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Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by aedens » Sun Jun 16, 2024 3:59 pm

Supply and demand and sticky wages we trended for a long time H.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD7bKMgPW8Y
Vested interested corruption five year review. Delayed disrupted decieved.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Sun Jun 16, 2024 12:13 pm

Part of the reason for understanding why woke CEOs like Pichai can order their subordinates to make suboptimal hires, then puff their chests out and proclaim it is the right thing to do is below. If there is no churning in the economy because the bar is too high for forming new businesses to compete with these established companies like Google, then they can do whatever they want...for awhile longer.
Higgenbotham wrote:
Sat Aug 12, 2023 11:30 am
The Chicago school economist who warned years ago of America’s ‘business dynamism’ fading still sees ‘something broken in the background’

Story by Rachel Shin •4h

Ufuk Akcigit is a distinguished economist. He’s the Arnold C. Harberger professor of economics at the University of Chicago, one of the most influential departments in the discipline of the last century (the so-called “Chicago school”), and holds a PhD from MIT. The Turkish national has also won multiple awards for his research, including Germany’s Max Planck-Humboldt and Kiel Institute awards, as well as the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.

A pioneer in the field of Quantitative Economic Growth, Akcigit examines how market innovation and policy combine to optimize an economy’s expansion—or the opposite. Akcigit’s work on “business dynamism,” a hugely important metric that gauges an economy’s ability to sustain growth, has borne grim tidings for his adopted country of the United States. Simply put, he’s found that over time, the American economy has become a hostile environment for innovation.

In 2019, Akcigit and his co-author Sina T. Ates, of the Federal Reserve Board, released findings that pinned the blame for fading U.S. dynamism on “poor knowledge diffusion.” Four years later, he tells Fortune that the problems just haven’t gone away.

“For productivity to improve, we need to have ‘creative destruction’ and turnover,” Akcigit told Fortune. “Better firms should replace worse firms in the economy, and that turnover will push productivity forward.”

(Ates, a principal economist at the Federal Reserve Board, was unable to speak on the record due to his position. The researchers’ findings do not reflect the opinion of the Fed.)

Something’s broken

Business dynamism, measured by the rate of new firm creation in markets, is directly tied to innovation and productivity. In Akcigit’s field, researchers have known that it’s been declining in the U.S. since the 1980s, the cause of which has prompted various theories. This decline in dynamism is significant because it’s linked to a general slowing of productivity and creative momentum, which need to be strong for the U.S. to remain the world’s dominant economy in the long term.

The majority of U.S. markets have become more concentrated, and thus less competitive due to the slowing firm turnover rate, the co-authors argued. The result has been markets increasingly dominated by big players who don’t drive their sectors forward, and higher barriers for new businesses to enter markets. The dip in new entrants is a hit to the economy, as new entrepreneurs are the engines of growth under capitalism.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savinga ... f4f7e&ei=7

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Sun Jun 16, 2024 11:57 am

Guest wrote:
Wed Jun 12, 2024 8:09 pm
The natives at the top always try to standardize the job descriptions and lower the pay scale of the immigrants at the bottom, playing them against each other, while trying to portray themselves as super-achieving entrepreneurial mavericks who can’t be pinned down to a mere set of marketable skills. The opposite is often the case: the natives are often the commodity items, and would perform similar functions whether their business were biotechnology or salted fish, while those who work for them may be unique specialists, doing what has never been done before.

It is no surprise that this situation should have come about. For the last few generations, native-born Americans have preferred disciplines such as law, communications, and business administration, while immigrants and foreigners tended to choose the sciences and engineering. All their lives the natives were told to expect prosperity without end, and so they felt safe in joining professions that are mere embroidery on the fabric of an affluent society.

