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even though your life may be destroyed in the next scheduled collapse of our capitalist economy, you can rest assured knowing that you never had an opportunity to change it, and it wouldn't have mattered even if you did
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it is kind of interesting how prior to 2008 there was a big consensus among the big thinkers that recessions and crises had been engineered out of capitalism because everyone in charge was so smart but nowadays the big mainstream papers are constantly printing stuff about how the next recession is almost certainly just around the corner
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Shear Modulus posted:it is kind of interesting how prior to 2008 there was a big consensus among the big thinkers that recessions and crises had been engineered out of capitalism because everyone in charge was so smart but nowadays the big mainstream papers are constantly printing stuff about how the next recession is almost certainly just around the corner Journalists got turbofucked by 2008 and it literally has not improved an iota for them
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May 20, 2019 16:55
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ScrubLeague posted:you can rest easy knowing that the economy doesn't exist for you, and like everything in this country, all our institutions are for the benefit of less than 100 people Please, you still can cling on to some benefit if you're a mere multimillionaire
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bob dobbs is dead posted:Journalists got turbofucked by 2008 and it literally has not improved an iota for them Good, gently caress em
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Shear Modulus posted:it is kind of interesting how prior to 2008 there was a big consensus among the big thinkers that recessions and crises had been engineered out of capitalism because everyone in charge was so smart but nowadays the big mainstream papers are constantly printing stuff about how the next recession is almost certainly just around the corner you can rest assured that the "big thinkers" have about as much understanding of how large economies function as the average haruspex does. the media just figured out that the zerohedge model of economic reporting gets more ad views.
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May 20, 2019 17:01
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most journos are just kinda dumb about politics in the same way the majority of America is, despite being in a conservative town the local paper doesn't shy away from bullying local politicians which I appreciate. That said all the national rags should be burned to the ground
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May 20, 2019 17:03
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TSLA's number is going down. I like this.
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ratbert90 posted:TSLA's number is going down. I like this. but... but number go up 
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Chokes McGee posted:but... but number go up Other number can go up, TSLA number should go down. Same with UBER and LYFT.
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May 20, 2019 17:08
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ratbert90 posted:Other number can go up, TSLA number should go down. ??????????
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lmao https://theweek.com/articles/842048/death-by-consultant quote:Or consider Transdigm, a private equity firm that scooped up multiple military parts suppliers, and according to a recent Pentagon inspector general report, raked in excess profits on 98 out of 100 parts surveyed to the tune of 95 to 9,380 percent. (They charge $4,631 for a half-inch drive pin that should cost $46.)
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May 20, 2019 17:28
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I this anything new though? I remember "$10k for a toilet seat" jokes from at least the mid 90s.
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May 20, 2019 17:32
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Kung Food posted:I this anything new though? I remember "$10k for a toilet seat" jokes from at least the mid 90s. it's not, this is just an accepted part of the american government that we pay 1000% markup to enrich a few contractors to do nothing. they had an audit last year and failed it without consequence quote:“We failed the audit, but we never expected to pass it,” Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan told reporters, adding that the findings showed the need for greater discipline in financial matters within the Pentagon.
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May 20, 2019 17:36
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Kung Food posted:I this anything new though? I remember "$10k for a toilet seat" jokes from at least the mid 90s. not only is it not new, the refrain of how we solve it is literally "let's do what FDR did again" quote:Americans will have to rediscover the thinking and traditions that produced people like FDR's Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who kept a close watch on PWA programs. sure that did literally nothing in the long term and we're right back to late stage capitalism but let's just... keep doing it i guess?
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Chokes McGee posted:?????????? If you short a stock, then your number go up when their number go down!!!! Therefore, number always go up!
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Numba? NUMBA?!?!
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Crazycryodude posted:Numba? NUMBA?!?! http://numba.pydata.org/
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Crazycryodude posted:Numba? NUMBA?!?! Is taking a mid afternoon nap so that it can have even more energy to go Up Up UP!
