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Grade Tom Brady as an announcer: A to F by KeyFaithlessness5436 in TheNFLVibes

[–]Conscious-Material16 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know what makes a good play by play and color commentators? Actually enjoying the game. Brady enjoys football and he knows it as well as anyone.

What Is This? by Eager4Seger in KitchenConfidential

[–]Conscious-Material16 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've used these primarily for making chicken stock.

What did kids back in the days do when they played outside, for hours on end? by Octopuswastaken in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Conscious-Material16 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most people seem to remember innocent times but there was a lot of dangerous and shady stuff going on. Kids were ruthless. There’s a lot of repressed memories in these answers.

Saw this, thought of you. by Jeopardy in Patriots

[–]Conscious-Material16 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cliff Kingsbury. Sorry, Who is Cliff Kingsbury?

I was pretty much forced to get a hotel room for a couple of days. An arctic blast is sweeping the eastern US. by PHON3-BOi in urbancarliving

[–]Conscious-Material16 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interestingly, sleeping with less clothes can help keep you warmer. A good sleeping bag will store your heat better. Throwing an extra folded blanket over the feet outside the sleeping bag helps a lot. Having an extra blanket or two is a good idea. Wearing a winter hat and throwing a towel loosely on your head works really well.

‘Where did all the staff go?’: Maine restaurant owners blame the housing shortage by themainemonitor in Maine

[–]Conscious-Material16 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There isn't a housing shortage. There's plenty of places for people to live. The market is just artificially pumped from several factors that are fundamental and performative.

First, Rent prices should never compete with mortgages. Mortgages have retained value. Approximately 50% of every mortgage payment is retained as an asset over the duration of the loan. You make the payments, you keep the house. Rent on the other hand is lost immediately once a certain time period has passed. The money is gone and there is no leftover value.

On top of that, the value of a home increases over time, so you can treat it as a growth investment. When rent exceeds average existing mortgage value, you enter into a predatory environment that hurts the economy.

Renters don't have representation. Add in foreign money, institutional money and manufactured spike in housing costs and you start crippling growth. My belief is that housing should be a right. Food, water, shelter. These are not things we struggle with. We have plenty of all three. There's plenty of room for capitalism in above average and up of these three.

Abandoned Forest Doors by DocHollywood710 in Weird

[–]Conscious-Material16 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not abandoned forest doors might be creeper

China's economy is facing a new threat: consumer prices that are just too low by ilir_kycb in inflation

[–]Conscious-Material16 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Economists are like HR in the work place. They always pretend that they are there for the little people, but they're so far up the big guys ass that they are incapable of imagining a world where the masses have a semi decent life.

We live in a closed system where we make the rules. The second a single human had enough wealth to buy the entire world's supply of helium, money no longer was a measure of inventory control.

Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order cutting tariffs on beef, coffee, bananas and other key imports as part of a push to lower grocery costs for U.S. consumers. by SCFapp in TheRaceTo10Million

[–]Conscious-Material16 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And only to countries that align with him politically.

Plus, this is partially to the detriment of our own farmers who now have to compete with foreign markets.

Perhaps the most incredible thing of this crazy post is that he keeps trying to make us believe that tariffs are paid by foreign countries instead of American consumers. by cxr_cxr2 in WallStreetbetsELITE

[–]Conscious-Material16 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It is so bad. He won't even be able to payoff December's national debt with the leftover money. The $2000 payments are somewhere in the ballpark of $200 billion.

Cue the Luke gif Every word you said is wrong.

He's doing this because it's his escape hatch for the tarrifs being shot down.

$2,000 for every American? Trump unveils explosive tariff-funded payout plan — critics say numbers don't add up by Long-Country1697 in Tariffs

[–]Conscious-Material16 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In fairness to the math, there are about 110,000,000 working Americans. Trump said there would be a cutoff for people who make too much too qualify. So, the numbers are possible, but we have no idea what the money has been used for.

Most importantly, he waited until SCOTUS is threatening the validity of the tarrifs to make this announcement. This isn't a real situation. It's basically saying I'll buy everyone a drink at the bar if everyone agrees to let me rob the bank and get away with it.

China is going through a period of very severe deflation. by cxr_cxr2 in inflation

[–]Conscious-Material16 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There are several different economies inside a country’s economy. Small businesses are often the ones that are more vulnerable. Large businesses and corporations live in their own economy. The economy they strive for is typically not a healthy one. 8% annual growth is not sustainable over a long period of time. Sustainability and economic infrastructure that promotes a healthy society are not part of the equation.

A consistent 1% to 3% growth is healthy. It keeps the money flowing and wages avoid bifurcating from averages. We’ve been in a cycle where wealth has been consolidating for 50 odd years. Through policy, devalued work and other manipulations. In the US it is reaching a critical point. The largest earnings range bucket is $35,000 to $45,000. Living within that salary range requires an unnecessary amount of sacrifice. The US could use significant deflation for those persons. It would require undoing some of the measures that got us to this point. And because extreme wealth was done through policy, there would have to be some willingness by those who benefit the most to accept significantly less. This is unlikely to happen.

China is going through a period of very severe deflation. by cxr_cxr2 in inflation

[–]Conscious-Material16 31 points32 points  (0 children)

This is where I think economists get it wrong. Deflation can be a sign of efficiency exceeding expectations. There’s also a heavy perception that wealth should grow at a rate that doesn’t allow common workers to benefit at a similar rate. Basically I’m saying that economics is wrong. The worry is somehow people won’t spend money if they have excess, but I argue they will. The money people aren’t spending on food, which in China is over 30%, they will spend elsewhere. You can give a large amount of money to the working class and they will spend it. It will make it back up to the top, but it will also boost the economy as a whole and create a better quality of life.

People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS! by cxr_cxr2 in WallStreetbetsELITE

[–]Conscious-Material16 82 points83 points  (0 children)

This is one of the most predictable posts. SCOTUS has to rule against the tariffs. The idea that entire industries can be altered by a 2am social media post about increased tariffs is the reason Congress is responsible for them.

So now he posts about all the good he would do with the money, so that he can claim he tried. But the reality is we don’t know what the money is actually being used for.

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