I think some of the issue is the manner in which the companies “increase” fuel efficiency. There was a good article on Jalopnik about how the turbo’d four bangers can produce fantastic mileage under test conditions, but actually suck gas worse than an efficient 6-cylinder due to the lacking low end power.…

This logic is akin to saying, “It is snowing here, global warming is bullshit!” Obama even brought up tax inversion in a couple of speeches. Ireland has seen their GDP skyrocket due to this.

Ireland is in fact on this planet:

Two paragraphs after condemning those peacefully attending the inauguration here:

Thank you for posting a thorough, well-written, and objective analysis of the situation. I look forward to reading more of your work; glad you decided to come to Foxtrot Alpha!

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Honestly, yes I did read the article. The underlying theme is conflating stock market performance with the economy. Maybe you failed to make it to the bottom paragraph where the author clearly proclaims:

I didn’t say they were more deserving. I said I felt empathetic for some so I did not lump them all together as all deserving blame. The point of my initial statement was setting the “why” behind the continued growth in 55+ job numbers, not necessarily who deserved the underlying blame for not being able to retire.

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I don’t have an angle, just trying to remain objective. This strategy was really pushed by economic “geniuses” like Greenspan; growing the economy by the artificial equity in homes without a shorting mechanism (really, because there wasn’t a shorting mechanism). Most people aren’t financially literate, so when SME’s…

If population outpaces jobs, then it is not “good” it is “lacking”. There is no spin, just facts. Also, it is highly centralized a few locations across the US, further resulting in urbanization, necessarily increasing the of cost of living for those folks based on increased demand for housing, goods and services. Its…

Sweet Jesus I hope so.

Bruh, there are like 70 million more people in the US in 2014 vs 1990 due to immigration and population growth, and yet you are trying to tout approximately 25 million full time jobs over that amount of time? This isn’t a flattening, when growth rates diverge, then we are worse off, not better. That isn’t twisting…

Maybe you should have read in lieu of that TLDR, given that my point wasn’t everything is his fault or due to his actions. My issue is cherry picking stats or time frames to give someone credit when it isn’t due, but changing the logic to avoid any fault that may result from the given line of thinking.

Really helps to…

For clarification, by background I meant how people grew up (i.e. poor, middle class, rich), not skin color. A variety of backgrounds did vote for Trump on average, and he fared better with blacks and hispanics than Romney did (who was never reviled as a nazi racist):

Thanks, I appreciate the sentiment.

“I don’t have my money in stocks or bonds, I have a pension with my company!” /s

It really isn’t that simple; that is really pitting the working class against itself. They were promised a retirement and planned accordingly (and contributed to the pensions in the process). It wasn’t their fault an unstoppable force blew up the way everything worked for years (i.e. the Fed).

I did actually hit on this in another post:

Congratulations! You have independently discovered what happens if you hold your denominator effectively constant across multiple measures! No shit the six measures of unemployment correlate, the BLS doesn’t really vary the “Not in Labor Force” portion, so you will always have the same direction. Start it in 09-10…

I am honestly uncertain if you are kidding or not, I am going to guess not.