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"content": "So we are just recycling the same fear mongering from 2016 huh ?\n\nhttps://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/hillary-clinton-trump-economy-224604\n\n\nUntil the american people and redditors like OP stop playing red v blue team sports we will be in an endless cycle of the same old same old\n\nenjoy the system you continue to perpetuate",
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"content": "Their predictions did turn out right lmao. He did throw us into a recession and created the largest bouts of inflation the US has experienced in decades. He started a trade war driving up costs and global instability. He pulled us out of the TPP which allowed China to gain more power. In 2019, he threatened to have the Fed removed if they raised interest rates, which would have helped slow inflation. He got rid of the very institutions that handle pandemics and we were stuck with reactionary policy instead of preventative which could have had a stronger impact on limiting the pandemic. He gave out free government handouts to businesses and citizens with no oversight.",
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"content": "> he got rid of the very institutions that handle pandemics \n\nHe scrapped the CDC? Do you even attempt to basic fact check?",
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"content": "https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/",
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"content": "Disbanding and reallocating a *unit* in the executive department does not mean he 'got rid' of institutions that handle pandemics, when the CDC, NIH and co already exist.\n\nAlso, for more [https://usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/10/fact-check-white-house-didnt-fire-pandemic-response-2018/3437356001/](https://usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/10/fact-check-white-house-didnt-fire-pandemic-response-2018/3437356001/)",
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"content": "We are Alexandre Tanzi, Michael Sasso and Jennifer Epstein and we cover mortgage rates and real estate at Bloomberg News. Ask us anything!",
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"content": "Classical economics dictates that as the cost of money (ie: interest rates) increases, the price of goods should be under pressure, but this is not what we have seen in the housing markets. In the 4 years from 2Q 2016 to 2Q 2020, 30 year fixed rates went from 3.54% down to 2.98%. At the same time, median US home prices went from $306,000 to $317,100, a CAGR of about +0.9%.(Using FRED data).Pretty much in line with classical economic expectations.\n\nHowever, from 2Q 2020 to 2Q 2024, 30 yr fixed rates went from 2.98% to now around 7.60%. In this same time, median US home prices have risen from $317,100 to $420,800, a CAGR of over 9%. \n\nI understand the covid effect for some of this, but the rate of price appreciation has continued on past the end of lockdowns. Additionally, if this was due to a demographic shift out of cities to suburbs, why are median rent prices in cities continuing to increase at strong rates, with NYC median rents +4.3% in 2023, and rising a further +5.4% in 2024.\n\nDo interest rates even matter right now? Have demographics broken the interest rate mechanism? At what point does affordability, taking into account the impact of higher rates, start to weigh on prices?",
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"content": "Furthermore, what does this increase in housing costs mean for younger first time homebuyers? What does it mean for their ability to build wealth, save for retirement, have expendable money, build generational wealth, etc? Seems to me that their lifetime trajectories are going to be very, very different than those of their predecessors - parents, grandparents, etc .",
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"content": "Houses have generally risen with inflation. And wages do too. Once the fed has a recession or cuts rates the houses will be affordable again. \n\nThe gen z that are complaining but it's nothing to the recessio of 2008 a whole gen losing 10 years of earnings and promotions. \n\nIt's a simple extra 1-2 years of renting while having normalized or higher than avg wage growth due to low unemployment",
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"content": "[https://www.epi.org/nominal-wage-tracker/](https://www.epi.org/nominal-wage-tracker/) \nhalf the rate.",
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"content": "It looks like half from 2010 to 2020 and then normalized back to trend after that. \n\n2010 to 2020 is millenials",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "A key part of America’s economy has shifted into reverse",
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"content": "TL;DR: Shrinking middle class is bad for the US service economy.\n\n\nPeople can't buy and do as many things with rampant inflation and greed-flation.\n\n\nOlder Americans are dumping their money into consuming healthcare service instead of other consumer services.\n\n\nSurprised_pikachu_face.jpg",
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"content": "There seems to be a contingent in the media supported by loud armchair economist that if they don’t report on the cost of living pinch, it didn’t happen. My tinfoil hat says so that it can’t be blamed on certain people (not that it is any one persons fault anyway). \n\n But if you look at market prices and cost of living expenses, not quality adjusted chained estimated whatever but the actual out of pocket expense, and factor in the things that are left out like income bracket creep the pain is real for most Americans. \n\n If you have a bunch in equities or were in the right place at the right time to capture some of the housing bubble you are probably ok. \n\n If you are wage roll with a couple kids not so much. To add insult to injury everyone is telling them it’s all their imagination and stop having “bad vibes”.",
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"content": "Oh yeah, don't get me started on the whole \"financial dysmorphia\" buzzword bullshit that has sprung up as spin cover for all of this. \n\n\nLiterally \"don't believe your lying eyes\" levels of spin.\n\n\nAnd don't be afraid to lay blame. This is all very easy to lay at the feet of unchecked stimulus from covid.\n\n\nThe money faucet was opened extra wide, and as usual, it never trickles down from all the businesses we needed to keep throwing money at to keep afloat.",
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"content": "I dont think its that there is financial dysmorphia or a \"dont believe your eyes\" spin at all.\n\nI think unfortunately most Americans truly dont understand economics nor the metrics economists use and are dissilusioned with what is in front of their face.\n\nTake CPI for example, WSJ polled the seven swing states to ask of inflation has gone up or down over the past 12 months, and something like 74% said it had gone up.\n\nBut here's the kicker, inflation has gone down by more than half over that time period. Americans confuscate disinflation and inflation. Inflation has gone down, but prices are still up. They dont understand the ramifications of that and confuse disinflation and inflation. Just one example",
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"content": "I don’t think so. It’s true that disinflation has occurred. It’s just that a 2.9% increase on $100 dollars is still a $3 increase in nominal dollars. A 6% increase on $50 dollars is also a $3 increase in nominal dollars. What people are seeing and thinking about is the compounding effects of inflation. Some items have also increased much more in price than others.",
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"content": "Yes, but deflation is bad for any number of reasons. People want deflation, but they aren’t going to get it.",
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"content": "Provide some evidence that short-term deflation is bad. I'll wait.",
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"content": "Luckily no one is talking about short term deflation specifically so you can keep on living your life.\n\nWould love to hear your plan for encouraging short term deflation though!",
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"content": "Decrease the money supply.",
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"content": "U.S. Oil Production Extends Massive Lead Over Russia And Saudi Arabia",
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"content": "Now we have to stop exporting it and use it here first. Oh wait the fucktards shut down all the refineries so we send it to other countries to buy it back at the world price. Real smart economics for our people.",
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"content": "The US refines about 20% of global crude oil and most oil drilled in the US is refined in the US.\n\n\nPlus there is no such thing as \"world price\" vs US price since there are no export taxes on oil.",
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"content": "Source?",
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"content": "Your mom",
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"content": "Excellent discussion",
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"content": "I’m in Canada. I’ll tell you exactly what will happen. People will continue to get it illegally because it’s cheaper. Many businesses here heavily overshot demand projections and had to later significantly scale down operations.",
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"content": "These headlines use top line sales figures that probably include every tax and fee on the receipt. Since canna retailers can’t deduct expenses, they all keep as high a markup as possible to cover their overhead, which on top of onerous taxes the producers build into wholesale prices leads to high retail prices and therefore artificially high top line sales. \n\n Demand is massively overstated and these articles are just to keep the hype train moving. Commercial cannabis is a house of cards and this narrative is the glue. \n\nEdit: interestingly, the article cites “state regulatory agencies” for the figures, but for example, the Colorado Dept of Revenue is only published through April 2024 at the moment. ",
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"content": "Not sure how you can call it a house of cards? Sure there will be some volatility starting out, but there is clearly a demand. Judging by the amount of vape shops I see, Cannabis will do just fine",
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"content": "Tremendous overhead, tremendous tax bills, TREMENDOUS debt, and **massively overstated** demand. Look at any mature market in the US, or Canada. Prices fall, but in some cases, even UNIT sales have fallen.\n\nThat's why. Legal cannabis is a slam dunk no brained, *commercialized* *cannabis* in all its forms is the house of cards. Companies took on debt in the hundreds of millions so they can slit each others throats to be the first to sell $5 vape carts and $3 gummies. None of the large MSOs are financially healthy, and the mom and pops are on life support from the beginning.\n\nWhy do you assume it will be fine? Articles like this?\n\nEdits: Downvote if you want, but your downvotes are based on vibes. The whole future version of the industry is based on vibes. This article is vibes. It claims it's using data from state regulatory agencies, but CO for example has only published figures through April, so where did the article get May and June?",
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"content": "As I stated earlier, there will be volatility starting out, same with anything new, some will go under, some will make a killing. Your basic argument is commercialized cannabis is too hard to complex to make a profit? The booming industry in every other legalized state appears to disagree with you. Yes, some of the MI shops along the Ohio border will go under once it's legalized, but that was no surprise to anyone, especially the ones who opened up shop there. \n\nThere is obvious demand, the level of demand and what people will pay vs black market is debatable. But as I said, judging by the level of vape shops I see, if those can be profitable, cannabis shops will be also, if not more so. The question is, will a midsize town support 1 shop? 5 shops?",
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"content": "The “booming industry” is the vibe I’m talking about, but I’d guess people have never actually read any of the MSOs annual reports or looked past these types of headlines to talk to the actual operators. Do you know what 280e is doing to these companies, or the expenses they face? Maybe build some cannabis industry folks into your LinkedIn network and read their on-the-ground takes? You should start there and maybe understand why vape shops are a terrible comparison. (To say nothing of the fact that nicotine is wildly addictive while cannabis is generally accepted to not be.)\n\nMature markets everywhere are not booming, they are terribly unhealthy and chugging along on debt, desperate for investor cash, with the promise of new highs and new waves of customers as the “stigma” falls. That narrative hasn’t born out in any mature market though and companies continue to burn cash. \n\nI have been in the industry personally for a long time, and have access to several different market data platforms and can tell you that unit sales are declining in most mature markets (except MI, which isn’t mature and again, despite the headlines, is not a sustainable market at the current prices without significant federal reform). I’m not just making this up to argue with you. \n\nThere is a wave of interest on legalization, but there is a lack of converting long term customers, a lack of true customer segmentation, lack of innovation and too much overhead. You went out of your way to call it a “basic take” but seemingly your take is based on what you read in articles like this (and I guess whatever you think you know about vape shops.)",
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"content": "It's a business like any other. There is a demand, there will be shops to supply those demands at prices to make it worth the investment. It's basic economics. Yes, they currently have extra expenses such as 280e, but you are a fool if you think a prudent investor hasn't factored that into their business plan. Honestly sounds like you got burnt investing into some start up that flopped. There will be growing pains, some will make it, others will not. The ones that change and adapt to the ever changing market will be successful. I'm a casual user at best, but I know there absolutely is demand. The few times I went to the MI shop, there was always a waiting line, even at weird times midweek. And each person was leaving with a full bag. But you are right, this isn't a vape shop, they probably had the gross income of a vape shop in a four hours vs what a local vape shop does in a week. \n\nHonestly, I really think we are just confused on the level scope here. Do I think there will be one on every block due to crazy demand, absolutely not. I know of one starting up in my midsize town and it will do just fine. I know the midsize town, two towns to the south has two of them close together starting up along the highway, they may do just fine, or one may close. Or we are underestimating it and there may be as many as vape shops. It's a young market and there is a gold rush. Some will strike it rich while others will not. To say the whole thing will flop/is doomed is just crazy.",
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"content": "Time will tell, amigo. I stand by my experiences and first hand knowledge of the industry. You can stand in line at a dispensary and drive by too many vape shops. \n\nPeace. ",
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"content": "US workers in debt to buy groceries - 'I had to downgrade my life'",
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"content": "This comment thread feels like the most disconnected group of people I’ve seen in a long time. \nI have been the payday loan guy. There really isn’t another option sometimes. \nThe choices are be homeless, or take out a loan. Lose your job because you can’t afford tires, or take out a loan. In the end the loan is less costly than the consequences of not taking a loan. \nEven when taking out the loan is a bad idea. You’ll do a lot to not let your life collapse around you. \nI appreciate that there should be push back about bad information, but Jesus man this comment section is blaming poor people for issues thrown on them.\nHave some compassion people.",
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"content": "There are both, I'm sure, the people who genuinely have no other choice, and the people who just don't know how to spend money. We should just learn to be humble and know that what we've seen isn't always the whole picture.",
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"content": "Idk man. It just seems like gaslighting to me to say any group of people are responsible for the failed policies that came out of the Covid era. For sure some of them could cut back off on spending, and a ton of them are cutting way back, but to act like this is their fault is misplaced blame. They didn’t do this to themselves. They are reacting to an economy that isn’t meeting their needs, and wants. Who owns that problem. The people, or the government that organized our society, and economy to their detriment?",
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"content": "> It just seems like gaslighting to me to say any group of people are responsible for the failed policies that came out of the Covid era.\n\nWhat failed policies are you talking about? \n\n> Who owns that problem. The people, or the government that organized our society, and economy to their detriment?\n\nHow did the government organize our society and economy to the detriment of \"the people\"? If that was the case I'd be expecting political majorities to quickly overturn that.",
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"content": "It really doesn’t matter who, or what. The American people didn’t do it in any place, and our current economy did not just magically happen. Someone, or ones did that, and it wasn’t the people, but that’s who we’re blaming here.",
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"content": "So how do you know this is due to failed government policies during COVID if you can't name them or the people responsible for them?",
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"content": "EU slaps tariffs of up to 38% on Chinese electric vehicles",
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"content": ">The European Commission on Wednesday announced it would impose new tariffs of up to 37.6% on Chinese electric vehicles starting on Friday.\n\n>The Commission said the new duties are to counteract what it called \"unfair\" subsidies Chinese electric vehicle makers receive from the Chinese government. The subsidies, according to the EU, create a “threat of economic harm” to European car manufacturers.\n\nSounds like the easiest way to keep European car companies from having to compete with China or produce their own affordable EVs.",
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"content": "Chinese EVs are artificially cheap by means of intellectual property theft and CCP subsidies. Those 2 unfair advantages would put any other EV makers out of business, there is no competing with the egregious theft and cheating the Chinese are engaging in.",
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"content": "You don't know what you're talking about.\n\nFirst, China kinda has the monopoly on lithium batteries. It has the raw materials, high technology (no one else is advancing the technology) and cheap workforce.\n\nSecondly, China didn't steal from anybody. Nobody would do business with them if that was true. It's a mix between having their youth in western universities, picking up and advancing technology knowledge, AND the fact that Chinese businesses also traded cheap labor for IP - that's why they were never brought to any trial, though the MSM talks so much crap about it.\n\nParticularly the US couldn't have done it in any other way. It can't financially sustain any manufacturing inshore, so it had to diversify offshore. India is still underdeveloped, just like Mexico. Russia is still a bad guy. They had to deal with the Chinese, but they weren't counting on them being so organized and so isolated from western influence on chinese society and politics (that's why the big bad Firewall).",
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"content": "\"Stealing\" is a colloquial term. CCP requires IP transfer if you want to manufacture and sell in China.",
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"content": "And companies did it anyway.",
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"content": "You crazy bastards pumped this up to all time highs again? Its 2024. How do people not cringe themselves to death when they are \"trading crypto\"? Go do something useful with your money and time.",
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"content": "Massive game of hot potato.",
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"content": "Really becomes a problem when it starts getting into 401K/IRA/Roths via crypto ETFs, companies like Microstrategy or TSLA loading up on BTC, and/or those companies being added into index etfs like VOO/IWM/QQQ. It starts getting everyone else exposed to those e-pogs.",
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"content": "I don't see Governments bailing people out either if crypto goes bust.",
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"content": "Depends how rich the people who lose their shirts turn out to be.",
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"content": "Too dumb to fail",
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"content": "The government is literally Too Big to Care at this point. \n\nWhat signal have we given them that we've had enough of bailouts to the point that we're interested in doing absolutely anything about it? None. The answer is none.",
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"content": "US workers in debt to buy groceries - 'I had to downgrade my life'",
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"content": "This is whacky reporting. It's individuals complaining about generalized inflation, while utilizing debt to make ends meet. These are individuals adding interest charges to their fixed costs every month, omplaining about inflation? The reporter should be investigating the excessive utilization of credit as much as inflation.",
