Just now, Boogyman said:

My wife's degree is in regulatory affairs, quality and compliance. She is the global director of quality for a small but fast growing pharma company with several products in phase 3 clinical trials. She basically did the opposite of what people like HE did and got a degree in a field that is very marketable.

At some point in the future, she can hire HE to tape your ankles when they get bad from all that running back and forth to the kitchen

Just now, DrPhilly said:

At some point in the future, she can hire HE to tape your ankles when they get bad from all that running back and forth to the kitchen

I fixed that myself. I just stay in there. I can even see the TV from the barstools, not a bad gig really.

Just now, Boogyman said:

I fixed that myself. I just stay in there. I can even see the TV from the barstools, not a bad gig really.

Seriously, it all sounds really nice.  I've grown to enjoy spending time making food over the years and would be happy to do more of it.

Just now, DrPhilly said:

Seriously, it all sounds really nice.  I've grown to enjoy spending time making food over the years and would be happy to do more of it.

When the kids are in school, every Monday I make something I've never cooked before for lunch. Sometimes it's ish, sometimes I discover a new favorite to add to the dinner "rotation". But either way it's extremely enjoyable.

Well I didn't go to college but I was smart enough to land a job where the cfo comes around with an assortment of beers on a Friday afternoon.

 

12 minutes ago, DiPros said:

Well I didn't go to college but I was smart enough to land a job where the cfo comes around with an assortment of beers on a Friday afternoon.

 

You win.

5 hours ago, mr_hunt said:

sallie mae's servicing company is now called navient, btw.   the entity still known as sallie mae now offers private student loans. 

 

Yeah my loans were originally through Navient. They come directly from the feds now, but it’s switching to something else in 2023.

3 hours ago, Boogyman said:

You win.

Pretty much. I have 3 college degrees and I’m pretty sure @vikas83’s secretary makes more than I do.

1 hour ago, Gannan said:

Pretty much. I have 3 college degrees and I’m pretty sure @vikas83’s secretary makes more than I do.

Where did you think a Gender Studies degree was going to take you?

5 minutes ago, lynched1 said:

Where did you think a Gender Studies degree was going to take you?

Your mom’s pants?

7 hours ago, Dave Moss said:

Didn’t student loans used to have a fairly short loan period?  Like 10 years?  I keep hearing about 40-year-olds like Hazelton Eagle with huge loan balances.

Who ever said I was 40?

4 hours ago, Gannan said:

Your mom’s pants?

Should work out for you as well as that Gender Studies degree. 

WSJ: Maybe the U.S. Economy Isn’t Really Shrinking

When the Commerce Department reported last month that U.S. economic output contracted for two consecutive quarters during the first half of the year, it raised fears the U.S. might be in recession, defined in a popular rule of thumb as two negative quarters of growth. New data sends a different message: rather than in recession, the economy might be in something closer to a stall.

Economic output can be measured two different ways: gross domestic product, or gross domestic income. For every dollar an individual spends to buy some good or service—a restaurant meal, a car, a doctor’s visit—another individual earns a dollar of income to make and deliver that good or service. GDP captures the spending side of these transactions, GDI the income side.

In theory, GDI and GDP should equal each other, though there is always some statistical discrepancy because they are measured using different data sets and different sources. This year the discrepancy has been unusually large. During the first half of the year GDP contracted at a 1.1% annual rate, adjusted for inflation. At the same time, GDI, made up of a measure of corporate profits, wages and benefits, self-employment income, interest and rent, expanded at a 1.6% annual rate, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

It is hard to know what is behind the discrepancy. In a time of great economic volatility the statistics measuring the economy can be less reliable. Some economists look for a clearer picture by averaging GDP and GDI. That measure of output barely moved at all, rising at a 0.2% annual rate, adjusted for inflation, over the first six months of the year. This is more consistent with a stalling economy than one in recession.

"The economy is stagnating, but it’s not declining,” said Robert Gordon, a Northwestern University professor and longstanding member of a committee at the National Bureau of Economic Research, which dates the beginning and end of recessions.

The bureau doesn’t follow the rule of thumb that two negative quarters of GDP growth mean recession. It defines a recession as a broad, sustained and significant contraction in overall activity, viewable across a range of statistics. It looks at measures including employment, business sales, manufacturing production and income. Among its favored measures is the average of GDI and GDP. Looking at these numbers, Mr. Gordon said, "You couldn’t call this a recession at all.”

