The Nation's Financial Condition

[MDlaxfan76]

Impulsive b00bs... I wasn't making a pro-Trump or great economy statement, just amazed the Market wasn't tanking despite the "sky is falling" sentiment on this board. Have a nice weekend b00bs...

correction edit

Who do you think you are fooling?

used the wrong word 72...happens...the "b00bs" part stands

Pretty hard to take seriously your 'explanation' that you weren't really trying to exclaim "pro-Trump or great economy" when you make an insulting crack about your fellow posters as 'breasts', 'reactionary' or 'impulsive', in the same sentence.

I don't think folks on here think 'the sky is falling' but rather are looking rationally at the reality of huge increases in debt load due to tax cuts during a prosperous period as truly stupid and immoral and a predicate for serious economic pain downstream.

Now, if you'd like to address that issue without resorting to insults, have at it.

Likewise, if you'd like to grapple with the clear evidence that the dynamics are slowing post sugar-high, and in response to international slowing in large part due to trade war tariffs, have at that as well. Just don't confuse the stock market and international capital flows with the economy.

[Farfromgeneva]

Have thought this before, but you must be a Mohamed el erian fan huh? He loves using that sugar high metaphor too.

[a fan]

Reactionary B00bs?

Impulsive, not "reactionary" my bad...

That's what I get for drinking and posting

I'm still impressed that you figured out how to write "b00bs" without it autocorrecting to "breasts".

Your's truly wasn't smart enough to figure that out.

[MDlaxfan76]

Have thought this before, but you must be a Mohamed el erian fan huh? He loves using that sugar high metaphor too.

Yes, I've certainly heard him use the metaphor, though not alone.
I'm also in the nutrition world, so perhaps it particularly resonated for that reason.

[jhu72]

Plight of midwest farmers reported. This is probably fake news made up by some Trump hater. Trump said on Friday "we're doing very well" when discussing the trade war. You can take his word on it.

[Farfromgeneva]

So I was at this fall festival in my neighborhood park (Candler-named after part of the Coca Cola Family who donated the land) and there was a vendor selling soy candles. Festival is great, local music and cover banks for skynyrd and b52s (which my little kids really loved the weirdness of) but with the standard local artist stuff, wine bottle holders,wood art, honey, earrings and rings, etc but all I could think about is the idiocy of having soy candles given the current situation with soybeans in the trade war, admittedly having a depressed effect on prices though it’s been on a decline since before this administration from a very high level.

Regardless of supply/demand, which have come down but still at what would otherwise be 45 year peaks (https://www.macrotrends.net/2531/soybea ... chart-data), why would supposed hippies like those which my neighborhood are (despite a $550-$600k buy in for a 1500-1600sq ft house in atlanta) use a food product to make candles that just burn down? It’s not in lieu of electricity I’m sure. Nobody in our county wants to believe in tradeoffs or opportunity cost.

[Farfromgeneva]

https://www.sfnet.com/home/industry-dat ... y-analysis

[jhu72]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/career/ ... spartandhp

[youthathletics]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/career/ ... spartandhp

For starters....thank the cut hours of mandatory minimum wage recipients.

[foreverlax]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/career/ ... spartandhp

For starters....thank the cut hours of mandatory minimum wage recipients.

Maybe. The labor participation rate has held +/- around 63% while the average hour worked has held +/- around 34 hours.

[foreverlax]

How Goldman Sachs facilitated the heist of the century

No shock that Goldman is at the center of this fraud. Gary Cohen, then president of GS, coined the phrase, "monetizing the state".

"The bank facilitated the 1MDB fraud, earning almost $600 million in fees on 3 bond deals from the deeply corrupt Malaysian fund. That's about 200 times more than the normal amount a sovereign issuer would pay. Each time, as soon as Goldman provided the money to 1MDB, Low would steal it."

Billion Dollar Whale

If you like global intrigue, financial crime, wealth porn, and absurdity, “Billion Dollar Whale,” by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope, is for you. It’s the story of Jho Low, an enterprising businessman from Malaysia who used his social connections to the country’s former Prime Minister Najib Razak to transform himself into an international financier. According to Wright and Hope’s account, Low persuaded Razak to create an investment fund, 1MDB, financed with government money, which Low managed behind the scenes. Goldman Sachs and other banks helped raise ten billion dollars for the fund. Then approximately five billion dollars of the money disappeared, prompting an international scandal.

[jhu72]

How Goldman Sachs facilitated the heist of the century

No shock that Goldman is at the center of this fraud. Gary Cohen, then president of GS, coined the phrase, "monetizing the state".

"The bank facilitated the 1MDB fraud, earning almost $600 million in fees on 3 bond deals from the deeply corrupt Malaysian fund. That's about 200 times more than the normal amount a sovereign issuer would pay. Each time, as soon as Goldman provided the money to 1MDB, Low would steal it."

