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Not to be the party ------, but isn't this high number (which is unusually high going back even to Obama's tenure) basically because of the pandemic - and there was plenty of room for everything to go up (since it was so down).
Its high, but alot of it is inventory pile up, and the low number (3.9%) used for inflation. I see anywhere from 2%- -1% GDP. The nice thing is Government Spending is down to a more manageable ~35%. Not as low as pre-pandemic but getting there, add BBB and it will balloon again.
www.bea.gov
Its interesting to be sure, but we will see it revised.
I had a co worker tell me New York was basically a third world country right now.
Newsom said that about California.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
Republicans truly are idiots.
Newsom is a Democrat. Probably the next President, if all goes according to plan.
#AmericaBecomingThirdWorld
#KeepingYourHeadInSandMakesYouLookSmart.
So who then?
Could be the natural turn over. You don't know from your stat if its "long term" vacant, or just being shown and off the market next month.
It immature to compare that to the homeless in the area. On top of that can they afford housing?
That comment has been common knowledge since 2008. ~ Gaslighter
The use of pension fund money to purchase homes for rentals is a relatively new phenomenom.
To compare it to 2008 is not understanding JPW's point.
Wall Street is buying up family homes. The rent checks are too juicy to ignore.
Pension funds, investment firms and Wall Street banks are snapping up family homes in Europe and the United States at a rapid pace as prices rocket higher, looking for alternatives to lockdown-hit office parks and shopping malls, and betting that a permanent increase in remote working following the coronavirus pandemic will keep demand for suburban houses elevated.
www.cnn.com
#StopTheSteal ;)
You been snorting that ivermectin?
In the empirical study conducted in the heart of the port city of Itajai in southern Brazil, more than 200,000 people were observed, and the results are clear. The risk of infection, severe cases, or mortality is lower.
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL " Brazilian endocrinologist Dr. Flavio Cadegiani and eight other co-authors have published a peer-reviewed scientific study on the efficacy of early treatment with ivermectin against covid-19, involving more than 200,000 people.
www.riotimesonline.com
#TrustTheScience No?
This is all smoke and mirrors, GasLighter.
I recall a bunch of sycophants going on and on about 10,000 Russian troops returning home and it was over Biden called Putins bluff.
drudge.com
Reality is Ukraine has been fighting a civil war, with Russian support for the rebels since 2014.
www.cnn.com
If Putin enters Ukraine (127,000 troop) it will roll up the territory of Ukraine he wants before NATO can react. Then its "fait accompli", what is NATO to do ... You see this "appeasement" started months before now ... we are just in the move of the game.
Whats after the invasion?
Call Putin a murderer?
Stop taking his Energy?
If Putin does invade NATO as a useful tool of deterrence, is finished and Taiwan is next.
#NoWar
#EndOfNato
I think Biden has a good sense of humor,
His "humor" is no different than Trumps. Both had a sense of humor. Both have an angry steak too.
You haven't noticed his anger lately? I can think of three things in the last two weeks.
Plus this all kind of aligns ...
Those trips are often difficult for his advisers, who are peppered with sometimes obscure questions. Avoiding Mr. Biden's ire during one of his decision-making seminars means not only going beyond the vague talking points that he will reject, but also steering clear of responses laced with acronyms or too much policy minutiae, which will prompt an outburst of frustration, often laced with profanity.
Let's talk plain English here, he will often snap.
www.nytimes.com
But hey bury your head in the sand, like Trumpers ... but don't say you weren't warned.
#AngryJoe
#BigBadBiden
Or this ... is this fascism?
"We have to break through this idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families".
twitter.com
Sounds provocative ...
It's funny how right wingers make fake left wing usernames and pretend to be a loony lefty.
~SpeakSofty
You talk about fascist like you know what it means; But if people don't conform to your version of "lefty" some how they are right wingers.
Look in the mirror. Again you are a riot, and a fascist!
#FascismSucks
#SpeaksSoftlyIsAFascist
Here is a test ... is this fascist or not?
twitter.com
That's a flowery way of saying the founders were rich men who wrote rules to protect the rich from actual democracy. The senate exists to establish aristocracy under the guise of democracy.
#124 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY
SS, read some history FFS, seriously stop pulling ---- out of your ass ...
Legislation was supposed to move slowly with a lot of compromise. Gridlock was not viewed negatively at all.
Agreed stability yet capable of change over time. A component of making good decisions is understanding the rationale behind previous decisions. If we don't understand how we got "here," we run the risk of making things much worse.
SS thinks everything should change every 4-8 years with every administration. The faster and more frequent these things change the worse the country will get, its an instability, in the long term. Its immature impatient and short sighted to think like this. The changes we want will take time, might not happen in our lifetime. But slow and steady wins.
#ReadingIsFundemental
#ChuancyGardner