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https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/1130492405482962944 chanting to myself R word...R word...R word
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I went to check the DJIA on google and typed in 'number' instead and didn't realize until I was just about to hit enter. Low prices, everyone.
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rex rabidorum vires posted:https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/1130492405482962944 Dickpunching the heartland to own the coastal libs
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a great thing about that movie with charlton heston nuking the world at the end is that it did really well in the box office. the early 1970s were something
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The message of 70s cinema, that the world is an irredeemable shithole and it ain't getting better, is important and very CSPAM so many films cover this
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Moridin920 posted:I went to check the DJIA on google and typed in 'number' instead and didn't realize until I was just about to hit enter. I did the same thing last week. Peanut President posted:I went to check the markets and I almost...ALMOST searched "is number down"
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May 20, 2019 18:38
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https://www.npr.org/2019/05/20/724978646/ford-slashes-10-of-its-global-salaried-workforce Ford cutting 7000 white collar jobs worldwide, 10% of salaried workforce
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jabokiebean posted:https://www.npr.org/2019/05/20/724978646/ford-slashes-10-of-its-global-salaried-workforce wasn't ford like the only us automaker to not be always on the edge of bankruptcy like only 2-3 years ago?
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the bitcoin of weed posted:it's not, this is just an accepted part of the american government that we pay 1000% markup to enrich a few contractors to do nothing. they had an audit last year and failed it without consequence we failed the audit, but performing it at all was really hard, so we did a successful audit
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jabokiebean posted:https://www.npr.org/2019/05/20/724978646/ford-slashes-10-of-its-global-salaried-workforce I was under the impression that Ford was doing well.
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punk rebel ecks posted:I was under the impression that Ford was doing well. real world performance has no impact on anything anymore, your company doing well hasn't meant more money for you for decades, now it just means you probably don't even get to keep your job very recently a video game developer responded to record profits by laying off a shitload of people, for no other reason than "we wanted profit to be higher"
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punk rebel ecks posted:I was under the impression that Ford was doing well. Number must go up and therefore you must cut costs.
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Ford recently abandoned its entire line of sedans, so they probably just picked up some dumbass executive team.
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Tulip posted:we failed the audit, but performing it at all was really hard, so we did a successful audit I don't think you full appreciate just how hosed the pentagon's spending and accounting is. part of it is that nothing else on earth faces the same sort of challenges they do but most of it is that they launder short term funding into longer term funding through an accounting blender where keeping actual consistent centralized records isn't done. here's a primer. quote:The phony numbers are referred to inside the Pentagon as “plugs,” as in plugging a hole, said current and former officials. “Nippering,” a reference to a sharp-nosed tool used to snip off bits of wire or metal, is Pentagon slang for shifting money from its congressionally authorized purpose to a different purpose. Such nippering can be repeated multiple times “until the funds become virtually untraceable,” says one Pentagon-budgeting veteran who insisted on anonymity in order to keep his job as a lobbyist at the Pentagon.
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:Ford recently abandoned its entire line of sedans, so they probably just picked up some dumbass executive team. I think about this every time I see a Focus or Fiesta on the road, which is all the time because the ~10k price point is what most people are realistically able to pay I'm sure their plan is to make 24k the cheapest entry level option and just start offering 6 year loan terms or something lmao, STONE BLOOD FUTURES UP UP UP
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Yeah, it's not enough to be raking in incredible profits, but each quarter profit must be higher! Or your company must be losing money hand over fist because that means it's growing and soon very soon it will be profiting so much, the number will be huge.
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Tulip posted:we failed the audit, but performing it at all was really hard, so we did a successful audit when i worked at the california department of corrections health records center for nine years we completed the mandatory every six month shelf audit of all physical records exactly zero times, because we had well north of a million records, thirty or so staff and legal obligations that kept more than half of them busy no matter what after a solid week of full court press mandatory overtime with people working 16 hours we were about a tenth of the way through and gave up, then it was never even attempted again
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