Don't Look Now, But The Greatest Economy In the History of the World Is About to Collapse

CNN says that unemployment rates are about to soar, which it blames on the Fed's efforts to combat Biden's hyperinflation, and not Biden's hyperinflation.

Of course.

We are real news, Mr. President.

Millions of jobs could be on the chopping block this year, as the Federal Reserve continues its rate-hiking campaign to tame inflation. But the effects of that action likely won't reverberate evenly across the economy.
...

At its most recent policy-making meeting, the Fed released projections for the year ahead that showed unemployment could jump to 4.5%, representing another 1.5 million job losses, by the end of the year.
While that's a small improvement from the central bank's previous 4.6% jobless rate estimate, economists say it's possible the unemployment rate could rise above the Fed's expectations. Moreover, they say that historically disadvantaged groups could be disproportionately affected by the central bank's stringent monetary policy.

Of course, The Only People Who Matter "could be" "disproportionately affected."

Investors are pulling back from the market, on anticipation of a further recession.

Investors seem to be getting more nervous about growth.
Driving the news: Another day of weak economic data.
* Factory orders, out Tuesday, fell for the second straight month in February.

* And job openings dropped faster than expected, a possible sign the job market is cooling.
Our thought bubble: The data du jour wasn't top shelf, but the numbers were consistent with others showing that parts of the economy -- like the industrial sector -- are losing steam.
Between the lines: Under-the-hood indicators from Tuesday's trading session told a similar tale.

Biden has drained the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which means the US could be wiped out by any oil shock.

Lawmakers are raising concerns that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which President Joe Biden has relied on heavily since taking office, is getting dangerously low.
Gas prices hit record highs last summer, surpassing $5 per gallon nationally. To curb rising prices, Biden released more than 200 million barrels from the U.S. stockpile, bringing the reserves to the lowest point since 1984.
"By gutting vital fuel storage to lower short-term prices, the Biden Administration exposed the U.S. to future market volatility and increased supply dependence on adversarial nations instead of supporting an all-of-the-above energy approach to unleash American energy potential," House Oversight Republicans said in a letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.
Republicans argue Biden used the reserve to temporarily lower prices ahead of the last November midterm elections. Oversight lawmakers say the Department of Energy has failed to provide documents requested in the inquiry despite repeated requests.
"As a depleted SPR weakens the U.S.'s ability to respond to future supply disruptions, prompt delivery of the requested documents is vital to help Congress ensure U.S. energy security," the letter said.

All stories via MxM News.

Prepare for a bumpy ride.

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1 Hello?

Posted by: Dr. T at April 07, 2023 06:20 PM (tp+tP)

2 Hey!

Posted by: Dr. T at April 07, 2023 06:20 PM (tp+tP)

3 Aaaand, this is why I'm not retiring this year.

Posted by: Toni at April 07, 2023 06:20 PM (PgM6e)

4 What are the odds senile retarded pervert Joe Biden has a clue about how an economy works$?

Posted by: That Northern skulker at April 07, 2023 06:21 PM (LAwW8)

5 Watching the dumbass sliding down the escalator railing: Quick thinking there, Sparky

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 07, 2023 06:21 PM (ZSK0i)

6 FJB

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 07, 2023 06:21 PM (yu8eA)

7 Remind me, what happens to a country when they no longer have the world's reserve currency?

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 07, 2023 06:22 PM (iE1nR)

8 The chinese are laughing at us

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 07, 2023 06:22 PM (Irn0L)

9 We survived Covid, but another bad patch might be the end for my company.

Thanks Biden!

Posted by: Harun at April 07, 2023 06:22 PM (Cg63x)

10 A nation under judgment?
I am thinking yes.

Posted by: Jmel at April 07, 2023 06:22 PM (bVhJi)

11 5 Watching the dumbass sliding down the escalator railing: Quick thinking there, Sparky
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 07, 2023 06:21 PM (ZSK0i)

Looks painful

Posted by: It's me donna at April 07, 2023 06:22 PM (bs+z0)

12 Is Jim Cramer touting any stocks? I need to know what to shed.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 07, 2023 06:23 PM (KSNKu)

13 Dude got nutted! Twice! And we'll be praying to feel that good once the hyperinflation really kicks in!

Posted by: Get ready for Zimbabwe Bucks! at April 07, 2023 06:23 PM (V6LRK)

14 The Only People Who Matter were doing great under DJT.

That is all.

Good evening, horde.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 07, 2023 06:23 PM (OX9vb)

15 The local radio news anchor--in a 70-80% Republican area, no less--only reports economic news when it seems to favor Biden: and in a folksy Southern drawl to distract people. "Good news, friends! The rate of inflation has edged down a tad bit from last month, so this here economy may be getting back on track."

People will never wake up.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 07, 2023 06:24 PM (tp+tP)

16 The chinese are laughing at us

Perhaps. But just because we're about to faceplant doesn't mean they're doing well. Plus, Chinese history is replete with them laughing at people just before the roof caves in.

Replete, I say.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 06:24 PM (eOEVl)

17 Stated this two months ago.

Don't let the MSM blame the recession on Powell. It was the spending spigot.

Same with SPR. Grnny Granholm saying we wouldn't refill this year was followed by OPEC+ announcing production cut last Sunday.

Rs need to say this every Sunday.

And gas is about to go thru the roof.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 07, 2023 06:24 PM (NW9xb)

18 The Only People Who Matter were doing great under DJT.

Yes, but the people who don’t matter were also doing great, so it was a net loss.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 07, 2023 06:24 PM (EXyHK)

19
Do you know how Smartasses say "I'd wish for 3 more wishes!" when asked what they'd wish for if they found a "magic lantern?" And that trick never works with magic lanterns or Monkey Paws.

That's what Disney did with the "oversight board" who "voted" to basically castrate all future oversight boards.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at April 07, 2023 06:24 PM (OCTC/)

20 Joe thinks the economy runs on icecream and mutilating the genitals of little children.

Posted by: That Northern skulker at April 07, 2023 06:24 PM (LAwW8)

21 If only someone had warned us!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 07, 2023 06:25 PM (5xURv)

22 I've got the house to myself (except for cats) a rack of ribs, and a 12 pack of cheap beer. I'm not gonna let it bother me tonight.

Posted by: fd at April 07, 2023 06:25 PM (iayUP)

23 Dude got nutted! Twice!

Thanks.

Posted by: Eugenics at April 07, 2023 06:25 PM (eOEVl)

24 >>Remind me, what happens to a country when they no longer have the world's reserve currency?

Chickens be roosting.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2023 06:25 PM (ZLI7S)

25 Replete, I say.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 06:24 PM (eOEVl)

Plete and Replete were sitting on a roof, Plete fell off...

Posted by: I dunno. Doesn't feel quite right. at April 07, 2023 06:25 PM (V6LRK)

26 I'm just spitballing here but I think that dood is regretting his decision.
Ouch.

Posted by: Bosk at April 07, 2023 06:26 PM (VMFAF)

27 Remind me, what happens to a country when they no longer have the world's reserve currency?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 07, 2023 06:22 PM (iE1nR)

Hey, screw you, bloke!

Posted by: The British Empire at April 07, 2023 06:26 PM (tp+tP)

28 I miss the Trump economy and mean tweets.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 07, 2023 06:26 PM (yu8eA)

29 You think you have it bad? You don't know bad.

Posted by: Dude in 1928 at April 07, 2023 06:26 PM (eOEVl)

30 20 Joe thinks the economy runs on icecream and mutilating the genitals of little children.
Posted by: That Northern skulker at April 07, 2023 06:24 PM (LAwW8

Ain't that amazing though?

The whole world seems intent on going up in flames and he's regaling us with stories of ice cream and defending trannies and their access to your kids.

One might think this was all planned, were one inclined to think such thoughts.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 07, 2023 06:26 PM (5xURv)

31
The world is in an uproar
And I see no end in sight
But I will not let bother me tonight

Posted by: fd at April 07, 2023 06:26 PM (iayUP)

32 I am starting to worry building trades will go quickly if companies are not expanding. Office space is still bloated for what it's used for. Many office floors only have a few people where a hundred could be without crowding.

Posted by: Skip at April 07, 2023 06:26 PM (xhxe8)

33 I'm just spitballing here but I think that dood is regretting his decision.
Ouch.
Posted by: Bosk at April 07, 2023 06:26 PM (VMFAF)
---
I always wanted to try that, but I know that they put those
"speedbumps" on there just to prevent me from doing it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 07, 2023 06:27 PM (BpYfr)

34 If you are looking for a silver lining nobody is going to give a shit who the woke victims of the week are when they deciding between paying their mortgage and feeding their kids and nobody will suffer more than the inner city yutes.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2023 06:27 PM (ZLI7S)

35 Ow, My Balls

Posted by: Kindltot at April 07, 2023 06:27 PM (xhaym)

36 We survived Covid, but another bad patch might be the end for my company.

Thanks Biden!
Posted by: Harun at April 07, 2023 06:22 PM (Cg63x)

You seem unappreciative of the fact that we no longer have mean tweets.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 07, 2023 06:27 PM (tp+tP)

37 What's a CNN?

Posted by: Just Wondering at April 07, 2023 06:27 PM (DhOHl)

38 Went to see SUPER MARIO BROS movie it was a good movie that you can take your family too, Universal is now the gonna take the top spot for Animation movies and with Apple and Sky Animation Studios hiring Pixar executives Disney is gonna be 3rd

Also there were groans when they showed the preview for the Little Mermaid.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at April 07, 2023 06:28 PM (dKiJG)

39 I am starting to worry building trades will go quickly if companies are not expanding. Office space is still bloated for what it's used for. Many office floors only have a few people where a hundred could be without crowding.

I don't care about the office space market, but what I do care about is a majority of the population becoming asocial and unable to integrate with others. This is the glide path to HAL9000.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 06:28 PM (eOEVl)

40 Where have you gone, Augusto Pinochet?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 07, 2023 06:29 PM (yu8eA)

41 Yeah, I'm not wasting money on movies, thanks.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 07, 2023 06:29 PM (5xURv)

42 Good, 81 million votes retards.

Posted by: sven at April 07, 2023 06:30 PM (Lzpvj)

43 what I do care about is a majority of the population becoming asocial and unable to integrate with others.

FINALLY I'll be able to fit in!

Posted by: Social outcast weirdo and freak, born and raised at April 07, 2023 06:30 PM (V6LRK)

44 Reposting, because important.

FYI, a 3 judge panel of the 1st circuit just vacated the district court's bullshit decision upholding MA's bullshit approved firearm roster. 2 Obama judges on that decision.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 07, 2023 06:22 PM

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 07, 2023 06:30 PM (Wnv9h)

45 What's a CNN?
Posted by: Just Wondering

It's a cursed land where privileged scions go about assaulting other men and aged bimbos babble in a willowy nonsense language.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 07, 2023 06:30 PM (iE1nR)

46 Well, at least CD yields should go up.

Posted by: EFG at April 07, 2023 06:31 PM (Ae67h)

47 what I do care about is a majority of the population becoming asocial and unable to integrate with others.

FINALLY I'll be able to fit in!

