From NorthJersey.com:
North Jersey real estate saw more new home listings, but higher prices, in October
New Jersey’s real estate market saw more new home listings and properties staying on the market longer in October, but also increasing home prices.
Overall, October marked the 12th consecutive month of inventory growth across the nation, reported Realtor.com. With 29.2% more homes actively for sale than at this time last year, the number of homes actively for sale is the highest it has been since December 2019.
Homes for sale across the nation stayed on the market for about 58 days, which is eight more days than at this time last year and three more days than last month, Realtor.com said. That made this past month the slowest October in five years.
As for interest rates, the median rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was 6.88% as of Oct. 31, the Wall Street Journal reported. And the median interest rate on a 15-year fixed-rate mortgage was 6%.
This is how North Jersey’s real estate market performed in October, data from Realtor.com showed.
…
In North Jersey, the counties of Bergen, Morris and Hudson all had more new listings in October than at this time last year. And the counties of Passaic, Essex and Sussex had a decrease in new listings compared with this time last year.
- Bergen: 756 (4.71%).
- Passaic: 294 (-0.68%).
- Morris: 494 (28.65%).
- Essex: 390 (-1.52%).
- Sussex: 180 (-18.18%).
- Hudson: 382 (1.6%).
… - Of New Jersey’s 21 counties, 17 had an increase in median listing prices from October 2023. And when compared with September 2024, 14 counties had an increase in median listing prices.
- In North Jersey, Hudson was the only county to see a decrease in median listing prices compared with this time last year. Hudson County had a 0.01% decrease, with a median listing price of $649,947. Otherwise, all other North Jersey counties saw prices increase.
- Bergen: $779,500 (0%).
- Passaic: $549,333 (15.66%).
- Morris: $738,422 (7.41%).
- Essex: $571,000 (12.4%).
- Sussex: $427,500 (7.04%).
Frist
With 29.2% more homes actively for sale than at this time last year, the number of homes actively for sale is the highest it has been since December 2019.
12th consecutive month of inventory growth with price growth while the FED drops 25 basis points so… do we see the 40-year mortgage first or a flood of inventory in 2025? No major movement in either direction as of yet. It looks like my Chex Mix bill will be larger in 2025.
Chi – would be appropriate to find a late 90s Volvo 940, probably already has the Cornell sticker on the window. Congrats!
Food for thought:
Dividend payers in the S&P 500 typically pay out about 40% of net income as dividends. A six-percentage-point rate cut (21% down to 15%) has the potential to boost income, and payouts, by roughly 7% to 8%, all else being equal. However, keep in mind that the 15% rate would only be applied to domestic production.
So the biggest bump from the Trump tax plan goes to companies with larger U.S. businesses, which means focusing on how much money companies make in the U.S. That typically means small-cap stocks. Companies in the small Russell 2000 generate roughly 90% of their sales in North America, according to Bloomberg, compared with about two-thirds for those in the S&P 500.
So, small-cap stocks with attractive dividend yields should be poised to outperform.
Interesting read. Note the common sense principals in the latter part of the article. Even the comments appear to be coherent:
https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-shattering-of-the-democratic
I see you people had the election, and the world did not end either way. We were in Europe for a few weeks, People over there did not seem to be paying too much attention to the U.S. election. Spent some time in the Balkans, a very interesting and historic part of Europe.
Chgo: Congrats to your Son. All the best.
Congrats Chi. It was tough writing those checks to Cornell, but paid off in the long run with my daughter’s two successful businesses.
Eddie-
If you took a poll of Democrats (or registered Independants like me who often vote for democrats) you would find that most agree with pretty much all the points made in that article, and that we vote for D’s IN SPITE OF the stupid woke/DEI/”defund the police” etc. stuff, not because of it.
For me, (and many others, I suspect) Jan 6 was the “red line” I will not cross. I will not vote for anyone who tried to erase my vote (and the votes of millions of other Americans) after the 2020 election, and I won’t vote for anyone who supports the guy who tried to erase my vote.
