| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| Don't let the facts bother you! | 2021-12-31 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476733675253342211 | 1476733675253342211 |
| Inflation will not likely be cured by 2022. Good news | 2021-12-30 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476702480268365831 | 1476702480268365831 |
| The year in review - a changed economy | 2021-12-26 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475236686875398144 | 1475236686875398144 |
| 10 economic debate topics to take back to the store and | 2021-12-26 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475235978419703809 | 1475235978419703809 |
| Inflation is bad but recession is worse - | 2021-12-22 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1473534334288031745 | 1473534334288031745 |
| What does society owe renters who are priced out of a | 2021-12-21 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473391145375846403 | 1473391145375846403 |
| Nebraska's governor is trying anything to get people back | 2021-12-19 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472659446669066240 | 1472659446669066240 |
| Inflation is a political problem everywhere, even for | 2021-12-19 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1472475503005106176 | 1472475503005106176 |
| How the rich get richer | 2021-12-17 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1471682888382828548 | 1471682888382828548 |
| Rich get richer and poor get poorer - Cayman, Bahamas, | 2021-12-16 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471377558113439744 | 1471377558113439744 |
| Debt limit crisis suspended for a while by Democrats. | 2021-12-15 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471001560901505028 | 1471001560901505028 |
| Why workers need unions. | 2021-12-15 | 39 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470998718459494405 | 1470998718459494405 |
| Another way to undermine Biden. | 2021-12-15 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1470993235820433410 | 1470993235820433410 |
| It doesn't matter whether the losers are the readers or | 2021-12-15 | 71 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470972245438709767 | 1470972245438709767 |
| Why service is so slow, everywhere you go. | 2021-12-14 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470562549615652866 | 1470562549615652866 |
| No need to move to Texas! You can enjoy Permian Basin air | 2021-12-13 | 52 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1470245670934040576 | 1470245670934040576 |
| Silicon Valley still booming despite Greg Abbott's kind | 2021-12-13 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470242670169636864 | 1470242670169636864 |
| How gentrification works. | 2021-12-13 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470207756460171264 | 1470207756460171264 |
| Some unions are beginning to flex some muscle. Not all | 2021-12-12 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470157067428057089 | 1470157067428057089 |
| H1B abuse in Silicon Valley? | 2021-12-12 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469830791571988481 | 1469830791571988481 |
| Ask people about "the economy" and they look at gas prices | 2021-12-11 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469660613953474561 | 1469660613953474561 |
| What makes money work? | 2021-12-11 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469652945406869505 | 1469652945406869505 |
| Side effect of covid - enlightenment about what's really | 2021-12-11 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469644651246194690 | 1469644651246194690 |
| Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? | 2021-12-10 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469118390107209728 | 1469118390107209728 |
| Crypto currencies are not as stable as T-Bills! | 2021-12-10 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469117011179433984 | 1469117011179433984 |
| Reshipping work-at-home scams - you lose money AND might | 2021-12-10 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469115047020404738 | 1469115047020404738 |
| Trump says GOP shouldn't pay its past indebtedness. | 2021-12-08 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468583292324569095 | 1468583292324569095 |
| How expectations about the future affect labor market | 2021-12-04 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466991894362157057 | 1466991894362157057 |
| "We are now learning the hard way what 40 years of | 2021-12-02 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466460938882543618 | 1466460938882543618 |
| GOP doesn't want legal immigration and doesn't want to | 2021-12-02 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466459949744091141 | 1466459949744091141 |
| Still no slowdown in Silicon Valley. | 2021-12-02 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466454674903502853 | 1466454674903502853 |
| GOP has offers criticism but no solutions - | 2021-12-02 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466433000380510223 | 1466433000380510223 |
| Tired of Silicon Valley real estate prices? Austin is | 2021-11-29 | 54 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1465173135569739781 | 1465173135569739781 |
| John Deere workers win better compensation and benefits, | 2021-11-29 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465171096328495104 | 1465171096328495104 |
| Will a four-day workweek become the new normal? | 2021-11-29 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465166121003192321 | 1465166121003192321 |
| Not everybody in Silicon Valley is hurting for a place | 2021-11-29 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465144769751834627 | 1465144769751834627 |
| Supply chain myths | 2021-11-28 | 40 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1464866684611661830 | 1464866684611661830 |
| A seasonal labor shortage. | 2021-11-27 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464599314567548933 | 1464599314567548933 |
| The end of real family farming. | 2021-11-27 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464444014157959176 | 1464444014157959176 |
| Subminimum wage - a Florida GOP idea. | 2021-11-27 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1464442303922114560 | 1464442303922114560 |
| Now hoarding and warehouses full of inventory seems smarter | 2021-11-25 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463934557925740547 | 1463934557925740547 |
| The way to beat inflation is to have a severe recession. | 2021-11-25 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463749258100625413 | 1463749258100625413 |
| More trouble ahead. | 2021-11-25 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1463713906606559239 | 1463713906606559239 |
| Is it possible to get public employee pension funding on | 2021-11-21 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1462529894512947200 | 1462529894512947200 |
| Ever wonder why EVERY restaurant has a Help Wanted sign | 2021-11-17 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460870746452873218 | 1460870746452873218 |
| Time to get back to the game of brinkmanship. Some of | 2021-11-17 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460863725208883206 | 1460863725208883206 |
| When inflation is externally driven, there is not much | 2021-11-16 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460419185910030337 | 1460419185910030337 |
| Something new in antitrust law - considering effects | 2021-11-16 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460402617704538112 | 1460402617704538112 |
| The free market at work - slowly! | 2021-11-15 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460042007867387905 | 1460042007867387905 |
| Whoops - maybe real estate is NOT a road to instant riches! | 2021-11-15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460037640661598208 | 1460037640661598208 |
| Inflation in Europe and the US - more similar than | 2021-11-14 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460009023365804037 | 1460009023365804037 |
| Tired of Silicon Valley real estate? Don't expect it | 2021-11-14 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460003151499513856 | 1460003151499513856 |
| Where do feelings about the economy and the future come | 2021-11-13 | 69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459530524830011398 | 1459530524830011398 |
| Are more people returning to single incomes during | 2021-11-13 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459387600850939907 | 1459387600850939907 |
| Big business is bad for small business, even if they do | 2021-11-12 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459184381889703938 | 1459184381889703938 |
| Wage increases not beating inflation! | 2021-11-10 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458281754100260872 | 1458281754100260872 |
| CEO pay and performance | 2021-11-10 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458281053303414794 | 1458281053303414794 |
| The economic structure underlying racism | 2021-11-10 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458239250189615104 | 1458239250189615104 |
| Measuring Biden with Trump's yardstick. | 2021-11-10 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458231405599625217 | 1458231405599625217 |
| No easy fix - | 2021-11-09 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458220544298348544 | 1458220544298348544 |
| The last conglomerate? Good riddance! | 2021-11-09 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458210117816512523 | 1458210117816512523 |
| What happens when "status quo bias" is disrupted by | 2021-11-06 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456837954681200645 | 1456837954681200645 |
| Good news for GOP! | 2021-11-03 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455894342095151104 | 1455894342095151104 |
| Don't think you're likely to consistently do better picking | 2021-11-02 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455355610644373514 | 1455355610644373514 |
| The super rich don't like any publicity. All publicity | 2021-11-01 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455007657643761673 | 1455007657643761673 |
| After workers endured 40 years of union-busting, covid | 2021-11-01 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1454981125281964033 | 1454981125281964033 |
| GOP might gain control of Congress in 2022. | 2021-10-31 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454695282063544324 | 1454695282063544324 |
| Another bank warns about post office delays - | 2021-10-27 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453354661566554112 | 1453354661566554112 |
| Paid leave - another unexpected issue in Virginia? | 2021-10-26 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452993598950023168 | 1452993598950023168 |
| How alarming - workers organizing the way their employers | 2021-10-26 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452796014717374469 | 1452796014717374469 |
| Universal Basic Income catches on. | 2021-10-25 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452786360905912322 | 1452786360905912322 |
| Does anybody really understand economics? | 2021-10-25 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452472188737441793 | 1452472188737441793 |
| Amazon outsourced all the HR parts that it didn't want to | 2021-10-25 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452462973503500294 | 1452462973503500294 |
| Supply-chain-induced inflation was caused by the inevitable | 2021-10-25 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452457195208015872 | 1452457195208015872 |
| The solution to labor shortages is out there... pay more! | 2021-10-24 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452396683048853514 | 1452396683048853514 |
| If poor people wanted more influence, they should donate | 2021-10-24 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452319699572871168 | 1452319699572871168 |
| Workers want to have a life - a novel concept to some | 2021-10-24 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1452095111651729410 | 1452095111651729410 |
| The GOP could re-legalize slavery - an employment draft | 2021-10-22 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451607717898948609 | 1451607717898948609 |
| Why everything is scarce and expensive - | 2021-10-22 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451593580544290823 | 1451593580544290823 |
| The black death increased the power of labor and led to | 2021-10-22 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451345164996280323 | 1451345164996280323 |
| How corporations reorganize to avoid liability. | 2021-10-21 | 101 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451024941441114112 | 1451024941441114112 |
| Teachers wearing out. | 2021-10-20 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450974145601171457 | 1450974145601171457 |
| "The winners in all of this are the exchanges and the | 2021-10-20 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450707286469459968 | 1450707286469459968 |
| As predicted - on the whole, hedge funds made money on | 2021-10-19 | 115 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450253509606051840 | 1450253509606051840 |
| The woes of blue cities in red states. | 2021-10-18 | 112 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450108848715427841 | 1450108848715427841 |
| Ride sharing comes back to earth. | 2021-10-18 | 108 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450106211202785289 | 1450106211202785289 |
| That was the economics that wasn't. | 2021-10-18 | 98 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450098549576777728 | 1450098549576777728 |
| Plan on permanent inflation or plan on transient inflation? | 2021-10-17 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449866387514486790 | 1449866387514486790 |
| When labor is scarce, strikes work better. | 2021-10-17 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449847433056309250 | 1449847433056309250 |
| We didn't defeat the business cycle after all. | 2021-10-15 | 95 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449137728050716676 | 1449137728050716676 |
| A universal income in lieu of dozens of mean-tested | 2021-10-15 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449019978473111558 | 1449019978473111558 |
| Why people don't want lousy jobs any more. | 2021-10-15 | 87 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448854822627647490 | 1448854822627647490 |
| Where inflation is hitting hardest - | 2021-10-15 | 91 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448848445041614855 | 1448848445041614855 |
| For once, Nobel prize research with immediate applications | 2021-10-13 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448382808259395584 | 1448382808259395584 |
| No politician wants to tackle Social Security's long-term | 2021-10-13 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448340500793081859 | 1448340500793081859 |
| The dark sides of online retailing - | 2021-10-11 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447673843464617988 | 1447673843464617988 |
| Surprise! Neither minimum wage nor immigration cause | 2021-10-11 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447552910410223619 | 1447552910410223619 |
| Did you notice when Powerade went from 32oz to 28oz? | 2021-10-11 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447403508135723009 | 1447403508135723009 |
| The shipping crisis is not getting better. | 2021-10-11 | 88 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1447396257786331137 | 1447396257786331137 |
| Why would anybody want to have anything to do with these | 2021-10-11 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447364515704627328 | 1447364515704627328 |
| Delta economy depresses office space in some places | 2021-10-10 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447267477138722817 | 1447267477138722817 |
| Why so few jobs were filled in September. | 2021-10-10 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447079285039058946 | 1447079285039058946 |
| There are some reasons to hope for a better future in | 2021-10-08 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446305533821026305 | 1446305533821026305 |
| The debt ceiling - a guide for the perplexed. | 2021-10-08 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446302065769074688 | 1446302065769074688 |
| All the twisted thinking behind the debt ceiling | 2021-10-08 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446298372730540036 | 1446298372730540036 |
| How white blue-collar workers shifted from leftists to | 2021-10-07 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446196645218054145 | 1446196645218054145 |
| Does the 14th Amendment solve the budget ceiling crisis? | 2021-10-07 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446145256932593675 | 1446145256932593675 |
| Could the yuan displace the dollar in international | 2021-10-07 | 83 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1446131386839027720 | 1446131386839027720 |
| A filibuster change to pass a debt ceiling increase? | 2021-10-06 | 196 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445632039156285440 | 1445632039156285440 |
| A trillion dollar coin to solve the debt ceiling crisis? | 2021-10-06 | 234 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1445631039318093835 | 1445631039318093835 |
| Companies are rethinking offshoring and just-in-time | 2021-10-04 | 150 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445130748235636736 | 1445130748235636736 |
| Debt ceiling history and future. | 2021-10-04 | 131 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445129267390529540 | 1445129267390529540 |
| If you play a good hand poorly, you still lose. | 2021-10-04 | 118 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445118952007364616 | 1445118952007364616 |
| Starting with the Reagan era, income and wealth inequality | 2021-10-04 | 133 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445038396863176707 | 1445038396863176707 |
| The end of tipping? | 2021-10-04 | 151 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444870178987147265 | 1444870178987147265 |
| Funny money funnies 3 - wrong answers from Eric Cantor! | 2021-10-03 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444769547932733440 | 1444769547932733440 |
| Funny money funnies 2 - the trillion dollar platinum coin | 2021-10-03 | 105 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1444763102071779329 | 1444763102071779329 |
| Funny money funnies 1 - regulating "stablecoins" | 2021-10-03 | 92 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444762695580798978 | 1444762695580798978 |
| When phasing out coal, natural gas becomes more valuable. | 2021-10-03 | 72 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1444757534405902337 | 1444757534405902337 |
| Why service is so slow. | 2021-10-03 | 60 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1444469205567348736 | 1444469205567348736 |
| What a pile of political... fertilizer. | 2021-10-03 | 75 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1444467642589323275 | 1444467642589323275 |
| Poverty isn't what it used to be. | 2021-09-30 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1443418781108228100 | 1443418781108228100 |
| Wells Fargo, PGE, ... | 2021-09-30 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1443416255382241281 | 1443416255382241281 |
| Trump abandoned US global leadership in politics, trade, | 2021-09-26 | 419 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1442184467989155840 | 1442184467989155840 |
| https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ | 2021-09-26 | 409 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1442145564368379914 | 1442145564368379914 |
| Kick the can down the road. | 2021-09-26 | 405 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1442123059410833420 | 1442123059410833420 |
| The great debt limit scam. | 2021-09-26 | 403 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1442120799377256454 | 1442120799377256454 |
| Reparations for black people? That's a hard sell. | 2021-09-25 | 414 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1441751447855534086 | 1441751447855534086 |
| Is FTC going to support right to repair? | 2021-09-25 | 428 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1441568321468391427 | 1441568321468391427 |
| There's bipartisan support for military spending, but | 2021-09-24 | 139 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1441529404803276800 | 1441529404803276800 |
