Also, events other than increasing the money supply cause inflation. Like the supply chain disruptions due to the pandemic and the Saudi's deciding to cut oil production. There's no question that food manufacturers have raised prices to increase profits. No, those events cause price increases, not ...

"Inflation is the rate of increase in prices over a given period of time." Right, individual price increases is not 'inflation", but higher prices is like literally the definition of inflation. You don't get to just ignore why the price level is rising. I'm not. Businesses making price decisions on...

Everyone wants the highest price for their goods and services. Would you turn down an offered raise because you don't want to be "greedy"? Would you sell your house for less than the market value because because you don't want to be "greedy"? Of course not. Corporations certainly raise prices, and o...

A reminder: corporations do not cause inflation. Government monetary policy causes inflation, specifically the creation of new money from thin air. As Milton Friedman said, "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid inc...

I also agree with DG that it seems crazy that a country that's trying to have its own space program, to develop nuclear power (or maybe nuclear weapons), is building all sorts of advanced drone weapons (that it's selling to Russia), is trying to develop domestic fighter jets, etc. is flying its VIPs...

I would imagine there might have been a lot of "get-there-itis" pressure when it's the president of the country in the back of the aircraft. If so, the same sort of situation was a factor in the 2010 Smolensk air disaster that killed the president of Poland.

TIL that the Japanese have a word that means "old person smell": kareishū (加齢臭). The kanji translate as something along the lines of "aging smelly."

Got out my trenching shovel to clean out the tiny ditch I have on the uphill side of my property that channels rain water out to the street instead of turning my upper yard into a swamp. Toward the back of my house, there's a part where the hill up to my neighbor becomes too steep to mow, so it's ov...

I currently pay $112 per month for me and my one car.

People did call for Hill to be cut in 2019.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootba ... m-for-life

Yeah, for him likely covering up child abuse, not for his fleet of baby mommas and illegitimate kids.

Round 7 - Emilia-Romagna This race: Cbear3 - 40 dodint - 16 MR25 - 26 Shyster - 22 tifosi - 23 Gaucho - 17 Leaderboard: 1. Cbear3 - 274 2. dodint - 211 3. Shyster - 208 4. Gaucho - 174 5. tifosi - 153 6. MR25 - 136 First-Place Finishes: Cbear3 - 7 dodint - 1 MR25 - 0 Shyster - 1 tifosi - 0 Gaucho -...

If Butker were some douchebag who treated women like Kleenex and had five kids with five different women, no one would blink an eye. Ain't no petition calling for Butker's former teammate Tyreek Hill to be fired even though Hill has 11 kids with five different women.

I think it's safe to say that not all Iranians are concerned that their president might have been killed in a helicopter crash. https://twitter.com/IranNW/status/1792239808284127277 https://twitter.com/IranNW/status/1792242796281077763 Setting aside the politics and the hatred, I have to wonder what...

Eh, I'm just sticking with Marcus for now. I had a previous HYSA close on me, which was a PITA, and to me it's not worth the aggravation of constantly moving money around to chase a few extra points of interest.

I imagine they are probably smelling the cat food and bird-food peanut/suet cakes that I have in storage bins in the basement. Alas for the mice, those bins are sealed (but not entirely air tight to block smells), and the only cat food is what is out in the dispensers, and when the mice come in and ...

Best comment: The Ghettosberg Address live from the Waffle House of Representatives.

Runways. Got it, important tip. Thanks, Egon.

I didn't want some smartass saying "You forgot runways." I see that was a no-win scenario.

This is a minor gear-grinder, but I just read a couple posts on X where people were complaining about their flights being delayed and they spent several hours "sitting on the tarmac." Tarmac isn't a place, and it isn't used as a place in aviation circles. Tarmac is a form of layered surface made of ...

Live look in at Shyster right now:

You should all be happy to know that Daniel Perry was not only pardoned, but Abbott also restored his ability to own guns. So he's not only free, he's armed.

Video of the Highland Park tornado:

https://x.com/RyanDeto/status/1791581301272957066

So I'm not entirely sure 'blaming' the Klan would be appropriate in the case of that 1953 law. I think 'excusing' is maybe more appropriate. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14‑12.3 says: It shall be unlawful for any person to join, unite himself with, become a member of, apply for membership in, form, organize, ...

Bring waterproof shoes so you can easily hose off the human feces and hippy stink.

There is an express exception for motorcyclists in the statute. The intent of the law is to go after and arrest all of the mask-wearing little s**ts who have been doing stuff like blocking roads and setting up "occupation" camps on college campuses. If people don't like the law, blame those folks fo...

It's possible that the courts in NC have interpreted the statute to impose an intent requirement. But if not, then I would disagree with Senator Britt that the statute on its face requires intent to conceal identity. The statutes make it illegal to be in public places "while wearing any mask, hood o...