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The way she looked at the other woman makes me think they both experienced something, like he had just farted or shite his diaper and the smell was bad....
Is this the state or SCOTUS? Is there a link for this?...

re: US CPI comes in "hotter than expected"

Posted by Bard on 5/16/24 at 2:43 pm
[quote]I haven't read through the wage data but, if the reports of employers cutting hours are accurate, then it would be surprising if employee earnings weren't reduced.[/quote] MoM: [quote]Real average weekly earnings decreased 0.4 percent over the month due to the change in real average hourl...
Thanks for bumping this, I had forgotten S2 was already here. :nana:...
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re: US CPI comes in "hotter than expected"

Posted by Bard on 5/16/24 at 11:52 am
[quote]but real wages has been holding up[/quote] Not this year. [link=(https://www.bls.gov/news.release/realer.nr0.htm)]BLS for April 2024[/link] [quote]Real average hourly earnings for all employees decreased 0.2 percent from March to April, seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor S...
[quote]The image, arguably an unflattering picture of Australia’s richest woman[/quote] There's no argument about it, that thing is hideous....
Don't hang your hat on this, guys. She was responding that Johnson's showing up at the trial was related to the upcoming elections. She did not say the trial is being done in order to impact the upcoming elections (although we all know that's the [i][u]sole[/u][/i] reason any of the charges were...
[quote]How are six men going to stop a guy with a gun? By the time they react the shooter would have more than one round in him.[/quote] Yep. You can have armed guards all around someone, but if there is a determined enough shooter with time to plan, keeping a target from being shot through doin...
[quote]he said if Trump is elected he will still do all of the DEI stuff, it'll just be rebranded and rephrased to hide it.[/quote] Not exactly. What he said was that the powers that be in the DoJ will hide it through rephrasing. He doesn't seem particularly enamored with it, but he's going alo...
[quote]What will this board look like when Biden takes Trump to school?[/quote] So the plan for Biden is to plagiarize his way through the debates? :lol:...

re: IG finds DOJ going after whistleblowers

Posted by Bard on 5/16/24 at 6:41 am
[quote]This outrageous and insulting accusation is based on unsubstantiated accusations that I hold 'conspiratorial views' regarding the events of January 6, 2021 and that I allegedly sympathize with criminal conduct.[/quote] [i]The First Amendment enters the chat...[/i] Where, exactly, is the...

re: Dark Matter - Series on Apple TV

Posted by Bard on 5/15/24 at 8:35 pm
Is that the same thing as what [link=(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4159076/)]Syfy did years ago[/link]?...
[quote]Based on the racial demographics, 2 minority districts is about right. 1 is definitely low when the state is 33% black.[/quote] The problem is that the black population is so spread out across the state that you can't create a 2nd district without some serious racial gerrymandering. If it...

re: US CPI comes in "hotter than expected"

Posted by Bard on 5/15/24 at 6:56 pm
[quote]Fed policy is also likely to be ineffective as long as both the executive and legislative branches continue their present course.[/quote] Add the consumer into that mix as well. Consumers are still deeply in debt and constantly creating more while draining their savings, all while real wa...

re: US CPI comes in "hotter than expected"

Posted by Bard on 5/15/24 at 8:57 am
Good question. The goal of the Fed is always to keep it around 2% YoY, but less is always welcomed. This means MoM will usually bounce a tenth or three MoM, but it generally had been consistently lower changes each month prior to COVID. [link=(https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUSR0000SA0&outpu...

re: US CPI comes in "hotter than expected"

Posted by Bard on 5/15/24 at 8:04 am
[quote]Swing and a miss. [/quote] I figured if I posted this, it would jinx the reported number. You're welcome. :lol:...

re: CPI comes in hot at 3.4%

Posted by Bard on 5/15/24 at 8:02 am
Came in right around estimates for YoY, .1 below MoM estimates. This pushes the Fed closer to cutting in September. We'll see what happens over the summer....

US CPI comes in "hotter than expected"

Posted by Bard on 5/14/24 at 8:05 am
Just getting a jump on tomorrow's most repeated economic headline. :lol: ***EDIT*** I jinked it. You're welcome. :lol:...
[quote]Link to the PC you bought, and historically, list off a few games that have been your favorites.[/quote] This. Otherwise, we're all just shooting in the dark....