Well, yeah—when it comes to most things, Trump is quite literally the Teflon Don. He’s able to do that, in part, because he’s managed to con people into believing that he’s a Very Smart Businessman who Knows Business.

Yeah, we already did that. That long, relatively stagnant period is part of the reason why we’re going on ten years now without a real recession. The economy only really got off the ground in the last couple of years, and now we’re riding the crest of what appears to be a pretty classic bubble. The laws of physics can…

ALLOCATE YOUR PORTFOLIO BY YOUR AGE AND DON’T TRY TO TIME THE FUCKING MARKET.

I swear to god: when the shit hits the fan, Trump is literally going to pretend that it isn’t happening. He’s going to rant on Twitter for months about how the fake news media is inventing an economic crisis just to make him look bad. Then, once he’s finally forced to admit that it’s actually happening, he will…

A recession is definitely coming, but probably not until 2019. Most analysts’ predictions have it pegged to late 2019 or early 2020. A massive trade war with China could certainly accelerate that timeline, though, and the housing and auto markets have already begun to turn down. I’m telling everyone I know that they…

Oh, I agree—it should absolutely be free. For what it’s worth, though, most states do limit the amount they can charge you. In NM, where I live, the fee is capped at $10 to activate the freeze and $5 to lift it. It’s also free here if you’re an identity theft victim or a senior citizen over the age of 65. The fee…

If you’re really concerned about it, just freeze your credit. I froze mine with all three major credit bureaus (and a few minor players) just after the breach. It cost me about $30. You have to jump through some additional hoops to open new lines of credit it’s been frozen, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

I mean, polygraphs are still regularly used to screen candidates for intelligence agencies and sensitive military roles. Some federal employees have to submit to them on a regular basis to “prove” their ongoing loyalty to the United States. They may be bullshit, but they’re far from something that exists only in…

It’s easy to dress well as a guy. Just be like me, and spend 80% of your income at J Crew and Banana Republic because you have a problem and oh god please help.

I guess it depends on where you are. In my state, I understand that they do tend to be licensed to prescribe—but then again, having never been able to actually get an appointment with one, I don’t have personal experience with the matter. 

Psychologists are typically actual medical doctors as well, and in most states they can prescribe medications in the same way that a psychiatrist does. The difference is that a psychiatrist specializes in mental health medication selection and management, while a psychologist can do therapy and diagnosis of complex…

That, yes... and I’m sure he’ll target the Fed, which will have to raise interest rates a few times between now and then. He’s already laying the groundwork for it by not-so-subtly pressuring them to not raise the rates at all. He’s not actually wrong that if they do so, it will contribute to the development of the…

Yeah, I’m trying not to get too worked up about it. I know the economic fundamentals are still good enough that we probably aren’t looking at another recession for at least a year or two. Before the real shit hits the fan, I’ll try to get everything into bonds. But it pisses me off to know that what should be smooth…

Not even that, really. I’ve got money in S&P 500 and international ETFs, and they’ve collectively lost hundreds of dollars in value over the last week—with the proximate cause being jitters over Trump’s trade bullshit. So thanks for nothing, Donald, you clueless fuck!

Is... is that a GoldenEye 007 character driving that thing?

Exactly! FiveThirtyEight gave Clinton a 65% chance of winning on the day before the election. What that means in statistical terms is that if the election were run 100 times, Clinton would have won 65 of them and Trump would have won 35. 35% is greater than 1 in 3! Of course he had a pretty good chance of winning with…

John Kelly is now associated with the most pathetically run administration, probably ever, but at the very least since guys like Taft & Grant.

See: the term “soy boys”. 

But they do get access to payphones. The man may not really be a billionaire, but surely he could afford to pay someone to transcribe his angry jailhouse rants and put them on Twitter. Hell, there are lots of people who would do it for free.

76 is actually the temperature in my office at this very moment. The thermostat in here only affects my room, but the higher-ups decided to set a uniform temperature of 72 and install locking plastic covers on the thermostats so we couldn’t change them. The cover has little vents on it, though, and I’ve figured out…