I'm not in the USA and some economists are predicting a 50% drop in currency value here if a few things happen with local interest rates versus others overseas.
The USD has gotten stronger with the expectation that the Trump administration will double growth to 4% and the Feds will correspondingly raise interest rates to keep inflation in check. A stronger USD will make exports from the U.S. more expensive around the world, curtailing economic growth in the U.S. and prompting the USD to fall. However, the underlying financial data doesn't support a 4% growth rate. The current expansion is the longest since World War II and long overdue for a recession in the next few years.
A stash of cash doesn't sound so good in that situation and other places have had it a lot worse.
Cash is what you want to have on hand as the markets crashes to buy at reduced prices on the way down. During the Dot Com Bust, I spent $6,000 to buy shares on the way down and made $30,000 on the way up. I sat out the Great Recession but people with cash made out like bandits in the real estate market by turning foreclosed homes into rentals and later selling them when the market got better. I'm getting my cash ready for the next down cycle.
Dipshit, Watergate was bigger deal that Nixon tried to shut down the investigations into the bugging.
I'm not a dipshit, I'm an asshole. Otherwise, I wouldn't be working in IT if I wasn't.
Last time I checked that was the Obama shutting down the DOJ and FBI's investigations into the Clinton email server and Clinton Foundation.
If the was so, Obama did a piss poor job in keeping the FBI director on a short leash. The FBI announcements in the two weeks prior to the election about the Weiner laptop contributed nothing to the email server investigation. The only thing the announcements did was put a crony capitalist into the White House.
No administration has prosecuted more whistle blowers.
People who deliberately leak classified information should go to jail. In this regard, Obama ran a tight ship.
Politico, no friend of conservatives or the GOP, has a story about 91% of Trump media as negative.
Keep in mind that Trump is neither a conservative nor a Republican. Only a few short years ago, he was a Democrat and in deep with the Clintons. The GOP nomination process is so broken that a Clinton Democrat got nominated. Go figure.
And Mother Jones, a decidedly left-of-center outlet, shows that Trump got significantly more negative press than Hillary.
With Trump in the White House, we need more investigative journalism. MoJo has in-depth stories that the so-called conservative media won't touch like crony capitalism (i.e., Nestle still bottling water from a California national forest during a drought on an expired 1988 federal permit).
Anyone who claims the media constantly hammered Hillary over her (Wikileaks-proven) lies about her private server and ignored Trump is either ignorant or a partisan whackjob.
You haven't paid attention to the AP and New York Times coverage.
They'd talk about a tweet or rally, and then proceed to try to tear him down.
The media didn't even do that. If they were serious about journalism, several hard hitting stories would have knocked Trump out of the ballpark. Instead, the media kept hammering about Hillary's email server as if that was the only thing voters ever cared about. Now that the media have their reality TV candidate elected, expect four years of endless conflicts, controversy and scandals to keep journalists off the dole.
Soldier of Fortune was another video game that came out at about the same time. It's claim to fame was being able to shoot off body parts. Don't recall if this was the game where the AI hops around on one leg if you shot the other leg off.
There seem to be a number of companies right now which are trying to get established via press release.
That's because journalism has been on a downhill slide since the dawn of web browsing. Journalists prefer to copy and paste the PR announcements as actual news instead of doing the actual work legwork of fact checking.
1. We have ZERO PROOF that the Russians were involved in the hack; in fact, those in direct control of the information (Assange et al) explicitly state it was NOT the Russians.
Assange is also a member of The Friends of Putin Club. You might as well be quoting Putin directly to save everyone time.
2. The release INFLUENCED the election by UNCOVERING the back-door dealings between the media and the DNC - which ITSELF was trying to influence the election!
Meanwhile, the media gave Trump $2B+ in free advertising during the campaign. The media today is still reporting Trump's tweets as fact when they don't pass a fact check. I hope the 60+ reporters that the Washington Post are hiring do a better job at reporting than the pro-Trump cheerleading media.
Wake the hell up. The political poles shifted. The enemy is now within, and Russia is not now a force for evil.
You wake the hell up. The Russian gangsters that ran the Soviet Union didn't leave after the Communists fell. They're still in power and Trump is their useful idiot.
When the alarm goes off on my iPad 2 at 4:30AM, it's an WW2 air raid siren that I turn off immediately. When the clock alarm goes off at 5:00AM, it's an annoying beeping that I turn off immediately and roll out of bed. I'm checking email and reading The Wall Street Journal after I get on the express bus at 6:00AM. I start work at 7:00AM.
So it's OK with you that the President stands by and ignores an actual, documented hack of the Federal Government. But gets all wee-wee'd up when a private organization is phished, and the only information that comes out shows collusion and political manipulation (debate questions ahead of time?) by the parties that were phished?
Was the Chinese trying to influence the 2016 election by hacking the OPM in 2015? No, they weren't. But the Russians were. If the RNC got hacked, I fully expect Obama to take the same actions against the Russians that he's taking now. He wouldn't conveniently looked away like the Republican Party is doing now.
[...] NRA, AARP (two very large lobbyist groups) [...]
