This morning Retail Sales Month over Month crushed - relatively - expectations this morning [+.7% vs +.3 expected and +.3% last]... the US consumer is still strong. Empire manufacturing also crushed expectations. Industrial production slowed to net zero over the past two months, jobless claims remain low. Retail Sales…

My comments may drive a few clicks, but nothing compared to what I would do with my own vertical. People would never leave this network. All of you and your Reddit friends would come to politely discuss the topics of the day with the audience I would bring here.

There is no difference between centrist Republicans and centrist Democrats. 

You’re finishing up your day at work. Another long one. The last two years have been complete hell. All you wanted to do was help secure America by enforcing the laws we’ve already got in the books. Growing up you didn’t care about money, you just wanted to do the right thing. Make your parents proud. There was…

Retail is getting crushed by Amazon, oil demand is still there but supply is way up due to shale and Trump’s oil-loose policy, Dr. Copper is a relic indicator that hasn’t been relevant since the global central banks removed the business cycle with their extraordinary measures.

First, don’t pretend that academics can’t be wrong. They are wrong all the time. The wars in the Middle East were supposed to have a positive net economic impact on the US, same with saving the banks, same with QE, and same with mass immigration. It’s goal-seeked advance apologia. Automation too is supposed to have a…

100% sure that I was a hog in my previous life before I was reincarnated into this “body” or whatever this contraption is. Love hogs and hog things. 

I live with my parents. They want me to get a job and think I have.

Don’t be mean to me.

Ohio State has the #1 ranked Legal Dispute Resolution graduate program in the nation.

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Trump’s entire presidency is intentionally disruptive on all levels. Not surprising an economist can’t grasp that.

We both know the Fed affects the overnight rate so you can stop referencing it. The data is fine right now, but nowhere near where it was in 2018 and where it was thought to be going, both of which were reasoning behind the Fed’s hiking.

This is not what I would call a good explanation of your position.

Which have slowed meaningfully from when they were in hike mode. Did you not read my reply or do you just want to argue?

I didn’t either. Most of that is for never-ending, unnecessary war that may have benefited some but definitely did not benefit the United States.*

I’m well aware of the city’s negligence, the highway that intentionally separates the South Side from the city [i94?], and the cradle-to-grave vision that politicians had for that population. I know how terrible their schools are and all the types of decay that community has experienced. Just because I support Trump…

This is my only ungreyed account. I had zero before this one.

It’s a real place with real problems all of which are very real and very ignored. They aren’t class-mobile at all, which is why they are an apt example.

Sales tax? Give me a break. If you want to make a case that illegal immigration makes any sort of financial sense you need to start and end with the medium and large businesses that employ them on the cheap, the consumer staples companies that sell them necessities, the slumlords that provide their housing, the tech…