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35 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Schools like the University of London and the Sorbonne are climbing the charts.  (She has a minor in French which *might* make the latter possible.)

My wife is currently enrolled in a grad program with a French business school. It has been an incredible experience for her so far. It requires a ton of travel, but her professional network has expanded immensely since she’s one of only three Americans in her cohort. We’re both hoping that this exposure will eventually lead to a professional opportunity for her in Europe.

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1 hour ago, CurlyDumps said:

Good article on the growing propaganda cheer squad:

Meet the New State Media

Shutting out critical members of the media and allowing only those favorable to your messaging is strait out of the autocrat playbook.  But it doesn't seem to be ringing alarm bells to any meaningful degree.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said:

Yeah, I know, but he's good for it.

Seriously though, popped over to the live Cabinet meeting and it was just as miserable as I had figured it would be.

I didn't make it more than about 20 seconds.  Couldn't do it.

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5 minutes ago, Ojo Rojo said:

I didn't make it more than about 20 seconds.  Couldn't do it.

I still haven’t heard his voice since October. 

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10 minutes ago, Ojo Rojo said:

I didn't make it more than about 20 seconds.  Couldn't do it.

I liked the part where he said that the million plus federal employees who didn't respond to Elon's stupid email may not even exist. 

Posted
28 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

So when does the recession hit? Lotta people predicting late april, early may

May and really ramps up, including pressure, over the holiday travel season.

People are pissed off when they cannot take little Jimmy to visit the gator swamp fun land near Ocala.

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im not on Twitter and i don't even really know how to post a link from there, if it even works anymore? i tried to find another video but nothing yet, and given our new state media who knows if it will even be talked about...

anyways, i've been doing pretty good...this is the first time in weeks i actually wept.

https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1894519229283786825/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1894519229283786825&currentTweetUser=BehizyTweets

well i guess that link doesn't work. so it's a vid of Trump talking about 'we're gonna be able to take down trees, you know we're so restricted environmentally, we're gonna be freeing up our forests'... and so on...

💔

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May and really ramps up, including pressure, over the holiday travel season.
People are pissed off when they cannot take little Jimmy to visit the gator swamp fun land near Ocala.

They will be saving up to visit the Golden Trump in the holy land.
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Posted
8 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:


It’s unfortunate for America that the president that has kept more of his campaign promises than any other president is Trump.

He specifically promised he knew nothing about this. Whoops.

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52 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

So when does the recession hit? Lotta people predicting late april, early may

Takes three consecutive months of negative growth for a technical recession I think. So depends on this month. If it starts now then in May it would be recognized.

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12 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

 

Heh. I did have this thought that ultimately we are going to rehire all the posts DOGE fired and restore all the departments they cut just much more expensive and less efficient. Because that is just how it always seems to go with these efficiency schemes.

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1 minute ago, Valmy77 said:

Heh. I did have this thought that ultimately we are going to rehire all the posts DOGE fired and restore all the departments they cut just much more expensive and less efficient. Because that is just how it always seems to go with these efficiency schemes.

They will more efficiently funnel our money into the oligarchs pocketbooks.

 

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4 hours ago, The Hot Dog Buffet said:

I just have a really hard time believing that someone with the ability to spend $5 million would want to spend that to move here. I'm looking at places that offer golden visas so I can move out. This isn't a very affordable place to retire and we have other, much cheaper options if you are young and looking to move here to make money.

I looked it up.  Assuming the investment requirements remain the same (low-income areas, job production quotas), the "fee" goes from a current $1M to $5M.  Seems mostly Chinese have been applying for it, ostensibly as a hedge against a CCP crackdown (in China or TW).

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15 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

Heh. I did have this thought that ultimately we are going to rehire all the posts DOGE fired and restore all the departments they cut just much more expensive and less efficient. Because that is just how it always seems to go with these efficiency schemes.

Yeah, that's even what happened during Clinton-Gore.  Actually, the people were rehired in the private sector where government functions were outsourced.

And that was a measured, rational effort to reduce the federal workforce.  I bet it cost us, both monetarily and in quality of service.

I used to be a critic of government, but as has been pointed out relentlessly, efficiency can't be an end unto itself in government, as it can in the for-profit private sector, and the government does a pretty decent job overall given the competing stakeholders.

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25 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

I looked it up.  Assuming the investment requirements remain the same (low-income areas, job production quotas), the "fee" goes from a current $1M to $5M.  Seems mostly Chinese have been applying for it, ostensibly as a hedge against a CCP crackdown (in China or TW).

Trump says he's going to sell 5 million of these and pay off the national debt using the $25 trillion that raises. How many millions of them are we selling at the $1M price?

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Posted
1 hour ago, InkaUtexas said:

People are pissed off when they cannot take little Jimmy to visit the gator swamp fun land near Ocala.

Fuck that, gators creep me out.