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"content": "Positive feedback loop fueled by human necessity.",
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"content": "If anyone ever takes out a payday loan they're just plain bad at budgeting. I mean they're poor and they're giving up a significant to them portion of their check to get money a little earlier. Like just suck it up for a week and get back on track.\n\nTo the second dude mentioned that had to convert to ramen noodles and frozen vegies. Learn how to cook, ramen noodles are not cheap calories, only slightly cheaper than meat.",
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"content": "Or they’re just out of money. We’re talking about economics here, so little “personal responsibility” solutions are not solutions. People can’t suck it up for a week without food.",
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"content": "> People can’t suck it up for a week without food.\n\n\nCountless poor people around the world would disagree with that claim. Not to mention the ones shouting the loudest about \"food being too expensive\" are the ones who would benefit a lot (both financially and physically) from skipping some meals or eating smaller meals. ",
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"content": "This just sounds like it’s coming from lack of real life experience tbh. It’s easy to think you have everything figured out when you don’t yet understand how little you actually know or what certain things are actually like. Ask some of these poor people about what it’s like to go a week without food, how that affects their ability to work and function in daily life etc.",
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"content": "Poor people don't have higher rates of obesity? BMIs aren't negatively correlated with incomes? Sounds like you're the one in need of some real life experience.\n\nAnd impacting their ability to work and function in daily life falls under \"suck it up\".",
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"content": "The cost of buying protection, as measured through the real-time prices of put and call options, is sitting near multi-year lows. But unlike other instances in the past, this cost has been subdued for some time. We haven't seen a VIX Index reading above 20 since the October 2023 mini-selloff. There hasn't been a reading above 30 since October 2022. \n\nIn the past, a subdued volatility reading has been a sign that investors have become very greedy and complacent. It's also served as a signal for buying protection against big falls in the share market - after all, they don't call it the 'fear gauge' for nothing.\n\nBut as Longview Economics' Harry Colvin explained to me recently, it's not always been a reliable indicator. Periods of low volatility can also be a signal that corporate fundamentals are very strong meaning there is no reason to sell.",
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"content": "There is a massive dispersion trade happening in the market whereby puts are sold on the S&P500 index and the premium is used to buy calls on the “Magnificent 7”. \n\nThere is a massive bet that AI is going to solve everything in the economy, but not much else. Right now, these seven companies comprise over 34% of the total market capitalization of the S&P500. Combined with the relative performance of the Russell 2000 and Equal-weighted S&P500, it’s very clear that the equity market is heavily concentrated in these seven stocks.\n\nThere is a massive volatility dispersion bubble that the equity market is sitting atop, and it remains the greatest short-term risk to stocks. If the market were to experience a sudden unexpected sell-off that dispersion traders could not fight off, or perhaps one that spooks the larger participants in the trade to unwind the position, it could lead to a catastrophic drop in the indexes as those short puts and long calls exit, and market makers dump their hedges.\n\nI have been directly involved with research into this issue, and in my mind it is the single largest risk to highly index-exposed portfolios. Over the medium to long term, this risk will dissipate, but that rate of dissipation is dependent on two factors: 1) Just how much notional leverage has been packed into this trade and 2) regulatory response to the positions unwinding, should the event cause disruption to the broader financial markets.",
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"content": "If people are selling puts on the SP500, wouldn’t that put a floor under the market, because they would be buying on any modest correction? Or do you mean they are selling naked puts, and will get bankrupted by a significant correction?",
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"content": "There’s no way to tell without access to the market maker book, but it’s likely a highly leveraged spread, which means losses are indeed limited (to some unknown extent). Once again, the proceeds from such a credit spread are likely being used to fund bull call spreads on the Magnificent 7, meaning that there are multiple points of failure.\n\nWhile short puts exert a positive gamma hedge (in which market makers buy into falling prices), this hedge flips once those short positions go in the money. \n\nFurther, since there is also a similar damping affect on implied volatility from the position, there is also a risk there of the market maker pricing risk up in options as those positions go in the money (if that ends up happening).\n\nThe position unwinding would provide a floor on index pricing if significant losses are taken as a result of the exit.",
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"content": "\nUS adds 206,000 jobs in June, unemployment rate highest since Nov. '21\n",
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"content": "[BLS Release - Table A-9. Selected employment indicators](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t09.htm)\n\nFull or Part Time Status| June 2023 | June 2024 | Net Change\n:--|--:|--:|--:\nFull-Time Workers|135,860,000|134,301,000|-1,559,000\nPart-Time Workers|25,699,000|27,472,000|1,773,000",
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"content": "This is what matters. The jobs that are being created are not high paying, career type jobs. The jobs that are lost are. \n\nThis is why americans feel the economy is not working for them, it is clear that it isn't.",
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"content": "This. Things that are overlooked with job numbers are the quality of jobs and the ratio of private to public sector since the private sector basically pays for public sector jobs.",
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"content": "Record number of Americans are retiring abroad because the U.S. is too expensive",
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"content": "I was talking to my wife about this the other day. The prospect of retiring abroad is enticing, however there are two main detractors that keep us from going all-in\n\n1) making new friends is hard. Making new friends in another country is damn near impossible.\n\n2) Socialized healthcare is awesome, as long as you receive it properly. People act like Spain and Portugal are these utopian societies. That may be the case if you have a broken bone, or fall off a zip line, or have a heart attack, but when need to see a specialist, get an MRI, or undergo treatment for a rare disorder, get ready to hurry up and wait.\n\nhttps://www.euronews.com/2023/04/12/people-may-die-waiting-surgery-waiting-lists-in-spain-hit-record-levels",
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"content": "Don’t underestimate waiting times the U.S. either. Friends hat some really bad experiences. Wouldn’t say better than Europe but of course depends on the specifics.",
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"content": "This. My wife waited 6 weeks for an MRI in the states. We Americans have a very skewed view of our own healthcare, let alone other countries.",
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"content": "This very much depends on where you are. I live in decently well populated area. I could get an MRI next week at a self pay facility for $500.\n\nAnd don't say \"well that's not with insurance\", the whole point of this conversation is comparing a socialized healthcare system with a capitalist one.",
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"content": "Well, you can get an MRI quickly at a private facility in many EU countries as well, it's not like having public healthcare prevents private from existing. For example, in the area of Milan an MRI at a private center would cost you 200 euros and can likely be booked within a week.",
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"content": "Ok. Point still stands that there are trade offs between socialized health care and private healthcare.\n\nIn socialized healthcare you are going to get triaged, and if you aren't a serious case, you're gonna wait.",
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"content": "Sure, it’s just that people get worked up about articles that highlight excesses, in either system you can have a bad time, it’s just the flavor of “bad” that changes, like a long wait time or racking a really high bill.\n\nIn the end, most people can’t choose which system they’re in.",
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"content": "As a lifelong Texan, I can tell you this:\n\nEvery single bit of produce you eat was cultivated by an itinerant worker and it has been this way since the end of slavery. Literally. \n\nThe American economy, as it exists today, needs low-wage, unskilled labor. It was built on slave labor and it continues to be a requirement for a functioning economy today. \n\nWe need immigration reform desperately, of course. But immigration is far, far more complicated than “immigrants lower wages” and “we need to close the border.”\n\nWe need contingencies for itinerant farm workers, and immigration can be an excellent way to fill out the trades because we will have a problem with them in a decade or two. \n\nOur immigration problem right now is one of scale. We cannot process the number of immigrants seeking asylum because we do not have the courts, judges, and case workers to process them in a timely fashion. \n\nWe need to scale it up to process these asylum requests because every single data point on climate indicates that migrations like these are going to be more and more common as equatorial areas get hot enough to destroy regions’ way of life and ability to survive.",
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"content": "Very well said. And the vast vast majority of the American public would welcome new immigrants if they came here legally the same as everyone else. The problem is our politicians allow line jumpers in and horribly delay those using the legal process. Being Human we all hate line jumpers Lane Splitters cheaters and thieves. We allow one group to jump the line and make the others stay in line. Our politicians have used immigration as a political football. So so we do need an immigration policy based on the benefit of America and Americans not at the whim and benefit of a politician. You are correct.",
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"content": "Just no. The agricultural sector DEPENDS on the illegal immigrants precisely BECAUSE they are illegal and can pay them very low wages with pretty much no labour protections. It's cheap (or free) labour that the US has depended on to develop and grow it's early economy and that is pretty much still the case today",
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"content": "U.S. Oil Production Extends Massive Lead Over Russia And Saudi Arabia",
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"content": "Though American oil will never completely supplant OPEC, American oil producers may be really challenging Saudi Arabia’s title as the “swing producer” for non OPEC nations. These guys are taking advantage of every time OPEC cuts production.",
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"content": "We can cripple the world just like OPEC did to us in the 70’s and everybody knows it, all we have to do is take our oil off the international market which the president can do at his discretion. Oil’s not going away anytime soon but we are investing a ton in renewables so we are working it from both ends and that in my opinion is the best way forward. It dumbfounds me that Republicans want to scrap renewables.",
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"content": "Apparently, Russia favours climate change - more ice melt opens up shipping lanes and ports and also land in Siberia (unlikely to be very usa le but hey).\n\nThe troll farms, therefore, spread various climate change denial messages to susceptible people (e.g. MAGA base).\n\nPlus, apparently, it's not hard to purchase a republican house or Senate member. Excellent return on money and willing to go against US and general global interests for surprisingly cheap.\n\nInterestingly, China is predicted to be hit by climate change hard, so may one day get annoyed by their friend without limits helping sow the seeds of destruction.",
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"content": "Canadian unemployment rate rose to 6.4% in June",
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"content": "I’m pretty sure that 6-7% unemployment is actually good for the economy. It’s been a while since I took my Econ classes but I’m fairly certain this falls into the range of what’s considered to be healthy for the economy. Anyone who still has their Econ textbooks can feel free to look up the actual % and correct me.",
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"content": "I agree. In my country unemployment is around 40%. I mean I'm not saying they shouldn't do anything to improve the situation.",
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"content": "Record number of Americans are retiring abroad because the U.S. is too expensive",
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"content": "I was talking to my wife about this the other day. The prospect of retiring abroad is enticing, however there are two main detractors that keep us from going all-in\n\n1) making new friends is hard. Making new friends in another country is damn near impossible.\n\n2) Socialized healthcare is awesome, as long as you receive it properly. People act like Spain and Portugal are these utopian societies. That may be the case if you have a broken bone, or fall off a zip line, or have a heart attack, but when need to see a specialist, get an MRI, or undergo treatment for a rare disorder, get ready to hurry up and wait.\n\nhttps://www.euronews.com/2023/04/12/people-may-die-waiting-surgery-waiting-lists-in-spain-hit-record-levels",
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"content": "I’m an American that retired overseas. I’m in Portugal. Making friends is no problem at all here, but there was a lot of things I didn’t anticipate on. The crime statistics here are completely false. The court systems backed up at least 7 to 10 years so crimes are just not reported, the police don’t do shit either. I’m happy with the medical here but I have private insurance. The wait times for the public system are horrible. The government barely functions. The public road going to my house has been completely destroyed with rains were told that hopefully they can fix it in the next year. I can’t even drive to my home and neither can my neighbors. I really felt like I researched the taxes and everything else before I came, but I don’t think I really understood how heavy they were even for my retirement income from America, it’s really expensive to start your life all over again in another country and I’m really hoping things change here and I don’t have to move back and start my life all over again in America. \n\nLast week, we basically paid a bribe for my daughters immigration paperwork. Immigration here is at a complete standstill and there’s over 400,000 people waiting. You can’t even get an appointment or register online. That means you can’t leave the country in some circumstances. Even when the government extends again and again you can only leave and arrive in the country through Portugal. \n\nI could keep going. When we first bought our new home, we were robbed at knife point twice. It took a while for us to understand that the police will never do anything and that we had to defend ourselves. There’s plenty of people who come here and don’t have this experience, but everyone should know that it’s possible and if you’re unfortunate enough to be in this position, the government and the police won’t do anything.",
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"content": "Wow, where in Portugal are you? I have friends living there long-term who have never experienced that sort of crime.\n\nThe stories of bureaucratic delays, though, sound very familiar.",
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"content": "I’m in a rural part of Portugal but I’m only 20 minutes from Castelo Branco (80,000 plus) and Covinha (65k) so not the boonies. Your friends have probably been fortune enough not to be the victim of a crime. The vast majority of people here are great but the criminals suffer no penalties so they just keep going.",
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"content": "The friends I visit most live in the center of Caldas da Rainha (~50,000 population). I wonder if isolated areas might be more at risk, though I never encountered problems when walking the Portuguese Camino. Then again, I'm a large rough-looking man, so maybe they waited for a softer target to come by.",
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"content": "F.A.A. Investigating How Questionable Titanium Got Into Boeing and Airbus Jets -- \"The material, which was purchased from a little-known Chinese company, was sold with falsified documents and used in parts that went into jets from both manufacturers.\"",
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"content": "Conservatives and republicans support owners of production who **cut corners**. Demand better regulation and standardization. Republicans and conservatives **will undo all regulations and standardizations**.",
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"content": "When you consider half the Democrats are right of center, since the Third Way, this is laughable, at best.\n\nYes, the GOP is devoid of honor. But half the Dems have enabled them since the 90s.",
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"content": "Voting left pushes the options left toward regulation. Period.",
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"content": "This is why half the Dems stand to the right.\n\nBiden is right of Reagan.\n\nNot sure what you think \"left\" is at this time, except maybe a relative position to the hard hard right, which is where the GOP stands.",
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"content": "Biden is no socialist but he’s not anywhere near right of Ronnie Ray-gun. Iran Contra, trickle down supply side voodoo economics, destroyed labor unions, ignored the AIDS crisis, ran up the deficit with tax cuts, and launched the homeless epidemic in this country by repealing Carter’s Mental Health Systems Act and kicking the mentally ill out of hospitals and closing institutions. Reagan may seem left of today’s right wingers but he was a Republican wet dream in the 80’s.",
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"content": "AI is effectively ‘useless’—and it’s created a ‘fake it till you make it’ bubble that could end in disaster, veteran market watcher warns",
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"content": "It isn't useless, but I think the general sentiment of the article is correct. A lot of companies are burning a lot of money on the premise that there is a \"next step\" just around the corner. But history and the algorithms underlying generative AI tell us the next step is very unlikely to happen. \n\nWe just played this game with Elon Musk and self-driving cars for the last 10 years -- guess what technology underlies the decision making in self-driving cars (spoiler: it is generative AI). IMO ChatGPT and derivative products will provide some nice productivity enhancements across a lot of industries over the next 10 or so years and some types of jobs will see a reduction in demand. But it isn't going to be nearly at the level that current stock valuations are suggesting.",
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"content": "Anyone that’s been around long enough will undoubtedly recognize the [Gartner Hype Cycle](https://images.app.goo.gl/DyL46s6DySmP86DL6). It’s remarkably consistent with emerging technologies.",
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"content": "Inflation outrage: Even as prices stabilize, Walmart, Chipotle and others feel the heat from skeptical customers",
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"content": "“Retailers have also been accused of shrinking the size of private-label items. Walmart, for instance, cut the number of sheets in its Great Value paper towel rolls from 168 to 120 but did not reduce the price. Company spokeswoman Tricia Moriarty said it’s not shrinkflation because Walmart reformulated the product to make each sheet more absorbent.”\n\nWhat a fucking joke. They really do think we are dumb",
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"content": "They are facing inflation outrage because they lie constantly and people do not trust them.",
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"content": "Americans are suddenly finding it harder to land a job — and keep it ",
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"content": "I work in marketing and the job market currently sucks over here.\n\nGot laid off this past year and it took me 3 months to find a job -- with a $13k pay cut.\n\nMy friends in other industries (early 30's, mid-level management type roles) have been looking for new opportunities as well, and they're few and far between.\n\nPlus companies aren't offering many fully remote roles anymore. **(Edit: Neither I nor my friends were only applying for remote positions. I was just adding another qualm about the job market.)**\n\nFinding a job sucks in 2024.",
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"content": "Come over to hospitality. The hours are long and hard and pay is miserable, but it’s an honest living.\n\nFor a bonus, you get to see how the rich live!",
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"content": "Bonus! You get to be berated by people on a vacation you could never afford!",
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"content": "Thousands protest in Spain's most visited city against over-tourism",
