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Friday Humor: And Now, It's The Warm Weather's Fault
By now everyone knows that a $17 trillion economy has no greater nemesis than snow... in the winter... which in the first quarter of 2014 managed to lob off some $50 billion in growth from the world's largest economy, and instead of allowing the US to expand at its priced to ultraperfection 3.0% rate, resulted in a screeching halt in growth.
But did you know that the one thing that the economy of the centrally-planned world can't stand more than cold is... heat.
That is what Italians found out today when they read daily publication Ansa which "explained" that March industrial production declined by 0.5% because, drum roll, "summer came early this year."
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And just like that the voodoo science of economicks (sic) has become the laughing stock of weathermen the world over (everyone else has already been laughing at economists for years, not with).
h/t @kristian_gjoka
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The porridge is never quite right.
Better to marry an economist than marry a weatherman.
Atleast, nobody blames you if you are wrong. You can blame it on the weatherman !!
You'd think up until this past year that there just plain wasn't any weather.
Who?
This is not a surprising meme. If weather is so important that it has an oversized influence on something as important as our economy, then it follows that the weather is something which must be controlled in order to not negatively impact the economy.
Is that you Al??
No, just humble I.
"Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025":
http://csat.au.af.mil/2025/volume3/vol3ch15.pdf
A report for the USAF, presented in August 1996.
Weather is something to be TAXED into submission. We pee-ons must pay up to fix it or die. /sarc
WTFO !!?? Now it's the fucking HOT weather to blame!?
C'mon! The Itralians have got to have moar materia grigia, senza dubbio!?
Merda!
Boy, you know NAR is pissed.......
The porridge is always going to suck when the bowl is made out of shit!
Fucking earth and all of its weather.
The USSR always blamed the weather
psssssssssssssssssssssssssssst....its a depression
OK... Your secret is safe with us...
So a warmer than usual March slows production in climate controlled factories?
Did the chirping birds and blooming daffodils trip things up?
I'm going to have to guess that power production is considered industrial output.
fewer people had to claim cheap gas subsidies from Gummint. Gummint output (READ: control), over the economy was diminished.
Haaa haaaa warm weather in Europe, it hasn't f****g stopped raining all winter, a bit of warmth is needed to dry things out.
L'anticipo del Money Printing e ancora merde da Brussels frena la produzione industriale, -100%
I've been trying to tell them, I'm at the beach, not the mall !!
Green for the Friday close!
Pump the bellows! Prod the Orcs! We must close green!
Looks like it's working !!
Too weathery!
http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/05/09/city/islamabad/bank-employee-...
Now THAT is funny...because he is a banker.
Use YOUR local black market...buy used.
Accidental Death of an Analyst ;o)
Panda bears don't need bamboo, but Honey boo boo.
Why is there only one lady working in the factory floor in the picture?
Siesta time?
I noticed the same thing....the european economy must finally be improving.
"Demand, meet Supply."
DAMNNNN YOUUUU EARTH NORMAL SEASONAL WEATHER !!!!
It's too hot or cold or wet or dry or windy outside. I cannot pay my mortgage, buy a used house, buy a refrigerator, go on a vacation, trade in my old clunker, hire an illegal or start my company.
You´re the model voter....get registered will you....Hillary needs you and you need her.
Weather and Economics...
If an economist flaps his lips in China there might be Hindenburg omen two weeks later on Wall Street.
The recovery will come whe the weather is perfect for a full year.
It's not so much about the insult to our intelligence, it's the lack of imagination...THAT'S what really bothers me. There is no thought behind it, they didn't even bother to come up with something, they just pull out the same one they used last time and change a word. And it's used by everybody now, they'd probably blame the weather for a dip in mitten sales. You feel like they just don't give a damn. It's maddening.
They could at least have put a little effort into it.
I wonder what the fucking Eskimos/Inuites say when shit doesn't go their way?
Husband: "Honey the Reindeer must have taken February off because it was so fucking hot!"
Wife: " Oh shit how are we going to feed our children?"
Husband: " Well we have that old HP printer in the outhouse...I'll just print some Reindeer and we'll all eat that."
Call me crazy, but I always thought lower power consumption resulted from lower industrial output as opposed to causing it. In other news, people are eating out less as a result of lower restaurant sales.
To be fair, the Italian Institute of Statistics doesn't mention the weather....
http://www.istat.it/en/archive/121271
Al Gore warned us and we didn't listen! WE DIDN'T LISTEN!! AAAAAHHHHHHH.
As I understand it, Al Gore wanted to set up an additional tax framework to avoid climate change. Apparently the existing 80,000 page US tax code was not enough to do the job.
Al is short for Asshole.
Al Gore, in my book, is the biggest dousche that ever lived. A total waste of oxygen. He should set an example and swallow some rat poison.
Al Gore invented the internet, discovered global warming-that is our fault- and invented carbon tax. What's not to like?
I'm about halfway through my time on Earth. There has always been some sort weather going on for as long as I can remember. I'm talking heat waves, thunderstorms, snow, tornadoes, blizzards, sunny days, rainy days and even windy days.
I just can't recall it ever affecting the economy so severely. Either they are just making up bullshit or the economy really is so weak the weather actually affects it negatively.
God help us all if we ever have another Winter Storm of March 1993. I don't recall it affecting the economy very much either, and it smacked the bat shit out of the entire Eastern half of the nation.
Truly hilarious
And what is this new crap where they're trying to 'label' our moribund economy as The Great Moderation 2.0?
WTF?
Has anybody else seen this?
So if GDP falls in the winter because it's cold...and falls in the summer when it's hot...
Then when does it rise?
...oh nevermind. Fuck it! :)
we need to end the war on drugs, poverty and people with opinions and concentrate all our resources where they are needed, the war on weather, deal to winter first, then when it gives up we can move on to summer, how dare the weather interfere with the American dream, I'm outraged!
Whatever it takes to deflect the blame from wet blanket in chief Lord Obama all you ray-cysts.
OBEY!!!!! /SARC
Perhaps they are using "code" when refering to "warm weather."
They're really saying that the global warming bullshit hoax and resultant regulations, etc. is killing business and industry.
Fucking amateurs.... a REAL central planner would have made warm weather punishable by death. Problem solved!
lol...a man after my own heart, you got these fuckers figured out too I see ;-)