I hear you. As a person of paranoia, I don't much care for other people, but on occasion, I do want to interact.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 06:31 PM (eOEVl)

48 27 Posted by: The British Empire at April 07, 2023 06:26 PM (tp+tP)

Now now, I think your importing the third world putting your own natives in welfare slums and turning yourself into a theme park was off the hook....

Posted by: sven at April 07, 2023 06:31 PM (Lzpvj)

49 46 Well, at least CD yields should go up.
Posted by: EFG at April 07, 2023 06:31 PM (Ae67h)

Nah bro, DATs and laser discs are the future!

Posted by: Betamax will rise again! at April 07, 2023 06:32 PM (V6LRK)

50 MA has a roster too? I know CA's absurd roster got partially gutted recently by the fed judge here who seems to be on a one-man mission to restore some semblance of constitutional sense and rule of law to, well, the law.

One-man mission in a country of 330M. Well of course it's not just him, but you could probably fit like-minded jurists from the entire country in a medium-sized bus. In a country of 330M.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 07, 2023 06:33 PM (OTzUX)

51 historically disadvantaged groups could be disproportionately affected by the central bank's stringent monetary policy.

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I hope all the trannies are ok.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at April 07, 2023 06:34 PM (9bp5t)

52
Christ Almighty...

"It's called capitalism."

https://youtu.be/eQfMbSe7F2g?t=63

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at April 07, 2023 06:34 PM (OCTC/)

53 Ow, my balls isn't supposed to be a training film either.

Posted by: DaveA at April 07, 2023 06:35 PM (FhXTo)

54 One-man mission in a country of 330M. Well of course it's not just him, but you could probably fit like-minded jurists from the entire country in a medium-sized bus. In a country of 330M.

What size bus, exactly. Are we talking tour the sights of Manhattan, or Disney monorail?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 06:35 PM (eOEVl)

55 Never underestimate the ability of a stupid SOB like Joe Depends to fuck things up.

He wasn't called the dumbest man in Congress for nothing folks.

Posted by: Archer at April 07, 2023 06:35 PM (gmo/4)

56 Who knew the democrats would wantonly wreck shit?

I mean, really?

Posted by: eleven at April 07, 2023 06:35 PM (t4fCu)

57 Remind me, what happens to a country when they no longer have the world's reserve currency?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 07, 2023 06:22 PM (iE1nR)

The Yuan dynasty used paper notes drawn on the tax revenue of the Mongol state. This was the second paper currency, since the first was in the Song dynasty, which was based on the use of warehouse receipts as currency, until THEY hyperinflated it attempting to fund wars against their neighboring states and eventually the Mongols, who won.

The Yuan dynasty suffered from massive printing of currency which was absorbed by neighboring states who liked portability and tradeability of the currency. Eventually everyone got caught up with the inflation, rejected it, and the currency collapsed. China then spent the next several dynasties using silver, and one are in central Asia is rumored to distrust paper currency until the 20th century.

Since then until the end of Bretton Woods the monetary metals were Silver and Gold, short of the adaption of bank notes and fiat currencies starting in the 18th centuries, allowing over printing again.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 07, 2023 06:35 PM (xhaym)

58 MA has a roster too? I know CA's absurd roster got partially gutted recently by the fed judge here who seems to be on a one-man mission to restore some semblance of constitutional sense and rule of law to, well, the law.

One-man mission in a country of 330M. Well of course it's not just him, but you could probably fit like-minded jurists from the entire country in a medium-sized bus. In a country of 330M.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 07, 2023 06:33 PM

Yep. About 25 years ago our fucktard AG created it under the supposed authority of the consumer protection laws.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 07, 2023 06:35 PM (Wnv9h)

59 I hope all the trannies are ok.
Posted by: Cave Johnson

The Lord says I'll be fine, but he's pretty sure the trannies are fooked.

Posted by: Steven, the most wanted man on my island at April 07, 2023 06:36 PM (iE1nR)

60 I got a 5% raise which will totally cover the 10% rent increase I got and the 25% hyperinflation that could come this summer

I'm going to Disney World!

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - America is Dead - National Divorce NOW at April 07, 2023 06:36 PM (VTu1l)

61 "Remind me, what happens to a country when they no longer have the world's reserve currency?"

idk, but it doesn't not have to mean collapse. And Jerome Powell already said "there can be more than one reserve currency", so I think they have seen what is coming.

imo, rates do need to go back toward "normal", but BigGov can't keep printing a trillion every time there is an emergency (like climate change, or sad trannies, or polls falling for the Dems, Plandemic, etc.)

Government money markets are at about 4.5% ... lower than inflation, but still, that limits the crazy leveraged positions "WallStreet" uses to extract billions from TheSystem (till they fail and make commoners bail them out) while inflation soars.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 07, 2023 06:36 PM (Cus5s)

62 The Yuan dynasty used paper notes drawn on the tax revenue of the Mongol state. This was the second paper currency, since the first was in the Song dynasty, which was based on the use of warehouse receipts as currency, until THEY hyperinflated it attempting to fund wars against their neighboring states and eventually the Mongols, who won.

The Yuan dynasty suffered from massive printing of currency which was absorbed by neighboring states who liked portability and tradeability of the currency. Eventually everyone got caught up with the inflation, rejected it, and the currency collapsed. China then spent the next several dynasties using silver, and one are in central Asia is rumored to distrust paper currency until the 20th century.

Since then until the end of Bretton Woods the monetary metals were Silver and Gold, short of the adaption of bank notes and fiat currencies starting in the 18th centuries, allowing over printing again.

So....what you're saying is to buy tulip bulbs?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 06:36 PM (eOEVl)

63 Green Jobs! will save our economy!

Posted by: International Brotherhood of Hobos and Associated Hermits at April 07, 2023 06:37 PM (dzZCL)

64 Generally if the USD collapses, the BRICS might have a commodity based currency for clearing debts between themselves, but I don't think it would work since Brazil and China are involved, and they depend on Cantillon effects to fund their governments.
They might have to pledge gold or something to be held in escrow between the partners though.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 07, 2023 06:37 PM (xhaym)

65 Who knew the democrats would wantonly wreck shit?

I mean, really?
Posted by: eleven at April 07, 2023 06:35 PM

We know, right?

Posted by: San Francisco, Detroit, Memphis, Portland, Seattle, Chicago at April 07, 2023 06:37 PM (a3Q+t)

66 Hal, I have a 44 pointed directly at your memory. 44 is the most powerful revolver in the World and
..

Posted by: humphreyrobot at April 07, 2023 06:37 PM (+/MNd)

67 The Lord says I'll be fine, but he's pretty sure the trannies are fooked.

Are you, perchance, a Peaky Blinder?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 06:37 PM (eOEVl)

68 The bank runs will be epic.

Posted by: wth at April 07, 2023 06:37 PM (v0R5T)

69 Reading "The Gulag Archipelago" (finally). Chapter One is "The Arrest". With a massive security force, the arrest can happen anywhere or anytime. Bundled into a sedan. Nowhere to escape for people who act like sheep, the bok says.

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 07, 2023 06:38 PM (6UDoK)

70 81 million fuckaballs voted for this shit

right

In a just world I would love to know what the real tally was and how many votes were completely fraudulent

25-30 million is my guess

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - America is Dead - National Divorce NOW at April 07, 2023 06:38 PM (VTu1l)

71 On the positive side:
Lines at the bank will be a good place to meet desperate hot chicks.

Posted by: wth at April 07, 2023 06:38 PM (v0R5T)

72 We know, right?

Posted by: San Francisco, Detroit, Memphis, Portland, Seattle, Chicago at April 07, 2023 06:37 PM (a3Q+t)

They aren't democrating right

Posted by: International Brotherhood of Hobos and Associated Hermits at April 07, 2023 06:38 PM (dzZCL)

73 60 I got a 5% raise which will totally cover the 10% rent increase I got and the 25% hyperinflation that could come this summer

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger

Congrats! I got 3%. Good thing I work from home and have no commute and don't have to buy office clothes.

Sigh.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 07, 2023 06:39 PM (OX9vb)

74
Bots, much, Google??

I'm skimming through the fake comments for the Indy Jone trailer linked above. They all repeat the same lie and mention either "chills" or "goosebumps."

All bots.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at April 07, 2023 06:39 PM (OCTC/)

75 On the positive side:
Lines at the bank will be a good place to meet desperate hot chicks.

September1945 Berlin was awesome!

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 06:39 PM (eOEVl)

76 59 I hope all the trannies are ok.
Posted by: Cave Johnson

The Lord says I'll be fine, but he's pretty sure the trannies are fooked.
Posted by: Steven, the most wanted man on my island at April 07, 2023 06:36 PM (iE1nR

Freeeeeedoooommm'

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 07, 2023 06:39 PM (5xURv)

77 So....what you're saying is to buy tulip bulbs?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 06:36 PM (eOEVl)

Do what you want, but here is some information on French Republican hyper inflation. FIAT MONEY INFLATION IN FRANCE - How It Came, What It Brought, and How It Ended - by Andrew Dickson White, LL.D., Ph.D., D.C.L.

Have fun, it is a short little book:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6949

Posted by: Kindltot at April 07, 2023 06:39 PM (xhaym)

78 I'm too old for this.

Posted by: Eromero at April 07, 2023 06:39 PM (4svuj)

79 68 Posted by: wth at April 07, 2023 06:37 PM (v0R5T)

Drawing on a debauched and devalued currency whose fall will outstrip the "safety" of yanking it.

Some of my first posts here were mocking the leftards on their being too dumb to understand that the GWOT was as much about the petro dollar as revenge....

On the one hand it is gratifying to see DOOM! as warned of finally coming to pass...OTOH I still have to eat and pay my bills given I am not a Biden nor Reparations-worthy.

Posted by: sven at April 07, 2023 06:40 PM (Lzpvj)

80 Good. Until the Harriet and Blah Blah Nyborgs, who vote a straight democrat ticket, feel real economic pain, nothing will change.

Warm garden hose water and ramen noodles will get old after awhile.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 07, 2023 06:41 PM (R/m4+)

81 Where have you gone, Augusto Pinochet?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 07, 2023 06:29 PM (yu8eA)
........

A nation turns its lonely eyes to you
woo, woo, woo

Posted by: wth at April 07, 2023 06:41 PM (v0R5T)

82 The left has gotten the entire country to focus on Trump's completely legal hush money payoff of $130,000 so nobody notices that on Monday Leonardo DiCaprio testified to a Washington jury that a corrupt Malaysian businessman with ties to the CCP told him he planned to funnel between $20 and $30,000,000 to Obama and Democrats in the 2012 election through Pras Michel of the Fugees.

This is a real trial, with real federal prosecutors in a real federal court.

https://tinyurl.com/359xmna4

Seems like kind of a big story.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2023 06:41 PM (ZLI7S)

83 I'm a buyer at a building materials outfit. Been here 25 years.
I've never seen it this slow.
But, no mean tweets so it's all good.

