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US inflation unexpectedly increases
  • 0.1% for someone with a $500,000 mortgage would be $500.

    0.1% for a large company, like say, Blackrock, that has $15 billion dollars in debt, is 15 million dollars.

    Edit: however, Blackrock also *profited to the tune of 4.7 billion dollars, so the 0.1% increase is a 0.3% cut into their profit from last year. They can absolutely afford it.

  • The government doesn't use SQL
  • Qbasic, if that.

    Biden is a blue dog and never cared about infrastructure. Trump cant spell the word. Obama did, but for overpriced drones and oil. Bush only did for oil and deregulated to make things worse. Clinton cut thing Bush Sr cut things. Reagan fucked everything up with "trickle down"

    Meaning the last president that did major infrastructure spending is at best Carter, Ford or Nixon.

  • Might as well eat somewhere nicer
  • There is a five guys in my city. Tried it at two different locations, given its good reputation.

    The single worst burger place. That they have any sort of reputation at all for being good is a stain on the fabric on the concept of restaurants.

  • Same tactic works on actual babies
  • So what happened:

    1. Mexico got a 30 day reprieve by promising 10k Mexican national guard on the border. Trick is that they apparently already have between 10-15k there, so it is already met. The US claims they'll limit gun smuggling, but with Muskler firing everyone, doubt.

    2. Canada got a 30 day reprieve by promising a 1.3 billion dollar border package, and some kind of nebulous Fentanyl Czar. Trick is that the border package was announced six weeks ago and is already partially implemented, irrespective of the tarrifs. Fentanyl czar is needed for internal issues and is more about removing an attack point for Poilievre and the CPC.

    Basically, Trump caused Wall St to lose 600 billion dollars in one day and permanently damaged the US economy(Canadian and Mexican resources are now being workshopped on being permanently routed to other countries) for literally nothing

  • This isn't a trade dispute. Trump wants to actually annex Canada
    1. Canada's economy only looks bad if you use one metric on the economy, GDP. That metric happens to omit exports as well as public sector.
      E.G. the US spends twice what we do on healthcare, and huge profits are made from it. According to the GDP metric, that means it is better.

    In reality, Canadians are doing better than the Americans for health care access and we have the same number of doctors and nurses per capita. We also live longer and are healthier

    1. Canada supplies 60% of the US oil. If we want, we have them by the balls and there isn't a damn thing they can do.
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