used to be really good Delis in DC back in the 90s. I can't find one now. Methinks the JOOOS kids said fuck working those hours and became dentists or something.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2022 04:26 PM (ifUkZ)

426 419.almost sounds real

Posted by: CN at August 15, 2022 04:27 PM (VuQO/)

427 Higher demand activity in Giffen Goods is another recession indicator.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Haven't thought about Giffen Goods in decades. If Ramen noodles are Giffen goods, I don't want to know what type of goods bugs and grass are.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 04:27 PM (CXr4y)

428 Maybe it has something to do with everybody moving out of ny.

Posted by: Y5 at August 15, 2022 04:27 PM (9UqNr)

429 Interesting. I knew about Veblen goods. Any male who has ever dated a female understands Veblen goods. But I hadn't heard of Giffen goods.
Posted by: quantum mechanic
___

I'm a female and I've never heard of either.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 04:27 PM (R037X)

430 Number of mentions of this Appleand Google and Yahoo news? Zero

Mentions of gas price falling? A lot.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 15, 2022 04:27 PM (Qd9jD)

431 Merrick Garland just released a statement:

"The Department of Justice believes in the fair application of the Law. We are concerned that certain domestic agitators within white supremacy extremist groups are instigating insurrection against the US Government over the inevitable prices increases that all American patriotically welcome. These extremists shall be prosecuted and arrested under the fullest extent of our laws. Make no mistake, if you are an anti- bread price extremist, you will be prosecuted...
Posted by: Boswell at August 15, 2022 04:26 PM (+Cgut)
________________
... along with all other wreckers, hoarders, and saboteurs."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at August 15, 2022 04:27 PM (pmpob)

432 Okay, whatever. Boogey men and white supremacists and lions and tiger and bears -- oh my!

Where is the affidavit, pal?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 15, 2022 04:28 PM (lf83v)

433 'We were lucky if we got a cold spoonful of gravel.'

You had gravel. We had to wait for Christmas morning for our spoonful of gravel.

And that is if we were lucky.

Posted by: Another Yorkshireman at August 15, 2022 04:24 PM

We didn't have gravel, we had to bust up large stones to make gravel you lucky bastards.....

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 15, 2022 04:28 PM (bVYXr)

434 Heya y5!

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 04:28 PM (R037X)

435 Keystone RV manufactering in Elkhart, IN is closing doors with the loss of over 300 jobs. (Thor I dustries) but, not a.recession.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at August 15, 2022 04:09 PM (3Or4S)

No, they were just, um... "freed up" to pursue other economic opportunities.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 15, 2022 04:13 PM (Rl7KJ)

FUNemployment for all!!

Posted by: LASue at August 15, 2022 04:28 PM (Ed8Zd)

436 My Taiwanese neighbor is blaming " joos". He is busy counting the ones in the administration. I think there are ugly days coming for the country
Posted by: CN at August 15, 2022 04:20 PM (VuQO/)

Hah! You think American nationalists hate Soros, and you're right, but Asians REALLY hate Soros for all his financial fuckery. Chinese and Taiwanese above most. And that's before their grudges in higher education. Chinese language media is relatively open in talking about it. I'm certain that's going to tie to American Jews in the near future when things get bad.

Posted by: trev006 at August 15, 2022 04:28 PM (fHh8u)

437 428 Maybe it has something to do with everybody moving out of ny.
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They are definitely running out of Americans. Newbies they've got a shit ton.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2022 04:29 PM (ifUkZ)

438 Merrick Garland just released a statement:

"The Department of Justice believes in the fair application of the Law. We are concerned that certain domestic agitators within white supremacy extremist groups are instigating insurrection against the US Government over the inevitable prices increases that all American patriotically welcome. These extremists shall be prosecuted and arrested under the fullest extent of our laws. Make no mistake, if you are an anti- bread price extremist, you will be prosecuted...