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Reports coming out of the latest memo on staffing. Two sections were interesting.

The plans should be grounded in the principles of ensuring "better service" for Americans, "increased productivity," a "reduced real property footprint" and a "reduced budget," the memo said.

That second part of the plan should include "any proposed relocations of agency bureaus and offices from Washington, D.C. and the National Capital Region to less-costly parts of the country," it said.

Few things come to mind.

1- There are going to be some pissed off developers in NCR.

2- Lot of real estate out in suburban NCR is going to take a hit.

3- Contractors are already out there. But the reduced budget is going to hit any overhead.

4- This is, nor ever was, designed to make people come into the office.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-administration-tells-federal-agencies-make-plans-large-scale-lay-rcna193850

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News link. SMH, that is twice I left that out.
Posted
55 minutes ago, troph said:

Takes three consecutive months of negative growth for a technical recession I think. So depends on this month. If it starts now then in May it would be recognized.

If there's anyone who can cram three months of utter shittiness into one month, it's Trump.  Don't doubt his abilities.

Posted
1 hour ago, GreenspointTexas said:

So when does the recession hit? Lotta people predicting late april, early may

The Trumpublican play would be to declare that we’re in a recession right now and to repeat that message over and over and over again on every media platform along with a warning that a depression is coming just around the corner 

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7 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Reports coming out of the latest memo on staffing. Two sections were interesting.

The plans should be grounded in the principles of ensuring "better service" for Americans, "increased productivity," a "reduced real property footprint" and a "reduced budget," the memo said.

That second part of the plan should include "any proposed relocations of agency bureaus and offices from Washington, D.C. and the National Capital Region to less-costly parts of the country," it said.

Few things come to mind.

1- There are going to be some pissed off developers in NCR.

2- Lot of real estate out in suburban NCR is going to take a hit.

3- Contractors are already out there. But the reduced budget is going to hit any overhead.

4- This is, nor ever was, designed to make people come into the office.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-administration-tells-federal-agencies-make-plans-large-scale-lay-rcna193850

Moving feds out of NCR to red states (this is the plan) is going to be a sort of poison pill because it will turn red districts blue in a hurry. 

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he's high

hnwi: assets above domicile US$1M

vhnwi: +US$5M

neither of the above are customers

uhnwi: +$US$30M

there is no category for +$US10M which would be the beginning of the customer zone

anyone that with that much money doesn't need a us passport to buy property and hang out here as much as they want

the only customers that can afford this AND might want to do it are chinese and russian

but for shitsgiggles in 2023 here's the uhnwi

image.png.8913d4a3a1ead06267ed793a0ea21a86.png

the russians don't even make the list

let's say half of the chinese can get liquid to buy the wonkabar

5m x 50k = 250 billion

nice try shitgibbon - you ain't netting jack from this

just for grins:

image.png.06e2d9515ef7cf25920b4d47abbbd03c.png

last year we had 3800 customer at the $1m price tag

the top 5 countries had ~20k customers

you are going to raise the price by 500% and voila! customer demand will ExPlOdE bY 5000% !!!!!

abracadabra

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1 minute ago, Hagbard Celine said:

nice try shitgibbon - you ain't netting jack from this

Yes he is.  He's getting more wealthy people who are beholden to him, who will reward him with money and the keys to power.

That's all this is a play for.  It has ZERO to do with deficit reduction.  It is about Trump getting the wealthy of the world to coalesce under his flag to gorge to obesity on the common target: the United States and its people.

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11 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Moving feds out of NCR to red states (this is the plan) is going to be a sort of poison pill because it will turn red districts blue in a hurry. 

hehehe, a lot already moved. And you are correct. But if you fire the existing ones, move the office to red state, then rehire for efficiency, well double bonus points.

7D chess only Elon can understand without the help of AI.

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1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

Yes he is.  He's getting more wealthy people who are beholden to him, who will reward him with money and the keys to power.

That's all this is a play for.  It has ZERO to do with deficit reduction.  It is about Trump getting the wealthy of the world to coalesce under his flag to gorge to obesity on the common target: the United States and its people.

the rest of the planet are not maga cult - they are not falling for the banana in the tailpipe

Posted
1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

Yes he is.  He's getting more wealthy people who are beholden to him, who will reward him with money and the keys to power.

That's all this is a play for.  It has ZERO to do with deficit reduction.  It is about Trump getting the wealthy of the world to coalesce under his flag to gorge to obesity on the common target: the United States and its people.

Yep, and this is global. Arabs who like peace in Gaza? Most. Arabs who want it to be a new Dubai? The rich arabs who are tired of Dubai.

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26 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Reports coming out of the latest memo on staffing. Two sections were interesting.

The plans should be grounded in the principles of ensuring "better service" for Americans, "increased productivity," a "reduced real property footprint" and a "reduced budget," the memo said.

