THE MORNING RANT: Bad News! Coffee Prices and Bond Yields Are Up...or Down

Until November 2028, the prevailing theme of the legacy media’s coverage of economic news is going to be “More bad news for the Trump presidency…” With its credibility burned up, most of us will have no problem disregarding it.

But irrespective of that politically-driven negativity, there are certain business topics that are usually reported as bad, no matter who is President, with an emotional emphasis on why this is problematic.

With that introduction, there’s no great thesis to today’s post other than that I am weary of those business and economic topics I have an interest in being subject to journalistic framing that tends to contain some level of fear-mongering or worrisome foreboding rather than simply focusing on the economic facts. I’ll quickly talk about two of them: Bonds and Coffee.

Coffee is my favorite beverage, and all aspects of the coffee business is interesting to me, from where it’s grown to where it’s sold. But of course, the news being reported about coffee is always bad. If coffee prices are up, it’s bad news. If coffee prices are down, it’s bad news. If bad weather causes a shortage of coffee, it’s bad news. If a perfect growing season leads to a glut of coffee, it’s bad news.

A version of this headline has been in most newspapers in recent weeks: “Bad news for coffee drinkers as prices set to keep going up” [Yahoo – 3/06/2025]

Brazil and Vietnam are the two biggest coffee exporters, and both have smaller crops this year. In Vietnam it’s due to coffee farmers replanting much of their cropland to grow durian (a fruit) for the Chinese market. In Brazil, the crop is smaller due to bad weather.

“Brazil drought punishes coffee farms and threatens to push prices even higher” [AP – 9/20/2024]

But just a few years ago Brazil had a record crop, and that was also reported as bad news, of course.

“Brazilian coffee glut weighs on global growers; Record output drives down prices and piles pressure on farmers” [Financial Times – 01/29/2019]

As such, there should be little respite for the world’s coffee farmers who have been struggling under low prices brought on by Brazilian output.

“Why are Many Coffee Farmers Abandoning their Crops?” [Merchants of Green Coffee – 4/09/2021]

In 2019, Arabica beans traded at 86 cents per pound, representing a 14-year low for prices. According to analyses, coffee prices have fallen to less than a third of their level in 1960, despite being one of the world’s largest export commodities, and the seventh-largest agricultural export.

Enjoy your coffee. Pay the market price. And disregard the doom reporting about this wonderful beverage.

*****

For most of my adult life, the liquid portion of my investment portfolio was exclusively stocks (mutual funds.) But with retirement looming in less than a decade, and with interest rates on bonds having risen dramatically from the near-zero rates that prevailed for so long, I have balanced my portfolio somewhat to include some bond funds.

Therefore, I am starting to pay attention to financial reporting on bonds for the first time. Guess what? It’s usually bad news.

If interest rates rise, it’s bad news for bond investors because the principal value of existing bonds decreases.

If interest rates decrease, it’s bad news for bond investors because they’re going to start earning less interest.

Here are examples of how both a reduction in interest rates and an increase in interest rates were reported as bad news.

1) Here is a bad news story about an interest rate cut in 2024…

“Why Fed Rate Cuts Are Hurting Treasury Bonds” [Barron’s – 9/19/2024]

It looks like the party in the bond market is over. The Federal Reserve made a bold move on Wednesday, cutting interest rates by half a percentage point instead of starting slow with a quarter point.
That is bad news for bond investors…

2) And here is a bad news story about an interest rate increase in 2025…

“It's been a brutal start to the year for the bond market” [Business Insider – 01/10/2025]

The US bond market is off to a tough start in 2025.
This has been reflected in spiking yields, which trade inverse to the price of bonds. On Friday, US Treasury yields surged to their highest level since October 2023.

*****

The catastrophism and emoting in general interest news stories is bad enough. Can’t I even read about what is going on in the bond market or the coffee business without being warned why this is bad news? The fact that it’s almost always bad news makes me dismiss the grim analysis altogether.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

Comments

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

2 The snow has melted. First!

Posted by: jayhawkone at March 14, 2025 11:01 AM (dSKq4)

3 That's the way to start a day off.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

4 Covfefe?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 14, 2025 11:01 AM (Cki93)

5 Is coffee hot right now, or on ice?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 14, 2025 11:01 AM (Cki93)

6 Vietnam is a coffee exporter?...Man.. the stuff I learn here.

Posted by: BignJames at March 14, 2025 11:03 AM (Yj6Os)

7 If it wasn't for "bad newz" the MFM would have no newz to report.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2025 11:03 AM (Q4IgG)

8 This is case in point why the media is shit and no one should pay any attention to it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)

9 Strange that the news about coffee is that there's a shortage. Local Safeways has a discount on those mini Starbucks espresso cans.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 14, 2025 11:04 AM (yYROg)

10
I wonder if our "Monty" is mort...

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 14, 2025 11:04 AM (W3gna)

11 to grow durian (a fruit)

Durian is not a fruit. It is a crime.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at March 14, 2025 11:05 AM (mo/j9)

12 The Media has destroyed its credibility. They tell me it's sunny out, I'm taking an umbrella.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 14, 2025 11:05 AM (WPL6O)

13 I wonder if our "Monty" is mort...
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 14, 2025 11:04 AM (W3gna)

That would spell doom......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)

14 So you’re saying that journalisms who studied in journalism school don’t know anything about finance or commodities.

I believe you.

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at March 14, 2025 11:05 AM (5aPQA)

15 One place I have been buying my coffee from is raising prices due to reduced crops on account of....wait for it...climate change.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 14, 2025 11:05 AM (jjoN6)

16
Durian is not a fruit. It is a crime.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at March 14, 2025 11:05 AM (mo/j9)

I'm so bad, it's a crime.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)

17 Are down prices up, or are feather prices down?

Eider or.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2025 11:05 AM (MqtqS)

18 Vietnam is a coffee exporter?...Man.. the stuff I learn here.
Posted by: BignJames

You'd think they'd be more of a tea exporter. Maybe they're big in both.

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 11:06 AM (77rzZ)

19 Coffee is my favorite beverage, and all aspects of the coffee business is interesting to me, from where it’s grown to where it’s sold. But of course, the news being reported about coffee is always bad. If coffee prices are up, it’s bad news. If coffee prices are down, it’s bad news. If bad weather causes a shortage of coffee, it’s bad news. If a perfect growing season leads to a glut of coffee, it’s bad news.

The media knew it has saturated this particular market, so they branched out into climate change, where everything that happens means bad things.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 14, 2025 11:06 AM (xCA6C)

20 11 Durian is not a fruit. It is a crime.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at March 14, 2025 11:05 AM (mo/j9)

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It tastes a lot better than it smells.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 11:06 AM (GBKbO)

21 These clowns bitching about a few cents increase on wholesale coffee beans are the same ones standing in line at Starbucks to pay $8 for a frappa-jappa-lappa when they can get the same thing at the deli next door for $3. LOLGF.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 14, 2025 11:06 AM (iFTx/)

22 Some coffee comes from beans that have been digested and shit out by cats.

It seems that a lot of the 'news' comes from the same place.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 14, 2025 11:07 AM (Zloi7)

23 I see that the market is back up sharply today just in time to minimize the number of shares my 401K contribution will buy this payday.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 14, 2025 11:07 AM (/y8xj)

24 Doom despair and agony on me
Deep dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all
Doom despair and agony on me

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, why yes I did like Hee Haw, why do you ask at March 14, 2025 11:07 AM (PiwSw)

25
Sock doffed

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 14, 2025 11:07 AM (xG4kz)

26 Some coffee comes from beans that have been digested and shit out by cats.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix

Civets. Kopi luwak.

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 11:07 AM (77rzZ)

27 It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

Posted by: A. Lincoln at March 14, 2025 11:07 AM (jc0TO)

28 Bond funds are typically dangerous. Owning individual bonds typically is much better.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 14, 2025 11:08 AM (GZYu7)

29 Posted by: Lizzy at March 14, 2025 11:01 AM (Cki93)

Either way it's bean a tough year

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 11:08 AM (MjxY/)

30 I hate bond funds.
Better to go with individual bonds, in my opinion.

You give the trading control to the fund nanager, which I do not like.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 14, 2025 11:08 AM (ufFY8)

31 Beer is my favorite beverage.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:08 AM (Zz0t1)

32 Are down prices up, or are feather prices down?
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Eider or.

The rest of you obscure punsters can call it a day. AOP wins.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 14, 2025 11:08 AM (/y8xj)

33 Not tired of winning!

Lol: MSNBC Host Lawrence O'Donnell Takes A Week Off, Cites "Exhaustion From Trump’s Presidency"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 14, 2025 11:08 AM (L/fGl)

34 I have never been a fan of bonds. They don't have the stabilizing effect on a portfolio they are claimed to, at least since 2008. I have been looking into floating rate bonds, which are short term debt instruments that are used to loan money to corporations for cash flow purposes. The interest rates float based on the prevailing current rates.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 14, 2025 11:09 AM (lTGtQ)

35 They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

Consoling? WTH are you smoking?

Posted by: Ozymandias at March 14, 2025 11:09 AM (xCA6C)

36 But I don't drink it most days like I do coffee.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

37 33 Not tired of winning!

Lol: MSNBC Host Lawrence O'Donnell Takes A Week Off, Cites "Exhaustion From Trump’s Presidency"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 14, 2025 11:08 AM (L/fGl)

Bless his heart.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 14, 2025 11:09 AM (PiwSw)

38 Civets. Kopi luwak.
Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 11:07 AM (77rzZ)

You can have my share.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2025 11:09 AM (MqtqS)

39
Way back in the day it was "Bread prices are going to be a dollar a loaf or more!" that set doomsayers' hearts aflutter.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 14, 2025 11:10 AM (xG4kz)

40 If interest rates rise, it’s bad news for bond investors because the principal value of existing bonds decreases.

If interest rates decrease, it’s bad news for bond investors because they’re going to start earning less interest.

Similar to the reporting on the Russian economy.

Russia currently has a labor shortage, due to the expansion of the military sector of the economy, and enlistments in the armed forces.

This labor shortage is presented as proof that the Russian economy is about to collapse.

OTOH, if Russia had mass unemployment, that would also be proof that the Russian economy is about to collapse.

All this, of course, is drawn from the rhetoric around "climate change" - if temperatures are warmer than usual, that is proof of "climate change"; if temperatures are cooler than usual, that is also proof of "climate change"; and if temperatures are normal, that is yet another proof of "climate change".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 14, 2025 11:10 AM (xTIDn)

41 Lol: MSNBC Host Lawrence O'Donnell Takes A Week Off, Cites "Exhaustion From Trump’s Presidency"

Melodramatic pussy says what?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 14, 2025 11:10 AM (xCA6C)

42 The snow has melted. First!

Posted by: jayhawkone at March 14, 2025 11:01 AM (dSKq4)

Wow, even more bad news!

On the other hand, if the snow hadn't melted? That would have been bad news!

Posted by: Simple Stevo at March 14, 2025 11:10 AM (U43EG)

43 Didn't Obama take away green card or visas from the German family seeking asylum because they wanted to home school their children and Germany was going to arrest them. Weren't they deported?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 14, 2025 11:10 AM (VofaG)

44 Coffee is my favorite beverage

James Lileks once said, "I don't drink coffee to wake up. I wake up to drink coffee."

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 11:10 AM (77rzZ)

45 Lol: MSNBC Host Lawrence O'Donnell Takes A Week Off, Cites "Exhaustion From Trump’s Presidency"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 14, 2025 11:08 AM (L/fGl)

If an anchor with no ratings takes a week off, does anyone notice?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:10 AM (Zz0t1)

46 Some coffee comes from beans that have been digested and shit out by cats.

LOL.

