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Overpriced non-entity. $20/lb for Kona is a fucking crime.

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This is an example of exactly why I think you might be right in the short term. Imagine if the government actually invested in small business, just 1% of that aid to Ukraine could easily expand a small business so they don't have to charge you 20 bucks per pound. I'm sure there are plenty of examples of it, the American consumer deserves the high prices sometimes; for just being fuckin' retarded.



Mein nigger, the dilating was set to expand by 3% a month ago, now it is set to contract by 3%.
KYS I guess join the 41%, tranny.
 
The only people that go for it never tasted actually good coffee.
I usually buy a pretty nice brazilian/mexican blend put together by a local near me. Not very acrid, still very coffee-y. Somebody mentioned Blue Mountain a few thousand pages ago, but I haven't had cause to buy it. What do you recommend as good coffee?
 
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To my eternal shame, I like this Ethiopian yergicheffe shit that has unbelievable blueberry notes
Gotta admit, still don't know what people like so much about coffee. Smells good but the few times I tried coffee, nearly fifty years ago, it was unpalatable without a lot of sugar. Get my caffeine from cola instead.
 
USA does not produce all the necessary foodstuffs to feed its population without significant cuts to their quality of life. You produce immense amounts of certain agricultural products, but not all of them are suitable for human consumption. Sudden tariffs do not leave enough time for the US agricultural sector to adapt and answer the consumer demand.

Edit: To be clear, you are self sufficient in terms of food production by numbers, but there's only so much corn, soy and sugar beets which you can pump into people's veins before things go wrong.
Go back to the Hohol containment thread if you just want to reguritate orange man bad fallacies
 
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
Wirth's law is an adage on computer performance which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster.
 
I do think we are heading for an economic crash. Not because of Trump. The problems that caused the 2020 economic shitshow across the globe have not been addressed. Not even delayed and Trump could move mountains and it wouldn't stop it because this is a problem not of the US but of the whole international trade system.
I think that Trump knows this and is simply trying to poke a hole in everyone else's boat with his tariffs so when the flood waters hit USS Murica will be more above water than everyone else.
 
The Atlanta Fed GDP outlook.
For anyone curious, their model is purely objective: they have a mathematical model, they plug in the latest economic data, and they report the result. They are not fucking with this to make Trump look bad. That said, the output is obviously subject to the quality of data going in. It's definitely above my paygrade to actually evaluate this.
 
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.
So why is the economy contracting so rapidly when Republicans have done nothing but pass a budget proposal which dramatically increases the deficit?
And you are saying they are high because of Trump?
No, I'm saying that even if we use other metrics, the economy is still shit. I can forgive GDP contractions if the cost of living contracts with it, but that's not what we're seeing, we're seeing less money coupled with still higher costs.
How often are they right?
If they said the sky was green I'd at least look up to check.
Right, so how are you not going to see GENERALIZED inflation when inflation is built into the issuance of currency?

It’s concerning when it DOESN’T track with the prime rate.

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What the fuck are you talking about? What you posted has nothing to do with the prime rate. The US prime rate is 7.5% and the UIG is STILL tracking 0.3% month over month and is hovering around 3% for the year.
 
This is an example of exactly why I think you might be right in the short term. Imagine if the government actually invested in small business, just 1% of that aid to Ukraine could easily expand a small business so they don't have to charge you 20 bucks per pound. I'm sure there are plenty of examples of it, the American consumer deserves the high prices sometimes; for just being fuckin' retarded.
There's only so many crises that you can put on the consumer's back before it breaks. Housing is already crushing people and expanding the cost-of-living crisis further will not benefit anyone in the short or long term. You cannot expect for the population to pursue innovation or to contribute effectively to domestic markets when they cannot feed or house themselves. USA does not need more severe short-term pains right now.
 
The 2008 economic paradigm was basically prolonging the inevitable. The 2020 recession onwards has basically left the entire world economy on life support. The only way to fix it is to kill it. Autocratic states can better react to this as a cooler head can prevail while democracies will sink with the ship due to the crab mentality in democratic politics.
 
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