Kamala doesn't know history much less how economics works..

[Nostra]

What do you do? Ask for a raise. It sounds like you're being paid what you are worth.

You dumbassery will not change the fact you are a liar.

Prices did not come down

 

[sealybobo]

You dumbassery will not change the fact you are a liar.

Prices did not come down

Yes it has. In my BLUE state it has. Maybe with a Republican governor who doesn't look out for you, you're getting F'ed in the A?

With inflation continuing to push up the cost of some groceries, Kroger is now trying to fight against high prices—if it’s allowed to take over Albertsons.

The company had already promised to lower prices by half a billion dollars, but now it’s doubling the deal.

MERGER MESS​

The proposed merger of Kroger and Albertsons would create the most significant single grocery store operator in the country.

I love it. Kroger pledges to lower prices (for now) if we let them have a monopoly. LOL.

You do know that Capitalism is just another ISM right?

 

[Nostra]

Yes it has. In my BLUE state it has. Maybe with a Republican governor who doesn't look out for you, you're getting F'ed in the A?

With inflation continuing to push up the cost of some groceries, Kroger is now trying to fight against high prices—if it’s allowed to take over Albertsons.

The company had already promised to lower prices by half a billion dollars, but now it’s doubling the deal.

MERGER MESS​

The proposed merger of Kroger and Albertsons would create the most significant single grocery store operator in the country.

I love it. Kroger pledges to lower prices (for now) if we let them have a monopoly. LOL.

You do know that Capitalism is just another ISM right?

Prices have not come down.

You lied

 

[sealybobo]

Prices have not come down.

You lied

Yea but our pay went up. Sorry your's didn't.

Most workers make about the same as before the pandemic — except in these states​

Montana, New Hampshire and Florida had the highest wage growth since 2019, a Stateline analysis found.​

The typical U.S. worker’s pay is about the same as it was in late 2019, after accounting for inflation. But workers in some states have seen sharply higher earnings, especially in scenic areas that are appealing to remote workers and have labor shortages.

In Montana, for example, average pay has increased 28.3% since before the pandemic, easily beating the roughly 19% national inflation rate during that time. That translates into an average raise of $260 a week to $1,178.

Average pay increased significantly in these states, though some of them had relatively low wages to begin with. They include New Hampshire (wages up 28%), Florida (27.3%), Washington (27.2%), Maine (26.7%), Vermont (26.5%), Utah (25.7%), Arizona (24.8%) and West Virginia (24.6%).

You live in a left behind county?

The map below shows the 972 counties that are classified as left behind. Home to 59 million people, 18 percent of the country’s total population, these counties can be found in nearly every state. The Great Lakes region is conspicuous for having an exceptionally high concentration of left-behind communities, with Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio being the only states where a majority of residents live in such counties.

Left-behind communities are not a monolithic group. They can be rural, urban, or suburban, with diverse underlying causes for their challenges. The important common ground they share is a widening gap between their economic and social well-being and the trajectory of the rest of the country.

Economic Renaissance or Fleeting Recovery? Left-Behind Counties See Boom in Jobs and Businesses Amid Widening Divides

Left-behind counties in the United States have just experienced their strongest two-year period of job creation and business growth since the turn of the 21st century. Despite their vigorous recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic gap between these counties and the rest of...

eig.org

 

[hadit]

get back to me just as soon as she starts talking about airports in the revolution.. if trump ever had a competent economic advisor i'm sure he fired them.

But, but, but I don't wanna talk about Cackles! Please, please, please talk about TRUMP! instead!

 

[Nostra]

Yea but our pay went up. Sorry your's didn't.

Most workers make about the same as before the pandemic — except in these states​

Montana, New Hampshire and Florida had the highest wage growth since 2019, a Stateline analysis found.​

The typical U.S. worker’s pay is about the same as it was in late 2019, after accounting for inflation. But workers in some states have seen sharply higher earnings, especially in scenic areas that are appealing to remote workers and have labor shortages.

In Montana, for example, average pay has increased 28.3% since before the pandemic, easily beating the roughly 19% national inflation rate during that time. That translates into an average raise of $260 a week to $1,178.

Average pay increased significantly in these states, though some of them had relatively low wages to begin with. They include New Hampshire (wages up 28%), Florida (27.3%), Washington (27.2%), Maine (26.7%), Vermont (26.5%), Utah (25.7%), Arizona (24.8%) and West Virginia (24.6%).

You live in a left behind county?

The map below shows the 972 counties that are classified as left behind. Home to 59 million people, 18 percent of the country’s total population, these counties can be found in nearly every state. The Great Lakes region is conspicuous for having an exceptionally high concentration of left-behind communities, with Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio being the only states where a majority of residents live in such counties.

Left-behind communities are not a monolithic group. They can be rural, urban, or suburban, with diverse underlying causes for their challenges. The important common ground they share is a widening gap between their economic and social well-being and the trajectory of the rest of the country.