Peter Schiff (on his You Tube) went around New Orleans in 2008 or 2009 and interviewed white Americans working as bar tenders, doormen, and boucers. Virtually all of them had STEM degrees, and yet could not find jobs. One boucer had a degree in robotics. They said their applications were ignored. It's not that Americans have dropped the ball and chosen Art History over science; it's that wokery has left white males unemployable.
Higgenbotham wrote:
Thu Sep 07, 2023 10:50 am
My nephew is a little bit like the guy described in the Reddit post. He is 23. About the time this Reddit post was made, my sister asked me what my nephew should do. I told her, odd as it may seem, my opinion was that he should go to school to become a nurse. He did, and he makes over 100K per year already (with overtime). He was never assumed to be arrogant because of his high grades, he was never accused of not being well rounded, it was not thought that he might not have "soft skills", and he never wrote a cover letter. He was hired on the spot. He was hired basically to do maintenance in a declining civilization.
Higgenbotham wrote:
Thu Sep 07, 2023 11:08 am
When I advised my sister that he become a nurse, I told her that with all the gender confusion and social engineering, she might be surprised as to what a good reception this young white male might get upon making a decision to enter the nursing field. I said look at Google and this ridiculous James Damore incident where that pathetic clown Sundar Pichai said it's not OK for Damore to point out that there are gender differences in proclivities and abilities. You have all of these high tech companies wanting to recruit women to do what are basically men's jobs and it didn't surprise me that the opposite situation might exist. That is in fact the case. My sister told me she even heard some of the older black and brown women in his workplace oohing and aahing over him, saying things like what a nice young man he is, so polite, etc.
Higgenbotham wrote:
Thu Sep 07, 2023 11:27 am
Higgenbotham wrote:
Thu Sep 07, 2023 11:08 am
I said look at Google and this ridiculous James Damore incident where that pathetic clown Sundar Pichai said it's not OK for Damore to point out that there are gender differences in proclivities and abilities.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says he does not regret firing James Damore
“It was the right decision,” says YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki

By Nick Statt

Jan 19, 2018, 4:20 PM CST

Google CEO Sundar Pichai responded today to the firing of employee James Damore over his controversial memo on workplace diversity, stating that while he does not regret the decision, he regrets that people misunderstood it as a politically motivated event. Speaking in a live conversation with journalist and Recode co-founder Kara Swisher, MSNBC host Ari Melber, and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki in San Francisco, Pichai said that the decision to fire Damore was about ensuring women at Google felt like the company was committed to creating a welcoming environment.

“I regret that people misunderstand that we may have made this for a political belief one way or another,” Pichai said. “It’s important for the women at Google, and all the people at Google, that we want to make an inclusive environment.” When pressed by Swisher on the issue of regret, Pichai stated more definitively, “I don’t regret it.” Wojcicki, who has spoken publicly about how Damore’s memo affected her personally, followed up with, “I think it was the right decision.”

Damore, who was fired back in August after his internal memo went viral, filed a lawsuit earlier this month alleging Google discriminates against white male conservatives. The crux of Damore’s memo was that Google’s diversity efforts are misplaced, that women may be biologically less suited to engineering and programming jobs in the tech industry, and that Google creates a hostile environment for conservatives.

In response to the memo, Pichai, who said back in August that Damore crossed “the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace,” made the decision with other top Google executives to fire him. “To suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not OK,” Pichai wrote in his statement. In response to the prospective legal action, a Google spokesperson said earlier this month, “We look forward to defending against Mr. Damore’s lawsuit in court.”
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/19/1691 ... emo-firing

Damore can now become a nurse. My nephew would have made a great engineer, but it is what it is. He understands that.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by aedens » Sun Jun 16, 2024 9:16 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LyCQYfe__w&t=2098s
Vested interest corupted to the very dead bones.
Parachuted imbeded destruction. Our uniparty already fell.
As put the rate in Terminial State of no interest to public weal.
As warned walking in circles told before. Slow at first then all at once.
He did not find 10 righteous people. The price is set.
...everyone did as they saw fit. Judges

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Sat Jun 15, 2024 6:09 pm

In a few instances, I listed someone's opinion as "factual information" if the person or group that rendered the opinion was extremely well qualified to give it, such as the founder of Home Depot estimating what he thinks he could attain if he started Home Depot from scratch today.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Sat Jun 15, 2024 5:49 pm

Higgenbotham wrote:
Tue Jun 11, 2024 1:53 pm
This will be my next project in this Dark Age Hovel: to go through all 214 pages of this hovel and summarize the factual information regarding the outputs that the managerial elite class overseeing the United States has actually generated.
These are the outputs documented in the first 73 pages of the Dark Age Hovel. So I am about 1/3 through it. Once I get through the remainder of the hovel, it will be compiled and categorized to topics such as health, crime, economy, resources, etc.

