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"Basically the jobs report signifies a much “hotter” economy than anticipated"
OK, so due to COVID lots of people were put out of work. Lots of complaints from employers moaning about inability to maintain or increase output because of labor shorta…
Yes... about that jobs report-
• so we get the good news that a whole bunch of jobs have been filled...
• which suggests, it seems to me, that pressure on employers to pay more to get workers is lessened...
• which should help to keep prices may…
@Derf- Glad to hear that you've fixed whatever it was. Don't "upgrade" if you have a choice. Don't change anything if what you've got is working. Old saying in communications: "If it works, don't f--- with it!"
@hank- We presently have very good high-speed service via AT&T: fibre from Guerneville to a point near the house, then dumped onto the 2-wire copper that's been the landline feed for about 80 years. Same exact setup as we have here in SF.
I onl…
@Mark- Yeah, my first was a Mac+ too. Upgraded that to an SE30. Still have that one- fired it up about a year ago and it still works! Using a fleet of Mini's now, with some G5s for old CAD files that can't cross over.
OJ
@Derf- I don't understand your suggestion of a connection between Apple, Amazon, and Google. While we don't use a smartphone or Kindle, we do use Apple desktops exclusively, Firefox browsers, and do purchase from Amazon very frequently.
On those pl…
@hank- Just for the hell of it I checked online to see if the service is available at our Russian River place. Yes, it is. The Starlink site says that it was updated "three days ago", and there is no mention of a "premium" service. In fact, the site…
I believe that driving proficiency does decrease with lack of "practice". Every week I drive from SF to our weekend place up north and back, with a good mix of traffic conditions and other drivers. City streets, GG Bridge, Freeway, rural two-lane ro…
Well, they sort of adopted us as extended West-Coast "Michiganders". We had a great time with that bunch. We all left a wide trail of empty wine bottles across Europe and the Mediterranean. Some of the mornings were a little hazy.
Hi hank- yes, I think that you've nailed the situation pretty well. Your description of the type of people that we've met and traveled with is right on. Also, if I recall correctly, many of them were U of M alumni.
We've met a pretty fair number of Michiganders, and they have been universally very nice and decent folks. We did a lot of European traveling with a fairly large group of them for a number of years. Trump has unfortunately been a very sad eye-opene…
@Crash- it's OK, a very small amount appeared early today in my Schwab sweep account. I wondered where that came from, but now you've cleared that up. Thanks!!
And of course "weak bench" is a sports term, meaning that there are not many good back-up players. So if something happens to the most talented players, the team may be in for some trouble.
Probably because an immediate change would suggest that the Fed is really worried about the state of things, and would likely precipitate even more market panic. Easy does it...
In yogibearbull's chart DODBX seems to be running circles around a fair number of funds. According to the same chart @hank's -6.26% is pretty darned close.
Seriously, taking DaveP at his word, it would suggest that TRP has deliberately curtailed and downgraded customer support services for everyone except a "favored very few". It doesn't require much imagination to surmise that money is a key determina…
