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Treasury Department designates China a ‘currency manipulator,’ a major escalation of the trade war
Following are selected excerpts from a current Washington Post news article. The article has been substantially edited for brevity.
BREAKING: A Trea…
The main problem is that even in open-carry locations most people only have a pistol. What we really need is a government-supplied rapid fire 100 round "hunting and target rifle" issued free to each and every citizen. Write to the NRA on this!!
Am still holding 5000 shares of International Buggywhip (IBW). Hoping for comeback any time now. When that happens, am going to sell and buy a modern tech stock- thinking maybe Blackberry. You've got to stay on top of these things.
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…
