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Thanks for the replies. I remember the newsletter from last year.
Learnbonds.com looks like it might be it but I don't see a monthly newsletter sent to your email there.
I did find this.
https://www.blackrock.com/investing/insights/fixed-income-m…
Not many here like poetry, I guess.
The older I get, the more wisdom I find in this poem.
The following poem was not found in an old Baltimore church:
Introduction
You are a fluke
Of the universe.
You have no right to be here.....
Deteriorata! …
Paraphrasing:
1. Recent years' annual rates of increase are less than in earlier years, notably before ACA.
2. Recent years' annual rates of increase are not changing much; they are remaining flat at this relatively low rate of increase number (6.…
The name of SS will remain but it really will be just welfare. Gov't/Big Brother is great for coming up with names that are the opposite of their actions e.g. Obamacare/ACA = Obama Doesn't Care/Un-afordable Care Act.
SS benefits will be taxed away…
@DH,
Again you really need to study up more, not that your general point is wrong. (But do you really believe that tech is 1/70th of US jobs?? Credulous. Common sense should come into play at some point.)
Tech jobs, in some broad definitions, curre…
Hi Guys,
What that tells me that it is a bit of a distraction to talk about Tech jobs. From that nformation there is about 2 million jobs. But there are about 140 million jobs in the USA.
@DanHardy
You noted: "And don't forget about artificial intelligence. That will affect IT jobs and many professional jobs such as accounting."
If you have not; read this short write linked in another thread.
Regards,
Catch
http://www.mutualfundob…
If you think it's bad now, just wait until the robots make serious inroads into the labor force. Yes there will be new jobs installing and repairing robots, but not nearly as many as those lost in the first place.
Nick de Peyster
http://undervalue…
I would suggest you check out the following forum.
http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/
There are lot more posters there and you will get more feedback.
The great thing about all this fear mongering is that in the future no one will go back an point out how wrong they were.
What the old timers have deleted from their memory is that what is being said about Trump is very similar to what was said a…
"Until 2008 not a single earthquake had ever been recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey from the Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) area, where Wallace has lived for more than 20 years. Since then, close to 200 have shaken the cities and their immediate sub…
I've no particular familiarity with Mr. Tillerson. Presumably one doesn't reach the chair of the world's largest publicly-traded energy company without formidable skill-set.
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You would think that wouldn't you. A man that has had to know somethi…
Talk about studying up on this subtle and complex issue:
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/01/06/do-immigrants-take-jobs-from-american-born-workers
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/us/immigrants-arent-taking-americans-jobs-new-study-finds…
It is the rest of the free-market loving Republican party that will likely oppose Trump on this. It seems improbable he will get anything much done in this domain.
The R and D were both for 'free trade' (AKA - oppression of the USA worker). Ross…
@DanHardy
Manufacturing can not come back to the U.S. in a major way unless wages here are equivalent to the slave wages received in the emerging world. That ship has sailed.
Please tell me how America can compete with the lowest wage countries …
Reducing Chinese trade is pro-Labor and pro-Green.
What the 'greens' do not acknowledge is that the USA exported its pollution when heavy industry and other mfg went off shore. If the 'greens' really wanted to improve the earth they would suppo…
Nope.
It struck us as "fair use" of the material. Here's the test of 17 US Code 107, which establishes the fair use standard:
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reprodu…
'The escalation in CEO pay was not accompanied by a corresponding increase in output. They didn’t make the pie bigger but they are taking a bigger piece of it. What that means is that everyone else has a smaller piece.'
Output hasn't increased? …
Har --- again, you didn't even read the article (and the link within), did you?
You often mistake posting a link as you making a point.
A link should be included to support your position or more information.
, increases in labor productivity via technology and expanding corporate profits at the expense of labor itself. CEOs and shareholders benefited from those trends while workers did not. They were intentionally left behind.
I deleted all the other p…
The article linked below is thorough, debunks Kaplan and Mankiw with substantiation, and makes one want to read Mishel further ("what the executives earned was not available for broader-based wage growth for other workers").
Take away the amoun…
Jeez. Actually, no about the 'nonissue' assertion; moreover, no one has argued causation, have they?
Then why write/post about CEO and worker pay it here?
To sum up:
-Focus on CEO pay a distraction from the real issues.
-Worker compensation has been stagnant since the '70.
-If you take into account health benefits, defined pension plans etc lost, total worker compensation has declined since the '70s.
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http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/wages
That is not adjusted for inflation. It also does not take into account benefits lost since the '70 - defined pension plans, health benefits etc.
For most workers, real wages have barely budged…
And this attitude you have that nothing can be done is frankly ridiculous.
I didn't say that. Simply - your focus on CEO pay is a distraction from the real causes of worker's financial problems. It serves no function except for avoiding identif…
@MJG You say the inequality problem is being addressed and decreasing in magnitude when the opposite is true.
And what you fail to understand is that worker pay has been flat from the '70s and CEO pay has increased. Decreasing CEO pay to what it …
The truth! You can't handle the truth!
The truth is that if you went back to the past it would not help the worker!
The truth is that CEO pay got out of wack with the dissolution of ownership i.e. common stock is an investment vehicle.
Again, …
I think you have to consider that the Fed is meeting in Dec and will most likely raise rates. Then there is the State of the Union speech. There probably won't be a clear picture until after those two events.
My guess we are at a new trading l…
Apologies to Dan. It's the best I could offer up to this otherwise enlightening discussion. (Special thanks to LB).
I will say ... that on one of those earlier points, the R's at least seem consistent: Ford pardoned Nixon. And Trump appears to be …
@Dan Are those the same intelligent people that hate "straw man arguments" who when presented with data on the problems of inequality post tiny vaguely racist images of natives with huts whom I suspect the implication is that they're "primitive" as …