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Should be a wild four years.

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That said, I think it's sad that code efficiency has gone out the window due to the absurd speed of chips these days. It's a waste of resources and energy.
just so we could finally get some software developers who weren't pajeets leaning on ever-increasing speeds.
seriously this shit drives me up the wall so fucking much when a word processor doing the same shit it did thirty years ago now takes a gig of ram
 
Didn't I make the same point? You are self sufficient by raw numbers, but much of that production is meant for livestock, not humans. You cannot keep a healthy and happy population on corn, soy and beets alone, especially if half of it is inedible. California alone cannot sustain the demand for fruits, vegetables and other agricultural goods. I for one don't want to live solely off corn cobs and an occasional apple as a luxurious treat.
Well, you also have Arizona, which grows a lot of vegetables, and Florida, plus varying amounts grown in other states. There's a reason you see more and more farmers' markets around the country. And don't forget potatoes, which are grown in many places throughout the country, not just Idaho and Maine.

You may find this useful.

https://www.usda.gov/farming-and-ranching/plants-and-crops/crop-production
 
If it's not the shitposting it's gonna be the shitposting about him.

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Fucking masterful piece of art. It's beautiful.

Between the stupid propeller hat and the couch fucking thing, his meme and shitpost stock value has a lot of potential. Someone to keep an eye on, especially so for the ladies envious of Usha Vance out there. Hubba hubba.
This is Peter Thiel's Top Guy and he couldn't get a personal coach to make him fit? Get RFK Jr. to spot him on the weights lol.
 
The economy (read: the one holy line) was great when we shipped manufacturing to Asia.
It was great when we sold out the American worker.
It was great when we destroyed the housing market.
It was great when we disintegrated our industrial capacity.

Perhaps there are better identifying signs of a healthy nation than the eternal line.
Boomers and other TV-Americans perceive the economy as something effervescent. It boils and shifts and no one can predict it. They're told only "how the economy is." They are not told why it is that way and they do not think about it. The media they consume does not bother linking events in time so they can understand second-order effects. The economy's just a mysterious ocean to them, one that we surf, up and down, who knows why or how it moves; and the various Gods of the economy (they work at the Federal Reserve) act how they will, and their explanations make no sense, and are not intended to.

Meanwhile, everyone younger than Boomers, and especially everyone with a time horizon beyond five years, thinks more like what you're saying. I don't personally know anyone who gives a fuck about "GDP."
 
To not exacerbate inflation and increase the cost of living.
If, after Trump's plan about energy and tariffs are in place, the economy is not better then everyone will get to diss him forever and burn Art of the Deal books in public.

That said, most arguments are going to be "wait and see", we just barely steered away from the iceberg but it still takes time to get back on track.
 
I bought the dip last week when dipshit Jr. told me to and lost $400. There’s no point in buying a dip if it doesn’t go back up.
So you're just sperging because you took the advise of a celeb without any research? And keep whining nonsense because you are mad about it?
 
You’ll love tariffs until you go to the store this week. Enjoy $10 milk.
America overproduces milk in the first place. America pretty much overproduces in every argricultural sector, that's why farmers are hurting so much because there oversupplying for demand. Especially diary farmers since milk has a very short shelf life and you cant ship it to some foreign shithole country as part of aid.

It's actually why Trump is going really hard on Canada's diary quota system that protects Canadian farmers from cheap American milk flooding it's markets.
 
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Okay how about we use Core CPI inflation, which still hasn't fallen below 3%.
Do you understand how the federal reserve system operates? Do you know what the prime rate is?

Core CPI doesn’t GO to zero, the prime rate indicates the minimum amount of inflation

The fed issues money AS A LOAN to the treasury, and the interest charged on that loan is the prime rate. Our system has inflation built in.

For core CPI to go to zero or to go negative would be VERY CONCERNING
 
If you look at NVIDIA's stock value and the dates involved, you might come to the conclusion that its stock was overvalued due to the Biden administration's pork barrel spending in the first place. You can say that about a lot of stock. Maybe don't trust Keynesians?

John, I mean this as a friend: you were more fun when you were posting normally. You're not a good doomer troll. You don't have enough Badman in you to make it work. Deep down, you're a Goodman.

Nah, I'd love to blame Biden, but the real culprit is investor FOMO and technological illiteracy. Remember back when industry analysts were saying cloud was going to make home computing and on-premise enterprise servers obsolete? There are companies who lost billions and billions making the wrong bets on cloud.

Same thing is happening with AI. Everyone's terrified of missing out. Industry analysts are predicting multi-trillion dollar growth, total destruction of all legacy industry, eradication of whole categories of jobs, and saying stupid shit like, "A single DGX can replace an entire engineering team."

Everyone thinks if they don't invest in GPUs NOW NOW NOW NOW that they are going to DIE. Except it's been a couple years since DGX A100 dropped and set the market on fire, and most AI investments aren't actually paying off.
 
Well, you also have Arizona, which grows a lot of vegetables, and Florida, plus varying amounts grown in other states. There's a reason you see more and more farmers' markets around the country. And don't forget potatoes, which are grown in many places throughout the country, not just Idaho and Maine.

You may find this useful.

https://www.usda.gov/farming-and-ranching/plants-and-crops/crop-production
There's forbidden knowledge they don't want us to know...
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This should be expected and everyone should brace for it. A lot of US GDP is based on deficit spending. The only way to address the deficit is to reduce government spending, or increase taxes, both of which will reduce GDP. Ideally it's offset by new investments and re-negotiated trade agreements, but this will take longer to come about. So short term you should expect a contraction in the economy, especially the public sector, and any of the businesses downstream of those public sector programs being closed. Things such as: people who make muppets for the Iraqi muppet show, LGBTQ teachers, Guatemalan dick-inverters, and many other extremely productive sectors of the economy.
 
Do you understand how the federal reserve system operates? Do you know what the prime rate is?

Core CPI doesn’t GO to zero, the prime rate indicates the minimum amount of inflation
Core CPI is cost of shit like heating and housing, my guy.
It's always the people that know the least that end up being the loudest.
Speaking of buying the dip, how's that TrumpCoin and MalaniaCoin going which were used to scam Americans for billions of dollars?
 
What cuts of quality of life would that be? Tropical fruits, coffee, seafood, and some out-of-season vegetables, sugar? Most if not all of those luxury purchases was produced in the states of America, where? Hawaii. Hawaii's industry was sugar and sugar byproducts as well as fruit and coffee. Unfortunately, they are too far to be economically viable (at least that is what they say), and instead turned to the closer Bermuda to import these commodities and South America for others. The US produces an excess and could easily become self sufficient if it was politically correct to do so. America is huge and has a varied amount of climates that other countries do not have, we could easily grow everything we want here. Unfortunately, we have green peace initiatives and bureaucracy that restricts this from happening.

Pretty concise article from the World Atlas.
Florida has cane sugar. People will juice it for you to drink in the Home Depot parking lot, at least before the purge.
 
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