Posted by: Boswell
===

That boys and girls is how you save democracy. Stand up Merrick... oh... you are. Well stand up on a phon... um a telegraphy book... No that's not right you know the dot dot dash dot thingy. I need my talky pills and diaper change.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 15, 2022 04:29 PM (u4CEu)

439 I want a proper corned beef sandwich.

Posted by: Puddinhead

Salmon and cream cheese, please. Add hummus if you can.

Posted by: trev006 at August 15, 2022 04:29 PM (fHh8u)

440 Minneapolis Teachers Union agrees to lay off white teachers first, regardless of seniority.

It turns out the True Heroes are the Diversity people. I wish Norm MacDonald were here to comment.

Posted by: Wally at August 15, 2022 04:30 PM (FJYfm)

441 There used to be really good Delis in DC back in the 90s. I can't find one now.
Posted by: Puddinhead
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More jobs that Americans won't do. In all seriousness, delis are being hit by grocery stores producing cheaper but inferior versions of them, health food crazes on fat and salt, and labor costs.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 04:30 PM (CXr4y)

442 I'm certain that's going to tie to American Jews in the near future when things get bad.
Posted by: trev006 at August 15, 2022 04:28 PM (fHh8u)

Don't worry, American Jews will blame white, Christian males for it.

Posted by: WiNO - Amish Vampires in Space at August 15, 2022 04:30 PM (EpDzw)

443 440 Minneapolis Teachers Union agrees to lay off white teachers first, regardless of seniority.

It turns out the True Heroes are the Diversity people. I wish Norm MacDonald were here to comment.
Posted by: Wally at August 15, 2022 04:30 PM (FJYfm)

===========

"Wait! We championed you! How could you turn on us like this?!"
-The AWFL teachers

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:30 PM (LvTSG)

444 I'm just saying, if Nazi Germany was in a state of economic collapse before invading Poland, Hitler would have been gone before Christmas 1939.

It's worth noting what led to Hitler. The elites in Weimar Germany had this fad they were pushing on everyone who'd listen, and nobody wanted to hear it. That fad? Transgenderism.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 15, 2022 04:30 PM (ZGrMX)

445 I am the walrus.

Posted by: Donnie at August 15, 2022 04:30 PM (X/UGK)

446
'Counter cyclical' is another term for companies who do well when the economy tanks. I *used* to own one. Bad times meant I sold more product which made me happy. Good times for everyone else made me sad.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 15, 2022 04:30 PM (jE276)

447 >>> 382 Schumer and Obama want the economy to collapse. So here it goes
Posted by: CN at August 15, 2022 03:36 PM (VuQO/)

I agree. It isn't possible for a government to do all it takes to crash an economy and not think they mean to crash the economy. This is all deliberate.

What form it takes I don't know, but something really big and bad is coming, and soon. I can feel it.
Posted by: troyriser at August 15, 2022 04:19 PM (ogIek)

PanFaWar as named by Michael Yon and as caused by the WEF and associated psychos.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 15, 2022 04:31 PM (llON8)

448 436. I fear you are not wrong. Scary times

Posted by: CN at August 15, 2022 04:31 PM (VuQO/)

449 Heh. Bonhomme said 'turbid.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2022 04:31 PM (HJDAV)

450 What's the difference between speckled and bespeckled?
There's an old bluegrass song The Great Bespeckled Bird.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 15, 2022 04:31 PM (VdGjU)

451 444 It's worth noting what led to Hitler. The elites in Weimar Germany had this fad they were pushing on everyone who'd listen, and nobody wanted to hear it. That fad? Transgenderism.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 15, 2022 04:30 PM (ZGrMX)

=========

Also, they mismanaged the economy into a few financial collapses while treating inflation like a little people problem.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:31 PM (LvTSG)

452 This isn't war.

Open the big box.

It has poems that serious artists wrote just about you.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at August 15, 2022 04:31 PM (zLzwr)

453 So Starbucks Corp is asking the Labor Board to disallow mail in ballots on Union voting . Douchebags were all for it for the Presidential election. Typical hypocritical lefties.

Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2022 04:31 PM (RH1Zb)

454
Veblen's a crank, but Veblen goods are real enough.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2022 04:31 PM (IXpV7)

455 geez, Trump is out of office all this time and he's still messing up Obama's wonderful legacy.

