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Yeah, because Youtube channels sure have the resources to do quality investigative journalism.
Thunderlips Russian Agent 0069 says
It is not a natural force like a hurricane or earthquake. It is 110% big business in politics. It can be 110% reversed by politics.
That's not true, comparative advantage is known and accepted natural law.
China is guilty of mercantilism. OTOH the US is guilty of exploiting the reserve currency status.
However, the likelihood of the next world war being the last is very high...
Not really. You will be surprised.
Conjecture.
For me this election has shown the media to to too powerful and corrupt. I can't find a news source that doesn't have a built in bias. Staying in touch with what's going on is a massive day to day slog. I have some shows that I like on YouTube, but I never watch main stream news anymore.
If Clinton is elected, will she allow the AT&T-Time Warner merger to go through? Quite frankly we should be busting up the current media companies, not allowing more mergers between them.
With any new regime change, our enemies will attack us soon to test the strength of our response. It's like a child testing the response and pushing the limits of a parent. You heard it here first.
With any new regime change, our enemies will attack us soon to test the strength of our response.
Spoken like a true comrade.
illary is a neocon my fear is the opposite problem.
I think Clinton in a landslide, because you cannot offend women, blacks, Hispanics, disabled and everyone under the sun and hope white men vote for you.
How did he offend Blacks, Hispanics and Disabled? Quotes please.
Why did you capitalize Hispanics and not "blacks"? You're a racist.
Try suggesting that motherhood is actually a worthy and noble use of 20 years of a young woman's life on any college campus. You'll be tied up, doused with gasoline, and burned alive, while being kicked to death.
And ask those same girl 10 years later. She'll feel as a failure if she didn't get any 'husband material' with which do Crl+V of her genes
If Trump wins (very much like the Brexit), the dollar will drop, and therefore US exports will surge. There will be tariffs against China, and US manufacturing will in fact revive. Some form of the wall with Mexico will be built, and millions of illegals will leave or be deported (so the cost of vegetables, maids, and construction work will go up)
Overall US prosperity will increase for the masses
So I guess Donald Trump will find an error on David Ricardo's math
Hahahahaha. Trump and republicans will pass big tax breaks for the wealthy, increasing owner class's share of wealth generating assets, while the worker class is increasingly enslaved to rent and borrow.
It's true Trump is not a capitalist.
He is a crony capitalist. The one thing about him is that he creates things illary destroys them and is a neocon.
The one thing about him is that he creates things illary destroys them and is a neocon.
I don't know, isn't most of his wealth due to leveraging in the property market? Not much manufacturing going on there...
I don't know, isn't most of his wealth due to leveraging in the property market? Not much manufacturing going on there...
Is that not creation?
What Trump inflationary "prosperity" would look like.
How is Trump going to cause inflation?
HILLARY HAS THE VOCAL MINORITY SCREECHING
TRUMP HAS THE SILENT MAJORITY HIDING FROM THE ABOVE
Thunderlips Russian Agent 0069 says
If Clinton is elected, will she allow the AT&T-Time Warner merger to go through? Quite frankly we should be busting up the current media companies, not allowing more mergers between them
Exactly how is the proposed AT&T - Time Warner merger monopolistic? It's not like AT&T is trying to buy T-Mobile.
US citizens are going to have to work very hard to pick up our slack on Science and Engineering and Manufacturing
As an ex-engineer, I can attest to the lack of jobs for engineers in the US as the reason as the alleged "slide". When manufacturing left the US, so did a lot of the engineering jobs. No jobs = less people going to college for it. There are loads of unemployed or under employed engineers in the US.
Thunderlips Russian Agent 0069 says
People seem to think before the early 90s, nobody owned TVs, Phones, Cars, or Fax Machines because they were all made in the USA and it cost $10,000 to have a touch tone phone or that a Ford Econoline Van cost $250,000 because it was made expensively in the USA, and only the very rich had touch tone phones or cars until we outsourced everything..
Sir,
You are correct in part, but I have purchased a Ford Escape with parts from US and Mexico. I compared to a BMW 3 SUV, which was nearly 70% more than the Ford, had a superior stereo, excellent handling and slightly better engine and seats. I have driven the Ford for 85K miles and spend
Thunderlips Russian Agent 0069 says
People seem to think before the early 90s, nobody owned TVs, Phones, Cars, or Fax Machines because they were all made in the USA and it cost $10,000 to have a touch tone phone or that a Ford Econoline Van cost $250,000 because it was made expensively in the USA, and only the very rich had touch tone phones or cars until we outsourced everything..
Sir,
You are correct in part, but I have purchased a Ford Escape with parts from US and Mexico. I compared to a BMW 3 SUV, which was nearly 70% more than the Ford, had a superior stereo, excellent handling and slightly better engine and seats. I have driven the Ford for 85K miles and spend less than $1500 in maintenance, that would not been the case with the BMW.