Posted by: Bosk at April 07, 2023 06:41 PM (VMFAF)

84 My divorce lawyer -- I hope to soon divorce from him -- raised his rates twice in eight months -- 14%

Nice gig. /sarc off

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 07, 2023 06:41 PM (6UDoK)

85 I have all the tulips bulbs, suckers.

Posted by: eleven at April 07, 2023 06:42 PM (t4fCu)

86 Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 07, 2023 06:38 P
Hope you stick with the whole thing, and the 3 books if that's what your reading. You will learn a lot and see what our Marxists are doing isn't new.

Posted by: Skip at April 07, 2023 06:42 PM (xhxe8)

87 All my money is tied up in cash

Posted by: Vera Donovan at April 07, 2023 06:42 PM (us2H3)

88 Congrats! I got 3%. Good thing I work from home and have no commute and don't have to buy office clothes.

*****************

Me too, my car now sits in the garage wondering what the hell happened to me because I've gotten too cheap to buy gas

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - America is Dead - National Divorce NOW at April 07, 2023 06:42 PM (VTu1l)

89 The left has gotten the entire country to focus on Trump's completely legal hush money payoff of $130,000 so nobody notices that on Monday Leonardo DiCaprio testified to a Washington jury that a corrupt Malaysian businessman with ties to the CCP told him he planned to funnel between $20 and $30,000,000 to Obama and Democrats in the 2012 election through Pras Michel of the Fugees....

Seems like kind of a big story.

And where does it go from there? If it's just LdC's word for it, it's meaningless.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 06:43 PM (eOEVl)

90 Where have you gone, Augusto Pinochet?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 07, 2023 06:29 PM (yu8eA)

He was arrested in Spain while in the hospital for treatment for terminal cancer. He was then tried in Spain for the death of one Spaniard while he was in charge of the coup.

I believe he may have died handcuffed to the hospital bed he was unable to leave on his own power.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 07, 2023 06:43 PM (xhaym)

91 @70

>>25-30 million is my guess

No more the 60 million votes.

There is no way he got more votes than the SCOAMF.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 07, 2023 06:44 PM (up/3i)

92 I have all the tulips bulbs, suckers.

Can't be. All your tulip bulbs are belong to us.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 06:44 PM (eOEVl)

93 Our currency is now backed by iron and lead (war machines), but with the new cyber war, and unrestricted warfare ... who knows.

Plus with team Globalist Oligarch and CCP buying our politicians, our enemies within are those that may cause the most trouble.

Most think is our economy turns real bad, the fed will "pivot" to lower rates. But that is back to feed the rich, crush the poor. ... tick tock.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 07, 2023 06:44 PM (Cus5s)

94
What size bus, exactly. Are we talking tour the sights of Manhattan, or Disney monorail?
Posted by: Archimedes

Speaking of busses ... you all recall the bus in the middle of nowhere just north of Denali National Park in which that "gonna find hissef" dude starved to death, right?

You recall that they airlifted it out of the woods a year or two ago?

Guess where it is now, and what is happening to it?

If you answered, "Being restored and destined to become a museum exhibit to untrammeled dumbassery", pick up your winnings at the window.

https://www.uaf.edu/museum/collections/
ethno/projects/bus_142/index.php

Posted by: DEFINITELY NOT Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 07, 2023 06:45 PM (pNxlR)

95 I would remind the doom n' gloomers that our economy has seen worse. And they also had to deal with Woodie Guthrie.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 06:45 PM (eOEVl)

96 DVN n SUN r ur buds

act accordingly

Posted by: REDACTED at April 07, 2023 06:46 PM (us2H3)

97 I live about 9 miles from work so theoretically I could bike that in a gasoline emergency.

BTW this administration would LOVE a massive price shock to gas. It might actually be the plan.

No vote = no consequences

Posted by: Max Power at April 07, 2023 06:46 PM (Hucnr)

98 Now the trannies are really gonna get mad!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 07, 2023 06:47 PM (63Dwl)

99
De"cloaking" ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 07, 2023 06:47 PM (pNxlR)

100 >>And where does it go from there? If it's just LdC's word for it, it's meaningless.

Obviously, it's not. Michel is under federal investigation and DiCaprio's production company has already been forced to repay $60 million from money Lo stole from the Malaysian government in the $4.5 billion 1MDB scandal which was a huge story when it first hit.

DiCaprio is also cooperating with the feds.

It's only meaningless if we keep saying it's meaningless which is exactly what the left wants.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2023 06:47 PM (ZLI7S)

101 I have all the tulips bulbs, suckers.
Posted by: eleven at April 07, 2023 06:42 PM (t4fCu)
.......

So YOU'RE the one been digging up my back yard? SOB
I thought it was those damn gophers!

Posted by: wth at April 07, 2023 06:47 PM (v0R5T)

102 The chinese are laughing at us

Perhaps. But just because we're about to faceplant doesn't mean they're doing well. Plus, Chinese history is replete with them laughing at people just before the roof caves in.

Replete, I say.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 06:24 PM (eOEVl)

Yeah, they have a serious demographic problem with the one child policy - the population is aging fast and the next generation isn't big enough to pay for senior care for it. The real estate boondoggling was a shell game to convince the middle age that they had it covered but soon they will find that they don't.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 07, 2023 06:47 PM (eoQWY)

103 Office clothes, JC Penny's has a FBI tab in clothing.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at April 07, 2023 06:47 PM (+/MNd)

104 That video summarizes where we are as a country at the moment.

Laughed at and no control.

Posted by: Czech Chick at April 07, 2023 06:48 PM (6Tc2R)

105
I live about 9 miles from work so theoretically I could bike that in a gasoline emergency.

SecGay Buttgiggity has entered the chat ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 07, 2023 06:48 PM (pNxlR)

106 Draining the SPR is partly a sellout to China but mostly setting us up for as big an oil shock as possible.

They need to curtail peasant mobility.

Posted by: somedood at April 07, 2023 06:48 PM (cjvQp)

107 All your gopher belong to us.

Posted by: eleven at April 07, 2023 06:48 PM (t4fCu)

108 Noooooooo!!!!!

Don't collapse yet, economy, I still need to sell my house in Colorado.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 07, 2023 06:48 PM (0j64U)

109 We know what will save the dollar.
OK, on the hundred dollar bill, instead of Benjamin Franklin, Dylan Mulvaney!

Posted by: US Treasury Department at April 07, 2023 06:49 PM (iE1nR)

110 A lot of my neighbors have dogs, so I'll still eat good.

Posted by: Barry Soetoro at April 07, 2023 06:49 PM (v0R5T)

111 Already part of the statistics. But it means I can run out unemployment benefits for a bit and not worry about getting hired. Have been expecting this storm for awhile.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 07, 2023 06:49 PM (u7leW)

112 Escalator Guy had a nice look of pain after his nutsack got rapped on the first bump then a look of regret as he gained speed toward the bottom.

A good metaphor for Joe Biden’s economy.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 07, 2023 06:50 PM (R/m4+)

113 All your gopher belong to us.
Posted by: eleven at April 07, 2023 06:48 PM (t4fCu)
........

Then would you please come and get them?

Posted by: Barry Soetorowth at April 07, 2023 06:50 PM (v0R5T)

114 Chinese are laughing at us because they run our government

Posted by: Skip at April 07, 2023 06:50 PM (xhxe8)

115 106 Posted by: somedood at April 07, 2023 06:48 PM (cjvQp)

Wife is wanting to learn to make pemmican, and I used to walk 48 miles or so a day.

Posted by: sven at April 07, 2023 06:50 PM (Lzpvj)

116 I live about 9 miles from work so theoretically I could bike that in a gasoline emergency.

BTW this administration would LOVE a massive price shock to gas. It might actually be the plan.

No vote = no consequences
Posted by: Max Power at April 07, 2023 06:46 PM (Hucnr)

Well, not entirely, since the only glimmer of hope for their Russia Russia Russia sanction is for oil prices to be low. It still wouldn't work, but that's what the neocon wing wants. The eco freak wing may have different ideas.

The first thing to put aside is that the enemy we face has a single unifiled plan and strategy.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 07, 2023 06:50 PM (eoQWY)

117
We know what will save the dollar.
OK, on the hundred dollar bill, instead of Benjamin Franklin, Dylan Mulvaney!

Paul Krugman's TRILLION DOLLAR COIN has entered the chat ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 07, 2023 06:50 PM (pNxlR)

118 oops f'n sock

Posted by: wth at April 07, 2023 06:50 PM (v0R5T)

119 The CNN article says we now have a 35% chance of going into recession...

We've been in a recession for a long time, according to normal measurements. But since libs are in the white house, we have come up with new ways of burying that fact.

Posted by: 496 at April 07, 2023 06:51 PM (ELYbr)

120 I think the hundred dollar bill should be Senator Palpatine, personally.

Posted by: eleven at April 07, 2023 06:51 PM (t4fCu)

121 Lots of people would die if they had to bike to work here. 100 degree summers would thin the population in more ways than one.

Posted by: fd at April 07, 2023 06:52 PM (iayUP)

122 The CNN article says we now have a 35% chance of going into recession...

One wonders about the error bars on this estimate. I'd guess plus or minus 100.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 06:53 PM (eOEVl)

123 Office clothes, JC Penny's has a FBI tab in clothing.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at April 07, 2023 06:47 PM (+/MNd)

Garanimals are appropriate for all occasions. They are fully washable and stain resistant for those "extensive questioning" sessions when breaking into the wrong hotel room in the middle of the night for experience.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 07, 2023 06:54 PM (xhaym)

124 A lot of my neighbors have dogs, so I'll still eat good.
Posted by: Barry Soetoro at April 07, 2023 06:49 PM (v0R5T)

Read the comment, started to get angry. Saw the name, and realized y ah, that's probably true.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 07, 2023 06:54 PM (0j64U)

125 So....what you're saying is to buy tulip bulbs?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 06:36 PM (eOEVl)

If that happens I'm rich!! This winter's snow blanket caused all of them to grow. I have them in places I had no idea they were there. Can't take two steps in the yard without stepping on a bunch.

Gonna be an awesome spring bloom. If spring ever actually gets here. Might snow tonight.

Posted by: Reforger at April 07, 2023 06:54 PM (cxXyP)

126 10 A nation under judgment?
I am thinking yes.
Posted by: Jmel

Yep.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 07, 2023 06:54 PM (NsE9F)

127 The left has gotten the entire country to focus on Trump's completely legal hush money payoff of $130,000 so nobody notices that on Monday Leonardo DiCaprio testified to a Washington jury that a corrupt Malaysian businessman with ties to the CCP told him he planned to funnel between $20 and $30,000,000 to Obama and Democrats in the 2012 election through Pras Michel of the Fugees.

This is a real trial, with real federal prosecutors in a real federal court.

https://tinyurl.com/359xmna4

Seems like kind of a big story.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2023 06:41 PM

Old news.
Some people did some things.
Mistakes were made.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Time to move on.

Posted by: MSM at April 07, 2023 06:54 PM (a3Q+t)

128 Okay I'm calling Bravo Sierra on this story.

The artillery ammunition mfg is going to three shifts seven days a week. And they're building a second mfg plant. They can't produce enough for demand

And evidence is the scrap yards are actually PAYING for scrap iron for the first time in forever. They used to just take the stuff for free. That's a big signal.

Watch copper, bronze, aluminum prices go up too.

