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Re: American Economy Just Went Off the Charts; “Never Before in History”
« Reply #100 on: June 08, 2018, 05:32:00 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on June 08, 2018, 05:29:27 pm
You can fill a tub by peeing in it.  It just takes a while.

It'll fill faster if you drink more beer.
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Re: American Economy Just Went Off the Charts; “Never Before in History”
« Reply #101 on: June 08, 2018, 05:52:47 pm »
Quote from: RoosGirl on June 08, 2018, 05:32:00 pm
It'll fill faster if you drink more beer.

That will speed up the recovery. 
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Re: American Economy Just Went Off the Charts; “Never Before in History”
« Reply #102 on: June 08, 2018, 06:07:47 pm »
Quote from: RoosGirl on June 08, 2018, 05:32:00 pm
It'll fill faster if you drink more beer.
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That will speed up the recovery. 

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Re: American Economy Just Went Off the Charts; “Never Before in History”
« Reply #103 on: June 08, 2018, 06:16:19 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on June 08, 2018, 06:07:47 pm
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Re: American Economy Just Went Off the Charts; “Never Before in History”
« Reply #104 on: June 08, 2018, 06:21:34 pm »
Quote from: RoosGirl on June 08, 2018, 03:21:59 pm
Thank you for making me clarify myself. I am not, and i don't think anyone else is, saying that a lower unemployment rate isn't a great thing. I think the issue is what comes across as a breathless headline, article and some comments here claiming that because of Trump things are off the charts fantastic. The truth is they are better, they had been getting significantly better prior to Trump's election, at least as far as the reported unemployment numbers. But, if you want to be honest about (possibly dishonest) numbers the unemployment rate had already significantly improved while Obama was still in office and there's been a 1% improvement since Trump's election.

I'll say it.  A decrease in the unemployment rate is not necessarily a good thing, and does not necessarily mean that more people are working.  For example,

1) UR (aka UE) only counts employment (or lack thereof), not quality of employment.  40 hours flipping burgers is just as "good" as 40 hours doing brain surgery.  [Note: the latest jobs report showed good news in this regard, with increases in quality jobs]

2) UR only counts those who are looking for work.  If, all other things being equal, a whole bunch of people give up looking, the UR will go down.

3) Lower UR can be an indication of a stagnant economy and people being afraid to change jobs.` Or an economy that is overheating, and therefore, according to a theory that is falling out of favor, may indicate oncoming price inflation.
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Re: American Economy Just Went Off the Charts; “Never Before in History”
« Reply #105 on: June 08, 2018, 06:37:59 pm »
Quote from: Jazzhead on June 08, 2018, 04:23:56 pm
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Re: American Economy Just Went Off the Charts; “Never Before in History”
« Reply #106 on: June 08, 2018, 06:39:41 pm »
Quote from: RoosGirl on June 08, 2018, 05:32:00 pm
It'll fill faster if you drink more beer.

Who the hell can afford beer in the shitty Trump economy?
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Re: American Economy Just Went Off the Charts; “Never Before in History”
« Reply #107 on: June 08, 2018, 06:41:32 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on June 08, 2018, 06:39:41 pm
Who the hell can afford beer in the shitty Trump economy?

Iron City is .99 a six pack.   If you can stomach that wombat piss in a can
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Re: American Economy Just Went Off the Charts; “Never Before in History”
« Reply #108 on: June 08, 2018, 06:56:37 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on June 08, 2018, 06:16:19 pm
And the Teke house.

I learnt a bunch of important things there.  Don't let pledges play poker while drunk on a third-storied roof.   **nononono*
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Re: American Economy Just Went Off the Charts; “Never Before in History”
« Reply #109 on: June 08, 2018, 06:59:25 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on June 08, 2018, 06:56:37 pm
I learnt a bunch of important things there.  Don't let pledges play poker while drunk on a third-storied roof.   **nononono*

Drinking age was 18 back then.  They was legal!   

But yeah it only takes one swan dive to kill a good buzz. :smokin:
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Re: American Economy Just Went Off the Charts; “Never Before in History”
« Reply #110 on: June 08, 2018, 07:06:03 pm »
Quote from: RoosGirl on June 08, 2018, 05:32:00 pm
It'll fill faster if you drink more beer.

