ot economics, bad...

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Monday, July 18, 2022 at 11:41:25 PM UTC+10, Phil Hobbs wrote:

whit3rd wrote:
On Sunday, July 17, 2022 at 8:29:06 PM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 09:38:40 +1000, Clifford Heath <no_...@please.net> wrote:
On 17/7/22 23:52, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 18:00:46 +1000, Clifford Heath

<snip>

Supply AND demand; you can\'t just look at one half of the equation.

You\'re leaving out our main problem, which is wholesale distortion of
markets by governments, both by money-printing and by intentionally
destructive regulations.

This is the right-wing nit-wit perception. Their idea is that the market always works perfectly, and any attempt to interfere with it\'s natural tendency to decline into market-fixing cartels is dangerously socialist.

You\'re also thinking down at DC, where there\'s an equilibrium that can
be tweaked slowly enough that things like inventory levels equilibrate
on their own.

The axe-swinging idiots that are running the show at the moment make sure that\'s not the case.

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Clearly somebodie\'s conspiracy against the public hasn\'t gone as well as he had hoped.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[server]

On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 09:41:18 -0400, Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

whit3rd wrote:
On Sunday, July 17, 2022 at 8:29:06 PM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 09:38:40 +1000, Clifford Heath
no_...@please.net> wrote:

On 17/7/22 23:52, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 18:00:46 +1000, Clifford Heath
Raising interest rates ...reduces
demand for goods, which pushes prices down.

So goes the theory anyhow

I get it. Increasing the price of things reduces the price of things.

Increasing the price of borrowing reduces the price of goods.

Sure. When businesses have to pay more interest, they cut their prices
to make up for that.
Money is not a \"good\".
Not any more.

Pricing is about supply and demand. What increased interest does, is make
the inventory (on which sunk costs are carried as a debt) expensive to keep on the shelf,
so the seller lowers prices to reduce that operating expense (or perhaps to put money
into other investments than inventory, which in increased-interest days, get a better return).

Supply AND demand; you can\'t just look at one half of the equation.


You\'re leaving out our main problem, which is wholesale distortion of
markets by governments, both by money-printing and by intenitonally
destructive regulations.

You\'re also thinking down at DC, where there\'s an equilibrium that can
be tweaked slowly enough that things like inventory levels equilibrate
on their own.

The axe-swinging idiots that are running the show at the moment make
sure that\'s not the case.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Economists have no clue about causalities, but that dosen\'t stop them
from wanting to manage things a trillion dollars at a time.

 

[John Larkin]

On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:59:23 -0700, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/07/14/china-urges-world-to-disregard-protesters-storming-banks-for-cash/

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bonds-slump-inflation-surge-fuels-130720879.html

I don\'t understand the concept that raising interest rates counters
inflation. Maybe that\'s an economics myth. Rising interest rates *are*
inflation.

The Chinese and US issues are both driven by political stupidity and
corruption.

Looks like Canadian economists are just as destructive as US ones.

https://wolfstreet.com/2022/07/18/front-loading-canadas-mortgage-rates-housing-market-react-to-monster-rate-hikes/

 

[Phil Hobbs]

jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 09:41:18 -0400, Phil Hobbs
pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

whit3rd wrote:
On Sunday, July 17, 2022 at 8:29:06 PM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 09:38:40 +1000, Clifford Heath
no_...@please.net> wrote:

On 17/7/22 23:52, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 18:00:46 +1000, Clifford Heath
Raising interest rates ...reduces
demand for goods, which pushes prices down.

So goes the theory anyhow

I get it. Increasing the price of things reduces the price of things.

Increasing the price of borrowing reduces the price of goods.

Sure. When businesses have to pay more interest, they cut their prices
to make up for that.
Money is not a \"good\".
Not any more.

Pricing is about supply and demand. What increased interest does, is make
the inventory (on which sunk costs are carried as a debt) expensive to keep on the shelf,
so the seller lowers prices to reduce that operating expense (or perhaps to put money
into other investments than inventory, which in increased-interest days, get a better return).

Supply AND demand; you can\'t just look at one half of the equation.


You\'re leaving out our main problem, which is wholesale distortion of
markets by governments, both by money-printing and by intenitonally
destructive regulations.

You\'re also thinking down at DC, where there\'s an equilibrium that can
be tweaked slowly enough that things like inventory levels equilibrate
on their own.

The axe-swinging idiots that are running the show at the moment make
sure that\'s not the case.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Economists have no clue about causalities, but that dosen\'t stop them
from wanting to manage things a trillion dollars at a time.