Hell a twelve pack of coke in cans is $7.50. it's the packaging. Operations are automated. Sugar is still cheap.

Posted by: torabora at April 07, 2023 06:55 PM (PDSxa)

129 This reality now reminds me of a game, 1/2 Life.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at April 07, 2023 06:55 PM (+/MNd)

130 Cantillion effect? You watch Uneducated Economist too? He does an excellent job of explaining it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 07, 2023 06:55 PM (u7leW)

131 My back of the envelope estimate is that the spending power of a dollar will be about halved during Biden's first (and probably only term).

Luckily I refinanced in early 2020 so I'm locked into a low interest rate and don't plan on moving anytime soon. So I'm partially protected.

Ace should probably also mention the upcoming flight from the dollar by foreign governments. Gamer over after that, trillions of dollars with nothing to do but swamp the American economy. Good times ahead.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 07, 2023 06:55 PM (cMXNt)

132 a recession is when you lose your job

a depression is when we admit that there's a recession

Posted by: MSM at April 07, 2023 06:55 PM (us2H3)

133 35% huh? What expert came up with that? More like a 35% chance they won't be able to hide it anymore.

Posted by: fd at April 07, 2023 06:56 PM (iayUP)

134 Uh-oh...cat just brought a baby bunny in the house. Looks like it's still alive...brb

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 07, 2023 06:56 PM (OX9vb)

135 Is anyone voting for Kamala when Joe gets decomissioned?

Posted by: tee hee Jimco Industries at April 07, 2023 06:57 PM (buTO7)

136 The only silver lining might be enough ppl get pissed off to demand heads. And get them.

A guy can dream.

Posted by: weew at April 07, 2023 06:58 PM (/uwTS)

137 What day does the Easter Bunny scare the crap out of Joe and order him around?

Posted by: Need Entertainment at April 07, 2023 06:59 PM (Nn3xT)

138 Of course.

https://tinyurl.com/4y567x6e

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 06:59 PM (eOEVl)

139 What day does the Easter Bunny scare the crap out of Joe and order him around?

Pfffft.

Posted by: Peter Fookin' Rabbit at April 07, 2023 07:00 PM (eOEVl)

140 >>Is anyone voting for Kamala when Joe gets decomissioned?
Posted by: tee hee Jimco Industries

Hell no, she sucks.

Posted by: Willie Brown at April 07, 2023 07:00 PM (HQ9Sl)

141 Another story re elections. Got to FEC search page and search for "unemployed" ACTBLU AND WINRED contributions.

Thousands of small 10 twenty contributions from same small number of people in a zip code.

Like they get up every day and kick ten bucks for what?

Posted by: torabora at April 07, 2023 07:00 PM (PDSxa)

142 Ace, OT, check out Polygon's glowing review of the new leftist violence movie "How to Blow Up a Pipeline".

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 07, 2023 07:01 PM (iKBwy)

143 Cantillion effect? You watch Uneducated Economist too? He does an excellent job of explaining it.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 07, 2023 06:55 PM (u7leW)

No. I listen to Austrian school economists, and they are big on Cantillon

Paul Meany did a posdcast on Cantillon for Cato's website if you are interested (18 min)

https://tinyurl.com/3pmjhamz

Posted by: Kindltot at April 07, 2023 07:01 PM (xhaym)

144 What markers does the left use to claim the Biden economy is great?

Posted by: That Northern skulker at April 07, 2023 07:02 PM (LAwW8)

145
The artillery ammunition mfg is going to three shifts seven days a week. And they're building a second mfg plant. They can't produce enough for demand

Posted by: torabora at April 07, 2023 06:55 PM (PDSxa)

I don't consider military weapons manufacturing to be a good sign for the economy.

It's basically like saying body bags and artificial limb manufacturing is a good sign.

Raytheon: We're making a killing!!

Posted by: BurtTC at April 07, 2023 07:02 PM (0j64U)

146 I mean, I have watched Uneducated Economist, but not regularly. Strange he should be out of Astoria. Probably not stranger than Alabama, but still.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 07, 2023 07:02 PM (xhaym)

147 Mongo just pawn in game of life.

Posted by: torabora at April 07, 2023 07:02 PM (PDSxa)

148 I feel like you all are Russian Bots spreading Disinformation.

It is a federal crime to lie about Biden.

He has more "million jobs created" months than any other Leader.

[Did that work? Checks Social Credit Score. Dang. Still rice and water only]

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 07, 2023 07:02 PM (5EnGD)

149 Ace, OT, check out Polygon's glowing review of the new leftist violence movie "How to Blow Up a Pipeline".

Alternate title: My life, by Kamala Harris

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 07:02 PM (eOEVl)

150 "Remind me, what happens to a country when they no longer have the world's reserve currency?"

There is a song "Yo cash ain't nothin' but trash".

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 07, 2023 07:03 PM (jTmQV)

151 There's a proposal in the TX legislature to create a digital currency backed by gold. Who would want to hold dollars if that were an option?

https://tinyurl.com/ye2xwvdj

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 07, 2023 07:03 PM (sWM8x)

152 What markers does the left use to claim the Biden economy is great?
Posted by: That Northern skulker at April 07, 2023 07:02 PM (LAwW

I'm assuming the unemployment rate is still low.

Nobody wants to work. And why should they.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 07, 2023 07:04 PM (0j64U)

153 Mortgage rates are already at 7% and climbing, and that is for people with near perfect credit scores.

6 years ago we got our mortgage at 3.25%.

Families are being priced out of the house buying market and that is going to cascade into other areas of the economy soon.

Posted by: Landru at April 07, 2023 07:04 PM (ncXxy)

154 141 Posted by: torabora at April 07, 2023 07:00 PM (PDSxa)

ActBlue is a donation laundry for the wealthy donk voters.

O'Keefe gets more done on investigation by lunch on day one than the "real" media gets done in a decade.

Posted by: sven at April 07, 2023 07:05 PM (Lzpvj)

155 "Don't Look Now, But The Greatest Economy In the History of the World Is About to Collapse"

Trump's fault of course.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 07, 2023 07:05 PM (NpAcC)

156 Families are being priced out of the house buying market and that is going to cascade into other areas of the economy soon.

Anti-government invective aside, what would you suggest for people living in the DC area?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 07:05 PM (eOEVl)

157 The impending economic doom will be Trumps fault. Much like Shitghanistan exit.

Posted by: Fool Otto at April 07, 2023 07:06 PM (DB16e)

158 Remember when we would get tired from all the winning?

Posted by: Evi L. Bloggerlady at April 07, 2023 07:06 PM (8yM+6)

159 O'Keefe gets more done on investigation by lunch on day one than the "real" media gets done in a decade.

One wonders what he got done with Hannah Giles? She seems to be a perfectly normal, married, young mom. Good for her.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 07:07 PM (eOEVl)

160 Ace should probably also mention the upcoming flight from the dollar by foreign governments. Gamer over after that, trillions of dollars with nothing to do but swamp the American economy. Good times ahead.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 07, 2023 06:55 PM (cMXNt)

Large part of why they need a CBDC. To control all those USDs.

But I am less pessimistic. I think the US economy is starved for USDs. The currency is locked away in banks etc etc etc. And I doubt we'll see a rush back. The infrastructure of the other "polar" currencies will have to be built out.

My real worry is the UST no longer being reserve asset. How does FED deal with that?

And phys gold looks to be the new reserve asset. I am opposite of a goldbug but it could go to +20,000.

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 07, 2023 07:07 PM (1ais2)

161 155 "Don't Look Now, But The Greatest Economy In the History of the World Is About to Collapse"

Trump's fault of course.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 07, 2023 07:05 PM (NpAcC)

Well, the guy supposedly running the show is damn good at filling his depends. So there's that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:07 PM (ynpvh)

162 If Joe finally tumbles down those airplane stairs will the market rise or fall.?

Posted by: That Northern skulker at April 07, 2023 07:07 PM (LAwW8)

163 CNN only cares about Black unemployment--since they might blame the Democrats for that in 2024.

Posted by: Evi L. Bloggerlady at April 07, 2023 07:07 PM (8yM+6)

164 I'll check out that podcast. Thanks! I like Uneducated Economist because he learned about these things on his own and managed to pull himself out of debt.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 07, 2023 07:07 PM (u7leW)

165
Mortgage rates are already at 7% and climbing, and that is for people with near perfect credit scores.

Mine was 11.25% for a 15 year loan in 1989.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 07, 2023 07:08 PM (63Dwl)

166 "What day does the Easter Bunny scare the crap out of Joe and order him around?

Pfffft.
Posted by: Peter Fookin' Rabbit"

Hide me!

Posted by: Not yet a zombie Jimmy Carter at April 07, 2023 07:08 PM (iayUP)

167 If Joe finally tumbles down those airplane stairs will the market rise or fall.?

Depends. What was the degree of difficulty of his descent?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 07:08 PM (eOEVl)

168 144 What markers does the left use to claim the Biden economy is great?
Posted by: That Northern skulker

Chicken entrails and a roaring fire.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 07, 2023 07:09 PM (NsE9F)

169 Anti-government invective aside, what would you suggest for people living in the DC area?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 07:05 PM (eOEVl)

You'll be fine. The District is at war with the whole world, but not itself. The std of living will be preserved if only to maintain morale of forces.

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 07, 2023 07:09 PM (1ais2)

170 Sundowner just spouts his own made up barometer numbers when he gives his glowing reports how well he is doing.

Posted by: Skip at April 07, 2023 07:09 PM (xhxe8)

171 167 If Joe finally tumbles down those airplane stairs will the market rise or fall.?

Depends. What was the degree of difficulty of his descent?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 07:08 PM (eOEVl)

He could always go overboard for the greatest effect.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:09 PM (ynpvh)

172 If Joe finally tumbles down those airplane stairs will the market rise or fall.?
Posted by: That Northern skulker

I thought it meant 6 more weeks of winter.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 07, 2023 07:10 PM (iE1nR)

173 I would remind the doom n' gloomers that our economy has seen worse. And they also had to deal with Woodie Guthrie.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 06:45 PM (eOEVl)

Hey, you know Joe inherited all this shit from Trump..just ask him.

Posted by: BignJames at April 07, 2023 07:10 PM (AwYPR)

174 168 144 What markers does the left use to claim the Biden economy is great?
Posted by: That Northern skulker

Chicken entrails and a roaring fire.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 07, 2023 07:09 PM (NsE9F)

51 Current and Former National Security experts.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:10 PM (ynpvh)

175
I'm assuming the unemployment rate is still low.

Nobody wants to work. And why should they.
Posted by: BurtTC

Nobody feels like working.
Panama Red is back in town.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 07, 2023 07:10 PM (63Dwl)

176 Mortgage rates are already at 7% and climbing, and that is for people with near perfect credit scores.

Mine was 11.25% for a 15 year loan in 1989.

Our second on our first house was 13%. I think a whole lot of millennials and Gen Zers are about to have a hard contact with reality.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 07:10 PM (eOEVl)

177 Well, I guess George Bush isn't a capitalist after all.

Quiet as a cadaver.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at April 07, 2023 07:10 PM (+/MNd)

178 176 Mortgage rates are already at 7% and climbing, and that is for people with near perfect credit scores.