Today's TBR physics lesson.
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Re: American Economy Just Went Off the Charts; “Never Before in History”
« Reply #111 on: June 08, 2018, 07:18:34 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on June 08, 2018, 05:29:27 pm
You can fill a tub by peeing in it.  It just takes a while.

Not if you never put the drain plug in.  :shrug:
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Re: American Economy Just Went Off the Charts; “Never Before in History”
« Reply #112 on: June 08, 2018, 08:18:19 pm »
Which, btw, is ill-advised.
If you are peein in the tub, and the drain plug is in, you'll surely catch hell from the ol lady in the morning.

Work that into your economic analysis.
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Re: American Economy Just Went Off the Charts; “Never Before in History”
« Reply #113 on: June 08, 2018, 08:27:31 pm »
Quote from: roamer_1 on June 08, 2018, 08:18:19 pm
Which, btw, is ill-advised.
If you are peein in the tub, and the drain plug is in, you'll surely catch hell from the ol lady in the morning.

Work that into your economic analysis.

That aint ECON.   

That is the study of Scientific Causality! 
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Re: American Economy Just Went Off the Charts; “Never Before in History”
« Reply #114 on: June 08, 2018, 08:40:04 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on June 08, 2018, 08:27:31 pm
That aint ECON.   

That is the study of Scientific Causality!

So many things can be learned from one tub full of pee.
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Re: American Economy Just Went Off the Charts; “Never Before in History”
« Reply #115 on: June 08, 2018, 08:42:07 pm »
Quote from: Lando Lincoln on June 08, 2018, 08:40:04 pm
So many things can be learned from one tub full of pee.

Or one multi-year drunken haze in a Frat house....
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Re: American Economy Just Went Off the Charts; “Never Before in History”
« Reply #116 on: June 08, 2018, 08:47:09 pm »
Quote from: Lando Lincoln on June 08, 2018, 08:40:04 pm
So many things can be learned from one tub full of pee.

Yes yes there is. Just staring at it one can see your past, your present, and your future.  It is a petri dish of life.  A big one.

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Or one multi-year drunken haze in a Frat house....

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Re: American Economy Just Went Off the Charts; “Never Before in History”
« Reply #117 on: June 09, 2018, 05:22:13 am »
Quote from: Wingnut on June 08, 2018, 06:59:25 pm
Drinking age was 18 back then.  They was legal!   

Indeed it was.   Through the fog of memory, it seems like such a special time  - I was a big kid and drinking in bars when I was 16.   Growing up in Connecticut, social life revolved around driving and drinking.  My buddy who went to college in Pennsy had to join a fraternity,  but in Connecticut you just said hi to Mr. Goldhammer at the package store. 

Of course it was all bear whiz;  craft beer hadn't been invented yet and the classy stuff was Genny Cream.   
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Re: American Economy Just Went Off the Charts; “Never Before in History”
« Reply #118 on: June 09, 2018, 02:31:54 pm »
Quote from: Jazzhead on June 09, 2018, 05:22:13 am
Indeed it was.   Through the fog of memory, it seems like such a special time  - I was a big kid and drinking in bars when I was 16. 

Heh... I was buying beer when I was 12. I was big too, but that wasn't it - Everybody knew I worked at the speed shop in the evenings, kinda the sweep-up kid after school... It was not uncommon to see me tuggin a couple cases of beer in a wagon, the block and and half from the B&B back to the speed shop... Probably a couple times a night...

So by the time I got my license at 14, getting beer was never an issue.
Of course, that meant I had to stay in Miller High Life, and later MGD, to avoid suspicion (that was the house brand at the speed shop), but hey...  :shrug:
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Re: American Economy Just Went Off the Charts; “Never Before in History”
« Reply #119 on: June 09, 2018, 08:53:32 pm »


Quote from: Jazzhead on June 09, 2018, 05:22:13 am
Indeed it was.   Through the fog of memory, it seems like such a special time  -

The liberals were so happy with themselves for passing that law.  Well I was too!    I didn't know a Lib from a Conservative back then but I sure as hell loved throwing away all my fake ID's .    It didn't take too long for the carnage numbers started coming in for them to figure out it might not have been such a great Idea to lower the drinking age afterall!...
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