So with parity in taxes, laws, encouragement of manufacturing, reduction in costs/complexity of liability/Workers Comp Ins, Tax breaks for Cap Ex, the US is in some cases poised to re-establish basic R&D and Manufacturing.
For very advanced R&D (Alt Energy, Atmos Eng for Global Warming reduction, advanced Hydrogen extraction, artificial photosynthesis) if the US incentivized Education, R&D tax breaks, funding for adv R&D to the tune of $5-8B per year, the US could increase output and improve GDP.
While Obama hammered home his "Hope and Change" for the first few years, it was dropped as it was an empty misleading slogan.
We need visionary and progressive minded leaders. Obama and Clinton do not appear to have these traits.
What Trump inflationary "prosperity" would look like.
British Service Growth continues to explode, despite rising costs (read: Wage increases).
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/news/services-sector-growth-accelerates-despite-costs-increase-35185029.html
Low growth + low inflation has been a sign of unequal, 1%er concentrated gains. Moderate inflation is a sign the economy is truly growing for everybody.
Exactly how is the proposed AT&T - Time Warner merger monopolistic? It's not like AT&T is trying to buy T-Mobile.
You're thinking Mobile Phones. I'm thinking AT&T's control of Media. And Cable, do we really need less Cable/Internet competition?
Blonigen was quick to point out that the paper says nothing about any individual deal, including the AT&T-Time Warner blockbuster. Deciding whether to approve or reject that merger will require significant work to go over detailed data about each company and the media industry. There are also other concerns with vertical mergers in this space. An AT&T-Time Warner goliath could favor its own content—Time Warner owns HBO and Turner Broadcast which includes CNN, TBS, TNT and other channels—over content from other providers. There’s also growing concern that vertical mergers give combined firms too much power in the labor market, resulting in lower wages and benefits for workers.
If Trump wins (very much like the Brexit), the dollar will drop, and therefore US exports will surge. There will be tariffs against China, and US manufacturing will in fact revive. Some form of the wall with Mexico will be built, and millions of illegals will leave or be deported (so the cost of vegetables, maids, and construction work will go up). People will feel free to support traditional values like clear gender roles and heterosexual marriage, and the declining marriage rate will reverse and start rising again. We will withdraw militarily from many countries. Iran will invade and take over Saudi Arabia's mostly-Shiite oil fields, and Saudi Arabia will plunge into civil war, raising the price of oil. Oil production in the US and other countries will go up to compensate and oil prices will fall again. Overall US prosperity will increase for the masses, while the super-wealthy find their wealth stagnating because they depended so much on Hillary's policies. So the gap between rich and poor will decline
Oh my goodness, we can't have THAT. Killory must win at any costs, get those dead people's ballots out again, this time they should vote 10 times each. Anything but traditional values. GADS!!!! Will the madness never stop?
Thunderlips Russian Agent 0069 says
Low growth + low inflation has been a sign of unequal, 1%er concentrated gains. Moderate inflation is a sign the economy is truly growing for everybody.
Exacerbated by cheap money that allows the 1% to invest ahead of a create their own inflation.
I had a dream last night, it was stormy outside and I was in a bar having a good time with Bush Jr, Obama, and Trump, we were all having a good time laughing about this election. I don’t even like all three, was it an omen?
Thunderlips Russian Agent 0069 says
Tax Breaks for the Rich, Private Prisons, Mass Incarceration, Bank Deregulation, Opposition to reimposing Glass-Steagal,
Dogs and Cats, Living Together. :)
The banks would crash if it was reimposed, not that it would not be good. There is just a big chasm between us and good.
The macro economics are simple.
The US exports inflation, the definition of inflation is an increase in the money supply with an increase in demand.
The above is dependent on demographics at which point there will be inflation IMO.
The Prez has nothing to do with the above.
Exacerbated by cheap money that allows the 1% to invest ahead of a create their own inflation.
Said Cheap Money is caused by ZIRP which was cause by Housing Bubble Malinvestment, along with NAFTA. Service Industry growth cannot create tax base that supports all local, state and Fed government function.
Cant raise ZIRP because all the legal eagle insider deals were Ponzi Scheme in a transfer of influence for cash, which cannot last forever.
This specter of low manufacturing, limited jobs, government induced house appreciation, goverment induced manufacture, government regulation and real job loss results in low GDP, inability to escape ZIRP. All the while the Ponzi Malivestment gets transferred to deficit and will grow until such Ponzi Malivestment are stopped and reversed. Such shady lobbying by the administration flows into the Judicial control, and likely influence of the Fed by the administration, means that much more forcefull event will be required to stop the Pay to Play, Lobbying and Clinton Kleptocrasy/Empire.
