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Kuros



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 11:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/382373-trump-fbi-raid-on-cohen-a-disgrace

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President Trump on Monday blasted the FBI for raiding the office of his personal attorney Michael Cohen, calling it a “disgrace” and a “pure and simple witch hunt.”

“It’s a real disgrace,” Trump told reporters at the White House as Vice President Pence, national security adviser John Bolton and other officials looked on. “It’s an attack on our country in a true sense. It’s an attack on what we all stand for.”


You are President of the free world. Fire someone.

Do it!

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Non



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 14, 2018 10:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

tophatcat wrote:
Black unemployment is down.


Continuation of a steady downward trend in black unemployment that started, at the latest, in 2011.

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000006

A seven year trend that Trump is coasting on. Not his doing.


Fewer jobs created in 2017 than in 2016, 2015, 2014 or 2013:

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001?output_view=net_1mth
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Kuros



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 8:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Trump keeps losing in court. I will refrain from looking at the Stormy weather and confine myself to executive agenda cases.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/19/appeals-court-ruling-trump-sanctuary-cities-537823

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President Donald Trump's effort to crack down on sanctuary cities suffered another legal setback Thursday as a federal appeals court in Chicago upheld a nationwide injunction against making federal grant funding contingent on cooperation with immigration enforcement.

A three-judge panel—all of whom are Republican appointees—ruled that there were strong indications that the administration exceeded its legal authority in trying to implement the new conditions without approval from Congress.


The Midwest is rife with Bush appointees, and Chicago is no exception. But it appears bashing Midwestern judges and the Bush family has not helped Trump carry forward his agenda. Funny, that.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/17/immigration-ruling-gorsuch-528749


Quote:

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, whose confirmation President Donald Trump has long touted as one of his crowning achievements, cast the deciding vote against the administration Tuesday on an issue long at the center of the president's agenda: deporting immigrants who commit crimes in the U.S.

The ruling was the first in which Gorsuch sided with the court's liberal justices in a 5-4 decision, providing the swing vote for a result that could make it more difficult to deport immigrants who have committed violent crimes.


This ... this I would not have predicted. Although, Gorsuch is a Scalia clone, and his reasoning does follow Scalia’s circumscribed approach to statutory interpretation.

Quote:
In a decision that ruffled feathers at the White House, Gorsuch agreed with the court's four Democratic-appointed justices that a clause in federal law allowing the deportation of foreigners found guilty of "a crime of violence" is unconstitutional because it is overly vague.

"What does that mean?" Gorsuch asked in a concurring opinion. "Just take the crime at issue in this case, California burglary, which applies to everyone from armed home intruders to door-to-door salesmen peddling shady products. How, on that vast spectrum, is anyone supposed to locate the ordinary case and say whether it includes a substantial risk of physical force? The truth is, no one knows."

"The law’s silence leaves judges to their intuitions and the people to their fate. In my judgment, the Constitution demands more," Gorsuch added.


This one stings. Congress will have to rewrite the law. I wonder what chance there is that Senate Democrats will agree to do so without resolution on Deferred Action for Child Arrivals?
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PostPosted: Thu May 24, 2018 5:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

USA Economy Hits 3% Growth Three Quarters Running (First Time Since 2005)




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PostPosted: Thu May 24, 2018 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's not an accurate measure of quality of life - as clearly explained here ... https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/macroeconomics/gdp-topic/circular-econ-gdp-tutorial/a/how-well-gdp-measures-the-well-being-of-society-cnx
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Kuros



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PostPosted: Sun May 27, 2018 1:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

tophatcat wrote:
USA Economy Hits 3% Growth Three Quarters Running (First Time Since 2005)




.^^


It is still the first half of the first term? Obama's economy.

Honestly, I am surprised it is doing so well. It could be because Presidents only have marginal to modest influence over the broad US economy.

