How about that market?
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I for one have stopped evaluating politicians in terms of how much I like their policies. I evaluate them in terms of who does the least amount of damage relative to the "null" option of doing nothing. A politician who doesn't do much and has no big goals is usually a good politician.
wrote on 5 Jun 2020, 17:17 last edited by@Klaus said in How about that market?:
I for one have stopped evaluating politicians in terms of how much I like their policies. I evaluate them in terms of who does the least amount of damage relative to the "null" option of doing nothing. A politician who doesn't do much and has no big goals is usually a good politician.
That would be a decent ball park definition of the difference between the left and the right. And your preference would be for the right.
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wrote on 5 Jun 2020, 21:10 last edited by
Haha predictable.
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The exception would prove the rule, if there would ever happen to be one.
I won’t hold my breath.
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wrote on 6 Jun 2020, 09:59 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in How about that market?:
Yeah, saw that one. It’s an unusual, fast changing situation. At this point, I quite believe that there is no malice, and the BLS is doing the best it can.
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wrote on 6 Jun 2020, 10:35 last edited by
Yeah, for sure.
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Now we just need an article blaming common core math.
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wrote on 6 Jun 2020, 13:01 last edited by
What am I missing here?
The percentage they reported was an error. I get that.
But the absolutions number of jobs did increase, right?
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What am I missing here?
The percentage they reported was an error. I get that.
But the absolutions number of jobs did increase, right?
wrote on 6 Jun 2020, 13:48 last edited by Horace 6 Jun 2020, 13:53@George-K said in How about that market?:
What am I missing here?
The percentage they reported was an error. I get that.
But the absolute number of jobs did increase, right?
Yes. The real numbers were about half as much of an improvement as the wrong numbers were.
Edit: I mean the difference between predictions and the real numbers was about half as good. I'm not sure about absolute job numbers, but unemployment did go up.
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wrote on 6 Jun 2020, 13:52 last edited by
“You can 100% discount the possibility that Trump got to the BLS. Not 98% discount, not 99.9% discount, but 100% discount,” tweeted Jason Furman, the former top economist for former president Barack Obama. “BLS has 2,400 career staff of enormous integrity and one political appointee with no scope to change this number.”
I think it's a legitimate concern that Trump falsified these job numbers.
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wrote on 6 Jun 2020, 15:04 last edited by
I don’t.
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wrote on 6 Jun 2020, 15:17 last edited by
I can understand how a rigorous risk analysis of all the factors and potentials involved would indicate a higher chance of Trump usurping the presidency after a legitimate election loss, than Trump fudging the jobs report.
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wrote on 6 Jun 2020, 15:34 last edited by
The market had baked in the correction Friday. The story is bogus.
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I can understand how a rigorous risk analysis of all the factors and potentials involved would indicate a higher chance of Trump usurping the presidency after a legitimate election loss, than Trump fudging the jobs report.
wrote on 6 Jun 2020, 15:50 last edited by@Horace said in How about that market?:
I can understand how a rigorous risk analysis of all the factors and potentials involved would indicate a higher chance of Trump usurping the presidency after a legitimate election loss, than Trump fudging the jobs report.
Yep. Both on the incentives and the mechanisms available.
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wrote on 6 Jun 2020, 16:05 last edited by
The tail risk analysis science has spoken. Maybe Taleb is finding a way to bet on 20 years of president Trump as we speak. Or maybe he's betting that Trump fudged the jobs report, only at way higher odds.
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Down a little more than that, but I can't tell for sure because I didn't mark the 2/19 high. I only save monthly snapshots. I'm down 4.2% from my peak month-end, which was 12/31.
wrote on 7 Jun 2020, 00:05 last edited by@jon-nyc said in How about that market?:
Down a little more than that, but I can't tell for sure because I didn't mark the 2/19 high. I only save monthly snapshots. I'm down 4.2% from my peak month-end, which was 12/31.
So I finally checked, I’m actually up 12.6% over my peak (12/31 too).
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wrote on 7 Jun 2020, 01:04 last edited by
Wow, some good timing on purchases or rebalancing?