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Do you live in a time warp like Rip van Winkle? You are not accounting for the increase in wages over that time span. Your response on this thread is in the running for the worse yearly posts on ET. It is too early in the year to call you a clear cut winner.

At what price to those countries? Start a thread on Chinese hegemony in politics. It is an important subject.

Do you know the definition of the word rate. The rate for doubling in price over 30years is approximately 2.2% compounded per year. Your reply was pathetic.

That is American style inflation to date and certainly an acceptable rate of inflation. Shrinkflation has become quite common during the Biden presidentcy.

Incorrect.:D It was Nixon. https://energyhistory.yale.edu/the-oil-shocks-of-the-1970s/

Hyperinflation ands scarcity are brothers.

"Another measure to shorten the lines is that you can only shop on certain days of the week depending on your ID number. Imagine if people with social security numbers ending in 1–2 can only shop on Monday, 2–3 on Tuesday, etc." This happened in the US with gasoline. Anybody know when and why?

re: Venezuela You can’t save money, so you live day by day. Your big savings are in US Dollars. The second you have some money in your hand you look for ways to buy foreign currency. In this case: the US dollar. The government tries to stop hyperinflation by imposing Price Controls. The...

I was on a bus in Chicago many years ago, when I overhead two guys behind me talking about their girlfriends. One of them asked the other why he always dates such dumb women. The other person protested, asking, “What do you mean?! Like who?” To which the first person replied, “What about your...

A thread on The psychology of scams would make for interesting reading.

It is not comparable

How do you know that it is " the dumbest form of trading possible"?

Are you talking about day trading, swing trading or lt( long term) investing?

Your setup looks better than most trading desks.

Maybe you should spend less time on ET?:D

There is no shortage of apartment, There are over 1 million rent regulated apartments in NYC. People would be willing to share if they could charge a decent rent. Regulations keep legal rents for shared apts. absurdly low.

what could go wrong? kamala Harris becomes President.

"Surrender and there will be no more deaths." That is my final contribution to this thread.