10 hours ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

WSJ: Maybe the U.S. Economy Isn’t Really Shrinking

When the Commerce Department reported last month that U.S. economic output contracted for two consecutive quarters during the first half of the year, it raised fears the U.S. might be in recession, defined in a popular rule of thumb as two negative quarters of growth. New data sends a different message: rather than in recession, the economy might be in something closer to a stall.

Economic output can be measured two different ways: gross domestic product, or gross domestic income. For every dollar an individual spends to buy some good or service—a restaurant meal, a car, a doctor’s visit—another individual earns a dollar of income to make and deliver that good or service. GDP captures the spending side of these transactions, GDI the income side.

In theory, GDI and GDP should equal each other, though there is always some statistical discrepancy because they are measured using different data sets and different sources. This year the discrepancy has been unusually large. During the first half of the year GDP contracted at a 1.1% annual rate, adjusted for inflation. At the same time, GDI, made up of a measure of corporate profits, wages and benefits, self-employment income, interest and rent, expanded at a 1.6% annual rate, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

It is hard to know what is behind the discrepancy. In a time of great economic volatility the statistics measuring the economy can be less reliable. Some economists look for a clearer picture by averaging GDP and GDI. That measure of output barely moved at all, rising at a 0.2% annual rate, adjusted for inflation, over the first six months of the year. This is more consistent with a stalling economy than one in recession.

"The economy is stagnating, but it’s not declining,” said Robert Gordon, a Northwestern University professor and longstanding member of a committee at the National Bureau of Economic Research, which dates the beginning and end of recessions.

The bureau doesn’t follow the rule of thumb that two negative quarters of GDP growth mean recession. It defines a recession as a broad, sustained and significant contraction in overall activity, viewable across a range of statistics. It looks at measures including employment, business sales, manufacturing production and income. Among its favored measures is the average of GDI and GDP. Looking at these numbers, Mr. Gordon said, "You couldn’t call this a recession at all.”

give it time

Here comes Pop Pop.

26 minutes ago, mayanh8 said:

Here comes Pop Pop.

Looks like giving people free stuff ( Bribing  people with college debt foregivness) works

But we knew that, the dems eat that crap up. 

1 hour ago, Ipiggles said:

Looks like giving people free stuff ( Bribing  people with college debt foregivness) works

But we knew that, the dems eat that crap up. 

You voted for a guy (twice) who literally gave free money to everyone (and insisted his name be put on the checks to try to buy votes), and lots of free money to farmers to NOT GROW ANYTHING!

1 hour ago, Ipiggles said:

Looks like giving people free stuff ( Bribing  people with college debt foregivness) works

But we knew that, the dems eat that crap up. 

college debt forgiveness is dumb politically AND policy wise, and is unlikely to be moving the needle.

however gas prices coming down and passage of the reconciliation bill are coming at a good time as kids go back to school and voters start paying attention for mid-terms. 

not to mention Republicans continuously shooting themselves in the foot. 

Just now, JohnSnowsHair said:

college debt forgiveness is dumb politically AND policy wise, and is unlikely to be moving the needle.

however gas prices coming down and passage of the reconciliation bill are coming at a good time as kids go back to school and voters start paying attention for mid-terms. 

not to mention Republicans continuously shooting themselves in the foot. 

In other words, people are coming around to what CVON moderates and libertarians already knew

On 8/27/2022 at 12:49 AM, lynched1 said:

Should work out for you as well as that Gender Studies degree. 

Just because trumpers are obsessed with gender studies degrees:

 

In fact, for those who pursue a cultural or gender studies major, salary expectations tend to be relatively high: On average, people who major in this area of study make $83,407 a year.

 

https://www.trade-schools.net/articles/gender-studies-jobs

Fing priceless.....

 

President Biden on Friday announced his intent to appoint MSNBC analyst Jeremy Bash, who insisted Hunter Biden’s scandalous laptop was Russian disinformation, to the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. 

Over 4.9 million illegals entered the United States during Joe Biden’s first 18 months in office via the open southern US border.

10 minutes ago, lynched1 said:

Over 4.9 million illegals entered the United States during Joe Biden’s first 18 months in office via the open southern US border.

Good thing we paid for that wall!

17 minutes ago, lynched1 said:

Fing priceless.....

 

President Biden on Friday announced his intent to appoint MSNBC analyst Jeremy Bash, who insisted Hunter Biden’s scandalous laptop was Russian disinformation, to the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. 

Wow so the president is appointing people from cable news who say nice things about him. That's got to be very frustrating for you. I can't imagine what that's gotta be like.

https://www.businessinsider.com/19-people-who-have-worked-at-fox-news-trump-administration-2019-5