Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Adder

Time to raise the debt ceiling and grow the deficit!

Although I guess I had understood that China's savings rate has declined as it's grown more prosperous overall. If that's true, it's a bit of mitigation.

I'm no longer close enough to Wall Street to know whether new products have been created to pose as safe assets the way mortgage and asset-backed products grew a decade ago.

The truly fascinating analysis out of China is really the two Chinas analysis. My understanding is the national savings rate has declined as the core matures (and as they see enormous offshore transfers - 1% of GDP just left the country in foreign transfers last year) but that the current round of fast growth is happening in a lot of the secondary outlying cities that are starting to see the jumps places like Hangzhou and Shanghai saw in the last decade or decade and a half.

[SEC_Chick]

For someone who expends so much effort projecting a hyper-masculine persona, this made me laugh. Perhaps Trump will find it unsettling, as he did when he was upset Spicer was portrayed by a woman on SNL.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/scaram...rticle/2009019

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by SEC_Chick

For someone who expends so much effort projecting a hyper-masculine persona, this made me laugh. Perhaps Trump will find it unsettling, as he did when he was upset Spicer was portrayed by a woman on SNL.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/scaram...rticle/2009019

love that. thanks for it.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by SEC_Chick

For someone who expends so much effort projecting a hyper-masculine persona, this made me laugh. Perhaps Trump will find it unsettling, as he did when he was upset Spicer was portrayed by a woman on SNL.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/scaram...rticle/2009019

http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-l...d-steve-bannon

This will not end well.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-l...d-steve-bannon

This will not end well.

I believe the term, from Tropic Thunder, is "full retard."

This is becoming a real live Veep.

[SEC_Chick]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-l...d-steve-bannon

This will not end well.

Any sympathy I might have had for Reince Prebius is tempered by his very real role in causing Trump to be the GOP nominee. Same with Sessions for jumping on the Trump train early. I am waiting for the recess firing of Sessions, Rosenstein and Mueller.

I thought Goldman hired better people than that.....

[Pretty Little Flower]

Sebastian in 1960:

"You're focusing on peripheral social issues while no one addresses the economic issues. The political classes have no enlightened response to wealth inequality. The Man wants to simply let it persist. The Commies think they can remedy it with redistribution. Nothing happens, the problems worsen, their impact frustrates efforts at growth, and we argue about... whether the blacks can eat lunch at Woolworths."

James Brown Thursday on the Daily Dose. "Hot Pants Road":

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

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by SEC_Chick

I am waiting for the recess firing of Sessions, Rosenstein and Mueller.

Legal question for all of you. If POTUS wants to be rid of Mueller, why does he need to wait for a recess? If he wants to name a new AG without Senate confirmation, he needs a recess, but if he simply wants someone can fire Mueller, why can't he fire Sessions and get himself an acting AG who will do that for him?

Someone told me today that he is constrained by DOJ's order of succession. If so, why can't he just change it? eta: Like this, only to name whomever will do what he wants.

[Replaced_Texan]

I am appalled. I knew it would be bad, but I had no idea it would be this bad. Jesus fucking Christ.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

I am appalled. I knew it would be bad, but I had no idea it would be this bad. Jesus fucking Christ.

It's looking a little better now.

[SEC_Chick]

Bill Kristol repeatedly calls Trump a jackass on CNN:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/bill-...ut-speech/amp/

I was never a Bill Kristol fan, as he was always a little too neocon for my tastes, but I cannot disagree with him here.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by SEC_Chick

Bill Kristol repeatedly calls Trump a jackass on CNN:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/bill-...ut-speech/amp/

I was never a Bill Kristol fan, as he was always a little too neocon for my tastes, but I cannot disagree with him here.

There are times people's best come out, and times their worst comes out. Bill Kristol's best has been coming out the several months.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

It is so nice to wake up and not have someone trying to take away my healthcare.

[SEC_Chick]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

It is so nice to wake up and not have someone trying to take away my healthcare.

How exactly would the skinny repeal take away your healthcare?

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

It is so nice to wake up and not have someone trying to take away my healthcare.

In a functioning party, the majority leader personally distorting procedure in this way and failing would lead to a leadership crisis in the party. I bet this won't.