The new price is down 30% from last year's horrendous price.
The monthly payment will now resemble the high end of normal I experienced in the years prior to the Russia-Ukraine War.
Like a boot off my neck.
Monday, June 12, 2023
My local utility has repriced my fixed monthly payment for natural gas and electricity for the next year
The new price is down 30% from last year's horrendous price.
Sunday, June 11, 2023
Lolbertarian says the worst possible thing which could happen to the economy (i.e. "to me") is higher future taxes
More self-absorbed than your average tranny.
Scott Sumner, here:
The consequence of the reckless fiscal policy will not be a financial crisis. Nor will it be a default. Even the permanent monetization of the debt is unlikely, in my view. The most likely consequence will be higher future taxes and slower economic growth. This will lead to reduced living standards. It might also push politics in a more “populist” direction, with consequences that are difficult to predict (but unlikely to be desirable.)
Saturday, June 10, 2023
Misunderstood survivalist and math genius Ted Kaczynski dies in prison at 81, evaded the incompetent FBI for 17 year bombing campaign against tech
The bigoted AP Obama, here:
But once revealed as a wild-eyed hermit with long hair and beard who weathered Montana winters in a one-room shack, Kaczynski struck many as more of a pathetic loner than romantic anti-hero.
Friday, June 9, 2023
Thursday, June 8, 2023
The Supremes still don't have the courage to void the tyrannical, unequal, racist, Northern neo-reconstructionism of the 1965 Voting Rights Act in the American South
The Supremes are not colorblind and are as reprehensible in this as any college or business using racial quotas to exclude whites and Asians in favor of less qualified people of color, and they know it.
American liberalism is nothing if not hypocritical.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, both conservatives, joined the court's three liberals in the majority.
In doing so, the court — which has a 6-3 conservative majority — turned away the state’s effort to make it harder to remedy concerns raised by civil rights advocates that the power of Black voters in states like Alabama is being diluted by dividing voters into districts where white voters dominate.
In Thursday’s ruling, Roberts, writing for the majority, said a lower court had correctly concluded that the congressional map violated the voting rights law.
He wrote that there are genuine fears that the Voting Rights Act “may impermissibly elevate race in the allocation of political power” and that the Alabama ruling “does not diminish or disregard those concerns."
The court instead “simply holds that a faithful application of our precedents and a fair reading of the record before us do not bear them out here,” Roberts added.
As such, the court left open future challenges to the law, with Kavanaugh writing in a separate opinion that his vote did not rule out challenges to Section 2 based on whether there is a time at which the 1965 law's authorization of the consideration of race in redistricting is no longer justified.
More.
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Gold remains far more overvalued than US stocks, which is saying a lot
Gold is at least 167% overvalued relative to inflation since 1913. $600ish gold makes sense. $1600 gold does not, let alone $2067, the 2020 high.
Meanwhile stocks are off-the-charts overvalued, about 93% relative to the post-Great Depression median valuation of 81 through 2019, as of the latest GDP figures from late May.
Speculation in both gold and stocks, not to mention a host of other things, has been driven by Federal Reserve interest rate suppression since 2001.
How long elevated gold and stock prices can persist in the new higher interest rate environment is anyone's guess.
The Fed Funds rate still averaged a low 1.69% in 2022, so it's still early innings.
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Young Americans are too ignorant to blame the correct government entity for housing unaffordability for some reason
. . . young Americans condemn their municipal and state governments for the current housing affordability problem.
More.
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Quest for money overwhelms hypocritical PGA Tour as it merges with Saudi LIV Golf
As usual that lyin' blue scumbelly Donald Trump is at the heart of this:
The agreement — the second stunning sports deal in just months, following World Wrestling Entertainment’s merger with Endeavor Group’s UFC — will
require the approval of the PGA Tour policy board, Commissioner Jay
Monahan said in a memo to players that was obtained by CNBC. ...
Family members of those who perished in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have protested the league, including outside of events. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers on Sept. 11 were from Saudi Arabia, and Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind behind the attacks, was born in the country. It has been concluded by U.S. officials that Saudi nationals helped fund the terrorist group al-Qaeda, although investigations didn’t find that the Saudi officials were complicit in the attacks.
The group 9/11 Families United said they were “shocked and deeply offended” by the merger in a statement on Tuesday.
“Mr. Monahan talked last summer about knowing people who lost loved ones on 9/11, then wondered aloud on national television whether LIV Golfers ever had to apologize for being a member of the PGA Tour. They do now – as does he,” said 9/11 Families United Chair Terry Strada, whose husband Tom died in the World Trade Center’s North Tower. “PGA Tour leaders should be ashamed of their hypocrisy and greed. Our entire 9/11 community has been betrayed by Commissioner Monahan and the PGA as it appears their concern for our loved ones was merely window-dressing in their quest for money – it was never to honor the great game of golf.” ...
Former President Donald Trump, who has hosted a number of LIV Golf events at his golf courses, has defended those events, falsely claiming that “nobody’s gotten to the bottom of 9/11.” Last year, Trump also said on Truth Social that a merger between LIV and The PGA Tour was inevitable.
On Tuesday, Trump weighed in on the merger on his Truth Social platform: “Great news from LIV Golf. A big, beautiful, and glamorous deal for the wonderful world of golf. Congrats to all!!!”
More.
Monday, June 5, 2023
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