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**Dr. Strangelove** · August 21, 2019, 06:28 PM

Please don't get mad because I'm posting something negative about the economy...BUT...

The Labor Department just (quietly) released revised job numbers for the past 6 quarters. And they now believe 500,000+ fewer jobs were created over that span than before.

The most significant thing about this, IMO, is that the revisions downward begin in the same quarter the trade wars really kicked off.

Tariffs have an impact, folks

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the largest downward revision in a decade.

US has half a million fewer jobs than believed after big government revision

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/08/21/jobs-u-s-employment-501-000-lower-than-believed-after-revisions/2076069001/

There were 501,000 fewer jobs created from April 2018 to March 2019. Jobs in retail, hospitality and professional services were revised down sharply.

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**Dr. Strangelove** · August 21, 2019, 06:38 PM

This administration is going to end up doing more for Free trade policy than Reagan-Bush I-Clinton-Bush II-Obama combined

**Dr. Strangelove** · August 21, 2019, 06:45 PM

And just like that, I have a new avatar

**Dr. Strangelove** · August 21, 2019, 07:22 PM

"White House responds to Trump..." lol wut? Is this subtle commentary on the helplessness in the WH comms shop?

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**Dr. Strangelove** · August 21, 2019, 08:34 PM

Oh no not Jay Inslee

**Ghengis Jon** · August 22, 2019, 04:05 AM

Ahh, those long Trumpian coat tails.....Sean Spicer on Dancing With the Stars.....

Dancing with the Stars row over Sean Spicer casting

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49425697

As Trump's ex-press secretary joins the cast, host Tom Bergeron said he wanted a politics-free show.

**iam416** · August 22, 2019, 07:44 AM

Bernie Sanders has officially proposed his version of the Green New Deal.

The climate crisis is not only the single greatest challenge facing our country; it is also our single greatest opportunity to build a more just and equitable future, but we must act immediately.

It's only a matter of time before other viable candidates do the same. At what point, I wonder, can I call this the actual position of the D Party. It was pooh-pooh'd as some sort of AOC crazy talk at first, but I wonder for how long the Ds can keep doing that.

**Dr. Strangelove** · August 22, 2019, 08:11 PM

Trump's 538 average now is at 54.0% Disapprove, 41.5% Approve. That's getting close to the government shutdown numbers of January.

Monmouth, who is one of the most highly-regarded pollsters of them all, released numbers late this afternoon that only 79% OF REPUBLICANS planned to vote for Trump. Same poll said 39% of voters overall.

**iam416** · August 22, 2019, 08:32 PM

**Tom W** · August 22, 2019, 09:57 PM

Well, Bernie does know fossils- personally.

**Dr. Strangelove** · August 23, 2019, 07:27 AM

Good morning from Beijing

China will retaliate with tariffs on $75 billion more of US goods and resume auto tariffs

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/23/china-to-retaliate-with-new-tariffs-on-another-75-billion-worth-of-us-goods.html

China says the new tariffs will begin Sept. 1 and Dec. 15. That's when President Trump's latest tariffs on Chinese goods are to take effect.

**Dr. Strangelove** · August 23, 2019, 07:53 AM

One of the Koch brothers died. Wow. Among the wealthiest men in the world

**Dr. Strangelove** · August 23, 2019, 10:12 AM

**Ghengis Jon** · August 23, 2019, 10:51 AM

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**Dr. Strangelove** · August 23, 2019, 11:14 AM

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