Tooms is a bright guy 555 you've obviosly never met him 555
[QUOTE=Tiny12;2777785]I don't think they ran him off Marquis. He probably left of his own accord after the politically correct, anti-libertarian Democrats ran off all the affordable hookers. Kamala Harris was the ring leader when she was California attorney general. She went on to greater things when she became a USA Senator, sponsoring FOSTA and SESTA to try to shut down prostitution throughout the USA.
Interesting contrast in the video between wealth and poverty in Monterey County, California. Maybe Tooms moved to Bangkok because he figured he'd be right at home. I don't know if you've been there, but you can visit plush skyscrapers and shopping malls. And if you walk a few blocks you're in a shanty town. You don't have to drive like in California! Although actually the tent shanty towns in Salinas look more like Jakarta than Bangkok.
No wonder so many people are leaving the PRC (Peoples Republic of California).
Yes indeed, if only Thailand had virus insurance. The country was hit very hard by the pandemic because tourism is one of the largest contributors to GDP. And the Thais through 2020 and into 2021 tried to control the spread of the virus through lockdowns. They effectively shut down tourism and travel from overseas until last year, unless you were willing to jump through hoops. Tooms apparently believes we should have done something similar in the USA so we wouldn't have suffered the ill effects of his so called "Trump Pandemic."
Anyway, as I have said several times, Tooms is a bright guy. The availability of hot and cold running hotties was undoubtedly not his only consideration in moving to Thailand. He receives income in dollars from his rental properties but spends Thai Baht. Things must have been cheap for him before the pandemic. But now they're super cheap. Thailand's COVID policies and the effect on tourism played a large part in the depreciation of the Baht. So that now a good all night hooker in Bangkok costs less than a steak dinner (with wine) in many American restaurants.[/QUOTE]Just kidding hes a great guy and an even better monger.
I have met some of the most prolific mongers in the world.
Hes easily in the Top 3,then theres Siri in Deutschland hes a savage and myself of course 555.
But I may rank myself #1 if for no other reason they are very one dimensional.
Siri has a very small sphere of influence as does ET.
Me on the other hand 555 I aspire to pummel putas in every capital on the planet before I'm done 555.
[URL]https://www.newsmax.com/reagan/narco-obrador/2022/07/12/id/1078370/[/URL]
[URL]https://nypost.com/2022/07/28/mexico-city-residents-angered-by-influx-of-americans-speaking-english-gentrifying-area-report/[/URL]
PRC lolol they do have a ton of CCP members
[QUOTE=Tiny12;2777785]I don't think they ran him off Marquis. He probably left of his own accord after the politically correct, anti-libertarian Democrats ran off all the affordable hookers. Kamala Harris was the ring leader when she was California attorney general. She went on to greater things when she became a USA Senator, sponsoring FOSTA and SESTA to try to shut down prostitution throughout the USA.
Interesting contrast in the video between wealth and poverty in Monterey County, California. Maybe Tooms moved to Bangkok because he figured he'd be right at home. I don't know if you've been there, but you can visit plush skyscrapers and shopping malls. And if you walk a few blocks you're in a shanty town. You don't have to drive like in California! Although actually the tent shanty towns in Salinas look more like Jakarta than Bangkok.
No wonder so many people are leaving the PRC (Peoples Republic of California).
Yes indeed, if only Thailand had virus insurance. The country was hit very hard by the pandemic because tourism is one of the largest contributors to GDP. And the Thais through 2020 and into 2021 tried to control the spread of the virus through lockdowns. They effectively shut down tourism and travel from overseas until last year, unless you were willing to jump through hoops. Tooms apparently believes we should have done something similar in the USA so we wouldn't have suffered the ill effects of his so called "Trump Pandemic."
Anyway, as I have said several times, Tooms is a bright guy. The availability of hot and cold running hotties was undoubtedly not his only consideration in moving to Thailand. He receives income in dollars from his rental properties but spends Thai Baht. Things must have been cheap for him before the pandemic. But now they're super cheap. Thailand's COVID policies and the effect on tourism played a large part in the depreciation of the Baht. So that now a good all night hooker in Bangkok costs less than a steak dinner (with wine) in many American restaurants.[/QUOTE]I was in BKK for 60 days and seen many parts of the city and didn't see any shanty towns.
Now try walking in San Francisco LOS Angeles or San Diego.
Without stepping in human diarrhea, a true 3rd world shithole.
[URL]https://www.axios.com/2020/12/08/china-spy-california-politicians[/URL]
[URL]https://nypost.com/2020/12/09/rep-swalwell-wont-say-if-he-had-sex-with-chinese-spy/[/URL]
Inequality and Homelessness in the PRC
[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2777552]They chased him out long ago (a CIS white male) lololol.
[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHR2dk4UNCM[/URL][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Tiny12;2777785]Interesting contrast in the video between wealth and poverty in Monterey County, California. Maybe Tooms moved to Bangkok because he figured he'd be right at home. I don't know if you've been there, but you can visit plush skyscrapers and shopping malls. And if you walk a few blocks you're in a shanty town. You don't have to drive like in California! Although actually the tent shanty towns in Salinas look more like Jakarta than Bangkok..[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2777879]I was in BKK for 60 days and seen many parts of the city and didn't see any shanty towns.
