Economics Thread

[sturg33]

The entire Pentagon budget in our country's history is $18T

[sturg33]

Government should start subsidizing happy meals

[nsacpi]

the lioness left has lost its mind

[smoltzie29]

the lioness left has lost its mind

If you're referring to AOC, she really needs to show she can grasp basic math before she starts voting on things

[nsacpi]

If you're referring to AOC, she really needs to show she can grasp basic math before she starts voting on things

It is a low bar. Something we should expect from our elected officials.

I do wonder, however, why you are such an admirerer of Ron Paul, when the views and beliefs he has expressed are far crazier than the people you are picking on. It is an oddly dissonant thing.

[cajunrevenge]

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/12/06/...alization.html


Marijuana industry to create 250,000 new jobs by 2020. From new jobs like trimmer and budtender to the traditional jobs of IT, accounting, etc. Full legalization could add over a million jobs to the economy.

[Oklahomahawk]

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/12/06/...alization.html


Marijuana industry to create 250,000 new jobs by 2020. From new jobs like trimmer and budtender to the traditional jobs of IT, accounting, etc. Full legalization could add over a million jobs to the economy.

And think of what it will do for the Doritos manufacturing industry and for those companies that make brownie mixes... :)

[cajunrevenge]

https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/ne...222779935.html


Marlboro invests 1.8 billion in a Canadian Marijuana company with the option to buy more shares that could bring the investment up to 4 Billion which is as much as the company that makes Corona invested previously. Spending on legal marijuana in North America is expected to grow from 9.2 billion in 2017 to 47.3 Billion in 2027. If you have money to invest. The legal marijuana business is your best bet. Like alcohol it will be virtually recession proof.

[cajunrevenge]

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/foo...cate-1.4938335



Canadia raises minimum wage.... now flabbergasted as to why food prices are going up......... clearly the only answer is to raise minimum wage again!

[sturg33]

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/foo...cate-1.4938335

Canadia raises minimum wage.... now flabbergasted as to why food prices are going up......... clearly the only answer is to raise minimum wage again!

Min wage has proven over and over to hurt people far more than it helps

But the party of science is unwilling to look at the data to reflect on their emotional voter appeal

[57Brave]

I think it fair t lump corporate maleficence into the economics page.
After all there are those that worship at the capitalistic alter -- right ?
This would be the other side..



CNBC Now
‏Verified account @CNBCnow

BREAKING: Johnson & Johnson knew for decades

about asbestos in baby powder talc supply,

failed to tell the FDA

- Reuters, citing documents

[57Brave]

Johnson & Johnson
JNJ 8.42%

stock tanked more than 11 percent Friday morning after

an investigative piece by Reuters alleges the company knew

one of its most popular products was dangerous for decades.


https://www.benzinga.com/news/18/12/...sbestos-report

[57Brave]

Corporate Freedom sold to the rubes as Individual Freedom

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/b...der-facts.html


keep voting for um

[50PoundHead]

And think of what it will do for the Doritos manufacturing industry and for those companies that make brownie mixes... :)

Thinking back to those days of yore when I was a regular user of marijuana, it's difficult to believe that I am not 300 pounds from all of the Ruffles and chip dip that I consumed. I think my ratio was three containers of dip to one bag of chips. I should have just eaten the dip with a spoon.

[cajunrevenge]

https://nypost.com/2018/12/17/wall-s...ps-500-points/



Stock market continuing downward spiral. Cant wait to hear how this isnt Trumps fault as we established it was his economy from the day he took office and he deserved 150% of the credit.

[57Brave]

Talia Lavin
‏Verified account @chick_in_kiev
Dec 12

i’m a socialist, although in america this mostly just means

“i think it’s bad that you die broke when you have cancer”

and “poor people should eat” and

“it’s bad that corporations literally write laws”

[cajunrevenge]

I too think poor people should eat. Thats why I am not socialist....

[sturg33]

I too think poor people should eat. Thats why I am not socialist....

LOL yep.

[57Brave]

so let's label our adversaries socialists and ...........................


Paul Krugman
‏Verified account @paulkrugman
5h5 hours ago

If there's one thing that is absolutely clear after the past 2 years on health care,

it is that Rs have no alternative to the ACA, and never will.

Their plan is for people to get sick, go bankrupt, and die.

[sturg33]

Oh yes... Paul Krugman

I think it was the Rain who correctly warned how disastrously ACA would fail.

Yet here we are, as also predicted, the solution to fix the disaster is universal