Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 02, 2019

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    in.amongst  almost 6 years ago

    Deary me – time to get the House in order.

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    DD Wiz  almost 6 years ago

    The end is nigh for stockbrokers — the Wall $treet crooks who rig the system using credit default swaps, derivatives and other complex “financial instruments” that only a very few Wall $treet IT guys understand (along with Elizabeth Warren, former professor of financial law at Harvard Law School and one of the few who actually understands this stuff), that they use to bet against their investors, corner the profits, use program trading systems that process thousands of transactions per second to beat the system, and make HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS while producing ZERO actual wealth to the system.

    The end is nigh for stockbrokers and Wall $treet because a new sheriff comes to town tomorrow (Thursday, Jan 3), with a new team of deputies, all with investigative and subpoena powers and they are going to put a halt to the REDISTRIBUTION of wealth from working people who produce it to the few richest elites who already have the most and who manipulate the resources and markets, game the system, produce no actual wealth, but keep most of it for themselves.

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    Bilan  almost 6 years ago

    The Twig & Berries?

    Are they abandoning dear ole Mom?

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    somebodyshort  almost 6 years ago

    A Democrat steps in, saves the economy from utter RepubliCON collapse, turns it around into economic prosperity. New RepubliCONs come along, ride the momentum of the prosperity for awhile as the lagging economic indicators are slow to turn around the massive economic ship of state, until the iceberg of greed by those who want to REDISTRIBUTE wealth produced by working people to the few richest elites who already have the most is struck, and their titanic pyramid scheme collapses.

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    somebodyshort  almost 6 years ago

    1929, 2007 … 2019 — “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” (George Santayana)Unfortunately, if there are enough who do not learn, those of us who did learn are also forced to repeat it with them, and it is even worse, because we know how the story ends.

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    somebodyshort  almost 6 years ago

    “There are those who believe that if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them.” – William Jennings Bryan, 1896

    It just goes to show, if one has eyes, that rich people don’t create jobs. Jobs create rich people.

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    somebodyshort  almost 6 years ago

    Time to have another DRINK ! ! !

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    sirbadger  almost 6 years ago

    Back when I delivered newspapers, I worked with someone else who delivered newspapers. He was a commodity broker. Apparently, his investment skills were not that impressive. He lost money.

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    PekCheeYong  almost 6 years ago

    there seems to be a lot of “the end is nigh” quotes in the strip recently.

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    dadoctah  almost 6 years ago

    This is a plot twist?

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    albertonencioni  almost 6 years ago

    No fear. USA will pass their bankrupt to its allies, like they did some years ago. Or will sell some of its debt to China, if they are still interested. Add some “peacekeeping” war in some faraway thirld war Country (possibly very pooor and defenseless) and possibly a couple of nice “terroristic” attacks by some loonie shouting “Allah akbar”, the Bronx accent is not important.As they say, business as usual.

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    MayCauseBurns  almost 6 years ago

    Jeez lighten up….it’s a comic strip!

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    DanFlak  almost 6 years ago

    The prosperity of the stock market during the Trump years is due to Trump personally. It’s collapse is the fault of the Democrats. This changes from day to day.

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    sandpiper  almost 6 years ago

    The stock market chart is on a spindle. It rotates in response to the winds out of D.C. The speed of rotation is in direct proportion to the fear flowing out of the market centers. Market and hedge fund managers chum the flow to keep those fees based funds in motion. Whatever the outcome, the 1% won’t suffer.

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    Masterskrain  almost 6 years ago

    But…but…but… Captain Bankruptcy, king of the shutdown, Tweets that we are ALL supposed to “Calm Down and Enjoy the Ride!”

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    magicwalnut  almost 6 years ago

    Not only did the stock market tank, but my broker/financial advisor of thirty five years just retired! Oy!

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    asmbeers  almost 6 years ago

    Dow, going up and down and up again. However, its down is still higher than Obama’s highest.

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    markmoss1  almost 6 years ago

    Don’t you guys realize that this downturn is the reaction to the Democrats gaining control of just one house of Congress? Likewise, the last surge in the US economy started the morning after Trump won the election, with Republicans in control of both houses of Congress.

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    dennisodoyle  almost 6 years ago

    Actually, it’s the liberals who want to do the redistributing. The idea that the wealthy are stealing from the rest is a socialist myth. Actually, it is they who pay 50% of the taxes in this country so that the lower half of the people don’t pay anything.

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    Lyle F'tore  almost 6 years ago

    “The Twig and Berries” nice.

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    Neat '33  almost 6 years ago

    Um; the end WAS nigh for a lot of those NFL coaches last week, huh?

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    somebodyshort  almost 6 years ago

    “The Twig and Berries”.Nice reference Wiley. I wonder how many get it

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    GAKatmandu  almost 6 years ago

    Dream on, they don’t care about the common man either they’re just a bunch of con men who pay lip service to the disenfranchised in order to get their votes. They all either serve those that have made them rich or that can make them rich. Things will always be status quo until we the people stop voting for the same self serving career liars that permeate politics.

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    1953Baby  almost 6 years ago

    Gee, all I’m getting from my stockbroker is chirpy little notes about how the market has ALWAYS been volatile, and I have to hang in there. And for gawd’s sake, don’t sell, because then he won’t get his 3% commission. . .

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    One moderating effect (like the cadmium rods in atomic power plants) would be a very small transaction tax — just 0.01% of the value of every stock deal. It would represent a nice source of income for the government and provide some viscosity in the speed of all those computerized stock trades.

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    And So It Goes  almost 6 years ago

    On a lighter side – have you noticed how much Bob resembles Tricky Dicky Nixon?

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    Mokurai  almost 6 years ago

    The saner economists and financial analysts noticed the conditions for the coming crash a whole year ago, when corporations were plowing their tax giveaway into stock buybacks. The market has been down for the last year, and increasingly volatile. We have seen this movie before.

    Stock market bubble: Fake News? https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/23/1734905/-Stock-market-bubble-Fake-News

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    algorestinks  almost 6 years ago

    So naive. There’s no difference in sheriffs, in fact, the ‘new’ sheriffs’ party was in control of both houses and the presidency during the 110th & 11th Congresses (2007-2011), directly after the 2008 wall street crash. If they’d have wanted to do so, they could’ve ‘ended’ it then.

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    bakana  almost 6 years ago

    Vampire Economics only works until the Victim runs out of Blood/Money and Dies.

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    RonBerg13 Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    Boy, you leftists really want the economy to tank so badly.

    Just to get one person… my, my…

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    gsteele531  over 5 years ago

    Well, here we are in June, and the market growth is the best this month since 1938; how’s that doomsday propaganda working out for you Bob? My portfolio is up 40% since Trump. Does reality ever enter into your world view?

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