Posted by: mallfly the peach of MSNBC at August 15, 2022 04:32 PM (Ynyl9)

456 Minneapolis Teachers Union agrees to lay off white teachers first, regardless of seniority.

—

Tht can’t be real?

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 15, 2022 04:32 PM (Qd9jD)

457 Also, they mismanaged the economy into a few financial collapses while treating inflation like a little people problem.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:31 PM (LvTSG)

It's like history repeats or something.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 15, 2022 04:32 PM (ZGrMX)

458 Haven't thought about Giffen Goods in decades. If Ramen noodles are Giffen goods, I don't want to know what type of goods bugs and grass are.
Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 04:27 PM (CXr4y)
++++
Luxury goods imposed upon you by the ruling class. You should be happy. They're delicacies!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 04:32 PM (WWh8n)

459 Not trying to be hysterical or troubelmaking but these are the kind of indicators when the great depression started. This is how it went.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 15, 2022 04:32 PM (Ivdso)

460 It's worth noting what led to Hitler. The elites in Weimar Germany had this fad they were pushing on everyone who'd listen, and nobody wanted to hear it. That fad? Transgenderism.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 15, 2022 04:30 PM (ZGrMX)
______________

The biggie: inflating the currency like crazy to pay off war reparations with Monopoly money.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at August 15, 2022 04:32 PM (pmpob)

461 Funny story, when I moved to NY nobody was there to greet me and give me $

Nobody gave me dick, not that I wanted or would have accepted dick.

Just an 100 hour a week job

Posted by: Y5 at August 15, 2022 04:32 PM (9UqNr)

462 HI SMH

Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2022 04:32 PM (j9WVp)

463 456 Minneapolis Teachers Union agrees to lay off white teachers first, regardless of seniority.

—

Tht can’t be real?
Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 15, 2022 04:32 PM (Qd9jD)

Saw a couple different stories on it over the weekend.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2022 04:33 PM (HJDAV)

464 DEM: You know what this means, don't you?
GOP: Oh, God, not again.
DEM: It means another MASSIVE GOVERNMENT STIMULUS PACKAGE!

Posted by: Socratease at August 15, 2022 04:33 PM (oqnjT)

465 Hey Ben Had.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 04:33 PM (R037X)

466 441 There used to be really good Delis in DC back in the 90s. I can't find one now.
Posted by: Puddinhead
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More jobs that Americans won't do. In all seriousness, delis are being hit by grocery stores producing cheaper but inferior versions of them, health food crazes on fat and salt, and labor costs.
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I think you have half of it. The other half is there are few "Americans" that know what a good sandwich tastes like. They've never had a quality deli sandwich so they just don't know. Then there's the price and running a retail space in a city. I can see why the left but I miss them.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2022 04:33 PM (ifUkZ)

467 I'm a female and I've never heard of either.
Posted by: SMH

That is not inconsistent with what I said

Now, if you'll please excuse me, I have to go buy a handbag for my fiancee. After I finish the paperwork for the second mortgage.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 15, 2022 04:33 PM (e+yf1)

468 PanFaWar as named by Michael Yon and as caused by the WEF and associated psychos.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 15, 2022 04:31 PM (llON

Pandemic Famine War? 3/4 Horsemen?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 15, 2022 04:33 PM (XvPQV)

469 I'm a female and I've never heard of either.

Posted by: SMH

Joe explained Giffen goods very well. Veblen goods are tied to his idea of conspicuous consumption as a marker of social status in elite circles. Those goods vary from craze to craze but those wanting social status go crazy over them because the kink is both cost and lack of general availability. It is to show social status versus the plebes.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 04:33 PM (CXr4y)

470 Veblen's a crank, but Veblen goods are real enough.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2022 04:31 PM (IXpV7)
++++
Yeah. Sadly, I will never be able to afford Veblen Goods.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 04:33 PM (WWh8n)

471
Also, they mismanaged the economy into a few financial collapses while treating inflation like a little people problem.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:31 PM (LvTSG)

Yup. Really smart. "We'll inflate our war debts away, and nobody will be the wiser!"

