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Thanks for the point: I had opened a thread on Boost and learned of the HD button earlier today; had never needed or used it in two years on Boost/Lemmy but good to be aware of. Thank you!

Oh, wild, I downloaded to my phone and opened and it looks fine. I’m on Lemmy, must be my appp (Boost); normally when I click to open an image it would download the full size version so when zooming you get the full resolution, but this isn’t working on this image for some reason.

Thanks for the image.

Sample size is crap. The age band makes these stupid. Crypto skewed way higher than it should be by including 30&U, excluding those above mid 60s leaves out many with mortgages.

Even if you could extrapolate 8k survey meaningfully–ehich you can’t because age band already screwed it, the title of this graphic buries the lede; more Americans don’t own a single stock than than those that do.

Potato quality image

Do you have a link to the source data on IRS? Surprised to hear we have an older than avg population, federal forest spending…shocked to hear they spend anything.

Very curious about Oregon as a resident. We’re a tiny economy and population relative to CA or even WA, but surprised a bit by this; wonder if there are agricultural subsidies that relative to our economy tip this that much?

Gonna need a v for vendetta moment for that to happen. It will eventually as all regimes end but in our current timeline…

“we should pass legislation to limit all new federal spending, unless offset we should have a balanced budget.”

Cool on paper but it’ll be, cut everything humans use and the entire budget will go to Lockheed and palantir. Everyone dies.

The federal minimum wage hasn’t changed since 2009. It’s been 17 years.

The administration, if anything though, would want to pull the numbers down, to show weak hiring/job losses as that would compel the fed to more aggressively lower rates. This is because they want to lower rates to juice business profitability and maybe accidentally help a few Americans so they might get reelected. That paradigm is basically changed though because lower rates no longer leads to much job creation delta, businesses hire pretty much when they need to regardless. It’s not 1970.

Civics, personal finance, debate and English went ungraded as he did not show for a single class of any.

Oh and we’re not going to tariff luxury cars but do have enormous tariff on jeans and bananas. Wonder who would possibly benefit from such a system design? I’m not very smart so can’t quite put it together, a total mystery.

Housing and sales demand are at least a 6 month boat to start to see changes based on policy and runs much more on interia.

The fed is already starting to cut rates in the summer/fall. Trump will replace Powell in May when his term ends and probably announce it sooner than that, maybe Jan. Mortgage rates will start to drop and the next great reinflation will begin.

Sales started slowing years ago and the only reason why articles like these have started to appear in the last 2 months is the bubble is cracking and will start to affect the broader economy e.g. banks so they have full court press on gov to reduce interest rates for Dec. Getting the average consumer/voter scared helps this.

Where are all the “do my own research” mofos now? Would be nice if they did that and learned about economics…

See: “free market” enthusiast Donald trump