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Yep — people (and the assholes in authority) in the so-called “land of the free” have an extremely hard time minding their own damn business and keeping their traps zipped when something doesn’t concern them.

Though I suspect there was more to some of those stories, like a bad blood between neighbors and someone looking for an excuse to make their neighbor’s life difficult. Also, Ukrainian Village in Chicago is relatively white, and the mom in question just so happened to be of Afro-Latina heritage…

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Yes, but sproglets stay inside yappin’ on Snapchat and gaming instead of actually playing outside. And idiot American neighbors would likely call the pigs on someone who lets their kids (zOMG) play outside, unsupervised.

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Considering the US three letter agencies’ penchant for spying and meddling in the world, shouldn’t you also be wary of US products?

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One quarter of growth doesn’t mean much — we had a few quarters of > 4% growth under Obama. No unemployment print till next week.

4.1% GDP growth was q-o-q, not y-o-y which was 2.8%. Neither is unprecedented.

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Good — less wheat and corn = thinner Americans 😀

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“We’ll work towards” means “we’ll think about it and maybe do nothing.” I hope this is true — no need for European markets to be deluged with shoddy American or “American” goods when the local products are actually better, if slightly more expensive.

BTW – “liberals” supporting free trade is a recent thing. Till the 90s, liberals tended to be all for protecting the jobs of US workers.

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Do you mean 2014?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthasharf/2014/07/30/u-s-gdp-grew-4-in-the-second-quarter-2014/#38c50cc5392b

I’m rather happy the Fed is raising rates — it’s already serving as Aspirin for feverish housing markets around here. Hope ARMs start ticking up soon …

10y bond’s back around 3% — this is entertaining to watch.

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Problem is that the US lacks real rule of law, and hasn’t had it since the sentencing “reforms” of the 1980s.

“Illegal” is whatever government thugs can arrest someone for, threaten them with excessively harsh prison sentences, and bully them into a plea bargain.

If we had rule of law, we wouldn’t be imprisoning 1% of our population.

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I’m not anti-progress, I’m pro-chaos. Chaos == opportunity.

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Estimates are mostly based on previous-year performance, since they don’t have a crystal ball about current or next year’s performance.

May estimate date means the data goes from early 2017 to early 2018, if you they’re lucky.

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Budget signed in 2018 is based on 2017 revenues, before Trump had much (if any) of an effect. As an “econ prof” you should know better.

Also, not all state and local spending is good according to liberals. The 2008 recession was one of the things that forced states to cut back on law enforcement, mass incarceration, and re-evaluate idiotic drug laws.

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Hope it does pass — kicking property price inflation down to nearly zero would be a healthy breath of relief.

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There’s more to liberalism than the ecaaaaaahnamy and giving everyone a crap job that they hate every minute of, but can’t get out of. That’s called “keeping people on the fucking treadmill” not liberalism.

Personal freedoms. The choice whether to keep a baby or not. Freedom of religion, but also freedom FROM religion.

A sense of proportion in law enforcement, not “zero tolerance” crap designed to prove a point while harming actual humans.

A safety net, so when you get ill or lose your job, you don’t go medically bankrupt.

Access to inexpensive and public education, so people aren’t dependent on the whim of an employer to better themselves.

If you’re calling Trump a liberal, you fail to understand a lot of things. Of course, you’re an “economist” (supposedly). It’s no wonder economics is called the “dismal science.”

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Basically, China is in a massive R.E. bubble that dwarfs the US 2008 bubble. Watching it reset will be amusing.

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Jan Fields? Maybe she didn’t want to go into that track — maybe all she wanted to do is get her Ph. D. and do research benefitting humankind.

Believe it or not, being a board chairman of a chain restaurant isn’t the pinnacle of human existence.

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