Tag: Economy
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Why we suddenly feel the effects of inflation
Inflation isn’t something that just happened. It’s been happening. It’s been rising for decades and government has been misinforming the public. Since the Ronald Reagan Administration the U.S. Government changed the way consumer inflation is calculated. In fact, inflation has been above 5% consistently and probably close to 7% on average until 2020. In 2020…
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That huge sell-off in the markets today is simply a Black Friday discount for buyers of the dip
What’s a 3% dip in the stock market? The news is blaming the latest COVID variant… ooooooo so scary. Nothing to worry about. Nothing to see here. It’s simply a 3% discount on all the stocks you want to buy. Heck… use some of that stimulus money and gamble it away in the market. That’s…
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Venezuela is our future if we don’t stop the march towards socialism
Venezuela nationalized most of their big industries. Government pushed out the private sector in the name of equity and fairness for the people. The standard definition of socialism is “government ownership of the means of production.” When government takes ownership of the means of production, that is called “nationalization.” So the more a government nationalizes,…
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Higher wages… less purchasing power. The Biden inflation legacy
I doubt the $15 minimum wage promoters will understand that you can get paid more but make less in the end. I’m sure the Biden administration will print up more money to pass out. That’ll solve the problem. Real (after inflation) average hourly earnings have declined for seven consecutive months (overall 2%) and nine of…
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Investors may finally be learning that China is no place to invest
We should have never started conducting business in mainland China. Communist countries are closed boxes where everything is owned by the government regardless of how much they make it appear they do not. An article in the Wall Street Journal lays out how the Chinese government changed their regulations making it impossible for one type…
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Inflation starting to look a little sticky
I’m starting to lean towards the notion that this will not be a transitory inflationary period. If a federal $15 minimum wage comes to pass combined with further climate change regulations there is nowhere for costs to go except up. “In an environment where inflation continues to rise quarter after quarter after quarter, there are…