Trumpocalypse: No hanky/lanky

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  1. Lyrtch

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    I really didn't think this race would be borderline safe

     
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  2. NYGator

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    LOL, NSFW

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  4. three stacks

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    no
     
  5. Joe_Pesci

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    Look on the bright side. Maybe the ice wall preventing us from getting to the center of the disc will melt and we can explore the earth's core
     
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  6. joe-

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    it’s almost a guarantee that he is. same with manafort
     
  7. NYGator

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    Pretty solid tweeter...







     
  8. TAS

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  9. NYGator

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  10. tylerdolphin

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    To be fair it kind of is a ludicrous question since we all know there's no plan
     
  11. Joe_Pesci

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    It wasn't very long ago that Obama was sharply criticized for merely saying that he was willing to meet with North Korea
     
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  12. ned's head

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    I'd hate to be the staffer who had to explain to him what those words mean
     
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  13. Lyrtch

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  14. Prospector

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    only a matter of time
     
  15. three stacks

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    based off of what? he is being investigated by the Southern District of New York, which is a federal court
     
  16. Prospector

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    Companies have no choice now but to raise wages
    Karen Firestone
    Published 4:00 PM ET Wed, 6 June 2018 Updated 10:23 AM ET Mon, 11 June 2018 CNBC.com
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    The US economy is running at close to capacity, with only 3.8 percent unemployment. Finally, after years of unrequited anticipation, we are seeing some reasonable wage growth.

    Despite the 2.7 percent year-over-year current reading, this gain falls short of the close to 4 percent nominal increases seen historically during periods of low unemployment.

    This suggests it might be worth exploring whether specific structural changes today might persist in the future to hold down income growth to below 3 percent annually. Studies have carefully examined how labor is less unionized, with limited bargaining power; is less interested in moving geographically; is less productive somehow (maybe that three plus hours a day staring at our cellphones?); and includes a large pool of workers sitting on the sidelines, who are technically not workforce "participants" since they are not officially seeking a job.

    All these elements may contribute to wage stagnation, inhibiting the traditional response of higher pay to the shortage of workers. However, the last point, suggesting that the real unemployment rate has been higher than "officially" stated, best explains why employers have not needed to offer much higher wages to induce new workers in many sectors.

    It is also clear that the private sector cannot blame weak profits for the lack of wage growth to its employees. As the chart below illustrates, operating and reported margins have doubled since 1994, at least for the S&P 500 companies.

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    Total wages account for a 57 percent of total revenue today compared to 65 percent in 1975. While the US economy has expanded over the past decades, the portion earmarked for workers has declined.

    One group has defied that trend: CEO's. The compensation for top executives at the 350 largest US corporations has skyrocketed, with the average CEO in 1978 earning 30 times the salary of a typical worker versus a hair-raising 271 times today. If these firms were representative of the entire domestic workforce, we would see a spread between the gains experienced by management versus rank and file employees.

    However, the S&P 500 block of companies only accounts for 17 percent of domestic workers, with the majority employed by small to medium sized entities. That explains why the average real wage increase for non-supervisory workers over the past decade (plus 0.8 percent), exceeded that for the total worker pool (plus 0.6 percent), including managers. While the numbers are large at the biggest corporations, their impact on the total labor market is small.

    Is it possible there are other cost categories that have grown dramatically at the expense of "earnings" and might continue to crowd out employees? Consider health care insurance premiums, which have climbed from 5.5 percent of total private industry compensation in 1997 to 7.6 percent today.

    When the Bureau of Labor Statistics announces its monthly wage growth, health care premiums and benefits are excluded from those numbers. At my company, we pay approximately $25,000 a year for each employee who has a family plan. Our premiums have expanded at a rate two to three times that of inflation, which is likely true for most organizations.

