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I understand the point that if consumption > production then it must be debt somewhere in the system. That’s basically just accounting...

I don’t think I agree with this. Personal debt brings with it both an obligation to pay it back (or face personal consequences) as well...

Well done. I’m sure you have had a lot of impact. My point is that criticizing a future situation because it doesn’t make something...

Working the register at Walmart isn’t exactly nuclear physics. And an EFT deposit from the government for some form of poverty...

That is the very embodiment of inflation. This thing you sold cost the other guy $2500 more and the thing you bought cost $2500 more...

Is that a roll of steel in your pants?

There are lots of non-trivial items manufactured overseas, notably in China. Electronics, machinery, appliances, heavy industrial...

During Covid, didn’t we have something called the “Covid Containment Area” to keep it from overwhelming all the other threads? Maybe...

That’s a great chart. I think the * on Mexico and Canada would be that those tariffs only apply to items that aren’t covered by the...

If one believes that reshoring major parts of the supply chain and manufacturing is a national imperative, then we do have to deal with...

The embargo is definitely their big leverage here. That or forming some type of new trade consortium with the Asian countries that are...

I wouldn’t update the plan, but there is nothing wrong with just holding on year by year. Don’t memorialize it so you fell like you now...

Not Starbucks and Peet’s Coffee, which make very nice k-cup coffee

2.5% is so close to 2% that I don't see the Fed taking any action to address it. Its a pretty goldilocks situation from their side of...

K-cups. I've had them on the shelf for ages and can't tell the difference.