What happened to all of the doom and gloom economic threads?

[koalabear]

Yes this is 100% correct. Vetteman, Rightfield, Koala, Miles, Ishmael, Busy, Jen, and every other Lit rightie do not make negative comments.

I'm rubber and you are glue, what you say to me bounces off me and sticks to you. nananananana

 

[cebalrai]

I'm rubber and you are glue, what you say to me bounces off me and sticks to you. nananananana

Liberal!

 

[koalabear]

14 grocery staples getting costlier

http://money.msn.com/saving-money/14-grocery-staples-getting-costlier-kiplinger.aspx

 

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[mercury14]

14 grocery staples getting costlier

http://money.msn.com/saving-money/14-grocery-staples-getting-costlier-kiplinger.aspx

A drop in the bucket compared to people's rising health care and utility costs...

 

[eyer]

Friggin' refills on fountain drinks at the nearest convenience store went up 59.3% today, from .81 to 1.29...

...why does this thread bring to mind gay flag football in the nude?

 

[koalabear]

A drop in the bucket compared to people's rising health care and utility costs...

Yeah, people don't need to eat. Moron.

 

[mercury14]

Yeah, people don't need to eat. Moron.

Which keeps people from eating more - the cost of heating a house through winter in Wisconsin, health care costs of each family member rising exponentially, or your .5% increase in the food index that makes every $2.00 loaf of bread cost $2.01?

 

[koalabear]

Which keeps people from eating more - the cost of heating a house through winter in Wisconsin, health care costs of each family member rising exponentially, or your .5% increase in the food index that makes every $2.00 loaf of bread cost $2.01?

It's not winter is it. Go back to using outdated moody posts. Moron.

 

[mercury14]

It's not winter is it. Go back to using outdated moody posts. Moron.

Your points are always pathetically easy to crush with facts. And your comebacks constantly bail out from answering the question, change the subject, or outright backpedal.



Sigh, fine. Look at rising utility costs year-round. You have no point. You never do. Keep yappin' though.

 

[koalabear]

Your points are always pathetically easy to crush with facts. And your comebacks constantly bail out from answering the question, change the subject, or outright backpedal.



Sigh, fine. Look at rising utility costs year-round. You have no point. You never do. Keep yappin' though.

and once again you have said nothing. Moron. You attempt to change food prices to winter temps. Ignorant Moron.

 

[mercury14]

and once again you have said nothing. Moron. You attempt to change food prices to winter temps. Ignorant Moron.

Please show your math that proves that a .5% increase in the prices of some foods is a greater amount than the rising cost of medical care and utility bills. We all know you have no use for things like proof, evidence, or math and that you would never respond to this post with anything that backs your assertion. You're good for a laugh though.

 

[busybody..]

A drop in the bucket compared to people's rising health care and utility costs...

speakin of MORON

you do know HUSSEIN OBAMA said energy prices would skyrocket under him, RIGHT?

you do know, EVERYONE said when he passed his "health care bill" rates would skyrocket right?

I KNOW

LETS BLAME BUSH!

 

[busybody..]

No one invests in NIGGEROMICKS! Exceppt MOODYS

America's Troubling Investment Gap
For the first time in decades, America is on net losing, not attracting, growth capital. .


In June, President Obama celebrated a rare sliver of good economic news: Foreign investment was up 49% last year over 2009. The president says that this boost in capital shipped to the U.S. by international companies or foreign investors leads to more businesses and higher-paying jobs here at home. He's right.

But this isn't the economic success story that the White House is spinning. The real truth of the recession and limping recovery is that for the first time in decades America is, on net, losing, not attracting, growth capital. That may be the single most important explanation for persistently high unemployment and stagnant wages.

It is true that foreign direct investment rose to $236 billion in 2010 from $159 billion in 2009. But that was still well below the $310 billion invested in 2008. The White House also neglected to disclose that in the first quarter of 2011 foreign investment fell by 51% from the first quarter of last year, according to data released last month from the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis. Foreigners of late have not found the U.S. to be a receptive, high-return home for investment.

Much more worrisome is that Americans are taking their investment dollars abroad at a faster pace than foreigners are bringing capital to these shores. In 2010, for example, U.S. investment abroad was $351 billion—$115 billion higher than foreign investment here. Economic recoveries are periods when investment capital usually surges into a country, but since this weakling rebound began in the middle of 2009 the U.S. has lost more than $200 billion in investment capital. That is the equivalent of about two million jobs that don't exist on these shores and are now located in places like China, Germany and India.

This is a recent and dramatic reversal of fortune. Huge net inflows of productive capital into the U.S. in the 1980s and '90s helped finance the 25-year boom in jobs and broad-based prosperity from 1982-2007. Over that period, foreigners invested just over $6 trillion more in the U.S. (in total capital) than Americans invested abroad, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, with most of it going into businesses.

.That tidal wave of funds provided the capital to finance new American companies, while increasing the value of other assets, such as real estate. It also underwrote new factories owned by foreign companies like Honda. All of this investment contributed mightily to the 35 million new jobs in the 1980s and '90s. By 2008, the average job created with foreign investment paid $71,000 a year, about 30% above the U.S. average, according to a report issued in June by the White House Council of Economic Advisers, "U.S. Inbound Foreign Direct Investment."

So why did the investors put their money in the U.S. in those years? We'd say it was a combination of low tax rates, a strong dollar, low inflation and other free-market reforms. Capital flows to where it is most highly rewarded, and low marginal tax rates on the returns to capital and business income create a gravitational pull on global funds. A strong and stable currency allows businesses to invest in innovation, employees and productivity rather than inflation hedges. It also encourages investors to wait longer to cash in their profits without worrying about the losses of a depreciating dollar. In the high-tax, high-inflation 1970s, the U.S. was a net exporter of risk-taking capital. As we are now.

That's only part of the story behind the disappointing recovery we now face. To be sure, foreigners still park a huge amount of money in this country, but in the last several years they've shifted their investment toward U.S. Treasury securities and government-guaranteed bonds, and away from the private-sector staples—corporate bonds, intellectual property, ownership of businesses—that create sustainable jobs. Since 2009, foreigners have invested just over $1 trillion in U.S. Treasury bonds, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Some economists argue that investing in low-interest-rate government bonds works fine for America because it allows the government to boost spending on programs—the latest doozies are windmills, high-speed rail and 99 weeks of unemployment benefits. The low interest rates, this argument goes, prove there is no negative "crowding out" from America's near $1.5 trillion deficit.

That misses the point. To produce rapid growth, most capital must be allocated by markets. The effect of $4.5 trillion of borrowing since 2009 is that foreigners and Americans are buying Treasury bills instead of investing in the next Google, Oracle, Wal-Mart or biomedical company. Today, foreigners are financing food stamps and the next bridge to nowhere while Americans are building state-of-the-art production systems abroad. This is the real pernicious "crowding out effect" of the federal government's borrowing.

The free flow of capital across borders is unquestionably a positive sum game for everyone—in the same way free trade is—but the U.S. can only retain its status as a high-wage dynamic economy if we are enticing capital for new operations to these shores. The U.S. is still by far the world leader in the cumulative stock of foreign investment, which now stands at some $3.3 trillion. But the composition of that investment is tilting toward government securities.

Meanwhile, the best related measure of our competitiveness as a nation—the balance of foreign direct investment into the U.S. versus the investment capital going abroad—is a red flag.

Mr. Malpass is president of Encima Global. Mr. Moore is senior economics writer for the Wall Street Journal editorial page.

 

[busybody..]

Hey DUMMY POON!

I reprint for those that dont yet realize what a pathetic piece of shit you are


Quote:
Originally Posted by Frisco_Slug_Esq
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/...ob_576014.html


And oh, yeah, this is going to the Doom and Gloom thread...

That and the stupidity of the ECB.

DUMMY POON RESPONDS

It's... an opinion piece. Also this is ancient news that's already been posted many times. Neither of these facts will stop you from getting another anti-stimulus hard-on though.

There you have it folks

A report based on the Presidents own people's words

That came out THIS PAST FRIDAY

Is called ancient NEWS by DUMMY POON

Yet he clings BITTERLY to a so called report of MORE THAN a YEAR AGO

and holds it up as gospel

​

POON LOON

You are a disturbed piece of shit!​

And a MASSIVE ASSHOLE TO BOOT!​

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

So, you're saying that you're just "Biden" your time until you get more "patriots" rallied to your cause?

How many do you need before you act? Please let me in on the plan...

Are meemee and veteman in on this, or will you just kill the old and the weak once the revolution gets started?

What about people with glasses?

Why won't you answer the questions?

I see, and suspected all along that the root cause of your initial remark was that, as Michele Bachmann put it, all you see is toothless Hillbillies whose thinking is limited to guns, Gawd and violence and I think that in your circle there is a lusting for some violence to give you all the ammunition and validation that your ilk needs for a violent crackdown on the illiteracy of the right; you're gonna git sum miahnds Wright...

*spit*
__________________
Barry Says: You have that one nailed A_J!
http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/files/2011/04/obama-wide-grin80.jpg

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

This has to do with the pretend revolution that people like AJ and veteman play out in their heads every morning before jerking off. It doesn't have anything to do with Obama. Try to keep up.

Yes, you are thinking that we think to violence, but you are wrong inasmuch as it will only be a last resort and only as self-defense once the Left has decided that it discerns sufficient (imagined) provocation...

We think in terms of winning the discussion of the day, not in cat-calls, shouting, ascription and name-calling.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

So after you get done bitching about Libertarian judge Walker ruling that the government should permit citizens to marry who they want, you turn around and give people like him your money?

The vast majority of Libertarians are pro-choice baby killers. How much money do you contribute to their cause?

Most are pro drug legalization. How much funding do they get from you?

So now you want to change the subject and go on the offense.

