I'm surprised there's not an inflation thread yet
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And none of that makes my last post any less true.
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Quote:As time has gone on, the people who rent out property or sell real estate have steadily gotten greedier and greedier, but they were always greedy, just not as much as in the last year. Since 6ix hasn't bought but one house in an entire life, you are probably unaware of how much worse greedy American home sellers have gotten. By the way, the President has no control over how greedy an American can be. It is strictly a matter of self-control, or lack of.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
And none of that makes my last post any less true.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:As time has gone on, the people who rent out property or sell real estate have steadily gotten greedier and greedier, but they were always greedy, just not as much as in the last year. Since 6ix hasn't bought but one house in an entire life, you are probably unaware of how much worse greedy American home sellers have gotten. By the way, the President has no control over how greedy an American can be. It is strictly a matter of self-control, or lack of.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
And none of that makes my last post any less true.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
You just go on pretending that all of the bubbles that keep popping around us aren't because of our "leadership".
I frankly don't care. I have zero financial worries for the rest of my life.
It's not as if homes weren't expensive before I bought this house. I happened to buy this one for 40% of what the previous owners had paid for it just 5 years prior. They were among the millions of Americans who should never have qualified for the loans that were being given out to people who could never have hoped to pay them off... something that continued well into Obama's term under ACORN.
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Quote:I would agree with you if "leadership" means corporations. If you are confused enough to believe that America's "leadership" are politicians than I don't agree with you.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You just go on pretending that all of the bubbles that keep popping around us aren't because of our "leadership".
There has never been a CEO in America that is as weak as even the strongest President. CEOs can do anything, and they don't need anybody's permission.
On the other hand, Trump couldn't do even one damn thing without the cooperation of dozens of staff. There was plenty of talk about the Deep State thwarting Trump. It wasn't Deep State. It was ordinary people who talk to Trump everyday that ignored his orders. There has NEVER been a CEO that would tolerate for a week the kind of disobedient crap from subordinates that even a President has to live with 24/7 and year after year. Lesser politicians have to tolerate even more disobedience than a President because they don't have the simple power every CEO has to instantaneously fire employees and change rules on a whim. Politicians can't fire other politicians, which is why government doesn't function well. Politicians can't change the rules, either.
With the freedom that CEOs have, and that politicians never had, corporations can raise their prices until they have emptied their customers' bank accounts. 6ix has a pretty good counter-strategy: don't buy. The CEOs can't cheat 6ix out of his money.
If companies were REALLY 'forced to raise prices' because of inflation they would have been 'forced to lower prices’ after Trump gave them $1.9 TRILLION in tax cuts. But they didn't — they raised prices then, too!
Corporations are excellent at flat out lying about what they do.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I would agree with you if "leadership" means corporations. If you are confused enough to believe that America's "leadership" are politicians than I don't agree with you.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You just go on pretending that all of the bubbles that keep popping around us aren't because of our "leadership".
There has never been a CEO in America that is as weak as even the strongest President. CEOs can do anything, and they don't need anybody's permission.
On the other hand, Trump couldn't do even one damn thing without the cooperation of dozens of staff. There was plenty of talk about the Deep State thwarting Trump. It wasn't Deep State. It was ordinary people who talk to Trump everyday that ignored his orders. There has NEVER been a CEO that would tolerate for a week the kind of disobedient crap from subordinates that even a President has to live with 24/7 and year after year. Lesser politicians have to tolerate even more disobedience than a President because they don't have the simple power every CEO has to instantaneously fire employees and change rules on a whim. Politicians can't fire other politicians, which is why government doesn't function well. Politicians can't change the rules, either.
With the freedom that CEOs have, and that politicians never had, corporations can raise their prices until they have emptied their customers' bank accounts. 6ix has a pretty good counter-strategy: don't buy. The CEOs can't cheat 6ix out of his money.
If companies were REALLY 'forced to raise prices' because of inflation they would have been 'forced to lower prices’ after Trump gave them $1.9 TRILLION in tax cuts. But they didn't — they raised prices then, too!
Corporations are excellent at flat out lying about what they do.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Hey... Every once in a while due to Second's complete lack of convictions, and the hilarious display of circular logic and mental gymnastics required for him to win every argument when all of his conclusions are in conflict with one another, he says something that I agree with.
No arguments from me on that post.
Our politicians are owned.
That's what the whole "California single-payer health care plan dead on arrival" was all about.
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=64855
I hate to break it to you... They're owned by the Legacy Media and Big Tech too, and they love censorship while constantly spreading their own misinformation.
Jimmy Dore: "You're all suckers. To think that we have two parties in this country, we don't... We have one party. It's the money party, and you're all fucked."
Also, Me: "Democrats aren't going to fix your problems until you take the money out of politics."
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Quote:I'm calling your explanation a bunch of bullshit. American politicians are gossipy high school students. They aren't ready, and never will be, to take on adult responsibility. The politicians aren't owned; they are weaklings ignored by the adults, the CEOs, because the politicians are frightened by the CEOs of America and frightened by voters and limited by all the high school rules of politics. CEOs are unburdened by silly rules.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Our politicians are owned.
