War in Ukraine

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March: Russia has 2 weeks of missiles and artillery left, ruble will be rubble. Sanctions are biting...

June: Russia has 2 weeks of missiles and artillery left, ruble will be rubble. Sanctions are biting...

September: Russia has 2 weeks of missiles and artillery left, ruble will be rubble. Sanctions are biting...

December: Russia has 2 weeks of missiles and artillery left, ruble will be rubble. Sanctions are biting...
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
March: Russia has 2 weeks of missiles and artillery left, ruble will be rubble. Sanctions are biting...

June: Russia has 2 weeks of missiles and artillery left, ruble will be rubble. Sanctions are biting...

September: Russia has 2 weeks of missiles and artillery left, ruble will be rubble. Sanctions are biting...

December: Russia has 2 weeks of missiles and artillery left, ruble will be rubble. Sanctions are biting...
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What happens when they do run out?
 
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AM64 said:
So who is paying for those workers who no longer have jobs? We are still basically a closed system. Displaced workers don't get put into a food blender; they still have to somehow acquire the basic needs like food, shelter, clothing, healthcare, etc. What have you accomplished if in the name of effiency you put people out of work and the better compenstated clingers have to pay taxes (and government overhead) to reallocate income to the unemployed. There is no free lunch - and basically the laws of thermodynamics (and most other things) say you can't get something for nothing ... and you can't get as much as you thought you could (frictional effects and losses).
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So far it's been a very slow bleed. At the particular facility I was speaking of people have retired, gotten other jobs, ect. As the company has grown they still hire more people, just less than they would need to. Still need people, but imagine how many they would need without these innovations?
 
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norrislakevol said:
Looks like we are pointing arrows in the opposite direction here. I was referring to China's games in manipulating their GDP. Ghost cities, their current real estate crisis, ect. The are in serious trouble.
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No, we are pointing in the direction I specifically pointed out. China has very little external debt compared to the internal debt that you are talking about. Again, real estate in China is an issue, but that will not crater their economy because the other sectors in their economy are fine.

So what if they manipulate their GDP? We do it here. But let's say it is manipulated... again, it mostly only affects local/domestic economy.

Again, how much external debt does China have? Is their external debt more vulnerable to a rising USD?
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
No, we are pointing in the direction I specifically pointed out. China has very little external debt compared to the internal debt that you are talking about. Again, real estate in China is an issue, but that will not crater their economy because the other sectors in their economy are fine.

So what if they manipulate their GDP? We do it here. But let's say it is manipulated... again, it mostly only affects local/domestic economy.

Again, how much external debt does China have? Is their external debt more vulnerable to a rising USD?
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The U.S. governments debt is 75 percent owned by the American people. You know that, right???

You mean just like their 20 and 30 some year olds embracing the "lying flat" lifestyle. Yeah, they'll be fine. You know a real estate should have sunk the U.S. in 2008. Can China avoid this?
 
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norrislakevol said:
The U.S. governments debt is 75 percent owned by the American people. You know that, right???

You mean just like their 20 and 30 some year olds embracing the "lying flat" lifestyle. Yeah, they'll be fine. You know a real estate should have sunk the U.S. in 2008. Can China avoid this?
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And your azz still doesn't understand that China's economy is not built around real estate. Ours is built around real estate because that is how we create the wealth effect and give people a false sense of wealth. China actually has a real economy. All we have is Uber Eats, Starbucks and Instagram THOTs.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
WTF? Stop lying... in general, wages have not increased at the same pace as CV corporate savings in efficiency. You are a bold faced liar.
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You're a f****** belligerent Russian tool bag that probably has a picture of Xi hanging on your wall. You totally hate your country and want Americans to suffer to the fullest extent all the while you praise and worship other countries no matter what. I mean you worship them. I am sure that you smile when Americans die in wars. You probably want more to die. You love it. Oh yes, I am totally guessing that is what you want because that what you come off as. You accuse me of lying when I tell you what I have seen directly??? You drunk dude? I have watched peoples wages go up significantly. Are you there in the places that I work? Do you know directly? No you don't. STFU. You really earned your name "Moe" from @NorthDallas40 Good work NorthDallas.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
And your azz still doesn't understand that China's economy is not built around real estate. Ours is built around real estate because that is how we create the wealth effect and give people a false sense of wealth. China actually has a real economy. All we have is Uber Eats, Starbucks and Instagram THOTs.
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Clueless
 
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norrislakevol said:
So far it's been a very slow bleed. At the particular facility I was speaking of people have retired, gotten other jobs, ect. As the company has grown they still hire more people, just less than they would need to. Still need people, but imagine how many they would need without these innovations?
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Technology should definitely be used when it makes things better and safer, and without doubt workforces can easily be pared down when unions go away. The same can be said of empire building and excess layers of management in companies. The one disturbing thing is that we appear to be concentrating on the production side and efficiency, but not paying attention to the worker/consumer side. One is a natural consequence of business, and the other seems to belong to nobody. You don't want to create jobs just to employ people, but at the same time a population without solid jobs and income is a disaster in waiting - it's always been the dream environment for the left.
 
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norrislakevol said:
You're a f****** belligerent Russian tool bag that probably has a picture of Xi hanging on your wall. You totally hate your country and want Americans to suffer to the fullest extent all the while you praise and worship other countries no matter what. I mean you worship them. I am sure that you smile when Americans die in wars. You probably want more to die. You love it. Oh yes, I am totally guessing that is what you want because that what you come off as. You accuse me of lying when I tell you what I have seen directly??? You drunk dude? I have watched peoples wages go up significantly. Are you there in the places that I work? Do you know directly? No you don't. STFU. You really earned your name "Moe" from @NorthDallas40 Good work NorthDallas.
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STFU. In no metric have wages kept pace with corporate efficiencies or inflation for that matter. You are simply a bold faced liar.

And no, I do not want American soldiers dying in foreign wars you idiot. I'm always on the side of America living up to its founding documents and not getting involved in foreign entanglements. It would please me more if we used the same resources to build our own domestic economy and infrastructure rather than spending the last 30 years bombing the sh^t out of 3rd world countries and rebuilding them. Like I said, you are a clown. You eat up everything this corrupt govt and news media tells your dumb azz. You have your biases carried over from the Cold War and now assume Soviets = Russians... or maybe you just have a hatred for Slavs (along with other undesirables).
 
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tvolsfan said:
He clearly hasn’t been paying attention to China at all and he’s pretending to be an expert.
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You are probably one of these clowns that is still holding out hope that maybe a 9th round of sanctions on Russia will bring Russia to its knees and bring an overthrow of Putin. You are ignorant and have no clue about what is going on in the world around you.
 
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Velo Vol said:
Chinese real estate isn't bought/sold in U.S. dollars.
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Immaterial, all those assets are eventually linked back to the reserve currency which is why all these countries are screaming...the ones that aren't screaming will be very soon.

Foreign credit lines by the Fed are just starting.
 
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I can't even wrap my mind around the dumb on this. So the Russian attacks were crippling, but not many civilians were killed. Therefore, their weapons are weak.

 
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