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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[barton]

Fed keeps interest rates where they are.
Inflation well under control.
Wages are up and unemployment for all sectors is  down.
More jobs available then employers can fill.
Most important, Needs and YankGuy are worried about the deficit.
Times are REALLY good. LOL!

Translation: Blah blah blah, blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah I got my tax cut blah blah blah blah blah, blah blah.

I ran Redstateward through the same translator and got "Mr. Potter."  I think that's the banker in a Capra film. 

It also read "wages are up" as "wages, adjusted for inflation, remain stagnant."

And "more jobs available than employers can fill" came out "insane immigration policies severely restrict supply of labor especially in agribusiness and services."

"LOL" translated as "MWAHAHAHAA!"

[kiidcarter8]

Huh, wonder why this keeps happening?

https://www.vox.com/2019/1/29/18202515/trump-putin-russia-g20-ft-note

Just kidding. I know exactly why this keeps happening.

"If you are a US President it is probably not a good idea to........."

Trump doesnt do it like everyone else.  Havent you got that message?

Oh, I have.

You are the one who willfully stays in the dark so that you don't need face the reasons why.

The great Jed Bartlett didn't say., "this is how Truman did it"

[facilitatorn]

Huh, wonder why this keeps happening?

https://www.vox.com/2019/1/29/18202515/trump-putin-russia-g20-ft-note

Just kidding. I know exactly why this keeps happening.

"If you are a US President it is probably not a good idea to........."

Trump doesnt do it like everyone else.  Havent you got that message?

Oh, I have.

You are the one who willfully stays in the dark so that you don't need face the reasons why.

Trump has more in common with this guy than any president real or imagined.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/north-carolina-couple-accused-running-150-million-kickback-scheme-n947781

That’s why he doesn’t do it like everyone else. Also is that a Shark Week reference or a Golden Showers reference? Which of his kinks were you referring to?

[REDSTATEWARD]

Fed keeps interest rates where they are.
Inflation well under control.
Wages are up and unemployment for all sectors is  down.
More jobs available then employers can fill.
Most important, Needs and YankGuy are worried about the deficit.
Times are REALLY good. LOL!

Translation: Blah blah blah, blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah I got my tax cut blah blah blah blah blah, blah blah.

I ran Redstateward through the same translator and got "Mr. Potter."  I think that's the banker in a Capra film. 

It also read "wages are up" as "wages, adjusted for inflation, remain stagnant."

Wage growth is up 3 per cent, the largest increase in 8 years.
Inflation is holding steady around 2 per cent.  So the Fed is satisfied that the increase in Wages has not led to an increase in inflation.
The statement from Jerome Powell, Fed Chief:

Consistent with its statutory mandate, the Committee seeks to foster maximum employment and price stability. In support of these goals, the Committee decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 2-1/4 to 2-1/2 percent. The Committee continues to view sustained expansion of economic activity, strong labor market conditions, and inflation near the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective as the most likely outcomes. In light of global economic and financial developments and muted inflation pressures, the Committee will be patient as it determines what future adjustments to the target range for the federal funds rate may be appropriate to support these outcomes.

And "more jobs available than employers can fill" came out "insane immigration policies severely restrict supply of labor especially in agribusiness and services."

"LOL" translated as "MWAHAHAHAA!"

In reality the supply of jobs means employers are using all sorts of incentives to lure potential workers back into the labor market.

[josh]

Huh, wonder why this keeps happening?

https://www.vox.com/2019/1/29/18202515/trump-putin-russia-g20-ft-note

Just kidding. I know exactly why this keeps happening.

"If you are a US President it is probably not a good idea to........."

Trump doesnt do it like everyone else.  Havent you got that message?

Oh, I have.

You are the one who willfully stays in the dark so that you don't need face the reasons why.

The great Jed Bartlett didn't say., "this is how Truman did it"

You and Bambi keep using fiction to bolster your "points."

[NeedsAdjustments]

Fed keeps interest rates where they are.
Inflation well under control.
Wages are up and unemployment for all sectors is  down.
More jobs available then employers can fill.
Most important, Needs and YankGuy are worried about the deficit.
Times are REALLY good. LOL!

Translation: Blah blah blah, blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah I got my tax cut blah blah blah blah blah, blah blah.

I ran Redstateward through the same translator and got "Mr. Potter."  I think that's the banker in a Capra film. 

It also read "wages are up" as "wages, adjusted for inflation, remain stagnant."

Wage growth is up 3 per cent, the largest increase in 8 years.
Inflation is holding steady around 2 per cent.  So the Fed is satisfied that the increase in Wages has not led to an increase in inflation.
The statement from Jerome Powell, Fed Chief:

Consistent with its statutory mandate, the Committee seeks to foster maximum employment and price stability. In support of these goals, the Committee decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 2-1/4 to 2-1/2 percent. The Committee continues to view sustained expansion of economic activity, strong labor market conditions, and inflation near the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective as the most likely outcomes. In light of global economic and financial developments and muted inflation pressures, the Committee will be patient as it determines what future adjustments to the target range for the federal funds rate may be appropriate to support these outcomes.