| It's true that voters don't care. But major donors care | 2021-09-24 | 149 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1441253771653177347 | 1441253771653177347 |
| Getting ready for a great game of "chicken". | 2021-09-23 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1441118309957529615 | 1441118309957529615 |
| Get rid of the debt limit! It's a stupid prop for | 2021-09-23 | 112 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1440860064722538500 | 1440860064722538500 |
| The rebirth of a dollar down and a dollar a week - for | 2021-09-23 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1440857997870186496 | 1440857997870186496 |
| Any voter who will put up with Trumpism will put up with | 2021-09-22 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1440562836648828928 | 1440562836648828928 |
| The war on coal was lost long ago. | 2021-09-20 | 55 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1440095561424597000 | 1440095561424597000 |
| Rented cars lately? You'll have learned a lot about | 2021-09-20 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1440094308317626374 | 1440094308317626374 |
| Nothing lasts forever - | 2021-09-20 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1440034815470755846 | 1440034815470755846 |
| Who's going to call whose bluff? | 2021-09-20 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1439987242458517508 | 1439987242458517508 |
| GOP touts family values and work ethic but acts as if | 2021-09-19 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1439701085329920000 | 1439701085329920000 |
| Maybe it wasn't the pandemic unemployment boost after all. | 2021-09-19 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1439606800739753987 | 1439606800739753987 |
| It wasn't just day traders that lost money on Roaring | 2021-09-17 | 83 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1438979822227574786 | 1438979822227574786 |
| GOP is counting on Democrats to be financially responsible. | 2021-09-17 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1438909917570560006 | 1438909917570560006 |
| How to build monopolies without interference. | 2021-09-17 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1438875668398305290 | 1438875668398305290 |
| Want good schools in Silicon Valley? Better pay | 2021-09-17 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1438733410139205634 | 1438733410139205634 |
| Big organizations seem to have difficulties correcting | 2021-09-17 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1438731565006143493 | 1438731565006143493 |
| GOP will never vote for national default - unless the | 2021-09-17 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1438706949567049729 | 1438706949567049729 |
| Union-busting is a fundamental goal of minority rule. | 2021-09-06 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1435022303696351233 | 1435022303696351233 |
| You want more affordable housing in desirable areas? | 2021-08-29 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1432062167516286979 | 1432062167516286979 |
| What happened to your local mall? | 2021-08-27 | 55 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1431259200177336320 | 1431259200177336320 |
| Public opinion polls aren't worth much if all they tell | 2021-08-27 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1431074530617802752 | 1431074530617802752 |
| In most times and places, the only way for most people to | 2021-07-20 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1417310793519960099 | 1417310793519960099 |
| The exodus is to Tahoe (and Sonoma and Napa) - much more | 2021-07-19 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1417269859025526829 | 1417269859025526829 |
| A smarter version of Trump. | 2021-07-16 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1416063523906408450 | 1416063523906408450 |
| Will guaranteed income work in California? | 2021-07-16 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1415842492725878784 | 1415842492725878784 |
| Low interest rates and income inequality. | 2021-07-13 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1414828418227523587 | 1414828418227523587 |
| Unlimited deficit spending and irreconcilable partisan | 2021-07-12 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1414603070571311109 | 1414603070571311109 |
| The Black Death reset the balance between capital (land) | 2021-07-12 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1414458333910626306 | 1414458333910626306 |
| GOP gets that concentration of power in government | 2021-07-10 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1413733033505476612 | 1413733033505476612 |
| Fattening public employee pensions without paying for them. | 2021-07-09 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1413588792313737220 | 1413588792313737220 |
| "it's consuming real resources, doing a function that has | 2021-07-09 | 61 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1413352895018196994 | 1413352895018196994 |
| Since the Biden Recession didn't happen, the GOP is giving | 2021-07-09 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1413337052402225159 | 1413337052402225159 |
| GOP TALKS about workers but Biden DOES something. | 2021-07-09 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1413332950477803524 | 1413332950477803524 |
| Trump was a big supporter of farmers and ranchers! | 2021-07-07 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1412862719942750209 | 1412862719942750209 |
| Not enough immigrants? How about teens? | 2021-07-07 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1412861618761830404 | 1412861618761830404 |
| Predatory pricing to destroy competitors is not in the | 2021-07-06 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1412402685932806145 | 1412402685932806145 |
| The market cures supply chain problems - eventually. | 2021-07-06 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1412239196299816971 | 1412239196299816971 |
| Good times ahead for blue-collar workers - if there | 2021-07-05 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1412190729032503300 | 1412190729032503300 |
| Private equity and hedge funds - "job creators" - in | 2021-07-02 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1410767056547377152 | 1410767056547377152 |
| "The real purpose of these NDAs appears to be preventing | 2021-06-30 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1410097728680460288 | 1410097728680460288 |
| Corporate law boom - global giants are outbidding the | 2021-06-29 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1409881503803269127 | 1409881503803269127 |
| It's still possible to retain and attract employees. | 2021-06-29 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1409879388993241104 | 1409879388993241104 |
| Surprise - you can find workers if you offer enough pay! | 2021-06-28 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1409349643935248386 | 1409349643935248386 |
| Where is Theodore Roosevelt when we need him? | 2021-06-27 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1409038524788006913 | 1409038524788006913 |
| Teamsters vs Amazon! | 2021-06-26 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1408777606535671808 | 1408777606535671808 |
| Know what a SPAC is? It's a good deal for somebody - | 2021-06-16 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1404955254479671301 | 1404955254479671301 |
| Amazon has been an algorithmic employer - debugging the | 2021-06-15 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1404947471051104259 | 1404947471051104259 |
| "America¢s high rate of poverty is a policy choice, | 2021-06-14 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1404297560756350979 | 1404297560756350979 |
| Conglomerates excel at a few things - executive | 2021-06-13 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1403970365173338123 | 1403970365173338123 |
| Consolidation of industries is inherently risky for | 2021-06-12 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1403573975465160706 | 1403573975465160706 |
| Just-in-time logistics optimizes the normal steady state. | 2021-06-07 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1401994360665694208 | 1401994360665694208 |
| National security or national pork? | 2021-06-07 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1401915899301580801 | 1401915899301580801 |
| Work won't love you back! | 2021-06-07 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1401780456379453441 | 1401780456379453441 |
| It's a shortage of jobs, not a shortage of workers | 2021-06-07 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1401776602686525449 | 1401776602686525449 |
| More covid winners - white teenagers seeking jobs. | 2021-06-06 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1401638754721304577 | 1401638754721304577 |
| No more malls! | 2021-06-06 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1401637791805566977 | 1401637791805566977 |
| The plague led to a golden age of worker power. | 2021-06-06 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1401570870619901953 | 1401570870619901953 |
| Penny stocks - if you heard about it from your friends, | 2021-06-04 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1400613927315148802 | 1400613927315148802 |
| "the U.S. economy before the pandemic was incredibly | 2021-06-03 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1400293135532453888 | 1400293135532453888 |
| What's behind different state unemployment systems? | 2021-06-01 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1399592922505306114 | 1399592922505306114 |
| Welcome to the advanced economies club! | 2021-05-31 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1399414845506670594 | 1399414845506670594 |
| The dollar rules because - | 2021-05-30 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1398895997078573057 | 1398895997078573057 |
| Pay teachers more if you want to compete with China and | 2021-05-28 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1398374702171648001 | 1398374702171648001 |
| Nobody let a lousy virus impede the increase in wealth | 2021-05-28 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1398329169973415940 | 1398329169973415940 |
| 2020's like 1920's? Perhaps in some ways - | 2021-05-28 | 65 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1398328408212344832 | 1398328408212344832 |
| Musk doesn't like regulation? People like Musk are | 2021-05-27 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1397721245890740224 | 1397721245890740224 |
| Genuine Trumpism in action - blame Biden for things that | 2021-05-26 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1397595566079574019 | 1397595566079574019 |
| Global just-in-time manufacturing leaves no slack for | 2021-05-25 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1397040211176038402 | 1397040211176038402 |
| Homelessness - a GOP triumph! Reagan's mainstreaming of | 2021-05-23 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1396494924904747012 | 1396494924904747012 |
| Life in a deep red paradise. | 2021-05-23 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1396476659105034241 | 1396476659105034241 |
| Difficulty finding workers? Try flexibility - the | 2021-05-22 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1396098868916330506 | 1396098868916330506 |
| It's cheaper to break the law than observe it. | 2021-05-22 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1396097494770065408 | 1396097494770065408 |
| Dalit laborers exploited across the sea in New Jersey. | 2021-05-13 | 68 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1392661092405415936 | 1392661092405415936 |
| Sounds like the main problem is that companies need to | 2021-05-10 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1391636977657647104 | 1391636977657647104 |
| Spot inflation in commodity prices and spot shortages | 2021-05-07 | 80 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1390476628447268864 | 1390476628447268864 |
| GOP minority-rule trickle-down economics destroyed | 2021-05-06 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1390335154879533057 | 1390335154879533057 |
| Inflation is happening for many commodities. | 2021-05-06 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1390300613192290310 | 1390300613192290310 |
| Homelessness is Silicon Valley problem #1 | 2021-05-06 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1390150101058744323 | 1390150101058744323 |
| It's hard to find workers if you don't pay them a living | 2021-05-06 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1390147807395213313 | 1390147807395213313 |
| How economic recovery can lead to inflation. | 2021-05-06 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1390111086737641475 | 1390111086737641475 |
| It's cheaper to break the law! | 2021-05-04 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1389601782225985539 | 1389601782225985539 |
| Internet technology companies go up... and then they | 2021-05-03 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1389207537514270722 | 1389207537514270722 |
| How pro sports teams get local government subsidies. Heads | 2021-04-30 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1388140521982287874 | 1388140521982287874 |
| https://mobile.cartoonistgroup.com/cartoon/Signe+Wilkinson%27s+Editorial+Cartoons/2021-04-28/188749 | 2021-04-30 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1388138926179635203 | 1388138926179635203 |
| Moving to Austin? | 2021-04-30 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1388135266800394243 | 1388135266800394243 |
| All those high-tech companies fleeing Silicon Valley for | 2021-04-28 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1387528115597963265 | 1387528115597963265 |
| Farmers didn't like turbulence and upset? | 2021-04-28 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1387490625193340929 | 1387490625193340929 |
| Low interest rates benefit asset holders, especially those | 2021-04-27 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1387022644445212675 | 1387022644445212675 |
| Universal basic income - it's not easy being a pioneer. | 2021-04-27 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386858883251982336 | 1386858883251982336 |
| Income inequality is real! Some CEO's of laying-off, | 2021-04-26 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386793095405064192 | 1386793095405064192 |
| Hoover, Carter, Trump making straight a highway in the | 2021-04-26 | 82 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386785130878930945 | 1386785130878930945 |
| Why not improve wages and working conditions to where | 2021-04-26 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386688142363660292 | 1386688142363660292 |
| Monopsony is getting bipartisan interest. | 2021-04-24 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1385984890093510667 | 1385984890093510667 |
| The Biden depression - you can find it near the Reagan | 2021-04-23 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1385395884553228289 | 1385395884553228289 |
| It's time to get rid of the debt ceiling once and for all! | 2021-04-22 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1385365453757837315 | 1385365453757837315 |
| For all their faults, unions helped make the American | 2021-04-13 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1381803988358598663 | 1381803988358598663 |
| Dutch tulip bulbs anybody? | 2021-04-13 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1381802006646456320 | 1381802006646456320 |
| Nobody knows you when you're down and out - of money. | 2021-04-04 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1378817121552003079 | 1378817121552003079 |
| Why you can't get a good deal on a new car - or a used one. | 2021-04-02 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1378042480214433795 | 1378042480214433795 |
| Modular housing vs housing shortage vs construction unions | 2021-04-01 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1377635524630876168 | 1377635524630876168 |
| Too much leverage matters! | 2021-03-31 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1377270838802620417 | 1377270838802620417 |
| Reviving antitrust. | 2021-03-29 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1376678172834504706 | 1376678172834504706 |
| Another investment mania. | 2021-03-29 | 50 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1376630471635820548 | 1376630471635820548 |
| Arguments for regional minimum wages. | 2021-03-29 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1376600103318822919 | 1376600103318822919 |
| The Swiss Laundry! | 2021-03-29 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1376514749903499274 | 1376514749903499274 |
| Bipartisan infrastructure? | 2021-03-29 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1376396646209097730 | 1376396646209097730 |
| The world changed from 1996 to 2020. It took Trump to | 2021-03-29 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1376392576765292545 | 1376392576765292545 |
| America does have laws to support labor organizing. | 2021-03-28 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1376193670769115142 | 1376193670769115142 |
| Poor people move out while rich people move up. | 2021-03-26 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1375246451970777092 | 1375246451970777092 |
| Oakland tries basic income | 2021-03-25 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1374912044680368128 | 1374912044680368128 |
| Untethered? No problem. | 2021-03-24 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1374554356637298689 | 1374554356637298689 |
| Will the reactionary majority back employers or workers? | 2021-03-23 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1374393409662709760 | 1374393409662709760 |
| A cheap way to improve the lives of many working people. | 2021-03-23 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1374369045491814406 | 1374369045491814406 |
| Another speculative bubble on the horizon! | 2021-03-21 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1373517081077944324 | 1373517081077944324 |
| Bidding up value of startups? Bubbles always end badly | 2021-03-19 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1372971529042980864 | 1372971529042980864 |
| Billing future generations for current consumption is | 2021-03-18 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1372406299288162307 | 1372406299288162307 |
| Once again Atlanta is the face of the New South. That must | 2021-03-15 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1371543585665867780 | 1371543585665867780 |
| Does the working class really care about economics? | 2021-03-14 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1371107995942232064 | 1371107995942232064 |
| Anybody for Dutch tulip bulbs? | 2021-03-14 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1370916455038865410 | 1370916455038865410 |
| Poor people in trouble? Why don't they do like the | 2021-03-14 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1370905323175698435 | 1370905323175698435 |
| Why Republicans think the recession is over. | 2021-03-12 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1370444761555820547 | 1370444761555820547 |
| Plant closings are hard on the middle-aged. | 2021-03-09 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1369353971974897664 | 1369353971974897664 |
| "Somehow the private equity guys always make out OK, | 2021-03-09 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1369341169000321025 | 1369341169000321025 |
| GOP voters don't want immigration but GOP donors don't | 2021-03-08 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1368938232184930304 | 1368938232184930304 |
| Unfunded defined-benefit pensions strike again. | 2021-03-08 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1368936194499772416 | 1368936194499772416 |
| Guaranteed income encourages employment, not unemployment. | 2021-03-08 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1368776575802478597 | 1368776575802478597 |
| "a way for celebrities to monetize their reputations" | 2021-03-05 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1367860454710669315 | 1367860454710669315 |
| Nothing lasts forever. | 2021-03-03 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1367254971045974017 | 1367254971045974017 |
| Infrastructure - easy to talk about, impossible to fund! | 2021-03-02 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1366745362086551554 | 1366745362086551554 |
