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Ourdee
Posted on Monday, August 13, 2018 - 11:27 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I am going to go cut down another tree. I am firing Mulberry trees in my fence row today.
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Akbuell
Posted on Monday, August 13, 2018 - 11:57 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

To Sifo's question - It has been done/tried before. IIRC, Anita Hill testified what a horrible person/boss that Clarence Thomas was.

That fell apart when she couldn't answer why she worked for him for so many years, much less moved to a new location to stay with him.


Expect the same here. Just not this week . . .
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Aesquire
Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2018 - 09:55 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-13/sweden-b urning-migrant-gangs-unleash-coordinated-fire-bomb -rampage-across-multiple

Trump was right.

Note the fear. Not of the Islamist terrorism, but the fear the "right wing" will take power.
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Fb1
Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2018 - 02:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)


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Stunning MAGAnomic Sentiment: Small Business Optimism Survey Second Highest Reading in History
CTH - Aug 14, 2018

The National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) is an assembly and survey of small business owners throughout the U.S. In the latest survey (full pdf here) overall optimism is the second highest ever recorded at 107.9 (the highest reading was 108 in 1983):




The full press release is available here. The full pdf of the survey is available here. The executive summary outlines the overall content and highlights the sentiment amid Main Street U.S.A.:


quote:

[…] Although some panned any celebration of the 4.1 percent second quarter GDP growth, small business owners beg to disagree. At least in the small business sector of the economy, Main Street’s performance over the last 21 months is unprecedented based on reports for the past 45 years by hundreds of thousands of NFIB’s member firms. Owners have never been so optimistic for so long.



- 35% of all businesses have raised wages; 22% more plan to raise wages. As CTH continues to note, the Bureau of Labor Statistics report on wage growth lags behind the actual NFIB survey results direct from the employers.

- 70% of all U.S. workers work in small businesses.

Again for emphasis: This is MAGAnomics in action. Main Street is benefiting. Blue and White collar Main Street is benefiting. The Middle-Class is the primary beneficiary.

For more than 30 years the Main Street economic engine has been intentionally stalled by U.S. economic policy that has favored Wall Street and pushed a service-driven economy narrative on the U.S. workers. Using targeted MAGAnomic Main Street policy President Trump has reversed the trend.

Main Street, and the U.S. Middle Class, is growing again.

Enjoy this.

Source, more: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/14/st unning-maganomic-sentiment-small-business-optimism -survey-second-highest-reading-in-history/
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Ratbuell
Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2018 - 02:18 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

The left will trumpet "well it's been on the rise since 09"...but I like the YUGE spike that shows up in the chart, right there around election time '16... : )
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Fb1
Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2018 - 02:36 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Look at the massive Thelma and Louise in January 2009.

Inauguration day? : )
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Aesquire
Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2018 - 02:54 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Consider, if you were a not stupid business person, and the New President was endorsed by the Communist Party, how optimistic would you be for future business growth?

OTOH, it's 2016, the election is over, and it has been predicted by the Media that the economy will tank from it's then current very slow growth and protracted and painful recovery, but the Communist is leaving and a Business Man is coming in in January. What is your guess for future growth?

I admit you do have to know enough history to realize that every single country the Communists take over becomes a stagnant economic hell of unrealistic promises by unqualified people who really are thieves and bullies, and usually ignorant of anything about running a business, making a payroll, or actually producing a product, and will cheerfully murder you while they steal your stuff.

Unfortunately that last glaringly Obvious Fact that actually dominated the death rate and misery index of the entire planet for over a century, the 20th if you didn't guess, is treated as not just unimportant, but a taboo subject in Universities & Schools.
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Crusty
Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2018 - 09:39 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I just thought I'd share this headline from The Washington Post that was over on MSN.com

The Washington Post
Winners and losers from Tuesday’s primaries: Once again, Trump is a big winner
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Fb1
Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2018 - 01:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Crusty, thanks for posting that.
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Fb1
Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2018 - 01:43 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Some of the headline news from the past week from the White House (follow link at end of post for individual hot links):