And "more jobs available than employers can fill" came out "insane immigration policies severely restrict supply of labor especially in agribusiness and services."

"LOL" translated as "MWAHAHAHAA!"

In reality the supply of jobs means employers are using all sorts of incentives to lure potential workers back into the labor market.

I notice that in your consistent failure to point to evidence that backs your assertions, you often try to shoe-horn one issue into another.  The Fed decision had little if anything to do with wage growth (if any at all...they didn't mention it in their statement) and it would be strange if they saw this wage growth as a driver of inflation as that 3% number is year-over-year (monthly increase was 0.4%)  which means its barely over the base inflation rate.

Wage growth has significantly and consistently lagged behind what is expected given that we are at full employment (those "incentives" that employers use to bring in employees you mention?  Thats called a wage) but that may finally be changing given the increase we saw for January.

And to the point I was making previously, which either passed over your head or which you ignored, is that the Fed exercising caution re: interest rates is a sign they have concerns over how robust economic growth will be going into the future.  They aren't concerned (yet) but they are keeping their options open:

“The case for raising rates has decreased somewhat,” Jerome H. Powell, the Fed’s chairman, said at a news conference following the release of the policy statements. He said that while “we continue to expect that the American economy will grow at a solid pace,” some signs of weakness in consumer and business sentiment, as well as a global economic slowing in places like China, is “giving reason for caution.”

“My colleagues and I have one overarching goal: To sustain the economic expansion,” he said.

Reinforcing this more cautious tone, the Fed also announced that it stood ready to slow or even reverse the steady slimming of its bond portfolio. This, too, marked a striking shift. The Fed in December said it was committed to reducing its holdings of Treasurys and mortgage bonds, which it amassed during the financial crisis to help bolster the economy, at a steady pace.

This is clearly not the "Booming economy, winning like you have never seen, believe me" economy that was promised after your guy Trump blew a $1.5 Trillion hole in our deficit in the form of tax cuts for the Rich.  But you trumpet it anyway.  Mostly, because you have no idea what you are talking about.

[josh]

https://www.businessinsider.com/unemployment-vs-involuntary-part-time-work-underemployment-2019-1

• Unemployment is at record lows in both the UK and the US.
• But "involuntary" part-time work is at least 40% higher in both countries than it was 10 years ago.
• The structure of the labour market has fundamentally changed, and what we used to think of as "unemployment" has been replaced by mass part-time work, much of it unwanted.
• "Gig economy" jobs are to blame, according to Rob Valletta of the San Francisco Fed.

[/size]

http://www.telegraphherald.com/news/opinion/article_2d883535-a4ab-5bda-b2d1-23e09e7556b6.html

As Reynolds was issuing her news release, the Telegraph Herald was wrapping up work on Sunday’s in-depth report on the “working poor” – people who have jobs, sometimes more than one, but whose wages are so low that they struggle to make ends meet. They are helping hold down the unemployment figure, but they certainly do not consider themselves in a place worthy of news releases.

Last spring, when Hawaii alone held the distinction of the nation’s lowest unemployment rate – just 2.1 percent — the TH carried an Associated Press article asking whether there were downsides to what appeared to be such cheery news.

“Employers are frustrated by their inability to find workers. And unfilled jobs might be slowing the state’s economic growth,” The AP reported, noting that an upside for workers was that employers were offering higher pay to attract employees.

“Still, Hawaii’s experience serves as a cautionary tale for the nation as a whole: Low unemployment can mask underlying problems,” the article continued. “U.S. employers are already complaining about their struggles to find qualified employees.”

[josh]

https://insights.dice.com/2019/01/29/tech-salaries-stagnant-low-unemployment-dice-salary-survey/

Average annual salaries in 2018 remained flat, at $93,244. That’s a mere 0.6 percent increase from 2017. No wonder some 68 percent of respondents to Dice’s survey said they’d change employers to receive higher compensation. (Some 47 percent said they’d switch jobs for better working conditions, while 34 percent said they’d do so for more responsibility; another 22 percent thought they might lose their current position, necessitating a job switch.)

https://qz.com/1414865/the-us-unemployment-rate-is-at-a-48-year-low-so-why-are-so-many-americans-still-out-of-work/
The US unemployment rate is at a 48-year low—so why are so many Americans still out of work?

[Yankguy1]

Red got a tax cut.

[josh]

Meanwhile...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/30/politics/special-counsel-russia-documents/index.html

In an attempt to discredit the Russia probe, the account shared material from a criminal case that the special counsel's team had only given to defense attorneys

Wait, let me get this straight:

Mueller's accused these folks of collaborating with the Russians.

To defend themselves, they collaborated with the Russians.

Got it!