Mine was 11.25% for a 15 year loan in 1989.

Our second on our first house was 13%. I think a whole lot of millennials and Gen Zers are about to have a hard contact with reality.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 07:10 PM (eOEVl)

late 70's/early 80's I remember 25%...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:11 PM (ynpvh)

179 "Depends. What was the degree of difficulty of his descent?

Posted by: Archimedes"

If he sticks the landing with his chin I'm giving it a "10".

Posted by: eleven at April 07, 2023 07:11 PM (t4fCu)

180 Economy. Sheconomy.

Posted by: Alvin and the Chipmunks at April 07, 2023 07:11 PM (FVME7)

181 And evidence is the scrap yards are actually PAYING for scrap iron for the first time in forever. They used to just take the stuff for free. That's a big signal.
Posted by: torabora at April 07, 2023 06:55 PM (PDSxa)

I get $60 a ton for scrap steel. Have a 40 yard dumpster to fill and fill it 3 or 4 times a year. It's enough to keep my department in donuts every Wednesday.

I haven't looked in a couple of months though. Might check on it Monday if the bin is full enough to send.

Posted by: Reforger at April 07, 2023 07:11 PM (cxXyP)

182 "Austrian Economics" is another of those things where the real version has never been tried...

I kid. I kid.... (not really)

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 07, 2023 07:11 PM (1ais2)

183 "New research reveals we were told a massive 50 year old lie about gas stoves!"
Linked on my weather page.

Posted by: Fool Otto at April 07, 2023 07:11 PM (DB16e)

184 One wonders what he got done with Hannah Giles? She seems to be a perfectly normal, married, young mom. Good for her.
Posted by: Archimedes

Think that O'Keefe doesn't swing that way. Giles at last report was married living in TX but taken off the field by her subsequent Texas legislature undercover videos and lawsuits from that. Showed several GOP and Dem members of the Texas legislature at the time as corrupt POS and sex predators.

Posted by: whig at April 07, 2023 07:12 PM (bVz3B)

185 If they can just print money why pay taxes?

Posted by: Just Wondering at April 07, 2023 07:12 PM (DhOHl)

186 showed unemployment could jump to 4.5%, representing another 1.5 million job losses, by the end of the year.

While that's a small improvement from the central bank's previous 4.6% jobless rate estimate,

Heh.
The government will claim a buge.success by saying its 4.4% but reality it will be 8.8%.
Lying bastards.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 07, 2023 07:12 PM (anj39)

187 In the soon to arrive Marxist-induced economic Depression 'disadvantaged' people will be awarded double the amount of SNAP benefits due to historical imperatives.

And votes.
The Marxists do love them some publicly funded and purchased votes.

Posted by: Voter theater. at April 07, 2023 07:12 PM (pJMW1)

188 Why don't they build an escalator for Air Force One?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 07, 2023 07:13 PM (63Dwl)

189 Nobody wants to work. And why should they.
Posted by: BurtTC

Nobody feels like working.
Panama Red is back in town.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

In the sweet old country
Where I come from
Nobody ever works
Nothing ever gets done
We hang fire, we hang fire

Posted by: Alvin and the Chipmunks at April 07, 2023 07:13 PM (FVME7)

190 186 showed unemployment could jump to 4.5%, representing another 1.5 million job losses, by the end of the year.

While that's a small improvement from the central bank's previous 4.6% jobless rate estimate,

Heh.
The government will claim a buge.success by saying its 4.4% but reality it will be 8.8%.
Lying bastards.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 07, 2023 07:12 PM (anj39)

Unemployment will drop from 4% to 5%.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:13 PM (ynpvh)

191 "Moreover, they say that historically disadvantaged groups could be disproportionately affected by the central bank's stringent monetary policy."

And yet, the easy money policies of the past 20-25 years have created so much income inequality that historically disadvantaged groups have been negatively affected.

Posted by: Jim at April 07, 2023 07:13 PM (P+wMm)

192 Why don't they build an escalator for Air Force One?

Or a trebuchet?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 07:14 PM (eOEVl)

193 Reparation Nation

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 07, 2023 07:14 PM (63Dwl)

194 185 If they can just print money why pay taxes?
Posted by: Just Wondering at April 07, 2023 07:12 PM (DhOHl)

Because the big donors and CEOs think you are a money hog and should be punished.

That's it. Nothing more.

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 07, 2023 07:14 PM (1ais2)

195
This destruction is all intentional.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 07, 2023 07:14 PM (dtlw7)

196 The WH Easter Egg Roll is this Monday.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 07, 2023 07:14 PM (NpAcC)

197 191 "Moreover, they say that historically disadvantaged groups could be disproportionately affected by the central bank's stringent monetary policy."

And yet, the easy money policies of the past 20-25 years have created so much income inequality that historically disadvantaged groups have been negatively affected.

Posted by: Jim at April 07, 2023 07:13 PM (P+wMm)

Almost like they don't realize the printing a few megashittons of cash has an effect on inflation.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:14 PM (ynpvh)

198 What day does the Easter Bunny scare the crap out of Joe and order him around?
Posted by: Need Entertainment at April 07, 2023 06:59 PM (Nn3xT)

Frank the Rabbit scares everyone.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 07, 2023 07:15 PM (xhaym)

199 192 LoL

Posted by: Skip at April 07, 2023 07:15 PM (xhxe8)

200 Well, thank goodness I don't have to lay awake at night worrying that Ukrainian bureaucrats' pensions aren't fully funded!

Posted by: Alvin and the Chipmunks at April 07, 2023 07:15 PM (FVME7)

201 196 The WH Easter Egg Roll is this Monday.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 07, 2023 07:14 PM (NpAcC)

I'd rather see some heads roll.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:15 PM (ynpvh)

202 Why don't they build an escalator for Air Force One?

Or a trebuchet?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 07:14 PM (eOEVl)
A slingshot. Oops missed by that much.

Posted by: That Northern skulker at April 07, 2023 07:15 PM (LAwW8)

203 The local radio news anchor--in a 70-80% Republican area, no less--only reports economic news when it seems to favor Biden: and in a folksy Southern drawl to distract people. "Good news, friends! The rate of inflation has edged down a tad bit from last month, so this here economy may be getting back on track."

People will never wake up.
Posted by: Dr. T at April 07, 2023 06:24 PM (tp+tP)

Time for pirate radio stations to start popping up.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 07, 2023 07:15 PM (anj39)

204 late 70's/early 80's I remember 25%...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
----------
But, the converse is that housing prices will come down because of it--if no one can afford your product then you have to lower the price to where someone can.

Blackrock's REIT was not allowing withdrawals the last time I checked--commercial real estate was already under pressure from online businesses, if housing prices stall before falling as they normally do from high rates, then you will probably see a major contraction soon in the economy.

Posted by: whig at April 07, 2023 07:15 PM (bVz3B)

205 >>Why don't they build an escalator for Air Force One?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

It would be embarrassing when Biden got his zipper tangled in it.

Posted by: Aviator at April 07, 2023 07:15 PM (HQ9Sl)

206 Time for pirate radio stations to start popping up.
Posted by: Diogenes
-0------
Internet radio is a thing.

Posted by: whig at April 07, 2023 07:16 PM (bVz3B)

207 How does the impending collapse of the dollar usher in digital currency and eventually The Mark?
Grammie? Fen?

Posted by: Jmel at April 07, 2023 07:16 PM (bVhJi)

208 No reason in world a roll up elevator couldn't be made, but hopefully not before Sundowner goes down the steps head over ass someday.

Posted by: Skip at April 07, 2023 07:16 PM (xhxe8)

209 205 >>Why don't they build an escalator for Air Force One?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

It would be embarrassing when Biden got his zipper tangled in it.

Posted by: Aviator at April 07, 2023 07:15 PM (HQ9Sl)

What Ace posted: pic.twitter.com/klr5phAys0

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:16 PM (ynpvh)

210 Frank the Rabbit scares everyone.

Why are you wearing that human suit?

Posted by: Frank, son of Frank, whose father was also Frank at April 07, 2023 07:17 PM (KFhLj)

211 Unemployment will drop from 4% to 5%.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:13 PM (ynpvh)

OMG!!!
Brilliant!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 07, 2023 07:17 PM (anj39)

212 The WH Easter Egg Roll is this Monday.
Posted by: redridinghood

Heard they're rolling potatoes.
I wonder if the big white rabbit is going to show again.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 07, 2023 07:17 PM (nW4F6)

213 It would be embarrassing when Biden got his zipper tangled in it.
Posted by: Aviator at April 07,

And there's that tricky bit when you step off.

Posted by: That Northern skulker at April 07, 2023 07:17 PM (LAwW8)

214 Be gone, corrupt NY DA sock!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 07, 2023 07:17 PM (FVME7)

215 This destruction is all intentional.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 07, 2023 07:14 PM (dtlw7)

It's the green nude eel....they call it "the inflation reduction act".

Posted by: BignJames at April 07, 2023 07:17 PM (AwYPR)

216 207 How does the impending collapse of the dollar usher in digital currency and eventually The Mark?
Grammie? Fen?

Posted by: Jmel at April 07, 2023 07:16 PM (bVhJi)

I suggest they call it the dingleberry, in honor of Joe's Depends.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:18 PM (ynpvh)

217 "Time for pirate radio stations to start popping up.
Posted by: Diogenes"

WARG. All shanties, all the time.

Posted by: WARG at April 07, 2023 07:18 PM (iayUP)

218 Why not just have Easter Egg roll in June, or July rather than a day Late.

Posted by: Skip at April 07, 2023 07:18 PM (xhxe8)

219 I wonder if the big white rabbit is going to show again.

Remember, what the doormouse said!

Posted by: Grace Slick at April 07, 2023 07:18 PM (eOEVl)

220

208 No reason in world a roll up elevator couldn't be made, but hopefully not before Sundowner goes down the steps head over ass someday.
Posted by: Skip at April 07, 2023 07:16 PM (xhxe

-----

Install one of those geezer chair lifts that rides up and down the bannister.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 07, 2023 07:18 PM (dtlw7)

221 Why don't they build an escalator for Air Force One?

Or a trebuchet?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 07:14 PM (eOEVl)
A slingshot. Oops missed by that much.
Posted by: That Northern skulker at April 07, 2023 07:15 PM (LAwW

Or a hatch for the escape module...!
*wink...wink*

Posted by: Diogenes at April 07, 2023 07:19 PM (anj39)

222 Install one of those geezer chair lifts that rides up and down the bannister.

I'd settle for Carousel.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 07:19 PM (eOEVl)

223 Will Joe get lost on the WH lawn?

Posted by: That Northern skulker at April 07, 2023 07:19 PM (LAwW8)

224 "Austrian Economics" is another of those things where the real version has never been tried...
I kid. I kid.... (not really)
Posted by: Thesokorus at April 07, 2023 07:11 PM (1ais2)

It isn't really predictive or prescriptive like Keynesian, it mostly studies how people make decisions. The University of Francisco Marroquin has a group of economists who claimed to have been trying to use the principles on predicting the future, but I haven't heard about them for a while, meaning they either lost interest, or are now living in absolute secluded luxury from getting everything right.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 07, 2023 07:19 PM (xhaym)

225 Someone with skills should transpose bribem's face on the guy sliding down the escalator.

Posted by: Bosk at April 07, 2023 07:20 PM (VMFAF)

226 215 This destruction is all intentional.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 07, 2023 07:14 PM (dtlw7)

It's the green nude eel....they call it "the inflation reduction act".