Oh, it gets worse:
<http://www.slguardian.org/2022/07/the-death-of-democracy-caused-sri-lanka.html>

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Monday, July 18, 2022 at 11:59:31 PM UTC+10, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 09:41:18 -0400, Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamM...@electrooptical.net> wrote:
whit3rd wrote:
On Sunday, July 17, 2022 at 8:29:06 PM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 09:38:40 +1000, Clifford Heath <no_...@please.net> wrote:
On 17/7/22 23:52, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 18:00:46 +1000, Clifford Heath

<snip>

The axe-swinging idiots that are running the show at the moment make
sure that\'s not the case.

Economists have no clue about causalities, but that dosen\'t stop them from wanting to manage things a trillion dollars at a time.

John Larkin has no clue about economics, but that doesn\'t save up from his bizarre opinions.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 4:39:51 AM UTC+10, John Larkin wrote:

On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:59:23 -0700, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/07/14/china-urges-world-to-disregard-protesters-storming-banks-for-cash/

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bonds-slump-inflation-surge-fuels-130720879.html

I don\'t understand the concept that raising interest rates counters
inflation. Maybe that\'s an economics myth. Rising interest rates *are*
inflation.

The Chinese and US issues are both driven by political stupidity and
corruption.

Looks like Canadian economists are just as destructive as US ones.

https://wolfstreet.com/2022/07/18/front-loading-canadas-mortgage-rates-housing-market-react-to-monster-rate-hikes/

Wolf Richter is another right wing lunatic, in the Steve Bannon (Breitbart class). They are good at pressing John Larkin\'s buttons. Less influential with better informed readers.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[server]

On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:59:23 -0700, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/07/14/china-urges-world-to-disregard-protesters-storming-banks-for-cash/

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bonds-slump-inflation-surge-fuels-130720879.html

I don\'t understand the concept that raising interest rates counters
inflation. Maybe that\'s an economics myth. Rising interest rates *are*
inflation.

The Chinese and US issues are both driven by political stupidity and
corruption.

This is a wonderful concept:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/20/against-its-own-advice-eu-gives-employees-inflation-matched-pay-rise/

Adapt to inflation by increasing everyone\'s salary at the rate of
inflation.

 

[bitrex]

On 7/20/2022 10:19 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:59:23 -0700, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:




https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/07/14/china-urges-world-to-disregard-protesters-storming-banks-for-cash/

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bonds-slump-inflation-surge-fuels-130720879.html

I don\'t understand the concept that raising interest rates counters
inflation. Maybe that\'s an economics myth. Rising interest rates *are*
inflation.

The Chinese and US issues are both driven by political stupidity and
corruption.




This is a wonderful concept:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/20/against-its-own-advice-eu-gives-employees-inflation-matched-pay-rise/

Adapt to inflation by increasing everyone\'s salary at the rate of
inflation.

People that matter protect their own.

In the USA people that don\'t matter tend to be heavily propagandized to
work for the best interests of people that matter:

<https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5cd99eb82100005800d066d8.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale&format=webp>

 

[server]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 10:40:58 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 7/20/2022 10:19 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:59:23 -0700, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:




https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/07/14/china-urges-world-to-disregard-protesters-storming-banks-for-cash/

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bonds-slump-inflation-surge-fuels-130720879.html

I don\'t understand the concept that raising interest rates counters
inflation. Maybe that\'s an economics myth. Rising interest rates *are*
inflation.

The Chinese and US issues are both driven by political stupidity and
corruption.




This is a wonderful concept:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/20/against-its-own-advice-eu-gives-employees-inflation-matched-pay-rise/

Adapt to inflation by increasing everyone\'s salary at the rate of
inflation.


People that matter protect their own.

In the USA people that don\'t matter tend to be heavily propagandized to
work for the best interests of people that matter:

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5cd99eb82100005800d066d8.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale&format=webp

Do you pay dues to a union?

Another wonderful concept: join a union to help export your job.

 

[bitrex]

On 7/20/2022 11:21 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 10:40:58 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 7/20/2022 10:19 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:59:23 -0700, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:




https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/07/14/china-urges-world-to-disregard-protesters-storming-banks-for-cash/

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bonds-slump-inflation-surge-fuels-130720879.html

I don\'t understand the concept that raising interest rates counters
inflation. Maybe that\'s an economics myth. Rising interest rates *are*
inflation.

The Chinese and US issues are both driven by political stupidity and
corruption.