That second part of the plan should include "any proposed relocations of agency bureaus and offices from Washington, D.C. and the National Capital Region to less-costly parts of the country," it said.

Few things come to mind.

1- There are going to be some pissed off developers in NCR.

2- Lot of real estate out in suburban NCR is going to take a hit.

3- Contractors are already out there. But the reduced budget is going to hit any overhead.

4- This is, nor ever was, designed to make people come into the office.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-administration-tells-federal-agencies-make-plans-large-scale-lay-rcna193850

They're going to end up selling government land for cheap to themselves and then leasing it back to the government. This is a classic PE bust out. 

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3 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

the rest of the planet are not maga cult - they are not falling for the banana in the tailpipe

They don't have to GAF about MAGA.

Can they come here, and fleece/grift the American people, either through their own enterprises or favorable concessions from the US Government* (* a wholly owned subsidiary of TrumpCo)?  That's what matters.  They'll give DJT whatever support he wants in order to line up to drain the blood from the US into their own coffers.  "What's that?  You want me to fuck over all the people in area X that voted against you, to punish their disloyalty?  Consider it done."  A mob boss doesn't do the dirty work himself.  He creates and gathers a group of people and enterprises who are beholden to him for their continued and growing prosperity, and then they'll do whatever he wants them to do.

Again, there are no original plays here.  He's running time-honored plays that work.

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Posted
1 hour ago, troph said:

Takes three consecutive months of negative growth for a technical recession I think. So depends on this month. If it starts now then in May it would be recognized.

 

Recession: When Bad Times Prevail

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Calling a recession

There is no official definition of recession, but there is general recognition that the term refers to a period of decline in economic activity. Very short periods of decline are not considered recessions. Most commentators and analysts use, as a practical definition of recession, two consecutive quarters of decline in a country’s real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP)—the value of all goods and services a country produces. Although this definition is a useful rule of thumb, it has drawbacks. A focus on GDP alone is narrow, and it is often better to consider a wider set of measures of economic activity to determine whether a country is indeed suffering a recession. Using other indicators can also provide a timelier gauge of the state of the economy.

In the United States, the private National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), which maintains a chronology of the beginning and ending dates of U.S. recessions, uses a broader definition and considers a number of measures of activity to determine the dates of recessions. The NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee defines a recession as “a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in production, employment, real income, and other indicators. A recession begins when the economy reaches a peak of activity and ends when the economy reaches its trough.” Consistent with this definition, the Committee focuses on a comprehensive set of measures—including not only GDP, but also employment, income, sales, and industrial production—to analyze the trends in economic activity.

 

Posted
49 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Yeah, that's even what happened during Clinton-Gore.  Actually, the people were rehired in the private sector where government functions were outsourced.

And that was a measured, rational effort to reduce the federal workforce.  I bet it cost us, both monetarily and in quality of service.

I used to be a critic of government, but as has been pointed out relentlessly, efficiency can't be an end unto itself in government, as it can in the for-profit private sector, and the government does a pretty decent job overall given the competing stakeholders.

The thing is that the GOP and thus America has the soul of a car dealer. Rent-seeking, grasping, anti-competitive, dependent on stacked decks, and convinced that they were born on third because of their innate talent and competence. 
 

The car dealer is the American feudal lord or nobility.  The car dealer is given a territory which he possesses and which is inheritable, a larger lord may buy his right or marry into it but the peasantry can’t purchase an RMA.  The great houses only get bigger, the minor nobles only shrink, the bloodline only becomes more incestuous. It is inherently rent-seeking and is extractive, neither the manufacturer or client receives a benefit and the car dealer’s position is ultimately secured by the government. And yet the car dealer believes their little fiefdom and the rents they pay extract are the essence of the free market. 
 

Imagine an entire economy and government with the mentality of the grubbiest Hyundai dealer in a mid-major metropolitan area.  That’s what we have. 

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Posted
13 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Imagine an entire economy and government with the mentality of the grubbiest Hyundai dealer in a mid-major metropolitan area.  That’s what we have. 

You just managed to besmirch mid-major area car dealers.  Because I assure you, our American character is much, much worse.

Posted
13 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

The car dealer is the American feudal lord or nobility.  

Can a car dealer claim prima nocte?  Asking for a friend considering a career change.

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Posted
16 minutes ago, softlynow said:

thank you I was thinking it was 3 quarters but that seems excessive then I thought well if it's 3 it must be months. shoulda looked. 2 consecutive quarters ... well, either way I won't be surprised if the pain goes up and people say it's our duty to endure.

Posted
9 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Percentage of each state's federal vs. state Medicaid funding.  Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi etc ... are about to be in a world of hurt.

https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/federalstate-share-of-spending/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel={"colId":"Location","sort":"asc"}

Rural hospitals are going to close in every state. They are very hard to keep open, even with Medicaid funding.

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