You’re imagining things. I never cursed. I’ll try to go slower. Mitch isn’t going to say out loud that Garland is a corrupt political hack. You didn’t remember I said Mitch has always been for sale. He got something material to confirm Garland.

You seemed to imply that the Fed was independent. The Fed has not been independent for 30 years. They should be but they’re not.

I think you’re wrong about Greenspan. He was responsible for the boom bust cycle with his mismanagement of interest rates. He blamed China. Rates were low in 2001 after the dot com bust. He should have been raising rates from 2002-2005 to at least 5% and left them there until 2006. Instead he didn’t raise rates until 2004 and didn’t get to 5% until 2006. That’s why they quit calling him “the maestro”. He was no great shakes.
- Minnyhock

1. Just ranted then.

2. The issue is the inconsistency between 1997, 2015 and 2020. Confirmed overwhelmingly, not brought up to floor vote, confirmed overwhelmingly. If corruption or whatever is the deciding factor, why the change?
Do you realize the guy has been repeatedly invited to speak at the Federalist Society, the most conservative legal think tank out there? Strange profile for a corrupt, partisan hack, eh?

3. Oh I see. I do admire the blithe confidence with which you demolish everything taken as truth in economic circles. Should I be taking notes and writing stuff down? Is there a paper that is going to be published soon in the AER and is this the pre-print?

4. All very interesting stuff! I look forward to seeing the paper, complete with statistical evidence. And no one said he was a maestro and everyone knows he was wrong about the great recession.

The point I raised was him sticking the soft landing in 1995 or so. So far the only central banker to do so. Which has absolutely nothing to do with the other stuff you posted.

Ok hopefully you enjoy the couple Wordle in your his/her cashmere robes sipping on some glutton free wine.

*sponsored by the New York Times*
- Glak18

Your stereotypes need a little work. They are cartoonishly inaccurate.


I am not really interested in people's views. I am much more interested in their reasoning.

For example, you (justifiably) asked me how I felt that the President of the US was exhibitiing tendencies of senility, and his fitness for the job thereof. I said it was deeply troubling.

But it is surely equally troubling that a former President should go to pieces in public after being transparently trolled about his crowd size and behavior, all the while trying to assure voters that he has the right disposition and temperament to do the job. Who then continues to insist that he won the debate that every single poll says he lost by 2:1.

Trump 2024. Love the Donald
- hello it's me 2050

Make sure to buy some pieces of his suit.

Given that he is old, obsese and eats a strange diet, chances are high that certain strategically located pieces of his apparel would carry, shall we say, a post-digestive odor.

Just think of how nice an heirloom that would be: passed down from generation to generation, unearthed for your grandchild's christening ...

Liberal left language has only one purpose, to divide us and stoke racism.
- jd250

The issue was not division. The issue was: if the virtues of Trump are so self-evident, how come only one group in the ethnicity-education spectrum supports him and others don't?

Its like saying Phil Myers is a stud D. The logical question becomes: how come others with skin in the game don't hire him then?

Came on here to troll flyers… backread 2 pages… no flyers talk. All political so guess I gotta troll that?🤷‍♂️I’m looking for and rooting for the candidate that is gonna cause the most uproar if elected. Honestly I think it probably 50/50. So I guess win/win for me.
- Stayin alive

I thought you were quitting after the TK signing.

This "spectacle" view you have: would you say the same about a teacher teaching your kid? An asset manager managing your portfolio? A doctor treating your relative?

Gee. I dunno what s/he will do; I just hope for a good show.

but but the donald is the racist !!!!
- hello it's me 2050

I know! How could anyone ever believe that when his son says:

"“You look at Haiti, you look at the demographic makeup, you look at the average I.Q. — if you import the third world into your country, you’re going to become the third world,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with Charlie Kirk on Real America’s Voice, a conservative broadcasting network. “That’s just basic. It’s not racist. It’s just fact.”