Wile E. Coyote reasoning at a national scale.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2022 04:33 PM (IXpV7)

472 I keep telling you people, but Cabaret is the movie of our times.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:33 PM (LvTSG)

473 Tht can’t be real?

Its real

https://tinyurl.com/zkykv83y

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 15, 2022 04:33 PM (Ivdso)

474 That Adidas guy has not been here for forever

Posted by: Y5 at August 15, 2022 04:33 PM (9UqNr)

475 re 453: the dems back in 2009 had a bill they called The Freedom Of Choice Act. It would have eliminated to secret vote for union representation.

Posted by: mallfly the peach of MSNBC at August 15, 2022 04:34 PM (Ynyl9)

476 Minneapolis Teachers Union agrees to lay off white teachers first, regardless of seniority.

Tht can’t be real?
Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 15, 2022 04:32 PM (Qd9jD)

It's on Fox News, so 60% chance it's true.

Posted by: Wally at August 15, 2022 04:34 PM (FJYfm)

477 Minneapolis Teachers Union agrees to lay off white teachers first, regardless of seniority.
—
Tht can’t be real?
Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 15, 2022 04:32 PM (Qd9jD)
_____________

It is. Forget it, Jake, it's Minneapolis.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at August 15, 2022 04:34 PM (pmpob)

478 Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 15, 2022 04:33 PM (e+yf1)
___

Whatevers, Boomer.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 04:34 PM (R037X)

479 464 DEM: You know what this means, don't you?
GOP: Oh, God, not again.
DEM: It means another MASSIVE GOVERNMENT STIMULUS PACKAGE!
Posted by: Socratease at August 15, 2022 04:33 PM (oqnjT)

=========

"Do I get mine? Then it's fine."
-Mitch McConnell

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:34 PM (LvTSG)

480 And even more hilarious: it violates a SC case from '96(?) in which the court says that school districts cannot use 'diversity' as a criteria to choose who to fire. NO race based criteria is something school districts cannot seem to grok.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2022 04:34 PM (HJDAV)

481 Yeah. Sadly, I will never be able to afford Veblen Goods.

Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Meat may be soon enough a Veblen good as gasoline will become.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 04:34 PM (CXr4y)

482 Meh, more than ten miles from me.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 15, 2022 04:34 PM (Qy7kP)

483 480 And even more hilarious: it violates a SC case from '96(?) in which the court says that school districts cannot use 'diversity' as a criteria to choose who to fire. NO race based criteria is something school districts cannot seem to grok.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2022 04:34 PM (HJDAV)

=========

Yeah, it'll get stopped pretty quickly, but it's going to cause just the most delicious kinds of division in the school district.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:35 PM (LvTSG)

484 479 464 DEM: You know what this means, don't you?
GOP: Oh, God, not again.
DEM: It means another MASSIVE GOVERNMENT STIMULUS PACKAGE!
Posted by: Socratease at August 15, 2022 04:33 PM (oqnjT)

=========

"Do I get mine? Then it's fine."
-Mitch McConnell

Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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More likely to be a tax increase to pay more to government workers and to finance non-existent infrastructure.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 04:35 PM (CXr4y)

485 Number of mentions of this Appleand Google and Yahoo news? Zero

Mentions of gas price falling? A lot.
=
Most people experience economic reality, not via the newsfeeds, but by trying to buy actual necessary items.

Posted by: Now I know this will sound like a foreign concept, but stick with me . . . at August 15, 2022 04:35 PM (fdx9P)

486 A Veblen good is a good for which demand increases as the price increases, because of its exclusive nature and appeal as a status symbol.
__

So, this is info for rich folks.

Got it.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 04:35 PM (R037X)

487
I agree. It isn't possible for a government to do all it takes to crash an economy and not think they mean to crash the economy. This is all deliberate.