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- The Washington Post: “With Little Fanfare, Trump and McConnell Reshape the Nation’s Circuit Courts”

- Vice President Pence: “The Evidence Is Clear: America Is Back”

- The Wall Street Journal: “Confidence Is High”

- Washington Examiner: “Report: Regulations Being Cut at Record Pace, Savings Double”

- President Donald J. Trump is Rebuilding and Readying Our Military to Defend Against All Threats

- Remarks by Vice President Pence on the Future of the U.S. Military in Space

- President Donald J. Trump is Building the United States Space Force for a 21st Century Military

- Tax Cuts Delivering Relief Small Businesses Need

- The Booming Economy Is Lifting Up American Workers

- The Wall Street Journal: “Stores, Factories Lead This Year’s Unexpected Hiring Boom”



Source, more: https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/
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Fb1
Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2018 - 04:55 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)


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Today’s @realDonaldTrump approval ratings among black voters: 36%

President Trump's approval ratings among black voters early August 2017: 15%



Source: Rasmussen Reports, https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/
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Sifo
Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2018 - 05:52 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Today’s @realDonaldTrump approval ratings among black voters: 36%

President Trump's approval ratings among black voters early August 2017: 15%


I wonder how much of that is because things are getting better for blacks, economically under Trump vs. illegal aliens becoming the new class to be "protected" by the Dems. Either way, it's a great thing for them to start questioning who they should be giving their support to. They have been taken for granted for far too long, and their victimhood has been a requirement for that to happen. Despite what they have been told, they have the ability to lift themselves out of poverty.
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Fb1
Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2018 - 07:55 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I wonder how much of that is because things are getting better for blacks, economically under Trump

That, and effective and ongoing red-pilling by the likes of Diamond and Silk, Candace Owens, Kanye, etc., etc. (patriots all).

Every day, more and more Americans are unplugging from the Matrix and finally seeing the truth.

It's a beautiful thing to see. : )
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Ratbuell
Posted on Thursday, August 16, 2018 - 12:20 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

....and it's causing the Left to melt like the Nazis when they opened the Ark. For every one person who wakes and realizes how full of shit the Left is, there's four Lefties losing their shit because they're losing control. Their lies are being discovered and called out. Their power is going away, and (since they rely on being carried by Big Government) they have NO idea how to take care of themselves.

They're simply lost, with zero direction and no plan.

Payback's a bitch. They've earned what they get.
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Aesquire
Posted on Thursday, August 16, 2018 - 12:29 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I think that is nastily optimistic.

It would be nice, I admit.
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Fb1
Posted on Thursday, August 16, 2018 - 07:01 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

....and it's causing the Left to melt like the Nazis when they opened the Ark.

^ Fabulous wordsmithery; kudos.
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Fb1
Posted on Thursday, August 16, 2018 - 01:56 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)


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July Retail Sales Growth: 6.4% “Unexpected”, “Well Beyond Expectations”, “Well beyond what experts predicted”
CTH - Aug 15, 2018

Remember our 2016 conversation about retail inflation, Q2 wage growth, durable goods spending and non-durable goods expenditures… Well, in a growing economy; a bigly expanding economy; with wages actually increasing as an authentic outcome of expanded hiring and jobs, jobs, jobs… in conjunction with lowered tax rates…. you get more money in your pocket.

This natural Main Street dynamic leads to increased consumer spending, specifically in the retail sectors influenced by who?… Oh, yeah, those middle-class economic beneficiaries of all the above.

The expert financial pundits are shocked, shocked I tell you… shocked; when, all of a sudden, the convergence of MAGAnomic Main Street policies delivers results. DUH!

The Commerce Department – Economic and Statistics Administration – released the figures from July 2018 retail sales today (full pdf available here), showing an incredibly strong .5% increase in spending in July, bringing a 6.4% increase year-over-year; and the results have dropped the jaws of the “experts”:


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“Economists polled by Reuters had forecast retail sales nudging up 0.1 percent in July.” (link)




quote:

“Retail spending in the United States increased a half-percent during the month of July — well beyond what experts predicted.” (link)




quote:

“U.S. retail sales rose more than expected in July as households boosted purchases of motor vehicles and clothing, suggesting the economy remained strong” (link)



With expanded jobs available; higher wages and the highest workforce in the history of the country currently; and with more U.S. workers re-entering the workforce again; and with expanded optimism and opportunity; the retail sector is a natural benefactor.

