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

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I think you're reading into what I posted what you want to. This is nothing new for you. Neither is the attempt to take this to a personal level despite your professed disdain for such behavior. I don't think you know who I work for or what their attitude toward their customer base is.. But that won't stop you from trying to take a personal shot will it Cap'n Hypocrite?

They don't hate the customer, they need them. More realistically they need their money. No company will last that's actively out to screw over their entire customer base, but that doesn't mean that they actually care about the individual consumer beyond making them just happy enough to keep spending. If they can increase profits without noticeably pissing off their customer base too badly, or the increased profit compensates for the loss in business caused by pissing off some of their base, they will tend to do so.

Given the choice of raking in more profit or passing along the windfall from reduced corporate taxes to the customer in the form of reduced prices, profit will win out the vast majority of the time.

You seem to assume that corporations are somehow going to develop an altruistic streak and pass up increased profit margins for their shareholders in order to reduce prices for the customers they care so much about. That simply is not the case, especially if the increased profit does not cause an increase in price to the consumer, the few companies that would do so are the exception, not the rule.

No, not an altruistic streak, a competitive survival streak.

Have you never run a company?

I have...
 
You know, that's what I get for listening to the experts who think Obama's too big to fail...




Fox news is reporting June down 1%.



But, they lie...



Wright?
 
You know, that's what I get for listening to the experts who think Obama's too big to fail...




Fox news is reporting June down 1%.



But, they lie...



Wright?

You're going to have to elaborate since I'm not privy to the conversation going on in your head.

What is down 1% in June?
FauxNews viewership? Palin's speaking fees? Glenn Beck's kickbacks from the Goldline scam artists?

Help me out here.
 
You're going to have to elaborate since I'm not privy to the conversation going on in your head.

What is down 1% in June?
FauxNews viewership? Palin's speaking fees? Glenn Beck's kickbacks from the Goldline scam artists?

Help me out here.

Quoted for my own amusement. *insert mandatory U_D rolleyes*
 
No, not an altruistic streak, a competitive survival streak.

Have you never run a company?

I have...

I have. Or more accurately I do.

Competitive survival is only true if your competition goes for it and also if you don't have a loyal customer base or if people tend to shop around for whatever you do. It doesn't hurt if there is a tacit agreement not to go below a certain price. You know like the cereal companies (and likely the diamond/jewelry companies)

It also has much to do you with your bussiness model and a lot of other crap.
 
Federal Debt and the Risk of a Fiscal Crisis
July 27, 2010

Economic and Budget Issue Brief

Summary

Over the past few years, U.S. government debt held by the public has grown rapidly—to the point that, compared with the total output of the economy, it is now higher than it has ever been except during the period around World War II. The recent increase in debt has been the result of three sets of factors: an imbalance between federal revenues and spending that predates the recession and the recent turmoil in financial markets, sharply lower revenues and elevated spending that derive directly from those economic conditions, and the costs of various federal policies implemented in response to the conditions.

Further increases in federal debt relative to the nation’s output (gross domestic product, or GDP) almost certainly lie ahead if current policies remain in place. The aging of the population and rising costs for health care will push federal spending, measured as a percentage of GDP, well above the levels experienced in recent decades. Unless policymakers restrain the growth of spending, increase revenues significantly as a share of GDP, or adopt some combination of those two approaches, growing budget deficits will cause debt to rise to unsupportable levels.

http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=11659



We should probably cut taxes and increase the deficit even more.
 
We should probably cut taxes and increase the deficit even more.

No, we should raise taxes. A lot. That will bring in just the sort of revenue we need...

We should aggressively go after all accrued wealth, beginning with the political class.

We should, in effect eliminate the class known as "rich" and use the proceeds to elevate the poor to the middle class and eliminated all taxes on the middle-class. Doesn't that sound about right to you?
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You loot the private sector, strip every dollar of 40¢ for overhead, and then give the other 60¢ to your political base in order to revitalize the looted.

What's not to like about that plan?

A_J, the Stupid
 
Durable Goods projected to be up 1% this morning!




Wow, looks like I was wrong about Obama, endless spending and debt.


He really does know how to grow an economy...




My bad...

You know, that's what I get for listening to the experts who think Obama's too big to fail...




Fox news is reporting June down 1%.



But, they lie...



Wright?

You're going to have to elaborate since I'm not privy to the conversation going on in your head.

What is down 1% in June?
FauxNews viewership? Palin's speaking fees? Glenn Beck's kickbacks from the Goldline scam artists?

Help me out here.

I can't help people who fucking refuse to read before they fucking post...

Quit treating me like Arizona...

Financial reform...

Health Care...
 
I can't help people who fucking refuse to read before they fucking post...

Quit treating me like Arizona...

Financial reform...

Health Care...

And you point out that you contradicted yourself from one post to the next.. Nice.

In one post: Durable goods are up 1%
In the next: June is down 1%.

Someone isn't reading what they post, that's for damned sure. But I'm supposed to divine the connection going on in your head?

Get back to me when you can keep a train of thought on track willya?
 
You still didn't read them you dumb fuck...





Try listening to your moving lips this time and understand what I was highlighting.

The optimism of the Marxist experts the press relies upon vs. the reality of Marxist economic theory that ya'll just can't seem to accept.
 
You still didn't read them you dumb fuck...

Try listening to your moving lips this time and understand what I was highlighting.

The optimism of the Marxist experts the press relies upon vs. the reality of Marxist economic theory that ya'll just can't seem to accept.

I'm not the one with a known reading deficiency Cap'n. You said druable goods are up in one post and that June is down in the next. When I asked for clarification you get all upset and huff at me. You sound like my 12 year old when he can't explain himself.

You still wouldn't know a Marxist if old Karl dug his way out of his grave and feasted on your brains.
 
It's called a setup. I knew damned good and well they had dropped when I posted the first part. You need to slow down and comprehend what's actually going on, like in the other thread where you just went off on an ignorant rant where you "divined" my opinion of the the ether...
 
It's called a setup. I knew damned good and well they had dropped when I posted the first part. You need to slow down and comprehend what's actually going on, like in the other thread where you just went off on an ignorant rant where you "divined" my opinion of the the ether...

Once again, I'm not responsible for the contents of your head (thank whatever Gods you choose). It's your responsibility to make yourself coherent and understandable. We on the outside don't get to hear your inner conversation and getting all upset that your incomprehensible jibberish is questioned just makes you look like even more of a moronic dipshit than usual.

If that's even possible. At this point I think you're breaking new ground every day.
 
You keep repeating your excuses for not being able to follow a conversation and eventually, LT will empathize...
 
You keep repeating your excuses for not being able to follow a conversation and eventually, LT will empathize...

You keep refering to the conversation that was going on in your head and eventually someone will commit you.

Two completely disjointed comments by you are not a conversation, unless the other half of that "conversation" was internal. In which case you should probably see about making an appoinment with our resident head shrinker.
 
UD vs. Frisco in the battle of reading non-comprehension and tortured logic, with the occasional insult for good measure.

Who will win? And can we place our bets on "neither"?
 
UD vs. Frisco in the battle of reading non-comprehension and tortured logic, with the occasional insult for good measure.

Who will win? And can we place our bets on "neither"?

I doubt your title as master dissembler and logic torture meister will be assailed anytime soon Firetroll, don't look so glum.
 
I doubt your title as master dissembler and logic torture meister will be assailed anytime soon Firetroll, don't look so glum.

Alas, my mastery is only of the obvious.

I've dared you to find anything in any of my posts that's "dissembling," and you've whiffed. Maybe because there's none to be found, hmmm?

But sure, make baseless accusation. Show us what you're made of.
 
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