Economic Renaissance or Fleeting Recovery? Left-Behind Counties See Boom in Jobs and Businesses Amid Widening Divides

Left-behind counties in the United States have just experienced their strongest two-year period of job creation and business growth since the turn of the 21st century. Despite their vigorous recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic gap between these counties and the rest of...

eig.org

Real wages are down under Tater, stupid.

Keep lying.

 

[sealybobo]

Real wages are down under Tater, stupid.

Keep lying.

I just showed you that's not true. Well, not for makers. You must be a taker in a ghetto.

 

[sealybobo]

Real wages are down under Tater, stupid.

Keep lying.

I suspect if you don't laugh you'll cry

Yes, as of August 14, 2024, real wages in the US are up from the previous month and from the previous year:

• Real average hourly earnings: $11.18, up 0.36% from the previous month and 0.81% from the previous year
  
  
  
• Real average weekly earnings: $383.38, up 0.37% from the previous month and 0.53% from the previous year

Real wages are adjusted for inflation. According to the Brookings Institution, real pay has increased since the fourth quarter of 2022, and again since the fourth quarter of 2023. The Minneapolis Fed says that American workers have seen real gains since mid-2023 as inflation has decreased and the labor market has remained strong.

It's almost like you have nothing to run on. Biden's fixed everything.

 

[sealybobo]

Real wages are down under Tater, stupid.

Keep lying.

Your wages are down. You're a coal miner right?

 

[Nostra]

I suspect if you don't laugh you'll cry

Yes, as of August 14, 2024, real wages in the US are up from the previous month and from the previous year:

• Real average hourly earnings: $11.18, up 0.36% from the previous month and 0.81% from the previous year
  
  
  
• Real average weekly earnings: $383.38, up 0.37% from the previous month and 0.53% from the previous year

Real wages are adjusted for inflation. According to the Brookings Institution, real pay has increased since the fourth quarter of 2022, and again since the fourth quarter of 2023. The Minneapolis Fed says that American workers have seen real gains since mid-2023 as inflation has decreased and the labor market has remained strong.

It's almost like you have nothing to run on. Biden's fixed everything.

Tater took office in Jan 2021, not last year, stupid.

 

[healthmyths]

I suspect if you don't laugh you'll cry

Yes, as of August 14, 2024, real wages in the US are up from the previous month and from the previous year:

• Real average hourly earnings: $11.18, up 0.36% from the previous month and 0.81% from the previous year
  
  
  
• Real average weekly earnings: $383.38, up 0.37% from the previous month and 0.53% from the previous year

Real wages are adjusted for inflation. According to the Brookings Institution, real pay has increased since the fourth quarter of 2022, and again since the fourth quarter of 2023. The Minneapolis Fed says that American workers have seen real gains since mid-2023 as inflation has decreased and the labor market has remained strong.

It's almost like you have nothing to run on. Biden's fixed everything.

YOU MADE all of that up! Where is your LINKS? ARE we expected to believe YOU?
Come on do a little research and then bring me the FACTS from reliable sources.

 

[Dragonlady]

Progs endless regulations and interference on those supply chains help to cause problems. The reduction of the price of energy if Trump returns will help. And Prog can only help a little as they are pushing the green energy. Deplorables and some Progs and Independents know that if the Progs win, they will go on Communist legislation hyperdrive come January. In Progs zeal to smear people living in rural areas they conveniently take advantage of the low IQ voters in poor areas and cheat from those and other areas also.

Wrong and wrong. The global market practice of "just in time" ordering, purchasing and delivery caused the supply chain shortages. Under normal economic conditions, the practice functions to reducing non-productive inventories, and the capital costs of maintaining and storing same.

As a simplified example, if you're building a new house, you don't order ALL of the lumber and materials to build the house on Day One of construction. On Day One, you have enough lumber delivered to enable the contractor to pour the footings and foundations, and nothing more. If all of the materials were delivered on Day One. The contractor would have to pay for all of the materials, pay to store them somewhere, and have to worry about theft between the delivery date and the time the material is needed. Theft is a HUGE problem on construction sites.

But you also need to have all of your materials delivered "just in time" for your workers to use them right away, otherwise, the construction will be stalled. Either you have to pay your workers to do nothing, or let them go to another site and hope they'll come back when your goods arrive. Either option costs YOU both time and money.

No extrapolate this out to production of goods using parts/materials from another country, with an ocean in between. And to add the scheduling nightmare all of this was coming out of the pandemic, the USA can add in the gutting of the Department of Commerce and Industry. He customs and border protection agents and inspectors at US ports of entry.