Posted by: BignJames at April 07, 2023 07:17 PM (AwYPR)

Which resulted in massive printing of money which causes inflation. Congressional bills are all Pravda.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:20 PM (ynpvh)

227 Just make AF1 a lowrider, so he can step right off the plane.

Posted by: Mexican-American League for the Future at April 07, 2023 07:20 PM (KFhLj)

228 BREAKING: Travis County Jury Finds Texas Soldier Guilty of MURDER For Shooting Armed BLM-Antifa Protester in Self Defense During 2020 Riots

https://tinyurl.com/y7rkb2fu

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at April 07, 2023 07:20 PM (tWJ78)

229 The worse the better.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 07, 2023 07:20 PM (yQpMk)

230 Install one of those geezer chair lifts that rides up and down the bannister.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 07, 2023 07:18 PM (dtlw7)

Friend of mine installs those things. They call them Granny Killas.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 07, 2023 07:21 PM (anj39)

231 Why doesn't Joe have one of those old guy scooters?

Posted by: That Northern skulker at April 07, 2023 07:21 PM (LAwW8)

232 That SOB Trump !!!!! He screwed up the Afghanstan Withdrawel and now the Economy !!!!!!!!!! We are lucky to have Blo Jiden as out POTUS so that we can End Global Climate Change at least !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at April 07, 2023 07:21 PM (/Qz4j)

233 219 I wonder if the big white rabbit is going to show again.

Remember, what the doormouse said!

Posted by: Grace Slick at April 07, 2023 07:18 PM (eOEVl)

Obligatory

https://youtu.be/tVzwIdKoYso

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 07, 2023 07:21 PM (1ais2)

234 How about a chair that lowers from the belly of AF1 on cables like in a Bruce Lee movie?

Posted by: WARG at April 07, 2023 07:22 PM (iayUP)

235 196 The WH Easter Egg Roll is this Monday.
Posted by: redridinghood

Ah, where Joe Biden can commune with his Spirit Animal, Skippy the Giant White Rabbit.

https://youtu.be/pnJM_jC7j_4

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 07, 2023 07:22 PM (NsE9F)

236 Why don't they build an escalator for Air Force One?
---
There's a design for an elevator for AF1. I think no one wants to use it because they'd forgo the supposedly great optics of the president on the stairs.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 07, 2023 07:22 PM (sWM8x)

237 puppy market seems strong here

french bulldog pups

3K

Posted by: REDACTED at April 07, 2023 07:22 PM (us2H3)

238 228 BREAKING: Travis County Jury Finds Texas Soldier Guilty of MURDER For Shooting Armed BLM-Antifa Protester in Self Defense During 2020 Riots

https://tinyurl.com/y7rkb2fu

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at April 07, 2023 07:20 PM (tWJ7

Travis County. Need more be said?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:23 PM (ynpvh)

239 {i]The WH Easter Egg Roll is this Monday.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 07, 2023 07:14 PM (NpAcC)

In a recent article, Ann Coulter asks, "what is easier to roll than an Easter Egg"

In truth, the answer is "Ann Coulter by any neocon celebrity who can buy her a drink"

Posted by: Kindltot at April 07, 2023 07:23 PM (xhaym)

240 How about a chair that lowers from the belly of AF1 on cables like in a Bruce Lee movie?
Posted by: WARG at April 07, 2023

How about rapelling?

Posted by: That Northern skulker at April 07, 2023 07:23 PM (LAwW8)

241 Strange that nobody is concerned with over 7 million men just dropping out of the workforce. The why and how did this happen? How do we reverse it?
Maybe because men built and maintained civilization to get laid and have a children... now that we have been told we aren't needed and get laughed at about how we are slaves and toys for women and women are the ones who built civilization. Maybe it's the disrespect of men and insufferable nature of modern women.

Posted by: Out of the Loop at April 07, 2023 07:23 PM (zpt1t)

242 french bulldog pups

3K
Posted by: REDACTED at April 07, 2023 07:22 PM (us2H3)

!!

Posted by: BignJames at April 07, 2023 07:23 PM (AwYPR)

243 233 219 I wonder if the big white rabbit is going to show again.

Remember, what the doormouse said!

Posted by: Grace Slick at April 07, 2023 07:18 PM (eOEVl)

Obligatory

https://youtu.be/tVzwIdKoYso

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 07, 2023 07:21 PM (1ais2)

I like Jefferson Airplane's version.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:24 PM (ynpvh)

244 BREAKING: Travis County Jury Finds Texas Soldier Guilty of MURDER For Shooting Armed BLM-Antifa Protester in Self Defense During 2020 Riots

https://tinyurl.com/y7rkb2fu
Posted by: SMH

All is proceeding according to plan.

Posted by: Satan aka Lucifer at April 07, 2023 07:24 PM (FVME7)

245 @182

>>"Austrian Economics" is another of those things where the real version has never been tried...

How dare you sir, I did my bit to beat back this sh*t, even made a rap video with Keynes.

--
FA Hayak, The OG Economist.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 07, 2023 07:24 PM (up/3i)

246 Blackrock's REIT was not allowing withdrawals the last time I checked--commercial real estate was already under pressure from online businesses, if housing prices stall before falling as they normally do from high rates, then you will probably see a major contraction soon in the economy.
Posted by: whig at April 07, 2023 07:15 PM (bVz3B)

Black Rock is supposedly using the properties it has bought up as a safe haven for his money and to back its debts.
The Sinaloa Cartel supposedly is using properties as a sort of way to transmit bribes and launder money.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 07, 2023 07:25 PM (xhaym)

247 Today President Biden raised the Social Sercurity Retirement age to 90. President Biden said that Trump is responsible and that we must lower our calories per day to 500 or else we will run out of food before you hit retirement age .

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at April 07, 2023 07:25 PM (/Qz4j)

248 247 Today President Biden raised the Social Sercurity Retirement age to 90. President Biden said that Trump is responsible and that we must lower our calories per day to 500 or else we will run out of food before you hit retirement age .

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at April 07, 2023 07:25 PM (/Qz4j)

Vox: "Why bark and grass soup is GOOD for you!"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:26 PM (ynpvh)

249 There is no economist with better boobs than Hauek

Posted by: That Northern skulker at April 07, 2023 07:26 PM (LAwW8)

250 WHITE Rabbit?!!!

RACIST!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 07, 2023 07:26 PM (FVME7)

251 While Gov. Newsom is out among the red states lecturing you on how you stinking deplorables got it all wrong, his ports in So. Cal. are all but shut down due to a "labor shortage" aka union sick-out.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 07, 2023 07:27 PM (jTmQV)

252 Biden wants to take us to the 2030's

Posted by: REDACTED at April 07, 2023 07:27 PM (us2H3)

253 puppy market seems strong here

french bulldog pups

3K
Posted by: REDACTED

Breeding dogs was once a hobby for adults and families to just break even and bring joy to others to now a money making side hustle first and foremost.
And the poors are left with Shitbulls and shitbull mutts left at the pound.

Posted by: Out of the Loop at April 07, 2023 07:27 PM (zpt1t)

254 A logger working farms in the area came by a second time today, telling me timber prices will never be higher. The first time he looked at one old walnut tree and said that would go for $1000 (he sells to some foreign buyer).

I told him about the currency and BRICS, and that a weak dollar makes these physical assets potentially worth more that USD (paper). Of course trees have a "shelf life", but I have a little sawmill, will save them for myself.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 07, 2023 07:27 PM (Cus5s)

255 FA Hayak, The OG Economist.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 07, 2023 07:24 PM (up/3i)

Friederich List and Peter Navarro.

And Warren Mosler on currency.

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 07, 2023 07:27 PM (1ais2)

256 249 There is no economist with better boobs than Hayek

Posted by: That Northern skulker at April 07, 2023 07:26 PM (LAwW

Salma's a different kind of economic model.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:27 PM (ynpvh)

257
247 Today President Biden raised the Social Sercurity Retirement age to 90. President Biden said that Trump is responsible and that we must lower our calories per day to 500 or else we will run out of food before you hit retirement age .

Looking forward to that increase to 400 cals!

Posted by: Auspex at April 07, 2023 07:28 PM (j4U/Z)

258 A lot of my neighbors have dogs, so I'll still eat good.
Posted by: Barry Soetoro at April 07, 2023 06:49 PM (v0R5T)

Read the comment, started to get angry. Saw the name, and realized y ah, that's probably true.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 07, 2023 06:54 PM (0j64U)

I'd eat my neighbor's dog if it came down to that.

And I'd guess my neighbors better be happy about it. Cuz if I'm at the point where i'm eating dog to feed my family...they're next on the menu.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 07, 2023 07:28 PM (mm6iK)

259 People will never wake up.
Posted by: Dr. T at April 07, 2023 06:24 PM (tp+tP)

Time for pirate radio stations to start popping up.
Posted by: Diogenes

I don't know why, but this reminded me of so eth8ng I heard when I was a kid in Louisiana. Don't know if true, but damn 8t should be.

Farmer clearing a slow moving large stream of an alligator infestation that was eating his cows. EPA dude comes on his property and begins writing citations for fines and other bs. Farmer, forces EPAinto the water at gunpoint, says "you'll either give me official written governmentpermission to eradicate this 'gator, or you'll be his next meal".

Famer won, but he made the EPA stay in the water until they spotted the gator coming at them, then he shot the gator to 'save their lives'.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 07, 2023 07:29 PM (3CCua)

260 I like Jefferson Airplane's version.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:24 PM (ynpvh)

Nah man. But Deadbolt makes me smile

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 07, 2023 07:29 PM (1ais2)

261 How does the impending collapse of the dollar usher in digital currency and eventually The Mark?
Grammie? Fen?
Posted by: Jmel at April 07, 2023 07:16 PM (bVhJi)

Look to Brazil and Argentina. Hyperinflationary currencies generally get reset by the central bank, by rubbing off some zeros or by buybacks in the new currency.
In a CBDC they would compel purchase of the new CBDC and give a haircut or a bonus for use for the first however long.
The dollar collapse would be a pretext and be used "out of fairness"

Posted by: Kindltot at April 07, 2023 07:29 PM (xhaym)

262 Escalator idiot might have only two choices left, trannie or eunuch.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 07, 2023 07:30 PM (Cus5s)

263 258 A lot of my neighbors have dogs, so I'll still eat good.
Posted by: Barry Soetoro at April 07, 2023 06:49 PM (v0R5T)

Read the comment, started to get angry. Saw the name, and realized y ah, that's probably true.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 07, 2023 06:54 PM (0j64U)

I'd eat my neighbor's dog if it came down to that.

