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U.S. Adds 195,000 Jobs; Unemployment Remains 7.6%

Oh SNAP....did you just go all semantically on me? What is next, broad is NOT general? FFS!

And yes, if you are trying to determine inflation for consumers, it is always better to gather as many price point as possible....if you are concerned about accuracy...but then, those who believe inflation to be irrelevant....or use singe data points between nations/currencies....probably are not.

You do realise that certain items are subject to volatility, correct? This is why CPI generally excludes specific items, such as Food and Energy. Other nations like Japan just exclude Energy. Other nations exclude commodities, while others exclude other items.

Using a broad measure doesn't tell you the whole story with inflation. Using a few items or a single item can give you better picture of inflation than the entire market place full of items.

Except when it is irrelevant, or a single item.....that is.

There are hundreds of thousands of different items. What may be irrelevant to you may not be to another. Regardless, single items can use used depending upon what the item is. A commodity or a food item.

You are wrong. I'm sorry if your opinions fails to sway me, but that is how things work.

Like I said, if this is representative of the financial world....I would be concerned......but thankfully, you are not.

I never claimed to be a representative. Just educating someone on a particular subject who should really know better. Or, maybe not.
 
You keep elevating it from the joke that the Economist created....to a reference used by financial types......to SCHOLARS!

I know you have a LOT invested in it as far as your standing here....but really.....scholars?

If you say so....

A scholar is someone who has a particular branch of knowledge, or maybe you thought financial analysis and economist don't exactly fit this category. I'm sorry that we can't all be forum lurkers.

And financial/market data is rather costly. It's not for someone to peruse for a 'hobby.' If you think the BMI is a joke, that is your opinion. They're your opinions, and I can't change your mind. I can only tell you why you are wrong and that is that. Unless you have the credentials to know better, don't expect anyone to take your opinions seriously.
 
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I would agree with the elimination of taxes on activities related to productive output, as that would tend to soak up excess labor, but I would be reluctant to eliminate taxes on activities that are solely rentier in their origin. I also have no issue with leveling the ground, so to speak, in relation to equitable competition among countries which wish to sell into our country...

They're only selling you out because you've created a rather business un-friendly environment. Majority of corporate revenue doesn't even originate from US sales anymore. This is because repatriating profits means they will have to pay taxes on those profits.

Corporate taxes need to be lower. It will still be too high after you've lowered them, but it's a start.
 
No I don't, one can easily read between the lines....especially when the follow-up post tried to show the ineffectiveness of OSHA.

If that's what you want to believe. Although, no one challenged the effectiveness of OHSA, but it was generally unnecessary to begin with.

Although it is very effective in impeding job creation in manufacturing.
 
A scholar is someone who has a particular branch of knowledge, or maybe you thought financial analysis and economist and economist don't exactly fit this category. I'm sorry that we can't all be forum lurkers.
Um...what?

And financial/market data is rather costly. It's not for someone to peruse for a 'hobby.' If you think the BMI is a joke, that is your opinion. They're your opinions, and I can't change your mind. I can only tell you why you are wrong and that is that. Unless you have the credentials to know better, don't expect anyone to take your opinions seriously.
Um, that is the Economist's "opinion".

"THE Big Mac index was invented by The Economist in 1986 as a lighthearted guide to whether currencies are at their “correct” level."
Interactive currency-comparison tool: The Big Mac index | The Economist
 
No I don't, one can easily read between the lines....especially when the follow-up post tried to show the ineffectiveness of OSHA.

I must have missed that part, as I have only been responding to what I've seen without seeing the need to review two thousand plus posts. If you'd prefer I butt out, just let me know and I'm outta here...
 
If that's what you want to believe. Although, no one challenged the effectiveness of OHSA, but it was generally unnecessary to begin with.

Although it is very effective in impeding job creation in manufacturing.
The double talk is amazing!

"If you want to believe that I was implying OSHA is ineffective....just because I say it was unnecessary to begin with...and it impedes job creation...well, you go ahead and believe that"

LOL....gawd.....the chutzpah!
 
Um...what?

Um, that is the Economist's "opinion".

"THE Big Mac index was invented by The Economist in 1986 as a lighthearted guide to whether currencies are at their “correct” level."
Interactive currency-comparison tool: The Big Mac index | The Economist

I was right the first time, your comprehension is very bad...

Burgernomics was never intended as a precise gauge of currency misalignment, merely a tool to make exchange-rate theory more digestible. Yet the Big Mac index has become a global standard, included in several economic textbooks and the subject of at least 20 academic studies.
 
