Sure. I'm not but it's different this time. You have passive investors. You have manipulation by the Treasury and Fed. all of this may make the market worse. You have record deficits in non-recessionary times. But we'll tend to keep it up for the time being. How long the time being is is the billion-dollar, trillion-dollar question.
@xwastheone Read her book when it came out. What distinguished it from other great predictions of Soviet collapse was its factual data and its predictive urgency— that the communist USSR was actually going to collapse quickly, which it did. Gorbachev dissolving it on Christmas Day, 1991.
rubbish. Compared to 30 years ago, computers, make it much easier for an airline to recover from a storm, as well as other things such as fleet commonality, etc. make it much easier to recover from winter storms. It used to be to take a week or more for an airline to take recover from a serious storm. Now it takes a day or two for all of the most severe storms.
@Sargon_of_Akkad “The unprincipled exception is a non-liberal value or assertion, not explicitly identified as non-liberal, that liberals use to escape the inconvenient, personally harmful, or suicidal consequences of their own liberalism without questioning liberalism itself. “
@CurtMills
Regardless of where you are on the spectrum of views on Israel and Gaza, Pete is giving is a master class and how not to answer questions (in this case, if you are running for president as a Democrat in 2028). The most fluid and fluent nothingness circumnavigating a minefield that I’ve seen in a long time, to mix metaphors. Impressive performance: simply nothing..
ABC News This Week has just learned the names of the only four perps in the Epstein scandal.
In reverse order of severity of guilt:, Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Trump, and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
https://t.co/rzBDul8iBK
@ScottAdamsSays
@ScottAdamsSays something like “paidtesters”
The important thing is emphasize that they’re not volunteers in one syllable that’s crystal clear.
So I think you think you should lead with “paid“
Agnostic as to what follows “paid“
@ryangrim@CurtMills It’s very easy to figure who they are confusingly, and deliberately, mislabeling as the woke right: to a first approximation, think anti-immigration right.