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It seems to me that oddly enough, there is a common desire from posters as disparate as Ted, hank and myself to avoid inflammatory subjects which are completely political, without even a tenuous tie to investing.
Edmond's post fits that description…
@JoeD- In fairness it's worth noting that he certainly wouldn't be the first US president to try that. Although, also in fairness, the total crudeness and abusiveness of his attempts are undeniably remarkable.
@Crash: Let's see now-
I guess we could reduce the flag at sunset, make the landing gear smaller as an aircraft lands, shrink the crossing gates as the train approaches...
You get the idea. Have another beer and forget the whole thing.
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@DavidM…
I have no idea whether this unfolded accidentally or by design, but in any case it ended well. Iran was put on notice that only the last-minute intervention by Trump saved it from serious retribution. If an accident, fortuitous. If by design, well p…
@Crash: ?
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I hope that we're not becoming so overzealous here that it's necessary to surgically dissect what was probably meant to be a rather lighthearted post. We all have our distinct personalities, and after many years of coexisting with MJG I really doubt…
@Catch22- As far as I'm concerned CPI might as well stand for Complete Political Inaccuracy. Whatever they claim to have been measuring has little or nothing to do with on-the-ground reality of the actual cost of living.
Anyone who believes that overall inflation is running anywhere close to 3% is living in a dream world. Hell, a round-trip senior MUNI fare just went from $2.70 to $3.00 (over 10% increase) and that's just one random number. Everything in the SF Bay …
Some years ago my wife and I had been placed, for weight distribution reasons, in the very rear seats on a very lightly loaded A321 from Florence into Frankfurt. For whatever reason the pilot needed to abort the landing and go around for another app…
I do have to think that if every worker in the US who has porn on their computer were to be fired the national unemployment rate would surely be well over 50%...
I guess that I never thought about it in quite that way. That certainly explains why there are so few older people now alive compared to the historical past.
Nixon and Kissinger between them had more intellectual power than Tweety Trump and his entire coterie of sycophants combined. @rforno is absolutely right- most of them are thugs, pure and simple.
"We will be poorer".
I wonder which "we" that is? The young people who stand virtually no chance of ever owning their own home? The disappearing middle class who are already being made poorer by the day? The millions who were uninsured before Obama…
Selected excerpts from JoeD's Bloomberg article link:
Research by Macrotrends shows the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s performance so far in Trump’s term has been middling compared with his predecessors, and trails the gains made under Democrats Ba…
@Ted: Your continuing acidic, derogatory and snide comment are the single most damaging threat to MFO. Can you name even one poster who has ever agreed with your rain of crap?
@Sven- Political? Surely you aren't suggesting that the president of the United States would be so frivolous as to artificially manipulate the nation's economy, endangering our ability to respond to the next economic crisis, just to make himself loo…
Where's SUMMER???!!!
Damned if I know. Maybe check with Trump's environmental crew? Probably nothing to do with global environmental imbalances though, since Trump considers all that stuff to be fake news. Good luck!
Some posters seem to believe in a free lunch and maybe Santa Claus too. Or maybe even a free lunch with Santa Claus and Warren Buffett. Hard to know...
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@Ted: I encourage you to read the entire article- the link is right there in front of you!
Note that unlike your unaccredited link remarks (amounting to plagiarism) I give full credit to the actual source of the information. You might consider that…
"Note source of lower tier member's, and Mexican beer expert, linked article on Trump." (sic)
This upper-tier ex-schoolteacher is evidently incapable of constructing a coherent sentence in standard English. It's bad enough that we have to be subjec…
Yes, but wait a minute... we can't have two kings at the same time, can we? That guy in Washington says that he's the king. One of these guys is real and the other must be a phony!
And there you have it, folks. Complete blind denial in the face of overwhelming evidence of corporate incompetence and malfeasance, which directly led to over 350 people now dead. But those people didn't look at all like Ted, so they don't count for…
@linter: This thread alone has already been alive for three months of Ted's "year". With over two thousand eight-hundred views an awful lot of Ted's "eyeballs" have been focused right here.
Years ago MFO management, after numerous complaints from m…
There were enough un-seeing voters in the "wrong" locations to be able to give him the Electoral votes he needed to "win."
@ Crash- Don't be too certain of that. If you can stomach it, scroll through the great majority of on-line reader comments on…
