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2018-06-03 at 4:42 PM UTCI am sick of tired of Americans everywhere. Specially politically speaking. I mean, you guys avoid doing any actual thinking! You just seat on your high political standpoints and call all those that don't agree with you "Liberal" or "Conservative". Now, your economy is getting fucked up and all you can do is point fingers to blame your opposing party, or immigrants, or just everyone that isn't you.
Why are you so lazy? Why don't you get up from your McDonald's fat ass and do something for yourselves? Starting with some thinking.
And for godsakes, don't be so freaking easy to manipulate! The stupid Iraq war for example. The whole country got played on like a drum, and you even elected dumbass bush a second time. After proving his Olympic grade incompetence for four years.
What good did the war serve? Other than screwing you economy that is. -
2018-06-03 at 4:44 PM UTCnot thanking copypasta
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2018-06-03 at 5:04 PM UTC
Originally posted by cartof I am sick of tired of Americans everywhere. Specially politically speaking. I mean, you guys avoid doing any actual thinking! You just seat on your high political standpoints and call all those that don't agree with you "Liberal" or "Conservative". Now, your economy is getting fucked up and all you can do is point fingers to blame your opposing party, or immigrants, or just everyone that isn't you.
Why are you so lazy? Why don't you get up from your McDonald's fat ass and do something for yourselves? Starting with some thinking.
And for godsakes, don't be so freaking easy to manipulate! The stupid Iraq war for example. The whole country got played on like a drum, and you even elected dumbass bush a second time. After proving his Olympic grade incompetence for four years.
What good did the war serve? Other than screwing you economy that is.
cheaper oil.
list your country so it can be bumped up on the list of whos getting democracy shoved down its gullet next, at the muzzle of a cannon.
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2018-06-04 at 12:39 PM UTC
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2018-06-04 at 12:46 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Um the economy is fine.
several oil-extracting countries have switched away from the dollar (one of the key reasons Iraq and Libya got rekt), and there are now alternatives to debt-slavery through the IMF and other US-controlled international financial institutions.
Without direct control over the international oil and financial markets, the US' only real strength is in military action - a country that produces so little (vast majority of the economy is tied to speculation, rather than production) has no chance to survive, let alone dominate without the advantages it's historically held for the last 70 years or so -
2018-06-04 at 12:53 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra several oil-extracting countries have switched away from the dollar (one of the key reasons Iraq and Libya got rekt), and there are now alternatives to debt-slavery through the IMF and other US-controlled international financial institutions.
Without direct control over the international oil and financial markets, the US' only real strength is in military action - a country that produces so little (vast majority of the economy is tied to speculation, rather than production) has no chance to survive, let alone dominate without the advantages it's historically held for the last 70 years or so
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2018-06-04 at 12:54 PM UTC
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2018-06-04 at 12:58 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Something the US has never had anyway….rotating eyes emote goes here.
lol. why exactly do you think up until the last few years, virtually the entire oil trade has been in dollars?
so how is that unemployment value calculated?
is it a percentage of the population not currently working? is it the usual figure of people currently not working who have worked in the last several months, completely disregarding people who haven't worked beyond that range? does the study even disclose that? -
2018-06-04 at 1:02 PM UTC
lol. why exactly do you think up until the last few years, virtually the entire oil trade has been in dollars?
That doesn't give the "owner" of the currency "direct control"...OPEC controls 80% of the oil market...
so how is that unemployment value calculated?
is it a percentage of the population not currently working? is it the usual figure of people currently not working who have worked in the last several months, completely disregarding people who haven't worked beyond that range? does the study even disclose that?