What form it takes I don't know, but something really big and bad is coming, and soon. I can feel it.
Posted by: troyriser at August 15, 2022 04:19 PM (ogIek)

do NOT think of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

Posted by: Ray Stantz at August 15, 2022 04:36 PM (cupoy)

488 Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck to throw 3-day wedding this weekend
___________________

They will arrive in a used car wearing clothes from a second-hand store and serve leftovers for the wedding dinner. For entertainment, they will replay the video from their first wedding.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 15, 2022 04:36 PM (lf83v)

489 racismism is rough, yo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2022 04:36 PM (HJDAV)

490 In fairness, in SD everything is more than 10mi from you

Posted by: Y5 at August 15, 2022 04:36 PM (9UqNr)

491 I am the walrus.
Posted by: Donnie at August 15, 2022 04:30 PM (X/UGK)

Koocooachoo

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at August 15, 2022 04:36 PM (R5lpX)

492 459 Not trying to be hysterical or troubelmaking but these are the kind of indicators when the great depression started. This is how it went.
----------------
Depressions are caused by real estate collapses not stock markets. When real estate falls it takes a shit ton of big money out of circulation. This doesn't happen in a stock market fall. Florida real estate collapse caused the depression of the 30s.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2022 04:36 PM (ifUkZ)

493 So breaking out of 'Job-lock' is a thing again?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 15, 2022 04:36 PM (1n+EO)

494 So, this is info for rich folks.

Got it.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 04:35 PM (R037X)

Idiot tax.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2022 04:36 PM (HJDAV)

495 Oh I see the new union contract says that. Wow.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 15, 2022 04:36 PM (Qd9jD)

496 A Veblen good is a good for which demand increases as the price increases, because of its exclusive nature and appeal as a status symbol.
______________

Would that be like buying an EV?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at August 15, 2022 04:37 PM (pmpob)

497 Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 04:33 PM (CXr4y)
++++
Right. Demand for Veblen goods increases with price because those goods are status markers for the hyper-rich class.

For example to those who are curious:
Bugatti might sell, say, 1000 cars at a million bucks each but they'll sell 1500 cars at two million bucks each. The car - and its price tag - is the point of the exercise. People rich enough to afford either will *prefer* to spend more because it's a bigger marker. This happens in various markets depending on predilections and who the person is trying to impress. It's rampant in the Hi-Fi "audiophile" community, for another example. The expense of the system is a major positive factor.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 04:37 PM (WWh8n)

498 493 So breaking out of 'Job-lock' is a thing again?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 15, 2022 04:36 PM (1n+EO)

Funemployment.

Green shoots.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2022 04:37 PM (HJDAV)

499 You know what this economy needs is another $40 billion sent to Russia.. ah NOOO that's not what I ... umm hey we need to send that Zatarini gal some money she had great smellin hair.

UKRINE that was the thingy... my talky pills are kickin and last nights spicy chili.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 15, 2022 04:37 PM (u4CEu)

500 Veblen Goods? OK, I get that. What about Veblen Services?

Like my own personal ball washer?

-- Louis Black

Posted by: Archer at August 15, 2022 04:37 PM (gmo/4)

501 It's worth noting what led to Hitler. The elites in Weimar Germany had this fad they were pushing on everyone who'd listen, and nobody wanted to hear it. That fad? Transgenderism.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 15, 2022 04:30 PM (ZGrMX)

=========

Also, they mismanaged the economy into a few financial collapses while treating inflation like a little people problem.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:31 PM (LvTSG)

That's how Hitler and the Nazis were able to buy their propaganda newspaper. Prior to the hyperinflation they purchased / mortgaged a press building with the printing equipment They were having problems paying until the hyperinflation., which they then were able to pay off the mortgage with the deflated currency .

Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2022 04:37 PM (RH1Zb)

502 480 And even more hilarious: it violates a SC case from '96(?) in which the court says that school districts cannot use 'diversity' as a criteria to choose who to fire. NO race based criteria is something school districts cannot seem to grok.

Union sez: So sue me, I've got 72 lawyers on staff and a half-dozen AGs on speed-dial.

