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Mainstream Media Meteoronomics
When the weather channel of USA today discusses economics it may be time to officially replace Joe LaVorgna with groundhog Phil...
The US economy shrank in the 1st quarter for the 1st time in 3 years due partly to bad weather that hampered activity http://t.co/S9rpaI9v2F
— USA TODAY Weather (@usatodayweather) May 29, 2014
And in case you were wondering just how much the weather impacted the strong vibrant US economy...
A 3.5 percentage point plunge since the start of the year in the world's largest 'escape-velocity prone' economy due to some snow...
Or in real terms a $100 billion loss in US economic growth...sounds reasonable eh?
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If you like your recovery, you can keep your recovery.
What if it is broken, can i return it?
Not right now. However.... I offer you the possibility of returning it in roughly 3 years under a new administration. You can begin holding your breath.
peter schiff vs ron insana today on the shrinkage
ron....the weather caused the shrinkage
peter.....i think inflation caused it
ron...people couldn't get out of their houses due to weather
peter....they had to stay in their houses with sweaters on because of higher electric bills and gas bills
ron....peter gold is going down what do u have to say about it?
should i even continue?
yes, please do.
i grew up on a farm and can't stand New York City for what they did to all "my cities" up here. For some reason I still think The City can be saved however.
Did they do the interview in their respective Superhero costumes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mTpxoNOZa8
30% Restocking fee...
Any day now the weather will clear up and its Bang! Zoom! Straight to the moon!
But the official hurricane season begins Sunday.
Wait a minute. I thought all that destruction was good for the economy? Did the snow not break enough windows?
...or have these fucktards have encountered a contradiction? If so, they need to check their premise.
I'm surprised that Q1 GDP expectations took such a large dive after the ACTUAL GPD number was released. You would think they would at least have the balls to expect a later revision to only -0.5% growth.
'US Yesterday' weather reporters should be more on the ball.
Look NoDebt, what have we said about using logic and critical thinking when it comes to the circus called the economy and the markets.
It's all sunsines and rainbows until reality bites the drones in the ass.And we both know when this shit blows up those drones that blamed the weather will say no one saw this coming. The problem is is that its hard to see whats really going on when you stay in your ivory tower with your head up your ass. Kinda makes it hard to see the forest for the blighted, acid rain scarred trees.
At the lower levels where you and I exist.... absolutely agree. Higher up, where the real masters of the puppet leaders live, no.... there is a plan.
No, not a plan. More like a recognition of reality. Of inevitability. They play the long game, and it's done on a sliding scale.
Nobody gives a shit the state of the empire over which they rule, so long as they rule over it absolutely.
Exactly, that is why absolutism is so dangerous.
I agree whole heartedly.
I agree, I may switch to a different weather provider for my GDP forecasts.
I've switched to WeatherBug, personally. Insightful economic commentary AND they give me tornado warnings straight to my cell phone.
I'll give it a try...
"When even shoeshine boys are giving you stock tips, it's time to sell."
- attributed to Joseph P. Kennedy
Regis Philbin was on CNBC's "Fast Money" today.
David Einhonrn of Greenlight Capital called in and asked Regis to be an intern this Summer.
"When even stock tip boys are giving you shoeshines, its time to bail out of Dodge"
attributed to MillionDollar Bonus, may he rest in peace....
Fewer hookers adding to the GDP because of snow.
I don't know, feels like snow jobs are at an all time high.
You might be onto something there....
The whole "cold weather/penile shrinkage" thing comes to mind
PR handout repeaters, not reporters.
Damn folks you ain't seen NOTHING yet! Just wait until the Fed has to UNTAPER! Holy crap the markets will go fucking nuts then won't they!
They wont. No untaper ever. No fighting Fed
Ouch.
From the BEA report http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdpnewsrelease.htm
Time for:
Sad trombone http://www.sadtrombone.com
Losing horn http://youtu.be/1ytCEuuW2_A
Uh, "The US economy shrank in the 1st quarter for the 1st time in 3 years due partly to bad weather that hampered activity"
You LIE!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_y00kb_jVc
Ha ha ha ha ha
"Partly" what, pray tell, was the other "part"?
The death of the middle class, huge debt levels, printers on fire, obamacare, business closing down, discouraged workers, the handout class or was it something else, like terrorists?
Agreed! Why not? Every day is the same. Reminds me of the movie Groundogs Day
"Punxsatawny." I think that was his name. Was he a woodchuck or a groundhog?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaSUyYSQie8
gopher it is...
Actually a heavily mutated beaver discovered near a Nevada Nuclear Weapons testing range.
He has the ability to predict the future up to six weeks in advance and enjoys wearing doll clothes and collecting PokeMon Cards. Favorite Color Green.
Dresses up like a garden vegetable for Halloween. Also does financial analysis and forecasting for Goldman Sachs and Sears.
Hopes to open a franchise business teaching rodents how to succeed in finance by learning his 10 rules of success.
Also flips houses on the side and has a reality show in the works..
P.Phil as his friends call him is represented by William Morris Agency and is available for select events.
and now what will sunshine do.....
Still expecting 2.5% on the year.
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Take your pick.