[josh]

And earlier, the most knowledgeable national security man in the world, Donald Trump, told his own self-appointed leaders of national security to go back to school, after they disputed his claims:

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/30/trump-national-security-1136433

So, which is it?

Does he hire only the best people? Or does he hire incompetents who need to go back to school?

[FlyingVProd]

For anyone who is not up to date on the issue of the wall, here is my personal conclusion...

Our neighbors here in the Western Hemisphere are good Christian neighbors, these are our good Christian allies. We need to work together as a team on issues which are important to all of us, such as preventing terrorism, and stopping illegal drugs, etc. Instead of building walls and growing apart, we need to come closer together, and we need to work together as a team. 

And it needs to be as easy for a person to move from Mexico to the USA, as it is for someone to move from Ireland to Italy. We need a special relationship here with our good Christian neighbors. We need to make it easy for people to move around freely here in the Western Hemisphere. We are all allies. 

We won two world wars, and the Cold War, without building any walls, and we do not need any walls now. 

We need for the Statue of Liberty to represent what we are all about, not a thirty foot wall on our southern border.

And we can spend the money in much better ways than spending it on a wall, we can build brand new modern water systems in Michigan, and everyone in the USA can have safe clean water to drink. There are many ways that we can spend the money that are more important than building a wall that we do not need and which most people do not want. 

Salute,

Tony V.

[REDSTATEWARD]

Fed keeps interest rates where they are.
Inflation well under control.
Wages are up and unemployment for all sectors is  down.
More jobs available then employers can fill.
Most important, Needs and YankGuy are worried about the deficit.
Times are REALLY good. LOL!

Translation: Blah blah blah, blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah I got my tax cut blah blah blah blah blah, blah blah.

I ran Redstateward through the same translator and got "Mr. Potter."  I think that's the banker in a Capra film. 

It also read "wages are up" as "wages, adjusted for inflation, remain stagnant."

Wage growth is up 3 per cent, the largest increase in 8 years.
Inflation is holding steady around 2 per cent.  So the Fed is satisfied that the increase in Wages has not led to an increase in inflation.
The statement from Jerome Powell, Fed Chief:

Consistent with its statutory mandate, the Committee seeks to foster maximum employment and price stability. In support of these goals, the Committee decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 2-1/4 to 2-1/2 percent. The Committee continues to view sustained expansion of economic activity, strong labor market conditions, and inflation near the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective as the most likely outcomes. In light of global economic and financial developments and muted inflation pressures, the Committee will be patient as it determines what future adjustments to the target range for the federal funds rate may be appropriate to support these outcomes.

And "more jobs available than employers can fill" came out "insane immigration policies severely restrict supply of labor especially in agribusiness and services."

"LOL" translated as "MWAHAHAHAA!"

In reality the supply of jobs means employers are using all sorts of incentives to lure potential workers back into the labor market.

I notice that in your consistent failure to point to evidence that backs your assertions, you often try to shoe-horn one issue into another.  The Fed decision had little if anything to do with wage growth (if any at all...they didn't mention it in their statement) and it would be strange if they saw this wage growth as a driver of inflation as that 3% number is year-over-year (monthly increase was 0.4%)  which means its barely over the base inflation rate.

You just plain ignored what Powell said The Committee continues to view sustained expansion of economic activity, strong labor market conditions, and inflation near the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective as the most likely outcomes.

Wage growth has significantly and consistently lagged behind what is expected given that we are at full employment (those "incentives" that employers use to bring in employees you mention?  Thats called a wage) but that may finally be changing given the increase we saw for January.

Finally changing?  Best wage growth in 8 years.

And to the point I was making previously, which either passed over your head or which you ignored, is that the Fed exercising caution re: interest rates is a sign they have concerns over how robust economic growth will be going into the future.  They aren't concerned (yet) but they are keeping their options open:

“The case for raising rates has decreased somewhat,” Jerome H. Powell, the Fed’s chairman, said at a news conference following the release of the policy statements. He said that while “we continue to expect that the American economy will grow at a solid pace,” some signs of weakness in consumer and business sentiment, as well as a global economic slowing in places like China, is “giving reason for caution.”

“My colleagues and I have one overarching goal: To sustain the economic expansion,” he said.

Reinforcing this more cautious tone, the Fed also announced that it stood ready to slow or even reverse the steady slimming of its bond portfolio. This, too, marked a striking shift. The Fed in December said it was committed to reducing its holdings of Treasurys and mortgage bonds, which it amassed during the financial crisis to help bolster the economy, at a steady pace.

This is clearly not the "Booming economy, winning like you have never seen, believe me" economy that was promised after your guy Trump blew a $1.5 Trillion hole in our deficit in the form of tax cuts for the Rich.  But you trumpet it anyway.  Mostly, because you have no idea what you are talking about.

How did the stock markets react to Powell and the Fed decision?

[kiidcarter8]

https://twitter.com/themouthmatusow/status/1090492862209245184?s=20

[Yankguy1]

Does "the Mouth" still have a cocaine, ecstasy and meth problem?