Billion Dollar Whale

If you like global intrigue, financial crime, wealth porn, and absurdity, “Billion Dollar Whale,” by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope, is for you. It’s the story of Jho Low, an enterprising businessman from Malaysia who used his social connections to the country’s former Prime Minister Najib Razak to transform himself into an international financier. According to Wright and Hope’s account, Low persuaded Razak to create an investment fund, 1MDB, financed with government money, which Low managed behind the scenes. Goldman Sachs and other banks helped raise ten billion dollars for the fund. Then approximately five billion dollars of the money disappeared, prompting an international scandal.

… and yet you seem to have no problem with, indeed supported Cohen's tax rebate for the 1%.

[foreverlax]

How Goldman Sachs facilitated the heist of the century

No shock that Goldman is at the center of this fraud. Gary Cohen, then president of GS, coined the phrase, "monetizing the state".

"The bank facilitated the 1MDB fraud, earning almost $600 million in fees on 3 bond deals from the deeply corrupt Malaysian fund. That's about 200 times more than the normal amount a sovereign issuer would pay. Each time, as soon as Goldman provided the money to 1MDB, Low would steal it."

Billion Dollar Whale

If you like global intrigue, financial crime, wealth porn, and absurdity, “Billion Dollar Whale,” by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope, is for you. It’s the story of Jho Low, an enterprising businessman from Malaysia who used his social connections to the country’s former Prime Minister Najib Razak to transform himself into an international financier. According to Wright and Hope’s account, Low persuaded Razak to create an investment fund, 1MDB, financed with government money, which Low managed behind the scenes. Goldman Sachs and other banks helped raise ten billion dollars for the fund. Then approximately five billion dollars of the money disappeared, prompting an international scandal.

… and yet you seem to have no problem with, indeed supported Cohen's tax rebate for the 1%.

Me? Au contraire mon ami - I felt it was going to be what it turned out to be...a giveaway. Special deals for real estate partnerships and LLCs, takinig away SALT and especially the repatriation of funds from off shore.

Forget about Trumps promise to eradicate the budget deficit and debt in 8 years through tax cuts and new trade deals....$3 trillion in new debt, with GDP back at the same levels the Rs cried about under BHO.

[jhu72]

How Goldman Sachs facilitated the heist of the century

No shock that Goldman is at the center of this fraud. Gary Cohen, then president of GS, coined the phrase, "monetizing the state".

"The bank facilitated the 1MDB fraud, earning almost $600 million in fees on 3 bond deals from the deeply corrupt Malaysian fund. That's about 200 times more than the normal amount a sovereign issuer would pay. Each time, as soon as Goldman provided the money to 1MDB, Low would steal it."

Billion Dollar Whale

If you like global intrigue, financial crime, wealth porn, and absurdity, “Billion Dollar Whale,” by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope, is for you. It’s the story of Jho Low, an enterprising businessman from Malaysia who used his social connections to the country’s former Prime Minister Najib Razak to transform himself into an international financier. According to Wright and Hope’s account, Low persuaded Razak to create an investment fund, 1MDB, financed with government money, which Low managed behind the scenes. Goldman Sachs and other banks helped raise ten billion dollars for the fund. Then approximately five billion dollars of the money disappeared, prompting an international scandal.

… and yet you seem to have no problem with, indeed supported Cohen's tax rebate for the 1%.

Me? Au contraire mon ami - I felt it was going to be what it turned out to be...a giveaway. Special deals for real estate partnerships and LLCs, takinig away SALT and especially the repatriation of funds from off shore.

Forget about Trumps promise to eradicate the budget deficit and debt in 8 years through tax cuts and new trade deals....$3 trillion in new debt, with GDP back at the same levels the Rs cried about under BHO.

Je regrette, my friend. I thought someone else had written your post. Es tut mir leid!

[foreverlax]

How Goldman Sachs facilitated the heist of the century

No shock that Goldman is at the center of this fraud. Gary Cohen, then president of GS, coined the phrase, "monetizing the state".

"The bank facilitated the 1MDB fraud, earning almost $600 million in fees on 3 bond deals from the deeply corrupt Malaysian fund. That's about 200 times more than the normal amount a sovereign issuer would pay. Each time, as soon as Goldman provided the money to 1MDB, Low would steal it."

Billion Dollar Whale

If you like global intrigue, financial crime, wealth porn, and absurdity, “Billion Dollar Whale,” by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope, is for you. It’s the story of Jho Low, an enterprising businessman from Malaysia who used his social connections to the country’s former Prime Minister Najib Razak to transform himself into an international financier. According to Wright and Hope’s account, Low persuaded Razak to create an investment fund, 1MDB, financed with government money, which Low managed behind the scenes. Goldman Sachs and other banks helped raise ten billion dollars for the fund. Then approximately five billion dollars of the money disappeared, prompting an international scandal.

