Showing posts with label Economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economy. Show all posts

Thursday, May 23, 2024

Inflation, it's here to stay


BY BRIAN MAHER
POSTED
MAY 22, 2024

The Dirty Truth About Inflation, most 19th warders voted for Biden anyway, so don't complain

The sitting administration — the Biden administration — sobs about inflation.

It claims it labors… heart and soul… to reduce that inflation.

Yet we believe these tears are the crocodile’s tears. That is, these tears are not authentic.

We believe the administration is not heart and soul to reduce inflation.

The administration is rather heart and soul for inflation. Not hyperinflation, mind you — hyperinflation carries severe political risk.

But it is out for inflation. It simply does not want you to know it.

Saturday, September 23, 2023

A Time Capsule from the 1930s: What's Different Now


If we compare health and endurance, well-being, security, general attitudes, family and community ties and values, we would conclude that it is we who are impoverished.  

We're taking care of my 92-year old mother-in-law here at home. She has the usual aches and pains and infirmities of advanced age but her mind and memory are still sharp. Her memories of her childhood are like a time capsule from the 1930s. 

My mom-in-law has always lived in the same general community here in Hawaii. She's never lived more than about 10 miles from the house where she was born (long since torn down) in 1931. Listening to her memories (and asking for more details) is to be transported back to the 1930s, an era of widespread poverty unrelated to the Great Depression. Many people were poor before the Depression. They were working hard but their incomes were low. 

Prior to the tourist boom initiated by statehood and affordable airfare, Hawaii's economy was classically colonial: large plantations owned by a handful of wealthy families and/or corporations (known as The Big Five) employed thousands of laborers to raise and harvest sugar cane and pineapple. Pearl Harbor, Hickam air base and Schofield Barracks were large military bases on Oahu. Travel between islands was expensive (ferries) and each island was largely self-sufficient. 

Thursday, January 19, 2023

Due to the small drivers compartment, this job is particularly suited for midgets

Oscar Mayer is searching for its next 12-pack of Wienermobile drivers
The “Hotdogger” position is full-time for one year. It entails traveling about 20,000 miles to 200 events across 20 states promoting the company’s products.
By Sun-Times Wire


An Oscar Mayer Wienermobile is parked Jan. 23, 2002 outside the Oscar Mayer Elementary School in Chicago. Twelve Hotdoggers will be hired to drive and maintain six Wienermobiles for one year.

And the Oscar wiener is…

That’s right, applications for one of the country’s most coveted roles ends this month — a week after film industry stars have collected their Oscars.

Saturday, November 26, 2022

Rail strike an 'economic calamity' waiting to happen:

Intentional Problems

Very Serious Shortages of Amoxicillin, Augmentin, Tamiflu, Albuterol and Tylenol Have Erupted All Over the United States




Editor’s Commentary: About half the time when I post articles by Michael Snyder, someone comments about how he’s a “fearmonger.” Here’s the problem with that notion. He rarely posts anything that’s sensationalized. He’s just pulling stories from other news outlets and commenting about what they all mean. If that’s fearmongering, then even the most mundane journalists are fearmongers.

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Food Shortages Developing!

 


(Bloomberg) -- Some of the largest U.S. food distributors are reporting difficulties in fulfilling orders as a lack of workers weighs on the supply chain.

Sysco Corp., North America’s largest wholesale food distributor, is

Sunday, July 18, 2021

The eventual effects of Covid on the economy

 

Sometimes it’s important to step away from a problem in order to better understand it. I recently went on a trip across the Pacific Northwest to revisit some old stomping grounds and to take a break from the often disconcerting developments of today’s world, at least for a little while. We all need a vacation from the information war at times, and though I was happy for the rest, I am also happy to be back. After traveling on the road across four states I was able to gauge the general condition of the US in terms of the social and economic effects of the pandemic mandates and covid propaganda. I have some good news, and some bad news…

The good news is that the propaganda has not been all that effective in most places. The overall picture looks something like this:

In the majority of rural and semi-rural areas, as well as cities in red counties regardless of the state, the majority of people were NOT wearing masks and the bulk of businesses were not demanding that people wear them. The vaccine ads and propaganda were also at a minimum. This includes Washington State and Oregon, which have been notorious lately for their draconian restrictions. While Washington