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"content": "I can totally understand this…locals take a back seat to a city that becomes popular to tourists. Rent goes up, everything is crowded, restaurants change for the worse…on one hand it generates a lot of money and provides thousands of jobs but on the other it hurts quality of life for everyone who lives there",
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"content": "But these benefit different people. The protestors look mostly old and the younger ones might be non-tourist workers who face higher rents/trouble finding housing. The people who benefit - relatively young people working in the tourist industry - didn't turn out.\n\nAs populations age and democracies become gerontocracies, I expect more tourist cities to favour retired residents over tourist industry workers/employers. Especially the workers.",
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"content": "I think being an attractive and desirable city long term is obviously a plus..so your right here",
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"content": "Roaring Kitty was poised to become a freshly minted billionaire until GameStop threw a monkey wrench in the plan",
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"content": "Nothing happens until he realizes the gains or losses by selling.\n\nDude just keeps selling options so he can exercise the majority of his other options into more GME shares. RK is an absolute mad man.",
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"content": "He more recently had to do an SEC filing to disclose his holdings in Chewy, based on how much he owned. I suspect he’s no longer in GME, at least not entirely. Otherwise where did he get the cash to buy 5% of Chewy?",
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"content": "Considering he was the primary investor to pull GameStop out of bankruptcy and it got diluted mid-stream, I’m sure rc did some wheeling to help him in dealing.",
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"content": "That’s a lot of assumptions to make when “he sold GME after saying he might do that to invest in a company with better fundamentals” is much more straightforward and fits the facts we know. His stake in Chewy is worth at least 500 mil, and the last portfolio we saw was about 350 mil total value… I find it *unlikely* that Keith Gill made 500 million in cash “on the side”. It just makes more sense to imagine that he liquidated a large portion of his GME.\n\nKeith needed hundreds of millions of dollars to buy that stake in Chewy. It didn’t come from nowhere, and the bulk of his assets that we’re aware of are in GME. Occam’s Razor would imply that he sold at least some of his GME.",
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"content": "That’s fair too and probably makes the most sense.\n\nI just feel if he was looking to liquidate out of gme entirely. There would have been a better stock to move to then the one owned by the same person trading at the same value that is also pretty much stuck there.\n\nTLDR: there were better, and less contentious moves to make if he was removing GameStop from the equation.",
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"content": "Cohen founded Chewy, but he no longer owns it. He sold it to Petsmart. My theory is that Keith moved into a former Cohen project because he is making his money via soft market manipulation. Chewy is part of the greater-pantheon of companies that Apes love due to association with Cohen, but is significantly more stable and not terribly overvalued: apes like it, but it’s not a meme stock. It worked too: Keith tweeted an emoji of a dog, Chewy spiked in price, and his SEC filing was released like a couple days later iirc. This way he can continue to benefit from ape stupidity without riding a sinking ship down to a reasonable price.",
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"content": "He moved into Chewy to make money off the same cycles that GME runs off of. I would bet the house that he's out of Chewy and was only in it for the brief spike.",
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"content": "I have no bitcoin but looking at the 5Y chart including this recent down trend, if you purchased at any point in 2019 and held until now - you would be up ~400+%. If you bought between 7/17/22-7/14/23 you would be up ~83%+. Pretty solid returns.",
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"content": "NVDA was $4.16 (adjusted) in 2019. It's now $125, up \\~2900% from that time, and it's real. \n\nMakes those \"pretty solid returns\" look positively pedestrian.",
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"content": "how is NVIDIA more real than crypto?\n\nplease explain to me how one thing worth money is more real than something else worth money, when money is the fucking metric we used to ascribe and describe value in our society\n\nthe mona lisa is real too, but you might trade it for a cup of water in some circumstances\n\nthis whole \"this is real but this is not\"\n\nreminds me of Game of Thrones Fans, looking down at WWE fans, for watching something fake",
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"content": "It’s much easier to liquidate NVDA for cash ( real cash, not Tether)",
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"content": "this isn't 1980; cashing out your bitcoin into cash in your bank account is exactly the same difficulty and speed as cashing out stocks. in fact a lot of crypto exchanges are actually *faster* at doing that than stock exchanges.",
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"content": "Outmigration cost California $24B in departed incomes as poorer people move in ",
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"content": "How come GDP keeps on going up? [https://www.statista.com/statistics/187834/gdp-of-the-us-federal-state-of-california-since-1997/](https://www.statista.com/statistics/187834/gdp-of-the-us-federal-state-of-california-since-1997/)",
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"content": "Easy. Tech & Natural resources, neither of which are a result of California leadership. ",
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"content": "China now effectively \"owns\" a nation: Laos, burdened by unpaid debt, is now virtually indebted to Beijing ",
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"content": "I guess it's that time of year where we start spamming articles about how bad China is?\n\nHonestly a nice change from the article spam of how bad and stupid Trump is and how Biden needs to do XYZ or else ABC. Still gonna be annoying as hell either way.",
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"content": "Don't forget the, Russia is collapsing as we speak articles.",
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"content": "Don't forget....But at the same time powerful enough to take on all of Nato...so we need fo fund military industrial complex some more",
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"content": "The little-known Phillips curve points to recession 'in late 2024 or early 2025', strategist warns",
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"content": "The Phillips curve is little known? What?\n\nIt’s one of the more widely known popular macro models, and has been substantially reworked/revised since its conception.",
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"content": "It's gone through the whole lifecycle of new to well known to obscure again.\n\nThe relationship between unemployment and inflation has grown much weaker to the point of near irrelevance in recent history.",
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"content": "I think it says more about the author than economics. Some of these economics reporters don’t know anything.",
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"content": "Canadian unemployment rate rose to 6.4% in June",
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"content": "Wow, it’s almost as if making it extremely unattractive for foreign investment to come to Canada and provide jobs for Canadians, isn’t such a great idea after all. \n\nAnyways; I know this is the side effect of rising interest rates from last year but this’ll be even scarier when you factor in companies no longer seeing investment in Canada as attractive as it once was. Yikes",
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"content": "I work in O&G deal making in Canada, its unfortunate how the government constantly send negative signals to the sector and make it almost impossible to finance projects.",
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"content": "Yeah I bet. Out of curiosity, were you in the same role under the previous government? I’m curious to get your thoughts on how things have changed",
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"content": "Americans are suddenly finding it harder to land a job — and keep it ",
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"content": "I work in marketing and the job market currently sucks over here.\n\nGot laid off this past year and it took me 3 months to find a job -- with a $13k pay cut.\n\nMy friends in other industries (early 30's, mid-level management type roles) have been looking for new opportunities as well, and they're few and far between.\n\nPlus companies aren't offering many fully remote roles anymore. **(Edit: Neither I nor my friends were only applying for remote positions. I was just adding another qualm about the job market.)**\n\nFinding a job sucks in 2024.",
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"content": "Come over to hospitality. The hours are long and hard and pay is miserable, but it’s an honest living.\n\nFor a bonus, you get to see how the rich live!",
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"content": "Bonus! You get to be berated by people on a vacation you could never afford!",
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"content": "Stop it.",
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"content": "It will never stop until we are dead",
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"content": "Not a fan of the theory, but his rational is not wrong. When fiscal and moentary resources is unlimited, you will quickly hit the next constraints which is natural resources of the world. Monetary supply can be printed at a press of button, housing, computers, or any real product can't be produced like that. The rising interest further indebt government, looks like something will break in the very near future.",
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"content": "Exactly this. And we’re already seeing natural resources at the forefront of wars and conquests. Reminds me of the conflicts from centuries ago. Even in the United States, every day people are having their resources stripped from under the feet by both the American elite and foreign governments.",
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"content": "What? This is definitely not happening.",
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"content": "Displaced farmers, foreign entities buying land with abundant aquifers, African villages displaced by Saudi deals for resources.. \n\nYes, it is.\n\nBut if *you* prefer to not believe it, that’s your call.",
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"content": "This isn’t a new thing. It’s been happening since the evolution of humans. Why do you act like money invented resource conflicts??",
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"content": "Ah yes, reducing immigration will hurt out economy where the job market is already dismal for the native population. The mental gymnastics neolibs like rubin do to justify their agenda (import more foreign cheap labor, spend mroe overseas)… is.. astonishing",
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"content": "Go back to r/conservative",
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"content": "It's hilarious how every single one of these people who constantly oppose current immigration levels will use the \"but duh wages!!!\" argument to oppose our immigration level; yet when it comes to having a high minimum wage or paying services workers like, $20 - $25/hr (which I personally am more neutral on regardless), they will start screeching about \"b-b-but $50 burgers!!!!!\"\n\nAlmost like they don't actually give a damn about the poor, and just hate immigrants entirely. Yeah, sure, immigration CAN reduce wages for low skilled labor. Want to know how you can raise those wages? Forcing companies to pay more. That is either through a minimum wage or strong workers unions.",
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"content": "I don’t think anyone is complaining about legal immigration. Our concern is the almost 7 -10 million illegals that have come through since Biden reversed Trump’s border rules (it is impossible to know the real number). These are people who have not been vetted, we don’t know where they are and worse they are unable to work legally so have no choice but to revert to crime or whatever other black market opportunities present themselves.",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "Regardless of what school of economic thought you adhere to, when faced with the current situation of approximately full employment and higher than desired inflation you're not going to prescribe monetary loosening, lower taxes, and higher government spending as the solution.",
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"content": "I would if I wanted hyperinflation.",
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"content": "Trump wants hyperinflation. It’s very good for his stakeholders in Russia and Saudi Arabia.",
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"content": "Yeah, just look at how high inflation was the last time he was President.",
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"content": "Americans are suddenly finding it harder to land a job — and keep it ",
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"content": "I work in marketing and the job market currently sucks over here.\n\nGot laid off this past year and it took me 3 months to find a job -- with a $13k pay cut.\n\nMy friends in other industries (early 30's, mid-level management type roles) have been looking for new opportunities as well, and they're few and far between.\n\nPlus companies aren't offering many fully remote roles anymore. **(Edit: Neither I nor my friends were only applying for remote positions. I was just adding another qualm about the job market.)**\n\nFinding a job sucks in 2024.",
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"content": "Come over to hospitality. The hours are long and hard and pay is miserable, but it’s an honest living.\n\nFor a bonus, you get to see how the rich live!",
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"content": "I work in corporate for a Hospitality company in Risk Management. Y'all have it rough out it the field.",
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"content": "China is poised to dominate the market for legacy chips and US has only itself to blame",
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"content": "If this happens then china should not be trusted with any chip making equipment. Sanctions will have to cover all levels of machines. \n\nThey already supply Russia, Iran, North Korea with western chips violating sanctions. Let’s just sanction all chinas chip making ability.",
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"content": "Cat's already out of the bag and there's just always going to be huge demands for simpler commodity chips.\n\n\nChina is \"only\" about 15 years or so behind the cutting edge. Even stagnant (which they aren't), 2010s chip making can go pretty far.",
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"content": ">China is \"only\" about 15 years\n\nNo, it's not. They're up to date. Solar panels, they're the most advanced. Lithium batteries, the most advanced. Electric vehicles, most advanced. Smartphones, most advanced. Airplanes, most advanced too. \n\nOnly 15 years behind? The US was awed when they saw the new Chinese jet plane. They were flying above Chinese territory, all of a sudden the US pilot saw a new plane and he was intrigued how the systems didn't see it before.",
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"content": "Inflation outrage: Even as prices stabilize, Walmart, Chipotle and others feel the heat from skeptical customers",
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"content": "“Retailers have also been accused of shrinking the size of private-label items. Walmart, for instance, cut the number of sheets in its Great Value paper towel rolls from 168 to 120 but did not reduce the price. Company spokeswoman Tricia Moriarty said it’s not shrinkflation because Walmart reformulated the product to make each sheet more absorbent.”\n\nWhat a fucking joke. They really do think we are dumb",
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"content": "With all the \"improvements\" to paper towels over the years just one sheet should be able to absorb a swimming pool.",
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"content": "US workers in debt to buy groceries - 'I had to downgrade my life'",
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"content": "This comment thread feels like the most disconnected group of people I’ve seen in a long time. \nI have been the payday loan guy. There really isn’t another option sometimes. \nThe choices are be homeless, or take out a loan. Lose your job because you can’t afford tires, or take out a loan. In the end the loan is less costly than the consequences of not taking a loan. \nEven when taking out the loan is a bad idea. You’ll do a lot to not let your life collapse around you. \nI appreciate that there should be push back about bad information, but Jesus man this comment section is blaming poor people for issues thrown on them.\nHave some compassion people.",
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"content": "Remember when poor people taking out mortgages they couldn't afford sent the entire world into a deep financial crisis and recession? Then the lenders who pushed all the debt were bailed out but the people had their houses taken away!? \n\nThose damn poors! If only there was something we could do to protect the unfortunate victim hedge funds from the reckless irrisponsibility of the working class!",
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"content": "The government didn’t lose a penny from the commercial banks on the TARP bailout as an FYI",
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"content": "Not a fan of the theory, but his rational is not wrong. When fiscal and moentary resources is unlimited, you will quickly hit the next constraints which is natural resources of the world. Monetary supply can be printed at a press of button, housing, computers, or any real product can't be produced like that. The rising interest further indebt government, looks like something will break in the very near future.",
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"content": "Trump was handed a fully recovered economy from the Great Recession. What history tells us is to save and pay down debt during the good times so we can spend to recover during the bad times. What Trump did was the exact opposite of what we should have done, so when Biden was handed the global pandemic economic crisis in mid stride, we were already in a hole. This unfortunately was the same pattern from the Bush Jr admin, who was handed a balanced budget and a surplus that was quickly squandered so when the next crisis hit we were already in a hole. Stimulus does serve a purpose to dig out of a hole and does pay for itself over time, as long as the next admin doesn't squander it before the next fiscal crisis hits.",
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"content": "> What you are describing has no current solution in our form of democracy.\n\nBroad education on those topics would help.",
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"content": "You crazy bastards pumped this up to all time highs again? Its 2024. How do people not cringe themselves to death when they are \"trading crypto\"? Go do something useful with your money and time.",
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"content": "Massive game of hot potato.",
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"content": "Really becomes a problem when it starts getting into 401K/IRA/Roths via crypto ETFs, companies like Microstrategy or TSLA loading up on BTC, and/or those companies being added into index etfs like VOO/IWM/QQQ. It starts getting everyone else exposed to those e-pogs.",
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"content": "Wait, my QQQ is getting exposed to crypto bullshit now?",
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"content": "It's out there. Some companies deal in it and/or own some.\n\nToothpaste don't go back in the tube baby!",
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"content": "China now effectively \"owns\" a nation: Laos, burdened by unpaid debt, is now virtually indebted to Beijing ",
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"content": "I saw and read a few articles a couple of weeks ago. \nAnd it is really not as bad as it seems to be. \n\nThe railway was built by China, with Chinese workers and half of it ( or more ) was paid by Laos. \n\nWhat ended up happening is that Chinese are now visiting this country more and more since the direct rail to it. \n\nBelieve it or not, with this huge number of tourists, they might be able to repay everything with 26 years. It is a small country, after all. \nPeople who are being hired to maintain the train, drive, bring in enjoyment ( dancers), etc... are all from Laos. \n\nIt might be different, though, if the rail income also have Chinese stake in there.\n\nEdit : For people who keeps on insisting that I am beautifying the current situation. \n\n Laos has close to 11 billions in external debts with over half of it to China. They deferred in payments last year and even then China said nothing. They are actually allowing them to deferred in payments ( don't know if it will be good or bad in long term ). \n\nThese externals debts is due to railways contractions, dam construction and roadway construction. For anyone who knows finance and economics, these are positive things that propel/ boost an economy. \n\nIt allows one to reach different markets. \n\nLaos has a huge irrigation problem when it comes to agriculture since they mainly produce rice which takes water. These dams being built are more than welcome. \n\nAnd also the biggest importer of rice is China. As everyone knows China imports a lot of food due to their huge population. If Laos can produce surplus, they can sell to China and other market. \nEven faster now with all these routes and railways. \n\nOnly long term cooperation can tell us whether or not it will be good or bad for the country. \nI personally do not know.",