This is a wonderful concept:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/20/against-its-own-advice-eu-gives-employees-inflation-matched-pay-rise/

Adapt to inflation by increasing everyone\'s salary at the rate of
inflation.


People that matter protect their own.

In the USA people that don\'t matter tend to be heavily propagandized to
work for the best interests of people that matter:

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5cd99eb82100005800d066d8.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale&format=webp

Do you pay dues to a union?

There isn\'t any union of freelance hardware/software designers that I
know of. As far as I can tell most everyone in the field tends to view
everyone else as competition anyway, how would you even form one to
begin with.

I figure a lot of conservatives figure e.g. working in a warehouse
should work the same way. Whomever is the strongest and can lift the
heaviest box gets the most box-lifting contracts. Survival of the
fittest, nature red in tooth and claw and all that. Isn\'t it all
wonderfully brutal!

> Another wonderful concept: join a union to help export your job.

The Clinton president seemed to do that pretty effectively, more
effectively than unions ever could on their own I think.

I wasn\'t old enough to vote in 1996 by a few days so can\'t hang all that
on me, neener.

 

[server]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:37:16 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 7/20/2022 11:21 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 10:40:58 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 7/20/2022 10:19 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:59:23 -0700, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:




https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/07/14/china-urges-world-to-disregard-protesters-storming-banks-for-cash/

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bonds-slump-inflation-surge-fuels-130720879.html

I don\'t understand the concept that raising interest rates counters
inflation. Maybe that\'s an economics myth. Rising interest rates *are*
inflation.

The Chinese and US issues are both driven by political stupidity and
corruption.




This is a wonderful concept:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/20/against-its-own-advice-eu-gives-employees-inflation-matched-pay-rise/

Adapt to inflation by increasing everyone\'s salary at the rate of
inflation.


People that matter protect their own.

In the USA people that don\'t matter tend to be heavily propagandized to
work for the best interests of people that matter:

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5cd99eb82100005800d066d8.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale&format=webp

Do you pay dues to a union?

There isn\'t any union of freelance hardware/software designers that I
know of. As far as I can tell most everyone in the field tends to view
everyone else as competition anyway, how would you even form one to
begin with.

Yeah, it must be discouraging to lose business to people who are
better programmers than you are.

 

[bitrex]

On 7/20/2022 12:07 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:37:16 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 7/20/2022 11:21 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 10:40:58 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 7/20/2022 10:19 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:59:23 -0700, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:




https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/07/14/china-urges-world-to-disregard-protesters-storming-banks-for-cash/

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bonds-slump-inflation-surge-fuels-130720879.html

I don\'t understand the concept that raising interest rates counters
inflation. Maybe that\'s an economics myth. Rising interest rates *are*
inflation.

The Chinese and US issues are both driven by political stupidity and
corruption.




This is a wonderful concept:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/20/against-its-own-advice-eu-gives-employees-inflation-matched-pay-rise/

Adapt to inflation by increasing everyone\'s salary at the rate of
inflation.


People that matter protect their own.

In the USA people that don\'t matter tend to be heavily propagandized to
work for the best interests of people that matter:

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5cd99eb82100005800d066d8.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale&format=webp

Do you pay dues to a union?

There isn\'t any union of freelance hardware/software designers that I
know of. As far as I can tell most everyone in the field tends to view
everyone else as competition anyway, how would you even form one to
begin with.

Yeah, it must be discouraging to lose business to people who are
better programmers than you are.

There\'s plenty of work to go around, and most programmers out there
develop apps or desktop/web software and don\'t know a thing about
small-iron.

 

[Phil Hobbs]

jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:59:23 -0700, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:




https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/07/14/china-urges-world-to-disregard-protesters-storming-banks-for-cash/

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bonds-slump-inflation-surge-fuels-130720879.html

I don\'t understand the concept that raising interest rates counters
inflation. Maybe that\'s an economics myth. Rising interest rates *are*
inflation.

The Chinese and US issues are both driven by political stupidity and
corruption.




This is a wonderful concept:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/20/against-its-own-advice-eu-gives-employees-inflation-matched-pay-rise/

Adapt to inflation by increasing everyone\'s salary at the rate of
inflation.

And therefore make folks with savings pay for all of it.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

 

[Mike Monett]

Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:59:23 -0700, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:




https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/07/14/china-urges-world-to-disregar
d-protesters-storming-banks-for-cash/

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bonds-slump-inflation-surge-fuels-130
720879.html

I don\'t understand the concept that raising interest rates counters
inflation. Maybe that\'s an economics myth. Rising interest rates *are*
inflation.

