The problem is that we don't get unbiased coverage of Russia from either our mainstream liberal media or conservative media such as Fox. To get some perspective on Russia you really have to go to anti-War/non-interventionist sites and alternative media sites whether libertarian, paleoconservative or liberal. Crimea and Syria are both complicated, but it is possible, and I believe correct, to see Russia as the actor the most in the right in both situations. Rather than rehash it, I address Crimea and Syria in this article.
A couple of things make me think Putin's a malefactor. One is the takeover of Crimea, a violation of the Atlantic/United Nations charter, and something scarcely heard of in Europe since World War II. The other is the bombings in Aleppo and elsewhere in Syria. They look like war crimes to me, but you can never gain a conviction in such things unless you win the war and capture the perpetrators.
If he's crazy, it's crazier to play along with him.
Yeah, supposedly it is been import prices keeping the real deficit at bay. Trump is claiming we have an annual $800 billion trade deficit, I'm assuming that's nominal and we should determine how much is China. .
It is all yours and goes out to the feeds but the articles help bring in readers. I should write about the economics of long term care, costs and lack of real care.
The emails showed how the DNC really screwed over Bernie Sanders, but in terms of hacking media manipulation, I saw plenty before the election against Hillary. My concern would be vote hacking. I also question how Donald Trump made his money beyond his Dad. I cannot imagine anyone making it in NYC real estate, especially queens in the 1950s/60s, without the blessing of the local organized crime bosses. So, they have media manipulation as an end game of the Russian hacking and what a surprise, the entire election is circus. Even the "debates" were so inane there was no real information in them.
I just hope Trump sticks to his guns on trade. If he manages to get somewhere against the multinational corporate interests on those trade deals, that would be an incredible accomplishment. Hillary sure wasn't going to do it.
"So, in theory, free trade was a win-win proposition, but only as long as a few key assumptions held true: There needed to be fixed exchange rates, full employment, an absence of international flows of labor or capital, an absence of economies of scale, and perfectly competitive markets."
It has been decades since all these assumptions have even been even close to true.
I assume the hacking is real, as the FBI has now reached consensus with the CIA on that point. But neither agency has implicated Mr. Trump. So the Electoral College shouldn't use the hacking as an excuse and I don't think any of them will - only in the Washington Post's dreams.
Unfortunately, the boom bust cycle is a means of extraction of wealth and expansion of power. The Fed largely governs this cycle, we have a ways to go before the next crash.
I guess Feds are going to increase interest rate next month. All data seems encouraging. Unemployment rate is very low, Wholesale Inventories are up 0.1%, and now with Trump coming to president's office, I feel Feds are definitely going to increase interest rate in December, 2016. I think this is for the best; keeping interest rate lower isn't gonna do much good anyway...
There is nothing inherently wrong with the current system excerpt that it's being abused by Indians...
They currently appropriate 80% of the work visas, so simply placing a cap on Indians will solve the problem...
Dreher refers to Bradley Manning as a 'traitor' to this day. The guy is obnoxious and dumber than he looks, and he's a perfect example of what's wrong with Conservatives - for all his pretense of criticizing American foreign policy and the elites he'll still go to bat for the Imperial bureaucracy pretending to defend us, even if it means attacking political prisoners who dare to expose aforementioned diplomatic traitors. He's all talk, and I have more respect for an honest NeoCon than his feelz based approach to taking sides. The man repels me, and I would break his nose as soon as look at him
So glad you cranked some numbers to show their fraud. This isn't the first time they have done this, issued a bogus report, conveniently times, a consortium of big business lobbyists.
using full pdf: http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2016/pdf/gdp3q16_adv.pdf
aggregate PCE goods, table 2 line 3, added 48 basis points to GDP
but i also figured bar and restaurant sales, "Food services and accommodations" line 20 under services, which added another 14 basis points...
the caveat i noted above was i could not reconcile gas station sales up 2.4% with gasoline prices up 5.8%, which would imply a 3.4% decrease in gasoline sales. since that didn't make sense, i considered gasoline sales to be unchanged in my calculation.
turns out PCE for gasoline and other energy goods was down at a 3.5% rate and had subtracted 5 basis points from GDP (table 2, line 12, table 3, line 12)
so if i had included that, i would have estimated retail to have contributed .62 percentage points to 3rd quarter GDP, exactly what PCE goods + food services shows
however, even i can't be that accurate; since i'm only provided one significant digit in the CPI source data, the accuracy of my estimate can only be to one significant digit, hence my (+/-10%) margin of error
The problem is that we don't get unbiased coverage of Russia from either our mainstream liberal media or conservative media such as Fox. To get some perspective on Russia you really have to go to anti-War/non-interventionist sites and alternative media sites whether libertarian, paleoconservative or liberal. Crimea and Syria are both complicated, but it is possible, and I believe correct, to see Russia as the actor the most in the right in both situations. Rather than rehash it, I address Crimea and Syria in this article.
http://www.newswithviews.com/guest_opinion/guest301.htm
This will do 'er, except for ND of course. Thanks for the analysis, even though it's not good news.