Reacher mentions that in this latest season.
Pretty funny.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 14, 2025 11:10 AM (ufFY8)

47 ot: So jealous hearing you were over in France.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at March 14, 2025 09:52 AM (qoLdL)

We moved here!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Saying it's French doesn't un-awkward the statement "I'm jealous of a dildo"

Posted by: DaveA at March 14, 2025 11:10 AM (FhXTo)

48 Is milk a beverage or food? I like milk.

Posted by: BignJames at March 14, 2025 11:10 AM (Yj6Os)

49 Durian is not a fruit. It is a crime.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at March 14, 2025 11:05 AM (mo/j9)

=======

It tastes a lot better than it smells.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I recall that every time I went to SE Asia, the locals would have a party with durian fruit for everyone, just to disgust the ex-pats.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 14, 2025 11:11 AM (lTGtQ)

50 I drink too much coffee. Usually two full 32 oz Yetis every day. Almost a full pot.

But I struggle to drink a full Nalgene of water every day.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 14, 2025 11:11 AM (Zloi7)

51
MSNBC Host Lawrence O'Donnell Takes A Week Off, Cites "Exhaustion From Trump’s Presidency"

The hammering never stops for the damned

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 14, 2025 11:11 AM (xG4kz)

52 Didn't Obama take away green card or visas from the German family seeking asylum because they wanted to home school their children and Germany was going to arrest them. Weren't they deported?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 14, 2025 11:10 AM (VofaG)

That's different, you see. Those people were white.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

53 Thx Buck.

Bond markets generally don't like inflation. Everything that is bonded costs more decreasing it's value. As inflation eases the bonds should get better as an investment.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 11:11 AM (2Km7O)

54 > Lol: MSNBC Host Lawrence O'Donnell Takes A Week Off, Cites "Exhaustion From Trump’s Presidency"
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You know, back in the day this was called "a nervous breakdown" and typically required some medication and, perhaps a trip to the shrink to talk things over.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2025 11:11 AM (Q4IgG)

55 49 I recall that every time I went to SE Asia, the locals would have a party with durian fruit for everyone, just to disgust the ex-pats.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 14, 2025 11:11 AM (lTGtQ)

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At my old job, we contracted with a Pilipino company. We brought a trio of them over for a week, and they brought one durian fruit.

We all had a taste. Yeah, it smelled bad (not, I'm going to vomit at the exposure bad, but just unpleasant). But it tasted fine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 11:12 AM (GBKbO)

56 Civets. Kopi luwak.
Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 11:07 AM (77rzZ)

You can have my share.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

No thanks. I wouldn't touch the stuff. I would probably try a durian, but I'm trying anything that's gone through another animal's digestive track.

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)

57 Selfishly I would like interest rates to increase a bit so I can get at least 5% on my CDs.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 14, 2025 11:12 AM (VofaG)

58
Saying it's French doesn't un-awkward the statement "I'm jealous of a dildo"
Posted by: DaveA at March 14, 2025 11:10 AM (FhXTo)

But a good dildo spends a lot of time in heaven.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:12 AM (Zz0t1)

59 Is coffee hot right now, or on ice?
Posted by: Lizzy at March 14, 2025 11:01 AM

This is New England...it's always iced.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 14, 2025 11:12 AM (kgE5c)

60 50 I drink too much coffee. Usually two full 32 oz Yetis every day. Almost a full pot.

But I struggle to drink a full Nalgene of water every day.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 14, 2025 11:11 AM (Zloi7)

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Studies show a relationship between regular coffee drinking and lowered risks for Alzheimer's.

Is that causal? I dunno.

But it was enough to get me to start drinking coffee.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)

61 They're giving up coffee acreage for durian? Man, does that stink!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 14, 2025 11:13 AM (JkO4W)

62 Oooh. Keef O is Big Mad at Schumer:

https://is.gd/6kujUG

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 14, 2025 11:13 AM (PiwSw)

63 O'Donnell takes a week off. Maddow has lost a third of her ratings. How does MSNBC stay afloat, bake sales?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 11:13 AM (2Km7O)

64 I'm so bad, it's a crime.

I understood that reference!

Posted by: NR Pax at March 14, 2025 11:13 AM (jjoN6)

65 He must've kissed the Blarney Stone and been born with a golden tongue!

Who Knew: Male Rep. in Dress Says Republicans Are "Weird and Bizarre"

-
Keep talking, McBride. That's what you're good at.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 14, 2025 11:13 AM (L/fGl)

66 If you want to watch daily financial hysterics and pearl clutching for the lulz, just turn on Fox Business at 3p to see Big Tit Liz Claman.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 14, 2025 11:13 AM (ufFY8)

67 57 Selfishly I would like interest rates to increase a bit so I can get at least 5% on my CDs.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 14, 2025 11:12 AM (VofaG)

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I'd like to get my mortgage rate down from 7.5%.

The old house was at 3.25%.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)

68 Is milk a beverage or food? I like milk.
Posted by: BignJames

It's kinda both, as it satisfies both hunger and thirst.

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 11:13 AM (77rzZ)

69 You know, back in the day this was called "a nervous breakdown" and typically required some medication and, perhaps a trip to the shrink to talk things over.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2025 11:11 AM (Q4IgG)

And a stylish jacket with wrap-around sleeves.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2025 11:14 AM (MqtqS)

70 Coffee prices are very important, but what is more important is how are we going to keep CBD down on the farm after he's seen Par-ree?

Posted by: French Hygiene Notorious at March 14, 2025 11:14 AM (G5+As)

71 Durian is proof that anything can be sold as a delicacy, no matter how nasty, so long as the right people (pretend) to like it. The fruit itself ain't bad, but nowhere near tasty enough to brave the stench -- it smells like crotch rot on a week-old corpse left in the sun. The stench is so bad that the fruit is often banned on public transportation in Asia. No joking.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 14, 2025 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

72 I drink too much coffee. Usually two full 32 oz Yetis every day. Almost a full pot.

But I struggle to drink a full Nalgene of water every day.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 14, 2025 11:11 AM (Zloi7)

=======

Studies show a relationship between regular coffee drinking and lowered risks for Alzheimer's.

Is that causal? I dunno.

But it was enough to get me to start drinking coffee.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I should be safe, then.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 14, 2025 11:14 AM (lTGtQ)

73 Lol: MSNBC Host Lawrence O'Donnell Takes A Week Off, Cites "Exhaustion From Trump’s Presidency"

Ah, the nexus of irrelevance.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 14, 2025 11:14 AM (xCA6C)

74 Oooh. Keef O is Big Mad at Schumer:

https://is.gd/6kujUG
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 14, 2025 11:13 AM (PiwSw)

I thought he flounced from X.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)

75 This labor shortage is presented as proof that the Russian economy is about to collapse.

OTOH, if Russia had mass unemployment, that would also be proof that the Russian economy is about to collapse.

All this, of course, is drawn from the rhetoric around "climate change" - if temperatures are warmer than usual, that is proof of "climate change"; if temperatures are cooler than usual, that is also proof of "climate change"; and if temperatures are normal, that is yet another proof of "climate change".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 14, 2025 11:10 AM (xTIDn)
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I don't think that is why people think the economy is in trouble. It's because their currency sucks, no one wants it and they are desperate for hard currency. Inflation was a thing but I haven't looked in awhile - which is not unusual in a wartime footing economy.

Long term they have a huge issue because they don't have enough young people, which will impact labor force availability of course.

But it is also important to remember, the Russians/Soviets have never had a good economy.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 14, 2025 11:14 AM (GZYu7)

76 This weather map is excited about tomorrow's outlook:

https://tinyurl.com/jnbnzt8n

Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2025 11:15 AM (Y1sOo)

77 O'Donnell takes a week off. Maddow has lost a third of her ratings. How does MSNBC stay afloat, bake sales?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 11:13 AM

*shifty eyes*

No idea.

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: George Soros at March 14, 2025 11:15 AM (kgE5c)

78 Lol: MSNBC Host Lawrence O'Donnell Takes A Week Off, Cites "Exhaustion From Trump’s Presidency"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 14, 2025 11:08 AM (L/fGl

Is he sure he's not dying?

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 11:15 AM (MjxY/)

79 Some coffee comes from beans that have been digested and shit out by cats.

It seems that a lot of the 'news' comes from the same place.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 14, 2025 11:07 AM (Zloi7)

Ummm.... Shat. Shat out by cats. Past tense.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 14, 2025 11:15 AM (4XwPj)

80 That's different, you see. Those people were white.

Similar to the rage the Left feels when it is proposed to give White Afrikaner South Africans political asylum in the US, because they are being systematically targeted for murder.

Giving TPS to Haitians and Hondurans is all very well you see, because they are members of an oppressed minority.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 14, 2025 11:15 AM (xTIDn)

81 11 to grow durian (a fruit)

Durian is not a fruit. It is a crime.
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Yes. Yes it is.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 11:16 AM (pLaQB)

82 I would probably try a durian, but I'm trying anything that's gone through another animal's digestive track.
Posted by: Bulg[/i[

Hi, Honey!

Posted by: THE BEEEEEES at March 14, 2025 11:16 AM (hB7mE)

83 It's more important that the current financial #s keep moving than that they're right.

Posted by: 1 millisec closer to tomorrow at March 14, 2025 11:16 AM (FhXTo)

84 Durian Durian was an overrated band.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 14, 2025 11:17 AM (PiwSw)

85 Male Rep. in Dress Says Republicans Are "Weird and Bizarre"

Tim Walz tried that approach. Talk to him about how well it worked.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 14, 2025 11:17 AM (jjoN6)

86 If you want to watch daily financial hysterics and pearl clutching for the lulz, just turn on Fox Business at 3p to see Big Tit Liz Claman.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 14, 2025 11:13 AM

This seems fitting.......

https://youtu.be/f8yK83atR3w

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)

87
Stupid tags

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 14, 2025 11:17 AM (hB7mE)

88 85 Male Rep. in Dress Says Republicans Are "Weird and Bizarre"

Tim Walz tried that approach. Talk to him about how well it worked.
Posted by: NR Pax at March 14, 2025 11:17 AM (jjoN6)

======

Democrat messaging is simply not what it used to be.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 11:17 AM (GBKbO)

89 I would probably try a durian, but I'm trying anything that's gone through another animal's digestive track.

*cough*tract*cough*

Posted by: Spelling nazi at March 14, 2025 11:17 AM (xCA6C)

90 “Brazil drought punishes coffee farms and threatens to push prices even higher” [AP – 9/20/2024]

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Why does the climate hate brown people?

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 11:17 AM (pkm6L)

91 @71 Elric, I tasted one way back in college. You are spot on, the stench is horrible but taste not bad. Also tried chocolate covered ants, crickets and meal worms at the same expo. Eff the people who want us to eat bugs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 11:18 AM (2Km7O)

92 Hi, Honey!
Posted by: THE BEEEEEES

Honey isn't bee poop. It's more like bee vomit. And it doesn't have any nasty microbes lurking in it, which is why it never goes bad.

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 11:18 AM (77rzZ)

93 Shit Midas to destroy biopic.

Tiger Woods Biopic in the Works With Barack & Michelle Obama in Talks to Produce

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 14, 2025 11:18 AM (L/fGl)

94 "Democrat messaging is simply not what it used to be."

Oh no, no. The message is PERFECT! They're just still trying to explain it so that we will all fall down in awe and join them.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 14, 2025 11:19 AM (jjoN6)

95 O'Donnell takes a week off. Maddow has lost a third of her ratings. How does MSNBC stay afloat, bake sales?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 11:13 AM (2Km7O)

Media is mainly one big money laundering operation.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:19 AM (Zz0t1)

96 Honey isn't bee poop. It's more like bee vomit. And it doesn't have any nasty microbes lurking in it, which is why it never goes bad.

