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08-08-19 07:17 #584
Posts: 746Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
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08-08-19 05:24 #583
Posts: 5454Originally Posted by JohnClayton [View Original Post]
Admin moved these discussions to this thread. So I'm guessing they do belong here.
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08-08-19 05:18 #582
Posts: 5454Originally Posted by Smoothy [View Original Post]
I don't see a classic, patented Great Repub Depression/Recession on the near horizon. Yet. Although Trump is certainly doing his best to trigger one with his trade war and tariff taxes on the American consumer.
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08-08-19 05:05 #581
Posts: 746Originally Posted by Smoothy [View Original Post]
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08-08-19 04:26 #580
Posts: 3497Let's face it, if anyone is complaining about the current US economy under the Trump admin, they are just anti Trump politically.
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08-08-19 02:36 #579
Posts: 5454Originally Posted by NattyBumpo [View Original Post]
First of all, Obama was the first president challenged with recovering an economy that was the worst decline SINCE (R) Herbert Hoover's disastrous Great Depression contributions.
Second, Trump has not yet produced or presided over a better than 2.9% GDP growth year either and likely never will. Particularly since Trump's front loaded spending of $2 Trillion+ to buy one has already shot its wad and failed to do so. And it is doubtful any Congress will give him the go ahead to make that mistake again unless the spending looks a whole lot like a Dem infrastructure expenditure and nothing like another Repub Supply-Side/Trickle-Down waste of serious money.
Third, I love that oft repeated criticism of Obama's historic (and still somewhat ongoing) economic recovery. Especially from seemingly anti Dem, pro Repub folks. LOL. So HIS latest Dem economic recovery from the latest Great Repub Depression/Recession was not nearly as strong and fast as all the previous Dem economic recoveries from all the previous Great Repub Depressions/Recessions, huh?
Really? That's the big criticism of it considering this time and for the first time ever the Congressional Repubs vowed on Obama's first inauguration night in the midst of the Niagara Falls plunge in that latest Great Repub Depression/Recession to remain as unified as possible in blocking, thwarting and slow-walking his and the other Dems' every effort to pull the country out of it?
For shame, for shame. What is the consistent, historical, century-long pattern of Dem economic recoveries from Great Repub Depressions/Recessions coming to! Lol.
Yet he and the Dems still managed to produce another remarkable Dem economic recovery from another Great Repub Depression/Recession anyway. Damn, that really rankled the Congressional Repubs and Repubs in general, didn't it?
Btw, in another example of lazy Main Stream and financial media, I see those charts appear to credit those particular upticks to the November 2016 election result. But I see no mention that a 2.3% GDP growth rate for 2017 was already projected by the Congressional Budget Office months before that election and on the assumption that no new major economic law or legislation would be passed. Which is exactly what happened in 2017; no new major economic legislation was passed until the last week of the year and the U.S. economy was therefore still moving on the economic legislation that was in place prior to the election.
With Trump's magnificent presence in the White House? Oops. It looks like 2017 came in UNDER the CBO's already (made in early/mid 2016) projected 2.3% GDP growth rate for 2017 and came in at 2.2% instead. Another UNDER performance from the economy handed to him for Trump.
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08-07-19 19:38 #578
Posts: 3056Nok stewardesses
Just curious if any of you guys have flown Nok Airlines and if so did you hit on the infamous stewardesses and have any luck. I'm flying Nok DMK (Bangkok) to HKT (Phuket) next month for that expressed purpose. Nok Nok. Who's there?
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08-07-19 15:21 #577
Posts: 1222Originally Posted by NattyBumpo [View Original Post]
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08-07-19 12:27 #576
Posts: 3040Originally Posted by Franciscass [View Original Post]
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08-07-19 07:28 #575
Posts: 1222Another off topic post
As I see it, some interesting situations for the risk takers among us. Need an offshore account to execute.
Take 2.6 on the exchanges on a no deal Brexit in 2019 hedged with shorting the pound against the Swissie. On current December '19 contract pricing it should give a 10% return assuming a 5% move either way.
A little further out Trump is evens to get reelected and a position on the dollar against the yen assuming a similar 5% shift should yield similar returns.
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08-07-19 06:22 #574
Posts: 1222Originally Posted by NattyBumpo [View Original Post]
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08-07-19 06:03 #573
Posts: 381Originally Posted by NattyBumpo [View Original Post]
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08-07-19 03:21 #572
Posts: 3497Originally Posted by NattyBumpo [View Original Post]
Take the Jakarta Ruth's Chris post cautiously. This last visit last week it was absolutely great, the time before that a year ago it was not.
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08-07-19 03:03 #571
Posts: 3040Sugar Hit
Originally Posted by Smoothy [View Original Post]
P.S. I liked your recent report on Ruth Chris Steak House. I know a great one about 5 miles from my home in Florida, but not all Ruth Chris restaurants are good. That is why I took note of your recent post.
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08-06-19 14:43 #570
Posts: 926Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
I knew a Thai girl who told me that the prince of Dubai is very handsome. She then told me that there are hundreds of girls that are queuing to become his GF, and finally that I don't understand which guy is handsome from a woman's perspective.
Like you, I am surprised how popular McDs, KFC, Pizza Hut, now Taco Bell, etc. are with Thais.