[snip]

Retail sales growth is directly related to the middle-class. Retail store volume is directly related to the wealth of the middle class. Build a strong Main Street and you simultaneously build a strong, financially secure, middle-class. It is a self-fulfilling economic prophecy; this is common sense.

Remember, two-thirds of our GDP, and the subsequent economic growth measured by GDP growth, is directly influenced by retail sales. The more goods Americans purchase, the higher our GDP growth in the making, manufacturing, distribution and selling of those goods. This is the Main Street growth cycle dynamic never discussed when all of the economic emphasis is on a service-driven economy (Wall Street).

BIG PICTURE – As a direct result of President Trump’s multifaceted economic strategy, manufacturing companies are having to look at TCO which is “Total Cost of Ownership”. You see, President Trump is not only approaching manufacturing growth policy from the trade-agreement and investment side, his policies also approach the larger impacts on raw material, energy and labor.

This multi-pronged policy approach forces companies to look at transportation and location costs of manufacturing. In combination with more favorable tax rates; if domestic costs of material and energy drop, in addition to drops in regulatory and compliance costs of operating the business, the total operating cost differences drop dramatically.

This means labor and transportation costs become a larger part of the consideration in “where” to manufacture. All of these costs contribute to the TCO. Transportation costs are very expensive on durable goods imported. If the durable goods are made domestically, the transportation costs per unit shipped drop significantly. The TCO analysis then further reduces to looking at labor.

U.S. Labor is more expensive, yes. However, if material costs, energy costs, regulatory costs, taxes and transportation costs are part of the TCO equation – then higher labor costs can be offset by the previously mentioned savings.

[snip]

For two years CTH has repeatedly stated that under Trump’s proposals “total costs” drop so dramatically, that off-shored manufacturing is no longer the best play. We are seeing that shake out right now. For the first time in 30 years companies are reviewing the TCO of products and finding less and less financial reasons for off-shore manufacturing.

Their response?…. Well, we need more workers !!

Source, more, including multiple hot-linked citations: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/15/ju ly-retail-sales-growth-6-4-unexpected-well-beyond- expectations-well-beyond-what-experts-predicted/
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Fb1
Posted on Thursday, August 16, 2018 - 06:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)


quote:

President Trump Invites Media To Remain for Another White House Cabinet Meeting
CTH - Aug 16, 2018

When we elected a successful businessman as President of the United States and leader of the executive branch, we elected a person who fundamentally changed the framework of accountability and transparency in government. President Donald J. Trump holds an average of two to three full cabinet meetings each month where the cabinet members give direct updates on execution of policy priorities.

No President in modern history has put that much accountability into the position of each cabinet member. No President has ever coordinated strategic objectives with such a high level of expectation and scrutiny. No President has folded transparency into the cabinet with full media access over White House cabinet meetings. This is a new executive branch standard.

NEC Director Larry Kudlow break-out discussion on the economy at 03:45. WATCH:



https://youtu.be/V1B5ylX3qBQ

Source: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/16/pr esident-trump-invites-media-to-remain-for-another- white-house-cabinet-meeting/


I hope y'all are paying close attention. : )
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Ducbsa
Posted on Friday, August 17, 2018 - 05:24 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

A real contrast to that famous Constitutionalist, Maxine Waters:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/08/b arbara_jordan_on_impeachment.html
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Fb1
Posted on Friday, August 17, 2018 - 07:06 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

^ From the article:


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It is now patently clear that Russian collusion has not occurred with President Trump. In his meticulously documented book "The Russia Hoax: the Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump," Gregg Jarrett has set forth the breathtaking abuse by the FBI and Department of Justice to subvert the American system of justice and undermine the democratic process.

There is no plausible evidence that Trump or his campaign collaborated with Russia to win the presidency. Moreover, the FBI had no legal basis to initiate the investigation in the first place.