Posted by: Bulg

There's nothing wrong with vomit, my dog eats it all the time and is healthy as a bug in a rug.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 14, 2025 11:19 AM (lTGtQ)

97 *cough*tract*cough*
Posted by: Spelling nazi

I did wonder about that. One of the few word mixups that I am susceptible to.

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 11:19 AM (77rzZ)

98 Back in the day, Bob Brinker would say that, as you approached retirement, you asset allocation should approach 50/50 equities/fixed income. The theory is that the fixed income (bonds, CDs, cash) provides steady income, and the equities (stocks, stock funds, etc.) provide some income (dividends) and a hedge against inflation (appreciation of stock prices in terms of inflated dollars).

Personally, I was mostly 80/20, but am working to get towards 50/50, primarily by doing a little selling and laddering new CDs.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 14, 2025 11:20 AM (ufFY8)

99 Honey isn't bee poop. It's more like bee vomit. And it doesn't have any nasty microbes lurking in it, which is why it never goes bad.
Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 11:18 AM (77rzZ)

It's more akin to mammal's milk than to vomit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2025 11:20 AM (MqtqS)

100
Old & Busted: "If it bleeds, it leads."
New Hotness: "If it FUDs, it thuds."

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 11:20 AM (pkm6L)

101 It's because their currency sucks, no one wants it and they are desperate for hard currency. Inflation was a thing but I haven't looked in awhile - which is not unusual in a wartime footing economy.

Inflation is a problem in Russia, but the ruble's value is actually pretty stable, after an initial fall in the wake of the invasion. (The value of the ruble versus the dollar is up 6% over the last six months.)

That hasn't stopped any number of people from predicting the imminent collapse of the Russian economy weekly since the invasion.

Since quite a few of these people were funded by USAID, we will probably hear less of this in the future.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 14, 2025 11:20 AM (xTIDn)

102 Back in the day, Bob Brinker would say that, as you approached retirement, you asset allocation should approach 50/50 equities/fixed income.

I didn't know that he knew about anything but ice skating.

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 11:21 AM (77rzZ)

103 Coffee is a luxury you only get after you kill ten zombies when they invade your Democrat controlled town.

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at March 14, 2025 11:21 AM (fY84s)

104 He choked to death on vomit . We're not sure whose. You can't dust for vomit

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 11:21 AM (2Km7O)

105 Giving TPS to Haitians and Hondurans is all very well you see, because they are members of an oppressed minority.
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Who is oppressing them in Haiti and in Honduras?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 14, 2025 11:22 AM (Dv3i1)

106 Media is mainly one big money laundering operation.
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That's only half of the story. The other half is media is a protection/extortion racket.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 11:22 AM (pLaQB)

107 43
‘ Didn't Obama take away green card or visas from the German family seeking asylum because they wanted to home school their children’

I thought the same thing. It was either Obama or Biden.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 14, 2025 11:22 AM (jbnUc)

108 104 He choked to death on vomit . We're not sure whose. You can't dust for vomit
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 11:21 AM (2Km7O)

Some crimes are best left unsolved.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 14, 2025 11:22 AM (PiwSw)

109 @93 so Tiger Woods will now be a gay, trannie dwarf

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 11:23 AM (2Km7O)

110 I so give no shits about Tiger Woods.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)

111 It's more akin to mammal's milk than to vomit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Interesting thought. Its purpose is the same as milk -- to feed the younguns. But its more like vomit in the delivery method.

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 11:23 AM (77rzZ)

112 Who is oppressing them in Haiti and in Honduras?
Posted by: Chuck Martel

The wypipo in their government. You just never see them but they are running things from the shadows.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 14, 2025 11:23 AM (jjoN6)

113 It tastes a lot better than it smells.

Given it smells like rotten cheese and rotting feet, it would have to.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at March 14, 2025 11:23 AM (mo/j9)

114 Geez, Queef. Take a handful of Qualudes and calm down.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 14, 2025 11:24 AM (L/fGl)

115 I wonder if anyone has tried to crossbreed something with Durian just to get rid of the smell.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

116 The fluctuations in the bond market are not that relevant to someone who holds to maturity. If the bonds are highly rated corporate bonds issued by a large multinational, then you’re very likely to get the amount of interest you bargained for and the company is not likely to default. Maybe inflation will reduce the value of your interest, but you’re not likely to lose the interest or the principal.

Posted by: Interesting at March 14, 2025 11:24 AM (6IuAM)

117 I didn't know that he knew about anything but ice skating.
Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 11:21 AM (77rzZ)

LOL.

I think there are numerous Bob Brinkers.
Don't know about that one.

The one I am referring to had a radio show called Money Talk.

Back in the day.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 14, 2025 11:24 AM (ufFY8)

118 ersonally, I was mostly 80/20, but am working to get towards 50/50, primarily by doing a little selling and laddering new CDs.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 14, 2025 11:20 AM (ufFY

But when you are retired you definitely hate losing X amount of dollars more than making X amount of dollars.

Im still about ( well I was until it recently went to shit) about 20% in equities.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 14, 2025 11:24 AM (VofaG)

119 Keith Olbermann is the poster child for mental institutions.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:24 AM (Zz0t1)

120 Interesting thought. Its purpose is the same as milk -- to feed the younguns. But its more like vomit in the delivery method.

Posted by: Bulg

Don't look now, but WEF is looking at baby bird diets and delivery methods.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 14, 2025 11:24 AM (lTGtQ)

121 Stocks and Bonds are so yesterday.

I'mma fund my retirement by starting an NGO that pays me six figures to raise awareness about the scourge of carrots in chili, and fund it through a perpetual grant from USAID.

Y'all are suckers with your fancy 401ks and shit.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 14, 2025 11:25 AM (Zloi7)

122 O'Donnell takes a week off. Maddow has lost a third of her ratings. How does MSNBC stay afloat, bake sales?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 11:13 AM (2Km7O)

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Big Pharma ~~Advertising~~ PsyOps?

/Just guessing as we killed the TV two decades ago ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 11:25 AM (pkm6L)

123 >>I so give no shits about Tiger Woods

He's dating Don Jr's ex. You will be made to care.

Posted by: The Daily Mail at March 14, 2025 11:25 AM (Y1sOo)

124 That article about blacks bravely risking racism by playing golf, scuba-diving, and skydiving was a laugh riot. I can’t believe it was written by a black guy. It has that anthropologist-discovering-new-African-tribe vibe about it, like the author never saw black people before. “Then we handed the native a golf club, and he looked at it curiously, then sniffed it.”

The idiot then chooses golf and two esoteric sports that practically nobody of any race does.

As for golf, are you fucking kidding me? There was a guy named Tiger Woods who dominated the sport for years, and there are many non-white players in both pro and amateur. No, you will not see blacks from the projects on the golf course. Nor will you see white trash from trailer parks. Golf is an expensive, affluent sport played by affluent people – including affluent blacks. The idiot author then undermines his own thesis by highlighting a group of affluent black ladies – 12 of them! – who play regularly.

I can only assume true racism must be almost impossible to find if this is what the author needs to write about.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 14, 2025 11:25 AM (iFTx/)

125 I meant losing x amount than potentially making 2x amount. I least it is for me.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 14, 2025 11:26 AM (VofaG)

126 Don't look now, but WEF is looking at baby bird diets and delivery methods.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 14, 2025 11:24 AM (lTGtQ)

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* cue theme music from The X-Files *

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 11:26 AM (pkm6L)

127 Big Pharma Advertising PsyOps?

Ban pharmaceutical advertising, and a chunk of the legacy media goes away.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 14, 2025 11:26 AM (xTIDn)

128 Given it smells like rotten cheese and rotting feet, it would have to.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at March 14, 2025 11:23 AM (mo/j9)

Blue cheese?...can't stand the stuff.

Posted by: BignJames at March 14, 2025 11:26 AM (Yj6Os)

129
He's dating Don Jr's ex. You will be made to care.

Posted by: The Daily Mail at March 14, 2025 11:25 AM (Y1sOo)

That ship sailed a LONG time ago. He's simply a sleazy elitist asshole that I don't give the time of day anymore.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:27 AM (Zz0t1)

130 I so give no shits about Tiger Woods.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)
________

Me either, but I believe he's a Trump supporter

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 14, 2025 11:27 AM (iFTx/)

131 Maybe inflation will reduce the value of your interest, but you’re not likely to lose the interest or the principal.

Posted by: Interesting

Inflation is the killer. The portfolio value isn't as important as the cash flow. Getting a fixed payment when groceries are going up by 20 percent is the problem with bonds.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 14, 2025 11:27 AM (lTGtQ)

132
Blue cheese?...can't stand the stuff.
Posted by: BignJames at March 14, 2025 11:26 AM (Yj6Os)

*fistbump*

dat shit's naaaaasty.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:27 AM (Zz0t1)

133 Honey isn't bee poop. It's more like bee vomit. And it doesn't have any nasty microbes lurking in it, which is why it never goes bad.

Honey has so little water and so much sugar in it that any microbes landing on it have the water drawn from their cells, killing them. It's been used as a primitive version of neosporin, and honey found in Egyptian tombs was still, technically, edible.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at March 14, 2025 11:28 AM (mo/j9)

134
Me either, but I believe he's a Trump supporter
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 14, 2025 11:27 AM (iFTx/)

That doesn't make me look past him being an overall shitty human.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)

135 I so give no shits about Tiger Woods

Same with the royal family, any bachelor/bachelorette, any American Idol, or any of the Real Housewives.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 14, 2025 11:28 AM (Zloi7)

136 Ban pharmaceutical advertising, and a chunk of the legacy media goes away.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 14, 2025 11:26 AM (xTIDn)

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A hypothesis which MUST be tested, but likely won't.

Imagine how much of that sweet, sweet Big Pharma K Street grift flows into the halls and offshore bank accounts of Congress ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 11:29 AM (pkm6L)

137 I'mma fund my retirement by starting an NGO that pays me six figures to raise awareness about the scourge of carrots in chili, and fund it through a perpetual grant from USAID.

All the "progressive" nonprofits in Portland are laying off staff since USAID funding was halted.

This is weird, because none of them acknowledged being funded by the Feds, because all the Fed money was laundered through front organizations.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 14, 2025 11:29 AM (xTIDn)

138 If honey is sealed up properly it will last longer than you.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 14, 2025 11:30 AM (SSGnG)

139 137 All the "progressive" nonprofits in Portland are laying off staff since USAID funding was halted.

This is weird, because none of them acknowledged being funded by the Feds, because all the Fed money was laundered through front organizations.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 14, 2025 11:29 AM (xTIDn)

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It's also weird because I've been assured that Trump is still completely funding USAID because of judges.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)

140
Same with the royal family, any bachelor/bachelorette, any American Idol, or any of the Real Housewives.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 14, 2025 11:28 AM (Zloi7)

Or any rich leftist twatbag, for that matter.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:30 AM (Zz0t1)

141 European authorities raided 21 addresses, arrested several people, and sealed two offices in the EU Parliament, as part of a spiraling bribery probe into Huawei

Posted by: SMOD at March 14, 2025 11:30 AM (GITLP)

142 But when you are retired you definitely hate losing X amount of dollars more than making X amount of dollars.

Im still about ( well I was until it recently went to shit) about 20% in equities.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 14, 2025 11:24 AM (VofaG)

Yup, exactly.

I look at my monthly statement, well, once a month, and that is it. Just got my Feb one yesterday and it was up. Yay.