Posted by: Socratease at August 15, 2022 04:38 PM (oqnjT)

503 I think you have half of it. The other half is there are few "Americans" that know what a good sandwich tastes like. They've never had a quality deli sandwich so they just don't know. Then there's the price and running a retail space in a city. I can see why the left but I miss them.

Posted by: Puddinhead
----------------
Probably true there.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 04:39 PM (CXr4y)

504 Stupid question time.

Ranier cherries...

Was there not a season this year?
Not a single one seen in any of our local stores, and the regular season is now over.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 15, 2022 04:39 PM (1n+EO)

505 re 450:
What's the difference between speckled and bespeckled?
There's an old bluegrass song The Great Bespeckled Bird

"Don't Worry, Be Speckled"

Posted by: mallfly the peach of MSNBC at August 15, 2022 04:39 PM (Ynyl9)

506 Do they make water purification devices that purify in volume? Sucking through a straw to fill a kettle or something larger is a pain.
==
the brand name is lifestraw - but they have 5 liter and 8 liter sized options and clean storage option.

its a resevoir that gravity drains through a filter, you have to drain it into a container to have it filter. The flow is not super high rate. But you can probably get a couple gallons an hour.
Posted by: but ask garrett at August 15, 2022 04:23 PM (xKvBb)

Charcoal, sand and a coffee filter will work in a pinch. The Project Farm YouTube channel had a great comparison of different water filtration systems, some were fast, some were slower.

ZeroWater did very well for the cost

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 15, 2022 04:39 PM (XvPQV)

507 Depressions are caused by real estate collapses not stock markets. When real estate falls it takes a shit ton of big money out of circulation. This doesn't happen in a stock market fall. Florida real estate collapse caused the depression of the 30s.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2022 04:36 PM

Psst. real estate is collapsing.

https://timthomas.co/real-estate-market-collapse/

https://tinyurl.com/2p8huxe4

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 15, 2022 04:39 PM (bVYXr)

508 If you have to ask, "How much?" You can't afford it.

Posted by: Archer at August 15, 2022 04:39 PM (gmo/4)

509 It's rampant in the Hi-Fi "audiophile" community, for another example. The expense of the system is a major positive factor.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 04:37 PM (WWh8n)

You ain't lying there. I have been looking for a new, decent headset. There seems to be two tiers of pricing. One is about $50-150. The next seems to start at $350 and go up from there.

I just want a good set of headphones.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2022 04:39 PM (HJDAV)

510 Whatevers, Boomer.
Posted by: SMH

Humor bypass. Look up Veblen.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 15, 2022 04:39 PM (e+yf1)

511 Noodles.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 15, 2022 04:39 PM (906pl)

512 PJW on Rushdie attack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhYzzb5BoKc

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 04:39 PM (R037X)

513 So, this is info for rich folks.

Got it.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 15, 2022 04:35 PM (R037X)
++++
No, not precisely. Veblen goods are purchased by rich people and it is a rich-person phenomenon. Those rich folks may or may not know what the phenomenon is or how to describe it - and certainly don't care about that or why it is interesting from an economics and markets standpoint. It is important information for people trying to make sense of the economy. Veblen goods are an interesting sideshow, not a meaningful economic indicator and so if you have Veblen goods in your analysis, your analysis is probably not sensible (unless, of course, you're specifically studying them).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 04:40 PM (WWh8n)

514 Florida real estate collapse caused the depression of the 30s.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2022 04:36 PM (ifUkZ)

Banks allowed to collapse caused the real estate problems.

Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2022 04:40 PM (RH1Zb)

515 Given that all white teachers in MSP are raging liberals, LOLGF.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 15, 2022 04:40 PM (Qd9jD)

516 Yeah, it'll get stopped pretty quickly, but it's going to cause just the most delicious kinds of division in the school district.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:35 PM (LvTSG)

I don't want to see it stopped, I want those white people to feel the pain of their own idiocy. First white person fired that files a lawsuit should be publicly shamed for their white privilege.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 15, 2022 04:40 PM (qH6FZ)

517 Depressions are caused by real estate collapses not stock markets. When real estate falls it takes a shit ton of big money out of circulation. This doesn't happen in a stock market fall. Florida real estate collapse caused the depression of the 30s.
==
Awful lot of empty office downtown. People still working at home. Leases getting renegotiated. . .