To the dismay of millions of Americans, the law-enforcers have become the lawbreakers.

I venture to say that it would break Barbara Jordan's heart that such abuse of the law has taken place. It is clear that there are no impeachment criteria, since the president "has not been connected in any suspicious manner with any person," nor are there grounds to believe that Trump would shelter anyone to cover up a crime.

Notwithstanding the constant din of the media talking heads, Trump has not behaved amiss or betrayed the public trust. Unlike the previous occupant of the White House, Trump has not committed any crimes that violate the liberties of the American people.

Trump has most decidedly "not subverted the Constitution; he has not counseled his aides to commit perjury, willfully disregarded the secrecy of grand jury proceedings, or attempted to compromise a federal judge."

And yet, as Justice Louis D. Brandeis has stated, "the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal." Consequently, the Democratic Party with its absolute fanaticism, coupled with the majority of the mass media and the various groups like the incendiary Antifa, continues to push the "most notorious hoax in modern American history."

These people's passion is not proof of President Trump subverting the Constitution, however loudly and angrily they may shriek.

It is way overdue for the assault against President Trump to end. There is not a "whiff of credible evidence to legally justify this ongoing probe."



Yep.
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Aesquire
Posted on Friday, August 17, 2018 - 08:35 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/08/d onald_trump_and_the_professional_conservative_clas s.html

Worth a read.
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Fb1
Posted on Friday, August 17, 2018 - 02:16 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

^ Basically a hit piece on Bill Kristol.

Criticism that he richly deserves, IMO.
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Fb1
Posted on Friday, August 17, 2018 - 04:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)


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Co-Conspiring “Media Coalition” Sue For Names, Addresses of Manafort Trial Jurors – Judge Ellis Refuses, No Verdict Reached
CTH - Aug 17, 2018

The media institutions that are the central players in advancement of the two-year-long corrupt scheme against then-candidate Trump, now President Trump, all listed themselves as a “Media Coalition” on court documents demanding the names and addresses of the Manafort Jury:




Source, more: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/17/co -conspiring-media-coalition-sue-for-names-addresse s-of-manafort-trial-jurors-judge-ellis-refuses-no- verdict-reached/


Dayum.
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Sifo
Posted on Friday, August 17, 2018 - 05:10 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I saw that the Judge said he had been threatened too. I didn't see what direction they wanted him to lean, but I can imagine.
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Fb1
Posted on Friday, August 17, 2018 - 05:22 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Judge Ellis said he is being protected by US Marshals:


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Shortly before 3:00 pm this afternoon Judge Ellis said he personally had received threats and would keep the names of jurors a secret for their safety despite the [Media Coalition] demand their names be made public.

The judge is being protected full-time by the U.S. Marshals and shared with the court: “I won’t tell you what threats I’ve received,” he said, “but I have the Marshals’ protection. Where I go, they go.



The jurors, to my knowledge, are afforded no such protection (and, from what I've been reading, are not sequestered).

Dayum.

I wonder why P45 calls the folks comprising the Media Coalition "Fake News"?
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Hughlysses
Posted on Friday, August 17, 2018 - 06:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I agree with Mike Cernovich; I want to see the names and home addresses of the media people that requested the jurors’ names and addresses.
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Fb1
Posted on Friday, August 17, 2018 - 06:53 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Peruse the names of the "news" organizations that comprise the Media Coalition noted above, who are actively engaged in an attempt to dox the jurors in the Manafort trial.

And then consider this:


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The Media Are Hiding Their Knowledge and Duplicity – Buzzfeed, WaPo and New York Times Had Unredacted FISA Application For Over A Year
CTH - Aug 12, 2018

We shared a discussion thread several months ago about how the media are enmeshed within the story of the DOJ and FBI corruption. However, only recently did we discover the media engagements were not just pervasive, they were/are participatory.

As a consequence the same media cannot reasonably report on any aspect of the story without exposing their own duplicity; their only choice is to double down on lies they helped create and promote.