1. "Walmart CEO Doug McMillon issued a stark warning Tuesday: If theft does not slow down, the retailer will close stores across the country."

2. "Now they (the Bank for International Settlements) are warning of a crash the scale of which we have never seen before, with a staggering $80trillion (£65trillion) at stake." "It'll wipe out every dollar in the world."

3. "At Target, year-to-date, incremental shortage (organized retail crime) has already reduced our gross margin by more than $400 million vs. last year," Target CFO Michael Fiddelke said on the earnings call, "and we expect it will reduce our gross margin by more than $600 million for the full year."

4. "A study that examined 18 preschools in the Bay Area found traces of per- and poly-flouroalkyl substances, or PFAS, in almost all of the preschools’ carpets." "Hundreds of laboratory studies link PFAS exposure to adverse health outcomes."

5. "Anti-government groups in the past two years began using online forums to urge followers to attack critical infrastructure, including the power grid. They have posted documents and even instructions outlining vulnerabilities and suggesting the use of high-powered rifles."

6. "The number of county households considered housing cost-burdened – or households which spend more than half of their income on rent and utilities – has increased 40 percent since 2019. In Travis County, 72,000 households are categorized this way." “Households in this category cannot afford all that they need including transportation, health care, child care, and even food,” Siegfried explained. “A household that is severely housing cost-burdened is not stable; paying that percentage of your income on rent and utilities cannot be sustained.” (This would mean about 15% of households in this county are in an unsustainable situation.)

7. "Acemoglu et al. systematically examined companies that had corporate ties to Geithner, had executives who served with him on other boards, or had other direct relationships. They found that "the quantitative effect is comparable to standard findings" in Third World countries with weak institutions and higher levels of corruption. In other words, markets react to government actions in the U.S. the same way they do in a corrupt developing country. Crony capitalism pays, and the market knows it."

8. "In today’s business climate, Home Depot may have been able to only open 15 or 16 stores, (Home Depot founder) Marcus said, compared to the 2,300 locations the retailer currently has scattered around the U.S."

9. "A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows."

10. "Goodhart cites a YouGov poll from 2011 that found 62% agreed with the proposition: “Britain has changed in recent times beyond recognition, it sometimes feels like a foreign country and this makes me uncomfortable.” Only 30% disagreed. "

11. "With no end in sight, legions of nurses have left the field, retired early, or switched jobs. Some 100,000 nurses left the industry between 2020 and 2021, according to an industry trade-journal estimate. Although there were 4.4 million registered nurses with active licenses as of 2021, according to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, only 3 million people were employed as nurses, according to the Department of Labor."

12. "Where life expectancy at birth was calculated at 79 in 2019, this dropped to 76.1 in 2021."

13. "The net inflow of high-net-worth individuals to the US plummeted 86% in 2022 from peak pre-pandemic levels, falling to just 1,500 people, according to a new wealth report by London-based consultancy Henley & Partners. That's compared to a net inflow that fluctuated between 6,400 and 10,800 wealthy people a year from 2013 to 2019."

14. "Eighth-grade math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, often called the “Nation’s Report Card,” fell by a jarring eight points since the test was last administered in 2019, while fourth-grade scores dropped by five points; both are the largest math declines ever recorded on the test."

15. "Gallup previously reported that trust in the judicial branch of the federal government has cratered in the past two years; it now sits at 47%, below the majority level for the first time in Gallup's polling history. At 43%, trust in the executive branch is just three percentage points above its record low from the Watergate era. Americans are even less trusting in the legislative branch, at 38%, but this figure has been as low as 28% in the past."