I mean, how could anyone not love this family?

hope the Donald gets there as he needs to save democracy.
- hello it's me 2050

He will totally save Democracy, big bro!

Just look at the plan for Ukraine that Vance put forward. Which he says is pretty similar to what Trump thinks: Russia keeps territory, Ukraine never in NATO.

After that, Russia can keep installing puppet governments, and recoup its losses, and then, without NATO, finish the job off on a future day with no consequences.

Capitulation with a tithe built in. The greatest military humiliation for the US since Dec 7, '41.

Wouldn't that make you feel all warm and fuzzy and poop?

USA! USA!

But it is surely equally troubling that a former President should go to pieces in public after being transparently trolled about his crowd size and behavior, all the while trying to assure voters that he has the right disposition and temperament to do the job. Who then continues to insist that he won the debate that every single poll says he lost by 2:1.
- PT21

Going to pieces is hyperbole. We know that Trump is prone to hyperbole and has an ego. We also know that those comments in the big picture are meaningless. We know that he has the right disposition and temperament to do the job because he has already done it. The country was much better off under Trump in virtually every aspect than it has been under Biden/Harris.

You want to focus on a couple of comments and the debate for the same reason that Harris does. She can't run on her record in comparison to Trump. You also can't compare the record under Trump versus Biden/Harris and say the country has been better off under the latter.

You make ridiculously weak arguments.

The issue was not division. The issue was: if the virtues of Trump are so self-evident, how come only one group in the ethnicity-education spectrum supports him and others don't?

Its like saying Phil Myers is a stud D. The logical question becomes: how come others with skin in the game don't hire him then?
- PT21

We'll find out it he election who supports him. I bet your spectrum of who supports him turns out to be baloney.

Nice try with the Myers reference. Living inside your head 24/7

I know! How could anyone ever believe that when his son says:

"“You look at Haiti, you look at the demographic makeup, you look at the average I.Q. — if you import the third world into your country, you’re going to become the third world,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with Charlie Kirk on Real America’s Voice, a conservative broadcasting network. “That’s just basic. It’s not racist. It’s just fact.”

I mean, how could anyone not love this family?
- PT21

Well said by Trump.

Biden "if you don't vote for me, you ain't black"

The Biden/Harris administration press secretary, despite two assassination attempts against Trump is still spewing the rhetoric from the podium that Trump is a threat to democracy.

He will totally save Democracy, big bro!

Just look at the plan for Ukraine that Vance put forward. Which he says is pretty similar to what Trump thinks: Russia keeps territory, Ukraine never in NATO.

After that, Russia can keep installing puppet governments, and recoup its losses, and then, without NATO, finish the job off on a future day with no consequences.

Capitulation with a tithe built in. The greatest military humiliation for the US since Dec 7, '41.

Wouldn't that make you feel all warm and fuzzy and poop?

USA! USA!
- PT21

The greatest military humiliation for the US since Dec 7, 41' has already happened. The withdrawal from Afghanistan that killed 13 US service members that Biden won't even mention their names. Where he looked at his watch on the tarmac as the bodies were returned. The situation where Harris claims to have been the last person in the room. The one where they left 80B in military equipment to the Taliban. The one where Biden denied their existence at the state of the union. Yet your focused on Trump talking about the size of his crowds. You should be disparaging Harris who instead of sticking to policy, decided to get under the skin of Trump. Polls show that th debate changed little. Please tell me that your posting is not an example of the educated voters of this country? No wonder it's going to poop.

This already happened compared to your fantasy in Ukraine.

Here are a couple of factoids I found online. Again: I am not suggesting any stereotypes, insults. Just pointing out a sociological fact that is striking and questions the premise that Trump's support is so universal across different groups.

This chart shows how college educated white support flipped from solid R beginning 2016.



(Before the usual suspects pounce on me for publishing something from MSM, that is from publicly available exit polls. Everyone uses this data, irrespective of affiliation. I could not find such a nice graph on, say, Fox. Hence the link.)

And here is the data extended to 2020: