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JKCalhoun 6 days ago

Picturing a future political cartoon of hobo-looking guys sitting around a winter fire burning in an old oil drum — one guy is holding up a newspaper (wut?) and saying to the rest, "Hey guys, it's fine because it says here that the employment numbers reported are the best ever!"

samfriedman 6 days ago | parent [-]

You mean like this one?

http://emilysquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/EmilysQuo...

JKCalhoun 6 days ago | parent [-]

Timeless, ha ha.

fuzzfactor 6 days ago | parent [-]

If value was actually created every time before it was distributed to shareholders, it wouldn't be nearly as bleak as when the value is instead rapidly extracted from a long-term reservoir to make the numbers go up.