Economy and Finance Thread

Shadowfax said:
This is all part of the same plan that has been playing out over the last 2 years. I would have been much worse if someone did not interrupt their plans for a couple years. This is not all just a chance happening.
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That plan is over 60 yrs old , the last 2 yrs represented the glitch ..!
 
'Shrinkflation' ... tactical economy? Lol ... Like it says; most likely transitional (for a while, couple years plus, decade or two so). Lol ... Who cares, certainly not Jeff Bezos or Sundar Pichai or Mark Elliot Zuckerberg or Jack Dorsey or Bill Gates or Tim Cook or Elon Musk or Warren Buffett or Bernard Arnault or Charlie Munger or Astrid Menks or anyone else from that branch.

It’s not just inflation, the COVID-19 pandemic is also feeding ‘shrinkflation’ - National | Globalnews.ca

* Water; it's in short supply in many countries, and in other countries there's just too much of it (Germany).
 
NorthStar said:
The Magnum, P.I. guy. He's into raisins (grapes), I didn't know that.
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Live music concert tickets; are they going to go up too?
This would be advantageous (cheaper) to stay home for audiophiles.
Movie tickets?
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Not sure about grapes, but he grows avocados

" IN 2015 Selleck was sued by the Calleguas Municipal Water District for allegedly stealing and transferring approximately 1.4 million gallons of water from the Calleguas Municipal Water District to the Hidden Valley Municipal Water District during the driest California drought since record-keeping began, which he used to water his avocado farm.
 
CPP said:
Not sure about grapes, but he grows avocados

" IN 2015 Selleck was sued by the Calleguas Municipal Water District for allegedly stealing and transferring approximately 1.4 million gallons of water from the Calleguas Municipal Water District to the Hidden Valley Municipal Water District during the driest California drought since record-keeping began, which he used to water his avocado farm.
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Could have been sour grapes then :lol:
 
CPP said:
Not sure about grapes, but he grows avocados

" IN 2015 Selleck was sued by the Calleguas Municipal Water District for allegedly stealing and transferring approximately 1.4 million gallons of water from the Calleguas Municipal Water District to the Hidden Valley Municipal Water District during the driest California drought since record-keeping began, which he used to water his avocado farm.
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Now that explains. I didn't know.
He's into apples ... a rotten one.

* All those heat waves and forest fires on the west coast; that couldn't be good for water (major droughts) and the economy. On the other hand (across the water) Europe (Germany) got plenty of rain, way way too much...just the opposite. I feel for the people who can't escape water (you can escape fire).
All of this is a hard blow to the economies and the lost of human lives...very tragic and sad on all aspects.

Can we predict in the future and act accordingly to prevent, or to diminish @ least to a very strict minimum? What is needed; more money, better awareness and preparedness, smart planning, ...?
 
NorthStar said:
Now that explains. I didn't know.
He's into apples ... a rotten one.

* All those heat waves and forest fires on the west coast; that couldn't be good for water (major droughts) and the economy. On the other hand (across the water) Europe (Germany) got plenty of rain, way way too much...just the opposite. I feel for the people who can't escape water (you can escape fire).
All of this is a hard blow to the economies and the lost of human lives...very tragic and sad on all aspects.

Can we predict in the future and act accordingly to prevent, or to diminish @ least to a very strict minimum? What is needed; more money, better awareness and preparedness, smart planning, ...?
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The major problem is, you can't control mother nature. I don't care where you live or what type of preparations you take, not everyone or their property will make it through a major event event brought to you by mother nature. .
 
Of course not; we just have to go with the flow.
But we can learn from it and do our best. That's all there is, it's life.
History and science are good tools. Where we build and how can help; near forests, near the ocean, near tornado alleys, etc.

The ten hottest years on the planet where from 2005 up to now...in the last sixteen years. We can use that as a future gauge. And it's good for the economy.
 
As was said earlier you aren't going to control Mother Nature.

26 Million years Antarctica was a rain forest.

The Petrified forest in Arizona was previously part of Central America.

We need not be carless but, we have very little control over what the world is going to do.
 
Meanwhile on the stock markets ... DJIA: 35K first time ever. The US economy is doing just great.