I co-sign RTeacher's comment, as well. Economic growth is not only a lagging indicator, it is fundamentally flawed.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/relationships-are-more-important-than-ambition/275025/

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Kasser, the author of The High Price of Materialism, has shown that the pursuit of materialistic values like money, possessions, and social status-the fruits of career successes-leads to lower well-being and more distress in individuals. It is also damaging to relationships: "My colleagues and I have found," Kasser writes, "that when people believe materialistic values are important, they...have poorer interpersonal relationships [and] contribute less to the community." Such people are also more likely to objectify others, using them as means to achieve their own goals.

So if the pursuit of career success comes at the expense of social bonds, then an individual's well-being could suffer. That's because community is strongly connected to well-being. In a 2004 study, social scientists John Helliwell and Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone, examined the well-being of a large sample of people in Canada, the United States, and in 49 nations around the world. They found that social connections—in the form of marriage, family, ties to friends and neighbors, civic engagement, workplace ties, and social trust—"all appear independently and robustly related to happiness and life satisfaction, both directly and through their impact on health."

In Canada and the United States, having frequent contact with neighbors was associated with higher levels of well-being, as was the feeling of truly belonging in a group. "If everyone in a community becomes more connected, the average level of subjective well-being would increase," they wrote.
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Non



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PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2018 5:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It isn't even true.

https://www.bea.gov/national/index.htm#gdp

Please download second spreadsheet, "Percent change from preceding period."

This is change in GDP from one quarter to the next. Left is nominal, right is real. Nominal growth exceeds 3% all the time, so let's assume the source is talking about real GDP growth.

Code:
2017Q3   5.3   3.2
2017Q4   5.3   2.9
2018Q1   4.3   2.3


Only one of those numbers >3. They don't average 3. And you notice they're all going down.

Nor is this the three-quarter period with the largest growth since 2005. There are about 5 or 6 with higher growth.

So really, nothing particularly amazing is happening right now. The tax cuts were supposed to do more than continue the fair-to-middling economy that Trump inherited.
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PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2018 4:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Non wrote:
It isn't even true.

https://www.bea.gov/national/index.htm#gdp

Please download second spreadsheet, "Percent change from preceding period."

This is change in GDP from one quarter to the next. Left is nominal, right is real. Nominal growth exceeds 3% all the time, so let's assume the source is talking about real GDP growth.

Code:
2017Q3   5.3   3.2
2017Q4   5.3   2.9
2018Q1   4.3   2.3


Only one of those numbers >3. They don't average 3. And you notice they're all going down.

Nor is this the three-quarter period with the largest growth since 2005. There are about 5 or 6 with higher growth.

So really, nothing particularly amazing is happening right now. The tax cuts were supposed to do more than continue the fair-to-middling economy that Trump inherited.


Yes, the numbers do not seem to match with the proclamation in question. If you shift back one quarter, you get a series of 3.1, 3.2, and 2.9, which does average to over 3%, but if simply averaging three quarters is the measure, then there are other three-quarter periods after 2005 which average to over 3% as well, so even the most generous possible reading still doesn't make it true, unless there's some other source which disagrees on the details (possible, given economic growth numbers are estimates in the first place, but impossible to assess without those numbers and their rationale).

In any case, excessive focus on quarterly profits is toxic enough in the business world; such short-term thinking should not be what informs our politics.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 2018 10:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A quick glance at the economic data will show that Trump inherited an economy on a strong trajectory of growth. He lucked out. Let's get past this idea that Trump pulled off some economic miracle; he's just riding Obama's wave.

Wouldn't it be remarkable if he managed to screw it up? I wonder how this trade war will play out.

Because of the tax cuts, the government's hands will be seriously tied in dealing with the next recession when it hits. And if you think there won't be another recession...you'd better snap out of that dream.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 2018 3:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Let's also get past the idea that Trump is somehow a super diplomat for bringing us back from the brink of war. After all, 'twas he who took us to that brink in the first place.
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Kuros



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2018 6:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Putin in Helsinki: "I didn't even know Trump was in Moscow; nobody informed me he was in Moscow … do you think we collected compromising information on each and every one of [500 businessmen]?"

Guys, its fine. Its fine. That denial is airtight and not a politician's disingenuous non-denial.
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