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199k jobs added in november, beating estimates, and unemployment down to 3.7% xD
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From The Washington Post:
Small segment of voters will wield outsize power in 2024 presidential race The electoral college system empowers a sliver of the U.S. population in a diminishing number of battleground states. And the majority may not even prevail. Not that we didn't know the big picture, but read the details... Godfuckingdamn this shit is scary. VOTE! |
The flipside to some of our posts? From Zakaria's newsletter:
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mierda... too friendly
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And now, from Zakaria's newsletter, a brief trip to HELL:
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You're not surprised though, are you? Every country has one of these, and by and large they dig each other. |
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latin america unfortunately suffers from a long history of the tyranny of good intentions, whereby if you say that you're for the poor you're given a pass for all sorts of atrocities. like, say, cuba, imprisoned. but fidel alphabetized the island! lol. and in venezuela, maduro susbidizes sardines! (and has exported 6 million refugees) of course those left tyrants are the enemies of progress and prosperity. not that progress and prosperity don't come with their own problems, but it's easy to want the natives of some faraway land to reject science and modern goods and services while one enjoys all the comforts of technology and is on the winning side of global commerce. so no, latin america doesn't have to be just a tourist destination for rich gringos and europeans looking to slum it. latin america doesn't have to be "third world" . prosperity can happen with open markets, free enterprise, and the rule of law but anyway, "the right" tends to band around in opposition of the left, but it doesn't mean they are the same necessarily. odd to see an authoritarian nazi spawn member of a marian cult hanging out too much with a globalist libertarian who has a rabbi and dislikes the pope lololol (although catholic right wingers preferred ratso and the polish guy before him. "anticommunists." but i digress.) there are lefts and lefts like there are rights and rights. those people are not the same, but they might have a common enemy, yes and at this moment i just hope some economic liberalization can save argentina from their disgracefully impoverishing clusterfuck. that would be some real progress |
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== anyway so you guys rejected the ultra right wing constitution huh? good for you who knew that being stuck with the pinochet legacy could be a "good thing" relatively? |
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Navalny "found".
Alive (more or less) in a penal colony called IK-3 Polar Wolf, located in Kharp, Siberia, "beyond the Arctic Circle". Because Moscow wasn't cold and dark enough, you see. |
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It's kind of a pity this only works on a state-by-state basis when there are ample reasons he should be barred from running again, period. But I guess it's better than nothing. I'm hoping this will domino into a bunch of other states following suit - looking towards Georgia and New York - not that the latter would make much of a difference based on where his voters are. But it would be a nice added bonus to see his former home state giving him the boot. Was there another state with running investigations/court cases? I've sort of lost track, the guy leaves a trail of crime and gross misconduct wherever he sets foot. |
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republicans have started an impeachment inquiry against biden with no evidence of wrongdoing whatsoever. im not saying that biden is a saint, but come on. he's already guilty of amazing conspiracies, in their wacko minds but hey!  a cult is a cult is a cult is a cult that is what's really going on. a cult = while the usa is a country, yes it's got a bigger territory than europe, has 50 states instead of 27 or 28 nations (i forget the exact number, sorry), has 75% of the population, etc etc now if you compare the usa to europe as a whole you'll have a better scale to grasp things. europe has orbán and duda and wilders and le pen and meloni & co (she's more reasonable than her associates it seems). and that person in slovakia and some swedes and germans etc etc. oh and you have your own austrian corporals as well. europe as a whole is held together by brussels rules i guess, but what happens in various places is still their own local thing. about a third of eu countries have not even adopted the common currency the us federal government has more central power over its union than brussels over its own, of course, especially since we had the civil war. but states have their rights per the constitution and that's the way it's been from the start. i can sit on an entire home armory in one state, and get arrested for having a pocket knife in the next one so when you think of "states" think about portugal, denmark, bulgaria, ireland, cyprus... not as the same thing as our states, but just for scale and perspective. wyoming has a population right between those of malta and luxembourg. california, similar to poland. florida, more than romania. new york state more than the netherlands. pennsylvania, more than belgium.... etc etc. massive place! = and now to stich it all together from my rambling mess: the trump cult is what is keeping the states from working more cohesively at the federal level, as of late and so the states go off on their own. as they are entitled to do. here in this case, because they run their own elections but it's not like the states have always worked well together. from the origins, the constitution was supplemented by the bill of rights, the division between free and slave states set the stage for a bloody civil war, etc etc.... and now we have this shit |
Now Maine says T**** can go fuck a goat.
SCOTUS is gonna have to move in faster that they wanted to, if they wanted to at all (they didn't). And Clarence Dawg won't recuse himself. And there it will die. But in the meantime, bring on the popcorn, I guess? |
A stupidly fun one to start the year:
Lauren Boebert blames Barbra Streisand and Ryan Reynolds for making her switch districts |
Who knew death threats work.
