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I love the story. Says so much about what an orderly society now should be. One school by default is without sin. The other is badly in need of redemption. They are all just kids. Leave them alone. No harm done.
But you could take a crap on Rodeo Drive at high noon and it passes the smell test with the woke mob.
What was the grievous offense? Kids being kids?
They are tougher in CA on high school hijinks than “undocumented shoppers” and rioters. Seems more punitive than Darrell Brooks $1000 bail in Wisconsin too. He didn’t even have to do any corrective training for his insensitive nature either.
Cleese is right. That’s why I deleted a FB account a long time ago. To avoid the embarrassment of having the account suspended by a purple haired 24 year old fat lesbian making 250K a year.
I wasn’t aware of the loan against asset scheme that you mention but it’s a good one. Refi’s another. The government would rather turn their head as these find their way back into the economy one way of another. Remember, Miami was rebuilt on mountains of non taxed cocaine money.
Half of the problem is that there are a lot of dubious tax dodges from art to drugs to agriculture both personal and corporate. Too many to name. The other half of the problem is that there are too few auditors to pick this stuff up. It can be very technical.
I’ve seen software that can take a profitable corporation with overseas operations to a zero tax liability through a few clever maneuvers. If you know what you’re doing.
I prefer to call unrealized gains imaginary gains.
Yellen and Co. have dream jobs. What better way to earn a living than as a parasite taking other people’s life’s blood?
America still has some good things left. But the most abhorrent aspect of our age will prove to be the destruction of our children.
Yup. CP could have gotten it from a friendly exchange with an exempted unvaxed postal worker for all we know. We live in the information age but unfortunately not the accurate information age. Flexible realities. I’d like to think he’d still be alive if not for research on pathogenic enhancement of altering Coronaviridae.
I suspect I’m too old to survive a Mad Max future despite good overall health.
Big bets by US option traders hitting $100 for Dec. $200 for Europe traders.
Neither Gruden nor the NFL affect me. But the story is amusing. Assume that the email/Twitter crap did not exist. Unless you could read his mind, Gruden would be considered a pretty nice guy. Probably is either way.
If you could read anyone’s mind you probably would not be able to handle the truth. If you want to know someone’s mind listen to what they say and watch what they do. Gruden passes that test. He fails the Twitter/Email test which is trivial idiocy.
I give Gruden a total pass.
Big problem requires big money requires big government programs for relief.
What’s not to like for the DC crowd. There is an election around the corner.
Good in depth summary. Greenflation.
I cannot comprehend how we go from energy self reliance (to include reasonable transitions to green solutions) to where we are now so fast. How and why did we piss it away? The gyrations are staggering.
Was with a friend this week who is a life long citrus grower in Florida. He’s locked into a 3 year contract for his crop. He told me that he used to pay $300/ton for granular fertilizer but now it’s pushing $800/ton. He uses massive amounts. His already tight margins are shot. All about how much he can limit his losses now. Hoping he can weather the storm but it looks bad already for next year due to production cuts in fertilizer both in US and China.
Nat Gas fiasco. Sky high prices. Why? Your article spells it out. It gets worse. A by product of nat gas is CO2. CO2 is used by meat processors to stun animals before slaughter. Without it the process slows way down. And you need CO2 to make dry ice which processors us to ship their output by all transport means. This itself slows down everything back to the farmer who has to cut to make his number. This is happening across Europe.
Water. You can’t drive I5 and not notice all the signs decrying the government’s failure to provide adequate water to deliver produce to a hungry nation. Lot’s of issues for sure, but the fact that No Cal pumps a ridiculous amount of water to So Cal so Angelenos can wash drive their driveways galls me.[/quote]
Good I5 anecdote.
Maybe that’s why Governor Handsome is so popular. Easy to pull the lever on the propaganda machines. It’s so hard to become an educated person in this environment.
I don’t care much anymore for the unsolvable problems of strangers. I’ve gone to “do these problems have real value to me”? I’ve turned most of it off and have gotten back to my life and trusted friends.
Yea, it’s pretty nuts. I am pretty cold blooded about what’s going on. Self interest of course.
I’m watching agribusiness and commodities closely. Here’s what I’m seeing. The 3 main components of agribusiness are usually seeds, chemicals and pesticides. Right now you have to add supply chain, bad weather, and energy. Prior to the big energy spike lately, the prediction for 2022 US farmers was very tight margins. It looks like the biggest producer of fertilizer, China is way down on production. They can’t get their products to markets. The US makes of lot of nitrogen and that is down due to supply chain and they can’t ship out of New Orleans as they were due to the hurricane. So importers overseas can’t get what they need. Gasoline is in short supply in Europe, especially England. They are short 100,000 drivers. And last night Russia cut nat gas production by 57% trying to put the squeeze on. Brazil has not planted their corn crop yet due to drought and they export a lot to China. If you want to throw in California’s drought ,Lake Mead and Lake Powell water levels, things look to get interesting. For sure, margins for US farmers look to get even tighter next year and they will simply cut back. US food prices up up up and shortages. Oil to $100 or more soon.
How are the planners going to fight it? They are praying for a warm winter.
This is what a green economy can look like.
Get a helmut. 🙂
