1yo - a toy trumpet that was sold at a carnival that sounded like a satanic battle cry and one kid was spending every single breath out blowing that fucking thing, causing my kid to freak the hell out.

7yo - a speck of dirt on her skin that she thought was a tick

My guess is these were underperforming problem employees that they wanted to drop. This provided an easy out to skip a PIP and severance. A company the size of wells fargo there are going to be way more people than 14 using a jiggler. If it were a blanket 1-strike, it would be a lot more folks gone.

National healthcare with one weird trick

Who cares what China does?

Is this a big deal in terms of allowing people to more easily quit their jobs and take new ones?

Now do healthcare.

Which is completely irrelevant for why people were feeling bad about the economy for the last many months.

Not sure how to break this to you, but Biden was not elected in March 2020. He wasn’t even president in 2020. The last 3 years isn’t the last 4 years, which isn’t the last 5 years.

My point is if Powell wants to compare dates in good faith, he would make them consistent and reflect on that. “Groceries are up X% in the last 2 years but gas is down Y% during that same time. Maybe people find groceries more compelling than gas.” These are the types of things that legitimate economists and journalists do. Powell is not. He instead cherry picks smatterings of years to make the big numbers and incredulously claim that “smug liberals can’t look at the data.” But they are, and that’s why they’re baffled. He is just looking to dunk on “liberal elites”.

Really shitty discourse to accuse someone of not reading the article when I’m literally quoting it, but do you.

Gas prices are down 30% since June 2022. Dead even since March 2014. Why did he pick March 2020? Because it was the absolute lowest prices of the entire decade due to a global pandemic. Every date he picks to compare is arbitrary. It’s not a comparison of “people felt good in 202X, and now they don’t feel good. Let’s compare the data.” It’s cherry picking.

A true marker of the economy.

Other staples of life have also grown more expensive. Gas prices have gone up by about 50 percent in the past four years. Fuel-oil prices jumped by more than half from March 2020 to March 2024

Wow what totally innocuous and unbiased dates

Lol, ok. Talk about someone who didn’t read what they’re talking about.

The entire article is an attack on “liberal economists”, much like every Michael Powell article.

I’ve listened to literally hours of takedowns on how shitty of a “journalist” Michael Powell is. Not everyone deserves the benefit of the doubt.

You should try watching it. There are only 152 episodes, so it’s a quick catch-up.

Should have known it was Michael Powell from the headline. Guy is a hack republican shill that pretends to be centrist.

How was wakeup? Lol

I’m sure there’s some good stuff in the dance and photo montages

Boy this episode hit hard. I’m about to start the last week at my job where I’ve been for 11 years to start a new adventure the next week.

The big bang, to see how it all started.

6 miles away is not the epicenter… It’s close on a geologic scale, but not worth a headline unless it’s actually on the property.

Not sure I get it. Is this a parody of an ad campaign I haven’t seen?