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The Silver Lining Of Stagnant US Incomes: Half-Price Hookers
This week's 'shellacking' of the administration suggests all is not well among the people of the Land of the Free. While headlines crow of plunging unemployment rates and record high stock prices, middle-class incomes remain stagnant at best (and sliding in most cases) and job quality continues to tumble. There is, however, a silver lining... as Bloomberg reports, "in a sign of lower income and middle income consumer stress, some prostitutes are dropping prices." Of course, this is terrible news for GDP (now what happens if the price of 'blow' also drops). This confirms our previous note on the deflation of prices in the oldest profession in the world... question is, will Yellen abhor this price drop too?
So you’ve got all these mixed signals out there, and what we could really use is a street-level view of the current wage environment. Zatlin does that, uh, literally, with his vice index. It includes prostitution, drugs, gambling and alcohol.
“In a sign of lower income and middle income consumer stress, some prostitutes are dropping prices,” he wrote.
“It is selective and limited in scope: mainly low-tier and mid-tier escorts. High-end escort prices are holding up.”
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As we noted previously, prices are going down...
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The wages of sin on Wall Street are holding up well enough. Obama is serving his masters well. Everyone else can get fucked - at half price.
clickbait!
That pic is disturbing
PS Does this mean Debbie Whazzhername Schnult is out of a job?
That thang should have gone to market a couple of hundred pounds ago.
Thats a man baby! ;-)
I thought physical premiums were rising...
No thanks, I will do it myself.
Coyote ugly.....don't go ugly early
I couldn't find the article to read. I got lost in all the banner ads somewhere and couldn't find my way out.
Okay, who bleached the wookie?
Wow, NYC is a finally a bargain. Great bang for your buck.
This goes against everything we believe in, but "she" is a perfect commercial FOR fashion police. That getup should get her 30 days in the hole.
Before I started reading ZH, I thought I was a pretty kinky Dude.
Land-o-Goshen!
I only clicked because I thought it was Janet Yellen
could put Linda Tripp out of business as an antidote for Viagra overdose
Alright, Aunt Ida!
https://lacapella.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/ida-with-make-up.jpg
Arrrrgh!! I cannot unsee that.....I need to visit eyebleach.com
For a quick fix, just gaze at your avatar.
I'm pretty sure she bleached her arsehole.
If you rolled that thing in flour...unfuck the wet spots; her yeast have teeth
It's Janet!
Definitely deflating.
Could not get it up for that with a truckload of viagra. Might even turn gay if I got up close to it.
did someone say something about silver?
Yes. Go buy some more sweet sub-16 maples.
End of Transmission.
What No enlarged image embeded within the article.. Looks like deflation is hitting ZH as well when they cannot even add larger pics for our viewing pleasure..
A 1080 image could cause permanent damage to a person's vision and cause a mass outbreak of impotence.
If one exists, I hope to avoid it.
May not get your pecker back after "that" is done with it.....
All this talk about shmack a shmack a shmack...I can't give it away on 7th avenue....
BJ's are on sale and so is Phyzz. Allll rrrighty then!
http://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=0tJGk4ofc18
$20 spent on phyzz gives long term benefit.
BJs - not so much.
Rats on the west side, bedbugs uptown - what a mess this town's in tatters!
big problem with built in bias...all Western cities besides Tokyo.
They oughta at least do an "Asian City 'Ho Spread..."
"Go ahead, bite the Big Apple! Don't mind the maggots!"
Would you though?
Miss Maserati did a great blowjob. Bubba Corvette hates me as a cellmate.
High-end prostitute prices are holding up.
Congress critters don't come cheap.
re: high end
the next time you pass thru WDC look at the yellow pages under escort services
Im very picky about who I date, so in between when Im on a drought I have been known to see a classy escort or two. And yes girls in DC are expensive as fuck, even ones that are a 6 at best. Good to see supply and demand holds true somewhere
DC has been short of quality women for years, even though the propaganda runs the other way.
Funny how things get so "out of balance" and stay that way.
So you are very picky about the women whom you transmit STDs to. Lucky them.
Dont be ignorant Karen. Condoms have been effective at preventing the transmission of disease for 400 years. These women are professionals. Neither they, nor I, would go unprotected. And if they did, their other clients would find out about it through the various review sites, and they would lose clients. Instantly. They dont fuck around, literally, when it comes to safe sex.
And even if they did, or even if the condom broke, then my chances of contracting HIV, assume she was positive (studies have shown sex workers have no higher rates of STDs than the general public but Im indulging your myopic nescience) my chances of contracting it would be only 1 in 300, assume unprotected sex for 30+ minutes. The vast majority of new HIV cases are drug users or people with open sores on their penis having unprotected anal sex.
Get a fucking clue Karen. You know who sees escorts? 40 year old married men in sexless marriages. A lot of them. These arent exactly a high risk group for STDs
This post right here speaks volumes, especially the last paragraph.
