The CDC knows a strain doesn’t become dominate overnight. All the data suggested a super infectious strain that was spreading like wildfire UNLESS the population was upwards of 90% inoculated. The US clearly wasn’t 90% inoculated in May. The data they had was crystal clear - Alpha was on the wane and Delta was on the…

Tell me about it. I have 6 late payments on my mortgage because my wife got unexpectedly unemployed and it took longer than expected to get her final paycheck. Our savings didn’t cover our payment that month, so I was short a few hundred. It took me 6 months to get us back on our feet because every mortgage payment…

The person with a 675 credit score and not as much cash in their bank as they’d like for a down payment.  

Those people don’t matter.  They’re going to do whatever the want ‘cause... ‘Murica! (or whatever dumb shit they say).  The people the CDC need to reach are the general population that’s still confused about this issue.  There’s a lot more of them and, unlike the morons, they’re just not that vocal.  And it gives…

Delta was growing back in May. It didn’t just pop out of nowhere and the the CDC knew that. The UK cases were rising at the time with the Delta variant and everyone in infectious diseases knew they were going to be the proverbial canary in the coalmine on this variant (at least among 1st world nations). All the signs…

Well there WAS a short lived comic series called Great Lakes Avengers.

The morons who thought getting rid of the mask mandate would ENCOURAGE people to go get the vaccine instead of just lying their ass off about having got the vaccine NOW think people are going to listen to them and start wearing masks again???

Doesn’t matter if the eggs hits the rock or the rock hits the egg... things ain’t lookin’ too good for the egg.

Like I said, “they don’t absolutely have to”.  I get poor.  I’ve been poor.  You still buy the best tires you can afford 100% of the time or you’re just nuts.

I’m always stunned people buy the cheapest tires if they don’t absolutely have to do it. Literally everything you do in a car that involves acceleration, declaration, turning, and stopping ultimately comes down to the quality of 4 patches of rubber about 1' square each.  

That’s just picking nits. The fundamental point remains even if the scales are different. Make something new with a new brand. You shuck the HD stigma of either “that’s not what HD does” from the one side to “I hate HD” from the other. Then just reap the profits. I threw out a couple of quick, off my head examples,…

Factor in the increased lifetime tax receipts (again, on average) and the government would still break even if not make more. Paying servicers could easily be handled by charting educational institutions for the administrative costs of handing the loans that allow them to keep functioning.

How about cancel all interest accumulated and make the interest rate 0% moving forward? The American public shouldn’t be guaranteed a return on investment from a subset of citizens in addition to the increased taxes (on average) that subset pays. Student loan borrowers pay back what they borrowed from the American…

Kinda, but my accident. My parents never had enough money to not buy used and often exceedingly warn cars. I spent a LOT of my youth helping my dad fix whatever got broken that week. As a defense mechanism, I started researching the shit out of cars. I read anything and everything I could about which car was…

It might make more money per unit but nobody can really say if it will make more money. Anybody who ever once looked at the phrase “business school” should want to make $1 profit on 10,000 units instead of $50 profit on 100 units.

There’s no way I won’t watch this secretly praying Garson will launch into playing Mozzie from White Collar instead.

It isn’t an assumption. It’s the measured fact.  You can see that by the below average unemployment rate from roughly last half of 2015 - 2019 combined with next to no wage increases.  The 24 straight quarters of 4% or lower unemployment but no wage increases?  That’s wage pressure by any definition.  

Not according to economics there isn’t. Inflation is up because wage pressures are up. Just see how many Taco Bells, Lowe’s, McDonalds, etc that are advertising higher wages because they can’t find anyone. This is latent wage pressure that would have happened irrespective of any money supply increases. Combine that…

Well, technically, we can’t. It works because we know the time it takes to get from a known spot on the planet, then we calculate how long it takes to get to you compared to that known spot and do the math.

Well the 500X is probably worth less than an oil change, so....