Steel City Trump Open
by coldwarrior ( 74 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at March 11th, 2018 - 7:36 am
Jobs Report
by coldwarrior ( 121 Comments › )Filed under Donald Trump, Economy, Open thread, unemployment at March 8th, 2018 - 6:27 am
Tell me again how Trump will ruin the economy?
Businesses added 235,000 jobs in February, payroll processor ADP said Wednesday, more than the 200,000 gains economists had expected.
That could possibly signal that a key employment report from the government will reveal more signs of strong hiring later this week.
“The job market is red hot and threatens to overheat,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, which helps ADP compile the report. “With government spending increases and tax cuts, growth is set to accelerate.”… Still, initial jobless claims, a gauge of layoffs, have hovered at the lowest levels in nearly 50 years. With unemployment at a 17-year low of 4.1%, that’s a good sign of a healthy labor market.
Odd that this isn’t front page news… /
The Hissy Fit Is Over
by coldwarrior ( 77 Comments › )Filed under Donald Trump, Economy, Open thread, RINOcracy at March 5th, 2018 - 8:33 pm
Stocks rose on Monday, erasing earlier losses, as worries about a potential trade war waned.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed 336.70 points higher at 24,874.76 after dropping as much as 150 points. Caterpillar was the biggest contributor of gains to the Dow, rising 3.2 percent.
This Hissy Fit is over, next will be when NAFTA gets scuttled. Round 7 is this week and the the agreement is coming unglued.
Weekend Open and Book Thread
by coldwarrior ( 115 Comments › )Filed under Academia, China, Economy, History, Open thread, saturday lecture series at March 2nd, 2018 - 10:37 pm
Weekend Open!
While I’ve been sick this past week I started reading this: Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order, I am over half way through it. A good write-up can be had here. Give it to a Nevertrumper, Free-trade fool and help change a clouded and confused mind.
Enjoy the Weekend!
PS: Chairman Xi just abolished term limits so that he can stay in power for the rest of his life and the #Nevertrump are upset at Trump for leveling the playing the field on trade.
AND: This is required reading, because NAFTA is next