This is why ships couldn't unload at commercial seaports. No one to clear the goods for entry. Given all of those tariiffs Trump slapped on imported goods, SOMEBODY had to be their to enforce his taxes, but Trump fired all of these people. The first thing the Biden Administration had to do when the country re-opened, was to get the ports up and running again, and goods coming into the country, to restock the store shelves, and to provide the parts and raw materials for manufacturing in the USA to get producing again.

Countries outside the USA did have supply chain shortages, but not to the extent that the USA endured, because our ports of entry were all set up to receive our imports, without first having to rehire custom and train new customs agents.

 

[Dragonlady]

Tater took office in Jan 2021, not last year, stupid.

Stupid FuckBoi thinks that the moment someone takes office he merely snaps his fingers and all of the damage done by the lying criminal rapist who ran the nation into the ground over the previous 4 years, just magically disappears.

It takes years and sometimes generations to undo the damage done by one criminally incompentent grifter. Over 1 million people dead. The economy collapsed, and the nation will NEVER be the same after Trump.

 

[surada]

Empty political rhetoric.

There’s a 64% probability that Kamala Harris will win this November’s presidential election, given the stock market’s strong year-to-date performance.

https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/whos-going-to-win-the-presidential-election-the-stock-market-has-a-prediction-ee7e13a5#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17241597754870&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com

 

[sealybobo]

Tater took office in Jan 2021, not last year, stupid.

And thanks to you for defending price gouging. My Kroger stock is UP because you allow it.

From 2019 to 2022, the median net worth of American families jumped 37% to $192,900, after adjusting for inflation. It’s the largest increase ever recorded by the federal Survey of Consumer Finances, released last fall. Surging home values and rising stock ownership fed the surge.

Some of the new numbers are startling. Average household net worth now tops $500,000 for Americans in their late 30s. For late-40-somethings, it exceeds $750,000. For 50-somethings, it reaches seven figures.

If you’re a 50-something and you’re not worth a cool $1 million, AND WE KNOW YOU'RE NOT, do not despair. Those numbers are averages, and the super-rich drive them waaaay up.

 

[healthmyths]

Wrong and wrong. The global market practice of "just in time" ordering, purchasing and delivery caused the supply chain shortages. Under normal economic conditions, the practice functions to reducing non-productive inventories, and the capital costs of maintaining and storing same.

As a simplified example, if you're building a new house, you don't order ALL of the lumber and materials to build the house on Day One of construction. On Day One, you have enough lumber delivered to enable the contractor to pour the footings and foundations, and nothing more. If all of the materials were delivered on Day One. The contractor would have to pay for all of the materials, pay to store them somewhere, and have to worry about theft between the delivery date and the time the material is needed. Theft is a HUGE problem on construction sites.

But you also need to have all of your materials delivered "just in time" for your workers to use them right away, otherwise, the construction will be stalled. Either you have to pay your workers to do nothing, or let them go to another site and hope they'll come back when your goods arrive. Either option costs YOU both time and money.

No extrapolate this out to production of goods using parts/materials from another country, with an ocean in between. And to add the scheduling nightmare all of this was coming out of the pandemic, the USA can add in the gutting of the Department of Commerce and Industry. He customs and border protection agents and inspectors at US ports of entry.

This is why ships couldn't unload at commercial seaports. No one to clear the goods for entry. Given all of those tariiffs Trump slapped on imported goods, SOMEBODY had to be their to enforce his taxes, but Trump fired all of these people. The first thing the Biden Administration had to do when the country re-opened, was to get the ports up and running again, and goods coming into the country, to restock the store shelves, and to provide the parts and raw materials for manufacturing in the USA to get producing again.

Countries outside the USA did have supply chain shortages, but not to the extent that the USA endured, because our ports of entry were all set up to receive our imports, without first having to rehire custom and train new customs agents.

NOT ONE source of expertise! Are you the expert? NOT one link! NOT one substantiation!
Why are you so presumptuous to think we (speaking on behalf of intelligent, knowledgeable people) would believe ONE word you wrote? ZERO!
First of all the Trump tariffs (sometimes referred to in media as the Trump-China trade war) were protectionist trade initiatives during the Trump administration against Chinese imports.

Trump tariffs - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Do you support Chinese extermination of people that make the imports?
China has been accused of committing crimes against humanity and possibly genocide against the Uyghur population and other mostly-Muslim ethnic groups in the north-western region of Xinjiang.

Who are the Uyghurs and why is China being accused of genocide?

China has been accused by the US of genocide and crimes against humanity against the Muslim minority group.

www.bbc.com

FACTS: even the Biden administration kept the tariffs!