But I know March *might* be brutal; I don't stress and look at it daily. I just see the decline for a month and say, "shit", knowing it may bounce back.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 14, 2025 11:30 AM (ufFY8)

143 For most of my adult life, the liquid portion of my investment portfolio was exclusively stocks...

Let me tell you (hic!) about the liquid part of MY investment portfolio...

Huma! Rum and sodomy time!

Posted by: Hillary! at March 14, 2025 11:30 AM (JCZqz)

144 mmm...durian..brings back childhood memories of durian parties. stinks but oh so yummy, especially with sticky rice.

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at March 14, 2025 11:30 AM (EmT/E)

145 It tastes wonderful if you spell it the way we do.

Bleu...

Posted by: AWFLs from The Hamptons at March 14, 2025 11:30 AM (Y1sOo)

146 I wonder if the Tiger Woods Story will focus on fake racism, division and hatred even though he is the most popular golfer in the world and was the favorite of many whites for a long time. God forbid we celebrate anything or anyone without agitation and strife.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 11:31 AM (MjxY/)

147 Same with the royal family, any bachelor/bachelorette, any American Idol, or any of the Real Housewives.

I'm still here, Buster!

Posted by: Meghan Markle Sussex! at March 14, 2025 11:31 AM (xTIDn)

148 It's been used as a primitive version of neosporin, and honey found in Egyptian tombs was still, technically, edible.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at March 14, 2025 11:28 AM (mo/j9)

I have used it on cuts and scrapes. Just wipe off any blood, dab on the honey and the cut/scrape is sealed and protected. In general the injury heals more quickly too.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 14, 2025 11:31 AM (4XwPj)

149 Honey has so little water and so much sugar in it that any microbes landing on it have the water drawn from their cells, killing them. It's been used as a primitive version of neosporin, and honey found in Egyptian tombs was still, technically, edible.
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Alexander's favorite general was preserved in a tomb filled with honey. They did this while on their death march from India. No one has ever found this tomb.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 11:31 AM (pLaQB)

150 Gref's Iron Laws of the Modern World, No. 34:

When searching a cardboard carton of soft drink cans for the bar code, it will never be on the first side you look at and will always be on the third side you turn the carton to, no matter which way you turn the carton.

Posted by: Gref at March 14, 2025 11:31 AM (aBgBM)

151 Steve Quayle claims the Canadian Gold Reserve amounts to 20 Maple Leafs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 14, 2025 11:32 AM (SSGnG)

152 European authorities raided 21 addresses, arrested several people, and sealed two offices in the EU Parliament, as part of a spiraling bribery probe into Huawei

Posted by: SMOD

Do you remember when Trump kicked Huawei and their 5G out? The UK was doing it as well, when suddenly, for some unknown reason, they decided to let them come in.

I wonder what caused the euros to suddenly allow Huawei in?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 14, 2025 11:32 AM (lTGtQ)

153
I'm still here, Buster!
Posted by: Meghan Markle Sussex! at March 14, 2025 11:31 AM (xTIDn)

Dump peanut butter pretzels in a ziplock back and call it genius some more, stupid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:32 AM (Zz0t1)

154 *bag

Damn brain.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:32 AM (Zz0t1)

155 Can't have the kids of today finding out that Tiger Woods was a hero of the whitest sport imaginable and everyone got along just fine until Obama showed up and started bullshitting everyone into communism.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 11:32 AM (MjxY/)

156 > This weather map is excited about tomorrow's outlook
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This storm system apparently is the real deal... as far as wind and other severe weather like hail, tornados are concerned. There IS a lot of hype, but the models are all more or less in agreement with potential hurricane strength winds (~80MPH gusts in certain areas.) The other hazards are also on the table.

Here in KY I expect to be up most of the night in case we need to evacuate our mobile home.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2025 11:33 AM (Q4IgG)

157
I wonder what caused the euros to suddenly allow Huawei in?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 14, 2025 11:32 AM (lTGtQ)

Ancient Chinese secret.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:33 AM (Zz0t1)

158 German Military Has a Massive Troop Shortage

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Maybe delay Barbarossa II: Ukrainian Boogaloo.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 14, 2025 11:33 AM (L/fGl)

159

EM' ORECCHIETTE FOADDY-SEBUN!1!!1!

Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at March 14, 2025 11:33 AM (5hfjS)

160 If honey is sealed up properly it will last longer than you.
Posted by: Boss Moss

I think they've found honey at ancient archaeological sites that was still edible.

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 11:33 AM (77rzZ)

161 It's also weird because I've been assured that Trump is still completely funding USAID because of judges.

Trump was only ordered to make USAID payments for work that was already "completed".

The Court of Claims exists specifically to sue the Feds for violations of contract, but that wasn't good enough.

Posted by: Meghan Markle Sussex! at March 14, 2025 11:33 AM (xTIDn)

162 Alexander's favorite general was preserved in a tomb filled with honey. They did this while on their death march from India. No one has ever found this tomb.

The locals mixed him with water, let it ferment, and drank him.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at March 14, 2025 11:34 AM (mo/j9)

163 I descaled my coffee maker yesterday. I notice no difference.

Coffee descaling is a scam.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2025 11:34 AM (dGCAG)

164 The German Army wants you.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 14, 2025 11:34 AM (SSGnG)

165 Me either, but I believe he's a Trump supporter
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 14, 2025 11:27 AM (iFTx/)

That doesn't make me look past him being an overall shitty human.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)

if anyone paid attention he was a shitty human being from the very get go. He left Fuzzy out to hang when he bantered more racist and sexist stuff himself in the locker room, he would stiff the locker room staff, he cursed on the course like a sailor and treated his fans like crap. Once he was asked to sign a ball by Brad Faxon for his popular charity auction and refused just because.

He's always been an asshole and it was tolerated because he brought billions of dollars to the game.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 14, 2025 11:34 AM (VofaG)

166 Steve Quayle claims the Canadian Gold Reserve amounts to 20 Maple Leafs.
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 14, 2025 11:32 AM (SSGnG)

That's damn near the entire team!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:34 AM (Zz0t1)

167 Steve Quayle claims the Canadian Gold Reserve amounts to 20 Maple Leafs.
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 14, 2025 11:32 AM (SSGnG

The Maple Leafs haven't won a Cup since before Nixon. Their economy is worse than anyone thought!

Posted by: Josephistan at March 14, 2025 11:34 AM (y9ksN)

168 I would love to see some archeology expedition in central Africa unearth illustrations of tribal royalty swinging a six iron.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 14, 2025 11:35 AM (gm9Sb)

169 Steve Quayle claims the Canadian Gold Reserve amounts to 20 Maple Leafs.
____

Quayle can't spell 'Leaves' correctly either.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 14, 2025 11:36 AM (Dv3i1)

170 Alexander's favorite general was preserved in a tomb filled with honey. They did this while on their death march from India. No one has ever found this tomb.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 11:31 AM (pLaQB)

Has anyone asked Xi Jinping to look for it?

Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2025 11:36 AM (dGCAG)

171 Steve Quayle claims the Canadian Gold Reserve amounts to 20 Maple Leafs.
Posted by: Boss Moss

They also have a large trunk filled to the brim with IOUs.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 14, 2025 11:36 AM (lTGtQ)

172 The locals mixed him with water, let it ferment, and drank him.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at March 14, 2025 11:34 AM (mo/j9)

Brewed a "braggot" once...quite tasty, but $$.

Posted by: BignJames at March 14, 2025 11:36 AM (Yj6Os)

173
He's always been an asshole and it was tolerated because he brought billions of dollars to the game.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 14, 2025 11:34 AM (VofaG)

His dad was a tremendous asshole, so the apple didn't fall far from the tree.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 14, 2025 11:36 AM (Zz0t1)

174 "Coffee is my favorite beverage, and all aspects of the coffee business is interesting to me, from where it’s grown to where it’s sold. But of course, the news being reported about coffee is always bad. If coffee prices are up, it’s bad news. If coffee prices are down, it’s bad news. If bad weather causes a shortage of coffee, it’s bad news. If a perfect growing season leads to a glut of coffee, it’s bad news."

Buck, you overlooked another part of the Media's always-bad economic claims: "Women, children, and minorities will be the hardest hit."

Posted by: Gref at March 14, 2025 11:36 AM (aBgBM)

175 The German Army wants you.

Join the German Army, and see beautiful Kursk!

Again.

Posted by: Failed German Recuritment Slogans! at March 14, 2025 11:37 AM (xTIDn)

176 > Trump was only ordered to make USAID payments for work that was already "completed".
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"Work"
"Completed"

I seriously doubt any NGO could point to "work" that was "completed."

They COULD point to who got paid, but not for what.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2025 11:37 AM (Q4IgG)

177 would love to see some archeology expedition in central Africa unearth illustrations of tribal royalty swinging a six iron.

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Those Scot homos stole our game!

Posted by: Reverend Al Sharpton at March 14, 2025 11:37 AM (y9ksN)

178 The Maple Leafs haven't won a Cup since before Nixon. Their economy is worse than anyone thought!
Posted by: Josephistan at March 14, 2025 11:34 AM (y9ksN)

Where have you gone, Norm Ullman, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you...

Woo woo woo.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2025 11:37 AM (dGCAG)

179 Coffee is for lightweights.

Also, Spellchecker didn't recognize the word "Cocaine", and instead offered Cochise. Guilty conscience, eh spellchecker?

Posted by: Crack Cocaine at March 14, 2025 11:38 AM (7Q0e+)

180 >>I so give no shits about Tiger Woods

He's dating Don Jr's ex. You will be made to care.

Posted by: The Daily Mail at March 14, 2025 11:25 AM (Y1sOo)

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Headline from a couple days ago:

"Tiger Woods Biopic in the Works with Barack and Michelle Obama in Talks to Produce"

"At some point, you've ~~made~~ stolen enough money."
-- Some DogEating Commie Faggot

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 11:39 AM (pkm6L)

181 I remember when Tiger Woods and Eminem were both big, and somebody remarked, "Never thought I'd see the day when America's most popular rapper was a white guy, and its favorite golfer was a black guy.

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

182 The locals mixed him with water, let it ferment, and drank him.
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This was somewhere in the Gedrosian Desert. You would think satellite surveillance would be able to pop the target but so far, no go.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 11:39 AM (pLaQB)

183 Quayle can't spell 'Leaves' correctly either.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 14, 2025 11:36 AM (Dv3i1)

Yay, a hockey thread.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 14, 2025 11:39 AM (ufFY8)

184 8 This is case in point why the media is shit and no one should pay any attention to it.
Posted by: Sponge
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Absolutely true. If one has to stay informed about an area of current news, figure out how to triangulate between sources and include some that for other reasons might be suspect in some areas. For example, RT today probably has decent coverage of the ceasefire from the Russian perspective. You can use direct sources from the Trump WH for its take on the negotiations, and then there will be at least one or two other disinterested press agencies in places like India or China that do not have a dog in the Ukraine fight literally.

Ukraine sources themselves are only useful about ceasefire in figuring up how the CIA and the corrupt Ukraine government puppet are trying a limited modified hangout technique to get in front of the coming loss.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2025 11:39 AM (ctrM5)

185 In Jan in 2016 the S&P dipped to around 1,800 because Trump’s policies were gonna to be a disaster. By Jan of 2021 the S&P was around 4,600.

*Past performance is not indicative of future Performance

Posted by: Marcus T at March 14, 2025 11:40 AM (BswBb)

186 Hubbymayhem says we're in line for nasty weather. I hate storms.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 14, 2025 11:40 AM (4XwPj)

187 181 I remember when Tiger Woods and Eminem were both big, and somebody remarked, "Never thought I'd see the day when America's most popular rapper was a white guy, and its favorite golfer was a black guy.
Posted by: Bulg
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And then Obammy and his cohort promptly took a shit on black-white relations setting them back decades--all for power and money.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2025 11:40 AM (ctrM5)

188 Good Morning Rant. Thanks.

Maybe make life a little simpler by following (as a guide) the Thrift Savings Plan Fund information, reports.