In preparation for explosive developments soon to reach critical mass CTH strongly urges everyone to think carefully about these recently discovered empirical truths:

#1) The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence had the full, unredacted, FISA application on Carter Page since March 17th, 2017. Think carefully about that. Think about what every member of that committee has said since March 17, 2017.

#2) With the leak of the Top Secret FISA application, by James Wolfe to Ali Watkins, Buzzfeed, The Washington Post and New York Times have had the full, unredacted, FISA application in their possession since March 17th, 2017. Again, think carefully about that. Think about all of their reporting since March 17, 2017.

#3) As a direct consequence of #1 and #2 – The media have deliberately, and with specific intent, falsified their reporting and kept the truth hidden which would undermine their false reporting. Again, think very carefully about the ramifications.

The media’s role in the DOJ/FBI corruption scandal is not only pervasive, it’s participatory.



Source, more, including multiple hot-linked citations: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/12/th e-media-are-hiding-their-knowledge-and-duplicity-b uzzfeed-wapo-and-new-york-times-had-unredacted-fis a-application-for-over-a-year/


The [Media Coalition's] role in the DOJ/FBI corruption scandal is not only pervasive, it’s participatory.

Yep.

Let that sink in...
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Fb1
Posted on Friday, August 17, 2018 - 08:48 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)


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BLS Report: Productivity Increases 2.9% in Second Quarter
CTH - Aug 17, 2018

Economic analysis can get weedy…. so a simple way to look at productivity is to think about baking bread in your kitchen.

If you were going to bake 4 loaves of bread it might take you 2 hours start to finish. However, if you were going to bake 8 loaves of bread it would not take you twice as long because most of the tasks can be accomplished with simple increases in batch size, and only minor increases in labor time. Your productivity measured in the last four loaves is higher.

Economic Productivity is measured much the same way, within what’s called a production probability equation. Additionally, if two hours of your time are worth $40, each of four loaves of bread costs $10; but if you make 8 loaves in the same amount of time the labor cost is only $5/per loaf.

From 2007 through 2017 the average rate of productivity increase was 1.3%. However, in the second quarter of 2018 productivity jumped to 2.9%. That means total business output increased significantly as more product was demanded from within the business operation. Throughout the economy people just wanted more stuff.

Improved gains in efficiency/productivity (more bread needed) supports faster economic growth without generating higher inflation; no need to raise prices because your cost to make each loaf of bread decreases the more you make. Higher sales and lower per unit cost means more profit for the bread-maker. No need to raise prices. Without inflation, there’s no motive for the Fed to raise interest rates.

Increases in productivity generally means the economy is generating more stuff. The more stuff generated the higher the value of all economic activity; this increases GDP growth.

When we see higher productivity in direct alignment with GDP increases, the increased production indicates sustainable GDP growth:


quote:

BLS Report: “Nonfarm business sector labor productivity increased 2.9 percent during the second quarter of 2018, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today, as output increased 4.8 percent and hours worked increased 1.9 percent.” (link)



We made 4.8 percent more stuff, and only worked 1.9 percent longer. The net is a 2.9 percent productivity increase.

Source: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/17/bl s-report-productivity-increases-2-9-in-second-quar ter/
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Julie
Posted on Saturday, August 18, 2018 - 01:32 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Omg this Omarosa clown is a perfect example of trump’s whitehouse - disloyal backstabbing only in it for personal gain trashy anti American traitor. This loser has tapes upon tapes to confirm her claims against the Russian-sponsored usurper donny 45 chump cadet bonespurs draftdodger loser!
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Aesquire
Posted on Saturday, August 18, 2018 - 02:51 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

That's about half right! Julie is catching on! Good girl!

Give her a few years, and she might be capable of reasoned criticism.

Hey! Julie, what do you think of hyphen Cortez? ( Alexandria, soon to be Alex, for short ) Do you think she's as ignorant as she seems?, a real condemnation for her rich kid college, or is it deliberate dishonesty?

Some of the Establishment Democrats seem to think she's a threat to their cozy lifestyles. I can't disagree. But I do wonder who is bankrolling her.
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