It's measured the same way whether the figure is 10% or 1%...a downward trend does not indicate a failing economy especially in conjunction with everything else being UP UP UP...lol -
2018-06-04 at 1:04 PM UTC
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2018-06-04 at 1:09 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson That doesn't give the "owner" of the currency "direct control"…OPEC controls 80% of the oil market…
When the US is able to restrict oil trade to the US dollar, being able to manipulate the value of the USD allows them to control oil prices. That's completely ignoring the deep ties between KSA and the other gulf states and the US treasury.It's measured the same way whether the figure is 10% or 1%…a downward trend does not indicate a failing economy especially in conjunction with everything else being UP UP UP…lol
The reason I ask is because that's a trick that's often been used to generate favourable unemployment numbers. If you exclude the long-term unemployed and people who have given up looking for work, your employment numbers go up because you're completely ignoring people who are, for all intents and purposes unemployed but cannot find work... Often because their industries have dried up or general employment has become extremely difficult in specific areas. -
2018-06-04 at 1:11 PM UTC
When the US is able to restrict oil trade to the US dollar, being able to manipulate the value of the USD allows them to control oil prices. That's completely ignoring the deep ties between KSA and the other gulf states and the US treasury.
But none of that is happening...so irrelevant. Even so, that is not "direct control"...
The reason I ask is because that's a trick that's often been used to generate favourable unemployment numbers. If you exclude the long-term unemployed and people who have given up looking for work, your employment numbers go up because you're completely ignoring people who are, for all intents and purposes unemployed but cannot find work… Often because their industries have dried up or general employment has become extremely difficult in specific areas.
Again, the same "trick" is in play regardless of the unemployment level being 10% or 1%..there is always a % of people who are not counted...it's logical the higher the official figure is the higher the "not counted" % is too... -
2018-06-04 at 1:39 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson But none of that is happening…so irrelevant. Even so, that is not "direct control"…
here's a primer if you want to learn something. There are much better articles on the matter (and far beyond).Again, the same "trick" is in play regardless of the unemployment level being 10% or 1%..there is always a % of people who are not counted…it's logical the higher the official figure is the higher the "not counted" % is too…
no, if you reread that carefully, in the past the rate of long-term unemployed has been significantly higher than recently unemployed, which is why the statistic is often hidden. -
2018-06-04 at 1:44 PM UTCSame with inflation.
Take this and that out of the equation and there is no inflation. -
2018-06-04 at 1:49 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra here's a primer if you want to learn something. There are much better articles on the matter (and far beyond).
no, if you reread that carefully, in the past the rate of long-term unemployed has been significantly higher than recently unemployed, which is why the statistic is often hidden.
Dow is at 24,000+, unemployment is at 3.8% with job growth every month, Wages are up, house prices are up, gas prices are up (good for the economy), interest rates are finally increasing, ...pretty much everything is on the up...
...anyone who sees all that as the US economy being in trouble..doesn't understand economics. -
2018-06-04 at 1:56 PM UTCWhat planet you think you can colonize, Alien Scum? I'll have you know I graduated top of Mercdonalds training regiment, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on LV-624, and I have over 300 confirmed xeno kills. I am trained in yakety sax warfare and I'm the top specialist in the saltshaker. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you pathetic antagonist with precision the likes of which has never been seen on this Planet, mark my words. You think you can get away with weeding up the planet? Think again, maggot. As we speak I am contacting my overwatch officer and your coordinates are being traced right now so you better prepare for the orbital bombardment, loser. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call a hive. You're gonna die, alien scumbag. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire Voucher Terminal on the Saltshaker and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your hide off the face of the planet. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your planet snatch was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have thought twice. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you alien scumbag. I will send shuttles fury all over you and you will be crushed by them. You're dead Alien Scum.
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2018-06-04 at 5:25 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Dow is at 24,000+, unemployment is at 3.8% with job growth every month, Wages are up, house prices are up, gas prices are up (good for the economy), interest rates are finally increasing, …pretty much everything is on the up…
…anyone who sees all that as the US economy being in trouble..doesn't understand economics.
How can higher gas prices be good for the economy? -
2018-06-04 at 5:28 PM UTC
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2018-06-04 at 5:32 PM UTC
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2018-06-04 at 5:44 PM UTCOh yeah. Really good.
Transportation gets more expensive because of higher fuel costs. Food prices can go up.
Takes more money out of people's pocket leaving less for other purchases.
Excellent.