I must have missed that part, as I have only been responding to what I've seen without seeing the need to review two thousand plus posts. If you'd prefer I butt out, just let me know and I'm outta here...
FFS Paul, if you don't believe me, then look for yourself, it is on two pages. Create any level of impediment for yourself, no skin off my back.
 
I was right the first time, your comprehension is very bad...
I'm sure some have referred to it, although I'm not interested enough to find out how they referred to it. It is your sale hon, knock yourself out.
 
FFS Paul, if you don't believe me, then look for yourself, it is on two pages. Create any level of impediment for yourself, no skin off my back.

You're both making some points, but what is being accomplished towards what should be a common goal of growing the manufacturing base of our economy?
 
I'm sure some have referred to it, although I'm not interested enough to find out how they referred to it. It is your sale hon, knock yourself out.

You don't care because you are wrong. Interesting cop out, but at least you acknowledge that you've wasted your time... Again...
 
The double talk is amazing!

"If you want to believe that I was implying OSHA is ineffective....just because I say it was unnecessary to begin with...and it impedes job creation...well, you go ahead and believe that"

LOL....gawd.....the chutzpah!

I never used the words ineffective in reference to OHSA before that response.

Address what I am saying. Not what you would like for me to say.
 
You don't care because you are wrong. Interesting cop out, but at least you acknowledge that you've wasted your time... Again...
Hon, i was never interested in the product you were selling, so no I wasn't wasting my time showing you how it is not a measure of US inflation...in any manner. You are the one with the investment in it, and you got no where...at all.
 
I never used the words ineffective in reference to OHSA before that response.
I never said you did, but the point is that you did feel that way (and I knew it) before you explicitly said so, ergo my reading between the lines was accurate.

Address what I am saying. Not what you would like for me to say.
LOL...I can't make you say anything....but you proved I was correct.
 
Hon, i was never interested in the product you were selling, so no I wasn't wasting my time showing you how it is not a measure of US inflation...in any manner. You are the one with the investment in it, and you got no where...at all.

It's not my product to sell. I'm not selling anything. I only said that if you bought the full historical data you would see that it does more than currency exchange. You were the one who convinced yourself that with your sloppy research that you somehow knew the correct uses for better than analysis did. If I got nowhere, it's because I failed to educate some forum regular online. I can only give you the proper information. What you do with said information is your concern.
 
I never said you did, but the point is that you did feel that way (and I knew it) before you explicitly said so, ergo my reading between the lines was accurate.

You are incorrect in understanding what I am feeling. Try again.

LOL...I can't make you say anything....but you proved I was correct.

If that's what you want to believe. I see in addition to being faux economist, you are also a mind-reader. Mazel Tov.
 
It's not my product to sell. I'm not selling anything. I only said that if you bought the full historical data you would see that it does more than currency exchange. You were the one who convinced yourself that with your sloppy research that you somehow knew the correct uses for better than analysis did (sic). If I got nowhere, it's because I failed to educate some forum regular online. I can only give you the proper information. What you do with said information is your concern.
I will write this slowly, Burgermetrics are useless for measuring domestic inflation rates. You posted a link to that yourself.

Carry on.
 
You are incorrect in understanding what I am feeling. Try again.
Sure....you did not subsequently write even more on how you feel that OSHA is useless. I imagined that.



If that's what you want to believe. I see in addition to being faux economist, you are also a mind-reader. Mazel Tov.
See, I never claimed that I was anything.....is it not IRONIC that you accuses me of being a mind reader!

FFS....give it a rest, you have beaten yourself up enough on your second day.
 
I will write this slowly, Burgermetrics are useless for measuring domestic inflation rates. You posted a link to that yourself.

Carry on.

First off, if you were to write it slowly, wouldn't you have utilised ellipses between... each... and... every... word... We can also add proper grammar in your list of shortcomings.

Secondly, I didn't post the source. You did. Memory problems as well, I see.

Finally, the source didn't conclude that. All it said was that it was never meant to be used as a metric of currency misalignment.

If you were to stop 'reading between the lines' you wouldn't be so invested in creating your own perception of reality.
 
First off, if you were to write it slowly, wouldn't you have utilised ellipses between... each... and... every... word... We can also add proper grammar in your list of shortcomings.

Secondly, I didn't post the source. You did. Memory problems as well, I see.

Finally, these source didn't conclude that. All it said was that it was never meant to be used as a metric of currency misalignment.

If you were to stop 'reading between the lines' you wouldn't be so invested in creating your own perception of reality.

As a question to both, what are your ideas to move the economy along?
 
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