| A damper on leveraged buyout job killers? | 2021-03-01 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1366237754409897984 | 1366237754409897984 |
| Progressives want a $15 minimum wage. | 2021-03-01 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1366188777991852032 | 1366188777991852032 |
| Infrastructure is next? | 2021-02-28 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1366106825372831746 | 1366106825372831746 |
| Where have all the houses gone? | 2021-02-26 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1365324644048232451 | 1365324644048232451 |
| In the end, there was nothing new to learn. | 2021-02-24 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1364384765219135490 | 1364384765219135490 |
| How much stimulus can the economy take without inflation? | 2021-02-21 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1363505445437018122 | 1363505445437018122 |
| Don't worry about inflation until median incomes start | 2021-02-18 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1362391514580574214 | 1362391514580574214 |
| The ageing of Western civilization comes to America. | 2021-02-18 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1362235842303942661 | 1362235842303942661 |
| Not just Texas! | 2021-02-18 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1362214718698479617 | 1362214718698479617 |
| How to create a Texas-size problem! | 2021-02-18 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1362210371784777733 | 1362210371784777733 |
| What it's like to work in a "business-friendly" state. | 2021-02-13 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1360688486215426049 | 1360688486215426049 |
| The Other New Deal - putting private capital to work. | 2021-02-11 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1359717090307919874 | 1359717090307919874 |
| A sea change on deficit spending? | 2021-02-08 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1358874905958248449 | 1358874905958248449 |
| The forgotten side of economics: resilience. | 2021-02-07 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1358288232606142464 | 1358288232606142464 |
| Did somebody say movie deal? That's one way to recover! | 2021-02-05 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1357500854937477121 | 1357500854937477121 |
| Pump and dump is not populism. It's opportunism. | 2021-02-05 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1357498935795798017 | 1357498935795798017 |
| Somebody sold at the top. Good for him! Somebody | 2021-02-03 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1356806604935467011 | 1356806604935467011 |
| Gambling thrives in bad economic times. Wall Street | 2021-02-02 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1356586029566709764 | 1356586029566709764 |
| Surprise! The economy does better under Democratic | 2021-02-02 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1356579864833232899 | 1356579864833232899 |
| Ways of looking at the market. | 2021-02-02 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1356480830550409218 | 1356480830550409218 |
| You can't keep doubling down! | 2021-02-01 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1356038957683752962 | 1356038957683752962 |
| There's lots of advice about deciding when to buy a stock. | 2021-02-01 | 43 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1356030563925151745 | 1356030563925151745 |
| Cruz and AOC agree - proof neither has the slightest clue | 2021-01-31 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1356024052809256961 | 1356024052809256961 |
| The Russians probably aren't behind GameStop. | 2021-01-31 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1356021401971376132 | 1356021401971376132 |
| Theories about what causes bubbles. | 2021-01-31 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1355987775535730689 | 1355987775535730689 |
| Every stock reaches a top, where somebody bought and | 2021-01-28 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1354928111612137472 | 1354928111612137472 |
| Short squeezes can affect the entire market. | 2021-01-28 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1354784547037044743 | 1354784547037044743 |
| As with foreign terrorism and domestic terrorism and | 2021-01-27 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1354568340484722692 | 1354568340484722692 |
| What does GameStop really mean? | 2021-01-27 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1354478582597259265 | 1354478582597259265 |
| Democracy on Wall Street? Or insurrection? Why should | 2021-01-27 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1354477557895159809 | 1354477557895159809 |
| Socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor - | 2021-01-27 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1354245761718906882 | 1354245761718906882 |
| Private enterprise is more efficient than government? | 2021-01-17 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1350830524940468224 | 1350830524940468224 |
| How dare you attack somebody's annuity! | 2021-01-15 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1350222629915906048 | 1350222629915906048 |
| No way Trump could win on the economy. That's what | 2021-01-05 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1346265552252141569 | 1346265552252141569 |
| It had to happen eventually - enormous companies push | 2021-01-04 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1346241346395226113 | 1346241346395226113 |
| New Republican principles on public debt: it's good if | 2021-01-03 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1345840634599407616 | 1345840634599407616 |
| It's a good thing all those Republican farmers know how | 2021-01-02 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1345388737274941441 | 1345388737274941441 |
| How much relief do the upper 10% need? | 2021-01-01 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1344808562027941888 | 1344808562027941888 |
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========== Don't let the facts bother you! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/29/this-is-worst-economy-we-never-had/ #PS1economics ===== impress 22 time 2021-12-31 01:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476733675253342211 ========== Inflation will not likely be cured by 2022. Good news for GOP. 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 lose in 2024. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1570557403288773 #PS1economics ===== impress 29 time 2021-12-30 23:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476702480268365831 ========== The year in review - a changed economy https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-economy-prices-5ebdc188d7b2f6eaaedeff863c49ba67 #PS1economics ===== impress 36 time 2021-12-26 22:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475236686875398144 ========== 10 economic debate topics to take back to the store and exchange this week! https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/22/lets-exchange-these-10-economic-debates-for-some-real-logic/ #PS1economics ===== impress 34 time 2021-12-26 22:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475235978419703809 ========== Inflation is bad but recession is worse - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/17/opinion/inflation-federal-reserve-us-economy.html #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 26 time 2021-12-22 06:02 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473534334288031745 ========== What does society owe renters who are priced out of a rising market? What does it owe people looking for housing who are willing and able to pay market rent? https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/21/should-renters-get-first-dibs-on-bay-area-real-estate-deals/ #PS1economics ===== impress 33 time 2021-12-21 20:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473391145375846403 ========== Nebraska's governor is trying anything to get people back to work, EXCEPT increasing their pay, providing child care, or protecting them from the virus carried by other unvaccinated unmasked employees and customers. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-nebraska-pete-ricketts-5cf5cef955a79c466281fd43f32cc358 Slavery? Open borders? #PS1economics ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-19 20:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472659446669066240 ========== Inflation is a political problem everywhere, even for Trumpist "strong leaders" like Orban in Hungary. https://apnews.com/article/business-middle-east-barcelona-poland-spain-74c8a4e002465ceb56afa0d8eed6ec3b GOP should be glad they don't actually have power - then they'd be blamed. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 29 time 2021-12-19 07:54 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472475503005106176 ========== How the rich get richer https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sec-eyes-crackdown-u-executives-143000023.html The SEC might do something about it. #PS1economics ===== engage 2 engage-rate 11% expands 1 impress 18 time 2021-12-17 03:25 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471682888382828548 ========== Rich get richer and poor get poorer - Cayman, Bahamas, Delaware, carried interest... https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2021/investors-rental-foreclosure/ Everywhere investors are buying single family homes for rentals. Fast all cash offers look good to sellers, until they try to buy their next home. #PS1economics ===== impress 37 time 2021-12-16 07:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471377558113439744 ========== Debt limit crisis suspended for a while by Democrats. GOP not grateful for Democratic help when GOP was in control. https://apnews.com/article/congress-debt-limit-joe-biden-355758a9591de7e4fe93ab5061904a65 #PS1economics ===== impress 35 time 2021-12-15 06:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471001560901505028 ========== Why workers need unions. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/14/opinion/tornadoes-mayfield-amazon.html Private government is a libertarian dream. It was the only kind prior to the Enlightenment. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 39 time 2021-12-15 06:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470998718459494405 ========== Another way to undermine Biden. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/14/opinion/jelena-mcwilliams-fdic-bank-regulation.html Bank consolidation is even worse than general corporate consolidation. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 33 time 2021-12-15 05:44 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470993235820433410 ========== It doesn't matter whether the losers are the readers or the authors! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/books/penguin-random-house-simon-schuster.html American antitrust law needs to be explicit that market concentration is bad in and of itself. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 71 time 2021-12-15 04:21 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470972245438709767 ========== Why service is so slow, everywhere you go. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/12/12/quitting-great-resignation-downside-labor-shortage/ More legal immigration would help. #PS1economics ===== impress 36 time 2021-12-14 01:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470562549615652866 ========== No need to move to Texas! You can enjoy Permian Basin air and politicians like Greg Abbott right here in Kern County, and no humidity! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/11/us/california-housing-bakersfield.html But like Austin, an influx of upward strivers might change the local culture of Bakersfield too. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 52 time 2021-12-13 04:14 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470245670934040576 ========== Silicon Valley still booming despite Greg Abbott's kind invitation to relocate to Texas. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/11/while-most-bay-area-economies-floundered-in-the-first-year-of-the-pandemic-santa-clara-countys-soared/ #PS1economics ===== impress 38 time 2021-12-13 04:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470242670169636864 ========== How gentrification works. https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/article/mattsons-continue-sonoma-valley-buying-spree/ It used to be called urban renewal. Doesn't every community want more billionaires calling the shots? #PS1economics ===== impress 51 time 2021-12-13 01:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470207756460171264 ========== Some unions are beginning to flex some muscle. Not all are successful. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/worker-revolt-comes-dollar-general-connecticut/?itid=hp-top-table-main #PS1economics ===== impress 21 time 2021-12-12 22:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470157067428057089 ========== H1B abuse in Silicon Valley? https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/09/h-1b-visa-major-tech-employer-in-silicon-valley-committing-wage-theft-against-foreign-workers-report-alleges/ #PS1economics ===== impress 45 time 2021-12-12 00:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469830791571988481 ========== Ask people about "the economy" and they look at gas prices and say it's terrible, especially GOP. Ask people and businesses how they are themselves doing, or just look at their economic behavior, and it's just great. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/opinion/economy-inflation-spending-jobs.html #PS1economics ===== impress 29 time 2021-12-11 13:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469660613953474561 ========== What makes money work? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/10/opinion/cash-crypto-trust-money.html For now, at least, take comfort from the most common global store of value is - American $100 bills. #PS1economics ===== impress 32 time 2021-12-11 12:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469652945406869505 ========== Side effect of covid - enlightenment about what's really important. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/04/business/public-resignation-quitting.html A side effect of poverty, though, is desperate desire to take any job, which will happen again eventually. #PS1economics ===== impress 33 time 2021-12-11 12:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469644651246194690 ========== Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-new-york-bitcoin-craig-wright-c822c8fca349b7b779b23aa2b6e9db32 #PS1economics ===== impress 20 time 2021-12-10 01:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469118390107209728 ========== Crypto currencies are not as stable as T-Bills! https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-plunges-over-20-another-063422558.html #PS1economics ===== impress 17 time 2021-12-10 01:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469117011179433984 ========== Reshipping work-at-home scams - you lose money AND might be criminally liable. https://www.freep.com/story/money/personal-finance/susan-tompor/2021/12/01/champagne-buckets-ski-doo-part-reshipping-scam-hit-detroiter/8793353002/ #PS1economics ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-10 01:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469115047020404738 ========== Trump says GOP shouldn't pay its past indebtedness. Many GOP legislators agree. But McConnell says OK as long as Democrats specify the amount of past GOP indebtedness to cover. https://apnews.com/article/business-janet-yellen-congress-2044ae1969a650b0400916dfca758f1d #PS1economics ===== impress 26 time 2021-12-08 14:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468583292324569095 ========== How expectations about the future affect labor market behavior today. Is the Great Resignation just a sign of optimism? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/opinion/economy-biden-november-jobs-report.html #PS1economics ===== impress 24 time 2021-12-04 04:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466991894362157057 ========== "We are now learning the hard way what 40 years of unbridled consolidation and lax merger enforcement mean" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/11/29/ftc-supply-chain-inquiry/ Of course! Deregulation is a pillar of minority rule - a few big wealthy powerful players is better than a bunch of little ones! #PS1economics ===== impress 11 time 2021-12-02 17:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466460938882543618 ========== 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/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1551697371841443 #PS1economics ===== impress 14 time 2021-12-02 17:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466459949744091141 ========== Still no slowdown in Silicon Valley. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/02/even-less-affordable-bay-area-home-prices-keep-soaring/ Pandemic aggravated housing wealth gap. https://mercurynews.com/2021/11/30/bubble-watch-pandemic-made-housings-rich-only-richer/ Location, location, location. #PS1economics ===== impress 14 time 2021-12-02 17:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466454674903502853 ========== GOP has offers criticism but no solutions - https://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. They can use guns, why not trucks? ... 6) Billionaire tax relief! More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1551638471847333 #PS1economics ===== impress 9 time 2021-12-02 15:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466433000380510223 ========== Tired of Silicon Valley real estate prices? Austin is going the same way - making room by moving out poor people. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/27/us/austin-texas-unaffordable-city.html There's still plenty of Texas where houses are cheap - urban amenities scarce - and politicians ridiculous. #PS1economics ===== engage 3 engage-rate 6% impress 54 likes 1 time 2021-11-29 04:17 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465173135569739781 ========== John Deere workers win better compensation and benefits, taking advantage of current economic conditions. https://www.arcamax.com/business/businessnews/s-2588950?fs #PS1economics ===== impress 28 time 2021-11-29 04:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465171096328495104 ========== Will a four-day workweek become the new normal? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/business/dealbook/four-day-workweek.html Do organizations have the discipline to shorten or eliminate useless meetings? #PS1economics ===== impress 25 time 2021-11-29 03:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465166121003192321 ========== Not everybody in Silicon Valley is hurting for a place to live! https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/28/record-second-home-purchases-fueled-by-bay-area-wealth/ #PS1economics ===== impress 29 time 2021-11-29 02:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465144769751834627 ========== Supply chain myths https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/supply-chain-myths/2021/11/24/f439dbec-4ca1-11ec-b0b0-766bbbe79347_story.html Caused by covid colliding with offshored manufacturing and just-in-time logistics, all of these factors are going to take years to unwind. Bad news for Biden and Democrats, though GOP has no better ideas. #PS1economics ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% expands 1 impress 40 likes 1 time 2021-11-28 08:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464866684611661830 ========== A seasonal labor shortage. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/santa-shortage-alternatives/2021/11/25/1f117c96-489f-11ec-95dc-5f2a96e00fa3_story.html Who wants to risk omicron for hours every day? #PS1economics ===== impress 36 time 2021-11-27 14:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464599314567548933 ========== The end of real family farming. https://news.yahoo.com/once-were-gone-were-not-125900469.html It's just too hard for the return. Note that when GOP politicians speak of "family farms" they really mean incorporated agribusinesses - big enough to be major political donors. #PS1economics ===== impress 19 time 2021-11-27 04:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464444014157959176 ========== Subminimum wage - a Florida GOP idea. https://news.yahoo.com/florida-lawmakers-consider-subminimum-wage-013500028.html “The goal here is to get people trained and then moved up to the minimum wage and beyond.” Good - otherwise it sounds like another plot to get $4.25/hour employees and then fire and replace them. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 24 time 2021-11-27 03:53 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464442303922114560 ========== Now hoarding and warehouses full of inventory seems smarter than just-in-time logistics. https://bnnbloomberg.ca/people-are-hoarding-food-shortages-are-the-next-supply-chain-crunch-1.1668387 More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1530403440637503 #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 29 time 2021-11-25 18:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463934557925740547 ========== The way to beat inflation is to have a severe recession. It worked for Reagan 40 years ago! https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-health-business-richard-nixon-ae06d5cccf066239f9aa7f06491c7698 But usually a recession is blamed on the president, worse than inflation. #PS1economics ===== impress 26 time 2021-11-25 05:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463749258100625413 ========== More trouble ahead. The west coast longshoremen contract expires in 2022. The east coast contract expires in 2024. Right now, labor is in command. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-11-18/biden-had-better-get-the-ports-back-to-work Inflation by increased labor costs or inflation by decreased supply due to strikes? #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 30 likes 1 time 2021-11-25 03:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463713906606559239 ========== Is it possible to get public employee pension funding on a sound financial basis? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#defined%20benefit https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/11/20/borenstein-biden-like-obama-aims-to-weaken-california-pension-reform/ #PS1economics ===== impress 22 time 2021-11-21 21:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1462529894512947200 ========== Ever wonder why EVERY restaurant has a Help Wanted sign and so many workers seem to have been hired yesterday? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/16/service-industry-jobs-rude-customers/ If you want better, faster service, you're going to have to pay for it. #PS1economics ===== impress 26 time 2021-11-17 07:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460870746452873218 ========== Time to get back to the game of brinkmanship. Some of the GOP are willing to bankrupt the government in order to get on Fox. Others are just pretending. https://apnews.com/article/business-janet-yellen-congress-f0d9e9e5239f5e1ca80051f221e603d7 #PS1economics ===== impress 20 time 2021-11-17 06:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460863725208883206 ========== When inflation is externally driven, there is not much anybody can do except let market forces take their course. But "there's nothing to be done but wait" is poison for a politician in a democracy, no matter how true it is. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/15/inflation-biden-gop-delusion/ #PS1economics ===== impress 26 time 2021-11-16 01:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460419185910030337 ========== Something new in antitrust law - considering effects on workers. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/opinion/antitrust-penguin-biden.html But the real point is that concentrated power is bad and needs to be periodically redistributed - as surely for economic power as political. #PS1economics ===== impress 27 time 2021-11-16 00:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460402617704538112 ========== The free market at work - slowly! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/technology/computer-chip-shortage.html The market for commodity microcontrollers has passed from a buyer's market to a seller's. Now manufacturers are increasing capacity. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1539882853022895 #PS1economics ===== impress 10 time 2021-11-15 00:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460042007867387905 ========== Whoops - maybe real estate is NOT a road to instant riches! https://711web.com/is-the-fickle-zillow-fiasco-at-home-a-warning/ “Buy high, sell high is a suspicious concept" Bubbly suspicious. #PS1economics ===== impress 15 time 2021-11-15 00:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460037640661598208 ========== Inflation in Europe and the US - more similar than different. GOP will blame Biden anyway. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/opinion/inflation-us-europe-covid.html #PS1economics ===== impress 18 time 2021-11-14 22:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460009023365804037 ========== Tired of Silicon Valley real estate? Don't expect it to be much better in Austin. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/magazine/real-estate-pandemic.html Too many tax incentives for investors make it hard to buy a house to live in. The investors are major political donors, so don't expect that to change. #PS1economics ===== impress 40 time 2021-11-14 21:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460003151499513856 ========== Where do feelings about the economy and the future come from? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/opinion/economy-inflation-supply-chain.html Objective reality is only part of it; media propaganda is also important. That matters because swing voters are mostly persuaded by how they feel about the economy. #PS1economics ===== impress 69 time 2021-11-13 14:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459530524830011398 ========== Are more people returning to single incomes during child-raising years? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/12/are-americans-starting-embrace-one-earner-households-again/ If so that's inflationary - and requires more immigration. Where does the "pro-family" GOP stand on this? Blame Biden and force people to go back to work! #PS1economics ===== impress 74 time 2021-11-13 05:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459387600850939907 ========== Big business is bad for small business, even if they do nothing illegal. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/11/07/small-business-supply-chain-pandemic/ #PS1economics ===== impress 77 time 2021-11-12 15:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459184381889703938 ========== Wage increases not beating inflation! https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-17/inflation-has-turned-15-an-hour-wages-into-a-setback #PS1economics ===== impress 17 time 2021-11-10 03:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458281754100260872 ========== CEO pay and performance https://www.nvdaily.com/nvdaily/motley-food/article_70f356a7-0789-52b2-a7ae-6377465e6cf0.html Worse performance - better pay! #PS1economics ===== impress 16 time 2021-11-10 03:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458281053303414794 ========== The economic structure underlying racism https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/opinion/structural-racism.html There's nothing new about these ideas. What's new is a redoubled and unapologetic push to deny them. #PS1economics ===== impress 26 time 2021-11-10 01:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458239250189615104 ========== Measuring Biden with Trump's yardstick. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/09/biden-economy-is-doing-pretty-well-by-measures-trump-used-evaluate-his-own/ #PS1economics ===== impress 24 time 2021-11-10 00:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458231405599625217 ========== No easy fix - https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/11/09/biden-supply-chain-ports/ Where are they going to find more truck drivers to deliver all the cargo containers they'll pile up? #PS1economics ===== impress 35 time 2021-11-09 23:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458220544298348544 ========== The last conglomerate? Good riddance! https://apnews.com/article/business-0efa0e45cba17ec5e51011b83bdd52f1 May it soon be joined by leveraged buyouts and similar scams. #PS1economics ===== impress 27 time 2021-11-09 23:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458210117816512523 ========== What happens when "status quo bias" is disrupted by external shocks? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/opinion/great-resignation-quit-job.html #PS1economics ===== impress 43 time 2021-11-06 04:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456837954681200645 ========== Good news for GOP! https://apnews.com/article/business-economy-prices-inflation-d98e33f5f024e5109486b70662196ed7 GOP has no idea to cure supply-chain issues or mideast oil cutbacks. But they can offer plenty of criticism until they gain control of Congress, then they'll change the subject until the economy improves on its own. #PS1economics ===== impress 27 time 2021-11-03 13:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455894342095151104 ========== 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 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1531012033909977 #PS1economics ===== impress 32 time 2021-11-02 02:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455355610644373514 ========== The super rich don't like any publicity. All publicity is bad publicity for them. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/29/into-the-realm-of-the-super-rich-oakland-author-reports-from-the-gilded-edge/ They know perfectly well that accidents and luck have a lot to do with who gets rich and who doesn't. The best luck is to be born rich. #PS1economics ===== impress 39 time 2021-11-01 03:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455007657643761673 ========== After workers endured 40 years of union-busting, covid provided leverage to revive the labor movement. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/31/faq-striketober/ #PS1economics ===== engage 2 engage-rate 6% impress 33 time 2021-11-01 01:18 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454981125281964033 ========== 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. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1529855780692269 #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 29 time 2021-10-31 06:22 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454695282063544324 ========== Another bank warns about post office delays - "USPS announced revised service standards resulting in an increased delivery window.This could impact mail sent to and from Capital One" It's an opportunity to push paperless billing, saving lots of money - for banks. #PS1economics ===== impress 86 time 2021-10-27 13:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453354661566554112 ========== Paid leave - another unexpected issue in Virginia? And maybe elsewhere? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/25/virginia-governor-mcauliffe-paid-leave/ #PS1economics ===== impress 59 time 2021-10-26 13:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452993598950023168 ========== How alarming - workers organizing the way their employers do. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/25/liz-shuler-afl-cio-striketober-workers-healthy-labor-movement/ #PS1economics ===== impress 58 time 2021-10-26 00:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452796014717374469 ========== Universal Basic Income catches on. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/25/chicago-poised-create-one-nations-largest-guaranteed-basic-income-programs/ Alaska has had it for 40 years. #PS1economics ===== impress 64 time 2021-10-25 23:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452786360905912322 ========== Does anybody really understand economics? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#cycle Maybe not. There's too much mass psychology involved. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/upshot/inflation-economy-analysis.html #PS1economics ===== impress 51 time 2021-10-25 03:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452472188737441793 ========== Amazon outsourced all the HR parts that it didn't want to bother with. The theory must have been that HR is not a core competency because no customer chooses a supplier based on its HR practices. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/technology/amazon-employee-leave-errors.html Fits GOP ideas about capital vs labor. #PS1economics ===== impress 54 time 2021-10-25 02:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452462973503500294 ========== Supply-chain-induced inflation was caused by the inevitable collision of just-in-time logistics with unforeseen covid. There's no quick fix. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/22/why-supply-chain-crunch-will-continue-into-2022/ Undeterred by facts, GOP will blame Biden anyway. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1525403934470787 #PS1economics ===== impress 53 time 2021-10-25 02:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452457195208015872 ========== The solution to labor shortages is out there... pay more! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/us/garbage-delays-labor-jacksonville-florida.html It's hard for GOP to swallow a free market for labor as well as capital. #PS1economics ===== impress 31 time 2021-10-24 22:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452396683048853514 ========== If poor people wanted more influence, they should donate more to Senatorial campaigns. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/10/24/west-virginia-manchin-child-tax-credit/ Sure they might have to rob a bank to donate enough to be noticed, but that's how you get Congress to work for you instead of against you. #PS1economics ===== impress 34 time 2021-10-24 17:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452319699572871168 ========== Workers want to have a life - a novel concept to some employers. https://apnews.com/article/business-lifestyle-new-york-306596169aed48d6d7bebe351ce51ad0 That's one of the reasons for the Great Resignation. Workers should exploit what freedoms they can. Party's over when GOP takes over. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 30 time 2021-10-24 02:10 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452095111651729410 ========== The GOP could re-legalize slavery - an employment draft like the military draft. Then they could avoid making jobs attractive. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-lifestyle-health-indiana-d3acd668eaf6343aada03cd660055bbc Turns out GOP family values do not include parents staying home to take care of children. #PS1economics ===== impress 79 time 2021-10-22 17:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451607717898948609 ========== Why everything is scarce and expensive - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/business/shortages-supply-chain.html It's the revenge of the virus and just-in-time logistics. The system would fix itself eventually if there were no further shocks, but there will be, sooner or later. As usual, GOP blames Biden. #PS1economics ===== impress 71 time 2021-10-22 16:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451593580544290823 ========== The black death increased the power of labor and led to the rise of the middle class. Is something similar happening now? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/opinion/covid-work-strikes-quit-resignation.html Relative incomes of workers increased for a generation after the depression, then declined with Reaganism. #PS1economics ===== impress 83 time 2021-10-22 00:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451345164996280323 ========== How corporations reorganize to avoid liability. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/business/chemours-dupont-pfas-genx-chemicals.html #PS1economics ===== impress 101 time 2021-10-21 03:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451024941441114112 ========== Teachers wearing out. https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/10/18/teachers-resign-pandemic/ There are so many easier ways to earn a better living. Children just aren't a priority with most voters. #PS1economics ===== impress 78 time 2021-10-20 23:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450974145601171457 ========== "The winners in all of this are the exchanges and the asset managers and the custodians" Three out of four ain't bad! https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-bitcoin-f6d7ba724bf156fd5d603661c99fd5c2 #PS1economics ===== impress 84 time 2021-10-20 06:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450707286469459968 ========== As predicted - on the whole, hedge funds made money on Gamestop in January. Made it off individual investors. https://apnews.com/article/business-bf7f6f6155a9ebf107430806d806330a It's very hard to compete with bargain-price trade execution. #PS1economics ===== impress 115 time 2021-10-19 00:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450253509606051840 ========== The woes of blue cities in red states. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/opinion/parler-nashville.html They attract the monetizers of Trumpism with the best of both worlds - combining no income taxes and Trumpist state politicians with an intellectually and artistically stimulating and vibrant economy. #PS1economics ===== impress 112 time 2021-10-18 14:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450108848715427841 ========== Ride sharing comes back to earth. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/17/opinion/uber-lyft.html #PS1economics ===== impress 108 time 2021-10-18 14:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450106211202785289 ========== That was the economics that wasn't. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/18/urban-myths-about-economics-have-taken-root-cost-is-high/ The Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to scholars who tried to put statistical economics comparative studies on more solid ground. #PS1economics ===== impress 98 time 2021-10-18 13:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450098549576777728 ========== Plan on permanent inflation or plan on transient inflation? Which is worse if we're wrong? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/opinion/us-economy-inflation.html #PS1economics ===== impress 80 time 2021-10-17 22:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449866387514486790 ========== When labor is scarce, strikes work better. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/17/strikes-great-resignation/ #PS1economics ===== impress 81 time 2021-10-17 21:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449847433056309250 ========== We didn't defeat the business cycle after all. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#cycle People can believe inflation into existence - just like recession. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/15/us-economy-inflation-uncomfortable/ Thus transitory covid demand-supply imbalance can lead to long-term inflationary psychology. #PS1economics ===== impress 95 time 2021-10-15 22:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449137728050716676 ========== A universal income in lieu of dozens of mean-tested programs and associated bureaucracies might be more effective. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-ubi.html Means testing is a way to prevent broad popularity of programs and make it easier to kill them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/14/means-testing-is-bad-policy-bad-politics-keep-it-out-build-back-better-act/ #PS1economics ===== impress 90 time 2021-10-15 14:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449019978473111558 ========== Why people don't want lousy jobs any more. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/opinion/workers-quitting-wages.html The pandemic focused their thinking. Life is too short for lousy jobs. #PS1economics ===== impress 87 time 2021-10-15 03:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448854822627647490 ========== Where inflation is hitting hardest - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/14/inflation-prices-supply-chain/ Can we rein it in before inflationary psychology sets in for a decade or more? #PS1economics ===== impress 91 time 2021-10-15 03:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448848445041614855 ========== For once, Nobel prize research with immediate applications to ordinary life. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/opinion/nobel-prize-economics.html Sometimes you can do fairly well controlled experiments in economics. But that won't bother GOP legislators. They already know what they are paid to believe. #PS1economics ===== impress 51 time 2021-10-13 20:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448382808259395584 ========== No politician wants to tackle Social Security's long-term problem - raise taxes or reduce benefits. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#defined%20benefit People live too long and there aren't enough young people to pay for it. But they get an inflation offset - https://apnews.com/article/social-security-cola-increase-4f2cd7b763371b91923227be883e367e #PS1economics ===== impress 49 time 2021-10-13 17:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448340500793081859 ========== The dark sides of online retailing - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/free-returns-online-shopping/620169/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/11/warehouse-jobs-holidays-seasonal-hiring/ #PS1economics ===== impress 70 time 2021-10-11 21:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447673843464617988 ========== Surprise! Neither minimum wage nor immigration cause unemployment. https://apnews.com/article/nobel-prizes-business-europe-3cbc672f994ae6f4f486a68b52c2bb32 GOP politicians will keep saying the opposite anyway, because that's what they do. #PS1economics ===== impress 84 time 2021-10-11 13:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447552910410223619 ========== Did you notice when Powerade went from 32oz to 28oz? https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/eta5ps/powerade_is_using_shrinkflation_by_replacing/ Other forms of inflation are subtler - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/upshot/shadow-inflation-analysis.html Restaurant and hotel service is not what it used to be. Phone tree hell has replaced customer service people. #PS1economics ===== impress 84 time 2021-10-11 03:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447403508135723009 ========== The shipping crisis is not getting better. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/business/supply-chain-crisis-savannah-port.html Who's to blame? All those MBA's who 30 years ago were touting offshore manufacturing and just-in-time logistics. They were right - it was cheaper - as long as absolutely nothing went wrong. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 88 time 2021-10-11 02:58 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447396257786331137 ========== Why would anybody want to have anything to do with these guys? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-07/crypto-mystery-where-s-the-69-billion-backing-the-stablecoin-tether Don't invest in something you don't understand - very ancient wisdom. #PS1economics ===== impress 79 time 2021-10-11 00:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447364515704627328 ========== Delta economy depresses office space in some places https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-unemployment-health-bf233e99f16690a3e37cf102021b956a But not Silicon Valley https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/08/covid-real-estate-silicon-valley-office-rent-record-heights-tech/ Housing prices continue to rise too - amazing since everybody is moving to Texas, according to Greg Abbott. #PS1economics ===== impress 22 time 2021-10-10 18:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447267477138722817 ========== Why so few jobs were filled in September. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-united-states-health-economy-c9189de30b0cf807689e83f5e56d218d #PS1economics ===== impress 14 time 2021-10-10 05:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447079285039058946 ========== There are some reasons to hope for a better future in 6-9 months. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/opinion/recovery-covid-economy.html But climate change and know-nothing-ism aren't going away. #PS1economics ===== impress 56 time 2021-10-08 02:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446305533821026305 ========== The debt ceiling - a guide for the perplexed. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/us/politics/us-debt-ceiling.html #PS1economics ===== impress 49 time 2021-10-08 02:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446302065769074688 ========== All the twisted thinking behind the debt ceiling postponement. https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/default-senate-deal/2021/10/07/222f9008-2779-11ec-8831-a31e7b3de188_story.html McConnell knew what he was doing, and so did Schumer. They both think they are better off. Those who speak, do not know; those that know, do not speak. For now. #PS1economics ===== impress 57 time 2021-10-08 02:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446298372730540036 ========== How white blue-collar workers shifted from leftists to reactionaries, and ending up serving the purposes of the minority rulers that abused them. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/opinion/globalization-work-trump-social-justice.html #PS1economics ===== impress 89 time 2021-10-07 19:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446196645218054145 ========== Does the 14th Amendment solve the budget ceiling crisis? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/opinion/biden-debt-ceiling.html It would end up in court, so who can tell. Better for the Democrats to bite the bullet and use filibuster to eliminated the budget ceiling permanently. #PS1economics ===== impress 78 time 2021-10-07 16:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446145256932593675 ========== Could the yuan displace the dollar in international finance? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/20/how-trump-made-chinas-currency-great-again/ That's where the GOP is headed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/07/world-is-questioning-washingtons-competence-fearing-prospect-us-default/ The world is right to question the competence of Congress. #PS1economics ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% impress 83 likes 1 time 2021-10-07 15:12 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446131386839027720 ========== A filibuster change to pass a debt ceiling increase? https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-congress-filibusters-daf3d1c1e78a764b01af043ac2617cc6 Then call out the Democratic senators who fail to support it. #PS1economics ===== impress 196 time 2021-10-06 06:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445632039156285440 ========== A trillion dollar coin to solve the debt ceiling crisis? https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-business-congress-85d495defe92b42915c19f3fc2d0176d Better to vote to eliminate the debt ceiling altogether - and call out the GOP senators who vote for default. Then pass it anyway by overriding the filibuster on this one issue. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% impress 234 time 2021-10-06 06:04 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445631039318093835 ========== Companies are rethinking offshoring and just-in-time logistics. Those approaches were cheaper - until they didn't work at all. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-technology-business-health-hurricanes-46bce9cc36dab2b330309dae0354cf53 If the pandemic economic recovery had been slower, the chances of shortages and inflation might have been lower. #PS1economics ===== impress 150 time 2021-10-04 20:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445130748235636736 ========== Debt ceiling history and future. https://usanewssite.com/culture/jill-on-money-debt-ceiling-fight-risks-fiscal-defcon-1/ There's still a sufficient majority to prevent default. But the GOP is recruiting Foxy Trumpist morons and crazies to Congress who would vote for default, just because the Democrats said not to. #PS1economics ===== impress 131 time 2021-10-04 20:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445129267390529540 ========== If you play a good hand poorly, you still lose. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/30/us-economy-soars-while-american-politics-craters/ #PS1economics ===== impress 118 time 2021-10-04 20:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445118952007364616 ========== 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 $3.5 trillion - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/opinion/federal-spending-democrats.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1511317445879436 #PS1economics ===== impress 133 time 2021-10-04 14:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445038396863176707 ========== The end of tipping? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/20/dining/restaurant-wages.html Food service employers are considering the radical idea of paying a living wage to ALL their employees. Better to raise prices accordingly and enforce a NO TIPPING policy in order to pay every worker fairly. #PS1economics ===== impress 151 time 2021-10-04 03:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444870178987147265 ========== 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. The difference is we have more reality-deprived legislators willing to actually default on the debt. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1510829965928184 #PS1economics ===== impress 68 time 2021-10-03 21:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444769547932733440 ========== Funny money funnies 2 - the trillion dollar platinum coin https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/01/mint-coin-debt-ceiling/ Instant solution to the debt limit crisis. Do it, and then repeal the debt limit entirely when the absurdity has fully sunk in. #PS1economics ===== engage 3 engage-rate 3% expands 2 impress 105 time 2021-10-03 20:35 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444763102071779329 ========== Funny money funnies 1 - regulating "stablecoins" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/02/stablecoins-crypto-regulation/ Right now they don't have to have any inherent value at all. It's a first step toward regulating cryptocurrencies to take all the criminal fun out of them. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 92 time 2021-10-03 20:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444762695580798978 ========== When phasing out coal, natural gas becomes more valuable. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/business/natural-gas-prices.html Turns out that affects chemical and fertilizer prices - and thus food prices. Oil (and gasoline) are going up too. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 72 time 2021-10-03 20:13 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444757534405902337 ========== Why service is so slow. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/09/30/during-great-resignation-workers-refuse-accept-unacceptable/ People aren't willing to work crappy jobs and endure abuse by employers and customers. covid unemployment relief really had little to do with it. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 60 time 2021-10-03 01:07 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444469205567348736 ========== What a pile of political... fertilizer. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/10/01/white-house-debt-ceiling/ Congress should abolish the debt ceiling once and for all, and pass a permanent continuing resolution to end this foolishness. By breaking filibuster if need be. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 75 time 2021-10-03 01:01 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444467642589323275 ========== Poverty isn't what it used to be. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-09-24/federal-poverty-level-us-families It's worse. #PS1economics ===== impress 43 time 2021-09-30 03:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1443418781108228100 ========== Wells Fargo, PGE, ... Some companies can't do the right thing to save their lives. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wells-fargo-reaches-37-3-174614603.html #PS1economics ===== impress 53 time 2021-09-30 03:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1443416255382241281 ========== Trump abandoned US global leadership in politics, trade, and military power. So why shouldn't the Trumpist GOP abandon American leadership in stable currency and finance? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/25/mitch-mcconnell-republicans-stop-playing-games-debt-ceiling/ McConnell might think he's bluffing, but his pals aren't. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% expands 1 impress 419 time 2021-09-26 17:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1442184467989155840 ========== https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ A continually rising standard of living requires a continually rising supply of labor. But all the mature democracies are getting older because children are too expensive and they don't want immigration. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/opinion/china-evergrande-japan.html #PS1economics ===== impress 409 time 2021-09-26 15:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1442145564368379914 ========== Kick the can down the road. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/25/danger-isnt-that-chinas-evergrande-will-collapse-its-that-it-wont/ It works for democracies, it works for dictatorships - avoid dealing with problems in the hope that they will be somebody else's problem by the time they can't be avoided any longer. #PS1economics ===== impress 405 time 2021-09-26 13:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1442123059410833420 ========== The great debt limit scam. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/debt-limit-ceiling-reconciliation-gop-biden/2021/09/24/e0dd1ce8-1c87-11ec-a99a-5fea2b2da34b_story.html GOP loves to raise issues that voters don't understand, and then take every step to make sure they keep not understanding. Just look at the tax code. #PS1economics ===== impress 403 time 2021-09-26 13:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1442120799377256454 ========== Reparations for black people? That's a hard sell. https://apnews.com/article/biden-study-reparations-congress-e3c045ece4d0e0eae393a18a09a4a37e How about reparations for POOR people? That benefits everybody ripped off by the ruling class. Such as a guaranteed annual income for everybody who votes? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-ubi.html #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% expands 1 impress 414 time 2021-09-25 13:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441751447855534086 ========== Is FTC going to support right to repair? https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-9f84a8b72bb6dd408cb642414cd28f5d #PS1economics ===== impress 428 time 2021-09-25 01:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441568321468391427 ========== There's bipartisan support for military spending, but not domestic. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/24/meltdown-among-democrats-shows-our-budget-debates-are-insane/ That's because the big donors get a net benefit from military spending, but not domestic. #PS1economics ===== impress 139 time 2021-09-24 22:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441529404803276800 ========== It's true that voters don't care. But major donors care - especially GOP, but also Democratic - because they figure they'll be paying for it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress-is-hurtling-toward-a-debt-showdown-despite-the-publics-waning-interest-in-the-governments-red-ink/2021/09/23/9719fdc6-1bc7-11ec-8380-5fbadbc43ef8_story.html Democrats should just repeal the debt limit altogether and be done with it. #PS1economics ===== impress 149 time 2021-09-24 04:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441253771653177347 ========== Getting ready for a great game of "chicken". https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/09/23/shutdown-congress-budget-debt-ceiling/ #PS1economics ===== impress 84 time 2021-09-23 19:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441118309957529615 ========== Get rid of the debt limit! It's a stupid prop for stupid politicians. https://apnews.com/article/debt-limit-explained-8c9cbcd3d0c4a8fe989a0110f5159f7c While they're at it, enact a permanent continuing resolution that sustains government agency funding at the previous level until Congress enacts to appropriate. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 112 time 2021-09-23 02:06 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1440860064722538500 ========== The rebirth of a dollar down and a dollar a week - for the rest of your life. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/03/your-money/buy-now-pay-later-afterpay-affirm-amazon-square.html #PS1economics ===== impress 86 time 2021-09-23 01:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1440857997870186496 ========== Any voter who will put up with Trumpism will put up with defaulting on the debt. GOP has realized that there's no political penalty from their base for default. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/21/debt-limit-republicans-default-mcconnell-cruz/ The question is what the persuadables who decide close elections will think. #PS1economics ===== impress 48 time 2021-09-22 06:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1440562836648828928 ========== The war on coal was lost long ago. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/20/opinion/joe-manchin-coal-climate-biden.html Even if it weren't lost in the Reagan administration, to automation, it would be lost now, to fracking - a cheaper cleaner form of energy, although one that has to stop to make progress on climate change. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 55 likes 1 time 2021-09-20 23:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1440095561424597000 ========== Rented cars lately? You'll have learned a lot about supply and demand. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/20/upshot/car-rental-prices-economy.html #PS1economics ===== impress 52 time 2021-09-20 23:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1440094308317626374 ========== Nothing lasts forever - https://apnews.com/article/business-asia-tokyo-hong-kong-shanghai-b52fc25ad8c51f726bd2fb3f75de6fa9 Thanks to a global economy, Chinese real estate speculators might push the value of your retirement plans down even if your plans don't invest in Chinese real estate. #PS1economics ===== impress 52 time 2021-09-20 19:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1440034815470755846 ========== Who's going to call whose bluff? https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/09/20/white-house-debt-ceiling/ If Democrats are going to act on their own, they might as well repeal the debt ceiling entirely. #PS1economics ===== impress 64 time 2021-09-20 16:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1439987242458517508 ========== GOP touts family values and work ethic but acts as if poor people deserve to be even poorer. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/09/19/childcare-workers-quit/ For to every one who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. #PS1economics ===== engage 2 engage-rate 10% impress 21 likes 1 time 2021-09-19 21:21 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1439701085329920000 ========== Maybe it wasn't the pandemic unemployment boost after all. https://www.reuters.com/business/amid-covid-surge-states-that-cut-benefits-still-see-no-hiring-boost-2021-09-17/ How about trying higher wages, a safe (vaxxed and masked) working environment, and free child care? Disinterest in employment correlates with surging covid and with GOP leadership! #PS1economics ===== impress 24 time 2021-09-19 15:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1439606800739753987 ========== It wasn't just day traders that lost money on Roaring Kitty. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/business/roaring-kitty-gamestop-massmutual-settlement.html #PS1economics ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 83 time 2021-09-17 21:34 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1438979822227574786 ========== GOP is counting on Democrats to be financially responsible. But GOP will blame Democrats no matter what happens. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-mitch-mcconnell-medicaid-0e9ebf342d80eed4643b732ce1a4f0e2 Presumably the major GOP donors will tell their senators when to stop playing games that threaten their economic power. #PS1economics ===== impress 78 time 2021-09-17 16:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1438909917570560006 ========== How to build monopolies without interference. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-15/tech-giants-used-loopholes-to-duck-merger-reviews-ftc-says #PS1economics ===== impress 84 time 2021-09-17 14:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1438875668398305290 ========== Want good schools in Silicon Valley? Better pay teachers like technologists. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/09/13/bay-area-housing-prices-fall-hard-on-school-teachers/ Or tell teachers they must marry a prosperous technologist if they ever want to own a home. #PS1economics ===== impress 88 time 2021-09-17 05:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1438733410139205634 ========== Big organizations seem to have difficulties correcting problems that make them look bad - until the press notices. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/technology/google-temporary-workers-labor-laws-pay.html That's why we have a free press - and whistleblower laws. #PS1economics ===== impress 80 time 2021-09-17 05:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1438731565006143493 ========== GOP will never vote for national default - unless the Democrats MAKE them. Then, of course, GOP will vote for default. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/15/mitch-mcconnells-debt-limit-game-playing-is-lunacy-we-should-say-so/ GOP COULD offer a clean debt ceiling bill to avoid default. But they won't do that either. #PS1economics ===== impress 83 time 2021-09-17 03:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1438706949567049729 ========== Union-busting is a fundamental goal of minority rule. Workers fight back - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/05/opinion/labor-day-union.html Profound labor shortages throughout the post-covid economy are returning some power to the workers. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1492392801105234 #PS1economics ===== impress 58 time 2021-09-06 23:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1435022303696351233 ========== You want more affordable housing in desirable areas? You'll have to pay for it, one way or another. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/28/wholl-pay-the-cost-of-affordable-california-housing/ Anything that makes housing less expensive reduces the value of your house, too. That's why it's not happening. #PS1economics ===== impress 56 time 2021-08-29 19:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1432062167516286979 ========== What happened to your local mall? https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-2-billion-mall-rats Was covid just the coup de grace? In any case, beware of investments you don't understand. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 55 time 2021-08-27 14:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1431259200177336320 ========== Public opinion polls aren't worth much if all they tell you is who is in the White House. https://washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/28/biden-trump-economy-confidence/ #PS1economics ===== impress 71 time 2021-08-27 02:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1431074530617802752 ========== In most times and places, the only way for most people to own a house is to inherit it. America's catching up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07/18/idaho-housing-market/ When investors buy houses, rents go up and local renters are out of luck. So change the tax laws? GOP donors say no. #PS1economics ===== impress 30 time 2021-07-20 02:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1417310793519960099 ========== The exodus is to Tahoe (and Sonoma and Napa) - much more than Austin - or South Dakota. About a third of the Tahoe Basin is in Nevada, which doesn't tax rich people much. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/07/19/tahoe-real-estate-soars-even-as-pandemic-eases/ All this means local renters lose - they could try Austin, Nevada. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 27 time 2021-07-19 23:47 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1417269859025526829 ========== A smarter version of Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/07/16/elon-musk-trial-analysis/ Just another self-serving opportunistic narcissist. #PS1economics ===== impress 31 time 2021-07-16 15:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1416063523906408450 ========== Will guaranteed income work in California? https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-california-4fea151e0425f8188337e44a02ab8177 #PS1economics ===== impress 29 time 2021-07-16 01:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1415842492725878784 ========== Low interest rates and income inequality. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/07/12/opinion/covid-fed-qe-inequality.html Low interest rates seem to be good for everybody. But they are a lot better for a few than for many. #PS1economics ===== impress 31 time 2021-07-13 06:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1414828418227523587 ========== Unlimited deficit spending and irreconcilable partisan differences can catch up with you. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/05/world/middleeast/lebanon-economic-crisis.html #PS1economics ===== impress 23 time 2021-07-12 15:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1414603070571311109 ========== The Black Death reset the balance between capital (land) and labor and launched the middle class. Will covid have similar consequences? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/11/will-labor-markets-great-reset-change-things-workers-over-long-term/ #PS1economics ===== impress 30 time 2021-07-12 05:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1414458333910626306 ========== GOP gets that concentration of power in government bureaucracies can be harmful. But they are blind to the same in corporate bureaucracies. That has to do with how they finance their election campaigns. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/07/09/competition-prices-antitrust-biden-order/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/07/09/biden-executive-order-promoting-competition/ #PS1economics ===== impress 40 time 2021-07-10 05:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1413733033505476612 ========== Fattening public employee pensions without paying for them. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/07/09/borenstein-california-pension-reforms-would-be-undermined-by-new-bill/ Several California cities have gone bankrupt because of pension obligations that they could never satisfy. Defined-benefit pensions are more responsibility than they can handle. #PS1economics ===== impress 34 time 2021-07-09 20:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1413588792313737220 ========== "it's consuming real resources, doing a function that has no value" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/07/08/bitcoin-mining-texas-electricity/ What will they do in Rockdale when the bubble bursts? Bitcoin is too polluting for China. Texas? No problem! #PS1economics ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% impress 61 time 2021-07-09 04:22 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1413352895018196994 ========== Since the Biden Recession didn't happen, the GOP is giving credit to their 2017 tax cut - even though no tax cut ever has boosted the economy out of recession. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/05/opinion/joe-biden-economy.html So what will they say if there is a recession later? #PS1economics ===== impress 39 time 2021-07-09 03:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1413337052402225159 ========== GOP TALKS about workers but Biden DOES something. GOP can't DO because its donors don't approve. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-government-and-politics-01080611dc8a8f92c4eec6c6bb412f86 #PS1economics ===== impress 36 time 2021-07-09 03:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1413332950477803524 ========== Trump was a big supporter of farmers and ranchers! At least those that could afford major political donations and Mar-a-Lago. https://apnews.com/article/business-c899e1c834f1d7ba272d7c524c5a8e09 And the little guys - what were they ever going to do for Trump? Biden is helping but they'll vote GOP anyway. #PS1economics ===== impress 53 time 2021-07-07 19:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1412862719942750209 ========== Not enough immigrants? How about teens? https://apnews.com/article/nj-state-wire-co-state-wire-health-coronavirus-pandemic-travel-2f02bf564e726f4c4f6916790bda7a2a #PS1economics ===== impress 53 time 2021-07-07 19:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1412861618761830404 ========== Predatory pricing to destroy competitors is not in the public interest. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/07/06/facebook-bulletin-antitrust/ The root problem is organizations that have gotten so large and profitable that they can afford to destroy competitors that way. #PS1economics ===== impress 18 time 2021-07-06 13:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1412402685932806145 ========== The market cures supply chain problems - eventually. Complicated systems like cars take longer than raw commodities like lumber. So inflation will last longer. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/upshot/markets-work-but-untangling-global-supply-chains-takes-time.html #PS1economics ===== impress 19 time 2021-07-06 02:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1412239196299816971 ========== Good times ahead for blue-collar workers - if there were any. https://apnews.com/article/economy-health-coronavirus-pandemic-business-0f1b97e9b5953080edf1fbf0412a1d94 It's a bad time to be restricting immigration. #PS1economics ===== impress 19 time 2021-07-05 23:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1412190729032503300 ========== Private equity and hedge funds - "job creators" - in other countries! It's a good deal for the investors - who are in the political donor class. https://apnews.com/article/business-government-and-politics-3d9c44e6259ed72915de4e7188be5c8e #PS1economics ===== impress 18 time 2021-07-02 01:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1410767056547377152 ========== "The real purpose of these NDAs appears to be preventing public input" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/opinion/nda-amazon-google-facebook.html Global megacorporations love pushing local governments around. #PS1economics ===== impress 31 time 2021-06-30 04:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1410097728680460288 ========== Corporate law boom - global giants are outbidding the government for legal help, leaving the FTC and IRS short-handed and under-funded. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/technology/boom-times-for-lawyers-as-washington-pursues-big-tech.html Another reason why concentration of power is always bad. #PS1economics ===== impress 41 time 2021-06-29 14:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1409881503803269127 ========== It's still possible to retain and attract employees. All you have to do is offer them what they need. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/06/28/employee-burnout-corporate-america/ #PS1economics ===== impress 25 time 2021-06-29 14:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1409879388993241104 ========== Surprise - you can find workers if you offer enough pay! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/27/business/economy/jobs-workers-unemployment-benefits.html Red-state Trumpist small business owners seem to have missed the economics class where they'd have learned that reducing illegal immigration makes domestic workers more expensive. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 15 likes 1 time 2021-06-28 03:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1409349643935248386 ========== Where is Theodore Roosevelt when we need him? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/06/25/ftc-antitrust-monopoly-silicon-valley/ All kinds of concentrations of power are anti-democratic and tend to institutionalize themselves. #PS1economics ===== impress 21 time 2021-06-27 06:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1409038524788006913 ========== Teamsters vs Amazon! https://apnews.com/article/wa-state-wire-technology-business-27b00770b2189ddbd8ddcb64e5bad96c Neither have ever been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. #PS1economics ===== impress 28 time 2021-06-26 13:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1408777606535671808 ========== Know what a SPAC is? It's a good deal for somebody - but probably not you! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/business/lordstown-motors-steve-burns-julio-rodriguez.html #PS1economics ===== impress 44 time 2021-06-16 00:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1404955254479671301 ========== Amazon has been an algorithmic employer - debugging the algorithms on live employees, engendering an amazing employee turnover. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/us/politics/amazon-warehouse-workers.html #PS1economics ===== impress 29 time 2021-06-15 23:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1404947471051104259 ========== "America¢s high rate of poverty is a policy choice, and there are reasons we choose it over and over again" Not just rich people want poverty institutionalized. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/13/opinion/stimulus-unemployment-republicans-poverty.html #PS1economics ===== impress 33 time 2021-06-14 04:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1404297560756350979 ========== Conglomerates excel at a few things - executive compensation - and destroying shareholder value and workers' jobs. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/12/opinion/att-warner-bros-discovery.html Has ATT discovered that being a regulated telephone company is not such a bad business after all? #PS1economics ===== impress 51 time 2021-06-13 06:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1403970365173338123 ========== Consolidation of industries is inherently risky for everybody else. But consolidated industrial giants have a lot more political clout with legislators. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-06-09/jbs-cyberattack-shows-vulnerability-of-world-food-supplies #PS1economics ===== impress 71 time 2021-06-12 04:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1403573975465160706 ========== Just-in-time logistics optimizes the normal steady state. It has no penalty function for failures during abnormal circumstances, which are becoming increasingly normal and global. So the whole system falls apart at once. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/business/coronavirus-global-shortages.html #PS1economics ===== impress 37 time 2021-06-07 20:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1401994360665694208 ========== National security or national pork? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/07/us/politics/senate-china-semiconductors.html If it's bipartisan, there's probably a lot of pork to bind it together and overcome traditional conservative opposition to industrial policy. #PS1economics ===== impress 36 time 2021-06-07 14:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1401915899301580801 ========== Work won't love you back! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/opinion/Naomi-Osaka-ambition-women.html How much do you owe to those who would profit from your labor? #PS1economics ===== impress 35 time 2021-06-07 05:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1401780456379453441 ========== It's a shortage of jobs, not a shortage of workers Cutting unemployment benefits will reduce spending and reduce demand further, increasing unemployment. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/opinion/jobs-report-wages-unemployment-covid.html #PS1economics ===== impress 39 time 2021-06-07 05:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1401776602686525449 ========== More covid winners - white teenagers seeking jobs. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/30/business/economy/pandemic-jobs-teenagers.html Just goes to show all it takes is money. #PS1economics ===== impress 43 time 2021-06-06 20:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1401638754721304577 ========== No more malls! And other approaches to California's housing crisis. https://www.ocregister.com/2021/06/06/my-housing-fix-ban-new-retail-development/ #PS1economics ===== impress 46 time 2021-06-06 20:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1401637791805566977 ========== The plague led to a golden age of worker power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequences_of_the_Black_Death And so with covid - employers have to ATTRACT employees. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/upshot/jobs-rising-wages.html The GOP response? End immigration and prevent child care for poor workers! That empowers workers. #PS1economics ===== impress 44 time 2021-06-06 16:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1401570870619901953 ========== Penny stocks - if you heard about it from your friends, it's already too late. https://apnews.com/article/amc-stock-price-38c002049cdc6756581583fcfd643861 There's nothing supporting the stock price except hot air. #PS1economics ===== impress 50 time 2021-06-04 00:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1400613927315148802 ========== "the U.S. economy before the pandemic was incredibly dependent on an abundance of low-wage, low-hours jobs" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/opinion/labor-shortage-jobs-biden-covid.html Who wants another low-wage, low-benefit, dangerous, dirty job? #PS1economics ===== impress 31 time 2021-06-03 03:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1400293135532453888 ========== What's behind different state unemployment systems? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/31/opinion/montana-unemployment-republicans-racism.html Surely not racism! #PS1economics ===== impress 43 time 2021-06-01 05:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1399592922505306114 ========== 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. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1425840594427122 #PS1economics ===== impress 38 time 2021-05-31 17:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1399414845506670594 ========== The dollar rules because - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/opinion/us-dollars-currency.html we have lots of $100 bills in circulation all over the world. #PS1economics ===== impress 34 time 2021-05-30 06:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1398895997078573057 ========== Pay teachers more if you want to compete with China and the rest of the world. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/opinion/teacher-pay-covid.html #PS1economics ===== impress 44 time 2021-05-28 20:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1398374702171648001 ========== Nobody let a lousy virus impede the increase in wealth inequality! https://apnews.com/article/ceo-pay-rises-again-b1d87eb36ac921a159268a6b830fc308 #PS1economics ===== impress 50 time 2021-05-28 17:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1398329169973415940 ========== 2020's like 1920's? Perhaps in some ways - https://apnews.com/article/ok-state-wire-migration-immigration-coronavirus-pandemic-business-361a9bf86ea3175194957b7550bb6051 "History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes" Note that the Dust Bowl right after the 20's was caused by a warming climate - which then reversed somewhat. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 65 time 2021-05-28 17:20 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1398328408212344832 ========== Musk doesn't like regulation? People like Musk are why we NEED regulation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/26/elon-musk-tweets-crypto-markets/ #PS1economics ===== impress 40 time 2021-05-27 01:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1397721245890740224 ========== Genuine Trumpism in action - blame Biden for things that happened when Trump was president. Nobody can take credit for the rapid economic recovery AND disown the corresponding inflation. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-lifestyle-health-coronavirus-pandemic-prices-084a908ac2850e8690a822d6c7f56301 #PS1economics ===== impress 48 time 2021-05-26 16:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1397595566079574019 ========== Global just-in-time manufacturing leaves no slack for problems. Everybody downstream has to stop production. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/08/manufacturing-supply-chain-crisis/ #PS1economics ===== impress 37 time 2021-05-25 04:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1397040211176038402 ========== Homelessness - a GOP triumph! Reagan's mainstreaming of mental patients made them a county problem rather than a state one, and Jarvis' Prop 13 made sure the counties and other local governments had no money to match their new problems. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/05/20/california-homeless-addiction-drugs/ #PS1economics ===== impress 35 time 2021-05-23 15:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1396494924904747012 ========== Life in a deep red paradise. https://apnews.com/article/al-state-wire-west-virginia-lifestyle-census-2020-business-9b94594a74d6b7ab1bee153a425981d9 One major error - the death blow to king coal was cheaper fracked natural gas, not renewable energy. WV has a lot of natural gas resources. #PS1economics ===== impress 38 time 2021-05-23 14:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1396476659105034241 ========== Difficulty finding workers? Try flexibility - the most popular benefit. https://www.afr.com/property/commercial/bank-bosses-want-a-return-to-office-underlings-aren-t-so-sure-20210505-p57oyt Traditional executives have trouble thinking that way. But having experienced life without rush hour commuting, many workers say no thanks to tradition. #PS1economics ===== impress 37 time 2021-05-22 13:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1396098868916330506 ========== It's cheaper to break the law than observe it. https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/workers-rights/cheated-at-work/ripping-off-workers-with-no-consequences/ The chances of getting caught or paying significant penalties are slight. #PS1economics ===== impress 41 time 2021-05-22 13:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1396097494770065408 ========== Dalit laborers exploited across the sea in New Jersey. https://thewire.in/caste/dalit-workers-allege-shocking-violations-in-building-hindu-temple-in-new-jersey Why not? Trump exploited illegal immigrant laborers at his resorts until he was caught - then he fired them. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 68 likes 1 time 2021-05-13 02:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1392661092405415936 ========== Sounds like the main problem is that companies need to pay better! https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-82aa4f9fddcea22918d010c55b5e55b3 #PS1economics ===== impress 54 time 2021-05-10 06:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1391636977657647104 ========== Spot inflation in commodity prices and spot shortages of labor willing to work for low pay are part of normal recovery from a recession. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/opinion/us-inflation-federal-reserve.html Republicans are hoping to find a way to convince all workers that they are miserable under Biden. #PS1economics ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% impress 80 time 2021-05-07 01:20 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1390476628447268864 ========== GOP minority-rule trickle-down economics destroyed middle-class confidence. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/02/business/economy/middle-class-biden-economy.html GOP pseudo-populists like to talk about empowering the middle class, but then their donors remind them - talk about whatever you want but vote as instructed. #PS1economics ===== impress 49 time 2021-05-06 15:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1390335154879533057 ========== Inflation is happening for many commodities. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/business/economy/commodity-shortages-inflation.html #PS1economics ===== impress 45 time 2021-05-06 13:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1390300613192290310 ========== Homelessness is Silicon Valley problem #1 https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/04/bay-area-residents-are-fed-up-with-the-homelessness-crisis/ Exacerbated by the pandemic job loss and housing loss. #PS1economics ===== impress 50 time 2021-05-06 03:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1390150101058744323 ========== It's hard to find workers if you don't pay them a living wage and benefits. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/04/bay-area-restaurant-hiring-crisis-ive-never-seen-anything-like-this/ To do so means increasing prices so that those who enjoy and can afford dining out share a little wealth with those essential workers who make it possible. #PS1economics ===== impress 51 time 2021-05-06 03:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1390147807395213313 ========== How economic recovery can lead to inflation. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-03/traders-are-bidding-up-lumber-with-exchange-limit-removed Hope it's temporary until supply and demand get back in balance! #PS1economics ===== impress 52 time 2021-05-06 01:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1390111086737641475 ========== It's cheaper to break the law! https://apnews.com/article/how-companies-rip-off-poor-employees-6c5364b4f9c69d9bc1b0093519935a5a And in the Trump administration, enforcement halted entirely. No wonder employers like illegal workers so much - they don't dare complain. #PS1economics ===== impress 52 time 2021-05-04 15:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1389601782225985539 ========== Internet technology companies go up... and then they go down. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-1e2e958195af5920ac5183c3794d93ee #PS1economics ===== impress 35 time 2021-05-03 13:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1389207537514270722 ========== How pro sports teams get local government subsidies. Heads I win, tails you lose. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/29/borenstein-billion-dollar-oakland-as-team-wants-taxpayer-ballpark-subsidy/ #PS1economics ===== impress 46 time 2021-04-30 14:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1388140521982287874 ========== https://mobile.cartoonistgroup.com/cartoon/Signe+Wilkinson%27s+Editorial+Cartoons/2021-04-28/188749 New people bring new money - and new ideas. #PS1economics ===== impress 37 time 2021-04-30 14:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1388138926179635203 ========== Moving to Austin? https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-austin-texas-housing-tesla-spacex-boring-job-postings-2021-4 Expect higher home prices and jammed freeways. But it will never be like the Bay Area - Austin will still need air conditioning in the winter. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/27/nearly-a-quarter-of-times-100-most-influential-companies-are-in-the-bay-area/ #PS1economics ===== impress 58 time 2021-04-30 14:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1388135266800394243 ========== All those high-tech companies fleeing Silicon Valley for a Texas paradise! https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/26/real-estate-silicon-valley-shopping-spree-tops-1-billion-in-four-weeks-with-san-jose-deal/ are just making room for more dynamic companies to move in. #PS1economics ===== impress 37 time 2021-04-28 22:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1387528115597963265 ========== Farmers didn't like turbulence and upset? https://apnews.com/article/health-financial-markets-business-global-trade-coronavirus-69e127e6a9966caba941aa446c3669e7 They knew who Trump was when they picked him up - and voted for him. Turbulence and upset is his standard operating procedure. But agribusinesses big enough to be major donors did OK. #PS1economics ===== impress 47 time 2021-04-28 19:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1387490625193340929 ========== Low interest rates benefit asset holders, especially those using leverage. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/04/26/federal-reserve-interest-rates-inequality/ But that might be unavoidable - wealth inequality has to be tackled by other means. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-ubi.html #PS1economics ===== impress 57 time 2021-04-27 12:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1387022644445212675 ========== Universal basic income - it's not easy being a pioneer. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/22/guaranteed-income-ubi-stockton-congress-aid/ But the idea is catching on. Why not think big? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-ubi.html The pandemic showed that to be politically feasible with voters, it has to be available to everybody. #PS1economics ===== impress 59 time 2021-04-27 01:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386858883251982336 ========== Income inequality is real! Some CEO's of laying-off, money-losing companies get only $50 million, while others are getting $100 million! Unfair! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/business/ceos-pandemic-compensation.html No doubt the folks in food lines are looking forward to the day they get $50 million. #PS1economics ===== impress 74 time 2021-04-26 21:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386793095405064192 ========== Hoover, Carter, Trump making straight a highway in the wilderness for the one to follow? https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-20/trump-blazed-a-trail-that-clears-the-way-for-biden Certainly China's success integrating industrial, military, and foreign policy inspires rethinking around the world. #PS1economics ===== impress 82 time 2021-04-26 20:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386785130878930945 ========== Why not improve wages and working conditions to where Americans will take the jobs, and increase prices tourists pay? https://apnews.com/article/travel-pandemics-jamaica-boston-coronavirus-pandemic-11627ee5df0e9d2477ce13b2c3ed4546 #PS1economics ===== impress 76 time 2021-04-26 14:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386688142363660292 ========== Monopsony is getting bipartisan interest. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/opinion/joan-robinson-economy-monopoly-labor.html Monopsony depresses workers' wages and increases income and wealthy inequality. Thanks Ludwig von Mises and Milton Friedman! #PS1economics ===== impress 34 time 2021-04-24 15:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1385984890093510667 ========== The Biden depression - you can find it near the Reagan depression. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/04/22/trump-biden-economy-depression/ It's hard to campaign against a booming economy.. #PS1economics ===== impress 46 time 2021-04-23 00:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1385395884553228289 ========== It's time to get rid of the debt ceiling once and for all! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/22/republicans-are-plotting-use-economic-blackmail-heres-how-democrats-can-stop-them/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/04/21/senate-republicans-debt-ceiling/ And make continuing resolutions automatic. https://www.get-to-sixty.net/ GOP doesn't care about deficits, it just wants to reduce entitlements. #PS1economics ===== impress 41 time 2021-04-22 22:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1385365453757837315 ========== For all their faults, unions helped make the American middle class great. The decline of the middle class has tracked the decline of organized labor since Reaganization. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/12/opinion/us-unions-amazon.html Nothing the GOP SAYS will undo what they have DONE to labor. #PS1economics ===== impress 53 time 2021-04-13 02:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1381803988358598663 ========== Dutch tulip bulbs anybody? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania It might be happening now. It's been 20 years since the internet bubble popped. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/12/opinion/biden-economy-culture.html Ultimately market excesses correct themselves. Don't buy at the top just because your friends do. #PS1economics ===== impress 53 time 2021-04-13 02:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1381802006646456320 ========== Nobody knows you when you're down and out - of money. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/business/bill-hwang-archegos.html Leverage greases the skids up AND down. Too bad. #PS1economics ===== impress 57 time 2021-04-04 21:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1378817121552003079 ========== Why you can't get a good deal on a new car - or a used one. https://apnews.com/article/video-games-us-news-games-coronavirus-pandemic-economy-c4eec42c97364908d60a35fcc0e11ea5 The pandemic has put a spotlight on the downsides of globalization. #PS1economics ===== impress 47 time 2021-04-02 17:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1378042480214433795 ========== Modular housing vs housing shortage vs construction unions https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/03/modular-housing-california-san-francisco-cost-unions/ #PS1economics ===== impress 39 time 2021-04-01 14:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1377635524630876168 ========== Too much leverage matters! https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-markets-blocktrades/nomura-credit-suisse-warn-on-losses-after-archegos-share-dump-idUSKBN2BK0OR https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-markets-blocktrades-creditsuisse/credit-suisse-in-firing-line-after-archegos-losses-idUSKBN2BM11L When over-leveraged debtors have to sell stock in a hurry, it can drive down prices and even the whole market, affecting even cash investors like YOU who thought they were not involved. #PS1economics ===== impress 60 time 2021-03-31 14:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1377270838802620417 ========== Reviving antitrust. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/opinion/biden-fdr-antitrust-monopolies.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1376818629329319 #PS1economics ===== impress 31 time 2021-03-29 23:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1376678172834504706 ========== Another investment mania. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/technology/fintech-startups-wall-street.html It's hard to justify more than minimum commodity margins in the financial sector - with stock prices accordingly. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 50 time 2021-03-29 20:20 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1376630471635820548 ========== Arguments for regional minimum wages. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/a-single-national-15-minimum-wage-makes-no-sense/2021/03/26/6201ca5e-8d6c-11eb-9423-04079921c915_story.html Perhaps a uniform national minimum wage is a worthy goal, but low-standard-of-living states perhaps should be allowed to approach if over several years. #PS1economics ===== impress 38 time 2021-03-29 18:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1376600103318822919 ========== The Swiss Laundry! https://apnews.com/article/miami-crime-asia-pacific-soccer-venezuela-25162da3fa76e8a0adf2f72e393ffa76 Antigua, Malta, and Hong Kong are involved too. Almost every private offshore account is worth investigating, but the IRS doesn't have the resources. #PS1economics ===== impress 36 time 2021-03-29 12:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1376514749903499274 ========== Bipartisan infrastructure? https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/03/28/biden-budget-infrastructure/ GOP opposes infrastructure increasing debt or taxes. That leaves cutting entitlements - obamacare, medicaid, ... UNLESS it's private-public partnerships - public takes the risk, private takes the profit. #PS1economics ===== impress 36 time 2021-03-29 04:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1376396646209097730 ========== The world changed from 1996 to 2020. It took Trump to force Democrats to confront the changes. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-global-trade-coronavirus-pandemic-financial-markets-bill-clinton-1e3d4d7f770c139aad732e3cea695434 Democratic policies have changed to reflect the current realities. GOP, in contrast, has doubled down on protecting minority rule. #PS1economics ===== impress 46 time 2021-03-29 04:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1376392576765292545 ========== America does have laws to support labor organizing. The Trump administration forgot about them. That's over. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/03/26/tesla-and-ceo-elon-musk-punished-by-feds-over-illegal-anti-union-actions-at-fremont-plant/ https://apnews.com/article/business-elon-musk-laws-b9721a6e826e9652c08b64042e0db479 #PS1economics ===== impress 52 time 2021-03-28 15:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1376193670769115142 ========== Poor people move out while rich people move up. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/03/25/covid-economy-falters-but-bay-area-luxury-home-sales-boom/ #PS1economics ===== impress 39 time 2021-03-26 00:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1375246451970777092 ========== Oakland tries basic income https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/03/23/no-strings-attached-under-pilot-for-guaranteed-income-600-oakland-families-will-get-500-per-month/ Following Stockton https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/stockton-ca-gave-residents-a-guaranteed-income-heres-what-happened It has to be universal to get Republican voter support. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-ubi.html #PS1economics ===== impress 40 time 2021-03-25 02:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1374912044680368128 ========== Untethered? No problem. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/03/23/these-bay-area-cities-have-the-most-untethered-workers-in-the-country/ In Silicon Valley at least, there are plenty of people ready to move in to spaces vacated by the untethered disaspora. Prices of detached family homes in good school districts keep going up and up. #PS1economics ===== impress 42 time 2021-03-24 02:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1374554356637298689 ========== Will the reactionary majority back employers or workers? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/21/us/unions-private-property-supreme-court.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/22/us/supreme-court-union-organizers-private-property.html Forget abortion and firearms - deregulation and union-busting are the big prizes the big GOP donors sought for backing Trump and McConnell. #PS1economics ===== impress 44 time 2021-03-23 16:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1374393409662709760 ========== A cheap way to improve the lives of many working people. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/opinion/buses-infrastructure.html But major political donors don't use public transit and don't like organized labor that operates it, so forget it! #PS1economics ===== impress 42 time 2021-03-23 14:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1374369045491814406 ========== Another speculative bubble on the horizon! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/style/amazon-brand-flippers.html #PS1economics ===== impress 41 time 2021-03-21 06:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1373517081077944324 ========== Bidding up value of startups? Bubbles always end badly - for somebody. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/19/technology/the-market-seems-crazy-start-ups-wrestle-with-flood-of-offers.html #PS1economics ===== impress 42 time 2021-03-19 18:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1372971529042980864 ========== Billing future generations for current consumption is wrong. But sharing the cost of capital improvements - infrastructure - for shared benefits makes sense. https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/raising-taxes-is-no-way-to-fund-an-infrastructure-bill You don't wait until you can pay all cash to buy a house. You get a loan. #PS1economics ===== impress 57 time 2021-03-18 04:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1372406299288162307 ========== Once again Atlanta is the face of the New South. That must be why the Old South is so eager to suppress voting there. https://www.ajc.com/news/west-coast-heads-east-atlantas-black-talent-lures-tech-titans/TTOKO3AH6RGNLITODD2VVY6MJU/ #PS1economics ===== impress 54 time 2021-03-15 19:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1371543585665867780 ========== Does the working class really care about economics? https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-politics-race-and-ethnicity-pennsylvania-coronavirus-pandemic-3e783462865f0db28964bb5876e71dff Or are they willing to put up with any GOP oppression in order to save Dr Seuss? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1economics ===== impress 45 time 2021-03-14 14:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1371107995942232064 ========== Anybody for Dutch tulip bulbs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania Buying in the hope of selling to a greater fool always ends badly for most of the buyers. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/13/technology/crypto-art-NFTs-trading-cards-investment-manias.html #PS1economics ===== impress 43 time 2021-03-14 01:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1370916455038865410 ========== Poor people in trouble? Why don't they do like the rich people do - buy a congressman! https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/america-growing-disparities/ #PS1economics ===== impress 35 time 2021-03-14 01:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1370905323175698435 ========== Why Republicans think the recession is over. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/12/musk-bezos-zuckerberg-gates-pandemic-profits/ Their major donors are doing fine, even major Democratic donors are doing fine, so everybody else - just get back to work! The existing minimum wage is plenty generous! #PS1economics ===== impress 42 time 2021-03-12 18:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1370444761555820547 ========== Plant closings are hard on the middle-aged. https://apnews.com/article/general-motors-staff-2-years-after-ohio-plant-close-7c584fa4b8fc025b5c0d1cb100fc6188 But there is no future in internal combustion, and many other manufacturing occupations. #PS1economics ===== impress 30 time 2021-03-09 18:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1369353971974897664 ========== "Somehow the private equity guys always make out OK, it's everyone else who doesn't." https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-investment-coal-insight/how-private-equity-squeezes-cash-from-the-dying-u-s-coal-industry-idUSKBN2AU1YW Private equity kingpins know how to invest for access, which they use whenever tax or financial regulation comes up in Congress. #PS1economics ===== impress 28 time 2021-03-09 17:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1369341169000321025 ========== GOP voters don't want immigration but GOP donors don't want to subsidize children. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/08/opinion/romney-republicans-child-allowance.html But we need people to do the work! So most other wealthy democracies subsidize children. https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ #PS1economics ===== impress 38 time 2021-03-08 14:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1368938232184930304 ========== Unfunded defined-benefit pensions strike again. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/07/business/dealbook/bailout-pensions-stimulus.html Labor and management agreed on benefits that can't be paid by contributions within a sound investment strategy. We haven't heard the last of this issue. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#defined%20benefit #PS1economics ===== impress 32 time 2021-03-08 14:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1368936194499772416 ========== Guaranteed income encourages employment, not unemployment. https://apnews.com/article/stockton-health-coronavirus-pandemic-michael-tubbs-philanthropy-1227f2ab4a1bb7677a01b887ba91554f It's an idea whose time is coming. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-ubi.html #PS1economics ===== impress 31 time 2021-03-08 04:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1368776575802478597 ========== "a way for celebrities to monetize their reputations" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/spacs-are-a-booming-business-model-but-its-time-to-let-the-cat-out-of-the-bag/2021/03/02/a4935642-7b6c-11eb-85cd-9b7fa90c8873_story.html Would you make an unsecured loan to these guys? #PS1economics ===== impress 38 time 2021-03-05 15:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1367860454710669315 ========== Nothing lasts forever. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/03/03/democrats-stimulus-spending-inflation/ But everybody is fighting the last war - the 2008/9 recession recovery, that was too slow and too long and abetted the rise of Trumpism. #PS1economics ===== impress 38 time 2021-03-03 23:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1367254971045974017 ========== Infrastructure - easy to talk about, impossible to fund! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/business/infrastructure-biden-stimulus.html #PS1economics ===== impress 32 time 2021-03-02 13:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1366745362086551554 ========== A damper on leveraged buyout job killers? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/28/opinion/business-economics/private-equity-reckoning.html If officers of the selling company don't make sound judgments - they could be financially responsible. That would put a much-needed crimp in the private equity hose. #PS1economics ===== impress 42 time 2021-03-01 04:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1366237754409897984 ========== Progressives want a $15 minimum wage. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/28/democrats-cant-back-down-minimum-wage/ But the votes aren't there. It will require repealing the filibuster and Manchin and Sinema are opposed. Even Republican voters are for $15, but the donors are opposed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/02/28/minimum-wage-backup-plan-biden-stimulus/ #PS1economics ===== impress 38 time 2021-03-01 00:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1366188777991852032 ========== Infrastructure is next? https://apnews.com/article/biden-politics-coronavirus-relief-infrastructure-66f5f5a3de700941aa41f675157f8748 Republicans are happy to support it as long as it doesn't add to the budget or increase taxes. In other words, they were against it when Trump was president and they're against it now that Biden is president. #PS1economics ===== impress 48 time 2021-02-28 19:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1366106825372831746 ========== Where have all the houses gone? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/upshot/where-have-all-the-houses-gone.html A recession for apartments and condos and a boom for single-family houses. #PS1economics ===== impress 49 time 2021-02-26 15:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1365324644048232451 ========== In the end, there was nothing new to learn. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/opinion/gamestop-price-congress-robinhood.html All the lessons were 400 years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania #PS1economics ===== impress 44 time 2021-02-24 01:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1364384765219135490 ========== How much stimulus can the economy take without inflation? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/20/economy-growth-pandemic/ #PS1economics ===== impress 42 time 2021-02-21 15:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1363505445437018122 ========== Don't worry about inflation until median incomes start rising. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/opinion/democrats-biden-inflation.html #PS1economics ===== impress 26 time 2021-02-18 13:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1362391514580574214 ========== The ageing of Western civilization comes to America. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-11/everyone-has-to-pay-when-america-gets-too-old Admit more immigrants of pay people to have children! Somebody has to do the work to support the elders. #PS1economics ===== impress 43 time 2021-02-18 03:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1362235842303942661 ========== Not just Texas! No politician likes to pay to prevent something that hasn't happened yet. None like to admit responsibility for failing to act in time when it does. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/17/dennis-mileti-death-pandemic-psychology/ #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 36 time 2021-02-18 01:37 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1362214718698479617 ========== How to create a Texas-size problem! https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/02/17/texas-power-winter-storm/ Don't build in any redundancy or prepare for worse than average conditions. #PS1economics ===== impress 38 time 2021-02-18 01:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1362210371784777733 ========== What it's like to work in a "business-friendly" state. https://apnews.com/article/amazon-workers-union-c8493c24dabe7609de8fec8716460737 #PS1economics ===== impress 36 time 2021-02-13 20:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1360688486215426049 ========== The Other New Deal - putting private capital to work. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/opinion/new-deal-biden-capitalism-recession.html #PS1economics ===== impress 62 time 2021-02-11 04:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1359717090307919874 ========== A sea change on deficit spending? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/08/why-joe-biden-mitt-romney-both-want-give-you-thousands-dollars/ How many GOP senators will vote NO because it's a Biden proposal? And how many will vote YES because it's a Romney proposal? And how many will find a way to duck the issue without taking a stand? #PS1economics ===== impress 36 time 2021-02-08 20:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1358874905958248449 ========== The forgotten side of economics: resilience. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/02/05/pandemic-food-resilience/ Applies to politics too - how much are you willing to pay to protect against rare calamities? #PS1economics ===== impress 29 time 2021-02-07 05:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1358288232606142464 ========== Did somebody say movie deal? That's one way to recover! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/technology/wallstreetbets-gamestop-hollywood.html Self-serving opportunists always find opportunities to serve themselves. #PS1economics ===== impress 35 time 2021-02-05 01:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1357500854937477121 ========== Pump and dump is not populism. It's opportunism. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/opinion/gamestop-stocks.html #PS1economics ===== impress 34 time 2021-02-05 01:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1357498935795798017 ========== Somebody sold at the top. Good for him! Somebody bought at the top. Too bad! No conspiracy - it's just the way speculative bubbles pop. At least in Vegas they give the high rollers free booze until they're broke. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/02/gamestop-stock-plunge-losers/ #PS1economics ===== impress 53 time 2021-02-03 03:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1356806604935467011 ========== Gambling thrives in bad economic times. Wall Street thrives on bubbles. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/opinion/gamestop-biden-wall-street-reddit.html #PS1economics ===== impress 50 time 2021-02-02 12:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1356586029566709764 ========== Surprise! The economy does better under Democratic presidents. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/opinion/sunday/democrats-economy.html #PS1economics ===== impress 51 time 2021-02-02 12:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1356579864833232899 ========== Ways of looking at the market. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/01/understanding-gamestop-situation/ They are all right - some of the time. Some ways attract gamblers and faddists - others attract long term wealth builders. Gamblers and faddists risks include that they can't trade as fast. #PS1economics ===== impress 52 time 2021-02-02 05:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1356480830550409218 ========== You can't keep doubling down! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/technology/robinhood-fundraising.html There are always house limits. #PS1economics ===== impress 33 time 2021-02-01 00:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1356038957683752962 ========== There's lots of advice about deciding when to buy a stock. Not so much about when to sell. John Templeton liked to say "the time to sell is when you find a better bargain" Good advice for day traders - observe the grand finale safely from the sidelines. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 43 time 2021-02-01 00:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1356030563925151745 ========== Cruz and AOC agree - proof neither has the slightest clue about what might be going on. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/us/politics/gamestop-robinhood-democrats-republicans.html Most of the day traders, like most of the Capitol rioters, have no end plan, and the ones that do, don't agree. Most will end up in poverty or jail. #PS1economics ===== impress 46 time 2021-01-31 23:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1356024052809256961 ========== The Russians probably aren't behind GameStop. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/31/gamestop-signals-new-destabilizing-collision-between-social-media-real-world/ But what about next time? Anyway hedge funds are making money on GameStop - possibly more than other hedge funds lost. But who will be holding the bag when the fever breaks? As it will. #PS1economics ===== impress 64 time 2021-01-31 23:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1356021401971376132 ========== Theories about what causes bubbles. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/29/gamestop-chaos-may-be-bubble-what-does-that-actually-mean/ The business cycle is ultimately a phenomenon of mass psychology, not mathematics. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#cycle #PS1economics ===== impress 35 time 2021-01-31 21:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1355987775535730689 ========== Every stock reaches a top, where somebody bought and somebody sold, and then the stock went down. The buyer at the top lost, but it won't be the hedge funds that lost in the short squeeze. Margin speeds the fall and the rise. https://apnews.com/article/gamestop-stock-surge-explained-fb377363d1b04809706619a6bcc9e549 #PS1economics ===== impress 56 time 2021-01-28 23:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1354928111612137472 ========== Short squeezes can affect the entire market. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/business/gamestop-stock-market.html Speculative bubbles always end badly for somebody. Sometimes for everybody. #PS1economics ===== impress 45 time 2021-01-28 13:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1354784547037044743 ========== As with foreign terrorism and domestic terrorism and climate and covid, so with entitlements - it's almost impossible to get a democracy to prepare for threats that aren't obvious yet. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-were-right-to-worry-about-the-nations-fiscal-future-but-i-know-when-to-fold-em/2021/01/27/dae752fc-6023-11eb-9061-07abcc1f9229_story.html https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#defined%20benefit #PS1economics ===== impress 46 time 2021-01-27 23:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1354568340484722692 ========== What does GameStop really mean? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/26/gamestop-stock-rising-inequality/ #PS1economics ===== impress 36 time 2021-01-27 17:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1354478582597259265 ========== Democracy on Wall Street? Or insurrection? Why should hedge funds decide who lives and dies? https://apnews.com/article/gamestop-stocks-reddit-updates-0bfe08b10002e7bb334983948f53b6e4 #PS1economics ===== impress 40 time 2021-01-27 17:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1354477557895159809 ========== Socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/opinion/us-capitalism-socialism.html An ancient story - minority rule make the minority richer and the majority poorer. That's the whole point! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1economics ===== impress 40 time 2021-01-27 01:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1354245761718906882 ========== Private enterprise is more efficient than government? No organization can grow 10X in a year without attracting scammers. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/15/edd-unemployment-fraud-scandal-lawsuit-bank-america-covid-economy-jobs/ No organization can justify to shareholders or taxpayers the cost of preparing for future emergencies. #PS1economics ===== impress 39 time 2021-01-17 15:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1350830524940468224 ========== How dare you attack somebody's annuity! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/world/europe/amazon-prime-cancellation-complaint.html Retaining customers' monthly payments is job #1 at companies that can get them - stock price and bonuses depend on it! #PS1economics ===== impress 25 time 2021-01-15 23:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1350222629915906048 ========== No way Trump could win on the economy. That's what happens when you come in at the tail end of an expansion. Further expansion is very difficult. And then the virus. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/04/even-if-you-judge-trump-by-his-preferred-economic-measures-hes-still-loser/ #PS1economics ===== impress 45 time 2021-01-05 01:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1346265552252141569 ========== It had to happen eventually - enormous companies push their luck until employees organize. https://apnews.com/article/google-workers-unionize-technology-cc67e2f901fa5b59d73b9dac1892d0b3 The growth in income and wealth inequality coincided with the decline of organized labor starting with the Reagan era. #PS1economics ===== impress 48 time 2021-01-04 23:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1346241346395226113 ========== New Republican principles on public debt: it's good if Republicans do it; bad if Democrats do it. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/02/business/economy/republicans-deficit.html #PS1economics ===== impress 45 time 2021-01-03 21:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1345840634599407616 ========== It's a good thing all those Republican farmers know how to stand on their own two feet. Not like those urban people on welfare! https://apnews.com/article/global-trade-iowa-coronavirus-pandemic-financial-markets-weather-193e2a32e52e00d15afeb4cb6316fdcd #PS1economics ===== impress 39 time 2021-01-02 15:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1345388737274941441 ========== How much relief do the upper 10% need? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/some-of-the-progressive-priorities-really-help-the-rich-more-than-the-poor/2020/12/31/f3e1a2ac-4b70-11eb-839a-cf4ba7b7c48c_story.html If you want to benefit everybody, try universal income combined with a flat tax - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/some-of-the-progressive-priorities-really-help-the-rich-more-than-the-poor/2020/12/31/f3e1a2ac-4b70-11eb-839a-cf4ba7b7c48c_story.html #PS1economics ===== impress 52 time 2021-01-01 00:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1344808562027941888