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"content": "They don't care. Trust me. All they're here for is China bad, West good. It doesn't matter if it benefits that country or not. I have been watching closely and I have come to this conclusion.\n\nCall them out of some of the bad stuff Western nations did in the past and they will say whataboutism. Social media is morphing into a western propaganda machine where everything is bad unless the West or Western allies did it. It's actually tiring.",
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"content": "they have to create a fake Chinese debt trap scheme to draw attention away from the real debt trap schemes that are preying on developing countries: IMF and World Bank loans, pushed by the west, that require signing over your sovereignty, resources, and labor rights",
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"content": "China is poised to dominate the market for legacy chips and US has only itself to blame",
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"content": "If this happens then china should not be trusted with any chip making equipment. Sanctions will have to cover all levels of machines. \n\nThey already supply Russia, Iran, North Korea with western chips violating sanctions. Let’s just sanction all chinas chip making ability.",
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"content": ">If this happens then china should not be trusted with any chip making equipment\n\nWhat? Why? Lol, they already manufacture many billions of dollars of goods each year just like America does. America produces most of the world's software. This is all ridiculous.",
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"content": "And china is using that money to build its military, the fastest we have ever seen in peacetime. They keep Russias war machine going and helps them amplify it. All while chinas domestic economy is crumbling and drowning in debt. China is a so called socialism state which is diametrically opposed to welfare. It is not our friend or partner. \n\nWe cannot be reliant on China for anything, that is certainly a massive security risk now \n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrestricted_Warfare",
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"content": "\"Socialism is diametrically opposed to welfare\".. Err dont you mean \"capitalism\"??",
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"content": "Chinas so called socialism. \n\nChina is hyper state capitalist",
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"content": "The Fed could slash rates by 200 points over 8 straight meetings as the economy heads for a sharper downtrend, Citi says",
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"content": "Citibank needs rate cuts, like most large financial entities that didn't learn the lessons of 2009, probably to encourage investing in their derivatives portfolio. Too many side bets, and they're likely one margin call away from a very unfortunate phone call to the FDIC.",
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"content": "US workers in debt to buy groceries - 'I had to downgrade my life'",
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"content": "This comment thread feels like the most disconnected group of people I’ve seen in a long time. \nI have been the payday loan guy. There really isn’t another option sometimes. \nThe choices are be homeless, or take out a loan. Lose your job because you can’t afford tires, or take out a loan. In the end the loan is less costly than the consequences of not taking a loan. \nEven when taking out the loan is a bad idea. You’ll do a lot to not let your life collapse around you. \nI appreciate that there should be push back about bad information, but Jesus man this comment section is blaming poor people for issues thrown on them.\nHave some compassion people.",
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"content": "It is rational on the individual level, but it is not rational on the group level.\n\nWhen payday loans etc. are available, then while it is individually rational for a particular person to take the loan, he bids up prices using loaned money that he does not have in the now.\n\nIt is better for the larger group of the poor to not have access to these services.",
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"content": "I’d disagree. For the most part pay day loans are used to avoid a crisis. If access to those loans are not available then that those crisis are unavoidable. \nMost pay day loans are used to cover rent, utilities, and groceries. They are not used for amenities, or irresponsibly. They are used as a last resort to avoid a consequence that is far worse for the individual, the group, and society that is worse than not taking the loan.",
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"content": "Morgan Stanley’s Wilson Says a 10% Stock Market Correction Is ‘Highly Likely’",
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"content": "\"Traders should brace for a significant pullback in the stock market as uncertainty swirls around the US presidential campaign, corporate earnings and Federal Reserve policy, according to Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson.\"\n\n\n\nI love statements like this. If hes wrong, its forgotten. If hes right, hes somehow a mystical sage with insider info. Its a low risk/high reward statement that media sites love because it drives clicks.",
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"content": "10% pretty much happens every year. But in a year with good earning and lowering interest rates it is a dumb bet right now.",
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"content": "most of the \"good earnings\" were driven by 7 stocks, which are predicted to have decelerating earnings starting this July. Lowering interest rate isn't a good event for stock. It usually means the economy is weak, and could slip into a recession, in which case stocks will price in at least some probability of a recession materializing. Usually stocks rally in anticipation of rate cuts, and drop slightly before the rate cut happens.\n\nFurthermore, in a political year, it always get volatile past mid July going into the political conventions and political uncertainty.",
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"content": "Nice. Now imagine how much they could sell (legally) if they had realistic permit/inspection processes + reasonable tax rates. \n\nSpeaking as a recreational consumer, I went to a legal, tax paying dispensary in Los Angeles a few months ago. 3.5 grams of marijuana was $40. After taxes it was about $56 and change. That comes out to about $16 a gram. \n\nThis illegal shop I know of in the same area sells 32 (THIRTY-TWO) grams for $85. $2.7 a gram!!!\n\nI’m all for regulations and taxes on this thing, but there needs to be some balance here. I don’t like to complain about taxes because financial aid helped me out a lot when I went to college but it needs to be done right. The situation in Los Angeles is pushing people like me right out of the legal market. I wonder if it’s similar in other states.",
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"content": "At my local legal recreational shop in Michigan an ounce of flower is $50-$175 ($2-$6/gram).\nMost of it is $60-$100/oz. The price has been going down down down and the potency has been going up since many local markets have become almost overly saturated with weed stores. \n\nCalifornia just sucks at everything.",
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"content": "F.A.A. Investigating How Questionable Titanium Got Into Boeing and Airbus Jets -- \"The material, which was purchased from a little-known Chinese company, was sold with falsified documents and used in parts that went into jets from both manufacturers.\"",
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"content": "It was cheaper and brought production costs down, therefore profits went up. Therefore executives saw more bonuses....\n\nSaved you some investigation",
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"content": "I’ve heard a few different theories. First it was Indian raw materials. Then it was Chinese sold to the Indians who then scammed others. \n\nEveryone trying to pass the buck to deflect the obvious blame, hoping that we will fall for it.",
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"content": "This makes sense because indians pride themselves as master marketers. The last 10 years have seen almost all Indian brands sell electronics that are exactly the same shit manufactured by one ODM in China only to be marketed as a homegrown Indian product with chest-thumping nationalism. It won't be surprising if the Chinese sold this to India and indians, well with their propensity for scamming, forwarding this as _ek dum number one quality_ material to Airbus and Boeing both of whom have engineering facilities in India.",
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"content": "China now effectively \"owns\" a nation: Laos, burdened by unpaid debt, is now virtually indebted to Beijing ",
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"content": "I saw and read a few articles a couple of weeks ago. \nAnd it is really not as bad as it seems to be. \n\nThe railway was built by China, with Chinese workers and half of it ( or more ) was paid by Laos. \n\nWhat ended up happening is that Chinese are now visiting this country more and more since the direct rail to it. \n\nBelieve it or not, with this huge number of tourists, they might be able to repay everything with 26 years. It is a small country, after all. \nPeople who are being hired to maintain the train, drive, bring in enjoyment ( dancers), etc... are all from Laos. \n\nIt might be different, though, if the rail income also have Chinese stake in there.\n\nEdit : For people who keeps on insisting that I am beautifying the current situation. \n\n Laos has close to 11 billions in external debts with over half of it to China. They deferred in payments last year and even then China said nothing. They are actually allowing them to deferred in payments ( don't know if it will be good or bad in long term ). \n\nThese externals debts is due to railways contractions, dam construction and roadway construction. For anyone who knows finance and economics, these are positive things that propel/ boost an economy. \n\nIt allows one to reach different markets. \n\nLaos has a huge irrigation problem when it comes to agriculture since they mainly produce rice which takes water. These dams being built are more than welcome. \n\nAnd also the biggest importer of rice is China. As everyone knows China imports a lot of food due to their huge population. If Laos can produce surplus, they can sell to China and other market. \nEven faster now with all these routes and railways. \n\nOnly long term cooperation can tell us whether or not it will be good or bad for the country. \nI personally do not know.",
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"content": "They don't care. Trust me. All they're here for is China bad, West good. It doesn't matter if it benefits that country or not. I have been watching closely and I have come to this conclusion.\n\nCall them out of some of the bad stuff Western nations did in the past and they will say whataboutism. Social media is morphing into a western propaganda machine where everything is bad unless the West or Western allies did it. It's actually tiring.",
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"content": "I agree the echo chamber of propaganda and bias is tiring and boring much of the time. It goes both ways though, it isn't just western views that are bandied about in these circle-jerks. Probably more western views since most of what I read is in English, but both sides have it. \n\nIt would be nice to not have to sift through it all for actual truths and well thought out opinions though :)",
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"content": "The cost of buying protection, as measured through the real-time prices of put and call options, is sitting near multi-year lows. But unlike other instances in the past, this cost has been subdued for some time. We haven't seen a VIX Index reading above 20 since the October 2023 mini-selloff. There hasn't been a reading above 30 since October 2022. \n\nIn the past, a subdued volatility reading has been a sign that investors have become very greedy and complacent. It's also served as a signal for buying protection against big falls in the share market - after all, they don't call it the 'fear gauge' for nothing.\n\nBut as Longview Economics' Harry Colvin explained to me recently, it's not always been a reliable indicator. Periods of low volatility can also be a signal that corporate fundamentals are very strong meaning there is no reason to sell.",
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"content": "I'm not sure that the market is operating on fundamentals much anymore. There's a lot of excess cash out there and it has nowhere else to go, no competitive alternative, and it exists because we've made the fairly conscious choices as a society to allow it to continue to concentrate. So, the market keeps going up. Not because the fundamentals are awesome but because there is no better store of value for excess cash and income right now.",
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"content": "I think it is because the alternative to investing in the stock market, direct investments in starting up ones own business, or in any other smaller business are riskier with fewer opportunities to be found. Too much consolidation means a few goliaths to compete against.",
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"content": "There’s also a 5% risk free return in short term t notes.",
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"content": "AI is effectively ‘useless’—and it’s created a ‘fake it till you make it’ bubble that could end in disaster, veteran market watcher warns",
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"content": "I like Goldman’s Jim Cavello (big semiconductor guy) and his take on it: AI is distinct from prior revolutions in technology that automated labor and facilitated business in that it costs far, far more than those prior revolutions. It’s extremely energy- and resource-intensive. And in order to really succeed as an investment, it needs to return a LOT of money very quickly to pay for the ~$1T in infrastructure that will be built over the next few years. He doesn’t think it’s going to solve any problems that big in a short enough time to provide a good ROI. He points out that it as often as not costs **more** to automate or improve a process with AI. \n\nAnd (my take, not his) these are not costs that will necessarily come down with the proliferation of the technology: we have to get way cheaper energy, way more easily-accessed minerals, and way more chip capacity to make that happen. That’s a really huge, multi-front campaign that may not even be possible (you can only open so many mines economically).\n\nYou can find his take on pp. 10-11 of this release:\n\nhttps://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/gs-research/gen-ai-too-much-spend-too-little-benefit/report.pdf",
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"content": "Good points. I find value in going to Copilot or whatever to ask about excel formulas and scripts but that costs Microsoft and OpenAI a lot of money to save me 30 minutes scrolling through existing help forums and tutorials and I don’t pay them a dime for the service. \n\nLLMs specifically are probably not as revolutionary as we’d like them to be, and the ROI is just insanely low compared to the types of money you’d save by reducing jobs or increasing productivity when using it. \n\nThe companies that can access certain types of AI from another company will likely see some productivity gains if used well in specific cases (big data analysis, that protein folding stuff, facial recognition, search optimization, etc) but that’s assuming they’re getting cheap access from a tech company that sunk billions into developing it.",
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"content": "Same. I use Copilot for tedious bullshit I don’t want to go look up on StackOverflow or whatever. Like, “I need a ridiculously complex regex statement to do xyz.” It’s wrong most the time, but gives me a starting point to refine.",
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"content": "Roaring Kitty was poised to become a freshly minted billionaire until GameStop threw a monkey wrench in the plan",
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"content": "If he’s an average retail trader, how did he get to half a billion to almost a billion in the first place? Saying call options is too basic. Did he find a cheat code that the rest of us did not see? How replicable is his strategy and tactics since the ‘GameStop squeeze’ was over 3 years ago? What does the next year and 3 years look like if he uses the same tactics? \n\nNow that he does have those shares, do they know or at least think he becomes an activist investor? Is his story similar to Carl Icahn’s early career? Titling a story that Roaring Kitty was going to be a billionaire until the company he invested in stopped him is really weird.",
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"content": "His tacting is just pump-and-dumping with a bunch of call options over and over again isn't it? His online activity actively moves the stock price.",
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"content": "He was completely silent for almost 3 years and then showed up with hundreds of millions of dollars of value.",
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"content": "Americans are suddenly finding it harder to land a job — and keep it ",
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"content": "Lots of things going on. \n\nTech and any tech department has been retrenching for AI for the last 18 months, so out of the blue a lot of well otherwise well qualified people are not qualified for the new openings being created. \n\nElection year. Big questions about policy shift if Trump gets elected given the erratic nature of his first term. \n\nHigher interest rates dampens the appetite for business expansion or leverage.\n\nHopefully we get a rate cut before end of year and Trump stays out. That will give some baseline stability and things will chug along.",
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"content": "This is the narrative they're selling you at least.\n\n\nTech companies overhired during ZIRP. They got complacent hiring every promising dev so they could hoard talent from competitors.\n\n\nExcept it turns out a lot of those devs weren't as productive as expected. They got hired on for 6 figures to keep MSFT and AMZN offers at bay, but their output doesn't justify the wage.\n\n\nWell, now money isn't free anymore and companies need to start cutting the fat. So you're seeing a lot of layoffs in the mid/senior jobs. These folks cost too much and make too little.\n\n\nSo to clean up payroll, companies are dropping A LOT of developers/engineers. They have the convenient excuse of \"AI is taking these jobs\". But that's not what's happening. Tech got addicted to buying up all the talent, and now that bubble has popped.\n\n\nThere will still be plenty of Tech jobs after it pops. You just won't have new grads starting at $180k out of college. And the people who DO get that salary will be outliers.\n\n\nDevs are expensive, and FAANG has been in bidding wars over talent since 2016.",
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"content": ">These folks cost too much and make too little.\n\nI'd love any evidence that they make \"too little\" or their \"output doesn't justify the wage.\" Because all of the folks I know who've been cut at my company and others were not cut for performance reasons - you don't cut entire teams because of performance reasons unless upper management had that team working on projects that weren't properly budgeted for. You don't shed tens of thousands of developers because they're ALL \"underperforming.\"\n\nThis is a fig leaf to justify companies dropping people and threatening their livelihood because the executives didn't plan well. You want to talk about \"paid too much\" and \"making too little,\" how about you look at executives and sales/finance departments?",
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"content": "You're misreading my argument. They aren't overpaying individual devs. They OVERHIRED devs for the past 5 years. So they have far too many people making far too much in wage.\n\n\nIt's not that the individual performers are necessarily underperformed. The entire team was built on the back of zero interest rates. It is profitable to run teams like this with lots of staff and still make a profit.\n\n\nBut when the money you borrowed to pay your 300 devs is suddenly costing you money in interest, the profitability of the entire team is in jeopardy. \n\n\nThey simply can't afford to hoard that many high-wage workers and still expect the software project to make money. So rather than trying to negotiate salary cuts with a team of 5/10 people, they just cut the whole team. \n\n\nThere's plenty of people to replace them in 2024, and the average wage os dropping so new grads can step in to fill the role at a cheaper cost.\n\n\n\n\nIt is not \"your work isn't satisfactory so we're cutting you\".\n\n\nIt's not \"your product isn't satisfactory so we're cutting you\"\n\n\nIt's \"We didn't expect to ever actually pay interest on our hiring budget loans, so now we need to cut headcount to make payroll\".\n\n\nAnd they present it to you as \"AI is so powerful now we only need 4 devs to do what we used to pay 10 for!\"",
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"content": "Yeah no, this isn’t nearly as common as you seem to think it is. Most devs work at profitable companies and are generating hundreds of thousands to millions in revenue. The startups and unprofitable social media companies don’t cover that many devs.\n\nThe factors driving layoffs are much more complicated than over hiring or interest rates. Most of the big companies hire external consultants who tell them how to improve their stock-related metrics. \n\nThese companies are making tons of money off of devs, they just want increase to increase the short term profit margin even more. ",
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"content": "Roaring Kitty was poised to become a freshly minted billionaire until GameStop threw a monkey wrench in the plan",