I'll counter that with a little Moody's Blues:

Portugal's long term bonds have now achieved junk-bond status...

http://www.moodys.com/research/Mood...utlook-from?lang=en&cy=global&docid=PR_222043

It's not IF Greece will default, it's WHEN.
__________________
I'm Hungary for some French-fried €PIIGS!
A_J, the Incredulous

 

[busybody..]

did you read that TURBO TAX TIMMY

shit all over Argentina in 2003 for doing what HE/US/NIGGAHO! is doing now?


HIPPO

CREEP

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

14 grocery staples getting costlier

http://money.msn.com/saving-money/14-grocery-staples-getting-costlier-kiplinger.aspx

I do the shopping at our home because I do the cooking (cuts down on trips to the hospital and calls to the volunteer fire department). The Queen picked up some groceries for me since she had a three-day holiday and wanted to go "stimulate" the economy. The prices shell-shocked her.

But there's no inflation going on, the stimulus worked, cash for clunkers made the planet safer, and Obama is going to win in a landslide because employment, that silly lagging indicator, is going to pick up during next year's "SUMMER OF RECOVERY!"

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

did you read that TURBO TAX TIMMY

shit all over Argentina in 2003 for doing what HE/US/NIGGAHO! is doing now?


HIPPO

CREEP

He's just not tall enough to see the big picture...

Of course in HIS part of the world, no one is feeling any pain (Sung to the tune of "Shared Sacrifice Skin in the Game Blues"):

This crowd is being paid a total of $37,121,463 this year. That's up seven staff members and nearly $4 million from 2008, the last year of George W. Bush's presidency.

Fully 141 Obama aides -- or nearly one-in-three -- earn more than $100,000 a year. That's also up from the 130 with that scale salary in Bush's last year.

Twenty-one Obama aides earn the top-dollar $172,200.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/07/obama-white-house-salaries-soar.html

"How'd HE get elected? No one I know voted for him!"

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Please show your math that proves that a .5% increase in the prices of some foods is a greater amount than the rising cost of medical care and utility bills. We all know you have no use for things like proof, evidence, or math and that you would never respond to this post with anything that backs your assertion. You're good for a laugh though.

It's never a big deal, just a little here, just a little there, most of them are gonners so they won't feel much...

Thenardier14: Master of the Tax

But lock up your valises
Jesus! Won't I skin you to the bone!

Enter Monsieur, lay down your load
Unlace your boots, rest from the road
This weighs a ton, travel's a curse
But here we strive to lighten your purse
Here the goose is cooked
Here the fat is fried
And nothing's overlooked
Till I'm satisfied

Food beyond compare. Food beyond belief
Mix it in a mincer and pretend it's beef
Kidney of a horse, liver of a cat
Filling up the sausages with this and that
Residents are more than welcome
Bridal suite is occupied
Reasonable charges
Plus some little extras on the side!

Charge 'em for the lice, extra for the mice
Two percent for looking in the mirror twice
Here a little slice, there a little cut
Three percent for sleeping with the window shut
When it comes to fixing prices
There are a lot of tricks he knows
How it all increases, all them bits and pieces
Jesus! It's amazing how it grows!

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

As far as utilities going up, that was a campaign promise, but hey it's only a wee, tiny little bit, not at all going to hurt the poor and the middle class, [tone=hushed whisper] it only hurts the rich... [/tone]


“I’m just going to be honest with you. There’s not much we can do next week or two weeks from now... If you’re complaining about the price of gas and you’re only getting 8 miles a gallon, you know [laughingly], you might want to think about a trade-in.”
Barack Hussein Obama, the Green Pres__ent (with no id, uh)
April 2011

http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/files/2011/04/obama-wide-grin80.jpg

When I was asked earlier about, uh, the issue of coal. Uhhh, y'know, under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket....
We would put a cap-and-trade system in place, eh, that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else's out there. So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're gonna be charged a huge sum for all that, uh, greenhouse gas that's being emitted.
Barack Hussein Obama
Editorial board meeting, San Francisco Chronicle
January 2008

"How about just tracking down every single person who said drill baby drill and putting them all in prison. Why don’t we do that?"
Alan Grayson

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I do the shopping at our home because I do the cooking (cuts down on trips to the hospital and calls to the volunteer fire department). The Queen picked up some groceries for me since she had a three-day holiday and wanted to go "stimulate" the economy. The prices shell-shocked her.

But there's no inflation going on, the stimulus worked, cash for clunkers made the planet safer, and Obama is going to win in a landslide because employment, that silly lagging indicator, is going to pick up during next year's "SUMMER OF RECOVERY!"

The employment numbers come out on Friday. Florida just fired a few thousand teachers, 2000 space workers, and 1300 state employees. Thank you Jesus! none of the affected workers were administrators.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

The employment numbers come out on Friday. Florida just fired a few thousand teachers, 2000 space workers, and 1300 state employees. Thank you Jesus! none of the affected workers were administrators.

That was one of the fine points in "We the Living;" as the pie shrank, the party kept engaging in purges so the top could keep its slice of pie intact...