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Showing posts with label 2020. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2020. Show all posts
2020/10/01
The "V" shaped recovery
is going to turn into a very extended "w" soon, IMO.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-30/airlines-near-50-000-job-cuts-as-american-united-feel-squeeze
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-30/disney-shell-cuts-mark-warning-sign-for-global-economic-rebound
https://www.businessinsider.com/kpmg-layoffs-1400-employees-professional-services-struggle-job-cuts-2020-9
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/will-white-collar-layoffs-short-circuit-recovery-morning-brief-101027523.html
2020/09/29
Trump is a Security Risk
Many have been saying this for years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-taxes-national-security-compromise/2020/09/28/3116b096-01b5-11eb-897d-3a6201d6643f_story.html
2020/08/21
Banon Busted
This.....
https://www.wired.com/story/steve-bannon-charged-border-wall-gofundme-gone-bad
Is great. One of the 2016 conmen shows true colors. Were is the wall?
2020/08/18
save the mail
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/opinion/trump-us-mail.html
As the mail-in voting crisis has erupted, some of the usual suspects on the right have taken to denouncing the Postal Service as a bad, money-losing business. But the founders didn’t put the postal clause in the Constitution because they saw it as a business opportunity; the Postal Service was supposed to serve broader national goals — and it still does.
2020/08/14
Giant Repercussions
This will be big.
https://www.wired.com/story/epic-games-sues-apple-fortnite-app-store
Witness requirement removed
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/us/supreme-court-rhode-island-voting.html
C'mon even republicans would not do this:
"The court rejected a request from Republicans to block an order suspending a requirement that witnesses or a notary observe the completion of absentee ballots."
"The Supreme Court’s unsigned order included an explanation, which is unusual when its acts on emergency applications. The case differed from similar ones in which state officials had opposed changes to state laws ordered by federal judges, the order said. “Here the state election officials support the challenged decree,” the order said, “and no state official has expressed opposition.”"
2020/08/07
Government Buys Marketing Data
I know their marketing statements talk about not gathering PII data, but what most don't realize, is that you don't need specific PII data to track someone. You can still identify a person by multiple means when the data set is large enough.
2020/07/30
start your engines
https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/in-the-us-another-financial-bubble-is-about-to-burst-1.1056312
2020/07/14
2020/07/13
I Like the Titanic Reference
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/opinion/trump-coronavirus.html
A normal president and a normal political party would be horrified by this turn of events. They would realize that they made a bad call and that it was time for a major course correction; they would start taking warnings from health experts seriously.
2020/07/06
Extreme Gaslighting
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/505924-judd-gregg-the-coming-biden-coup
Never had I read an article where the author is either to lazy to really did into his opposition, or is just flat out does not care. This whole article is one giant attempt at gas lighting the readers. Let's break this down:
It really gets going when he writes this:
"Promoting and promulgating — not merely accepting — the massive protests that have occurred in some cities, even when they have led to lawlessness, looting, riots and declarations of autonomy."
- yes, because the outcome in one city is what the whole progressive movement is about. Totally wrong on the progressives to demand equal treatment under the law, the end to systemic racism, and an out of control police force.
Next:
"Searching out and destroying unbelievers in pursuit of a politically correct version of history, and doing so with a zeal that would have made Cotton Mather blush."
Kind of sounds like Trump and his loyalty oath.
Then:
"Removing statues of historical figures that are deemed unacceptable based on today’s parameters of social justice."
- Yes, because I am sure Black America really responds to statues of former confederate generals, and do not care to see any of their own history represented in this artistic form.
He calls the progressives a "fanatical group". Which again, just sounds like the small number of trump hold outs left. Look at how fanatical they are, please?
"This is about power. All major elections are."
You are upset that maybe some Democrats have learned the republican lesson from 2010? They are determined to not let that happen again? For a republican to come out and say this is, almost the largest of hypocrisies.
Judd Gregg has his head firmly planted in a dark place, and just refused to remove it.
2020/07/01
2020/05/20
Party like it's 2008
https://www.propublica.org/article/whistleblower-wall-street-has-engaged-in-widespread-manipulation-of-mortgage-funds
6 is a very small number to claim wide spread fraud, but maybe it is enough to take a bigger look???
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ProPublica closely examined six loans that were part of CMBS in recent years to see if their data resembles the pattern described by the whistleblower. What we found matched the allegations: The historical profits reported for some buildings were listed as much as 30% higher than the profits previously reported for the same buildings and same years when the property was part of an earlier CMBS.
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2020/05/14
Populism Round 2.0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/12/pandemic-will-fuel-populism-that-sent-trump-white-house/
The brunt of the damage is not being borne by the elites who work in the information economy but by those at the middle and the bottom of the economic ladder — the forgotten Americans who were finally doing better under President Trump until this crisis arrived. Before the pandemic, the U.S. economy had added a half-million manufacturing jobs and low-wage workers.......
2020/04/30
Jobs situation worse than advertised
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-30/jobs-collapse-is-deeper-than-the-government-says
So, does this mean in reality almost half are unemployed now?
The most recent government data are for mid-March, and report a 72.7% employment rate for 18- to 64-year-olds. As of mid-April, according to RPS, this rate dropped to 55.8%. That stunning 23% decline marks the lowest employment rate for the U.S. since 1962.
So, does this mean in reality almost half are unemployed now?
The most recent government data are for mid-March, and report a 72.7% employment rate for 18- to 64-year-olds. As of mid-April, according to RPS, this rate dropped to 55.8%. That stunning 23% decline marks the lowest employment rate for the U.S. since 1962.
2020/04/28
Don't Listen to me
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-blames-plummeting-poll-numbers-on-people-paying-attention-when-he-talks/amp
This guy is unreal
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Donald J. Trump on Monday blamed his sinking poll numbers on people paying attention when he talks.
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Seriously?
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he said, “There are a lot of people out there who are listening to things I say and basing their opinions on them, and I think it’s very sad.”
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This guy is unreal
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Donald J. Trump on Monday blamed his sinking poll numbers on people paying attention when he talks.
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Seriously?
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he said, “There are a lot of people out there who are listening to things I say and basing their opinions on them, and I think it’s very sad.”
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2020/04/24
Food Chain Strain
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-23/some-canada-hog-farmers-have-culled-pigs-with-prices-in-freefall
Food is going to become a much greater issue in 6 months if this continues.
Food is going to become a much greater issue in 6 months if this continues.
2020/04/15
Not protecting Stimulus
https://prospect.org/coronavirus/unsanitized-mnuchin-knew-banks-coronavirus-checks/
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The payments are going out this week, two weeks after Mnuchin was first informed about the issue. And under the CARES Act, the Treasury Department has the ability to write rules protecting that payment from being taken by financial actors. But Treasury has done nothing of the sort.
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The payments are going out this week, two weeks after Mnuchin was first informed about the issue. And under the CARES Act, the Treasury Department has the ability to write rules protecting that payment from being taken by financial actors. But Treasury has done nothing of the sort.
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2020/04/14
FINALLY
Don't get me wrong I am glad this happened, but why are we praising the press for finally doing their job?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/14/trump-paula-reid-coronavirus-briefing-female-reporters
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