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"content": "Nothing happens until he realizes the gains or losses by selling.\n\nDude just keeps selling options so he can exercise the majority of his other options into more GME shares. RK is an absolute mad man.",
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"content": "He more recently had to do an SEC filing to disclose his holdings in Chewy, based on how much he owned. I suspect he’s no longer in GME, at least not entirely. Otherwise where did he get the cash to buy 5% of Chewy?",
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"content": "Considering he was the primary investor to pull GameStop out of bankruptcy and it got diluted mid-stream, I’m sure rc did some wheeling to help him in dealing.",
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"content": "That’s a lot of assumptions to make when “he sold GME after saying he might do that to invest in a company with better fundamentals” is much more straightforward and fits the facts we know. His stake in Chewy is worth at least 500 mil, and the last portfolio we saw was about 350 mil total value… I find it *unlikely* that Keith Gill made 500 million in cash “on the side”. It just makes more sense to imagine that he liquidated a large portion of his GME.\n\nKeith needed hundreds of millions of dollars to buy that stake in Chewy. It didn’t come from nowhere, and the bulk of his assets that we’re aware of are in GME. Occam’s Razor would imply that he sold at least some of his GME.",
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"content": "Tax revenue generated. No longer a simple tool to create prisoners for for-profit prisons who increase the costs to society. Society has not collapse in states and countries where it has been legalized.\n\nSeems like a whole lot of positives.",
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"content": "it's nice giving the poor another outlet to funnel their money to corporations. $10B out of the pockets into megacorps!",
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"content": "Ain't just the poor, friend. Well, not the poor-poor, that is. I mean, you know, the poors that have just enough sense to ask themselves 'jack daniels or savvy flower indica tonight?'",
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"content": "What makes you think that the poor are the only people using marijuana. I know lawyers, doctors, engineers and accountants that use it too.",
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"content": "The Fed could slash rates by 200 points over 8 straight meetings as the economy heads for a sharper downtrend, Citi says",
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"content": "Citi is living in absolute la la land with this one. This would be an extremely ambitious timeline under any circumstances, let alone after the up and down inflation data we’ve had this year",
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"content": "Why do people keep saying this? Do people forget that Powell is a republican?",
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"content": "He said rate cut before year end, IIRC. That could easily be after the election.",
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"content": "The US housing slump deepened in spring. Where does that leave shoppers and sellers?",
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"content": "I suspect more supply entering the market. It’s only anecdotal evidence on my part, but I have seen an uptick in Reddit posts of those losing their homes. The effects of being unemployed for 1+ years is starting to materialize",
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"content": "If a home was worth $3,000/month in 2020 when the market was competitive, buyers were flush with cash and felt far richer than they actually were (inflated stock portfolios, crypto, stimulus, etc.), and that same house at asking price today would cost $7,000/month, I can’t imagine what would happen to said house if all of a sudden the average buyer was not flush with cash and felt poor rather than rich. \n\nThe amount of people I know who bought houses for, let’s say, $650k in the past three years who look at me like I’m absolutely insane when I bring up the possibility that their home could ever be worth less than $1M is crazy.",
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"content": "Yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if these are the same people losing these homes. Looking at trends, home values will likely be on the decline (or at least stagnate) after 2030 as there won’t be enough buyers due to population decline of the age demographic that purchases homes. Will be interesting to see what happens or the solutions proposed",
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"content": "I feel like a lot of people saw the stimulus, the PPP loans, the student loan forgiveness, the talk of universal basic income, etc. and started spending like their debt will eventually be forgiven anyway. I think some of these people are going to have a very rude awakening when they realize that they’re going to have to hold up their end of the contracts they signed. \n\nYou can tell there is a bubble forming when you begin seeing more and more people that cause you to wonder “where the hell did they get that kind of money?” You know you’re in the late stages of a bubble when every other person you know makes you wonder where the hell they’re getting that sort of money.",
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"content": "Canadian unemployment rate rose to 6.4% in June",
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"content": "As far as the average person is concerned, Canada is actually in a huge recession. They had only 0.5% YoY GDP growth in the first quarter and a massive, historic and almost unseen anywhere in the world, population growth rate of 3.2%. \n\nThat's -2.7% per capita, close to the 2008 crisis for the US.",
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"content": "That’s fucking insane but the truth is that it’s not just Canada. The US jobs report Biden keeps showing off about is also suffering the same way. Full time jobs have negative growth while part time is increasing substantially. All the full time job growth is made up of government jobs, as there has been minimal new investments and mainly belt tightening layoffs for the large companies.",
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"content": "Me when I lie. This argument is so specious I should get paid every time I have to hear it.",
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"content": "A key part of America’s economy has shifted into reverse",
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"content": "We expect increased interest rates to lead to increased unemployment. We have had increased interest rates for some time now.\n\nWant lower unemployment? Lower interest rates",
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"content": "Unemployment is near record lows.",
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"content": "True, but trending upwards at just above 4%.",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "June jobs report raises pressure on Fed for September rate cut",
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"content": "They took too long to raise interest rates by a year and they probably 3-6 months late on cutting them. That’s the thing about “pulling off a soft landing”, you need to be slightly ahead of the data, not react to it late.",
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"content": "They shouldn’t bow to pressure to cut. Stick with no rate changes until 2025 minimum.",
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"content": "Why 2025 and based on what?",
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"content": "$7 trill in debt rolling over this year. \nhttps://www.marketwatch.com/story/7-6-trillion-of-u-s-government-debt-matures-in-next-12-months-what-does-the-treasury-do-next-cfaf5369 \n\n Also housing prices are too high.",
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"content": "Who’s collecting that debt",
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"content": "https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets-economy/090616/5-countries-own-most-us-debt.asp\n\n$27 trillion of our $35 trillion in debt is held by the public, including foreign governments — The rest is intragovernmental holdings.",
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"content": "Again, who has the ability to actually collect. Either via force or via market dynamics",
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"content": "So we are just recycling the same fear mongering from 2016 huh ?\n\nhttps://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/hillary-clinton-trump-economy-224604\n\n\nUntil the american people and redditors like OP stop playing red v blue team sports we will be in an endless cycle of the same old same old\n\nenjoy the system you continue to perpetuate",
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"content": "Their predictions did turn out right lmao. He did throw us into a recession and created the largest bouts of inflation the US has experienced in decades. He started a trade war driving up costs and global instability. He pulled us out of the TPP which allowed China to gain more power. In 2019, he threatened to have the Fed removed if they raised interest rates, which would have helped slow inflation. He got rid of the very institutions that handle pandemics and we were stuck with reactionary policy instead of preventative which could have had a stronger impact on limiting the pandemic. He gave out free government handouts to businesses and citizens with no oversight.",
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"content": "If you believe that, I’ve got a bridge to sell you. You can’t use the recession caused by the pandemic as justification. And what institutions would have prevented or managed the pandemic any differently than how it was handled? How would they have handled it differently?",
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"content": "Pick one point you disagree with and ignore the mountain of other issues. Historically we've done a much better job of responding to global health issues before Trump and his administration dissolved the Global Health Security and Biodefense unit in 2018. Go read a book on the million ways the pandemic could have been handled better. I'll give Trump credit for Operation Warp Speed, otherwise, he's been the worst president we've had six decades.",
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"content": "Why didn’t any other country fare better then? I’m not a trumper by any means but it’s not a good faith argument to act like it’s his fault the global economy crashed.",
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"content": "We have 4 percent of the world’s population and nearly 20 percent of the deaths from Covid.\n\nGo read a book Cletus, you slack jawed yokel",
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"content": "The Fed could slash rates by 200 points over 8 straight meetings as the economy heads for a sharper downtrend, Citi says",
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"content": "I may be on the outskirts but as someone who is in a household that is doing well financially right now, we have noticed a precipitous drop in prices across the board over the past month or so. It’s great for us but we know it’s not a good sign for the economy writ large. Not sure if others are noticing this but it certainly seems like a sign of something larger at play.",
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"content": "I haven’t noticed this personally but I also haven’t been paying attention much. Can you give some specifics of things/services you’ve seen drop in price?",
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"content": "Was at Target today. I sent some friends a picture of a Captain America Lego shield set for $199 a few months ago as a sign of outrage. It had the same $199 but with a 30% off sticker applied. \n\nA lot of X% off stickers in stores. Same base price just sales.",
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"content": "Jesus christ. 200 for a lego set. You can almost get a quest 3 for that. What the fuck?",
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"content": "And this doesn't even include states like Florida that have legalized 'medical' marijuana. Those dispensaries are usually pretty crowded when I get the chance to visit them with my Florida friends. Lot of 'medical' issues, I'm sure.",
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"content": "Lots of medical product being diverted directly into the black market of Florida rec users and GA\\*\n\nI predict Florida's industry will only grow marginally when Rec passes, but those North Florida border stores are going to print cash. The GA state troopers will too.",
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"content": "AI is effectively ‘useless’—and it’s created a ‘fake it till you make it’ bubble that could end in disaster, veteran market watcher warns",
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"content": "As someone pursuing a masters in data science and machine learning, I agree. There’s a finite amount of use cases for AI and machine learning, but after ChatGPT went mainstream, every company is trying to shoehorn AI into their brand with very little practicality. It’s just a buzz word. Many companies don’t have the infrastructure or product/service that makes AI useful. \n\nThere’s so many c-suite people chasing AI and machine learning where basic regression analysis would be just fine for whatever they’re trying to accomplish.",
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"content": "My company is advertising our new \"AI features\". It's really just the same Excel spreadsheet we've been using for over a decade. 🤣\n\nSince there's no formal definition of what \"AI\" really is a company can just label anything they want to as AI and it's not legally false advertising the same way it would be if you said your new product was stainless steel but it really wasn't.",
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"content": "Remember; AI stands for 'artificial intelligence'. It also stands for 'an intern'. \n\nSo if Jessy the intern is copying values around an excel spreadsheet to make your product work, your product is legitimately AI enabled.",
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"content": "As a lifelong Texan, I can tell you this:\n\nEvery single bit of produce you eat was cultivated by an itinerant worker and it has been this way since the end of slavery. Literally. \n\nThe American economy, as it exists today, needs low-wage, unskilled labor. It was built on slave labor and it continues to be a requirement for a functioning economy today. \n\nWe need immigration reform desperately, of course. But immigration is far, far more complicated than “immigrants lower wages” and “we need to close the border.”\n\nWe need contingencies for itinerant farm workers, and immigration can be an excellent way to fill out the trades because we will have a problem with them in a decade or two. \n\nOur immigration problem right now is one of scale. We cannot process the number of immigrants seeking asylum because we do not have the courts, judges, and case workers to process them in a timely fashion. \n\nWe need to scale it up to process these asylum requests because every single data point on climate indicates that migrations like these are going to be more and more common as equatorial areas get hot enough to destroy regions’ way of life and ability to survive.",
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"content": "Republicans are never going to allow federal dollars to help anyone who isn't white. They love using federal dollars to hurt them though, through punitive laws and prison. Hell, Abbott is still trying to justify shooting them which is murder BTW. I'm tired of them lieing about it. It's so blatant.",
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"content": "> Republicans are never going to allow federal dollars to help anyone who isn't white.\n\nWhat? Why do you believe this?",
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"content": "Probably because they used to believe in investing into social programs for the poor and working class, until after the Civil Rights movement laws were passed. Since then they use dog whistles like \"welfare queen\" as justification to take money from the poor and pass tax cuts for the rich who remain majority white and male.",
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"content": "Welfare queen wasn't liberal or Democrat propaganda pal. They love their war on drugs too.",
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"content": "US workers in debt to buy groceries - 'I had to downgrade my life'",
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"content": "This is whacky reporting. It's individuals complaining about generalized inflation, while utilizing debt to make ends meet. These are individuals adding interest charges to their fixed costs every month, omplaining about inflation? The reporter should be investigating the excessive utilization of credit as much as inflation.",
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"content": "What would you propose they do when food prices have risen beyond their ability to buy food without using credit? ",
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"content": "If someone is considering using credit to feed yourself or your family, they should visit a food bank without shame. \n\nDebt will only exacerbate an unsustainable financial pattern.",
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"content": "The food banks near me have had a 300% increase since covid and are having a hard time feeding people. It’s not always that easy. I know because I donate to them and talk to the people working there. They’re giving less because they have less because there’s more demand. What do people do then when they don’t get enough to feed themselves?",
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"content": "As horrible as this sounds, I did this in college by accident. It cut my food bill in half for three months and improved my health:\n\n\nYou weigh yourself and calculate your BMI. Then you use a calculator to determine how much food you need to each eat day down to the nearest calorie.\n\nIf you are overweight as the majority of lower income people are, you calculate a calorie deficit of 500-1000 calories.\n\nYou get to eat that much food a day and not a calorie more.\n\nFor your food, you stick with really cheap food like rice, beans, eggs, bread, ramen, and maybe hotdogs. Many soups from the Great Depression work well.\n\n\nSince most low income people are overweight, you end up saving money on food in the short term. You also lose weight which is good for your overall health.\n\n\nI did something like this in college - by accident. I had 20 pounds to lose and did it by cutting my food budget down to a calculated calorie deficit. For those five months I was dieting, my food budget was cut in half.\n\n\nI KNOW I’m going to get downvoted for this because I just basically suggested people starve: but you need to take a look at yourself. If your doctor has told you you need to lose weight and you are short on cash, this is a way to do it.",
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"content": "US workers in debt to buy groceries - 'I had to downgrade my life'",
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"content": "This is whacky reporting. It's individuals complaining about generalized inflation, while utilizing debt to make ends meet. These are individuals adding interest charges to their fixed costs every month, omplaining about inflation? The reporter should be investigating the excessive utilization of credit as much as inflation.",
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"content": "What would you propose they do when food prices have risen beyond their ability to buy food without using credit? ",
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"content": "Food prices have not risen that much. If you are having trouble getting by, first step is cut out unnecessary stuff (yes, junk food and dessert are unnecessary) and buy store brand instead of name brand.",
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"content": "Did you even read the article where it says they've done exactly that?",
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"content": "The article says that food prices have risen 1% in 12 months and that is lower than historical averages. The two people in the article who were struggling were using predatory loans to buy food. I get that it’s hard to cut back on beef or expensive fish but the article also says that the price of eggs and vegetables is down.",
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"content": "You really think people are getting payday loans to buy fancy cuts of fish? Get real ",
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"content": "I like how he conveniently doesn't mention groceries are up 25% since 2021 which is also stated in the article. ",
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"content": "As a lifelong Texan, I can tell you this:\n\nEvery single bit of produce you eat was cultivated by an itinerant worker and it has been this way since the end of slavery. Literally. \n\nThe American economy, as it exists today, needs low-wage, unskilled labor. It was built on slave labor and it continues to be a requirement for a functioning economy today. \n\nWe need immigration reform desperately, of course. But immigration is far, far more complicated than “immigrants lower wages” and “we need to close the border.”\n\nWe need contingencies for itinerant farm workers, and immigration can be an excellent way to fill out the trades because we will have a problem with them in a decade or two. \n\nOur immigration problem right now is one of scale. We cannot process the number of immigrants seeking asylum because we do not have the courts, judges, and case workers to process them in a timely fashion. \n\nWe need to scale it up to process these asylum requests because every single data point on climate indicates that migrations like these are going to be more and more common as equatorial areas get hot enough to destroy regions’ way of life and ability to survive.",
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"content": "U.S. Oil Production Extends Massive Lead Over Russia And Saudi Arabia",
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"content": "I spoke to someone who spends half the year on a rig, pretty much US oil is abundant but scarce so the amount of oil 4 permits bring up is the same as one mediocre well in Saudi.",
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"content": "Tons of places to drill, but each drill produces a fraction of what a well in Saudi can do. So the permits don’t matter since you need that amount to replenish sites that have already been dug. Only a couple companies are actually investing in harvesting more / raising efficiencies of their drill sites like the Willow Project in Alaska\n\nSo in turn pollution and other massive environmental problems arise as you drill literally everywhere to meet the demand OPEC intentionally is holding back, again going to the controversy around the willow project",
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"content": "Alaska and South Dakota have untapped oil fields that surpass all of the Middle East. Then throw in offshore drilling and we crush most of the world combined.",
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"content": "Record number of Americans are retiring abroad because the U.S. is too expensive",
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"content": "I was talking to my wife about this the other day. The prospect of retiring abroad is enticing, however there are two main detractors that keep us from going all-in\n\n1) making new friends is hard. Making new friends in another country is damn near impossible.\n\n2) Socialized healthcare is awesome, as long as you receive it properly. People act like Spain and Portugal are these utopian societies. That may be the case if you have a broken bone, or fall off a zip line, or have a heart attack, but when need to see a specialist, get an MRI, or undergo treatment for a rare disorder, get ready to hurry up and wait.\n\nhttps://www.euronews.com/2023/04/12/people-may-die-waiting-surgery-waiting-lists-in-spain-hit-record-levels",
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"content": "It’s called triage. My friend has been waiting over a year for an MRI on their knee. No real damage and most likely arthritis from bad diet. Their spouse had a mysterious illness that had them clutching their stomach and screaming in pain. \n\nWent to the ER, the spouse got every scan imaginable. Last time I was in the ER, the lady beside us was having a bad asthma issue. Inconsistencies on the XRay lead to a CT, which lead to an Oncologist being referred. As we were leaving she was booking an MRI appointment. \n\nThe issue with socialized medicine is usually just Tories trying to gut the system. Look at the NHS or Canadian system. Underfunded for decades.",
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"content": "But isn’t that simply an inherent issue with these systems? It cannot be cordoned off politically, so we may be better off leaving it to the private sector.\n\nAlso, some wait times from the 2000s before conservative rule https://expathealth.org/healthcare/global-patient-wait-time-statistics/",
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"content": "If there’s one thing I won’t believe, it’s that the private sector can deliver health care. Most of the best systems are don’t by countries willing to invest. Mainly Asian and European. When it comes to the blended systems, Governments have insane amounts of oversight and rules. Insurance is all Non-Profit. \n\nWhat people really need to do is just fund their systems properly to begin with. Then the issues won’t be as bad. But part of me believes that the Tories in Canada in the UK intentionally kneecapped the systems to make your argument stronger.",
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"content": "But see, these fluctuations are a constant with these systems. These sorts of parties will always be elected time to time and cut funding. The only we can remove this variable is to distance the healthcare system from the government, otherwise - what else could be done?\n\nOf course, assuming this is cause anyways. If you look at the 2000s in that link above, wait times in the U.K. were horrible. From what I can tell, the funding for their healthcare system during that era grew at the fastest rate in decades. Similarly, Canada - Sweden - Norway etc all had very bad wait times, and they’re all fully public.\n\nEdit: That’s a very weak block.",
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"content": "Outmigration cost California $24B in departed incomes as poorer people move in ",
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"content": "People always love to bash CA for some reason\n\n\nAnd yet most of the very conservative states are shitholes and not booms for investment, jobs, health and education \n\n\nWhy is that? Shouldnt the most conservative states have the best economies? The most investment?\n\nEven in red states like Texas, it is the blue cities that are booming not the rural areas.",
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"content": ">economies\n\nhttps://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/economy\n\n>education \n\nhttps://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education\n\n\n>Even in red states like Texas, it is the blue cities that are booming not the rural areas.\n\nRegulatory framework is decided by the state government not the city government. Regulatory framework and existing state infrastructure and available human capital are what attracts the big piles of money. All of that is state level.\n\nTexas cities also famously have extremely lax land use regulations (unlike New York or California because land use regulations….well the concept wasn’t from the party that historicaly supported free markets deregulation etc) some don’t even have zoning laws because how deep mistrust of government is.",
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"content": "That’s bullshit, it’s a federal tax system that subsidizes red states\n\n\nRepublicans taking welfare home to their states out of blue state pockets\n\n\nTexas BLUE CITIES are the only things worth anything in Texas",
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"content": ">federal tax system subsidizes \n\nYes because people who are retiring can’t afford to live in blue states and thus move to red states and the US government can’t afford military bases in blue states either.\n\nAgain every Texas city exists within the regulatory framework of the Texas state which has absolute control over business regulations. Texas cities just manage…well basic things that cities manage like zoning, land use laws.\n\nAnd Texas cities historically and to this day are relatively unregulated compared to places like the Bay Area.\n\n>cities\n\nIf cities are so great then why don’t people want to raise a family in a city?\n\nhttps://eig.org/families-exodus/",
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"content": "You are just making shit up now lol 😂 \n\n\nTexas is a shithole, outside of the BLUE cities",
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"content": "College isn’t just expensive for students, it’s also expensive for colleges—and the squeeze is worsening for private schools",
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"content": "1. Administrative bloat. Lawyers and admins for all of the fun little letter nonsense that really doesn’t belong on campus. \n\n2. Amenity bloat; in the battle for attracting students and their dollars, especially for the median student (where IQ and school reputation are less important), campus amenities (gym, dorm amenities, class amenities, etc.) are important and costly.\n\n3. Major selection; we have seen an expansion of low degree attainment majors.",
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"content": "I can’t speak directly to the rest of this but there is a serious lack of accounting majors right now. You can graduate with an accounting degree and if you are kinda ok at it, you can be making over 100k within 4 years and that is without getting the CPA license. I have seen people get the CPA, work at B4 for a few years and end up with 150k+ salaries. Yes you will have to work initially, but you can definitely get a cushy, very well paying job in your mid to late 20s.",
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"content": "In part it’s because of the unit requirement (basically an additional year of schooling).\n\nBut also, because it’s (rightly) hard.",
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"content": "Valid, but I see so many people getting degrees that won’t get them anywhere and struggling. It is an option and it’s an important job, if pretty dry. I think of it as a second tier degree. You’re not going to make as much as the lawyers and doctors, but you’ll have a well paying job for the rest of your life if that’s what you’re going for.",
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"content": "I don’t disagree that the choice of degree by students is usually not optimal.",
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"content": "Outmigration cost California $24B in departed incomes as poorer people move in ",
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"content": "People always love to bash CA for some reason\n\n\nAnd yet most of the very conservative states are shitholes and not booms for investment, jobs, health and education \n\n\nWhy is that? Shouldnt the most conservative states have the best economies? The most investment?\n\nEven in red states like Texas, it is the blue cities that are booming not the rural areas.",
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"content": "Wait, you mean to tell me that when a government invests into infrastructure, healthcare, education, and social services, it produces an environment more conducive to growing businesses and jobs?\n\nGoodness gracious Jeb, how did you figure this out??",
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"content": "Don't you know low wages are the only way for a business to boom? /s",
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"content": "June jobs report raises pressure on Fed for September rate cut",
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"content": "They need to hold. Housing will enter fiefdom territory if they lower rates this year.\n\nUnemployment went up a bit … big deal. I thought that was the idea?",
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"content": "I have a different opinion. One of the reasons housing costs have gone up is that people with ridiculously low pandemic era interest rates are not selling their homes because they don't want to lose their interest rates. This keeps the supply short which increases costs. Lowering the interest rates might actually cause more houses to go on the market which might mean a better situation for buyers. \n\nAlso unemployment went up despite jobs being added...because more people are looking for work, not because there are more unemployed people. Unemployment is based on how many people are looking for work but can't find it.\n\nThe real reason the fed should consider lowering the rate though is real wage gains have slowed and inflation seems to be trending downward. This implies that if rates were lowered it might boost the economy but not so much that inflation goes up again. There I essentially room for a rate cut that doesn't damage the economy.",
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"content": "F.A.A. Investigating How Questionable Titanium Got Into Boeing and Airbus Jets -- \"The material, which was purchased from a little-known Chinese company, was sold with falsified documents and used in parts that went into jets from both manufacturers.\"",
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"content": "Oh for fucks sake.\n\nIt's pretty well known that Chinese companies have no problem scamming foreign clients. I can't believe they were willing to trust their material certifications.\n\nI mean sure, you do non-destructive testing on incoming material lots, and there's a lot of overlap between different grades of material.\n\nConductivity in this range, hardness in that range, that should be the material you want. But those same numbers could also be 50 other materials. \n\nI just can't believe there wasn't pushback from the engineers when this purchasing decision was made.",
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"content": "**Guillaume Faury** (born 22 February 1968) is a French engineer and businessman. He is the current chief executive officer (CEO) at the aerospace corporation [Airbus SE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus)\n\nDo you know how to use google?",
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"content": "US workers in debt to buy groceries - 'I had to downgrade my life'",
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"content": "This is whacky reporting. It's individuals complaining about generalized inflation, while utilizing debt to make ends meet. These are individuals adding interest charges to their fixed costs every month, omplaining about inflation? The reporter should be investigating the excessive utilization of credit as much as inflation.",
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"content": "What would you propose they do when food prices have risen beyond their ability to buy food without using credit? ",
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"content": "Food prices have not risen that much. If you are having trouble getting by, first step is cut out unnecessary stuff (yes, junk food and dessert are unnecessary) and buy store brand instead of name brand.",
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"content": "Did you even read the article where it says they've done exactly that?",
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"content": "The article says that food prices have risen 1% in 12 months and that is lower than historical averages. The two people in the article who were struggling were using predatory loans to buy food. I get that it’s hard to cut back on beef or expensive fish but the article also says that the price of eggs and vegetables is down.",
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"content": "Record number of Americans are retiring abroad because the U.S. is too expensive",
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"content": "That headline isn't necessarily accurate. Nothing in the article backs up that statement.\n\nThe only thing in the article that comes close to backing it up is this:\n\n> In December 2022, there were over 700,800 people receiving Social Security payments abroad, according to the most recently available data from the Social Security Administration. In 2000, that figure was less than 400,000.\n\nThis doesn't support the headline, however. All it says is more people are collecting outside of the country. It doesn't say the reason they moved out of country. You can't say the reason more people collect outside the country is because \"the US is too expensive\" without proof of that.\n\nIs it true though? Probably, because there's tens of millions more people collecting Social Security in the year 2022 than there was in the year 2000. The absolute number probably went up, yes. Also, the percentage collecting outside the country did increase, but that doesn't necessarily mean the percentage went up because of the cost of living, there are other possible reasons. I'm guessing a lot more foreign born people are collecting Social Security now than they did in 2000. Maybe they want to go back to their original countries to retire? Or how about the percentage of people with passports [skyrocketed from the 90's at 10% to nearly 50% today](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42586638), Americans are much more international than before?\n\nThere are tons of possible reasons, but the article didn't prove its headline.",
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"content": "I was surprised to see such a large increase when I researched it just now. \n\nNumber of people collecting Social Security in 2000: **38,741,343**(retired not disabled numbers)\n\nNumber of people collecting Social Security in 2023: **58,563,242**\n\nThat means in 2000 1.03% of people collected social security while overseas, while in 2023 it was 1.20%. An increase but a pretty minor one all things considered\n\nSource data: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/OASDIbenies.html",
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"content": "I’m surprised it’s so low. It’s my plan!",
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"content": "I'm going to retire in PA because they don't tax retirement income and it hopefully won't be a million degrees due to climate change.",
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"content": "Roaring Kitty was poised to become a freshly minted billionaire until GameStop threw a monkey wrench in the plan",
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"content": "Damn. So he gonna have to settle for only a few hundred million? Poor guy.\n\n\nI hope he has a good support system around him to help him through the tough times ahead.",
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"content": "Considering he dropped 50k in 2020 and had unrealized gains of a billion dollars during pre-market 4 years later, still kinda crazy he saw -257 million in a day loss and didn't off himself.",
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"content": "At that level daily fluctuations are akin to rounding errors",
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"content": "at that level, thats a quarter of his net worth, not a rounding error. \n\n250M is a lot of money, even to Bezos.",
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"content": "College isn’t just expensive for students, it’s also expensive for colleges—and the squeeze is worsening for private schools",
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"content": "The AD at the school I went to makes ~$2Million a year. Our football team is barely division 1 and hasn’t won more than 4 games in the past 5 years.",
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"content": "how much are the taxpayers paying the losing football coaches? (who could statistically be replaced by any random person at walmart who might end up with a better record.)\n\nevery dollar has to be scrutinized.\n\na president of a college once told me, verbatim: \"People making $40,000 should pay my $1 million salary because, because, be- be- be-, because I pro- provide Education. And, uh, Education is important. It's, uh, Number One.\"",
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"content": "The president at the college I once worked at tried to justify her $600,000 salary (which was a lot for a small struggling private college ~15 years ago) by saying she could make a lot more if she got a job as a pharmaceutical exec or working for a health insurance company. Like, okay, you could also make more playing right field for the New York Yankees, but this is the job you have. The faculty tried to oust her, and instead the feckless board of trustees bought her a summer home several states away so she could get away for a few months a year from the mean people who tried to get rid of her.",
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"content": "Americans are suddenly finding it harder to land a job — and keep it ",
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"content": "Lots of things going on. \n\nTech and any tech department has been retrenching for AI for the last 18 months, so out of the blue a lot of well otherwise well qualified people are not qualified for the new openings being created. \n\nElection year. Big questions about policy shift if Trump gets elected given the erratic nature of his first term. \n\nHigher interest rates dampens the appetite for business expansion or leverage.\n\nHopefully we get a rate cut before end of year and Trump stays out. That will give some baseline stability and things will chug along.",
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"content": "And outsourcing, with a new(er) twist.\n\nI've been working with people in India for over 20 years now but the field is suddenly surging with new talent in Latin America. Business loves them because they're in similar time zones and quite cheap. We get senior talent with 10+ years experience for about $45k/year. Their business English proficiency is great.\n\nHaven't hired any junior US talent for three years. We still get US interns from schools like UT Austin but I have no idea where they're getting jobs.\n\nMaybe I'm just a lowly IC idiot toiling away at my job but I think this creeping death of US-based white collar employment goes beyond anything I've ever seen before, especially as it's happening outside of a recession.\n\nI'm surprised it's not getting reported on more widely.",
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"content": "EU slaps tariffs of up to 38% on Chinese electric vehicles",
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"content": "Not a big fan of tariffs usually, but the EU is in this case right in my opinion. The CCP channels a lot of money into Chinese EV makers, so they can produce at much lower cost, the EU doesn't.",
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"content": "I find it strange how everyone criticizes China for subsidizing their industries, yet nobody bats an eye to the USA or EU doing the exact same. Infamously, with agriculture. And [Germany has been subsidizing the auto-industry](https://apnews.com/67265729712a40dca98c6aa8a50305e2) for many years now.\n\nThere are valid criticisms of China, like their [constant IP theft](https://techdiplomacy.org/tech-diplomacy/ip-theft/), but subsidies is something that seems quite silly to whine about when many countries have been doing it for decades now.",
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"content": "It's crazy how fast we did a 180 from \"tariffs are ineffective populists policies, globalization is good for everyone let industries go the future is intellectual tertiary sector in the West\". What was the point of decades of active deindustrialization and offshoring if we have to panick go in reverse? Why is it suddenly not great for EU consumers to enjoy cheap cars, like we were told with other goods when factories closed?",
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"content": "Part of it is the trade imbalance, in that imports into China has not been as substantial as the exports China is sending out. Many EU or US companies will be driven out of business if they’re allowed into those markets. And Germany wants to protect their main auto industries that help provide higher wage jobs. \nSupposedly, China is finding ways to skirt around it like building factories in Mexico or Hungary.",
