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mdgator05 rated docspor's post Agree in the thread Consumer Sentiment crashes, highest inflation expectations in 30 years... stocks tumble.

relatedly, the trade deficit just hit a record high.

mdgator05 rated NavyGator93's post Funny in the thread Breaking: Terrible GDP report just dropped… worst since Covid.

I'm ok with the US economy tanking as long as those penguins aren't still freeloading.

mdgator05 replied to the thread Consumer Sentiment crashes, highest inflation expectations in 30 years... stocks tumble.

Those sorts of purchases tend to cause what is known as a trough (as people shift purchases forward). This likely will eventually result...

mdgator05 replied to the thread Breaking: Terrible GDP report just dropped… worst since Covid.

Yes, it is currently story number 9 on their website. And the headline doesn't even mention GDP or the decline. It is "New report sheds...

mdgator05 replied to the thread Breaking: Terrible GDP report just dropped… worst since Covid.

It doesn't. Recessions are declared looking across a variety of metrics by NBER. They didn't declare one then because the decline was...

mdgator05 replied to the thread Breaking: Terrible GDP report just dropped… worst since Covid.

As pointed out, this is what a healthy economy not yet hurt by but anticipating tariffs looks like. [MEDIA]

mdgator05 replied to the thread Trump at 100 Days Blows Up ABC News.

And I think that is wholesale, not retail.

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Inflation Accelerates

Quarterly Core PCE increases to 3.5%. Fed isn't going to cut rates with that figure even with the corresponding drop in GDP. Triple...

Forum: Too Hot for Swamp Gas

mdgator05 replied to the thread Speak English - Safety.

So we want everybody to be homogenous? That sounds less than ideal. People that are essentially the same tend to have corresponding...

mdgator05 replied to the thread STRENGTHENING AND UNLEASHING AMERICA’S LAW ENFORCEMENT.

And here is an example of them being "unleashed." 'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they...

mdgator05 rated docspor's post Winner in the thread Trump Does his Awesome New Tariffs. Winning!!.

Bezos: he didn’t hit me. I..I’m clumsy. I fell down.

mdgator05 replied to the thread Trump Does his Awesome New Tariffs. Winning!!.

Apparently Trump called Bezos to get him to tell Amazon to back off the partition price. Strange how mad that they were at more...

mdgator05 replied to the thread STRENGTHENING AND UNLEASHING AMERICA’S LAW ENFORCEMENT.

It is actually much worse than that. It is "unleash anybody who works for the government with a gun."

mdgator05 replied to the thread STRENGTHENING AND UNLEASHING AMERICA’S LAW ENFORCEMENT.

"Something, something WARFIGHTERS!" Guess we are bringing the war home.

mdgator05 rated BossaGator's post Funny in the thread the fake hoaxes and misleading headlines in Trump's first hundred days.

Fake hoxes are better than real ones IMO. Damn hoxes keep digging in my flowerbeds.