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@Crash- oh, come on man- you make it sound as if you're the only one getting this crap. It's got nothing to do with Apple, nothing to do with you or your setup. First of all, those texts were not from Amazon, and Amazon doesn't have you "mixed up" w…
Well, Washington Week in Review has always been primarily focused on the politics and happenings emanating from or mainly concerning Washington and the Federal Government. Not so much on more general or local stuff- that is typically covered by the …
@Catch22: Catch, since Ted isn't here to badmouth your posting, I'll attempt to hold up his end of the deal: All of that stuff is garbage, and no one cares anyway.
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@LewisBraham: Baseball fan evidently copes by reducing complex issues to simplistic slogans.
Taxes = Communism". "Communism = Socialism".
He's surely not unique in this... lots of people operate the same way: cf. "Donald Trump and followers".
@Sven- obviously you haven't been keeping up with the latest "woke talk". "Him/her" is no longer valid. I think it's supposed to be "him/her/they/them/it" or something like that now.
More to your point, I don't think that very many of us actually p…
My decision to not buy a home near a golf course in Buffalo NY proves to have been a good one. In the manner of reports by FD1000, I have no need to provide further details or specifics. :)
No "envy" here... our money has been made for some years and I wish everyone else success also.
But skepticism regarding constant boasting, with absolutely no corroborating information? You'd better believe it.
Yes, these are all Federal Government Agencies. There are many "Government Agencies" other than at the Federal level. The question was a general one, so was the answer.
@MikeM- Hello there- long time no talk to you. I would hazard a guess that "government agencies" would essentially be municipal bonds. For example, a government agency that supplies electricity to local customers could issue a revenue bond, with the…
"I don't think that crypto was designed as an investment vehicle, but it seems that that is what it has turned into."
Not at all. Just because some people choose to refer to it as an "investment" doesn't make it so.
Quite a number of Americans cho…
"I hope I have misinterpreted what your comment means."
@Dutch- No sir, you haven't misinterpreted anything... he is what he is. Making money rules all. Not uncommon, actually.
'The notion that these companies will do what's best for society, consumers, labor and the environment, if they're unregulated is absurd to me."
Not just to you, sir... not just to you. Not by a long shot.
"When Volcker left office in August 1987, inflation was still running at 4%, far from zero, but far below the 13% of 1979 when he had arrived as Fed Chairman. Real GDP growth was strong; fed funds were 6.6%."
Link: American Institute for Economic R…
" In 1970 I walked away with a new Plymouth Fury for $2800."
@hank- last of the big spenders! In 1970 we bought our very first new car- a Plymouth Valiant, for an even $2000. It was blue.
I also agree that if the Fed were to make a straight dash for 2% the economy would really tank. I'm hoping that they will talk 2% but actually settle for maybe 3 or 3.5% and declare victory. The bright side of that for the Fed is that it stores up …
The only guy on that list that I wouldn't suspect of perjury is Governor Kemp. As far as I'm aware the Republican administration of Georgia played it reasonably straight all the way.
We all "profit" from the current "anything goes" operations because the profits of all of the various companies involved (from beginning to end on these materials) eventually trickle their way into the general economy and thus to the stock market an…
Yes, now that you mention the Japanese "fire balloons" I remember reading about that. I was thinking maybe North Korea, but I wouldn't put it past Iran, Russia or China either. This whole thing is getting very interesting.
@Sven- I've run a "fleet" of four older Mac Minis for many years now. Firefox browser and DuckDuckGo for search engine. No Google. No Microsoft. No hacks at all. But I'm very careful where I go and what I look at. (Being 83 years old helps a lot wit…
"North Korea and Iran"
@Sven... exactly what I'm thinking also. Cheap and dirty. Also, have you noticed the reluctance of some government/military officials to call the recent smaller ones "balloons"? Now they are "objects". What the hell is that a…
Interesting that no news coverage that I've seen goes into any detail about the latest incident, over Lake Huron.
So... this thing just suddenly materialized out of thin air? How did it get there? Which direction did it come from? Did it get there …
I wouldn't be at all surprised if both Russia and China were jerking our defense chains just for the hell of it, and also maybe hoping to pick up a little info on our responses and defenses.
"Anyone else here kind of fed up with all the gambling bullshit commercials"
No- we solved all of this crap by never watching anything other than PBS, and streaming some stuff from Amazon Prime. The "Bosch" series was pretty good, and no commercia…
In reading the above comments, I was struck by the suggestion that the "Sidewinder" missile which was used to bring down the object(s) is a "heat-seeking missile". Wondering what the source of heat might be on what were presumably balloons of some t…