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"content": "Isn't capitalism supposed to be that creative destruction?\n\nThe \"no true capitalism\" defense is nonsense - but the willingness of nations to bail out failing companies and banks is subverting even the benefits you're supposed to get from it of innovation.",
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"content": "F.A.A. Investigating How Questionable Titanium Got Into Boeing and Airbus Jets -- \"The material, which was purchased from a little-known Chinese company, was sold with falsified documents and used in parts that went into jets from both manufacturers.\"",
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"content": "It was cheaper and brought production costs down, therefore profits went up. Therefore executives saw more bonuses....\n\nSaved you some investigation",
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"content": "I’ve heard a few different theories. First it was Indian raw materials. Then it was Chinese sold to the Indians who then scammed others. \n\nEveryone trying to pass the buck to deflect the obvious blame, hoping that we will fall for it.",
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"content": "And come off as racist in the buck-passing!",
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"content": "I guess I don’t get what this comment is, what is the racist part? Both Indian and Chinese populations are like five times that of the United States. We’re all vying for the same resources. Culturally all of those people are gonna be scrappers. It’s not racism that’s just, I don’t know, realistic socioeconomic reality?",
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"content": "I think it's racist.... and not a very smart argument. \n\nMind you, I've worked with metals my entire life as a quality inspector that dealt with certified material (like this titanium) and have reviewed literally thousands of these types of documents. I'll walk you through this argument's failures....\n\nCertified material (like this titanium) had two types of tests being done to them prior to delivery. The first is a chemical analysis. This chemical analysis (typically spectroscopy) will determine chemical analysis. The second type of analysis done is physical testing (hardness testing, tensile strength testing, etc) are done to ensure that the proper heating and cooling occurred that give the metals the proper physical characteristics for the usage intended. \n\nWhere I've not yet read is what is suspect, the chemical or physical analysis of the material. Without regard to what was failing, it is ultimately the responsibility of the purchasing group to verify if the material is being sent from a qualified source. I'm guessing that this work was done (Purchasing 101 stuff here). \n\nWhen that is completed and assured, the material specifications sent from the supplier (material certs) are often taken at face value as the physical tests can not be reproduced at the end user's facilities. The chemical analysis can be done on a limited basis with XRF technology (X-Ray Florescent spectrometry) to verify the chemical analysis coming from the supplier, but that's limited to heavier elements in the periodic table above carbon. \n\nAs manufacturing QA, we rely heavily on that information being correct and true. A failure at that level is truly a failure that undermines a very basic and necessary trust and verification of industrial practices. Kudos to the QA team who caught it, but holy shit, this is a massive failure on the manufacturing of the metals. \n\nNow, why is this racist? The opinion that these folks are \"scrappers\" undercuts the metallurgical know-how in these countries, which is significant. We have a bad actor, not a bad culture. They could, from a metallurgical standpoint, melt down bicycle frames, and as long as the chemical and physical properties are correct, it will work just fine. Titanium is a metallurgical beast, though. There isn't much room for error with that material and its physical properties.",
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"content": "A key part of America’s economy has shifted into reverse",
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"content": "We expect increased interest rates to lead to increased unemployment. We have had increased interest rates for some time now.\n\nWant lower unemployment? Lower interest rates",
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"content": "They want higher unemployment",
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"content": "Inflation outrage: Even as prices stabilize, Walmart, Chipotle and others feel the heat from skeptical customers",
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"content": "I really think a lot of these companies think their customers are just oblivious to their tricks. They tried to outsmart and screw over their customers and now they are being called out for their BS. If companies really want to bring back customers, they need to stop making them download an app, actually give them a decent product, and just be customer friendly. Just give a decent price with no strings attached for a decent product and you’ll be surprised on the success.",
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"content": "I think this is pretty much spot on, this whole thing isn't an economic problem in the way that people can't afford their services, it's that the consumers no longer see the vaule in the services that they offer. \n\nA lot of fast food companies just can't adapt to the changing social situation that has people being simply unwilling to tolerate being treated poorly, seeing staff being treated poorly and paying more for no improvements in either of the those. \n\nMade worse for the companies because it's harder to justify changes to things to the shareholders don't see an immediate benefit from in terms higher sales.",
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"content": ">people being simply unwilling to tolerate being treated poorly, seeing staff being treated poorly and paying more for no improvements in either of the those. \n\nPrice is a huge factor too. A PB&J made out of the fridge with a glass of water is less than a dollar and does exactly what I need it to. It's also likely fewer calories than a fast food meal. If I am working in an office, I am taking my lunch every day. It's healthier and cheaper.\n\nTravel isn't even really an excuse to eat a crapton of fast food either.\n\nMy favorite way to travel is Amtrak, but my second favorite is to grab our bags, a cooler of food, and the tent then road trip and sleep in national or state parks that allow camping. The national park tag for your car is pretty cheap, and a cooler of food isn't going to cost any more than what you are spending on food anyways. You can easily fill two weeks with seeing the US that way and the only real additional cost is gas and whatever things you go to.\n\nThe only legitimate need I can see is if you have to get in the car and go across the country to see a dying relative. In that circumstance you don't have time to prep, so you are going to need to buy food somewhere. Even then though, most grocery stores have a counter or a hot line and that is always cheaper than fast food in my experience (even if it isn't really healthier).",
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"content": ">A PB&J made out of the fridge with a glass of water is less than a dollar and does exactly what I need it to\n\nI didn't know my wife was on Reddit LOL I joke with her all the time over this. She works in the office 2-3 days a week. Every Sunday night she makes 3 PB&J sandwiches and puts them in the freezer for the week. I joke but I get why she does it. I'm 100% WFH. Lunches consist of sandwiches only, tuna or turkey breast. Yeah, turkey breast is $13/lb right now but it's still economical when compared to any fast food joint. This \"need\" to do fast food is not justified. I've been in some subs where people say they're gonna have to cut back their going out for meals to 5 or 6 times a week. Like, how often are you going out now? Any given month we may go out to dinner twice.",
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"content": "Take advantage of working from home! Boring sandwich? No! You could literally eats tacos for lunch every day!",
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"content": "Nearly 40% of new Canadians are considering moving due to housing costs",
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"content": ">Canada’s annual immigration target stands at approximately 500,000 people, making it one of the highest in the world relative to the population.\n\nYou think the housing crisis is bad in the US? Canada has a huge problem. They can't keep up with the population growth by building more houses or apartments. For every vacancy, they have a long line of people waiting for an opportunity to bid on it. Unlike the US, their economy is not very diversified. The job opportunities are very limited. It looks like the grass is greener on the other side. They might as well move to the US for better wages and a better chance of finding an affordable place to live.",
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"content": "Can the US just end the madness and add a few stars to their flag?",
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"content": "Only after the low-quality talent is filtered out.",
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"content": "American Workers Have Quit Quitting, for Now. The job-hopping frenzy of the pandemic years has given way to what some economists are calling the ‘big stay’",
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"content": "Job hopping after covid recovery was all about getting big pay rises as there was a shortage of many positions. The shortages have gone and we have workers stuck in jobs that have not proved as good as expected. \n\nNow workers have to weigh up moving to a new job that might not last versus hanging on to existing job until economic conditions improve",
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"content": "Not to mention getting a new job often involves moving, which is much harder to do in a tight housing market. It’s easier just to stay put — which, frankly, is a *normal thing*.",
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"content": "I find myself doing this. I’m in SC and affording a house somewhere else comparable to what I have would require a huge increase. I’m also in state government to get my loans forgiven so I would need something else eligible. I want to leave but too many things make me stay. Also the private sector has me a bit nervous at the moment",
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"content": "There’s good work in the private sector even if it’s not as secure a job as government. But I’d definitely stay at least long enough for the loan forgiveness; that makes it much easier to afford to take a somewhat bigger risk (and save an emergency fund)",
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"content": "Absolutely I owe 85k with under grad + grad school. I’m not paying that off with two kids and being this close. 4 years to go. So I can only leave my job for one that is eligible or pays stupid money which isn’t happening. \n\nI’m a biostatistician/epidemiologist. Those jobs are 90% public facing and I’ve never had a private sector job outside one internship and it sucked. I’ve applied to a few private jobs and only had one call back which I got but it paid 15k less than what I’m being paid now. So now I’m skeptical private is even better than what I’m doing. \n\nAnyway, staying government for at least 4 years even though I’d like to leave mainly due to the student loans.",
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"content": "Opinion | The American Elevator Explains Why Housing Costs Have Skyrocketed",
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"content": "[Non-paywall link](https://archive.ph/2024.07.09-085719/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/opinion/elevator-construction-regulation-labor-immigration.html)\n\n> My mission to understand the American elevator began in 2021 when I came down with a crippling postviral illness. The stairs to my third-floor Brooklyn walk-up apartment would leave me dizzy and winded, my ears ringing, heart beating out of my chest. At 32, I’d joined the 12 percent of Americans who report serious difficulty with stairs. On bad days, I became a prisoner in my own home.\n\n>A few months later, visiting Bucharest, I rode the elevator in my mother’s five-story building. A developer in a much poorer Eastern European country could afford to include an elevator, but the developer of my luxury five-story building in Brooklyn, built 25 years after the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act, could not? I quit my job in real estate and started a nonprofit focused on building codes and construction policy.\n\n>Through my research on elevators, I got a glimpse into why so little new housing is built in America and why what is built is often of such low quality and at high cost. The problem with elevators is a microcosm of the challenges of the broader construction industry — from labor to building codes to a sheer lack of political will. These challenges are at the root of a mounting housing crisis that has spread to nearly every part of the country and is damaging our economic productivity and our environment.\n\n>…Similar themes explain everything from our stalled high-speed rail development to why it’s so hard to find someone to fix a toilet or shower. It’s become hard to shake the feeling that America has simply lost the capacity to build things in the real world, outside of an app.",
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"content": ">I quit my job in real estate and started a nonprofit focused on building codes and construction policy.\n\nDamn, that's some privilege right there",
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"content": "This take is part of the problem today. If you criticize someone for doing something kind when they have the means to then what incentive do they have to be nice? \n \nLike if you're wealthy youre damned if you do and damned if you don't. But if you don't at least you don't have to put forth effort.",
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"content": "I'm just saying, being able to quit your job and start a nonprofit is a real privilege.\n\nNo judgment, just observation.",
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"content": "Inflation outrage: Even as prices stabilize, Walmart, Chipotle and others feel the heat from skeptical customers",
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"content": "I ate at Chipotle for the last time a few months ago. I don’t know if it was economic factors that caused their quality to tank, but something did. It’s a real shame. It used to be reliable and good.",
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"content": "It sadly is really location dependent. Say what you want about Ray Kroc, but he understood the importance of every franchise serving the same exact consistent quality of food across the nation.\n\nThis isn't just anecdotal, but there was that article a few weeks ago of a guy who ordered the same burrito at like 100 locations and weighed each burrito and the smallest was literally half as big as the largest. That's a crazy variation.",
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"content": "Yeah, I worked at Chipotle in the before times, in the long long ago. \n\nAnyway things will influence burritos quite a bit because of the nature of the ingredients. Also there are a lot of a ingredients you can add to a burrito, so it's much more complex than a burger. \n\nThe stickiness of the rice, the liquidity of the beans, how the cheese might clump and so on. It's much more an art than a science when it comes to burritos. \n\nHowever management was super big on their meat portions (4 oz) and we practiced getting those scoops right quite a bit. \n\nOne thing I liked about working there was that they would encourage us to sample the food on the line, to make sure the food was properly cooked and seasoned. Also we got a $20 meal allowance, but honestly after building the craziest burritos imagaineable it got old pretty fast. \n\nThen it became about minimalism and invention. \n\nBut the menu is quite limited so even then it got old after awhile.",
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"content": "Americans are suddenly finding it harder to land a job — and keep it ",
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"content": "I work in marketing and the job market currently sucks over here.\n\nGot laid off this past year and it took me 3 months to find a job -- with a $13k pay cut.\n\nMy friends in other industries (early 30's, mid-level management type roles) have been looking for new opportunities as well, and they're few and far between.\n\nPlus companies aren't offering many fully remote roles anymore. **(Edit: Neither I nor my friends were only applying for remote positions. I was just adding another qualm about the job market.)**\n\nFinding a job sucks in 2024.",
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"content": "I genuinely do not understand the pushing back to the office ordeal for work that can *clearly* be done from home.\n\nEven the most cynical office tyrants speak money right? And the truth is, the keep up of so much office infrastructure and organizing is *WAY* more expensive than allowing people to simply work from home when you can, right? Am I missing something here? I know starts up everywhere, even with tons of VC/seed capital almost always have no office.\n\nIs this merely old-guard mentality dictating work relations? Is it the case of having existing office infrastructure and trying to merely make use of it just because?\n\nI don’t get it. Does anyone see a future where instead of shedding employment/talent corporations will start looking to shed office expenses instead?",
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"content": " Commercial real estate companies and investors. Many are currently suffering huge losses. It is a financial decision and not much to do with productivity or what is best for workers.",
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"content": "So likely a corporate consensus to keep people in the office so the companies real estate assets don’t flop then?",
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"content": "Bingo.",
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"content": "Most companies lease their offices and would be happy if commercial real estate crashed. This bizarre conspiracy makes no sense.",
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"content": "You found the “When you have no real theory but latch on to the first explanation that sounds vaguely plausible” in the comments. Good job.",
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"content": "EU slaps tariffs of up to 38% on Chinese electric vehicles",
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"content": "38% is probably an appropriate tariff. \n\nThe 100% in the USA is absurd. I love how American companies hate government when it forces them to make their products cleaner, safer, better for consumers. They lobby and gnash their teeth and scream about government overreach while spending billions on stock buybacks instead of R&D. \n\nThen when a foreign competitor steps up their game, those same American companies go running to the government, crying to protectionism and tariffs to save them from their own mistakes.",
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"content": "38% will rise to over 100%. you can go on ali express right now and buy yourself a car 90% comparable to a tesla for less of a price than a golf cart (INCLUDING SHIPPIng). seriosuly look it up 6k cars.its crazy to me the us governement and the Eu can implement such polcies and people on reddit are still saying their bad cars. A billion people dont seem to think theyre bad. The government doesnt think its bad. even with these tariffs ill say if your buying a used car in 2024 for 10-17k you might aswell jsut look into how to import a 2024 chinese ev. \nlastly most of the cars you buy right now are made in some way shape or from in the \"asian tigers region\". China, japan, taiwan, korea. These gms go to these countries outsource jobs and then rake in the profits. its only now with the rise of the interent that you can buy directly and theyre being bypassed that they lobby the government. Make no mistake your eu ev is getting batteries from china, and if your in the us your american ev is not only getting parts from china its getting assembled in mexico and then coming to the us for minor touches before its put out. they arent saving the auto industry. the auto industry is dead. theyre saving the proftis of a few.",
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"content": "Nearly 40% of new Canadians are considering moving due to housing costs",
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"content": "Canada is the poster child for the Neo Liberal ideas that were hammered out about 20 or so years ago and all the western nations are engaging in today. well, most of the western nations.",
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"content": "They way of the serfdom",
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"content": "You realize that the home ownership rate in Canada is over 65% right? Most households in this country own a place and the fact that there's a lot of demand for housing supports their wealth. \n\nSo tell me why this is a bad thing for most people. Even in the article they just say that 65% of newcomers are *thinking* about leaving. Certainly its rough for some people, but this isn't a road to serfdom.",
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"content": "EU slaps tariffs of up to 38% on Chinese electric vehicles",
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"content": ">The European Commission on Wednesday announced it would impose new tariffs of up to 37.6% on Chinese electric vehicles starting on Friday.\n\n>The Commission said the new duties are to counteract what it called \"unfair\" subsidies Chinese electric vehicle makers receive from the Chinese government. The subsidies, according to the EU, create a “threat of economic harm” to European car manufacturers.\n\nSounds like the easiest way to keep European car companies from having to compete with China or produce their own affordable EVs.",