I don't think any gives a damn about lobbyists being hacked.
[...] the RNC, do you think Obama would have reacted with the same measures?
The RNC was targeted but their IT guy was on the ball. If the RNC was compromised instead of the DNC, I fully expect Obama to do what he has done so far.
There is still not one shred of proof the Russian government had anything to do with these typical and script-kiddie tier phishing attacks
Maybe, maybe not. But you can't deny the fact that Trump downplays the Putin connection at every opportunity, most of his appointees have some kind of relationship with Putin, and the Republican Party will conveniently look the other way to stay in power.
Just go back to paper ballots. Problem solved forever.
That's not the issue at hand. The Russian's did the Internet equivalent of the Nixon White House trying to bug the DNC offices in the Watergate building.
That was page after page that basically translates to "APT sent spam to a large list of recipients and target fell for it."
The DNC IT guy thought phone calls from the FBI alerting him to the attacks were a hoax. He also told the staff to change their passwords via the phishing email they received. Of course, he had no common sense or InfoSec training whatsoever.
There's a slim to none possibility that might not be true.
Live in the now man.
The now is acknowledging that the election of Trump isn't a foregone conclusion. If he had won the popular vote and 51% of the vote like Obama did TWICE, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
When economies really go to shit you get inflation that makes cash close to worthless.
What inflation? The underlying financial data doesn't support a high growth, high inflation economy that Trump supporters are counting on. Cash becomes quite valuable when the stock market crashes in the near future. It's better to buy on the way down than on the way up as people are doing now.
Maybe it's worth getting to be very good at growing your own vegetables.
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Your assumption that man is the only intelligent life form in the universe is racist.
I'm not in the USA and some economists are predicting a 50% drop in currency value here if a few things happen with local interest rates versus others overseas.
The USD has gotten stronger with the expectation that the Trump administration will double growth to 4% and the Feds will correspondingly raise interest rates to keep inflation in check. A stronger USD will make exports from the U.S. more expensive around the world, curtailing economic growth in the U.S. and prompting the USD to fall. However, the underlying financial data doesn't support a 4% growth rate. The current expansion is the longest since World War II and long overdue for a recession in the next few years.
A stash of cash doesn't sound so good in that situation and other places have had it a lot worse.
Cash is what you want to have on hand as the markets crashes to buy at reduced prices on the way down. During the Dot Com Bust, I spent $6,000 to buy shares on the way down and made $30,000 on the way up. I sat out the Great Recession but people with cash made out like bandits in the real estate market by turning foreclosed homes into rentals and later selling them when the market got better. I'm getting my cash ready for the next down cycle.
Dipshit, Watergate was bigger deal that Nixon tried to shut down the investigations into the bugging.
I'm not a dipshit, I'm an asshole. Otherwise, I wouldn't be working in IT if I wasn't.
Last time I checked that was the Obama shutting down the DOJ and FBI's investigations into the Clinton email server and Clinton Foundation.
If the was so, Obama did a piss poor job in keeping the FBI director on a short leash. The FBI announcements in the two weeks prior to the election about the Weiner laptop contributed nothing to the email server investigation. The only thing the announcements did was put a crony capitalist into the White House.
No administration has prosecuted more whistle blowers.
People who deliberately leak classified information should go to jail. In this regard, Obama ran a tight ship.
Politico, no friend of conservatives or the GOP, has a story about 91% of Trump media as negative.
Keep in mind that Trump is neither a conservative nor a Republican. Only a few short years ago, he was a Democrat and in deep with the Clintons. The GOP nomination process is so broken that a Clinton Democrat got nominated. Go figure.
And Mother Jones, a decidedly left-of-center outlet, shows that Trump got significantly more negative press than Hillary.
With Trump in the White House, we need more investigative journalism. MoJo has in-depth stories that the so-called conservative media won't touch like crony capitalism (i.e., Nestle still bottling water from a California national forest during a drought on an expired 1988 federal permit).
Anyone who claims the media constantly hammered Hillary over her (Wikileaks-proven) lies about her private server and ignored Trump is either ignorant or a partisan whackjob.
You haven't paid attention to the AP and New York Times coverage.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/08/26/associated-press-becomes-latest-get-burned-chasing-clinton-scandal-stories/212690
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/02/is-the-new-york-times-at-war-with-hillary.html
They'd talk about a tweet or rally, and then proceed to try to tear him down.
The media didn't even do that. If they were serious about journalism, several hard hitting stories would have knocked Trump out of the ballpark. Instead, the media kept hammering about Hillary's email server as if that was the only thing voters ever cared about. Now that the media have their reality TV candidate elected, expect four years of endless conflicts, controversy and scandals to keep journalists off the dole.
But I get your point. Trump.
You missed my point. Russians.
Soldier of Fortune was another video game that came out at about the same time. It's claim to fame was being able to shoot off body parts. Don't recall if this was the game where the AI hops around on one leg if you shot the other leg off.
Um, no.
Uh, yes.
There seem to be a number of companies right now which are trying to get established via press release.
That's because journalism has been on a downhill slide since the dawn of web browsing. Journalists prefer to copy and paste the PR announcements as actual news instead of doing the actual work legwork of fact checking.