>FedWeek, TSP, Doubling Your TSP (C Fund vs G Fund)
Published: December 16, 2024
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More in: TSP
>What it Takes to Be a TSP Millionaire in Today’s Dollars

>Lessons Learned Growing a TSP Balance Beyond $1M

>Is Social Security a Ponzi Scheme? No but Changes are Needed

Posted by: L - No nick, another fine day at March 14, 2025 11:41 AM (NFX2v)

189 Where is it written down that every collection of statistics whether racial grouping or sex characteristics must align with the percentages?

Thus, if there are (and there are) higher percentages of Black Criminals In Jail than the 11% the only reason is due to some sort of evil racist plot by Whitey Inc. to keep the bruthas down.

One of the problems of the modern Democratic combination shakedown grift permanent one party rule coalition, you have to subscribe to the most vile and offensive anti white hate imaginable. It just doesn’t resonate in normal America the way it does in the rarefied air of academe whack job teacher’s lounges. It pays really good, so there is a steady supply of grifters willing to yell at whitey, as well as self-loathing AWFLs and other pseudo-intellectuals willing to apologize.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2025 11:41 AM (zocr6)

190 I remember when Tiger Woods and Eminem were both big, and somebody remarked, "Never thought I'd see the day when America's most popular rapper was a white guy, and its favorite golfer was a black guy.

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

Chris Rock

Posted by: BignJames at March 14, 2025 11:41 AM (Yj6Os)

191 would love to see some archeology expedition in central Africa unearth illustrations of tribal royalty swinging a six iron.

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Those Scot homos stole our game!

Posted by: Reverend Al Sharpton at March 14, 2025 11:37 AM (y9ksN)

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Resist We Putt!

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 11:41 AM (pkm6L)

192 Has anyone found a website that watches the economy from the Trump side of things? I am tired of Marketwatch, because any time I look to see why the market is down (or up), it's all DOOM and GLOOOOOOMMM. I'd like to stay informed, but not influenced.

Posted by: Nancy@7000ft at March 14, 2025 11:41 AM (qFnnL)

193 This was somewhere in the Gedrosian Desert. You would think satellite surveillance would be able to pop the target but so far, no go.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Have they looked on Oak Island?

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 11:42 AM (77rzZ)

194 Tennis originated in France in the 12th century and Golf in Scotland in the 15th century.

Henry VIII was playing Real Tennis when he was having Ann Boleyn executed.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 14, 2025 11:42 AM (VofaG)

195 In Jan in 2016 the S&P dipped to around 1,800 because Trump’s policies were gonna to be a disaster. By Jan of 2021 the S&P was around 4,600.

Reagan started his term with a severe recession.

When you juice the economy by jacking up the money supply, there is unfortunately a hangover when you stop doing that.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 14, 2025 11:42 AM (xTIDn)

196 185 In Jan in 2016 the S&P dipped to around 1,800 because Trump’s policies were gonna to be a disaster. By Jan of 2021 the S&P was around 4,600.

*Past performance is not indicative of future Performance
Posted by: Marcus T
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S&P is useful as a broader based index than the DJIA was but stock markets and the real economy correlate imperfectly sometimes.

I think part of this is why the Trump admin is hustling faster than I have seen any administration do in modern times. (FDR and his 100 days might be faster or as fast but he had massive majorities in Congress to literally roll over the opposition.)

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2025 11:43 AM (ctrM5)

197 And then Obammy and his cohort promptly took a shit on black-white relations setting them back decades--all for power and money.
Posted by: whig at March 14, 2025 11:40 AM (ctrM5)

And it was obvious to some (hopefully many) of us in 2007 that that's EXACTLY what was going to happen.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 11:43 AM (MjxY/)

198 Hubbymayhem says we're in line for nasty weather. I hate storms.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench)

Well, just remember that the bathroom's on the right.

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 11:44 AM (77rzZ)

199 Have they looked on Oak Island?
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Six have tried and died. Until the seventh death Oak Island will not give up her treasure. This is known.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 11:44 AM (pLaQB)

200 Coffee is for lightweights.

Also, Spellchecker didn't recognize the word "Cocaine", and instead offered Cochise. Guilty conscience, eh spellchecker?
Posted by: Crack Cocaine at March 14, 2025 11:38 AM (7Q0e+)

I tried Cochise once, it did nothing for me.

I'll keep my coffee, thank you very much.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2025 11:44 AM (dGCAG)

201 One of the problems of the modern Democratic combination shakedown grift permanent one party rule coalition, you have to subscribe to the most vile and offensive anti white hate imaginable. It just doesn’t resonate in normal America the way it does in the rarefied air of academe whack job teacher’s lounges. It pays really good, so there is a steady supply of grifters willing to yell at whitey, as well as self-loathing AWFLs and other pseudo-intellectuals willing to apologize.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2025 11:41 AM (zocr6)

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I could only get through a couple of minutes of that sidebar link Bill Maher interview with Bryan Cranston before ceasing it before I puked.

What a self-loathing beta male NPC. Imma gonna start calling him Tampon Walt ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 11:44 AM (pkm6L)

202 We still don't know where Genghis Khan was buried, either.

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 11:45 AM (77rzZ)

203 Portugal rules out purchasing F-35 fighter jets and evaluates European alternatives

The American aviation industry will collapse over this.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 14, 2025 11:45 AM (xTIDn)

204 Yeah, we will have a rough patch of adjusting and dislocation, then things will get better.

The economy is like a junkie going cold turkey, dealing with gubmint spending cuts. Gonna hurt until the fvcker drys out.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 14, 2025 11:45 AM (ufFY8)

205 201 I could only get through a couple of minutes of that sidebar link Bill Maher interview with Bryan Cranston before ceasing it before I puked.

What a self-loathing beta male NPC. Imma gonna start calling him Tampon Walt ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 11:44 AM (pkm6L)

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Starring in a movie about Dalton Trumbo wasn't enough evidence that Cranston was a wild-eyed lefty?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

206 96
‘ There's nothing wrong with vomit, my dog eats it all the time and is healthy as a bug in a rug.’

That’s kind of like my house: one cat throws it up. The other cat cleans it up. Nature is beautiful.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 14, 2025 11:46 AM (jbnUc)

207 I’m a pretty intelligent guy. Degree in engineering, decades in process improvement in manufacturing, and I find the financial stuff completely fucked up.

If I can’t get a good handle on it, I doubt the average joe is going to get it.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 14, 2025 11:46 AM (3NiEn)

208 Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 11:44 AM (pkm6L)

Cryin' Cranston

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 11:46 AM (MjxY/)

209 203 Portugal rules out purchasing F-35 fighter jets and evaluates European alternatives

The American aviation industry will collapse over this.
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Are the Spanish targeting Portugal?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 11:46 AM (pLaQB)

210 Orange Hitler is destroying the economy, just like he did last time.

Journalists are to be pointed at and laughed at. They were the ones too dumb to get a business degree.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at March 14, 2025 11:47 AM (SrvsP)

211 207 I’m a pretty intelligent guy. Degree in engineering, decades in process improvement in manufacturing, and I find the financial stuff completely fucked up.

If I can’t get a good handle on it, I doubt the average joe is going to get it.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 14, 2025 11:46 AM (3NiEn)

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"Don't hire a financial advisor. They just steal $x over your lifetime. Handle it yourself!"
-some people

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 11:47 AM (GBKbO)

212 Coffee is for lightweights.

Actually, I believe it is for closers.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 14, 2025 11:47 AM (Zloi7)

213 Yet another Democrat can't math...

Portugal had ordered 27 F-35s at $50M each. That's $1.35 trillion lost directly as a result of actions by The Dotard's administration.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 14, 2025 11:47 AM (xTIDn)

214 192 Has anyone found a website that watches the economy from the Trump side of things? I am tired of Marketwatch, because any time I look to see why the market is down (or up), it's all DOOM and GLOOOOOOMMM. I'd like to stay informed, but not influenced.
Posted by: Nancy@7000ft
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Try the different broker sites like Edward Jones or even the notorious Blackrock/State Street/Vanguard. All of them present econ information for their clients but a lot of them are not behind paywalls.

Yahoo Finance is not terrible albeit with a smattering of leftie speak.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2025 11:47 AM (ctrM5)

215 I double my wealth, ask me how!

**the lone $5 and lone $1 bill in my wallet are folded over**

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 14, 2025 11:47 AM (Aqu9a)

216 I'm not intelligent and I have no credentials and the most reading I've done in my life is probably Mad Magazine.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 11:47 AM (MjxY/)

217 Speaking of hockey and coffee, I think I mentioned this once before, but I was under the impression Tim Horton was just some guy who played hockey, until he opened a coffee and donut shop.

No, he was a badass defenseman, considered one of the greatest of all time.

Died in a car wreck at 44. Under the influence of at least one substance. Probably two. Maybe three if you count coffee. He was still playing, had just finished a game that night.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2025 11:47 AM (dGCAG)

218 212 Actually, I believe it is for closers.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 14, 2025 11:47 AM (Zloi7)

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My mom is in town visiting.

She just got back from NYC where she saw Glengarry Glenn Ross on Broadway. Bob Odenkirk starring.

She was over the moon for it. Mostly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 11:48 AM (GBKbO)

219 Portugal rules out purchasing F-35 fighter jets and evaluates European alternatives

The American aviation industry will collapse over this.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 14, 2025 11:45 AM (xTIDn)

We should have never destroyed the F-22 tooling.

In any event I see we have allegedly developed a kick ass unmanned fighter Jet. That's the military aviation future.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 14, 2025 11:48 AM (VofaG)

220 208 Cranston is pretty much "this is how we want the world to be and you don't want it that way so fuck you, yokel, we are smarter".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 14, 2025 11:48 AM (gm9Sb)

221 Biden didn’t have the balls or the political will to stop the free money flow. Mostly because what you are seeing is what would predictably happen. What Trump is doing with tariffs and taxation will not only lessen that pain but put us on a footing for changing the economic paradigm. We’ve become far too dependent on debt and money printing. We have the most vibrant market I. The world that everyone wants to access and has accessed as American workers take it in the neck. We have been shit out of foreign export markets through their use of tariffs and VATS. Trump has finally said enough. It’s going to be ugly and painful at times. But when we come out of the other end it will be worth it. We have a large enough economy to wait out the Euro trash, the cartel posing as a country, Mexico and the frozen tundra who has been living off our country, Canada.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 14, 2025 11:48 AM (BswBb)

222 Ukraine sources themselves are only useful about ceasefire in figuring up how the CIA and the corrupt Ukraine government puppet are trying a limited modified hangout technique to get in front of the coming loss.
Posted by: whig at March 14, 2025 11:39 AM (ctrM5)

But we're sooper reliable!

Posted by: The Gaza Ministry of Health at March 14, 2025 11:49 AM (PiwSw)

223 203 Portugal rules out purchasing F-35 fighter jets and evaluates European alternatives

The American aviation industry will collapse over this.
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Are the Spanish targeting Portugal?
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 11:46 AM (pLaQB)

It's part of an Iberian conspiracy to corner the cork market.

