Fizzzzle Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Different strokes. My best friend absolutely hated working from home. He thrives on the interaction and feels like he's more productive in the office. I have two roommates who made a makeshift office in the living room, one of them would even get dolled up every day as if she was actually going into the office. I had one roommate who realized that if he was working remote, who gives a shit about where he actually is, so he spent 5 months traveling and living out of his car. One of my roommates worked remotely pre-pandemic anyway, so nothing changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 point I hadn't thought of until now, but if you hated roe/Griswold/etc for "making up" the right to privacy, you should in theory hate this ruling. At least privacy you can infer from the right to be secure in your person and papers! This one is whole cloth bullshit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaku3 Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 19 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: point I hadn't thought of until now, but if you hated roe/Griswold/etc for "making up" the right to privacy, you should in theory hate this ruling. At least privacy you can infer from the right to be secure in your person and papers! This one is whole cloth bullshit CDC gonna bring us communism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osxmatt Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uaarkson Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 1 hour ago, osxmatt said: Not surprised Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jason Posted September 22, 2021 Author Share Posted September 22, 2021 Record backlog of cargo ships at California ports WWW.BBC.COM Some 65 container ships are stuck outside the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, amid trade bottlenecks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chakoo Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 20 minutes ago, Jason said: Record backlog of cargo ships at California ports WWW.BBC.COM Some 65 container ships are stuck outside the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, amid trade bottlenecks. Yeah it's really really bad. Even if a ship gets unloaded it can take a long time for containers to just even leave the port. A product I've been following that should be shipping out to customers as soon as the company gets their container has been stuck a really long time. -edit- For some dates, they had their container loaded up and sent out Aug 2/3 in china and expected it the week of Aug 23. Here we are Sep 21 and they still are waiting on it. The container was discharged last week but still is stuck at the port. Items for christmas this year are going to be scarce as ***k. Start buying what you need now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chakoo Posted September 24, 2021 Share Posted September 24, 2021 A record number of cargo ships are stuck outside LA. What’s happening? | Los Angeles | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Port complex of Los Angeles and Long Beach, already the busiest in the US, has seen major traffic this week as imports boom Another article on the port situation. If you haven't started/completed your christmas shopping already... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 We're looking at a pretty sizable market drop at today's opening due to the resurgence of COVID in Europe and the new South African variant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anathema- Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 Market up? Thanks trump. Market down? Let's go Brandon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signifyin(g)Monkey Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 The economy’s ‘booming’, and everyone’s depressed/pissed off/going insane. Quote If the rosiest forecasts come to fruition, fourth-quarter growth will be the strongest since the third quarter of 2020, which itself marked the fastest growth since at least 1947. It’s even more insane than the above news story makes it out to be. Meanwhile, crime is increasing at record rates and polls show 70% of the country thinks we’re on the wrong track. Note to mainstream economists: economic growth and happiness are two different things. Add a chapter about it in your 101 text books, before the mob comes for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Economists are simply unable to conceptualize anything that doesn't fit neatly within the x/y axes. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 2 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Economists are simply unable to conceptualize anything that doesn't fit neatly within the x/y axes. More accurately, we don’t care Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 Good to see more economists coming around to this conclusion. At least in Canada, the Conservatives are trying to put the blame for 4.7% inflation on the government...despite the fact that the entire developed world is seeing inflation, much of it at even higher levels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 8 hours ago, CitizenVectron said: Good to see more economists coming around to this conclusion. At least in Canada, the Conservatives are trying to put the blame for 4.7% inflation on the government...despite the fact that the entire developed world is seeing inflation, much of it at even higher levels. The inflation is being driven by a number of factors, but government actions are far and away the largest contributor. Quote "I think that's not right," he said during an interview on CTV's Question Period airing Sunday. "In fact, what the stimulus did was to keep the economy from going into a deep hole in which we would have experienced persistent deflation." Note the person even says they were trying to prevent deflation. What are governments doing to stave off deflation that doesn’t result in inflation when they overshoot? It isn’t as though there is just computer program they have where they set deflation/inflation to 0.00 if they just want a steady state Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 government action on checks and UI and PPP loans was good actually and saved lives and the economy from a greater than great depression-like economic collapse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rc0101 Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 PPP made a lot of people a lot of money but I do agree it did help prevent a collapse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 US inflation jumps 6.8% in November — fastest rate in 39 years FINANCE.YAHOO.COM U.S. consumer prices rose at the fastest clip in nearly four decades last month, underscoring the persistently elevated inflationary pressures in the recovering economy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 Wiemar republic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Commissar SFLUFAN Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 5 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Wiemar republic When do I start carting around a wheelbarrow full of cash just to buy groceries?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 1 minute ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: When do I start carting around a wheelbarrow full of cash just to buy groceries?!? what's stopping you now?!? you don't have to spend all that cash to wheel it around 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 10, 2021 Author Share Posted December 10, 2021 1 minute ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: When do I start carting around a wheelbarrow full of cash just to buy groceries?!? Christmas Eve, a sneak attack in the War on Christmas against last minute Christmas shoppers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Just gotta do the classy thing and pay your parking fines in pennies like a true gentleman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anathema- Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 We get story after story of corporations raising prices because they want to and use inflation as an excuse, then we turn around and measure inflation based on product price increases. Fantastic system we got here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 6 minutes ago, Anathema- said: We get story after story of corporations raising prices because they want to and use inflation as an excuse, then we turn around and measure inflation based on product price increases. Fantastic system we got here. I mean, for most businesses that is actually the case. But if you go far enough down the supply chain, the only reason prices go up is because someone raised their rates because they can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anathema- Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 8 minutes ago, Fizzzzle said: I mean, for most businesses that is actually the case. But if you go far enough down the supply chain, the only reason prices go up is because someone raised their rates because they can. "A dollar doesn't go as far as it used to." Funny; it sure seems like they still make it all the way to Bezos' wallet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 10 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Lock in them low rates now with @Ominous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 On 12/11/2021 at 7:57 AM, Fizzzzle said: I mean, for most businesses that is actually the case. But if you go far enough down the supply chain, the only reason prices go up is because someone raised their rates because they can. This is not true. If you have a scenario where raw/unfinished materials used in your business become more scarce, it doesn’t require those prices to increase to necessitate your own price increases. This is especially true for industries with low margins and high fixed costs. There certainly are businesses increasing prices just for funsies, but there are plenty who are stuck having to charge more per unit just to keep the doors open because they simply can’t meet the demand for their goods because they can’t get product from their suppliers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 2 minutes ago, sblfilms said: This is not true. If you have a scenario where raw/unfinished materials used in your business become more scarce, it doesn’t require those prices to increase to necessitate your own price increases. This is especially true for industries with low margins and high fixed costs. There certainly are businesses increasing prices just for funsies, but there are plenty who are stuck having to charge more per unit just to keep the doors open because they simply can’t meet the demand for their goods because they can’t get product from their suppliers. That is something I didn't consider. If I'm the only carpenter in town and I can't get wood, I would increase the rates for my labor because I have to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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marioandsonic Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 I'm going to be honest: I'm genuinely scared about how next year is going to go for me financially once student loan payments start up again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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