The real estate crash has been building since 2020 -

Posted by: word to the wise at August 15, 2022 04:40 PM (3WFoF)

518 480 And even more hilarious: it violates a SC case from '96(?) in which the court says that school districts cannot use 'diversity' as a criteria to choose who to fire. NO race based criteria is something school districts cannot seem to grok.

Union sez: So sue me, I've got 72 lawyers on staff and a half-dozen AGs on speed-dial.
Posted by: Socratease at August 15, 2022 04:38 PM (oqnjT)

If the Teachers Union was capable of playing 3D chess, I'd think it was a bold play. "Hey you people in rich neighborhoods, if you don't want to ante up for higher teacher pay, guess who's getting laid off? YOUR teachers!"
But a more logical explanation is the union is just a bunch of Lefty racists.

Posted by: Wally at August 15, 2022 04:41 PM (FJYfm)

519 What's the difference between speckled and bespeckled?

About ten bucks... same as in town.

I don't even know you people anymore.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 15, 2022 04:41 PM (u4CEu)

520 497 It's rampant in the Hi-Fi "audiophile" community, for another example. The expense of the system is a major positive factor.

That's how you end up with $800 power cords.

Posted by: Socratease at August 15, 2022 04:41 PM (oqnjT)

521 Ranier cherries...

Was there not a season this year?
Not a single one seen in any of our local stores, and the regular season is now over.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 15, 2022 04:39 PM (1n+EO)

Two words:

Murder Hornets!

Posted by: Archer at August 15, 2022 04:41 PM (gmo/4)

522 It gets worse. Look at the real estate report which they also tried to draw a happy face on by saying it's at "bottom". [ . . . ]
Posted by: Marcus T at August 15, 2022 04:21 PM (OTvdu)

The bottom keeps getting deeper

"The Canaries in the Coal Mine Are No Longer Singing"

https://tinyurl.com/2s3w23kh

Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2022 04:42 PM (xhaym)

523
Speaking of New York...

New Rule, Everyone!

The fake unelected "governor" of New York decided now is a good time to ban/censor/delete/eliminate the word "inmate" and instead call jailbirds "incarcerated individuals."

Why do this? (Same as answer as "why do dogs lick their balls.") The fake reason is to "help," get this, "justice-involved" persons have higher esteem.

lolz @ "justice involved persons"

Fucking Clown World.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at August 15, 2022 04:42 PM (93/8p)

524 485 Number of mentions of this Appleand Google and Yahoo news? Zero

//////

I forget the percentage, but it's a shockingly high number of people who get their news from FB and Twitter.

Posted by: JM in Florida at August 15, 2022 04:42 PM (AfPEo)

525 Yeah banking was the primary driving factor of the Great Depression

If you look at the long-term picture, it looks like we've been in a recession since around 2000, with a few upward ticks. Almost like the US is stumbling into the yard after getting the five finger death punch.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 15, 2022 04:43 PM (Ivdso)

526 regarding gas prices- here regular with 10% ethanol is $4.25. Premium with that shitty ethanol is $4.58. Non- ehtanolPremium is $4.98. Three refineries within 15 mile. FJB

Posted by: free tibet at August 15, 2022 04:43 PM (iNp3L)

527 509 It's rampant in the Hi-Fi "audiophile" community, for another example. The expense of the system is a major positive factor.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

My favorite (which I alluded to) is luxury brand female handbags. They start at $3,000 and just go up. They're good quality, but they probably have about $200 of materials and labor in them max.

Fun Fact: Louis Vuitton never discount old stock. They burn them.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 15, 2022 04:43 PM (e+yf1)

528
I keep telling you people, but Cabaret is the movie of our times.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 15, 2022 04:33 PM

Ever watch 'Car Wash' (1976)? Trannies, gays, sex changes, terrorism, and I went to high school with the cashier.