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Oh man, just today (crazy, I know) I found out psycho anti-vaxxer racist conspiracy theorist walking talking turd RFK Jr.'s wife is... Cheryl Hines! :eek::(:mad:
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https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
216k new jobs in december, unemployment holds at 3.7%, 164k private payrrolls, dollar UP UP UP -- 48m later: nice fkin whipsaw in the eurusd charts xD ... and later, the dollar tanking in all main charts hahah wtf these fx markets lol -- in any case it looks like soft soft landing |
Good news and a good time via Wonkette:
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i'm here for all the Swift Memes
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Employment Situation Summary
Transmission of material in this news release is embargoed until USDL-24-0148 8:30 a.m. (ET) Friday, February 2, 2024 Technical information: Household data: (202) 691-6378 * cpsinfo@bls.gov * www.bls.gov/cps Establishment data: (202) 691-6555 * cesinfo@bls.gov * www.bls.gov/ces Media contact: (202) 691-5902 * PressOffice@bls.gov THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- JANUARY 2024 Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 353,000 in January, and the unemployment rate remained at 3.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in professional and business services, health care, retail trade, and social assistance. Employment declined in the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction industry. This news release presents statistics from two monthly surveys. The household survey measures labor force status, including unemployment, by demographic characteristics. The establishment survey measures nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings by industry. For more information about the concepts and statistical methodology used in these two surveys, see the Technical Note. -- "ripping strong jobs" someone just said |
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I hope Trump wins purely for the hate-watch
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Belgian beer? Sorry but I will never touch that again |
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just alcohol free metabolites for thee don't be jealous of the belgians you carlsberg swiller hmm i might pick up a lambic this weekend... (thanks for the good idea) |
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All of these Danish and Belgian etc. beers might actually be nice, however the ones brewed inside of the UK taste rancid, completely different to the imported cask for some reason, and good luck finding imports in the local offy. Can these companies get away with lowering alc. content and making the brew a cheaper way somehow? because the British public have no standards with a "I will drink it if it is wet" approach? bet your arse. I don't know what it's like in your neck of the woods but if Trump wins maybe he will ban the foreign Imports like he did with foreign immigrants. Let's be honest, the banning of immigrants you can live with but when you start messing with beer the gloves are off. |
tv/beer/turd banter aside, the ppi data just came in hot this month, +0.3 for january, +0.6 for services -0.2 for goods. inflation still a bit sticky. the michigan consumer sentiment gets published in an hour, last month it was strong, and monthly retail sales flagged a bit in yesterday's report, -0.8 vs -0.1 predicted, so imma guess consumer sentiment will read a little weaker? sticky inflation plus weaker consumption would be like a mini stagflation (not really a stagflation just not the ideal soft landing everybody wanted). dollar did shoot up though. after today we gotta wait for the next data dump...fomc minutes feb 21?
... eta holy shit the consumer sentiment remains STRONG this is mixed data vs yesterday's retail figures, but january data can be "noisy" post-holidays michigan consumer sentiment index: Preliminary Results for February 2024 Feb Jan Feb M-M Y-Y 2024 2024 2023 Change Change Index of Consumer Sentiment 79.6 79.0 66.9 +0.8% +19.0% Current Economic Conditions 81.5 81.9 70.7 -0.5% +15.3% Index of Consumer Expectations 78.4 77.1 64.5 +1.7% +21.6% (that is a table, with 4 rows and 5 columns, notice change is listed as month to month AND year to year) this is preliminary but yeah looks good for the economy, at the same time pushes inflation up lol no soft landing yet, just "no landing", long runway lol further weight to no rate cuts expected in march, so dollar is up. still looking forward to fed minutes release in 5 days |
well shit, navalny is dead now
no surprise fuck putin ps navalny was laughing until the end so please no hysterics that he wouldnt have welcome https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-68319164 |
New York Court orders Cheeto to pay $ 354.9 million in fraud case
I wonder how he'll weasel his way out of this again (which I hope he won't, but hope is hard to come by these days). |
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the economist says boric had to grow up at last and kast's moralizing is getting a cold shoulder
Chile’s crisis is not over yet https://www.economist.com/the-americ...s-not-over-yet i hope it's true... and on annoying news, lula can't give up his old habits and it's starting to fuck with petrobras which had gone broke under lula/rouseff corruption, was rescued under temer, and was fiddled with again by bolsa de caca Why Lula keeps meddling with Latin America’s top oil company https://www.economist.com/the-americ...op-oil-company jfc... meanwhile, england keeps cranking out pointless statutes: Ban it harder! An unwelcome new trend in British politics https://www.economist.com/britain/20...itish-politics hilarious ukraine's sea drones How Ukraine sank the Caesar Kunikov—and is beating Russia at sea https://www.economist.com/the-econom...-russia-at-sea fuck putin! and here his filthy new weapon: What is Russia’s mysterious new space weapon? https://www.economist.com/the-econom...w-space-weapon fuck him, truly the wa state? wtf! first time i hear about it... The Wa: the world’s biggest drug-dealers, with a tiny profile https://www.economist.com/culture/20...a-tiny-profile insane... |
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hahaha how about FUCK NO stay down -- news from friday morning we missed: PRODUCER PRICE INDEXES - JANUARY 2024 The Producer Price Index for final demand increased 0.3 percent in January, seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Final demand prices declined 0.1 percent in December 2023 and advanced 0.1 percent in November. (See table A.) On an unadjusted basis, the index for final demand rose 0.9 percent for the 12 months ended January 2024. In January, the advance in the index for final demand can be traced to a 0.6-percent rise in prices for final demand services. In contrast, the index for final demand goods decreased 0.2 percent. The index for final demand less foods, energy, and trade services rose 0.6 percent in January 2024, the largest advance since moving up 0.6 percent in January 2023. For the 12 months ended January 2024, prices for final demand less foods, energy, and trade services increased 2.6 percent. -- full report: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm |
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Won't be an issue considering these posts put me to sleep :p |
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