16. "Roughly 4% to as high as 12% of CEOs exhibit psychopathic traits, according to some expert estimates, many times more than the 1% rate found in the general population and more in line with the 15% rate found in prisons."

17. "According a study dating back to 2010, there were at least three times as many psychopaths in executive or CEO roles than in the overall population. But more recent data found it’s now a much higher figure: 20 percent."

18. "Florida once had 350 small citrus farmers, Janet Mixon said less than 20 remain."

19. "Rex Buchanan, interim director of the Kansas Geological Survey, recently completed an annual tour of the 1,400 wells that tap into the Ogallala in western Kansas. He said overall levels dropped about 3.5 feet in January 2013 compared to last year. Declines in January 2012 averaged 4.25 feet, he said. Buchanan said even in a normal year, the aquifer only recharges at an annual rate of about a half-inch. But users in some sections are pumping water out at a rate of two to four feet per year -- sometimes more. That rate only increases during periods of prolonged drought, such as the one the region has been experiencing for the past year."

20. "According to Dr Kristine Nichols, a soil microbiologist and regenerative agriculture expert, of the 900 million arable acres in the U.S., only about 1.5% is being farmed regeneratively. Iowa soil, for instance, was once among the most fertile on the planet, but is now rapidly being depleted. The average topsoil depth has decreased from around 14-18 inches at the beginning of the 20th century, to 6-8 inches by the year 2000."

21. “Irrigation on 24% of the cultivated land produces 40% of the total global food supply,” Irmak points out. “If we stopped irrigating today, more people would suffer due to substantially reduced food, fiber, and feed production, especially in areas that are already experiencing a significant shortage of supplies.”

22. "A 66 percent majority of Republicans in 13 Southern states including Texas and Florida are in favor of seceding from the union, according to a poll released Wednesday by Bright Line Watch. Support for forming a breakaway country reached 47 percent among Democrats in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii."

23. "Even under average-flow conditions, some drinking-water plants use water containing more than 20 percent wastewater. Of the 11 drinking-water plant intakes in the U.S. with the highest percentage of such de facto reuse, eight are in Texas. So, many Texans are now, probably unknown to them, ingesting water that was recently municipal wastewater. Yes, natural processes in those rivers help clean the water, but those processes are generally slow, so the natural cleanup is minimal when the travel time between cities is only days."

24. "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency acknowledges it could be a problem nationwide. The agency cites research from Southern California showing that people who swam in areas near flowing storm drains were 50 percent more likely to get sick than those who swam farther from the same drains. This idea that the pathway from sewer pipes to storm drains might be a significant source of contamination even in areas with separate systems is new, as is the ability to track it."

25. "In the United States, life expectancy in 2021 was 79.1 years for women and 73.2 years for men. That 5.9-year difference is the largest gap in a quarter-century."

26. "The pool of those eligible to join the military continues to shrink, with more young men and women than ever disqualified for obesity, drug use or criminal records. Last month, Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville testified before Congress that only 23% of Americans ages 17-24 are qualified to serve without a waiver to join, down from 29% in recent years."

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28. "While the U.S. labor market remains incredibly tight — with the economy adding another 517,000 jobs in December — around 7 million “prime age” men between the ages of 25 and 54 are reportedly sitting it out."

29. "The finding that nearly half of prime age, NLF men take pain medication on any given day and that 40 percent report that pain prevents them from accepting a job suggests that pain management interventions could potentially be helpful."

30.
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31. "John Schreiber @johnschreiber Keep hearing of train burglaries in LA on the scanner so went to #LincolnHeights to see it all. And… there’s looted packages as far as the eye can see. Amazon packages, @UPS boxes, unused Covid tests, fishing lures, epi pens. Cargo containers left busted open on trains."

32. "Online sales are nearly 15% of retail sales, a share that’s higher than pre-pandemic, which means more opportunities for “porch pirates” to strike. The annual amount lost to package theft is an estimated $19.5 billion, according to a report." (That looks to be about 2%.)

33. "94 percent of American workers say they’re stressed at work, and three-quarters believe they’re more stressed than their parents (and their parents)."