Watching RUPTLY coverage. They claim there are 2 other parties in the race... First a Green Party!!?? and a Libertarian Party?
LOL. Whatever, lying sacks... who makes this stuff up??
Said Cheap Money is caused by ZIRP which was cause by Housing Bubble Malinvestment, along with NAFTA
The point I look at was ZIRP and QE, which exacerbated the problem.
Cant raise ZIRP because all the legal eagle insider deals were Ponzi Scheme in a transfer of influence for cash, which cannot last forever.
I have come to think that ZIRP is more organic than it appears.
This specter of low manufacturing, limited jobs, government induced house appreciation, goverment induced manufacture, government regulation and real job loss results in low GDP, inability to escape ZIRP.
Manufacturing jobs are lower but not the manufacturing sales.
Even the appreciation is on a record low home ownership.
GDP is a poor metric of how an economy is doing.
This has little to do with my point at post # 81
It is called the Cantillon Effect, which says that inflation is not equal and the people who receive the money first are able to invest ahead of the inflation.
Is that not creation?
Explain...
This is an indicator of a binary: Does the person make things better or worse.
Trump creates casinos and real estate products.
Hillary creates wars and death and nothing valuable. The Clinton foundation is a highly dubious organization.
Cant raise ZIRP
It's currently set for December, but you can be sure as the time comes closer it will be explained that "now is just not the right time to raise interest rates."
It's currently set for December, but you can be sure as the time comes closer it will be explained that "now is just not the right time to raise interest rates."
Sir,
If Trump wins, it will be the ideal time for raising interest rates.
It's shapping up to be a landslide by the data being reported by precincts that have closed and reported already.
This may be a repeat of every Primary that Trump smashed right through where he was supposed to have his clear path to Victory killed by all polls and media accounts.
It might be Curtains for the Clintons Curtains and iron bars
http://orig06.deviantart.net/1de1/f/2007/126/8/3/curtain___04_by_lunanyxstock.jpg
Remember when Democrats were critical of Warmongers? Pepperridge Farm remembers.
(The speech she's referring to is Obama's anti-Iraq War speech, whereas she and McCain were Proudly - even as late as 2008 - patting themselves on the back for it)
Thunderlips Russian Agent 0069 says
Low growth + low inflation has been a sign of unequal, 1%er concentrated gains. Moderate inflation is a sign the economy is truly growing for everybody.
Or that sterling has collapsed in value, so the cost of many goods has risen as a consequence.
Temporarily, perhaps.
Without EU regulations, the UK will be able to trade with other nations more easily. Perhaps it can buy cheap goods from China?
Or that sterling has collapsed in value, so the cost of many goods has risen as a consequence.
But volcanoes haven't erupted and frogs haven't rained from the heavens, eh? In fact the economic news is mildly better.
Inflation is great for debtors, be it college or mortgages, by the way.
Temporarily, perhaps.
Without EU regulations, the UK will be able to trade with other nations more easily. Perhaps it can buy cheap goods from China?
Shame getting on for 50% of trade is with the EU. And given the importance of the financial sector to the UK...
Thunderlips Russian Agent 0069 says
But volcanoes haven't erupted and frogs haven't rained from the heavens, eh? In fact the economic news is mildly better.
Inflation is great for debtors, by the way.
It also demonstrates what you said isn't necessarily accurate. And potential double digit rises in food prices is bad for the poor, by the way. And the UK hasn't actually started the process of leaving the EU yet...
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I don't know whether Trump will win the election or not. I think he has a better chance than polls predict, because the majority of Americans have been strongly conditioned not to speak their actual views through decades of threats of job loss or expulsion from school, and this probably carries over when speaking with pollsters.
If Hillary wins, I predict that Trump's movement against establishment politicians will continue to grow, because the conditions which gave rise to Trump will continue. Hillary will continue to aggressively export US jobs, import foreign labor to depress wages, restrict free speech, attack traditional values, and start additional wars around the world. That would make the next election unfortunately even more interesting.
If Trump wins (very much like the Brexit), the dollar will drop, and therefore US exports will surge. There will be tariffs against China, and US manufacturing will in fact revive. Some form of the wall with Mexico will be built, and millions of illegals will leave or be deported (so the cost of vegetables, maids, and construction work will go up). People will feel free to support traditional values like clear gender roles and heterosexual marriage, and the declining marriage rate will reverse and start rising again. We will withdraw militarily from many countries. Iran will invade and take over Saudi Arabia's mostly-Shiite oil fields, and Saudi Arabia will plunge into civil war, raising the price of oil. Oil production in the US and other countries will go up to compensate and oil prices will fall again. Overall US prosperity will increase for the masses, while the super-wealthy find their wealth stagnating because they depended so much on Hillary's policies. So the gap between rich and poor will decline.
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