"When the shit gets really bad, you need to lie!" european bureaucrat.
"When the shit gets really bad, you need to change the terms of the comparison!" US bureaucrat
33 shysters are up for election on November 4th. Red shysters trying to outnumber the blue shysters again.
Let's just say, the shyster's focus is not on the economy right now. God willing, there will be a massive hurricane destroying Vichy, DC on 11/04/14 which will blow the entire shyster gang to hell.
Take that you dumb metereologists wannabe economists!
Lets make it a rule no Lawyers/shysters are allowed to make or pass laws, they have to much of a vested interest.
Yeah, all that weather kept people from buying snow shovels and blowers, and firewood, and fixin's for chili, and turning up the heat, and ordering pizza, and paying people overtime to do snow removal.
Yup, that's it, the weather. Q2 it will be the "sweltering heat" in that dastardly "Summer".
Almost getting too hot to go out as we speak.
Time to blame El Nino again
The boy child always be makin some troubles.
Why aren't the analyst and talking heads discussing why the unemployed are not buying more stocks and bonds?
Wallstreet is Mainstreet. Whats good for General Motors is good for America. A chicken in every pot and a hobo under every overpass.
written on an Osborne portable computer in a van down by the river.
Let me help you overcome your child's behavioural problems today.
In five years' time that -1.0% will probably be revised down to -4%. In the meantime figures for Q2 will be massaged so the US can avoid being shown to be in a recession. Expect a sub 1% print which will subsequently be revised down below zero
Canada, Switzerland, Sweden all have similar bad weather but they did not have problem.
There is no such thing as bad weather, just not enough snow ploughs.
I blame climate change........ wait....... because of "Global Warming" there was no investment in proper equipment to cope with the bad weather.
So, next time somebody predicts economy, he should study weather really hard :)) "Oh my God, it was so much snowing during this winter!" "This summer was so hot that the economy was negatively affected by it."
People, Atlas Shrugged evoques so well the stupid excuses made by these incompetent imbeciles!
report at the Moscow offices of Russia's SVR and FSB intelligence / security agencies, on the ongoing fraud of CIA agent Edward Snowden and his CIA-tied media such as Glenn Greenwald, UK Guardian, NY Times etc
http://homment.com/3K3xdsYD7a
Yea right, because "I read it on the internet". From that tripe:
"By his support for lying, murdering CIA media, Edward Snowden is helping kill in Ukraine, and to damage the naturally good relations that should exist between Russia and Central and Western Europe. Against his own people, Snowden is helping to silence and kill genuine US dissidents and honest US officials, and to crush USA's internal reformist 'Liberty Movement'."
"honest US officials" - three words rarely found in the same sentence...
I almost bit through my metal fork when i read that tweet.
LAME excuse making at the highest levels. How does this not affect the psyche of kids and american public?
Not only do we have politicians and oligarchs lying to protect each others behavior, they lie to protect the behavior of the economy! They dont want obama taking the rap. This is the current fucked up state of the liberal media for you. The agenda's to feed the masses bullshit till we all go blind and insane rather than serve healthy dollops objectivity and truth to restore vision.
That's handy because now I only have to look at the economy (what I do anyways) to know what the weather is.
Yeah, tell 'em Ride, "'tis but a scratch".
Being the economy has been whittled down to bankstering and Ipads, and bankstering is done electronically and the weather is always sunny in Silicon Valley, how was GDP possibly affected?
Eh. It's just mission creep from the meteorologists. They've had penis envy about economic forecasting for decades. That's why they came up with Climatology. It's the same bullshit non-science using forecasting models. Weatherman still can't predict the weather 40 hours in advance with any accuracy.
The Weather Channel is trying to start up yet-another-morning-news-and-entertainment show. It now resembles what you get on 20 other channels in the morning. They are also filling up evening programming with 30 or 60 minute reality TV shows. Except during major storms, I flip to other places for weather now.
Try the WallStreet Journals Weather and Worries in a Hurry with Katie Couric, a jam packed solid 17 minutes of what you need to know to invest today along with how to dress for success AND the weather.
Great recipes between stock tips and celebrity visits.
close second is Kim Kardashians Capitalist Celebrity Weather on CNBC, now with Doppler Radar. Includes funny Youtube clips of Mereologist having fist fights over the current economic trends and secretly filmed clips of the Weather Channels Weather Girls oil wrestling each other to see who has to drive Al Rouker home.
USA Today, lol! Have they retracted the "All Jews Must Leave Ukraine" leaflets hoax yet?
Propaganda is only retracted when the regime changes ideology or pogroms.
You are getting propaganda mixed up with the truth which changes as new facts emerge.
Is there a real GDP calculator (which does not include latest gimmiks).
Something like Shadowstat but for the GDP ?
Bad Weather= Record Cold = Global Warming.....
Right lying asshole democrats?
IF "both parties are the same", why is only one party pushing the ManMade Global Warming Lie?
P.S.,
I don't expect any intelligent responses from people who blindly repeat Socialst Semite Democrat media election year propaganda....
We're told over and over by TPTB that the weather is the dominant factor in recent market outcomes, so this new Weather Channel play is a natural synergy.