pacino wrote:Flynn is next

the best people

Monkeyboy wrote:

The Savior wrote:Trump to meet with Putin, ask about helping with NK. Trump knows Russia is helping NK, right?

If I had a million dollars, I would consider betting that Putin will give him some kind of concession or agreement that he can bring home. He beat Russia!

The Savior wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:

The Savior wrote:Trump to meet with Putin, ask about helping with NK. Trump knows Russia is helping NK, right?

If I had a million dollars, I would consider betting that Putin will give him some kind of concession or agreement that he can bring home. He beat Russia!

Putin gives in on nothing. He will concede nothing.

pacino wrote:a fundamental disagreement with supply and demand about how to find people to fill jobs:

WASHINGTON (AP) — With U.S. unemployment at a 17-year low and businesses complaining that they can't fill jobs, you might expect pay to be rising sharply as companies try to attract or keep workers.

Normally, with the unemployment rate ultra-low, businesses are forced to raise pay significantly to fill jobs or to retain existing employees. The last time the jobless rate was this low, in 2000, average hourly pay was surging at a 4 percent annual pace.

Then was then. In October, by contrast, wages crept up just 2.4 percent from a year earlier, the government said Friday. Though that's double the pace of five years ago, it's nearly a half-point less than the year-over-year rate in September.

Signal 88 has raised starting pay for security officers from $9.25 an hour to $11.25 in the past two years. But other low-wage employers have also lifted pay, Nyffeler said, thereby creating new competition for Signal.

Many potential applicants can't pass drug tests, Nyffeler says, while others can live off government benefits.

His ability to raise pay, Nyffeler says, is limited because his clients are reluctant to pay more for his company's services. Signal 88 bills at $17 an hour, on average. The company tries to raise prices each year when it renews contracts, but many of its clients then threaten to seek alternatives.

Other companies appear in similar circumstances: Price increases throughout the economy are weak. Inflation rose just 2.2 percent in September from a year ago and would have been lower without a spike in gas prices.

One way out of the conundrum would be to raise worker efficiency. When workers become more productive — when their output per hour rises — companies can afford to pay more without raising prices.

Yet productivity growth has been weak since the recession ended in 2009. It grew just 1.2 percent a year, on average, in the past decade. That's less than half the growth rate before the recession. One reason productivity has been so sluggish is that companies haven't invested much in machinery, technology and other equipment that could boost workers' output.

The Trump administration and Republican Congress are pushing a steep cut in the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent in hopes of encouraging more productivity-boosting investment. But some economists argue that the increased profits stemming from the tax cut will be used mainly to boost dividends and share buybacks.

the problem is those lazy potential employees are smoking drugs and taking welfare checks instead of working, not that we don't want to raise wages or that companies that contract us are too greedy to pay more to us. it's the druggie welfare frauds.

The U.S. president said he could not understand why a country of samurai warriors did not shoot down the missiles, the sources said.

Monkeyboy wrote:So what the hell is happening in Saudi? I don't know the players well enough to know if this a power grab by another authoritarian or a genuine cleansing.

as an aside, some of my old students' families were involved in the whole thing. I'm really curious to know how to read the craziness.

CalvinBall wrote:Paul has five broken ribs and bruised lungs from the neighbor who attacked him.

CalvinBall wrote:Paul has five broken ribs and bruised lungs from the neighbor who attacked him.

Slowhand wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:Paul has five broken ribs and bruised lungs from the neighbor who attacked him.

Is his neighbor Mike Tyson? Sheesh.

pacino wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:So what the hell is happening in Saudi? I don't know the players well enough to know if this a power grab by another authoritarian or a genuine cleansing.

as an aside, some of my old students' families were involved in the whole thing. I'm really curious to know how to read the craziness.

He's consolidating power

MBS is emboldened by strong support from President Trump and his inner circle, who see him as a kindred disrupter of the status quo — at once a wealthy tycoon and a populist insurgent. It was probably no accident that last month, Jared Kushner, Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, made a personal visit to Riyadh. The two princes are said to have stayed up until nearly 4 a.m. several nights, swapping stories and planning strategy.