Posted by: mrp at March 14, 2025 11:49 AM (rj6Yv)

224 Actors are not smart. Trust me, I know them from back when and up close. They are petty, attention-hungry, lazy perverts. And those are the good ones. Most of them are also Democrats, which is worse.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2025 11:49 AM (xcxpd)

225 Cranston is pretty much "this is how we want the world to be and you don't want it that way so fuck you, yokel, we are smarter".
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 14, 2025 11:48 AM (gm9Sb)

Well that would make him more honest than 99% of leftards, so I guess that's something. He forgot to mention the mass graves but we can't expect total transparency.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 11:50 AM (MjxY/)

226 Yet another Democrat can't math...

Portugal had ordered 27 F-35s at $50M each. That's $1.35 trillion lost directly as a result of actions by The Dotard's administration.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 14, 2025 11:47 AM (xTIDn)

New Math. The answer is relative and can be what you want it to be.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 14, 2025 11:50 AM (VofaG)

227 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2025 11:49 AM (xcxpd)

Just ask them who they are. Works every time.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 11:50 AM (MjxY/)

228 220 208 Cranston is pretty much "this is how we want the world to be and you don't want it that way so fuck you, yokel, we are smarter".
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 14, 2025 11:48 AM (gm9Sb)

He was a model before he was an actor.

I assume he got most of his worldview from sipping the peener.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2025 11:51 AM (dGCAG)

229 221 Biden didn’t have the balls or the political will to stop the free money flow. Mostly because what you are seeing is what would predictably happen. What Trump is doing with tariffs and taxation will not only lessen that pain but put us on a footing for changing the economic paradigm. We’ve become far too dependent on debt and money printing. We have the most vibrant market I. The world that everyone wants to access and has accessed as American workers take it in the neck. We have been shit out of foreign export markets through their use of tariffs and VATS. Trump has finally said enough. It’s going to be ugly and painful at times. But when we come out of the other end it will be worth it. We have a large enough economy to wait out the Euro trash, the cartel posing as a country, Mexico and the frozen tundra who has been living off our country, Canada.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 14, 2025 11:48 AM (BswBb)

Good analysis, though I'd quibble a bit- in that Biden was just a puppet and didn't DO anything. I haven't seen anything to contradict that assumption so far.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2025 11:51 AM (xcxpd)

230 the frozen tundra who has been living off our country, Canada.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 14, 2025 11:48 AM (BswBb)

Has Canada ever been anything more than an enormous leech to the USA?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 14, 2025 11:51 AM (4XwPj)

231 In any event I see we have allegedly developed a kick ass unmanned fighter Jet. That's the military aviation future.
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Yep. Same for tanks and artillery.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 11:52 AM (pLaQB)

232 EM' ORECCHIETTE FOADDY-SEBUN!1!!1!

Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at March 14, 2025 11:33 AM (5hfjS)

Makes me laugh each and every time. When she goes on to her Great Reward, there will be a void.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 14, 2025 11:52 AM (Aqu9a)

233 No F35s for Portugal. At least their ears will appreciate it. I was on a road yesterday by the airport/ANG base and an F35 on takeoff went over at about 100'. Loud, loud.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 14, 2025 11:52 AM (gm9Sb)

234 Just ask them who they are. Works every time.
Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 11:50 AM (MjxY/)

Oh they HATE that, if an actor has any fame at all, hate it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2025 11:52 AM (xcxpd)

235 If I can’t get a good handle on it, I doubt the average joe is going to get it.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 14, 2025 11:46 AM (3NiEn)

You can do it

The media that follows business is nearly as bad as the regular MFM, chasing fads and news of the day. Learn to read financial reports (income, balance, cash flow, and equity statements) and decide if you like a particular company. (Reading the 'our business' section of the annual report is also helpful.)

I get ideas about stocks I never heard of from the MFM and then investigate further.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 14, 2025 11:52 AM (ufFY8)

236 TJM, what did your mother think of the condition of NYC (illegals, homeless, general crappiness, etc.)?

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 11:52 AM (77rzZ)

237 That hasn't stopped any number of people from predicting the imminent collapse of the Russian economy weekly since the invasion.

Since quite a few of these people were funded by USAID, we will probably hear less of this in the future.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 14, 2025 11:20 AM (xTIDn)
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Never going to collapse. They can keep the lights on and feed themselves. Of course even with the rubles recent rise it is still lower than the it was against the US dollar prior to the Ukrainian invasion.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 14, 2025 11:53 AM (GZYu7)

238 Portugal had ordered 27 F-35s at $50M each. That's $1.35 trillion lost directly as a result of actions by The Dotard's administration.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 14, 2025 11:47 AM (xTIDn)

New Math. The answer is relative and can be what you want it to be.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 14, 2025 11:50 AM (VofaG)

An F-35 for $50M a piece? Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

Posted by: mrp at March 14, 2025 11:53 AM (rj6Yv)

239 "Don't hire a financial advisor. They just steal $x over your lifetime. Handle it yourself!"
-some people
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I prefer fee only advisors but like doctors recommending a medicine, do your due diligence.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2025 11:53 AM (ctrM5)

240 Genghis Khan but Immanuel Kant.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 14, 2025 11:53 AM (L/fGl)

241 230 the frozen tundra who has been living off our country, Canada.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 14, 2025 11:48 AM (BswBb)

Has Canada ever been anything more than an enormous leech to the USA?
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 14, 2025 11:51 AM (4XwPj)

In the 40's and 50's, they punched above their weight, militarily.
Otherwise they're just a maple syrup reserve.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2025 11:53 AM (xcxpd)

242 Yet another Democrat can't math...

Portugal had ordered 27 F-35s at $50M each. That's $1.35 trillion lost directly as a result of actions by The Dotard's administration.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 14, 2025 11:47 AM (xTIDn)

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The three-orders of magnitude math error notwithstanding, how exactly is the sale of F-35s -- and resulting revenue -- in any way a "loss?"

F*cking retarded anti-American commies (BIRM thrice) ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 11:54 AM (pkm6L)

243 Has anyone found a website that watches the economy from the Trump side of things? I am tired of Marketwatch, because any time I look to see why the market is down (or up), it's all DOOM and GLOOOOOOMMM. I'd like to stay informed, but not influenced.
Posted by: Nancy@7000ft

Julia LaRoche on YT has pretty intelligent guests. You would probably like Ed Dowd as well, who is a guest on many podcasts.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 14, 2025 11:54 AM (lTGtQ)

244 An F-35 for $50M a piece? Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

Posted by: mrp at March 14, 2025 11:53 AM (rj6Yv)

volume discount?

Posted by: BignJames at March 14, 2025 11:54 AM (Yj6Os)

245 Genghis Khan but Immanuel Kant.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 14, 2025 11:53 AM (L/fGl

Natalie Wood

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 11:54 AM (MjxY/)

246 236 TJM, what did your mother think of the condition of NYC (illegals, homeless, general crappiness, etc.)?
Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 11:52 AM (77rzZ)

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She goes pretty frequently (I have two brothers who live there), and I've never heard them complain about it.

Seems like it's just...New York. Good areas. Bad areas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

247 224 Actors are not smart. Trust me, I know them from back when and up close. They are petty, attention-hungry, lazy perverts. And those are the good ones. Most of them are also Democrats, which is worse.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2025 11:49 AM (xcxpd)

Are we talking about actors or politicians? Because I feel like that description works for our congresscritters as well.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 14, 2025 11:55 AM (uCjyK)

248 An F-35 for $50M a piece? Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
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Ask about our extended warranty

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 14, 2025 11:55 AM (Dv3i1)

249 Never going to collapse. They can keep the lights on and feed themselves. Of course even with the rubles recent rise it is still lower than the it was against the US dollar prior to the Ukrainian invasion.

Oh, I think that the Russian economy will have long-term issues if it remains largely cut off from the West economically, which is why I have hopes that Putin would like to do a deal.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 14, 2025 11:55 AM (xTIDn)

250 My mom is in town visiting.

She just got back from NYC where she saw Glengarry Glenn Ross on Broadway. Bob Odenkirk starring.

She was over the moon for it. Mostly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 11:48 AM (GBKbO)

I would actually watch that.
Bob as 'the machine' would be good, I'll bet.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2025 11:55 AM (xcxpd)

251 An F-35 for $50M a piece? Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

Posted by: mrp at March 14, 2025 11:53 AM (rj6Yv)

volume discount?
Posted by: BignJames at March 14, 2025 11:54 AM (Yj6Os)

Absolutely. Never buy retail!

Posted by: mrp at March 14, 2025 11:55 AM (rj6Yv)

252
"Don't hire a financial advisor. They just steal $x over your lifetime. Handle it yourself!"
-some people
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 11:47 AM (GBKbO)

———-

I’m sure there are a few good financial advisors.

My MO in life has been to max out the match on my 401k and hold a good variety of mutual funds in it. Basic dollar cost averaging.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 14, 2025 11:55 AM (3NiEn)

253 The three-orders of magnitude math error notwithstanding, how exactly is the sale of F-35s -- and resulting revenue -- in any way a "loss?"

The claim is that Portugal canceled the F-35 deal.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 14, 2025 11:56 AM (xTIDn)

254 Never going to collapse. They can keep the lights on and feed themselves. Of course even with the rubles recent rise it is still lower than the it was against the US dollar prior to the Ukrainian invasion.
Posted by: Black JEM

Don't use rubles as a sole index for how well a country is doing nor GDP as both are subject to manipulation from reporting, etc.

When you get into thinly traded currencies, market manipulation becomes relatively easy. Interest rates, inflation, investment flows, foreign bank reserves, business starts, etc. are better markers than currency.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2025 11:56 AM (ctrM5)

255 Genghis Khan but Immanuel Kant.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 14, 2025 11:53 AM (L/fGl)

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[I've told this story before here:]

Had a visiting philosophy professor from England back in college who pronounced the latter's name "c*nt." Half the class continually giggled after each occurrence, and he never seemed to understand why ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 11:57 AM (pkm6L)

256 Never going to collapse. They can keep the lights on and feed themselves. Of course even with the rubles recent rise it is still lower than the it was against the US dollar prior to the Ukrainian invasion.

Oh, I think that the Russian economy will have long-term issues if it remains largely cut off from the West economically, which is why I have hopes that Putin would like to do a deal.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 14, 2025 11:55 AM (xTIDn)
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I'm hoping that the carrot Trump is holding out in that regard might make Putin amenable to ending the war. Russia's long term outlook of course is pretty poor at the moment, and the war didn't help that at all.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 14, 2025 11:57 AM (GZYu7)

257 202 We still don't know where Genghis Khan was buried, either.
Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 11:45 AM (77rzZ)

Because he still walks the earth, as an Immortal.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2025 11:57 AM (xcxpd)

258 She goes pretty frequently (I have two brothers who live there), and I've never heard them complain about it.

Seems like it's just...New York. Good areas. Bad areas.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

Yeah, I think that's how most of us who live here feel. Is it getting worse? I don't know. Do I personally feel endangered? Not usually. Is crime bad in my neighborhood? Compared to what?

It's hard to really answer that question. Would I want to be on the 4/5/6 platform waiting for a downtown train at 125th street at 11 pm? No.

Am I fine riding a Q train from 34th St. to 72nd St. during the day? Yeah, absolutely.

Do I sometimes see homeless people pissing on the trains and getting in peoples faces? Yes.

Do I see homeless people passed out or muttering to themselves in a corner in the subway system? All the time.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 14, 2025 11:58 AM (uCjyK)

259 The last I read, the Portuguese were "thinking about European alternatives".

Posted by: mrp at March 14, 2025 11:58 AM (rj6Yv)

260 Bought Keurig pods yesterday at the supermarket. $27 for a 48 pack. 56 cents a cup. Should I set my hair on fire now or wait until the price hits 60 cents?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 14, 2025 11:58 AM (Qeko5)

261 Genghis Khan but Immanuel Kant.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 14, 2025 11:53 AM (L/fGl

Natalie Wood
Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 11:54 AM (MjxY/)

Lukas Haas

Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2025 11:58 AM (dGCAG)

262 250 I would actually watch that.
Bob as 'the machine' would be good, I'll bet.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2025 11:55 AM (xcxpd)

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Odenkirk plays Shelley who is apparently a variation of Saul Goodman, so he's apparently perfect in it.