And I'd guess my neighbors better be happy about it. Cuz if I'm at the point where i'm eating dog to feed my family...they're next on the menu.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 07, 2023 07:28 PM (mm6iK)

https://is.gd/bfF2mC

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:30 PM (ynpvh)

264 Back in the Nixon, Ford, Carter days, I remember Wall Street Journal experts insisting that 5% unemployment was full employment and that a lower unemployment rate was “impossible.” Same experts insisted that western economies would collapse if oil ever reached $50 a barrel.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at April 07, 2023 07:30 PM (9X60i)

265
French Bulldog pups taste like foie gras!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 07, 2023 07:30 PM (mm6iK)

266 254 A logger working farms in the area came by a second time today, telling me timber prices will never be higher. The first time he looked at one old walnut tree and said that would go for $1000 (he sells to some foreign buyer).

I told him about the currency and BRICS, and that a weak dollar makes these physical assets potentially worth more that USD (paper). Of course trees have a "shelf life", but I have a little sawmill, will save them for myself.
Posted by: illiniwek
-------
I would call that a smart decision. Walnut is a particularly choice wood and will retain its value over time better than the USD paper will. We are in a conserve your wealth era, not multiply it.

Posted by: whig at April 07, 2023 07:30 PM (bVz3B)

267 Why not just have Easter Egg roll in June, or July rather than a day Late.
Posted by: Skip at April 07, 2023 07:18 PM (xhxe

YOU CAN'T SCHEDULE AN EASTER CELEBRATION ON SUNDAY!!!!

Posted by: White House Protocol Director at April 07, 2023 07:31 PM (xhaym)

268 NYC will be fine. They've got more cockroaches than they can eat!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 07, 2023 07:31 PM (FVME7)

269 Black Rock is supposedly using the properties it has bought up as a safe haven for his money and to back its debts.

The Sinaloa Cartel supposedly is using properties as a sort of way to transmit bribes and launder money.
Posted by: Kindltot
----------
Resets in all sorts of ways happen under rectification.

Posted by: whig at April 07, 2023 07:31 PM (bVz3B)

270 Politico: Appeals court ruling puts hundreds of Jan. 6 felony cases in limbo

Hot or not?

https://tinyurl.com/27rh26rm

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 07, 2023 07:32 PM (LCgpa)

271 I hate to say, but our culture needs a really bad, economic recession/depression to snap it out of its stupor.

Posted by: Blago at April 07, 2023 07:32 PM (cOFom)

272 265
French Bulldog pups taste like foie gras!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 07, 2023 07:30 PM (mm6iK)

Real immitation, fresh-frozen, jumbo shrimp.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:32 PM (ynpvh)

273 268 NYC will be fine. They've got more cockroaches than they can eat!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 07, 2023 07:31 PM (FVME7)

Tell 'em it's exotic Palmetto meat from Florida.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:33 PM (ynpvh)

274
Why doesn't Joe have one of those old guy scooters?
Posted by: That Northern skulker

Hoveround

https://youtu.be/_hjoh_NrDJY

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 07, 2023 07:34 PM (63Dwl)

275 Blackrock's REIT was not allowing withdrawals the last time I checked--commercial real estate was already under pressure from online businesses, if housing prices stall before falling as they normally do from high rates, then you will probably see a major contraction soon in the economy.

Posted by: whig at April 07, 2023 07:15 PM

The housing market around here has crashed. It seemed to be literally overnight that things changed. One month and houses were selling in 2-3 days for $100,000 over the appraised value and the next month you couldn't sell a house no matter what price you listed it for.

We have a house in our neighborhood that was bought by a couple in 2016 for $69,000. Older house that needed a bunch of work. They bought the house and worked on it bit by bit over six years. They put a little over $30,000 into fixing that house. They listed it for $199,000 in March of last year, had an offer in two days and sold the house for cash. The people bought the house put more $$$$ into it and listed it in January this year for $225,000. They just pulled it off the market, didn't have a single showing.

Posted by: Landru at April 07, 2023 07:34 PM (ncXxy)

276 241 Strange that nobody is concerned with over 7 million men just dropping out of the workforce. The why and how did this happen? How do we reverse it?
Maybe because men built and maintained civilization to get laid and have a children... now that we have been told we aren't needed and get laughed at about how we are slaves and toys for women and women are the ones who built civilization. Maybe it's the disrespect of men and insufferable nature of modern women.
Posted by: Out of the Loop
----------
My guess is that you have a burgeoning underground economy where these guys are working for cash gigs--some legal, some illegal.

Posted by: whig at April 07, 2023 07:34 PM (bVz3B)

277 "I hate to say, but our culture needs a really bad, economic recession/depression to start the burning times."

Fify

Posted by: WARG at April 07, 2023 07:35 PM (iayUP)

278 270 Politico: Appeals court ruling puts hundreds of Jan. 6 felony cases in limbo

Hot or not?

https://tinyurl.com/27rh26rm

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 07, 2023 07:32 PM (LCgpa)

But the Gov't was acting with corrupt intent...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:35 PM (ynpvh)

279 Mexicasian. General Tso's Chihuahua.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 07, 2023 07:35 PM (FVME7)

280 "Same experts insisted that western economies would collapse if oil ever reached $50 a barrel."

$50 is $342 in 2008, and $486 in 2023. In 2008 (iirc, or maybe it was 2001 when the big spike came?) they said $100 oil would be the "tipping point" and were mostly correct. Now it might be $130 or so, idk.

Cheaper energy good for the little guy. Good for the economy. The globalists trying to destroy us want energy sky high, the proles must be kept in their huts.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 07, 2023 07:35 PM (Cus5s)

281 We have a house in our neighborhood that was bought by a couple in 2016 for $69,000. Older house that needed a bunch of work. They bought the house and worked on it bit by bit over six years. They put a little over $30,000 into fixing that house. They listed it for $199,000 in March of last year, had an offer in two days and sold the house for cash. The people bought the house put more $$$$ into it and listed it in January this year for $225,000. They just pulled it off the market, didn't have a single showing.
Posted by: Landru
-------
A quick tell is what a comparable house would rent for. If your mortgage payment plus taxes/insurance is higher than the rent, then your house is overpriced and vice versa.

Posted by: whig at April 07, 2023 07:36 PM (bVz3B)

282 279 Mexicasian. General Tso's Chihuahua.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 07, 2023 07:35 PM (FVME7)

Different wherever you get it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:36 PM (ynpvh)

283 Bichons are the most difficult dog to housebreak

it's not because they are stupid, although they aint the sharpest tool in the drawer

it's because they are extremely willful and have less capacity for pleasing their owners

and they are almost impossible to groom

and are picky eaters

other than than that, they're great

Posted by: REDACTED at April 07, 2023 07:36 PM (us2H3)

284 Is AOSHQ now turning into ZeroHedge with all of this Doom Pr0n? Next thing we will be blaming small hates and joggers for everything that goes wrong.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 07, 2023 07:37 PM (YXHzG)

285 Well that’s just freaking fabulous.

Where did the men go? Maybe ask why HR isn’t hiring them. I doubt in a post-BLM riot world that older white men are in demand. The rest likely retired early

Posted by: Lizzy at April 07, 2023 07:37 PM (spSfc)

286 Don't Look Now, But The Greatest Economy In the History of the World Is About to Collapse
.......

Go long on pesos.

Posted by: wth at April 07, 2023 07:38 PM (v0R5T)

287 285 Well that’s just freaking fabulous.

Where did the men go? Maybe ask why HR isn’t hiring them. I doubt in a post-BLM riot world that older white men are in demand. The rest likely retired early

Posted by: Lizzy at April 07, 2023 07:37 PM (spSfc)

I'm checking my "Field Guide to Edible Insects"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:38 PM (ynpvh)

288 278 270 Politico: Appeals court ruling puts hundreds of Jan. 6 felony cases in limbo

Hot or not?

https://tinyurl.com/27rh26rm

Posted by: Lost in Space
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First steps toward a lot of these convictions being junked. The general rule is that criminal laws must be strictly construed and creative interpretation does not cut it at the appellate level. Basically the DC district court judges have rotted in their legal thinking by rolling over for the corrupt DOJ in a lot of cases over the years.

Posted by: whig at April 07, 2023 07:39 PM (bVz3B)

289 Strange that nobody is concerned with over 7 million men just dropping out of the workforce. The why and how did this happen? How do we reverse it?
Maybe because men built and maintained civilization to get laid and have a children... now that we have been told we aren't needed and get laughed at about how we are slaves and toys for women and women are the ones who built civilization. Maybe it's the disrespect of men and insufferable nature of modern women.
Posted by: Out of the Loop

Drugs. With biden's open border drug sales are skyrocketing. Somebody has to push and sell that fentanyl that is pouring over the southern border.

Posted by: Landru at April 07, 2023 07:39 PM (ncXxy)

290 Is AOSHQ now turning into ZeroHedge with all of this Doom Pr0n? Next thing we will be blaming small hates and joggers for everything that goes wrong.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 07, 2023 07:37 PM (YXHzG)

I think I have enough hair combed out of my cats to make one of those cute felt hotel porter hats.

. . . Or should we go back to doom?

Posted by: Kindltot at April 07, 2023 07:39 PM (xhaym)

291 >> Is AOSHQ now turning into ZeroHedge with all of this Doom Pr0n? Next thing we will be blaming small hates and joggers for everything that goes wrong.

Turning into? We used to have an entire thread titled DOOM! that was very popular.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2023 07:39 PM (ZLI7S)

292 Bannon has been saying the commercial real estate market is also crashing, and many of those loans of to private companies, from small to middle sized banks. Those are the ones not guaranteed beyond the $250K mark. That is just for the billionaire hedge fund gamblers, whom the commoner must subsidize and underwrite.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 07, 2023 07:40 PM (Cus5s)

293 Clearing baffles.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 07, 2023 07:40 PM (ncXxy)

294 Where did the men go? Maybe ask why HR isn’t hiring them. I doubt in a post-BLM riot world that older white men are in demand. The rest likely retired early
Posted by: Lizzy at April 07, 2023 07:37 PM (spSfc)
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I'm an older retired white guy who works part time, from home, doing IT support work. There are also a bunch of older white guys working Lowes, Home Depot, etc.

That's where we've gone. Or, we've built garage businesses which supplement our income.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at April 07, 2023 07:41 PM (2YtOq)

295 Moving the capital of our government every 5 years would solve a lot of problems

Posted by: REDACTED at April 07, 2023 07:41 PM (us2H3)

296 Go long on pesos.
Posted by: wth at April 07, 2023 07:38 PM (v0R5T)

Depends on what the current Colombian president is doing, but until 2020 the Colombian Peso was considered one of the strongest in the region. It is a strange world where the Colombian Peso and the Paraguayan Guarani were considered the most stable coins in that continent.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 07, 2023 07:41 PM (xhaym)

297 Turning into? We used to have an entire thread titled DOOM! that was very popular.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2023 07:39 PM (ZLI7S)

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Monty's thread of Doom?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at April 07, 2023 07:42 PM (2YtOq)

298 "Clearing baffles.
Posted by: Mister Scott&

Metamucil?

Posted by: fd at April 07, 2023 07:42 PM (iayUP)

299 And I'd guess my neighbors better be happy about it. Cuz if I'm at the point where i'm eating dog to feed my family...they're next on the menu.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 07, 2023 07:28 PM (mm6iK)

We're gonna need a bigger pot.

