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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 04, 2021 9:05 pm

Icarus wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 04, 2021 9:02 pm

Why do you ask? Futures aren't really predictions, they're more like bets.

Sigh … why are you like this?

Anyway. Have at the cultist. He’s in dire need of attention.

- Doc

Nah, you can have her.

Careful now. You may burst your filiopian tube. Actually, I won't. And I also will not use a misspelled reference to women as a pejorative. But you will, because you are a piece of damned crap. Yeah, voice recognition sucks sometime. Good thing I picked up on it and corrected it before you whined a...

Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 04, 2021 8:11 pm

Icarus wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 04, 2021 8:02 pm

… the insignificance of "forecasts."

I take it you don’t dabble in the futures market much.

- Doc

Why do you ask? Futures aren't really predictions, they're more like bets.

Careful now. You may burst your fallopian tube.

Doctor Steuss wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 04, 2021 8:10 pm

Icarus wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 04, 2021 8:06 pm

Forecasts [...]

I was just reminded of a fun JK Galbraith quote, that Powell epically repeated last year at a “Fed Listens” event:

“Economic forecasting exists to make astrology look respectable.”

That's so good.

Sheet metal and iron too. So even the basic raw materials are tough to wrangle right now? This isn't stuff that we rely on imports for either. Wowza. COVID threw everyone off their game in terms of supply and demand. The economy will get back to where it needs to be and it is already going in the r...

Did you even take economics in college? Forecasts aren't synonymous with "what it's supposed to be." They're just forecasts, and they're wrong more often than not, and they're adjusted up or down usually a month later. You are a hysterical. You must have taken apologetics in college and in seminary...

Cultellus wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 04, 2021 6:58 pm

A lot of iron is imported too.

Not really. USA is responsible for roughly .4% of all iron imports. There are more than a dozen other countries that import more iron ore than we do. China's imports account for a whopping 75%.

Glancing through the ADP report, and it looks like over a 3rd of the growth was in fun-time (hospitality/leisure). That seems somewhat counter-intuitive (to me) based on the delta-variant fears. Also, only 1,000 jobs in construction(?!?). Based on housing alone, I’m having a really hard time wrappi...

Leave it to Brietbart to call 330,000 new jobs a "disaster." That's more jobs created in any month during Trump's 48 attempts. Don't let details confuse you, Icarus. Just keep being a troll and only look at things through the Trumpsucks filters. Did you borrow those goggles from Some Schmo? That wa...