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Total Members Voted: 11

Voting closed: February 15, 2022, 10:51:36 AM

[josh]

Important numbers, surely

But incomplete

Which states have been rising - least and most?

We provided that data already, Kid.

You ignored it.

But you can look it up pretty trivially.

[josh]

From Krugman in the Times, being honest.

What's happening to inflation? We know, of course, what the current numbers say: Inflation is high right now, although not 1970s high. But is this a blip or the beginning of a longer-term problem? Economists are deeply divided. I'm basically for the former, on what has come to be known as Team Transitory, but I might be wrong - and the data are sufficiently ambiguous that both sides can claim that the evidence supports their take.

Yet policymakers can't just shrug their shoulders; they have to, um, make policy. So what should they do in the face of uncertainty? The answer, I'd argue, is to make decisions that won't do too much damage if their preferred take on inflation is wrong.

In the current context this means that the Federal Reserve should ignore calls for a quick tightening of monetary policy.

Why is it so hard to make a call on inflation right now? Because the current economy, still very much shaped by the pandemic, is, to use the technical term, weird. In particular, the standard measures economists use to distinguish between temporary price blips and underlying inflation are telling different stories.

[Hamilton Samuels]

If you are a Christian and you are worried that the supply chain will ruin your Christmas, then maybe it's time for you to contemplate the true meaning of Christmas.

Just sayin'.

[Hamilton Samuels]

Important numbers, surely

But incomplete

Which states have been rising - least and most?

No, not incomplete. They tell a story of their own.

There are many factors which impact every set of data, and an intelligent, educated individual (ie, not just someone who can memorize a formula for the area of a circle), can deduce that one set of data doesn't necessarily predict or correlate with another.

[Hamilton Samuels]

For you Marylanders out there: https://news.yahoo.com/escaped-zebra-found-dead-maryland-014100839.html

[josh]

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/here-are-the-states-where-covid-19-is-increasing-2#block-7560b4e1-bf82-4661-a1f2-4efa99fc9604

and

https://www.wvtm13.com/article/hospitalization-rates-are-declining-but-8-states-still-have-fewer-than-15-of-icu-beds-available/37880705

[Hamilton Samuels]

New Hampshire recorded a nearly 78 percent increase with 16 deaths

Live free, AND die.

[Hamilton Samuels]

Wheelchair politics:https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/15/opinions/home-care-funding-biden-build-back-better-budget-king/index.html

[bambu.]

Thank goodness bambuworld has never been discovered. Terra incognita it remains.

Amen

[josh]

This is simultaneously stunning and yet should not be surprising at all.

https://batten.virginia.edu/about/news/new-uva-study-finds-correlation-between-lynchings-and-confederate-monuments

[bambu.]

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/15/2058294/--It-gives-everyone-cold-sweats-Republicans-fret-over-Trump-s-involvement-in-2022

Time to pull out all stops to beat every last republican candidate to a jellylike pulp at the ballot box. There is no place for republicans in politics or policy if the United States is to survive.

Oh yes there iiiiis!
US Republicans just need to have a reformation, and copy ScoMo and the Conservatives in bambuworld.
The Left/Far Left having complete control of America and the Christian West is too horrible to imagine.
Karl Marx rings a bell.

[facilitatorn]

You much prefer the wannabe Hitlers, Bambu. You have made that abundantly clear.

[josh]

[Holly Martins]

If you are a Christian and you are worried that the supply chain will ruin your Christmas, then maybe it's time for you to contemplate the true meaning of Christmas.

Just sayin'.

[LarryBnDC]

Nobody stopped her from writing the book

Kid is in favor of censorship (an action by government) and bookburning.

In favor of books being in proper places.

Which is the issue here

Yes.

They should be in the classrooms and the school library.