"40 year old married men in sexless marriages"
That is just beyond SAD. Our society has gone 'full retard' or as my better half is fond of saying 'we lost our sanity all at once'. Which he is quick to follow up with 'and we'll have to regain our sanity one person at a time'. Hence his hatred of the phrase "wouldn't it be great if WE ... "
I've never understood why women use sex as a weapon against men, it is my belief and understanding that men NEED sex ... kind of like a pressure cooker needs a pressure release valve. Tis truly sad what our society has devolved into, most likely attributable to the loss of the moral high ground by the women.
Thought about including a link from the movie Gettysburg with Sam Elliott < AKA moustache rides onZH > explaining they'll get the high ground and it will be the devil to pay ... BUT apparently that is above my pay-grade LOL!!
Exactly. If a woman doesnt want to have sex, okay, thats fine. If shes not attracted shes not attracted. But there are too many women who use it to manipulate their partner; its as you say, a weapon. And this is why so many men seek intimacy elsewhere, including escorts.
The deal, for thousands of years, was "We get married. I (man) provide for you (house, food, clothes). You (woman) provide for me sex and housekeeping."
Now, after enlightenment, the deal is "We get married. I (man) provide for you (house, food, clothes, car, vacation to Miami, jewelry, etc). You (woman) provide.. nothing, if you don't feel like it." And if the man doesn't like it, it only costs him half his stuff to leave.
And women wonder why men are more interested in serial dating, sleeping around, using hookers, or sampling the gay lifestyle.
In Miami and Vegas, (a friend told me) a 5* hooker will polish your knob all night long for an eight ball of toot. ($120 Fiat.)
Please someone pass me the eye bleach.....and fast before I turn into a pillar of salt!
"Quick! There's no time!"
http://www.eyebleach.com/
I'd rather buy a camera lens, good cigars, or single malt scotch.
hell yeah! i'm fixin' to get me 1 tonight if the chicks in the clubs around here aren't up to par. might even get two since they're on sale! some things are just better bought in bulk!
That certainly is bulky!
Even penicillin is falling in price, too.
Mainly because it doesn't work anymore.
Thats where they found Yellen? Walking the streets. Not surprizing all thing concidered.
The thumbnail picture to this article is unsettling.
Must be outside of Walmart. Cutting prices.
"Save money, fuck better. Wal-Mart whores."
It's Ho prices, not lower prices
Generally, the economics of price vs value follow fairly straightforward laws. One of the few laws that actually work in the real world.
The only determination one can make from the decline in price is that there are now more prostitutes than ever, that's called the Supply side.
On the demand side it is very unlikely that men have nourished a diminishing appetite for prostitutes, in spite of the ready availability of women who have liberated themselves and become 'round heels'.
I'd conclude that with the downturn in incomes for the middle and lower classes a corresponding increase in prostitutes has occurred among the women who moonlight by selling their bodies, more supply, lower prices.
Viola! All economic problems should be so easy to solve.
my guess is that since the advent of internet pornography the demand has gone down.
( not necessarily speaking from personal experience )
Good news, but still not enough, we need food-Price Hookers
Give it time. Once the Obamatization of the economy is completed America will have food whores like other socialist paradises.
The cost is higher than I expected...but I have never participated in 'blow and hookers'. I went to college on Main St in Wrocester MA where hookers (not very good looking) would routinely ask if I were interested - something tells me those girls are not charging this much.
I remember two of my freinds (teens) went hooker shopping - the driver (Jerry) was going to pay. I was told that when they got one in the car she promised to give both hummers for $50 I think and the passenger (Mike) got his first but since she got the $ up front she refused to give Jerry his BJ - he was pissed! Mike laughed about that for quite some time.
That's the crappiest "Letter to Penthouse" I ever read.
That figures...first one I ever wrote.
I didn't consider it a penthouse letter though - it was a story of my teen freinds. I wonder if Mike's dick ever fell off.
Way back when a couple of friends went to Oakland to get BJ's,one of them didn't realize the hooker put a condom on him,later on they stopped to pee and since he had the condom on he pissed all over himself.
Is that a picture of Yellen?
Yellen should not have been allowed to wander without the bathrobe.
Paging William Banzai 7.
Paging William Banzai 7.
From college? She was clasmates with Obama I think.
Or maybe it's because, if you are genuinely single,
there is pussy galore out there;)
I remember her, hot back then, but probably wrinkly now:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cf/Pussy_Galore_by_Honor_Blackman.jpg
(And yes, plenty of Women who want it as much as you, and the sex is not one-sided).
please take that down...pretty please
Don't worry, once they hedonically adjust her she'll be a perfect 10.
That was quite uncalled for,
and no doubt true.
Bah. Price per hour? What's the price per two-and-a-half minutes?
It takes you two and a quarter minutes to get your trousers off ?
