Moonbox

Is it? Do Russian generals getting fired make it look like it's going well for your mancrush, (strong man Putin *swoon*)?

It's cuter how you're calling us warmongers for opposing the Russian invasion of Ukraine undertaken by a warmonger you parrot at every opportunity. Dumb dumb dumb.

The Republican House and most republican voters still support supplying Ukraine. It's mostly just Trump and his army of zombies that don't.

No, they're the figures resulting from their calculations, you angry muppet. ? Yes, you posted an article explaining how CPI calculations are complicated, not one that even remotely supported your claim. Great job! ??

It's straight from the statscan CPI portal you donkey - a direct drill-down of shelter costs from the national to provincial to regional levels. Nope, that's just you spinning your wheels to try and save face after getting caught cluelessly bullshitting again. We know: 1) A weighted average of shelter costs are included in CPI 2) That statscan is publishing the numbers that make up this average in their CPI portal (including Toronto and Vancouver). 3) That you have claimed Toronto and Vancouver are excluded, without providing any evidence whatsoever.

I know it would be nice if we could just keep having near-zero interest rates, borrow as much money as we want AND have low inflation, but that's unfortunately not how reality works. I think you're seeing what you want to see there.

It was a drill-down on the composition of the Consumer Price Index, straight from the Statscan website. Once again, you've proven your compulsion for clueless bullshitting and your tendency to aggressively double-down on it when corrected. ??

Happy White Heritage Day everyone.

Yes, imagine that. That's why countries like Chad are doing such a great job with getting solar capacity online, with their ample sunshine, right? What's weirdly funny to me is how you're rationalizing that wasting money that could be spent tackling climate change on unrelated public services is somehow irrelevant. ?‍♂️

Maybe you should be worried about why Russia is blocking the ships carrying the food that could feed people? No, you're too dumb for that.

Sure, but it's a condemnation of all levels of government. We can blame the municipalities and provinces for overly bureaucratizing the zoning and permit process, as well as for short-sighted policy that let the problems fester for a decade and more. Our last two federal governments lent a hand as well.

No, they don't, and I literally just showed you that they're included. They exclude all sorts of things from inflation calculations, but rent and shelter costs for Canada's largest housing markets ain't one of them, and I'm pretty sure you can't provide any references proving otherwise. Yes, that's why it's weighted. It will undoubtedly be worse in Ontario than, say, Manitoba. It's hilarious that you can acknowledge this reality but then try to tell us that Toronto's excluded from the calculation, as if we'd get any useful provincial data for Ontario without including +25% of it's population. ?

Sure, but that's a problem that's being going on for a long time. This is an inflection point. We've gone 14 years with near-free borrowing driving asset prices and debt levels up, and very quickly had to flip the script. There are going to be lots of people thrown under the bus, primary amongst them the overleveraged real-estate speculators and the renters who get preyed on.

I said that Canadians don't live under roofs or eat? They do, do they? ? That's the whole point of increasing interest rates. You dissuade people from borrowing and thus curb demand.

Hey there he is, our resident Twitter zombie!

The higher interest rates are lowering inflation. ? What does fault have to do with it?

Better yet, tell me where I suggested they didn't? People don't qualify for mortgages if housing would be half their income. They don't qualify at 35% either. There are no doubt some extremely unfortunate renters out there not covered by rent control, or some over-leveraged speculators eating shit, but that would be a fraction. That's not how the math works. The MAJORITY of people are being accounted for in the inflation statistics already. Yes, but the inflation stats are weighted to account for that. ?

This is actually very true, and something I've tried to tell people about but the concept seems too esoteric for most. ?

Inflation is getting lower and it's now within the BoC's long-term target range. Choose whatever measurement you want (core, headline, CPI/PCE), it is going down. It may affect different people in different ways, but you can't cherry-pick the folks affected the worst and then exaggerate its effect across the board. Grocery prices are a big problem for poor folk, as are rent increases for the poor folk not protected by rent control, but those are specific problems without easy policy decisions and seemingly not ones that good 'ol Justin is likely to tackle.

Everything costs money. If you're eager to see environmental issues tackled, you should also be concerned with the fiscal deficit. The further in the red we go, the less likely people are to concern themselves with carbon emissions. Food on the table first, as they say.

Perhaps, but the problem is that they're not entirely wrong. I don't really know. On the one hand we know where Liberal votes come from and where Conservative votes come from, and they're both playing to their bases. I would argue that this sort of subject is a miscalculation on the Liberals' part, however, because the number of people who end up annoyed by the token Chinese/Inuit/Transgender figure replacing our longest-serving PM will be larger than the number who are impressed by it.

Everybody should be concerned with our national debt. It’s silly not to. One way or the other, the bills have to be paid.

Ukraine's taken more land back in the first 5 weeks of their counter-offensive than Russia took in the six months prior. Russia's done essentially nothing but throw lives away and lose territory since last summer, but apparently that's what winning means. ?

Because it looks dumb, makes no sense, and I'd never even seen it before you posted it here. My point is not that nobody's allowed to change anything, but if you're going to change it at least have a good reason for doing it. Getting rid of John A. made sense. Putting Canada's Rosa Parks on it instead was a bit of an eye-roll, but whatever. I don't normally waste my time/energy on these sorts of things, but there's something grating about the drive to turn our bills into highschool-diorama style diversity statements. Put the animals back on it and be done with it. I have an old orange $2 bill with a couple of robyns in a drawer somewhere and it looks great.

Enhanced security measures don't have much to do with the aesthetic design, or cultural messaging though, do they? Yes - a very straightforward, innocuous refresh, isn't it? I'm not sure what your point is on this one. I think we can both agree this one is retarded?