    It could be possible that increased benefit packages, such as health care, flexible time, parental leave, etc., which are not included in "wages", could be causing income sluggishness. However, when we observe the growth rate of wages compared to that of benefits, outside the post-Recession period of heavy-severance payouts, the two charts closely coincide.

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    Finally, I looked at human resource department spending, in an effort to quantify whether programs that relate to harassment, education, training, and safety policies might be so expensive that wage gains are a casualty. Despite the high profile nature of HR initiatives in the wake of the #MeToo movement, HR staffing currently represents 1.4 full time equivalent for every one hundred workers, up slightly over the prior five years . Staffing, of course, is not a perfect proxy for total cost of new corporate initiatives, but there is no evidence that wage growth is restricted by sensitivity training.

    Therefore, I would conclude that the ubiquitous "Help Wanted" signs I see in multiple storefronts and restaurants, and articles about industries such as trucking, airlines, nursing, and IT will force employers, faced with labor shortages, to ultimately pay more. After the recession, millions of people who lost jobs became self-employed or under-employed – Uber drivers, personal trainers, dog walkers, home relocation experts, etc., and they were simply not in the data set.

    Offer them enough, and many will come back to the labor force. Meanwhile, I've lost my dog walker. She's back working for a digital advertising company.

    Commentary by Karen Firestone, chairman and CEO, Aureus Asset Management.
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  17. Schadenfred

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  18. joe-

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    it’s pretty much the reason why their old AG introduced a bill allowing someone to be charged with the same crime at the federal and state level
     
  19. Mister Me Too

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    Keep in mind that Cohen’s business partner took a plea deal with the state AG so odds are that the state of NY has the goods on Cohen.
     
  20. Joe_Pesci

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    The style of that essay irritated me off enough that I stopped caring about the content pretty quickly :justsayin:
     
  21. ned's head

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  22. BudKilmer

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    :roll:
     
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  23. Fancy

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    how is there one for every occasion
     
  24. three stacks

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    ok, but Michael Cohen is seemingly not under investigation by the state of New York. if he’s convicted of a crime by the SDNY he can be pardoned by the president
     
  25. Beeds07

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  26. Beeds07

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    I was wondering was he under any type of investigation about the taxi medallion thing.:idk:
     
  27. three stacks

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    he may very well be, but he’s expecting to be arrested for violating federal crimes
     
  28. Duck70

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    He has like 300k tweets and has tweeted probably every thought hes had about issues
     
  29. Beeds07

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    Oh I understand, but that's just leverage I would think. It's all conjecture for me.
     
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  30. Schadenfred

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    Infinite Monkey Theorem
     
  31. Can I Spliff it

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    what's happened that past two days, since the I-made-a-friend summit with Kim and Trump
     
  32. BudKilmer

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  33. Beeds07

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    Evidently their 12 hours together made them no longer a nuclear threat, even though no terms were met, so that's a relief.
     
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  34. timo

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    See, this supposes that fox news, their viewers, or republicans in general care about being consistent. It only matters when Democrats change their argument. It doesn't even have to be the same Democrat.
     
  35. CaneKnight

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    Scott Pruitt is doing everything thing in his power to eliminate environmental protections that keep our water and air clean and you think the media is a bigger threat than him?
     
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  36. Lyrtch

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  37. steamengine

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    I’m probably gonna have to go to this
     
  38. clemsontyger04

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    If he gets his doppleganger to play I will be pissed
     
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  39. bertwing

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    I hope Jimmy hot sauces his ass and throws it off Cruz's beak and he starts bleeding and crying
     
  40. London Humphreys

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    Well, yeah.gif
     
  41. BudKilmer

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  42. Bruce Wayne

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    Whataboutism from a sitting American President
     
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  43. Prospector

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    There are good people on both sides.

    We aren't innocent either, believe me (or something like that. I forget the actual quote)
     
  44. chuckmasterflex

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  45. BudKilmer

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    Any fucking time now Mueller
     
  46. cutig

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    What the fuck
     
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