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Lashing back, China lets yuan drop, halts US farm purchases
Following are selected excerpts from a current SF Chronicle/Associated Press news article. It has been edited for brevity.
WASHINGTON (AP) — China decided Monday to meet President Donald …
@Derf- Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking also. It's an aspect of such "barometers" and trading schemes that I fail to understand. It seems to be generally acknowledged that the high value of the current market is just waiting for something to …
"Cheap composite is competitive with wood on price, but not very attractive."
Our neighbor here in Guerneville replaced his original redwood deck with cheap(er) composite after some thirty years of wear. When the composite failed after some three y…
Now, if I had said all that, Ted would be having a small hissyfit. Thank you Mr. Trump. We'll remember this when the downturn finally comes and the Fed has almost no tools left to deal with it.
@Edmond- Yes, this is fascinating to watch, this time around. I've never seen anything quite like this one, and there are so many new wild cards in the deck (central bank activities, trade fireworks, financial sanctions, Brexit, etc.) that I'm pret…
Mobile Virtual Network Operators, h'mm? I like that "virtual" part. Kind of like the way I divide my large hard drives into "virtual" drives. What's in a name, anyway?
@Mark- given the huge allocation of physical resources, and of course the monetary requirements of funding such a national network, I have to wonder if providers such as the ones you mention actually are alternative systems (physically), or do those…
"Looks like I will give USAA a call and ask them what they plan on doing with the $1.8B which divided amoung 1 million USAA member accounts equates to about $1900 per member account."
That's one way of looking at it, of course. But it assumes an eq…
@msf- You're comments and observations are consistent with what I've come to understand regarding SS. But it raises a question that I haven't seen addressed: If SS is indeed reduced at some future point to about 75% of it's presently stipulated obli…
"This page does not exist."
As a kid I was an avid reader of science fiction. At around 10 or so started with Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" and went from there. Very familiar with the concept of reality being altered or te…
Well, since "without exception the most widely educated ones, those with the most exposure to literature and history and the other soft disciplines, were the best thinkers, communicators, and colleagues" I guess that I've been well and properly assi…
@hank- Well, I don't believe by any means that "conservatives" are necessarily limited to any specific political party, although on a worldwide basis, it's obvious that they do tend to gravitate towards some parties in particular. China, for example…
It's very ironic that "conservatives" have little interest in actually conserving much of anything, other than their treasured "right" to plunder and despoil the resources of the entire world.
@hank- Yes, I completely understand your comments about being too young to either understand or appreciate the flow and lessons of history. It wasn't until I was an adult, and re-watched some episodes of "Victory at Sea" that I began to wonder what …
@LewisBraham- Something bothered me from the moment that I first read Ted's post, but it took a while before it crystallized: the commentary is written in decent standard English, which Ted, despite having been a teacher, is patently incapable of co…
Plagiarism, pure and simple.
FYI: College isn’t the right track for many young people; there, I said it.
Before lighting a fire to burn me at the stake, let’s look at some data:
20% of students don’t graduate from high school.
20% will go from sch…
You folks have made me feel pretty inadequate for not having acquired a higher-education degree of some type.
While I surely agree that such a degree is a huge advantage in today's work world, I have to wonder what the best educational path for som…
Because I need to use a bastard version of Firefox on this ancient Apple G5 I thought that the problems might be here, so I didn't raise the question on MFO. The situation here is pretty much like Crash describes- repeated efforts to log in, inabili…
Personally, I declare the standard meal allowance (being sure to look up the allowance for the city I'm in), enjoy some fine pho dinners, and pocket the difference.
Shame!!!!!!! I'm reporting this to President Trump in person!
Oh... wait... I'll …