It was almost a perfect prediction of the future. Also, a better use of butter than Marlon Brando in "Last Tango".

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 15, 2022 04:43 PM (jE276)

529 504. I remember hearing the Rainier cherry crop was hit by drought or bugs or some issue and was in short supply. My grocery store was selling 1 lb bags for around $15. I declined

Posted by: Jen the original at August 15, 2022 04:43 PM (JSGxV)

530 It gets worse. Look at the real estate report which they also tried to draw a happy face on by saying it's at "bottom". [ . . . ]
Posted by: Marcus T at August 15, 2022 04:21 PM (OTvdu)

The bottom keeps getting deeper

"The Canaries in the Coal Mine Are No Longer Singing"

https://tinyurl.com/2s3w23kh
==
The thing that sucks is, you can see the tidal wave coming. The tide goes way out, all the sudden. The water is just gone. Then you hear the freight train and see the wall. There's nothing you can do about it if you are standing on the beach.

Posted by: word to the wise at August 15, 2022 04:44 PM (nhAi8)

531

nooooood

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at August 15, 2022 04:44 PM (93/8p)

532 That's how you end up with $800 power cords.

$800 shielded golden power cords!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 15, 2022 04:44 PM (Ivdso)

533 You ain't lying there. I have been looking for a new, decent headset. There seems to be two tiers of pricing. One is about $50-150. The next seems to start at $350 and go up from there.

I just want a good set of headphones.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 15, 2022 04:39 PM (HJDAV)
++++
Yup. The bottom end of the high range is the same - for my money and to my ears - as the more expensive stuff. $300 or even $400 headphones are worth the money to me. More than that is not and can't be justified (to me - others have different opinions).

My headphones - which I strongly recommend you try out if you're looking for very clear, very good headphones in the moderate-high price range (About $225 street price) - are the Audio Technica ATH-MSR7.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 04:44 PM (WWh8n)

534 $200 of materials and labor in them max.

"would you believe $20?"
--Handbag manufacturer

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 15, 2022 04:44 PM (Ivdso)

535 If you look at the long-term picture, it looks like we've been in a recession since around 2000, with a few upward ticks. Almost like the US is stumbling into the yard after getting the five finger death punch.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
---------
Charming simile.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 04:45 PM (CXr4y)

536 I remember hearing the Rainier cherry crop was hit by drought or bugs or some issue and was in short supply. My grocery store was selling 1 lb bags for around $15. I declined
Posted by: Jen the original at August 15, 2022 04:43 PM (JSGxV)

I don't know if they're Rainer cherries but cherries are selling for 6.99 lb in my grocery store.

Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2022 04:45 PM (RH1Zb)

537 > 3/4 Horsemen?

Don't forget wild animal attacks, the little remembered fourth member of the band.

Posted by: me at August 15, 2022 04:46 PM (9p+wn)

538 In Russia, a Hamburger is worth one human life.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at August 15, 2022 04:46 PM (zLzwr)

539 Number of mentions of this Appleand Google and Yahoo news? Zero

//////

I forget the percentage, but it's a shockingly high number of people who get their news from FB and Twitter.
===
I lived through the Reagan years. The news was only on three channels that's all you got. Every single night they told everyone it was awful. It was for like a year. Then everybody you knew was getting a job in years 2-4. It got to be completely absurd. People experience economic reality directly. They can gaslight people on wars and foreign policy. But as somebody said, its the economy stupid. Because you can't fool people. When its bad its bad. When its good its good.

Posted by: word to the wise at August 15, 2022 04:48 PM (b02yR)

540 @424 Video shows Shanghai shoppers scramble to break out of Ikea store after snap lockdown announced.

----

Video blog (The China Show) I was watching on YouTube mentioned that the moment the Shanghai lockdown order was lifted just recently, a bunch of Shanghai residents went on vacation to Hainan. And then Hainan got hit with lockdown orders.

Posted by: junior at August 15, 2022 04:49 PM (aqgsz)

541 I saw Rainiers here. They bruise easily and cherry growers get one good year out of five

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