The Chinese and US issues are both driven by political stupidity and
corruption.




This is a wonderful concept:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/20/against-its-own-advice-eu-
gives-employees-inflation-matched-pay-rise/

Adapt to inflation by increasing everyone\'s salary at the rate of
inflation.

And therefore make folks with savings pay for all of it.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Isn\'t raising interest rates the correct solution?


--
MRM

 

[John Larkin]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:50:08 -0000 (UTC), Mike Monett <spamme@not.com>
wrote:

Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:59:23 -0700, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:




https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/07/14/china-urges-world-to-disregar
d-protesters-storming-banks-for-cash/

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bonds-slump-inflation-surge-fuels-130
720879.html

I don\'t understand the concept that raising interest rates counters
inflation. Maybe that\'s an economics myth. Rising interest rates *are*
inflation.

The Chinese and US issues are both driven by political stupidity and
corruption.




This is a wonderful concept:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/20/against-its-own-advice-eu-
gives-employees-inflation-matched-pay-rise/

Adapt to inflation by increasing everyone\'s salary at the rate of
inflation.

And therefore make folks with savings pay for all of it.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Isn\'t raising interest rates the correct solution?

I would think that increasing productivity is the way to make people
better off, but I\'m old fashioned that way.

 

[bitrex]

On 7/20/2022 1:19 PM, John Larkin wrote:

On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:50:08 -0000 (UTC), Mike Monett <spamme@not.com
wrote:

Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:59:23 -0700, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:




https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/07/14/china-urges-world-to-disregar
d-protesters-storming-banks-for-cash/

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bonds-slump-inflation-surge-fuels-130
720879.html

I don\'t understand the concept that raising interest rates counters
inflation. Maybe that\'s an economics myth. Rising interest rates *are*
inflation.

The Chinese and US issues are both driven by political stupidity and
corruption.




This is a wonderful concept:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/20/against-its-own-advice-eu-
gives-employees-inflation-matched-pay-rise/

Adapt to inflation by increasing everyone\'s salary at the rate of
inflation.

And therefore make folks with savings pay for all of it.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Isn\'t raising interest rates the correct solution?

I would think that increasing productivity is the way to make people
better off, but I\'m old fashioned that way.

I\'m old-fashioned also I miss the days when how much of a man you were
was largely based on how many women you slept with, nowadays it seems to
be based largely on how many trucks & guns you own and how \"tough\" one
can present oneself as being. Selling \"tough\" is good business:

<https://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/danieldefense-poundspain-00.jpg>

But there\'s finally not that much money to bilk out of men who\'re to a
large degree happy with their lives. Not easy people to control, either.

 

[John Larkin]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:25:12 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 7/20/2022 1:19 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:50:08 -0000 (UTC), Mike Monett <spamme@not.com
wrote:

Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:59:23 -0700, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:




https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/07/14/china-urges-world-to-disregar
d-protesters-storming-banks-for-cash/

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bonds-slump-inflation-surge-fuels-130
720879.html

I don\'t understand the concept that raising interest rates counters
inflation. Maybe that\'s an economics myth. Rising interest rates *are*
inflation.

The Chinese and US issues are both driven by political stupidity and
corruption.




This is a wonderful concept:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/20/against-its-own-advice-eu-
gives-employees-inflation-matched-pay-rise/

Adapt to inflation by increasing everyone\'s salary at the rate of
inflation.

And therefore make folks with savings pay for all of it.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Isn\'t raising interest rates the correct solution?

I would think that increasing productivity is the way to make people
better off, but I\'m old fashioned that way.


I\'m old-fashioned also I miss the days when how much of a man you were
was largely based on how many women you slept with,

No, that is a measure of how shallow and juvenile you are.

And indicates how many STDs you probably have.

 

[bitrex]

On 7/20/2022 4:18 PM, John Larkin wrote:

On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:25:12 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 7/20/2022 1:19 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:50:08 -0000 (UTC), Mike Monett <spamme@not.com
wrote:

Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:59:23 -0700, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:




https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/07/14/china-urges-world-to-disregar
d-protesters-storming-banks-for-cash/

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bonds-slump-inflation-surge-fuels-130
720879.html

I don\'t understand the concept that raising interest rates counters
inflation. Maybe that\'s an economics myth. Rising interest rates *are*
inflation.

The Chinese and US issues are both driven by political stupidity and
corruption.




