| Title | Post Boost | Reach | Like | Comments | Shares | Clicks | Hide | Hideall | Cost | Topic |
| Inflation will not likely be cured by 2022. That | 2021-12-30 | 3 | - | economics | ||||||
| GOP doesn't want legal immigration and doesn't want to | 2021-12-02 | 3 | economics | |||||||
| So far GOP has plenty of criticism but no actual | 2021-12-02 | - | economics | |||||||
| Don't think you're likely to consistently do better picking | 2021-11-01 | 12 | - | economics | ||||||
| The primary impetus for regional federalism - | 2021-10-30 | 7 | - | economics | ||||||
| Supply-chain-induced inflation was caused by the inevitable | 2021-10-24 | 19 | - | 1 | economics | |||||
| Common people built America's wealth too. But the | 2021-10-04 | 16 | 1 | 1 | economics | |||||
| Previous installments - | 2021-10-03 | 10 | - | economics | ||||||
| Union-busting, and increasing wealth disparity, are among | 2021-09-06 | 13 | - | economics | ||||||
| Welcome to the advanced economies club! | 2021-05-31 | - | economics |
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========== Inflation will not likely be cured by 2022. That gladdens hearts of GOP politicians. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/12/29/inflation-2022-price-fed/ But the only way they will be able to stop it is with a recession. Either way they would lose in 2024 - unless they took steps to make sure they never lose again. So they are suppressing voting rights every way they can - especially the right to cast a vote that means something. But it's hard for most voters to see the connection of voting rights to their pocketbooks. Don't expect GOP to undermine minority rule by enlightening them. #PS1economics ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-30 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Inflation will not likely be cured by 2022. That topic economics wordrate 0 words 96 epoch Lifetime ID 1570557403288773 impress 3 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/30/2021 15:12" reach 3 title "Inflation emerging as top economic challenge in 2022" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1570557403288773 ========== GOP doesn't want legal immigration and doesn't want to support families. Who do they think is going to do the work? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/01/enhanced-child-tax-credit-is-smart-investment-senate-should-extend-it/ Do you stand by and let roughly one-quarter of Black and Hispanic children continue to live in poverty? Yes, actually, that polls very well with the Trumpist donors and voters - even the poor ones. #PS1economics ===== impact 17 impactrate 0 likeimpress 3 negative 0 posted 2021-12-02 ratio 0 react 3 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title GOP doesn't want legal immigration and doesn't want to topic economics wordrate 0 words 57 engaged 3 epoch Lifetime ID 1551697371841443 likeimpress 3 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/02/2021 09:12" title "Opinion | The enhanced child tax credit is a smart investment. The Senate should extend it." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1551697371841443 ========== So far GOP has plenty of criticism but no actual solutions - https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/11/14/inflation-economy-biden-prices/ Suggestions: 1) Deregulate! Allow 12-year-olds to drive 18-wheelers for $15/hour instead of going to school. They can handle guns, why not trucks? 2) Wolfowitz lives! Invade Iraq again to steal their oil and make them pay for the war. 3) Convert $15 minimum wage to $15 MAXIMUM wage for hourly workers. 4) Re-institute selective service for all Gen Z's and make them go to work. Surely their kids can survive home alone for 12 hours of fasting and no diaper changes every day. Save money and reduce inflationary pressures by PROHIBITING any and all vaccinations and masking. 5) Suspend entitlement payments such as Social Security and unemployment compensation until inflation ends. 6) More billionaire tax relief! Because everything tastes better with billionaire tax relief on it - for senators who vote for it and the job creator donors that paid for their campaigns. (But is it fair to keep impugning the motives of 2 or 3 GOP senators just because of the actions of a tiny minority of 47 or 48 GOP senators?) #PS1economics ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-02 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title So far GOP has plenty of criticism but no actual topic economics wordrate 0 words 186 epoch Lifetime ID 1551638471847333 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/02/2021 07:12" title "Inflation emerges as defining economic challenge of Biden presidency, with no obvious solution at hand" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1551638471847333 ========== Don't think you're likely to consistently do better picking stocks than professional money managers. Passive index stock funds outperform actively managed funds on average. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/jill-on-money-indexing-is-standing-the-test-of-time/ar-AAQ1Oiq Simplest investment advice: figure out when you need the money, then invest by dollar-cost-averaging in a suitable no-load target date fund. Vanguard, Fidelity, and T Rowe Price are all good bets. #PS1economics ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-11-01 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Don't think you're likely to consistently do better picking topic economics wordrate 0 words 56 epoch Lifetime ID 1531012033909977 impress 13 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/01/2021 19:11" reach 12 title "Jill On Money: Indexing is standing the test of time" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1531012033909977 ========== The primary impetus for regional federalism - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html GOP might gain control of Congress in 2022. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/10/30/biden-team-struggles-promote-economic-message-inflation-persists/ Persuadable swing voters will make up their minds based on current supply chain and inflation EFFECTS rather than long-term CAUSES. The Federal government can do very little in the short term about supply chain issues and that part of inflation - it's primarily the result of covid crashing into global outsourcing and just-in-time logistics built up over the last 40 years. Trump should be glad it's an issue he can complain about now, that will resolve itself by the time he's president. As far as inflation, the other side of inflation is increasing wages because the pandemic, which in turn increases prices. In the long run that's a good thing if it increases the fraction of value-added that goes to labor instead of capital. It makes it easier for the average worker to switch jobs to obtain competitive compensation. Trump might talk big but the GOP Congress and judiciary will return to the union-busting job creating precepts of their donors in 2025 just as in 2017. He's like to restore his inflationary tariffs that Biden is finally starting to undo. But the average persuadable swing voter doesn't follow politics or economics enough to care about root causes of current negative effects on him. They're hard to condense into a truthful 30 second ad. #PS1economics ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-10-30 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title The primary impetus for regional federalism - topic economics wordrate 0 words 229 epoch Lifetime ID 1529855780692269 impress 7 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/30/2021 23:10" reach 7 title "Biden team struggles to promote economic message as inflation persists" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1529855780692269 ========== Supply-chain-induced inflation was caused by the inevitable collision of just-in-time logistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing with an unforeseen disaster, namely covid. There's no quick fix available to Biden or anybody else. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/22/why-supply-chain-crunch-will-continue-into-2022/ Undeterred by mere facts, GOP will blame Biden anyway. They won't address the real causes, because just-in-time increases profit margins for their donors and ignoring covid appeals to their voters. #PS1economics ===== impact 6 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-10-24 ratio 19 react 1 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title Supply-chain-induced inflation was caused by the inevitable topic economics wordrate 0 words 58 engaged 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1525403934470787 impress 21 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/24/2021 19:10" reach 19 sharesimpress 1 title "Opinion | Why the supply chain crunch will continue into 2022" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1525403934470787 ========== Common people built America's wealth too. But the elites that profit from their labor distract them with culture wars and stoke fears of socialism, deficits, inflation, and taxes, to prevent real change. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Starting with the Reagan era, income and wealth inequality has grown so great that it threatens American democracy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/23/robert-kagan-constitutional-crisis/ That's why the common man deserves $4 trillion - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/opinion/federal-spending-democrats.html William Jennings Bryan actually said it best - There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them. In many ways Bryan was a Trumpist before his time - his intentional or accidental ignorance about monetary policy and evolution clearly qualify him - but he was a great orator. #PS1economics ===== impact 32 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2021-10-04 ratio 8 react 2 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title Common people built America's wealth too. But the topic economics wordrate 0 words 158 engaged 2 epoch Lifetime ID 1511317445879436 impress 19 likeimpress 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/04/2021 07:10" reach 16 sharesimpress 1 title "Opinion | This Is Why We Need to Spend $4 Trillion" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1511317445879436 ========== Previous installments - https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444762695580798978 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444763102071779329 Funny money funnies 3 - wrong answers from Eric Cantor! https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/old-debt-ceiling-fights-had-a-purpose-this-one-doesnt/2021/10/01/847a3b74-2237-11ec-9309-b743b79abc59_story.html The debt ceiling fights haven't changed. As always, they are partisan fights for partisan advantage. The difference is we have more reality-deprived reality-TV legislators willing to actually default on the debt than we did in Cantor's day, as the wheels of fantasy set in motion by Thurmond, Gingrich, and the Tea Party grind on relentlessly. The correct answer is to abolish the debt limit - which governs already approved spending - and argue convincingly against new expenditures - if they can. Of course, GOP politicians like Cantor know perfectly well that most new expenditures are popular with voters, while debt limit resolutions are popular with major donors. As always in the minority rule GOP, the donors win. #PS1economics ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-10-03 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Previous installments - topic economics wordrate 0 words 131 epoch Lifetime ID 1510829965928184 impress 11 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/03/2021 13:10" reach 10 title "Perspective | Old debt ceiling fights had a purpose. This one doesn’t." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1510829965928184 ========== Union-busting, and increasing wealth disparity, are among the fundamental goals of minority rule. Workers try to fight back - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/05/opinion/labor-day-union.html Their greatest ally has been the covid crisis. Just as the years after the Black Death saw a rise in the value of labor relative to capital, and thus the rise of a middle class - https://historydaily.org/black-plague-labor-shortages-empowered-working-class profound labor shortages throughout the post-covid economy are returning some power to the workers. That's why the legislators supporting minority rule are so eager to reduce or eliminate any subsidy or law that makes workers more expensive or less exploitable. #PS1economics https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/05/opinion/labor-day-union.html ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-09-06 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Union-busting, and increasing wealth disparity, are among topic economics wordrate 0 words 96 epoch Lifetime ID 1492392801105234 impress 15 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "09/06/2021 16:09" reach 13 title "Opinion | The Power in Numbers" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1492392801105234 ========== Welcome to the advanced economies club! https://apnews.com/article/china-bd12b9c524853f33cca8db3a6930b936 Government can increase immigration, and pay for medical/dental care, child care, and education - but it still might not be enough. Here, the GOP complains about falling birth rates but refuses to lessen the cost of children. https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ #PS1economics https://apnews.com/article/china-bd12b9c524853f33cca8db3a6930b936 ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-05-31 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Welcome to the advanced economies club! topic economics wordrate 0 words 44 epoch Lifetime ID 1425840594427122 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/31/2021 10:05" title "China easing birth limits further to cope with aging society" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1425840594427122