Now try walking in San Francisco LOS Angeles or San Diego.
Without stepping in human diarrhea, a true 3rd world shithole.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2777991]
[b]A Bucket of Hot Diarrhea Was Randomly Poured on a Woman by a Homeless Man[/b]
[URL]https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/diarrhea-poured-on-woman-hollywood-homeless/2112762/[/URL][/QUOTE]I think you're right Marquis. There are shantytowns in Bangkok. I remember at least a couple beside canals. However, I've spent very little time in California, so I can't really compare. And I don't remember anything in Bangkok that compared to that tent city in your Monterey County video.
You know, I think I probably got it ass backwards. Tooms probably left California for Bangkok because he was tired of the slums and the riff raff, not to mention the homeless going around dumping diarrhea on people.
Ok, have it your way; Results for Trump's $1. 5 Trillion vs Biden's $1. 9 Trillion
[QUOTE=Tiny12;2778092]I can't read what Lynch, the Washington Post journalist, wrote. If you looked at inflation around middle to late 2021, a hell of a lot more of it than 0.2 to 0.3% was caused by the ARP. That's just plain ridiculous. And, as I think I recall from a previous post, during the time America was experiencing significantly higher inflation than the rest of the world (due in no small part to the ARP), increases in prices of goods and services outpaced wages by about 1.5%. And the American workingman hasn't gotten that 1.5% back. He's now about 2% worse off, in terms of purchasing power, than he was before.
You realize you and I are probably the only ones reading this. I keep repeatedly pointing out that the 2. 5 trillion is a fiction, that assumes the provisions of the TCJA will be extended past their termination dates, which presumably isn't going to happen as long as Democrats control the presidency or the Senate or the House. That's assuming said Democrats view those provisions like you do -- that is, any legislation passed by Republicans without Democratic support is akin to evil incarnate. The CBO and JCT estimated the amount would be around 1.5 trillion. But corporate tax revenues recently have been about equal to what the CBO or JCT estimated they would have been if the TCJA had NEVER been passed. So the amount will probably be less than 1. 5 trillion. Furthermore, the Democrats had the chance to repeal the provisions of the TCJA during 2021 and 2022, but they didn't. Nobody outside of a few borderline nut cases like Warren and Sanders want to take the federal corporate tax rate back up to 35% again.
I don't necessarily like Larry Summers' policy preferences overall and think he's full of shit about 1/3rd of the time. I just keep throwing his name out because he's one of your guys. In fact, he's the most prominent of your guys, in the economics realm. I mention him for the same reason I preferentially post links from, say, Vanity Fair and the New York Times. So you gentlemen on the left can't criticize the source.[/QUOTE]So you and Larry are outraged that Biden's $1. 9 Trillion ARP contributed mightily to recovering Repub Trump's Economic Crash, creating Millions upon Millions of jobs, higher wages, and to reviving collapsed global supply-chains but can't think of anything to criticise about your rosy $1. 5 Trillion scenario version of Repub Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that produced at least a Million FEWER jobs in the three years with it than in the previous three years without it and added virtually nothing else to the USA or global economy. Got it.
If you can't read the WaPo report, the internet is full of freely readable reports questioning this favorite Repub notion that Biden's ARP was pure inflation evil and destroyed the USA economy.
Here is one:
[B]Stimulus Spending a Factor, But Far From Whole Story on Inflation[/B]
[URL]https://www.factcheck.org/2022/06/stimulus-spending-a-factor-but-far-from-whole-story-on-inflation/[/URL]
[QUOTE]Economists cite several reasons for high inflation in the United States, starting with the unprecedented circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic. But TV ads in midterm races across the country blame one culprit: stimulus spending by President Joe Bidens administration.
That spending the American Rescue Plan, enacted in March 2021 has been a factor and not an unimportant one, George Selgin, senior fellow and director emeritus of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute, told us, echoing the view of other economists. But it certainly has not been the whole story.[/QUOTE]And, from that same link, here are other highly respected economists, many would argue some who get it right more often than Larry Summers does, addressing an estimate range and assessment for the ARP's contribution to Trump's Pandemic Inflation at its peak:
[QUOTE]Economists have said the American Rescue Plan a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief measure that included $1,400 checks to most Americans; expanded unemployment benefits; money for schools, small businesses and states has contributed to high inflation, though estimates vary on how much. [b]Jason Furman, a former economic adviser to President Barack Obama and now a Harvard University professor, told us his estimate is 1 to 4 percentage points and when pressed for one number, he uses the midpoint of 2.5. Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moodys whose work is often cited by the White House said the impact of the stimulus measure now "has largely faded."[/b][/QUOTE]BTW, my statement was that many estimates are in a range from "0. 2 - 3% or so", as is reflected by the quotes I highlighted above as well, not 0. 2% to 0. 3%.
