Recent content by expat_panama

The 2020 election is old news, a done deal. What's new is the cover up back then plus the coordination w/ a foreign power plus the evidence to that effect. Am getting my popcorn out...

Agreed, neither of us is disagreeing w/ the other. What I was doing as adding to your correct statement w/ additional info.

What I'm getting from yo What I'm getting from you is ooo ooo ooo, but no numbers. Here are some numbers: Your article was factually correct by misleading. there was a dip that started w/ Obama but it ended w/ Trump's first term and has been climbing ever since.

Naturally there's more to it than that. W/ the international balance of payments we've not only got purchases but on top of that there're exchange rates --like if the grocer only accepted "store money" for purchases and somewhere you had to exchange your employment money for store money...

There are some folks who'd read that and think you mean that sometime during the past 4 years, a ship w/ $1.2T of U.S. citizens money went out into the ocean and gave away the money. OK, so you don't mean that. Question: what do you mean --iow where did the money come from, was the money...

My return just got efiled to the IRS & they accepted it & gave me a receipt code bigger than a horse's leg.

Here's a reply post in the hopes that I'll either set the record straight (and save someone a lot of grief) or I'll learn something I hadn't thought of (it happens). Predicting the future is hard. I'll believe higher trade tariffs when I see them. So far new tariffs have been just a...

You might want to sort out all these topics and get into them one at a time. You talked about tariffs and you talked about the "trade deficit". First tariffs. A tariff is a tax on imports. The U.S. is taxed so heavily that if you lower rates you raise revenue, so the fact that the U.S...

imho this is the the kind of world change that deserves notice.

While I'm willing to admit that you got a super accent for making fun of Universities, my thought is that saying U.S. universities are popular but crummy somehow doesn't wash. I mean, you're voting with your mouth while millions of students are voting w/ their feet and millions of employers are...

lol!! Unless we say that there are 250 nations (the number gets a bit murky) in which case we'd be back up to the top 5%... Nice to hear from you Todd!

Not sure what you're saying other than that bit about the U.S. being 13Th world wide. Now, off hand I'd say that being 13th out of what, 200 nations? That puts us in the top 95% --fine by me. However, it's time to take a deep breath and actually think here. The U.S. university level...

yet he's living rent free in your brain. I just clicked the "ignore" button.

Yeah, that's getting to be my take too. I was asking John Edgar what I did wrong and all I got was more fuss & no thought that I could find. No prob, there are 8 B people in the world and 99.99% are reasonable. That leaves 800,000 that want to kill me. I can live w/ that.

Seems I got all confused w/ him too but I replied anyway on the outside chance that he may have been saying something.