Index / Last / Chng. / % Chng.
DJIA: 35,062 / +238.20 / +0.68%
NASDAQ: 14,837 / +152.39 / +1.04%
S&P 500: 4,412 / +44.31 / +1.01%

* I just don't know the exact percentage of man's influence on the stock markets.
...Same for droughts, for water (not enough/too much), for CO2, for temperature's changes; I know less than zero...I just go with the flow, and the expert scientists on the economy, financiel futures...all that heat and Jazz.
 
brad225 said:
As was said earlier you aren't going to control Mother Nature.

26 Million years Antarctica was a rain forest ... we have very little control over what the world is going to do.
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Little control? How about 2,400 gigatons of man-made global CO2 emissions since 1850 at a current rate of 50 gigatons/year, not to mention methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone among others. Please, let's not be careless!
 
;) Humans are certainly a part of the ecosystem...Apple, Android, Microsoft, Google, Alexa, Twitter, High-end Audio, Ice, Tubes, OLED TVs, 4K, 8K, stock markets, financial capitals, ozone layer, pollution, air, water, wind, earth, solar power, nuclear fusion, minerals, plastics, petrol, forests, smoke, chimneys, fire, deluge, carbon fiber, high-speed internet, pension funds, bank savings, credit cards, investments, debts, real estate, ... everything we do has an impact on our surroundings and health...mental and physical.

You got that right; we are a careless bunch. :)
We fly to space while below on earth's surface children are dying of starvation, droughts, lack of resources and medicines, lack of food and water.
We spend trillions on the Galaxy and the stock markets, while our economy is bubbling up in a hot tub of red lava, suffocating our oxygen from our lungs.
We build high up in the sky...one kilometer plus in search of cleaner air. ;)

Our economy is doing fine; that's all it counts. Poverty is tougher to cope with and luxury excesses are dysfunctional to a balanced economy. That creates protests, violence, unhealthy inequities. It's the law of the jungle, the lion's law, the banking of the strong, powerful, rich with raw/martial impunity.

The DJIA is doing fine, the billionaires are flying in space along with a red Tesla Roadster orbiting. We can buy all the vaccines of the world and nothing can stop us. We are invincible, it's inevitable.

Which countries are the three biggest polluters of planet Earth?
And what are they doing about it; spreading it even further? 🤔

We are who we are, it's what it is. 😏
 
NorthStar said:
;) Humans are certainly a part of the ecosystem...Apple, Android, Microsoft, Google, Alexa, Twitter, High-end Audio, Ice, Tubes, OLED TVs, 4K, 8K, stock markets, financial capitals, ozone layer, pollution, air, water, wind, earth, solar power, nuclear fusion, minerals, plastics, petrol, forests, smoke, chimneys, fire, deluge, carbon fiber, high-speed internet, pension funds, bank savings, credit cards, investments, debts, real estate, ... everything we do has an impact on our surroundings and health...mental and physical.

You got that right; we are a careless bunch. :)
We fly to space while below on earth's surface children are dying of starvation, droughts, lack of resources and medicines, lack of food and water.
We spend trillions on the Galaxy and the stock markets, while our economy is bubbling up in a hot tub of red lava, suffocating our oxygen from our lungs.
We build high up in the sky...one kilometer plus in search of cleaner air. ;)

Our economy is doing fine; that's all it counts. Poverty is tougher to cope with and luxury excesses are dysfunctional to a balanced economy. That creates protests, violence, unhealthy inequities. It's the law of the jungle, the lion's law, the banking of the strong, powerful, rich with raw/martial impunity.

The DJIA is doing fine, the billionaires are flying in space along with a red Tesla Roadster orbiting. We can buy all the vaccines of the world and nothing can stop us. We are invincible, it's inevitable.

Which countries are the three biggest polluters of planet Earth?
And what are they doing about it; spreading it even further? 🤔

We are who we are, it's what it is. 😏
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Just a side note the Tesla " But where is this vehicle? The current location is 92,137,990 miles (148,281,768 km, 0.991 AU, 8.24 light minutes) ( It's constantly changing) from Earth, moving away from Earth at a speed of 38,956 mi/h (62,694 km/h, 17.41 km/s). Where is Starman? Track Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster in Space! * Where is Starman?
 
Tell me in a million years how much man affected it. I suspect we will be gone long before that and the planet will be moving on without us.
 
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