A couple of things make me think Putin's a malefactor. One is the takeover of Crimea, a violation of the Atlantic/United Nations charter, and something scarcely heard of in Europe since World War II. The other is the bombings in Aleppo and elsewhere in Syria. They look like war crimes to me, but you can never gain a conviction in such things unless you win the war and capture the perpetrators.
If he's crazy, it's crazier to play along with him.
Yeah, supposedly it is been import prices keeping the real deficit at bay. Trump is claiming we have an annual $800 billion trade deficit, I'm assuming that's nominal and we should determine how much is China. .
It is all yours and goes out to the feeds but the articles help bring in readers. I should write about the economics of long term care, costs and lack of real care.
The emails showed how the DNC really screwed over Bernie Sanders, but in terms of hacking media manipulation, I saw plenty before the election against Hillary. My concern would be vote hacking. I also question how Donald Trump made his money beyond his Dad. I cannot imagine anyone making it in NYC real estate, especially queens in the 1950s/60s, without the blessing of the local organized crime bosses. So, they have media manipulation as an end game of the Russian hacking and what a surprise, the entire election is circus. Even the "debates" were so inane there was no real information in them.
I just hope Trump sticks to his guns on trade. If he manages to get somewhere against the multinational corporate interests on those trade deals, that would be an incredible accomplishment. Hillary sure wasn't going to do it.
"So, in theory, free trade was a win-win proposition, but only as long as a few key assumptions held true: There needed to be fixed exchange rates, full employment, an absence of international flows of labor or capital, an absence of economies of scale, and perfectly competitive markets."
It has been decades since all these assumptions have even been even close to true.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/12/globalization-trade...
I assume the hacking is real, as the FBI has now reached consensus with the CIA on that point. But neither agency has implicated Mr. Trump. So the Electoral College shouldn't use the hacking as an excuse and I don't think any of them will - only in the Washington Post's dreams.
I was referring specifically to Instapopulist. No criticism implied. Hope all is well.
I've been dealing with caregiver issues so hopefully more articles will be published than has been of late.
Welcome Mr. Seidel. It's nice to have someone else posting here besides me. I hope you stick around.
Isn't that just same ole, same ole for Goldman Sachs to issue yet another to be Treasury secretary? Carbon copy. Glad to see you Michael!
Why can't they just all not get along?
Unfortunately, the boom bust cycle is a means of extraction of wealth and expansion of power. The Fed largely governs this cycle, we have a ways to go before the next crash.
I guess Feds are going to increase interest rate next month. All data seems encouraging. Unemployment rate is very low, Wholesale Inventories are up 0.1%, and now with Trump coming to president's office, I feel Feds are definitely going to increase interest rate in December, 2016. I think this is for the best; keeping interest rate lower isn't gonna do much good anyway...
There is nothing inherently wrong with the current system excerpt that it's being abused by Indians...
They currently appropriate 80% of the work visas, so simply placing a cap on Indians will solve the problem...
Dreher refers to Bradley Manning as a 'traitor' to this day. The guy is obnoxious and dumber than he looks, and he's a perfect example of what's wrong with Conservatives - for all his pretense of criticizing American foreign policy and the elites he'll still go to bat for the Imperial bureaucracy pretending to defend us, even if it means attacking political prisoners who dare to expose aforementioned diplomatic traitors. He's all talk, and I have more respect for an honest NeoCon than his feelz based approach to taking sides. The man repels me, and I would break his nose as soon as look at him
So glad you cranked some numbers to show their fraud. This isn't the first time they have done this, issued a bogus report, conveniently times, a consortium of big business lobbyists.
using full pdf: http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2016/pdf/gdp3q16_adv.pdf
aggregate PCE goods, table 2 line 3, added 48 basis points to GDP
but i also figured bar and restaurant sales, "Food services and accommodations" line 20 under services, which added another 14 basis points...
the caveat i noted above was i could not reconcile gas station sales up 2.4% with gasoline prices up 5.8%, which would imply a 3.4% decrease in gasoline sales. since that didn't make sense, i considered gasoline sales to be unchanged in my calculation.
turns out PCE for gasoline and other energy goods was down at a 3.5% rate and had subtracted 5 basis points from GDP (table 2, line 12, table 3, line 12)
so if i had included that, i would have estimated retail to have contributed .62 percentage points to 3rd quarter GDP, exactly what PCE goods + food services shows
however, even i can't be that accurate; since i'm only provided one significant digit in the CPI source data, the accuracy of my estimate can only be to one significant digit, hence my (+/-10%) margin of error
I'm not sure how you are breaking up the real goods stacked up in GDP.
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