Posted by: Pygmy Cannibals at April 07, 2023 07:42 PM (v0R5T)

300 I wonder if the big white rabbit is going to show again. Remember, what the doormouse said! Posted by: Grace Slick

Obligatory
https://youtu.be/tVzwIdKoYso
Posted by: Thesokorus

I like Jefferson Airplane's version.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Molly Tuttle Version - hot or not?
https://tinyurl.com/yc5a4dak

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 07, 2023 07:42 PM (LCgpa)

301 Where did the men go? Maybe ask why HR isn’t hiring them. I doubt in a post-BLM riot world that older white men are in demand. The rest likely retired early
Posted by: Lizzy at April 07, 2023 07:37 PM (spSfc)
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I'm an older retired white guy who works part time, from home, doing IT support work. There are also a bunch of older white guys working Lowes, Home Depot, etc.

That's where we've gone. Or, we've built garage businesses which supplement our income.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at April 07, 2023 07:41 PM

They adjust the numbers to take us old (over 65) guys out of the labor participation rate numbers.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 07, 2023 07:42 PM (ncXxy)

302 Incinerating the capital of our government every 5 years would solve a lot of problems
Posted by: REDACTED at April 07, 2023 07:41 PM (us2H3)
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Edited for accuracy.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at April 07, 2023 07:42 PM (2YtOq)

303 Commercial real estate?
You could fire a mini gun in most downtown financial districts and not hit anyone...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 07, 2023 07:43 PM (jTmQV)

304 290 Is AOSHQ now turning into ZeroHedge with all of this Doom Pr0n? Next thing we will be blaming small hates and joggers for everything that goes wrong.
Posted by: Reuben Hick
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Economically, we have been the best house in a downward spiraling neighborhood. Under Joe Jellobrain, we have become the house in the neighborhood with the porch sagging under a beat up old couch, the occupants selling drugs and ass to make ends meet, and broken e cars in the front yard leaking battery acid.

But fear not, Trump sees a fixer upper opportunity and DeSantis wants to raze the building and start anew.

Posted by: whig at April 07, 2023 07:43 PM (bVz3B)

305
But the Gov't was acting with corrupt intent...

Oh Aqualung

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 07, 2023 07:43 PM (63Dwl)

306 This DOOM thread is making me rise faster than interest rates.

Posted by: Draki at April 07, 2023 07:43 PM (h4QKj)

307 Bannon has been saying the commercial real estate market is also crashing, and many of those loans of to private companies, from small to middle sized banks. Those are the ones not guaranteed beyond the $250K mark. That is just for the billionaire hedge fund gamblers, whom the commoner must subsidize and underwrite.
Posted by: illiniwek at April 07, 2023 07:40 PM (Cus5s)

I am not surpirsed, the commercial real estate market was considered overpriced and under utilized for quite a long time, and the only thing keeping it going was near zero interest loans.
Covid, Biden, and interest hikes are making all those places impossible to fill and spendy to maintain empty.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 07, 2023 07:43 PM (xhaym)

308 If you wait too long, your neighbors will be too skinny to eat. Best to eat them first.

Posted by: fd at April 07, 2023 07:44 PM (iayUP)

309 >>Monty's thread of Doom?

Yep.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2023 07:44 PM (ZLI7S)

310 303 Commercial real estate?
You could fire a mini gun in most downtown financial districts and not hit anyone...
Posted by: gourmand du jour

And malls, and strip malls, etc. In a bad recession, a lot of small service based jobs are going to go by the wayside--masseuse, nail salons, etc.

Go long on pawnbrokers and payday lenders.

Posted by: whig at April 07, 2023 07:44 PM (bVz3B)

311 But fear not, Trump sees a fixer upper opportunity and DeSantis wants to raze the building and start anew.
Posted by: whig at April 07, 2023 07:43 PM (bVz3B)
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I think razing and rebuilding is better, because that way one gets rid of all the vermin.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at April 07, 2023 07:44 PM (2YtOq)

312 >> Is AOSHQ now turning into ZeroHedge with all of this Doom Pr0n? Next thing we will be blaming small hates and joggers for everything that goes wrong.
.......

I blame vegans and trannies.

Posted by: wth at April 07, 2023 07:44 PM (v0R5T)

313 Is AOSHQ now turning into ZeroHedge with all of this Doom Pr0n?

Take heart. You're just in time for the beginning of the "happy, fun" HQ weekend. Leave your troubles all behind.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 07, 2023 07:44 PM (Xrfse)

314 I imagine that the RE market today is a lot like the RE market of the late 70's, early 80's

If you can find a distressed property and have the cash to buy it outright, a good deal can problaby be had

Posted by: REDACTED at April 07, 2023 07:45 PM (us2H3)

315 291 >> Is AOSHQ now turning into ZeroHedge with all of this Doom Pr0n? Next thing we will be blaming small hates and joggers for everything that goes wrong.

Turning into? We used to have an entire thread titled DOOM! that was very popular.
Posted by: JackStraw

I miss those DOOM posts.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 07, 2023 07:46 PM (NsE9F)

316 Who did Small Hates and Joggers open for?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 07, 2023 07:46 PM (63Dwl)

317 302 Incinerating the capital of our government every 5 years would solve a lot of problems
Posted by: REDACTED at April 07, 2023 07:41 PM (us2H3)
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Edited for accuracy.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at April 07, 2023 07:42 PM (2YtOq)

edited for getting my ass in trouble

Posted by: REDACTED at April 07, 2023 07:47 PM (us2H3)

318 NOOD cafe

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 07, 2023 07:47 PM (KFhLj)

319 Commercial real estate?
You could fire a mini gun in most downtown financial districts and not hit anyone...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 07, 2023 07:43 PM

What is weird is some commercial entity just bought into the nearly abandoned mall in Sherman Texas. That thing has two stores in it, Burlington Coat Factory and Dillards plus some little ghetto cbd shops inside. But I heard on the TV this morning that the current owners have now secured a new partner to turn the mall around.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 07, 2023 07:47 PM (ncXxy)

320 NON-NUDE NOOD

Posted by: Max Power at April 07, 2023 07:47 PM (q177U)

321 295 Moving the capital of our government every 5 years would solve a lot of problems

Posted by: REDACTED at April 07, 2023 07:41 PM (us2H3)

Marianas Trench

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:48 PM (ynpvh)

322 If you can find a distressed property and have the cash to buy it outright, a good deal can problaby be had
Posted by: REDACTED
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One of the issues though is that a lot of local government is funded via property taxes--the first response by government in inflation is to jack assessments to the sky, then as they are falling in value, drag your feet to reassess and increase the millage rates by threatening essential services like police and fire.

With the shift to online, a lot of these storefronts are now without a point as many of those small fill in businesses like flea markets are being usurped by ebay or etsy. Dunno how the tax changes that are delayed will affect that company though.

Posted by: whig at April 07, 2023 07:48 PM (bVz3B)

323 318 NOOD cafe

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 07, 2023 07:47 PM (KFhLj)

I'll dress appropriately.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 07, 2023 07:49 PM (ynpvh)

324 2024: Biden sails to reelection victory, the Dems pick up the House and Senate. Anyone who thinks otherwise is dreaming.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 07, 2023 07:51 PM (CHHv1)

325 228 BREAKING: Travis County Jury Finds Texas Soldier Guilty of MURDER For Shooting Armed BLM-Antifa Protester in Self Defense During 2020 Riots

https://tinyurl.com/y7rkb2fu
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at April 07, 2023 07:20 PM (tWJ7

something something in for a pound

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at April 07, 2023 07:52 PM (DTX3h)

326 "But I heard on the TV this morning that the current owners have now secured a new partner to turn the mall around." Posted by: Mister Scott

I wonder if they got a great price to make the deal happen. But best of luck to them.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 07, 2023 07:53 PM (Cus5s)

327 Well, at least CD yields should go up.
Posted by: EFG

With the US dollar on life support, and trillions flowing back into the US, CD rates will be eaten alive by the inflation coming . Deposit outflows from small and regional banks are at an all time high. A large number of high rollers have jumped into the bullion market and are purchasing directly from the mints. Little people are getting squeezed out. Cash is fleeing the US banking system as fast as it can . My last CD terminates at the end of the month and it's getting deposited into Sock Monkey Savings and Loan

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Free Jacob Chansley at April 07, 2023 08:02 PM (Wb8zJ)

328 Reading "The Gulag Archipelago" (finally)

Не ходите в ГУЛАГ
Арест

(amazing how much easier Russian is once the cyrillic letters are deciphered)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 07, 2023 08:04 PM (fs1hN)

329 156 Families are being priced out of the house buying market and that is going to cascade into other areas of the economy soon.

Anti-government invective aside, what would you suggest for people living in the DC area?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 07:05 PM (eOEVl)

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Sell your house for a lot of money and move to someplace where the COL is much, much lower and live like a king.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 07, 2023 08:05 PM (cMXNt)

330 So if this thing collapses, there will go our retirement funding. All the money we worked so diligently to amass, legally, morally and ethically.

Someone will pay for that.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 07, 2023 08:16 PM (KATBx)

331 Biden's handlers deliberately emptied the Strategic reserve, the alienated the Saudis deliberately crater the economy and bolshevik the economy.

Yeah it's the plan.

Posted by: Xavier Basora at April 07, 2023 08:43 PM (KDX5C)

332 Of course, The Only People Who Matter "could be" "disproportionately affected."
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Ace hits the nail on the head. Never mind that hard times are hard for everybody, the MSM always emphasize that hard times are hard for The Only People Who Matter.

Well done.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 07, 2023 08:48 PM (YqDXo)

333 Biden's handlers deliberately emptied the Strategic reserve, the alienated the Saudis deliberately crater the economy and bolshevik the economy.

Yeah it's the plan.

Posted by: Xavier Basora at April 07, 2023 08:43 PM (KDX5C)
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Lenin, commenting on a famine in pre-revolutionary Russia: "the worse, the better."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 07, 2023 08:49 PM (YqDXo)

334 “For Kirby today to say that he’s somehow proud of the way we departed, that this wasn’t an ‘unmitigated disaster’—we should just all believe our own eyes. We all saw the video. This was chaotic. Thirteen Americans killed,” Pompeo said.

Pompeo said the United States had a “conditions-based” plan, which the Biden administration “botched” as they went about undoing many Trump plans.

“They came in, took the plan that we had, and just botched it. They made a hash of it,” he said. “And the American people have suffered for it. And frankly, America’s standing in the world is continuing to suffer from that, today.”

Posted by: SMOD at April 07, 2023 08:51 PM (RovqD)

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Posted by: comment at April 07, 2023 11:25 PM (84Ax5)

336 Now now, I think your importing the third world putting your own natives in welfare slums and turning yourself into a theme park was off the hook....
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Projection is a helluva drug.
Locals are not allowed to use welfare housing.

Also: your!?

Posted by: American Empire at April 08, 2023 02:07 PM (yHJfM)

337 Yeah Dark Brandon drained the okl storage by selling it at 96$ a barrel and is now replacing it buying oil st $85

Posted by: Paul at April 09, 2023 05:08 PM (3Nyr1)

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