Showing posts with label GDP 2018. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GDP 2018. Show all posts
Friday, December 14, 2018

To The Weekly Standard crowd al Qaeda collaborated with Saddam Hussein, Vladimir Putin with Donald Trump

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Friday, November 16, 2018

We don't need any more immigrants: Population increases have outpaced labor force increases for a decade

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Before the Great Recession the growth rate of the labor force easily exceeded the growth rate of population for decade after decade, but si...
Monday, November 12, 2018

Republicans retained 80% of "pure" House retired seats but this fool believes whatever Rush Limbaugh says

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One false move on the bullet train in China and your credit score goes down

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Video here . Dear passengers, People who travel without a ticket or behave disorderly, or smoke in public areas will be punished ...
Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Already ranked tenth in the nation for drug addiction, drug wave in Michigan sweeps Democrats into power

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Proposal One legalizing recreational marijuana dragged the druggies out of the woodwork yesterday, sweeping Democrats into power in Michiga...
Friday, November 2, 2018

The Nerd is a Jerk: My asshole NeverTrump Republican governor in Michigan, Rick Snyder, just robocalled me asking me to vote for a lowly state senate candidate

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But he never mentioned his fellow Republican running to replace him, Bill Schuette, to fill his term-limited seat. Snyder's failu...
Friday, October 26, 2018

GDP is growing at a rate 66% better under the first two years of Trump than under the last two years of Obama

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Thursday, October 4, 2018

The economy of the last ten years has had much more in common with the Great Depression than the post-war

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Wednesday, September 5, 2018

South Africa racks up two quarters in a row of negative GDP growth under land-grabber Cyril Ramaphosa, new president since February

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Ramaphosa's domestic policy is centered around "land reform", i.e. seizing land without compensation. Apparently production ...
Saturday, September 1, 2018

Tucker Carlson says there's nothing free about this market, falls short of calling it an expression of global fascism

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But who knows, maybe his forthcoming book connects the dots between the multinational corporations and their revolving door governments, a...

Noah Smith embraces the Trump narrative: "There’s no doubt that the U.S. economy is in a boom"

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Here for Bloomberg. After examining several indicators, which, however, are not unequivocal for their interpretation despite saying ...
Monday, August 20, 2018

Atheist George Will conflates economy and stock market, remains oddly superstitious about deficits

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George Will forgets we've had trillion dollar deficits quite recently but without a stock market crash.  The trillion dollar defic...
Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Egyptian American Abdul El-Sayed came within 3 points of beating Gretchen Whitmer in Kent County MI in the Democrat primary for governor

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Whitmer overall captured the nomination for governor among Democrats in Michigan with nearly 52% of the vote, but Democrats in the county ...
Thursday, August 2, 2018

Good comparison of the presidents on GDP by Justin Fox at Bloomberg

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Guess Which Presidents Really Oversaw Economic Booms Fox well reminds his readers that GDP is an inadequate measure in many respects, ...

Democrat socialist Ocasio-Cortez is a crackpot, says everyone has two jobs when multiple jobholding is at historic lows

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The lights are on there, but nobody's home. Even at the historic highs it was less than 7% of the employed, and that was back in the ...
Friday, July 27, 2018

The stock market closed lower after Trump's 4.1% GDP today, selling the news

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Rush Limbaugh: Trump supporters don't think running around with Playboy playmates means anything compared with saving the culture

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Incredible. What's to save, then?  The basis of culture is the cult, that is, religion. Mine teaches that such behavior is wrong. ...

Rush Limbaugh is a GDP boob, again

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Rush Limbaugh can't remember good GDP under Obama for two reasons. One, he's never read the press releases from the BEA. These...

The biggest disappointment in today's GDP report was the collapse of private investment

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Compared with the average from 2007-2017, the points contributed to real GDP in 2Q2018 by private investment plunged 128%. It was the onl...

GDP hysteria

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Earlier in the week the economic calendar at FXStreet had indicated a consensus estimate of GDP at 4% for 2Q2018. With less than an hour t...