This is a wonderful concept:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/20/against-its-own-advice-eu-
gives-employees-inflation-matched-pay-rise/

Adapt to inflation by increasing everyone\'s salary at the rate of
inflation.

And therefore make folks with savings pay for all of it.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Isn\'t raising interest rates the correct solution?

I would think that increasing productivity is the way to make people
better off, but I\'m old fashioned that way.


I\'m old-fashioned also I miss the days when how much of a man you were
was largely based on how many women you slept with,

No, that is a measure of how shallow and juvenile you are.

Has anyone told Elon Musk?

And indicates how many STDs you probably have.

Ever notice how there are people who are against vaccines because they
claim catching various bugs makes their natural immunity \"stronger\", but
I\'ve never heard of anyone saying they\'re going to try training their
immune system to get stronger by getting chlamydia. Weird huh.

 

[John Larkin]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 18:27:51 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 7/20/2022 4:18 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:25:12 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 7/20/2022 1:19 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:50:08 -0000 (UTC), Mike Monett <spamme@not.com
wrote:

Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:59:23 -0700, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:




https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/07/14/china-urges-world-to-disregar
d-protesters-storming-banks-for-cash/

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bonds-slump-inflation-surge-fuels-130
720879.html

I don\'t understand the concept that raising interest rates counters
inflation. Maybe that\'s an economics myth. Rising interest rates *are*
inflation.

The Chinese and US issues are both driven by political stupidity and
corruption.




This is a wonderful concept:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/20/against-its-own-advice-eu-
gives-employees-inflation-matched-pay-rise/

Adapt to inflation by increasing everyone\'s salary at the rate of
inflation.

And therefore make folks with savings pay for all of it.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Isn\'t raising interest rates the correct solution?

I would think that increasing productivity is the way to make people
better off, but I\'m old fashioned that way.


I\'m old-fashioned also I miss the days when how much of a man you were
was largely based on how many women you slept with,

No, that is a measure of how shallow and juvenile you are.

Has anyone told Elon Musk?

And indicates how many STDs you probably have.


Ever notice how there are people who are against vaccines because they
claim catching various bugs makes their natural immunity \"stronger\", but

No, never noticed anyone saying that. There is an argument that excess
cleanliness in childhood creates allergies.

I\'ve never heard of anyone saying they\'re going to try training their
immune system to get stronger by getting chlamydia. Weird huh.

A lot of old-time morality, about sex and food and things, was
protective.

Antibiotics changed some of that, but a jealous husband can still
shoot you. Not to mention child support.

Besides, having more than one woman gets confusing, and cuts into
design time.

This monkeypox thing is crazy. People are desperate to get vaccinated,
when all they have to do is stop ****ing a lot of strangers. The first
AIDS cases were in men who had had thousands of sexual partners. Maybe
sex with women is more chemically satisfying or something.

 

[Phil Hobbs]

John Larkin wrote:

On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 18:27:51 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 7/20/2022 4:18 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:25:12 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 7/20/2022 1:19 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:50:08 -0000 (UTC), Mike Monett <spamme@not.com
wrote:

Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:59:23 -0700, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:




https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/07/14/china-urges-world-to-disregar
d-protesters-storming-banks-for-cash/

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bonds-slump-inflation-surge-fuels-130
720879.html

I don\'t understand the concept that raising interest rates counters
inflation. Maybe that\'s an economics myth. Rising interest rates *are*
inflation.

The Chinese and US issues are both driven by political stupidity and
corruption.




This is a wonderful concept:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/20/against-its-own-advice-eu-
gives-employees-inflation-matched-pay-rise/

Adapt to inflation by increasing everyone\'s salary at the rate of
inflation.

And therefore make folks with savings pay for all of it.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Isn\'t raising interest rates the correct solution?

I would think that increasing productivity is the way to make people
better off, but I\'m old fashioned that way.


I\'m old-fashioned also I miss the days when how much of a man you were
was largely based on how many women you slept with,

No, that is a measure of how shallow and juvenile you are.

Has anyone told Elon Musk?

And indicates how many STDs you probably have.


Ever notice how there are people who are against vaccines because they
claim catching various bugs makes their natural immunity \"stronger\", but

No, never noticed anyone saying that. There is an argument that excess
cleanliness in childhood creates allergies.


I\'ve never heard of anyone saying they\'re going to try training their
immune system to get stronger by getting chlamydia. Weird huh.

Nah, even one of your guys got it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X29lF43mUlo

Cheers

Phil Hobbs