Tariff Tracker: Tracking the Economic Impact of Tariffs

The Trump administration imposed nearly $80 billion worth of new taxes on Americans by levying tariffs on thousands of products in 2018 and 2019, amounting to one of the largest tax increases in decades. The Biden administration has kept most of the Trump administration tariffs in place

taxfoundation.org

• The Trump administration imposed nearly $80 billion worth of new taxes on Americans by levying tariffs on thousands of products valued at approximately $380 billion in 2018 and 2019, amounting to one of the largest tax increases in decades.
• The Biden administration has kept most of the Trump administration tariffs in place, and in May 2024, announced tariff hikes on an additional $18 billion of Chinese goods, including semiconductors and electric vehicles, for an additional tax increase of $3.6 billion.

While it is difficult to pin down exact numbers, the tariffs on steel products appear to have helped create several thousand jobs in the steel industry; similarly, tariffs on washing machines are associated with approximately 1,800 new jobs at Whirlpool, Samsung, and LG factories in the US. In these specific industries, then, tariffs have probably been good for workers.

Did Trump’s tariffs benefit American workers and national security?

www.brookings.edu

FACTS so easy to show your stupid personal UNINFORMED comments are totally without accuracy!

 

[sealybobo]

NOT ONE source of expertise! Are you the expert? NOT one link! NOT one substantiation!
Why are you so presumptuous to think we (speaking on behalf of intelligent, knowledgeable people) would believe ONE word you wrote? ZERO!
First of all the Trump tariffs (sometimes referred to in media as the Trump-China trade war) were protectionist trade initiatives during the Trump administration against Chinese imports.

Trump tariffs - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Do you support Chinese extermination of people that make the imports?
China has been accused of committing crimes against humanity and possibly genocide against the Uyghur population and other mostly-Muslim ethnic groups in the north-western region of Xinjiang.

Who are the Uyghurs and why is China being accused of genocide?

China has been accused by the US of genocide and crimes against humanity against the Muslim minority group.

www.bbc.com

FACTS: even the Biden administration kept the tariffs!

Tariff Tracker: Tracking the Economic Impact of Tariffs

The Trump administration imposed nearly $80 billion worth of new taxes on Americans by levying tariffs on thousands of products in 2018 and 2019, amounting to one of the largest tax increases in decades. The Biden administration has kept most of the Trump administration tariffs in place

taxfoundation.org

• The Trump administration imposed nearly $80 billion worth of new taxes on Americans by levying tariffs on thousands of products valued at approximately $380 billion in 2018 and 2019, amounting to one of the largest tax increases in decades.
• The Biden administration has kept most of the Trump administration tariffs in place, and in May 2024, announced tariff hikes on an additional $18 billion of Chinese goods, including semiconductors and electric vehicles, for an additional tax increase of $3.6 billion.

While it is difficult to pin down exact numbers, the tariffs on steel products appear to have helped create several thousand jobs in the steel industry; similarly, tariffs on washing machines are associated with approximately 1,800 new jobs at Whirlpool, Samsung, and LG factories in the US. In these specific industries, then, tariffs have probably been good for workers.

Did Trump’s tariffs benefit American workers and national security?

www.brookings.edu

FACTS so easy to show your stupid personal UNINFORMED comments are totally without accuracy!

Trump and RFK Jr. look for slight or subtle ways they can be different than the rest of the field. So our trade imbalance is one thing they can nit pick about. So Trump ran on it, and had to deliver, or at least try. All he did was try because he didn't win that trade war with China.

BUT, what he did do was only get 2.3% growth in 2019 after that historic tax break he passed. That tax break he passed was supposed to pay off a lot more than 2.3% pal. Obama didn't give away the farm and had 2.2%.

 

[pknopp]

There’s a 64% probability that Kamala Harris will win this November’s presidential election, given the stock market’s strong year-to-date performance.

https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/whos-going-to-win-the-presidential-election-the-stock-market-has-a-prediction-ee7e13a5#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17241597754870&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com

She might win but that doesn't mean her proposals aren't empty rhetoric.

 

[Nostra]

Stupid FuckBoi thinks that the moment someone takes office he merely snaps his fingers and all of the damage done by the lying criminal rapist who ran the nation into the ground over the previous 4 years, just magically disappears.

It takes years and sometimes generations to undo the damage done by one criminally incompentent grifter. Over 1 million people dead. The economy collapsed, and the nation will NEVER be the same after Trump.

You are really clueless.

Go fix your shithole country.

 

[Nostra]

And thanks to you for defending price gouging. My Kroger stock is UP because you allow it.

From 2019 to 2022, the median net worth of American families jumped 37% to $192,900, after adjusting for inflation. It’s the largest increase ever recorded by the federal Survey of Consumer Finances, released last fall. Surging home values and rising stock ownership fed the surge.

Some of the new numbers are startling. Average household net worth now tops $500,000 for Americans in their late 30s. For late-40-somethings, it exceeds $750,000. For 50-somethings, it reaches seven figures.

If you’re a 50-something and you’re not worth a cool $1 million, AND WE KNOW YOU'RE NOT, do not despair. Those numbers are averages, and the super-rich drive them waaaay up.

Prove this price gouging, liar.