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"content": "It definitely is protectionism but this is what China has done to Western companies for 20 years. Whenever the West has had some competitive advantage, China would just nope out and either put massive tariffs on, steal IP and do a home grown version or the product or make operations in the country incredibly difficult.\n\nIt's a shame because the BYD cars are seemingly very good and low cost which is amazing for the world. Unfortunately China's hardline diplomacy in recent years has ruffled feathers enough that huge tariffs that hinder European populations access to affordable EV's is an easier pill to swallow because of a general resentment towards the Chinese government.",
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"content": "Read your history my guy, the dynamic you're describing goes back for centuries. High tariffs and domestic subsidies in the face of (British) comparative advantage was literally and explicitly called the \"American System\" during the 19th century. The [US Senate archives have it preserved](https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Speeches_ClayAmericanSystem.htm) in their list of classic speeches.\n\n> From the nation's earliest days, Congress has struggled with the fundamental issue of the national government's proper role in fostering economic development. Henry Clay's \"American System,\" devised in the burst of nationalism that followed the War of 1812, remains one of the most historically significant examples of a government-sponsored program to harmonize and balance the nation's agriculture, commerce, and industry. This \"System\" consisted of three mutually reinforcing parts: a tariff to protect and promote American industry; a national bank to foster commerce; and federal subsidies for roads, canals, and other \"internal improvements\" to develop profitable markets for agriculture.\n\nShockingly enough, governments consistently behave in their own self-interest then and now.",
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"content": "Yeah fair enough, but globalisation in the past 40 years has encouraged free trade and there are a lot of agreements that oppose a historical trend for protectionism. I'm not saying that has been necessarily good, but it was great for China. They have evidently benefited the most of everyone because of the difficulties that have come about due to the quid pro quo nature of diplomacy. The only thing we own is the things we buy from them while they own their manufacturing base that has evolved past ours in certain key areas. \n\nThey've done the right thing by them imo, it's just politics that means I can't have a cheap EV.",
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"content": "and neither can you have a metro ride for a buck, that is safe and clean. except for a handful of cities, mostly due to politics.\n\nat this point, if you want clean and cheap, ban all the cars like they do in Paris, so everyone can feel safer walking and biking.\n\nit's not a joke, it's fucking awesome:\n\n[https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a46651907/paris-closed-100-streets-to-cars-for-good/](https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a46651907/paris-closed-100-streets-to-cars-for-good/)",
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"content": "Opinion | The American Elevator Explains Why Housing Costs Have Skyrocketed",
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"content": "I'm about as pro union as they come, but the build trades unions are particularly egregious at lobbying for regulations and work rules that serve no other purpose than to drive up construction costs. \n\nIn my city, they opposed updating the building code to use PVC piping in certain buildings until well into the 2000s. The reason was just naked rent seeking. It takes two guys to move 15 feet of iron pipe while a single worker can carry 150 ft of PVC pipe",
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"content": "> I'm about as pro union as they come\n\nOh cool, samesies!\n\n> but\n\nAh, there we go.\n\n> the build trades unions are particularly egregious at lobbying for regulations and work rules that serve no other purpose than to drive up construction costs.\n\nNo offense, but zero people who are \"about as pro union as they come\" would ever say this with a straight face.",
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"content": "You can be pro union and also think long term. It won't help unions ultimately if you make their existence contingent on a regulatory foundation that's unsustainable economically.",
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"content": "I'm not saying otherwise.\n\nBut when you dismiss unions as only wanting to raise construction costs to pad their pockets, like they're out to be dickheads, you're only serving one purpose, an anti-union one. You're not addressing why unions do that and the reasons they do that.\n\nSo, you're nowhere near being \"as pro union as they come,\" you're just someone who likes the idea of unions but if they actually do what's best for their union members, that's crossing the line and we can't have that.\n\nJust be honest and don't claim you're pro-union. Stop lying. (I'm using \"you\" and \"your\" as a general not you specifically).",
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"content": ">you dismiss unions as only wanting to raise construction costs to pad their pockets, \n\nNo one in this thread has done this.",
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"content": "AI is effectively ‘useless’—and it’s created a ‘fake it till you make it’ bubble that could end in disaster, veteran market watcher warns",
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"content": "It isn't useless, but I think the general sentiment of the article is correct. A lot of companies are burning a lot of money on the premise that there is a \"next step\" just around the corner. But history and the algorithms underlying generative AI tell us the next step is very unlikely to happen. \n\nWe just played this game with Elon Musk and self-driving cars for the last 10 years -- guess what technology underlies the decision making in self-driving cars (spoiler: it is generative AI). IMO ChatGPT and derivative products will provide some nice productivity enhancements across a lot of industries over the next 10 or so years and some types of jobs will see a reduction in demand. But it isn't going to be nearly at the level that current stock valuations are suggesting.",
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"content": "Yep. It’s one of the reasons I hate that all this is referred to as “AI”. People unfamiliar with the internals. People think it means a general intelligence. It’s not. It’s math underneath and the “AI” has literally no understanding of what it’s saying. There’s no “brain”. It can’t lie to you because it has no idea what is truth and what’s a lie (it can certainly “say” things that are false, but that’s not the same thing as lying like humans do). \n\nInterestingly enough, I attended a talk on generative AI just yesterday. The people who actually work on this stuff on a day-to-day basis (mostly) have no illusions that any of this is remotely intelligent as we humans understand intelligent.",
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"content": "I also went to a chat with someone prominent in the AI community. He’s been in it for a long time. It seemed like he held the belief that it will change the world, but no idea how. That tells me it’s pretty far off.",
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"content": "US workers in debt to buy groceries - 'I had to downgrade my life'",
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"content": "This is whacky reporting. It's individuals complaining about generalized inflation, while utilizing debt to make ends meet. These are individuals adding interest charges to their fixed costs every month, omplaining about inflation? The reporter should be investigating the excessive utilization of credit as much as inflation.",
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"content": "What would you propose they do when food prices have risen beyond their ability to buy food without using credit? ",
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"content": "Go to a grocery store and see how rare it is for someone to shop like they are trying to keep costs at a minimum. If you are borrowing money to buy any of the following, you are being foolish and making yourself poorer. Drinks of any kind, cigarettes, lottery tickets, snacks in single serving bags, non store brands. I feel sorry for the people that are really struggling, but I constantly see people wasting money while going into debt.",
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"content": "China now effectively \"owns\" a nation: Laos, burdened by unpaid debt, is now virtually indebted to Beijing ",
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"content": "By that token there are several countries in Africa owned by banks. Pretty much in line with the \"it's only ok if a corporation is benefitting, not the government\"",
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"content": "Debt trapping developing countries is bad when we do it too. Why the whataboutism?",
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"content": "The average comment section of any article critical of China's actions is full of whataboutism and attempts to sidestep or shift blame. It's very frustrating. As if we can't be critical of one thing without having to mention all the other things we are also critical about in the same breath. It's beyond idiotic.",
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"content": "This has absolutely nothing to do with economics what so ever. Yet another blatant political article meant to cause uproar about XYZ.\n\nSeriously, we have r/politics for a damn reason. Why does every subreddit meant for discussion about completely different academic topics always get taken over by political messaging and campaigning?",
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"content": "The OP hasn’t made a comment in 3 years but posts articles all from the same website all day. Bot",
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"content": "Reliability of U.S. Economic Data Is in Jeopardy, Study Finds",
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"content": "I mean, the economic data in the US Is world class, in terms of reliability, consistency, and quality.\n\nWe have weekly data from the HPS of about 35,000 households, started DURING COVID, that quickly become a permanent staple of data collections. We have monthly data on pretty much every macro indicator, with nowhere near the lags other developing countries have for more micro data.",
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"content": "Yeah, when I tried going to other government websites (foreign ones) for economic data, I got so frustrated I just gave up trying to sift through it all and find what I actually wanted.\n\nIt greatly renewed my appreciation for the sheer amount of easily accessible data we have for use.\n\n~~It doesn't stop people from refusing that data and following their own fantasies, but hey at least they have the choice.~~",
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"content": "Shit. We had daily mobility measures during COVID. Individual level. Daily. \n\nThe data collection I now take for granted after seeing the scale and reliability of COVID data?",
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"content": "Record number of Americans are retiring abroad because the U.S. is too expensive",
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"content": "I was talking to my wife about this the other day. The prospect of retiring abroad is enticing, however there are two main detractors that keep us from going all-in\n\n1) making new friends is hard. Making new friends in another country is damn near impossible.\n\n2) Socialized healthcare is awesome, as long as you receive it properly. People act like Spain and Portugal are these utopian societies. That may be the case if you have a broken bone, or fall off a zip line, or have a heart attack, but when need to see a specialist, get an MRI, or undergo treatment for a rare disorder, get ready to hurry up and wait.\n\nhttps://www.euronews.com/2023/04/12/people-may-die-waiting-surgery-waiting-lists-in-spain-hit-record-levels",
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"content": "It's the top comment in the other thread but the strong dollar is a major factor too. That makes everything abroad much less for Americans. But, that could flip if the dollar weakens. I guess if you already made the large dollar purchases like a house, vehicle, etc. than it doesn't have as much impact. Still, day to day things would be \"more expensive\". \n\nI'd be too consumed with currency swaps or something to enjoy my retirement :-)",
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"content": "This is easily solvable though. You need to decide on a country and commit. When you move, just convert all your existing savings into e.g. Euros. \n\nIf you have a monthly income like a pension, you can easily agree an exchange rate now with your bank for all future payments. Just deal with it once. As long as you stay within that currency there's no more risk of devaluation.",
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"content": "Record number of Americans are retiring abroad because the U.S. is too expensive",
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"content": "That headline isn't necessarily accurate. Nothing in the article backs up that statement.\n\nThe only thing in the article that comes close to backing it up is this:\n\n> In December 2022, there were over 700,800 people receiving Social Security payments abroad, according to the most recently available data from the Social Security Administration. In 2000, that figure was less than 400,000.\n\nThis doesn't support the headline, however. All it says is more people are collecting outside of the country. It doesn't say the reason they moved out of country. You can't say the reason more people collect outside the country is because \"the US is too expensive\" without proof of that.\n\nIs it true though? Probably, because there's tens of millions more people collecting Social Security in the year 2022 than there was in the year 2000. The absolute number probably went up, yes. Also, the percentage collecting outside the country did increase, but that doesn't necessarily mean the percentage went up because of the cost of living, there are other possible reasons. I'm guessing a lot more foreign born people are collecting Social Security now than they did in 2000. Maybe they want to go back to their original countries to retire? Or how about the percentage of people with passports [skyrocketed from the 90's at 10% to nearly 50% today](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42586638), Americans are much more international than before?\n\nThere are tons of possible reasons, but the article didn't prove its headline.",
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"content": "I was surprised to see such a large increase when I researched it just now. \n\nNumber of people collecting Social Security in 2000: **38,741,343**(retired not disabled numbers)\n\nNumber of people collecting Social Security in 2023: **58,563,242**\n\nThat means in 2000 1.03% of people collected social security while overseas, while in 2023 it was 1.20%. An increase but a pretty minor one all things considered\n\nSource data: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/OASDIbenies.html",
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"content": "I’m surprised it’s so low. It’s my plan!",
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"content": "I'm not surprised At all. When you're at your oldest, weakest, most mentally frail moving to an entirely different country sounds like a big ask. Most people just wanna live in their house near their friends and family.\n\nOne of my favorite subreddits rn is the Philippines expats sub. A bunch of old American dudes move to another country expecting to live like kings surrounded by beautiful women only to find their plan to exploit underpaid locals is not that easy",
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"content": "> expecting to live like kings surrounded by beautiful women only to find their plan to exploit underpaid locals is not that easy\n\nHaha, love that!",
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"content": "EU slaps tariffs of up to 38% on Chinese electric vehicles",
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"content": ">The European Commission on Wednesday announced it would impose new tariffs of up to 37.6% on Chinese electric vehicles starting on Friday.\n\n>The Commission said the new duties are to counteract what it called \"unfair\" subsidies Chinese electric vehicle makers receive from the Chinese government. The subsidies, according to the EU, create a “threat of economic harm” to European car manufacturers.\n\nSounds like the easiest way to keep European car companies from having to compete with China or produce their own affordable EVs.",
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"content": "Chinese EVs are artificially cheap by means of intellectual property theft and CCP subsidies. Those 2 unfair advantages would put any other EV makers out of business, there is no competing with the egregious theft and cheating the Chinese are engaging in.",
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"content": "Very difficult to say or prove on the IP theft, Chinese companies have been buying European brands for decades and we can see those designs in their own brands. On the subsidies, the US has had EV subsidies, grants, and handouts for decades. In fact, the US government bailed out Tesla, when they were on the brink of bankruptcy. What is the difference between this and what the Chinese government did?\n\nThe IP theft thing is kind of funny in my opinion. The Chinese government’s rules on doing business in their country was pretty clear, but US businesses only cared about cheaper labour and costs, with little environmental rules. You know what you are getting into when you open a business in China.",
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"content": "Big River: Can the Mississippi build America again?",
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"content": "Politico reports that, thanks to the bipartisan infrastructure law, the Biden administration has $2.5 billion available as a down payment on upgrading navigation infrastructure on the Mississippi River and other waterways.\n\nThis piece was included in Ag Insider's Quick Hits today: [~https://thefern.org/ag\\_insider/todays-quick-hits-july-8-2024/~](https://thefern.org/ag_insider/todays-quick-hits-july-8-2024/)",
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"content": "“Now, President Joe Biden’s administration is trying to remake the river yet again. It has $2.5 billion at its disposal for a massive down payment on river transportation from the bipartisan infrastructure law. **It represents the first significant upgrade to river infrastructure — the 25,000 miles of inland waterways through which barges and freighters pass every day — since the New Deal**.”\n\nSince the New Deal?!? Nearly 100 years ago?!? You know my only objection about the infrastructure law is how long it took us to pass one like it.",
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"content": "Hence why I say that regardless of the man's age let him have 2 turn. \nBiden is literally the only president that has invested so much on infrastructure in years !!! \nWe might not see the result now but in 10 years people will start talking. \nThese take money and time to built and the Republicans voters are some of the most impatient people I know. Let him have his 2nd term, and another cdmocrat wins and invest as heavily then a republican if you want. \nWith 8 more years with democrats that prioritize infrastructure, production, research and education can do a lot of things. \n\nThe affordable act also known as Obamacare was passed in 2010\nPhase one came into work in 2014 and some remaining ones started back in 2020. \n\nChange take time.",
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"content": "Canadian unemployment rate rose to 6.4% in June",
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"content": "As far as the average person is concerned, Canada is actually in a huge recession. They had only 0.5% YoY GDP growth in the first quarter and a massive, historic and almost unseen anywhere in the world, population growth rate of 3.2%. \n\nThat's -2.7% per capita, close to the 2008 crisis for the US.",
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"content": "That’s fucking insane but the truth is that it’s not just Canada. The US jobs report Biden keeps showing off about is also suffering the same way. Full time jobs have negative growth while part time is increasing substantially. All the full time job growth is made up of government jobs, as there has been minimal new investments and mainly belt tightening layoffs for the large companies.",
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"content": "Privatised profits, services failure in Australia — “As competition policy was failing to improve public services, it was also failing to stop our private industries from becoming increasingly monopolised”: Economist",
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"content": "It's wild how many \"common sense\" ideas we are never allowed to question. \n\n\nLike, everyone says that \"the private industry is always better,\" but what industry was actually improved by privatization?\n\n\nBecause Telecom and Travel both seem to have gotten worse over the decades, as regulations have gotten more and more lax\n\n\nAnother one is how \"there's too much government bureaucracy\"....but you want to see tons of bureaucratic red tape? Look at the private insurance industry. \n\n\nHospitals spend billions per year on the salaries of thousands of administrators just to maneuver through the bureaucratic hell of our private insurance industry. \n\n\nThousands of companies, with thousands of different plans...all covering different Hospitals, doctors, procedures, products, and specialities \n\n\nIdk, when do we actually get to question these \"common sense\" truisms? \n\n\nBecause they all are starting to feel like a bunch of lies the captilaist class has conditioned us to parrot like Pavlov's dog. ",
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"content": "I try to point thile book out whenever I see an example like this. [The Big Con is excellent.](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64405809-the-big-con)",
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"content": "Amen!! Her talks at IIPP are pretty awesome to listen to, also highly reccomend all of Damon Silvers’ lectures that he gave recently",
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