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All I can tell you is that there are many "Help Wanted" signs in restaurants and retail stores both in SF and also up in the Guernville area. These would seem to be rather low-paying jobs in any case, so folks may not feel a need to do that kind of …
We're holding our breath regarding any coverage renewal at all on our weekend place up at Guerneville, CA. The insurance companies are all desperate to cancel policies because of the ever increasing fire danger. I can understand that... if I were th…
@InformalEconomist- Thanks, I was just about to post essentially the same info in response.
To all: Please address any further questions or comments to InformalEconomist's original posting, so that we don't wind up with two separate threads on the …
David- I'm thinking that the odds of finding someone with your gentle touch in administration, coupled with your knowledge of the investment areas, are likely slim to none.
I was an old buy-and-hold fund type, did pretty well doing that, and becaus…
No, really... did you ever find a way to actually communicate with Amazon? That situation is very frustrating, not even being able to ask someone a question and get an intelligent answer in non pre-formatted Indian English.
I'm under the impression that the hole drilling had been shifted to before the painting/coating operation, rather than after. Then, when the equipment was installed it sometimes failed to achieve a good ground because the insulating coating which ha…
@bee- yes, I understand your point and I also am concerned about the potential for the whole system to become unraveled. Even at this point we have become used to seeing dollars by the TRILLIONS discussed as everyday factors. I don't actually rememb…
Seems like the threat of actually holding the right wing financially responsible for the crap that they love to come up with may be working. Sidney Powell's latest blather is just priceless. Here's a "lawyer" claiming that she can say anything she w…
@hank- As you know only too well, a general labor shortage is a very different thing from a trained/specialized labor shortage. You can't pay just anyone to "go to work" and then turn them loose on your plumbing or any other craft requiring training…
Prior to this distributed ledger technology usually involved just shredding old records for use in ticker-tape parades. This new approach seems unduly complicated.
You're absolutely correct on that. I hadn't seen that particular article, but other info mentioned that the problems were due to a change in the painting/coating procedures for various equipment which had resulted in a loss of electrical grounding c…
No safer at 1000 feet, either. What is so surprising in the fact that in many situations subject to a variable, that variable loses impact beyond a certain point? Common as dirt.
Don't forget that there was a very destructive fire a couple of months ago at a large Japanese chip manufacturing facility. As I recall. that particular facility made a significant number of the chips used in automotive manufactures.
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Food packaging keeps getting smaller and smaller, and the cost keeps getting higher and higher. Has anyone ever seen a loaf of bread get bigger for the same price? EVER???
Sorry- in my observation the suggestion that food costs, on average, can inc…
I completely agree with rono, especially regarding food prices. Whatever it is that the government stats are counting, it surely isn't anything that we are using. The stuff that we are needing is heading in one direction: straight UP.
Getting back to hank's post, I think that Krugman is right on, and that inflation in the immediate future is very likely to increase in unexpected ways due to many different factors, especially world production and distribution bottlenecks primarily…
Here's more on this, in excerpts from a current NY Times article:
A congressional panel has opened an investigation into Emergent BioSolutions, the company whose Baltimore factory ruined millions of doses of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccin…
I believe that this unfortunate incident actually took place several weeks ago, and that it has led to J&J taking direct control over the manufacturing of it's vaccine at the Emergent facility in Baltimore.