She just didn't like the minimalist staging and had a shock at how drama plays out on the stage after a lifetime of only seeing drama play out visually on screens. Musical theater doesn't have the same problem, in her mind.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

263 My MO in life has been to max out the match on my 401k and hold a good variety of mutual funds in it. Basic dollar cost averaging.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 14, 2025 11:55 AM (3NiEn)

Yeah, me too.
Except that I started with some index funds (SPY) and broad based funds, then started buying individual stocks. Got a decent basket of them now. Pretty much buy and hold.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 14, 2025 11:59 AM (ufFY8)

264 The claim is that Portugal canceled the F-35 deal.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 14, 2025 11:56 AM (xTIDn)

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Ah, thanks for the clarification.

Still, of course, they remain OUR ASSETS worth that same amount (for now) on the feral gubmint balance sheet, so still in no way a "loss" ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 11:59 AM (pkm6L)

265 Seems like it's just...New York. Good areas. Bad areas.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

Yeah, I think that's how most of us who live here feel. Is it getting worse? I don't know. Do I personally feel endangered? Not usually. Is crime bad in my neighborhood? Compared to what?

It's hard to really answer that question. Would I want to be on the 4/5/6 platform waiting for a downtown train at 125th street at 11 pm? No.

Am I fine riding a Q train from 34th St. to 72nd St. during the day? Yeah, absolutely.

Do I sometimes see homeless people pissing on the trains and getting in peoples faces? Yes.

Do I see homeless people passed out or muttering to themselves in a corner in the subway system? All the time.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 14, 2025 11:58 AM (uCjyK)

See, all that sounds like good reasons to stay out.
Like I don't go into Seattle at all anymore.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2025 11:59 AM (xcxpd)

266 265 See, all that sounds like good reasons to stay out.
Like I don't go into Seattle at all anymore.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2025 11:59 AM (xcxpd)

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I'm not a big city person either.

Except Rome. I'd live in Rome again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

267 Arabica beans? F#ck that Shat, Folgers Classic Roast!!!

Posted by: FRANK BOOTH at March 14, 2025 12:00 PM (W2EWw)

268 The Trump administration threatened sanctions against any Western bank financing Russian petroleum sales to Europe. Three days later, Putin sez "yeah, let's talk".

Posted by: mrp at March 14, 2025 12:01 PM (rj6Yv)

269 Lukas Haas
Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2025 11:58 AM (dGCAG)

George Will

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 12:01 PM (MjxY/)

270 Genghis Khan but Immanuel Kant.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 14, 2025 11:53 AM (L/fGl

Natalie Wood
Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 11:54 AM (MjxY/)

Lukas Haas
Posted by: BurtTC

George Will

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 12:01 PM (77rzZ)

271 Oh, I think that the Russian economy will have long-term issues if it remains largely cut off from the West economically, which is why I have hopes that Putin would like to do a deal.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 14, 2025 11:55 AM (xTIDn)

Economic isolation is generally not a good idea, but imagine a country with nearly boundless resources, that stops outsourcing all its vital manufacturing and goods to other countries, and then complains when those other countries treat its marketplace like a cheap 5 dollar whore.

Oh, what a world that would be.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2025 12:01 PM (dGCAG)

272 When one hears price per military aircraft it takes the breath away. Maybe, after DOGE, Elon could step in and rectify that matter.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 14, 2025 12:01 PM (gm9Sb)

273 "Don't hire a financial advisor. They just steal $x over your lifetime. Handle it yourself!"
-some people
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I prefer fee only advisors but like doctors recommending a medicine, do your due diligence.
Posted by: whig at March 14, 2025 11:53 AM (ctrM5)

Look into their licensing and their broker-dealer alignment. That combo forms a boundary of what products and client types they are permitted to work with.

This applies no matter where on the spectrum of commission only-to-fee only compensation. Form ADV is your friend. Get it and read it cover to cover.

*I spent a decade building a successful fee-based financial planning practice with a certain major Rock-like financial company.*

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 14, 2025 12:01 PM (Aqu9a)

274 See, all that sounds like good reasons to stay out.
Like I don't go into Seattle at all anymore.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Big cities? Hell, I don't even like to go to Knoxville anymore.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2025 12:01 PM (cYBz/)

275 Dammit, Ellipsis beat to me to it.

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 12:01 PM (77rzZ)

276 "Don't hire a financial advisor. They just steal $x over your lifetime. Handle it yourself!"
-some people
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I prefer fee only advisors but like doctors recommending a medicine, do your due diligence.
Posted by: whig at March 14, 2025 11:53 AM (ctrM5)
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I do my own investing and financial planning. It's not rocket science. The dirty little secret is even the best "experts" are more often wrong than right, and very few -- if any -- can out-perform the market over the long term. Why pay them for this? Either do the work yourself, or put your money in very-low-fee diversified index funds or "total stock market" funds, where you can just buy and forget it.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 14, 2025 12:01 PM (iFTx/)

277 216 I'm not intelligent and I have no credentials and the most reading I've done in my life is probably Mad Magazine.
Posted by: ...
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Mad was pretty prescient over the putrefaction of Hollyweird and Spy v. Spy was an insight on the ludicrous intel community.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2025 12:01 PM (ctrM5)

278 Do I sometimes see homeless people pissing on the trains and getting in peoples faces? Yes.

Do I see homeless people passed out or muttering to themselves in a corner in the subway system? All the time.

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We have just accepted this madness. It didn't used to be this way and doesn't have to continue to be this way.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at March 14, 2025 12:01 PM (0dHvB)

279 Ah, thanks for the clarification.

Still, of course, they remain OUR ASSETS worth that same amount (for now) on the feral gubmint balance sheet, so still in no way a "loss" ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 11:59 AM (pkm6L)

No, our Military Industrial Complex had a contract to build and sell the F-35 to Portugal. Who has now cancelled the contract. So defense contractors are sad.

Because Lockheed was expecting to make a lot of money selling these jets that American tax payers paid to research, develop and built, internationally.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 14, 2025 12:02 PM (uCjyK)

280 262 250 I would actually watch that.
Bob as 'the machine' would be good, I'll bet.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2025 11:55 AM (xcxpd)

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Odenkirk plays Shelley who is apparently a variation of Saul Goodman, so he's apparently perfect in it.

She just didn't like the minimalist staging and had a shock at how drama plays out on the stage after a lifetime of only seeing drama play out visually on screens. Musical theater doesn't have the same problem, in her mind.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

Live theater is interesting. Sometimes an actor can just catch fire and give a performance that takes your breath away. And sometimes things go wrong or someone ad-libs.
Mamet's dialog is so fucking good, it's like catnip for actors.

What shocked her? And in what way?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2025 12:02 PM (xcxpd)

281 The marmots have emerged from hibernation. This morning I saw two huge whistlepigs excavating the building next door. I want to pick them up and hug and squeeze them so bad.

Posted by: Ides Of gp at March 14, 2025 12:02 PM (3l52y)

282 When you get into thinly traded currencies, market manipulation becomes relatively easy. Interest rates, inflation, investment flows, foreign bank reserves, business starts, etc. are better markers than currency.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2025 11:56 AM (ctrM5)
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Russia has never had significant investment flows in except into the oil sector, there just isn't much of a market there outside of it.

Interest rates have been higher because the currency is essentially worthless. No foreign country wants it, and if you visit Russia because of the SWIFT sanctions credit cards don't work very well. And they force you to take foreign currency to buy rubles. It's a mess, which makes it hard to finance the deficit spending to finance a war.

They've done an admirable job in that regard in that the boat is still floating - but let's never confuse the Russian economy as good. It is "good" when oil prices are high. And they can easily sell it. And its price is falling rather rapidly at the moment.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 14, 2025 12:03 PM (GZYu7)

283 280 What shocked her? And in what way?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2025 12:02 PM (xcxpd)

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More like culture shock (imperfect analogy) than actual shock.

Surprise at how it differed from expectations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)

284 Big cities? Hell, I don't even like to go to Knoxville anymore.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2025 12:01 PM (cYBz/)

That's too bad. It's on my list of places to visit someday.
Still haven't seen Tennessee...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2025 12:03 PM (xcxpd)

285 We have just accepted this madness. It didn't used to be this way and doesn't have to continue to be this way.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at March 14, 2025 12:01 PM (0dHvB)

On the one hand, that's true. On the other hand, I don't know how anyone fixes this problem. On the other other hand, NYC was just as bad (if not worse) in the 1970's and 1980's, and had a huge turnaround.

So I mean... I guess anything is possible.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 14, 2025 12:04 PM (uCjyK)

286 I do my own investing and financial planning. It's not rocket science. The dirty little secret is even the best "experts" are more often wrong than right, and very few -- if any -- can out-perform the market over the long term. Why pay them for this? Either do the work yourself, or put your money in very-low-fee diversified index funds or "total stock market" funds, where you can just buy and forget it.
Posted by: Elric Blade
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Advisors are useful when you have major transitions in life that require restructuring portfolios but chasing the highest returns in a market generally requires treating the whole investing deal as a job and maintaining the proper fear/greed attitude.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2025 12:04 PM (ctrM5)

287 Gotta feed & care for the kids.

Has Portugal extended Temporary Protected Status to Ukraine? Fragomen dot com: Worldwide/Ukraine: Temporary Protection Status - Country-Specific Updates, March 12, 2025

>Portugal: February 19, 2025: Temporary Protection status has been further extended until March 1, 2025.

And then...

Posted by: L - No nick, another fine day at March 14, 2025 12:04 PM (NFX2v)

288 Mad was pretty prescient over the putrefaction of Hollyweird and Spy v. Spy was an insight on the ludicrous intel community.
Posted by: whig at March 14, 2025 12:01 PM (ctrM5)

Plus it successfully predicted the 2008 and 2012 president back in the 70s.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 12:04 PM (MjxY/)

289 Moonack, weenusk, land beaver, groundpig, thickwood badger.

Posted by: Ides Of gp at March 14, 2025 12:04 PM (3l52y)

290 284 Big cities? Hell, I don't even like to go to Knoxville anymore.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2025 12:01 PM (cYBz/)

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My grandfather lived in Knoxville. Went there a bunch as a kid. He was a political science professor at UT.

Saw a couple of games at Neyland (both loses to the Gators).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 12:05 PM (GBKbO)

291 They've done an admirable job in that regard in that the boat is still floating - but let's never confuse the Russian economy as good. It is "good" when oil prices are high. And they can easily sell it. And its price is falling rather rapidly at the moment.
Posted by: Black JEM
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Good summary.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2025 12:05 PM (ctrM5)

292 Unfortunately the last 20 years of my career was with a company in Receivership and they did no 401k matching.

I figure though it was at most a $30k loss.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 14, 2025 12:05 PM (VofaG)

293 Plus it successfully predicted the 2008 and 2012 president back in the 70s.
Posted by: ...
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Ugh. I will try to not hold that against the fond memories of reading MAD as a yute.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2025 12:06 PM (ctrM5)

294 I attended the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot in Knoxville. That was awesome!

Posted by: Ides Of gp at March 14, 2025 12:06 PM (3l52y)

295 289 Moonack, weenusk, land beaver, groundpig, thickwood badger.
Posted by: Ides Of gp at March 14, 2025 12:04 PM (3l52y)

What are the high-school nicknames of Lena Dunham...