34. "A 2012 study by the American Medical Association found that the current generation may be the first to encounter parents outliving their children due to childhood obesity which in turn can cause adults in middle age to suffer from hypertension, osteoarthritis, diabetes, stroke, chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. The number of young and middle-aged adults becoming obese at increasingly younger ages is resulting a greater incidence of chronic disease and shortened life expectancy. Research from the University of Michigan’s Joyce Lee, a pediatric endocrinologist, found that people born between 1966 and 1985 became obese at a much faster rate than previous generations."

35. "Ten out of 20 plants — built by Samsung Electronics, SK hynix, TSMC, Intel, Rapidus (Japanese chip consortium) and Chinese chipmakers — were rated “worrisome” in more than three categories. The Texas chip plant of Samsung Electronics had more than three hurdles to overcome, including high production costs and a lack of labor. The nine categories evaluated were: production cost; geopolitical and environmental risk; semiconductor equipment and facility delivery; future demand; subsidies and tax credits; water and electricity supply; governmental risks, such as excess profit sharing; and labor supply."

36. "“I not only believe, but know for a fact that the cost of manufacturing chips in the US will be at least 55% higher than in Taiwan,” Chang had said at a press meeting on Saturday on the sidelines of APEC."

37. "From 2020 to 2021, death rates increased for each age group 1 year and over. Age-specific rates increased 10.1% for age group 1–4 (from 22.7 deaths per 100,000 population in 2020 to 25.0 in 2021), 4.4% for 5–14 (13.7 to 14.3), 5.6% for 15–24 (84.2 to 88.9), 13.4% for 25–34 (159.5 to 180.8), and 16.1% for 35–44 (248.0 to 287.9). Rates increased 12.1% for 45–54 (473.5 to 531.0), 7.5% for 55–64 (1,038.9 to 1,117.1), 3.8% for 65–74 (2,072.3 to 2,151.3), 2.4% for 75–84 (4,997.0 to 5,119.4), and 3.5% for 85 and over (15,210.9 to 15,743.3)."

38. "NYC lost 5.3% of its population — nearly a half-million people — since COVID, with most heading South" "New Yorkers are so worried about crime, sky-high housing costs and struggling schools, 27% percent of state residents said they want to move away in the next five years, a survey revealed Wednesday."


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Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by aedens » Sat Jun 15, 2024 9:13 am

In the time of the flood and eclipse with to root social divides we hold the line in the hour seen.
peleg------- reu -------- serug-------- nahor-------- terah
Coded from the Book to events seen long before in the order of names.

Sat Dec 23, 2023 1:27 pm Coming online this past week was the Texas Capital Texas Oil Index ETF and the Texas Capital Texas Small Cap Equity Index ETF being brought to market by the Texas Capital Funds Trust.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g76EoPgcy9c

thread: l8ter

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Sat Jun 15, 2024 12:41 am

Higgenbotham wrote:
Thu Jul 20, 2023 11:48 pm
Does Greg Abbott know or understand something that few others do? I wouldn't bet against him.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on new stock exchange: A place for companies whose only agenda is capitalism

Texas Governor Greg Abbott joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss the state’s plans to launch a new national stock exchange, President Biden’s executive order on the southern border, state of the 2024 race, and more.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/06/06/t ... alism.html

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by aedens » Fri Jun 14, 2024 9:04 pm

Do you think that no one in the USA realizes what we are doing? This is madness.
https://rmx.news/article/german-stock-e ... lly-wrong/
Germany in free fall. For years we warned the greenmask and watermellons have now been effectivly ended with active measures.
Month and month ago the center imploded as catalyst cracker chemical products you must have for civilization left that zone.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Fri Jun 14, 2024 5:22 pm

Higgenbotham wrote:
Thu Jun 13, 2024 10:23 pm
Michael Ruppert Confronts CIA Director John Deutch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDtv6c631Ww

Generally, there is some truth to their allegations. But rarely do you see anything presented in a coherent, understandable fashion.
This is, however.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE2-zYEldGc

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