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So you took a drive-by scientific survey?

Totally agree. They did what they needed to do last year. Other than QB, TE and G were their biggest needs--and they filled them. Shady and Harvin fell into their lap, and Whaley took care of business. The problem was the reversal on D, which now creates a problem of needing too many pieces in the draft, especially if they have issues signing their own UFAs/ RFAs.

Hillary, would ya?

this response should win the "unintentionally ironic" award.

As one who wanted Schwartz as HC, I'm surprised anyone would believe the 2 could be compatible. VC's article is simply stoking the Rex resentment. That said, and As one who posted before the season that I was skeptical that RR could improve on JS's D #s, I don't think anyone expected it to be as bad as it was. I still thought Rex would field a top 10 D. The players have no choice but to buy in this year, and malcontent Mario will be gone. Add a couple new pieces from the draft, and it's a put up or shut up year for the Ryans.

A majority of Americans tend to be socially liberal and fiscally conservative, but apparently there is an increase in the former. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2015/0528/On-social-issues-Americans-are-more-liberal-than-ever-before.-What-s-behind-the-sudden-shift I won't be surprised to find a shift on economic values given the financial crisis, rising inequality, and a government that is plutocratic.

He most certainly was. Supply-side economics is laffable.

Btw, just came across this, which is the evidence Bman should use... http://mishtalk.com/2016/02/05/core-employment-age-25-54-still-below-january-2000-level-3-million-below-2007/

it is related to that which is referred to as workers' bargaining power. The main driver that reduced bargaining power was the first phase of deindustrialization as US manufacturing firms shifted work to Mexico, what's known as the maquiladora industry. i would've said "you're an idiot", but I'm not allowed to use that term here....😎

You miss the point entirely. Productivity increases allow firms to increase wages without increasing costs, and for the some 25+ years labor shared in those gains which helped create a vibrant middle class. By definition, increased productivity means producing more output per worker which occurs usually through technological progress (your microprocessors). That means firms can pay the remaining workers higher wages, but that stopped beginning in the mid-1970s, and the gains went to corporate profit. This is also when inequality began to rise.

as I recall, he wouldn't fire his buddy he hired to coach ST, the replacement for dehaven. Ralph wanted him fired, and wade wouldn't do it.

I checked his Twitter, and it was a discussion with sal speculating what it would take to sign him. He was not reporting it as an imminent signing.

he's a good rabble rouser and writer. Did you ever read the weekly he started in buffalo after he moved back from Russia? They did some pretty funny stuff.

I'm a little rusty. I was a little scarce around here last year. I chuckled as I re-read it.

having been there last month, I can say, yes, that city stinks, literally.

no, deindustrialization started it--the loss of high wage jobs meant families needed two income earners to maintain living standards. Feminism was not the main driver.

of course he puts his slant, but the facts about the sec whistle blower are facts--they--the SEC-- destroyed docs. Some watch dog... i think his original point was "which one?" Gross margin? Net margin? Or a cash flow measure? There are a lot of options.

No. I could only take the first 10 minutes, which then made me look up his business. People who have an interest in selling gold to other people make these kinds of idiotic claims. Peter Schiff did this a lot too. The hyperinflationistas! It's the end of fiat currency...look out!

There really is no historical norm for this statistic. It increased significantly when various social and economic factors led to the rise of two-income households beginning in the 1970s. It started a significant decline in 2010 because that's when the first year of the baby-boom generation turned 65. It's a combination of a poor overall labor market and the baby-boom retiring. Me thinks some of these guys don't understand the definition of the participation rate....

“I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult to prosecute them,” Holder said. He said he was “inhibited” by the fact that a criminal charge could have a negative impact on the U.S. and possibly world economy. Yeah, I'm sure they really wanted to go after them. It's a rigged system. The banks make a billion, then pay a 5% "fine" to the government. If the dems or reps go after Wall Street, then the don't get their "contributions" and speaking fees. Regulators have been captured by the industries they are supposed to oversee. You mention in another post something I've been saying for a long time, regulations are meant to punish the small firms and protect the big guys from competition. Here's what the SEC does...

Typical hogwash sold by someone who's primary interest is in selling gold to others.

I was answering your query highlighted, not addressing how it affects retail investors. Again, nothing wrong with having the "best" information, but there is something wrong in falsifying and misinforming for profit. The penalties as so small in comparison to the profits made that it happens over, and over, and over, and over..... Surely that hurts retail investors at some point though.

What this essentially says, but GS certainly won't be this direct, is that if wages continue to stagnate and productivity continues to rise, inequality will continue to worsen. Despite all of the claptrap about crazy Sanders and Trump, I believe this is what is driving their populatiry. Also, I think what Rhino was trying to state, though it goes back to the late 1970s, there has been a class war waged against most workers for the past 36 years in order to suppress their bargaining power. Corporate margins are high because wages are stagnant. If corporations fail to share the benefits from productivity gains, then one must question the system....

It's not unfair to have better information, but how they use it and abuse it... Abacus cadabacus.... MBS fraud Conflicts between their research and trading divisions Sending wrong information by "error"...cough! cough! And on....

Ronnie, he's more of a punt catcher...