1. We have ZERO PROOF that the Russians were involved in the hack; in fact, those in direct control of the information (Assange et al) explicitly state it was NOT the Russians.
Assange is also a member of The Friends of Putin Club. You might as well be quoting Putin directly to save everyone time.
2. The release INFLUENCED the election by UNCOVERING the back-door dealings between the media and the DNC - which ITSELF was trying to influence the election!
Meanwhile, the media gave Trump $2B+ in free advertising during the campaign. The media today is still reporting Trump's tweets as fact when they don't pass a fact check. I hope the 60+ reporters that the Washington Post are hiring do a better job at reporting than the pro-Trump cheerleading media.
Obama has done a great job of carrying on the Bush/Cheney agenda
As a moderate conservative, I absolutely agree.
You think the USA didn't destabilize the middle east and cause the creation of ISIS with its ham-fisted pointless invasion of Iraq and its aftermath?
George W. left office eight years ago. It's time to move on.
Actually, before the election, they were saying the election couldn't be hacked.
That was in reference to the polling machines.
Only a fool would expect the Kenyan communist to ever behave in any way except the destruction of the Republic.
Sorry, I don't watch Fox News.
Wake the hell up. The political poles shifted. The enemy is now within, and Russia is not now a force for evil.
You wake the hell up. The Russian gangsters that ran the Soviet Union didn't leave after the Communists fell. They're still in power and Trump is their useful idiot.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3738302/Is-Trump-Russian-agent-Kremlinologist-presents-tantalising-disturbing-dossier-presidential-hopeful-closer-links-Kremlin-appear.html
When the alarm goes off on my iPad 2 at 4:30AM, it's an WW2 air raid siren that I turn off immediately. When the clock alarm goes off at 5:00AM, it's an annoying beeping that I turn off immediately and roll out of bed. I'm checking email and reading The Wall Street Journal after I get on the express bus at 6:00AM. I start work at 7:00AM.
So it's OK with you that the President stands by and ignores an actual, documented hack of the Federal Government. But gets all wee-wee'd up when a private organization is phished, and the only information that comes out shows collusion and political manipulation (debate questions ahead of time?) by the parties that were phished?
Was the Chinese trying to influence the 2016 election by hacking the OPM in 2015? No, they weren't. But the Russians were. If the RNC got hacked, I fully expect Obama to take the same actions against the Russians that he's taking now. He wouldn't conveniently looked away like the Republican Party is doing now.
Trump has had some connection with several major world leaders, you're just fixated on Putin.
I grew up during the Cold War. That's a good reason to be fixated on the Russians in general and Putin in particular.
Reminder the USA is the one war mongering and destabilizing countries, and that included the Ukraine
If you say so, comrade.
[...] NRA, AARP (two very large lobbyist groups) [...]
I don't think any gives a damn about lobbyists being hacked.
[...] the RNC, do you think Obama would have reacted with the same measures?
The RNC was targeted but their IT guy was on the ball. If the RNC was compromised instead of the DNC, I fully expect Obama to do what he has done so far.
Why did this only come to light after Clinton the Wildebeest "Hildebeast Clinton lost election, its far more likely likely all Crap!
If you were paying attention, this issue came up in October 2016, a month before the election.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/politics/us-formally-accuses-russia-of-stealing-dnc-emails.html
There is still not one shred of proof the Russian government had anything to do with these typical and script-kiddie tier phishing attacks
Maybe, maybe not. But you can't deny the fact that Trump downplays the Putin connection at every opportunity, most of his appointees have some kind of relationship with Putin, and the Republican Party will conveniently look the other way to stay in power.
Just go back to paper ballots. Problem solved forever.
That's not the issue at hand. The Russian's did the Internet equivalent of the Nixon White House trying to bug the DNC offices in the Watergate building.
That was page after page that basically translates to "APT sent spam to a large list of recipients and target fell for it."
The DNC IT guy thought phone calls from the FBI alerting him to the attacks were a hoax. He also told the staff to change their passwords via the phishing email they received. Of course, he had no common sense or InfoSec training whatsoever.
https://transcender.wordpress.com/2016/12/23/politihack-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-about-russians-influencing-the-us-election-and-learned-to-love-cybersecurity/
Meanwhile, at the RNC, the attacks failed because their IT guy was on the ball. Go figure.
That Trump is in bed with the Russians and the Republican Party is looking the other way should alarmed all Americans.
The PEOTUS will be the next POTUS.
There's a slim to none possibility that might not be true.
Live in the now man.
The now is acknowledging that the election of Trump isn't a foregone conclusion. If he had won the popular vote and 51% of the vote like Obama did TWICE, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
When economies really go to shit you get inflation that makes cash close to worthless.
What inflation? The underlying financial data doesn't support a high growth, high inflation economy that Trump supporters are counting on. Cash becomes quite valuable when the stock market crashes in the near future. It's better to buy on the way down than on the way up as people are doing now.
Maybe it's worth getting to be very good at growing your own vegetables.
Self-sufficiency is never a bad idea.