The Crash of 2008 was caused by CEOs doing as they pleased, and much of their profitable activity was fraud. The politicians had the power to stop the CEOs, but were too frightened by those adults with self-confidence, energy, fearlessness, invincible stupidity, and freedom to do whatever stupid things they please.
If the CEOs want inflation, they will get as much as their customers can afford. Even ruthless CEOs can't raise their prices higher when the customers don't have the money to pay. That is the only real limitation on CEOs' ability to inflate prices -- how much money does the customer have that we can steal? It doesn't matter what politicians want as far as inflation, so long as politicians are fearful of ramming prices down the throat of a CEO or fearful of jailing him if he won't cooperate.
Since politicians were so cowardly and stupid as to once again allow the following cheating that was made illegal back in the 1930s, the politicians certainly won't be brave enough to stop "small" price increases. "Small" only because buyers have a limited amount of money to steal. "Large" increases can't be made because there isn't money to pay those increases.
Causes of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis
https://www.thebalance.com/what-caused-2008-global-financial-crisis-33
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The financial crisis was primarily caused by deregulation in the financial industry. That permitted banks to engage in hedge fund trading with derivatives. Banks then demanded more mortgages to support the profitable sale of these derivatives. They created interest-only loans that became affordable to subprime borrowers.
The 2007–2008 Financial Crisis in Review
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/09/financial-crisis-re
view.asp
Fueling greater risk-taking among banks, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in October 2004 relaxed the net capital requirements for five investment banks—Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER), Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS). That freed them to leverage their initial investments by up to 30 times or even 40 times.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I'm calling your explanation a bunch of bullshit. American politicians are gossipy high school students. They aren't ready, and never will be, to take on adult responsibility. The politicians aren't owned; they are weaklings ignored by the adults, the CEOs, because the politicians are frightened by the CEOs of America and frightened by voters and limited by all the high school rules of politics.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Our politicians are owned.
A little bit of Column A. A little bit of Column B.
Find me more than 10 politicians on either side who don't have more assets than they should ever conceivably have given their paychecks.
I won't be holding my breath for that one.
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House prices are up 15.4% from last year, I guess.
Not around here, thankfully. Most of America doesn't turn everything into a fucking speculative bubble that the Elite use to screw the rest of us.
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The preconditions for the price hikes we’re seeing today long predate the pandemic. Companies are able to take advantage of a crisis like the pandemic precisely because these foundations were set in place long before the crisis itself. And in corporate earnings call after corporate earnings call, executives are using inflation as a cover for egregious price hikes to boost their own profits.
A White House Economic Council analysis found gross profits of the top four meat processors soared 120 percent over the course of the pandemic.
“Capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism. It’s exploitation,” Biden said during the January unveiling of the plan. “That’s what we’re seeing in meat and poultry industries now.”
More at https://www.vox.com/2022/2/20/22943257/inflation-corporations-price-hi
kes-consumer-price-index
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Quote:I've got more money than you could ever conceive from just my paychecks. (Social Security keeps a running total for me to calculate my monthly Social Security benefit that starts in April when I turn 70.) I didn't use political connections, insider trading, or tax cheating to accumulate wealth disproportionate to the sum of my paychecks. Trump thinks he has to cheat/sue/break promises to get rich, but I didn't have to. Trump's life story is why politicians are suspected of illegal wealth.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:I'm calling your explanation a bunch of bullshit. American politicians are gossipy high school students. They aren't ready, and never will be, to take on adult responsibility. The politicians aren't owned; they are weaklings ignored by the adults, the CEOs, because the politicians are frightened by the CEOs of America and frightened by voters and limited by all the high school rules of politics.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Our politicians are owned.
A little bit of Column A. A little bit of Column B.
Find me more than 10 politicians on either side who don't have more assets than they should ever conceivably have given their paychecks.
I won't be holding my breath for that one.
I could have ended up like my father, a Burger King manager. His wealth was definitely smaller than the sum of all his paychecks, but he depended on bank certificates of deposit to make his money grow. He was always telling me that I would end up broke because I don't make safe investments like he did. Dad's understanding of how Capitalism works was not a complete understanding. If he knew how it actually worked, in all the little details, he would not have agreed with how things are done in America. But then again, Dad was never one to think much about where his gasoline and natural gas came from. And he certainly wasn't investing in drilling for gas/crude. Stock market was too risky for Dad. Every market was too risky. Do only safe things, according my Dad.
Real life Capitalism, not the version my Father understood or his Father, the farmer, is done with endless pressure to raise prices, lower wages, lower drilling costs. There are risks, too. The result is what you see all around: high prices and low wages for the bottom 50% of Americans. And top 10% have gathered up most of the wealth because they understand Capitalism. https://www.statista.com/chart/19635/wealth-distribution-percentiles-i
n-the-us/
If you understand how Capitalism actually works, and I have not yet known any poor people who both know and correctly/honestly use their knowledge, America is very nice place that doesn't require illegal business practices (see Trump for what illegal looks like).
America could be nicer, with much lower prices, but that requires not being ridiculously Capitalistic. In my Father's opinion, less Capitalism is Communism. That's why his wealth was small when he died. He couldn't overcome his many false beliefs about real Capitalism. And he never, never understood the real reasons for inflation.
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