Posted by: Carnac the Magnificent at March 14, 2025 12:06 PM (PiwSw)

296 Still haven't seen Tennessee...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

TN has more waterfalls and caves than you can shake a stick at. On the Cumberland Plateau alone, there are over 100 named falls. If you want to visit a TN city - Chattanooga is still nice. Loads to see and reasonably safe.

And Rock City is close.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2025 12:06 PM (cYBz/)

297
George Wendt

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2025 12:06 PM (xG4kz)

298 See, all that sounds like good reasons to stay out.
Like I don't go into Seattle at all anymore.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2025 11:59 AM (xcxpd)

Interestingly, I had to spend some time in Seattle for work not too long ago.

Wasn't as bad as I was expecting. Lots of homeless people, sure, but in my experience west coast homeless people are different.

Lots of people idling around smoking pot, but none seemed dangerous. Most reminded me of my dead beat cousin who only cares about drinking beer and skateboarding.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 14, 2025 12:06 PM (uCjyK)

299 Saw a couple of games at Neyland (both loses to the Gators).
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Spurrier, rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 12:06 PM (pLaQB)

300 299 Saw a couple of games at Neyland (both loses to the Gators).
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Spurrier, rite?
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 12:06 PM (pLaQB)

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The first one. I think the second was Mayer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 12:07 PM (GBKbO)

301
The Firefly lander on the Moon got some shots of the eclipse from the Moon. It was a solar eclipse from the POV of the Moon:

https://tinyurl.com/26glvtsp

More shots will come. Their X-band antenna needs to warm up

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 14, 2025 12:07 PM (w6EFb)

302 My grandfather lived in Knoxville. Went there a bunch as a kid. He was a political science professor at UT.

Saw a couple of games at Neyland (both loses to the Gators).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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They used to have a good poly sci program up there in Tenn. Had some friends go to grad school there in the 80's and 90's.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2025 12:07 PM (ctrM5)

303 302 They used to have a good poly sci program up there in Tenn. Had some friends go to grad school there in the 80's and 90's.
Posted by: whig at March 14, 2025 12:07 PM (ctrM5)

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Probably taught by my grandpappy.

He specialized in regulatory agencies. I have a copy of his dissertation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

304 osted by: Harry Paratestes at March 14, 2025 12:02 PM (uCjyK)

no it just becomes unsold inventory or unrealized gross revenue if they haven't been built yet.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 14, 2025 12:08 PM (VofaG)

305 On the one hand, that's true. On the other hand, I don't know how anyone fixes this problem.

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It is not just a NY problem. Every major city has this problem. And it just kind of sucks. I think it can be fixed. And I think if someone in a big city started fixing it, it would actually be very popular, especially among the rich lefty donor set.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at March 14, 2025 12:09 PM (0dHvB)

306 Best memory of Knoxville the city: cheap cigs! They must have very low tobacco taxes.

Posted by: Ides Of gp at March 14, 2025 12:09 PM (3l52y)

307 Posted by: Black JEM
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Good summary.
Posted by: whig

I think this is what is bringing Putin to the ceasefire bargaining table. He would like to get a trade agreement with the Big Dog. That would go a long way to boost the Russian economy in a non petroleum industry. Which would be good for Russia in the long run and, if Trump is the deal master, good for USA as well.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 14, 2025 12:09 PM (4XwPj)

308 I got my financial advisor through Dave Ramsey's site. I went with an older guy as I wanted someone familiar with stagflation. It's worked out well and I have control over where I put my money.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 14, 2025 12:10 PM (7PR43)

309 Of the 50 largest cities in America 42 of them are run by Democrats.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 14, 2025 12:10 PM (VofaG)

310 Ask the average LIV how much stocks have crashed in 2025. They’ll probably say 25%. Because that’s what the man wants you to think.

Actual number? 3-4% for DJIA and S&P500.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 14, 2025 12:11 PM (Qeko5)

311 > The Firefly lander on the Moon got some shots of the eclipse from the Moon. It was a solar eclipse from the POV of the Moon
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Pretty cool. I wondered what it'd look like.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2025 12:11 PM (Q4IgG)

312 And Rock City is close.
Posted by: Tonypete
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One time, due to a severe wreck outside of Chattanooga blocking the interstate, I ended up going the REALLY old US 41 Route as in the original Dixie Highway to get past the blockage. Went very close to Rock City but it was literally go round and round the mountain on a 30's vintage highway in heavy traffic. That route comes out at the heart of Old Chattanooga on the plains.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2025 12:11 PM (ctrM5)

313 It is not just a NY problem. Every major city has this problem. And it just kind of sucks. I think it can be fixed. And I think if someone in a big city started fixing it, it would actually be very popular, especially among the rich lefty donor set.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at March 14, 2025 12:09 PM (0dHvB)

The truly rich don't care. They don't use public transportation and aren't affected by the worst of it. In fact, they like the street cred of saying they're from the mean gritty streets of NYC.

The upper middle class, which is obviously a much bigger group of people, are largely retarded and unable to comprehend how "bail reform" (to keep poor kids from the school to prison pipeline!) leads to an increase in crime.

But yes, if there was the political will to change things, it could happen. But there is not.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 14, 2025 12:12 PM (uCjyK)

314 I think this is what is bringing Putin to the ceasefire bargaining table. He would like to get a trade agreement with the Big Dog. That would go a long way to boost the Russian economy in a non petroleum industry. Which would be good for Russia in the long run and, if Trump is the deal master, good for USA as well.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem

If Putin wants his country to be more than a source for China's looting of mineral and petroleum wealth, he has to look West. Just like only Nixon could go to China, you may have the obverse, only Trump could go to Russia. Russia is a helluva much less strategic threat than China is at this moment.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2025 12:13 PM (ctrM5)

315 Ask the average LIV how much stocks have crashed in 2025. They’ll probably say 25%. Because that’s what the man wants you to think.

Actual number? 3-4% for DJIA and S&P500.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 14, 2025 12:11 PM (Qeko5)
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Bigger hit for tech and NASDAQ, but otherwise I agree. Also there was a big bull run in Q4 so these aren't "losses" so much as reductions in profit. Assuming, of course, you didn't buy late last year.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 14, 2025 12:13 PM (iFTx/)

316 The folks I follow on X that deal with the homeless in Portland went on a trip to Seattle. Iger the impression they found the Seattle homeless less violent.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 14, 2025 12:13 PM (7PR43)

317 nood

Posted by: Ides Of gp at March 14, 2025 12:14 PM (3l52y)

318 The Boss is up.

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 12:15 PM (77rzZ)

319 Russia is a helluva much less strategic threat than China is at this moment.
Posted by: whig at March 14, 2025 12:13 PM

Russia has never been a threat to the USA. Never. The Soviet Union was a huge threat. But that wasn't Russia.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 14, 2025 12:15 PM (4XwPj)

320 Mad was pretty prescient over the putrefaction of Hollyweird and Spy v. Spy was an insight on the ludicrous intel community.

Then they went full-on anti-Trump and their boat sank.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 14, 2025 12:16 PM (WPL6O)

321 Probably taught by my grandpappy.

He specialized in regulatory agencies. I have a copy of his dissertation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I know of one guy who trained one of my Public Admin graduate faculty professors who went to UTenn for his PhD, probably took your grandfather's classes.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2025 12:17 PM (ctrM5)

322 Buck, in lieu of actual bonds I've invested in a couple of BDC's, a bank preferred, and a bond-like NatGas MLP. There's a bit more risk than in a straight bond fund and more income. I'd be interested in your take, especially on BDC's, which have steadily taken market share from traditional commercial lenders over the last decade.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 14, 2025 12:18 PM (0OIwA)

323 My father loves bond funds because many of them pay a healthy 5-8%. They are not hugely volatile and unlikely to ever go completely kaput, so it's a good long term play. I have noticed, however, the underlying value of many of them have still not come back to where they were pre-Covid/Biden. So your overall portfolio value might show a loss but if you are taking the income at 5-8% that's not bad.

Posted by: Lex at March 14, 2025 12:22 PM (l5xX+)

324 I think this is what is bringing Putin to the ceasefire bargaining table. He would like to get a trade agreement with the Big Dog. That would go a long way to boost the Russian economy in a non petroleum industry. Which would be good for Russia in the long run and, if Trump is the deal master, good for USA as well.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem

If Putin wants his country to be more than a source for China's looting of mineral and petroleum wealth, he has to look West. Just like only Nixon could go to China, you may have the obverse, only Trump could go to Russia. Russia is a helluva much less strategic threat than China is at this moment.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2025 12:13 PM (ctrM5)
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I think we saw Russia as a middle east meddler and made assumptions about their military capabilities which the Ukrainian war just disproved. Now with the collapse of their middle east power center, and the hollowing out of their young male population, outside of their nukes, they are not a threat. Figuring out how to get them comfortable with what they have so as to further isolate China would be a good thing.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 14, 2025 12:28 PM (GZYu7)

325 My coffee purchases have gone from $8.60 for a pound to $8.60 for 12 ounces to $12 for 12 ounces to over $13 for 12 ounces. Whether there is a shortage or a glut in supply, prices have always gone up and sizes gone down.

Posted by: Advo at March 14, 2025 12:28 PM (jO4mz)

326 You're right to fear the bond market.

Financial institutions were gobbling up long term debt issued at or near 1% to fund the years of biden deficits. Accounting rules allow institutions to claim 100% face value on their balance sheets to give the appearance of solvency. If institutions run into liquidity problems and they're force to sell these bonds they'll be lucky to get .50c on the dollar. And they've got trillions of them.

Posted by: dinosaur at March 14, 2025 12:31 PM (uO41q)

327 Stocks and bonds.

You haven't gained or lost anything until you sell. If you don't need to sell, nothing to worry about.

It's why you should also have cash/CDs fairly liquid assets as the buffer to ride out ups and downs. So you're never in a position where you HAVE to sell at a bad time.

Posted by: You're in hell, the world ended at March 14, 2025 12:32 PM (esXKt)

328 Honey has so little water and so much sugar in it that any microbes landing on it have the water drawn from their cells, killing them. It's been used as a primitive version of neosporin, and honey found in Egyptian tombs was still, technically, edible.
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Alexander's favorite general was preserved in a tomb filled with honey. They did this while on their death march from India. No one has ever found this tomb.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 11:31 AM (pLaQB)
I'll get right on it!

Posted by: Geraldo at March 14, 2025 01:10 PM (kJH1Z)

329 How about this:
"Tougher Immigration Policies Create Glut of Coffee Growers."
"Juan Valdez buys another donkey as more coffee workers stay home."
"Fentanyl Production Workers Return to Coffee Plantations. Coffee futures plummet.

Posted by: wferrin at March 14, 2025 02:14 PM (lCdHU)

330 "Brazil and Vietnam are the two biggest coffee exporters, and both have smaller crops this year. In Vietnam it’s due to coffee farmers replanting much of their cropland to grow durian (a fruit) for the Chinese market. In Brazil, the crop is smaller due to bad weather."

I have been trading coffee since 1986. Durian is nasty stinky shit but you get a crop that produces well the first year you plant it whereas coffee takes 3 years to produce and 5-7 to start hitting its stride so there's a lot of incentive to o for the quicker return on your investment. That said, the old commodity adage that "the cure for high prices is high prices" may well come true over the next year or two, as the producers are (in general) making INSANE money this year as the market is at levels never before dreamed of (not if you adjust for inflation of course) which means that if the weather in most producing countries is just normal next year you will see a massive crop, especially from Brazil. The crop this year, which will start harvesting in May, still has some upside but the window is closing. The adage also applies to the demand side as consumers have not yet seen the full impact of price increases.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at March 14, 2025 02:14 PM (9DX0S)

331 Outstanding post, Buck! SPOT ON!

Posted by: FINGERS at March 14, 2025 03:02 PM (C8ve7)

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