… and yet you seem to have no problem with, indeed supported Cohen's tax rebate for the 1%.

Me? Au contraire mon ami - I felt it was going to be what it turned out to be...a giveaway. Special deals for real estate partnerships and LLCs, takinig away SALT and especially the repatriation of funds from off shore.

Forget about Trumps promise to eradicate the budget deficit and debt in 8 years through tax cuts and new trade deals....$3 trillion in new debt, with GDP back at the same levels the Rs cried about under BHO.

Je regrette, my friend. I thought someone else had written your post. Es tut mir leid!

Excuses non requises

[runrussellrun]

"At $28 billion so far, the farm rescue is more than twice as expensive as the 2009 bailout of Detroit’s Big Three automakers, which cost taxpayers $12 billion." bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @BW

Unless an article contains a recipients list and the actual dollar amount the "Farms" get........stop wasting our time.

Here you go slick: https://farm.ewg.org/region.php?fips=OH04

You can search by zip code to see a list of the welfare recipients

https://farm.ewg.org/region.php?fips=20000

Thank you for the help........just couldn't do it nicely.....slick.

Heard some Los Angeles members of Congress are getting welfare. Did THEY vote for the bill?

INsteand, lets focus on..........what tRump says.

[Typical Lax Dad]

"At $28 billion so far, the farm rescue is more than twice as expensive as the 2009 bailout of Detroit’s Big Three automakers, which cost taxpayers $12 billion." bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @BW

Unless an article contains a recipients list and the actual dollar amount the "Farms" get........stop wasting our time.

Here you go slick: https://farm.ewg.org/region.php?fips=OH04

You can search by zip code to see a list of the welfare recipients

https://farm.ewg.org/region.php?fips=20000

Thank you for the help........just couldn't do it nicely.....slick.

Heard some Los Angeles members of Congress are getting welfare. Did THEY vote for the bill?

INsteand, lets focus on..........what tRump says.

Take slick as a compliment. Good info in there.

[runrussellrun]

"At $28 billion so far, the farm rescue is more than twice as expensive as the 2009 bailout of Detroit’s Big Three automakers, which cost taxpayers $12 billion." bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @BW

Unless an article contains a recipients list and the actual dollar amount the "Farms" get........stop wasting our time.

Here you go slick: https://farm.ewg.org/region.php?fips=OH04

You can search by zip code to see a list of the welfare recipients

https://farm.ewg.org/region.php?fips=20000

Thank you for the help........just couldn't do it nicely.....slick.

Heard some Los Angeles members of Congress are getting welfare. Did THEY vote for the bill?

INsteand, lets focus on..........what tRump says.

Take slick as a compliment. Good info in there.

....something is wrong when nice comes to town...

tough to navigate the website. gave up after 15 minutes. Yes, lots of information, but never could find specific names of recipients

[foreverlax]

"At $28 billion so far, the farm rescue is more than twice as expensive as the 2009 bailout of Detroit’s Big Three automakers, which cost taxpayers $12 billion." bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @BW

Unless an article contains a recipients list and the actual dollar amount the "Farms" get........stop wasting our time.

Here you go slick: https://farm.ewg.org/region.php?fips=OH04

You can search by zip code to see a list of the welfare recipients

https://farm.ewg.org/region.php?fips=20000

Thank you for the help........just couldn't do it nicely.....slick.

Heard some Los Angeles members of Congress are getting welfare. Did THEY vote for the bill?

INsteand, lets focus on..........what tRump says.

Take slick as a compliment. Good info in there.

....something is wrong when nice comes to town...

tough to navigate the website. gave up after 15 minutes. Yes, lots of information, but never could find specific names of recipients

Try again...look at the panel on the left side

https://farm.ewg.org/top_recips.php?fip ... ame=Kansas

[Typical Lax Dad]

"At $28 billion so far, the farm rescue is more than twice as expensive as the 2009 bailout of Detroit’s Big Three automakers, which cost taxpayers $12 billion." bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @BW

Unless an article contains a recipients list and the actual dollar amount the "Farms" get........stop wasting our time.

Here you go slick: https://farm.ewg.org/region.php?fips=OH04

You can search by zip code to see a list of the welfare recipients

https://farm.ewg.org/region.php?fips=20000

Thank you for the help........just couldn't do it nicely.....slick.

Heard some Los Angeles members of Congress are getting welfare. Did THEY vote for the bill?

INsteand, lets focus on..........what tRump says.

Take slick as a compliment. Good info in there.

....something is wrong when nice comes to town...

tough to navigate the website. gave up after 15 minutes. Yes, lots of information, but never could find specific names of recipients

You have to look by zip code. Gym Jordan is taking care of his peeps. The handouts are unbelievable.