No, the Trump economy wasn't better
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 01/18/2024 - 11:16amJust to be clear, I didn't vote for Biden in 2020 and I won't be voting for him in 2024.
But I hate partisan bullsh*t a lot more.
Unemployment
economy
Doom Loop: San Francisco
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 06/13/2023 - 3:35pm
It's looking like all of San Francisco's past sins are about to come back and haunt them.
More randomness
Submitted by doh1304 on Fri, 05/26/2023 - 3:43amUkraine - Didn't anyone at the Pentagon think it was funny when the Ukrainians asked for targeting coordinates for the Kremlin? Or how they are always saying they don't have enough ammunition, but they always have enough to lob something at a hospital or a market or a school?
Wasn't Russia's economy supposed to be crushed?
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 11/02/2022 - 3:38pmCrushing Russia's economy was supposed to be one of the top goals of the western agenda.
It looks like they lost that bet.
Paul Krugman says inflation is over
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 07/09/2022 - 6:02pmColumnist Paul Krugman says that you can relax now. The inflation problem is over.
SWEEEDEN Redux, again.
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sun, 08/22/2021 - 1:21pmWe see and hear selected news bits about and/or from Sweden at non-periodic intervals as fits various narratives. Thanks to Boing-Boing I found this article today. I'm pretty much just providing the information without comment, in part because I wont be here after 10:00 and don't want to post this before that because weekly watch is up and, as always, deserves attention and primacy. At any rate:
The Chinese dragon is kicking America's ass
Submitted by CB on Tue, 03/23/2021 - 5:00am
and I doubt it can be slowed let alone reversed.
This is what is going on with the economy (simplified)
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 12/29/2020 - 11:30pmHave you wondered why the stock market has gone crazy, while the real economy slumps? Why the rich are getting so much richer, while the poor are getting so much poorer?
Oh, sure. There's plenty of fraud in this rigged economy, but how is it rigged?
This last question I can answer (from a bird's eye view).
The economy is expected to crash this fall
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 06/15/2020 - 4:27pmThis CNBC 'apocalypse' headline was renamed to be less scary. The previous headline was 'tsunami of evictions'.
We live in a bureaucracy (not capitalism, not democracy)
Submitted by disrael on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 4:58amI'm new here and very grateful for the step up in intelligence this site has over DKos. However on economics and politics I'm puzzled by the number of very well written and researched essays that take our living in a capitalist or democratic country as a starting point.
Some points on that:
