Showing posts with label 42. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 42. Show all posts
Saturday, February 7, 2026

Why everything sucks since the Great Recession: Real GDP in the 18 years since 2007 has been growing at a compound annual rate of just 2.004%

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 The compound annual growth rate before that, for the 60 years from 1947 to 2007, was 3.469%. We're doing 42% worse. It's uncanny.  ...
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

If 42% of your wealth comes from the stock market, YOU ARE AN IDIOT and deserve everything that's coming to you

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 The is-is-ought fallacy in action. In today’s environment, the notion that the stock market isn’t the economy doesn’t hold up anymore : “I...
Sunday, July 14, 2019

Power outage Manhattan: 42 is the answer to everything

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BIG ZAPPLE New York power outage grinds Manhattan to a halt stopping subways and Broadway shows EXACTLY 42 years after 1977 blackout : ...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

47% would have to borrow the $400 for an emergency, sell something, or not be able to pay it

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There's that number again. And you thought the answer to everything was 42. Story here .
Friday, July 5, 2013

June Unemployment Unchanged At 7.6%, 47% Of Jobs Added Year Over Year Low-Paying

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Hm. There's that 47% again. I thought the answer to everything was 42. June unemployment is unchanged at 7.6%, and the average addition ...
Wednesday, May 1, 2013

ObamaCare Has Its Own Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Moment

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ABCNews reports the following here : The Kaiser Family Foundation released results of a non-partisan study today finding more than 40 percen...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Forget The "Threat" Of Deflation. Its Crushing REALITY Means Monetarism Is Doomed.

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Galactic hitchhikers know this is the answer to everything. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and Lars Christensen, here , think deflation is only an ...
Monday, October 8, 2012

Not Even Fox News Catches Romney's Debate Gaffe

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The answer to EVERYTHING is 42. How many days has it been since the debate? Five? And still no one has caught Romney's gaffe equat...
Thursday, October 4, 2012

Sorry Gov. Romney, We're Not Spain

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Romney , last night, in another odd coincidence with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy : "Spain -- Spain spends 42 percent of th...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Can Liberals Count? Can Liberals Remember?

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George Bush won Ohio in 2004 by 118,000 votes, but Andrew Sullivan remembers it differently, here : "At this point in 2004, one recalls...