OMG - Deflation? We can't have this!
What did the leper say to the prostitute?
Keep the tip!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrzoFgCJVBc
No comment
Judging by the picture, desperation goes two ways...
20 tokens for head! sounds like a great deal to me!
I'd rather jack off to the rehypothecated picture of that pig.
If you liked that picture, here's one of Obama's mom:
http://www.firetown.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/obama-mom-naked-php72...
An American, not US subject.
no hooker left behind
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Listen Zero's.
Back in the day all the little Zero's would raise hell at Robotrader for his prostitute index. Now you're using it.
All aboard the Robotrain!
Robo's been Banged Galore !
I missed the dissing of robot trader! Me not so much but enjoyed the comments from everybody else.
Robo come back we miss you..... lol
Eye wash! EYEWASH!
http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21611074-how-new-technology-shaking-up-oldest-business-more-bang-your-buck
Zero hedge readers interested in this topic are urged to see the relevant economist article from August 2014
More bang from your buck
I'm in Manila right now where prices are relatively high. Average price here is 20$ for an all night GFE. Going to Angeles City tomorrow for 4 days to check out the magic mile. May you live in interesting times.
20 bucks for an all nighter and you're whining????
We don't have hookers were I come from.
so where is it that I should avoid going ?
I didn't think Detroit would be that high but I forgot about the hazard pay premium.
That chubby bitch in the picture slipped me a mickey finn before cleaning out my wallet and stealing my watch.
Class Act though.
I could stand to see a little more of that..............you know, for scientific study.
Suppose if you've got it flaunt it!
I'm going to be needing some addresses and phone number of who to sue.
if theres one true 'free market' left, it's the market for whores and drugs.
how fucking sad is that?
~Dipshitmiddleclasswhitekid
$300 per hour? These must be upper-middle-class prostitutes, am I right? Craigslist has them for like 150-200 for the trashy ones.
$100 one hour excellent massage from Chinese lady mid 40s built like a gymnast then she goes topless lifts the skirt and jumps on, it does NOT take long for that ride to end.
Totally barbarized nation.
Not totally. Not on the gold standard. One step left to 100% barbarism.
Believe it or not the scantily dressed teaser ( not to be confused with Taser ) is one of a handful of Barry's strategies under consideration against IS.
Wow, these "services" in SE Asia cost way less.
Freelancers in Patong (Phuket, Thailand) are around $30 for "short time." Massage parlors in the same locale offer "happy ending" for about 1/2 that.
Depending upon your patronage, you may save enough for your air ticket here!
I have been told on good authority that in a "nightclub" in Ecuador where the locals go, $20 rents an attractive and enthusiastic young lady for half an hour.
So the CPI (Consumer Pussy Index) economic statistics mentioned in this article appear to be way off. Can't imagine that the CPI would ever be manipulated, and there is no mention of any hedonic adjustments.
Shortly before departing her NSA trick's residence she asked him if he'd caught a glimpse of a small discrete tattoo on her inner thigh during the 69.
I am diggin that newly shaved thang.
Not that I complained before.
Looks like a race track.
Vroom.
I think this pic represents the Fed chair well. Motion to use it every time she opens her yap.
I think thats Yellen in the pic, her tribe specializes in that sort of thing. Judging by the quality of the merchandise I think they would be better served focussing on the money printing by business.
World's fucked up.
Where does one find 535 nasty ho pics?
Yeah - I am gonna go to Cleveland for a hooker. The whole business is really sad. I am afraid if the USA falls apart that this will be more common.
I remember years ago in my early 20's meeting a really cute girl at a club. We were dancing. She was about my age. She starts talking about wanting to go for a ride. We are sitting out side and her less attractive friend comes up. I guess she found two guys and said let's go. Really hard attitude too. Creepy.
I found the whole thing somewhat humorous because at that time there was no way I was looking to pay for anything like that or now. The whole idea is a total turn off. Maybe only if a girl was incredible. The whole thing is a commercial transaction. Buying socks would be about as fufilling.
In other hard times/depressions, they would give away BJ's just to have something warm in their stomachs.
These slightly soiled doves should be guaranteed a living wage. Maybe congress can pass a law or something. (/sarc)
Then again, there's always the AFL/CIO.
My wife keeps puttinig the price up.
I hear ya Kina. Mine too. They'll make us pay one way othe the other, and if we don't, then its divorce and they take everything.
speaking of half price hookers.i found a site where the hookers are $8000 per hour a few days ago. WTF
http://www.monalisamodels.com.au/sydney-supreme-escorts.php
i thought a cunt is a cunt
Look a congress person!
Don't know where they are getting their numbers for Toronto, but really - lots of websites with $200-250/hr Cdn, which is about $185-225 US. Some very pretty girls, especially if you like Asians and (yes, from experience), the website photos at the better places are 100% accurate.