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Are you prepared to hear how this is all carryover from the Obama Administrations brilliant economic approach of higher taxes and more regulations.

In the all important dunk count it wound up at 0-0 although PA attempted one and missed.

He played the second half only. Oddly enough, Memorial led by 7 at the end of the first half.

You are right.

HJ missed back end of 1 and 1 with 7 seconds left to tie the game.

I wonder if he is sufficiently "humored" yet?

Was Trump apologizing on behalf of the Saudi King or merely making public the conversation that took place? (yes, spin applies both ways)

BankAmerica/Merrill Lynch

Broad based pickup in hiring activity The momentum in hiring activity in the private sector is starting to pick up after slowing in the fall. The 3-month moving average private payrolls growth accelerated to 205k from just 156k in September. We experienced solid employment activity across most sectors. The manufacturing sector added 54k workers. Even excluding the return of GM-UAW workers, the manufacturing sector added a trend-like 13k workers to payrolls. In the service-providing sector, transportation and warehousing (+16k), education and health (+74k) hired at an above trend pace while other sectors such as financial activities (+13k), professional and business services (+38k) and leisure and hospitality (+45k) remained on trend. Overall, it appears that employers continue feel the need to hire to meet demand and any concerns around a protracted US-China trade negotiations have yet to translate into weaker employment activity. Healthy wage gains Average hourly earnings grew by 0.2% mom or 3.1% yoy in November, somewhat weaker than expectations. That said, October numbers were revised higher to 0.4% mom and 3.2% yoy, suggesting that the momentum in wage growth has picked up somewhat. This momentum should carry forward as the unemployment rate ticked lower to 3.5% in November from 3.6% in October and other measures of slack such as the underemployment rate are back to cyclical lows. In additional, the flat trend in the labor force participation rate in recent quarters suggest that there aren't many workers left to return to the workforce which should put upward pressure on wages as employers fight for the dwindling labor supply.

I guess that means you fully accept Muellers conclusion?

Who cares about not finding evidence? It hasnt stopped the Russia Collusion "investigation"

I complained more about the DEBT ( not the deficit) under Obama than anyone else did during those years and will take credit for it. It increased more under him than all of his predecessors combined. It is still growing and I find that very troubling. However, to suggest/infer that everything was wonderful under Mr. Obama is pathetic. I also love the constant complaints about how divided this country is as though it was fine until 2016 and then suddenly changed.

Wages are up more under three years of Trump than they were in 8 years with Obama. Additionally, the increase for the lower half of wage earners is greater than the the increase for the upper half.

Kamala Harris withdraws from Democratic presidential race

Just wondering if, in all of your "wisdom", you have ever heard of the economic cycle? It's only been around since the beginning of time. Greed will always exist and it has no political limitations (contrary to your unenlightened belief). Please point me to a successful and durable country(countries) that do not experience the ups and downs of the economic cycle. I guess greed was eliminated in Venezuela by those well intentioned and "caring" government leaders. The result is nobody has anything.

In his eyes= Donald Trump- ineffective, unrefined, unenlightened, disgraceful. racist, homophobic, xenophobic. bigot Adam Schiff- competent, honest, integrity laden, sophisticated, refined. highly enlightened, and the "salt of the earth"

This downturn has no relation to the great depression and was the result of the subprime mortgage crisis which was related to the "compassionate ones" efforts to make home ownership more easily acquired. Thus, the unintended consequences caused by those who think they "know" more. Take a look at the last four or five economic downturns and compare the strength of the recoveries in terms of GDP.

All the more reason the rebound should have been stronger.

What about GDP? I am most anxious to discuss this with you. You might be interested to know that Mr. Trumps predecessor is the ONLY president to never preside over a single year during his administration of 3% gdp growth.

Wages are NOT stagnant. Wage growth for the lower part of the income spectrum is better than it has been in a very long time. There are more jobs unfilled than workers to fill them, hence demand is raising wages instead of the government trying to raise them. The ultra low unemployment rate and very high consumer confidence rate are not consistent with stalling capital investment and stagnant wages. What lies did Trump tell about his tax cut?

Do you mean conflicts like having your son employed by Burisma while you are the vice president?

No- ONLY the government is capable of providing for your retirement. ONLY the government can provide you with a college education. ONLY the government can provide you with food. ONLY the government can provide you with telephones. ONLY the government can own and manage firearms. Cradle to grave care/supervision is most successful when provided by the government. ONLY the government can decide what is a fair amount of profit for a corporation to make. If you don't believe me, just ask all who use the VA and those on the Indian reservations.

They don't? A goodly portion of the public perceives that they absolutely do.

But that doesnt apply to college transcripts?

And his net worth is relevant in what way? Let me give you a clue. HIs net worth is less than when he became president. Do you believe that is true of his predecessor?