In my mind, that’s like asking a black guy in 1960’s Alabama to vote for Bull Connor. Not gonna happen.
And I won’t vote for anyone who refuses to acknowledge that Biden won 2020 fair and square, or for any moron who continues to insist that the Jan 6 rioters were just “a bunch of grandmothers strolling through the capitol”. (A poster here said that very thing just the other day!)
I’ve voted for lots of R’s in my lifetime. Maybe someday I will vote R again.
But that probably won’t happen until the R’s have their own (long overdue) “introspection moment” like the D’s are having now.
Maybe the D’s will stop suppressing the protest vote of the corruption that permeates their establishment. I’ve been trying to explain this to my wonky echo chamber inhabiting liberal friends. You go back just four years and Pelosi continues to inside trade, tell the world they can’t go to a hair salon and then gets caught in one herself and then end up being wrong about the vaccine mandates post Omicron. Then there are the criminal senators like Menendez and there is no explanation for what a drug addicted President’s son is doing making energy deals in Russia. You see the problem is, Trump’s populist lies appear way more credible when mixed with the fodder Dems supply them. And though it is a lesser if true evils decision which seemed pretty simple IMO, the Dems could easily beat MAGA if they actually listened to the protest vote that was loud and clear through the likes of Bernie and Warren instead of choosing who you get to vote for on Election Day. Remember, many of us called for. Iden to step down well over two years ago. Again, MAGA ended up being right. Quite likely, if the Dems simple took the high road and did not provide the fodder for the right, they would win easily.
Oh. Will they figure this out? Unfortunately, not likely. I always said, for them to win, it had to be someone not from the establishment. The Gravy Train must keep rolling.
Andy Kim, who does not do the PAC thing gets it.
https://x.com/andykimnj/status/1854585786773000223?s=46&t=JBEIpyGkpFlKn3zp8fw5tQ
So Gary, where is the inventory and Raw goods coming from for these North American sales.
Hearing anecdotes today about how this is shaking out. How about the small companies canceling bonuses this year so that they can stock up on overseas supplies before the tariffs hit.
Talk about F around and Find out!.
Lib, I think your argument falls on an few things. Dems are a big tent and try to make room for everyone. So someone is always going to be pissed off. Bernie tried to calm down the pro Palestine crowd, if Harris went that way, the pro Israel side goes nuts.
Grift on the GOP side is as bad if not worse. They are all trading, not just Pelosi. New congress critter goes from pennies in a checking account to a multi-million dollar balance by the end of the term.
Whats different is that the Dems for good or bad hold themselves accountable and it hurts them. Al Franken, Elliot Spitzer etc, they even made Menendez walk the plank. On the other side we have Anthony D’Esposito funneling cash by hiring his mistress and his fiancée’s daughter, and who can forget George Santos. The GOP dont care, they are in lockstep behind because they wont give up the vote.
I totally agree, The fringe of the Democratic party is how many on the other side actually view the party. But all of that doesn’t matter. The DEMS got shellacked. Walloped.
Americans love a comeback story and respect a winner. In this case, many DEMs will simply nod and move on. No big deal. The big deal will come if/when Trump tries to move the US further toward a theocracy. If that begins to occur look for a brain drain as those who can leave the Country will look at that as a viable option for the first time.
It’s not easy living in America. Our healthcare is super expensive and sucks. One bad
health issue and you can easily be bankrupted. The job market is so-so for many. I’d say parts of Europe and south of the Equator look pretty appealing as an alternative.
Either way, It’s going to be a very interesting four years. Stay tuned.
Lib- you’re dead right on the insider trading, but when it comes to :
“there is no explanation for what a drug addicted President’s son is doing making energy deals in Russia.”
How could you stop things like this? Pass a law that restricts what what the son/daughter of a president/congressman/SC justice… can do for a living?
I just don’t see how any law that tried to do that could stand up in court.
There’s so many angles to this election that I could write for days outlining the extraordinary results. There’s tidbits that even surpass the Reagan/Mondale results like winning districts, percentages, ethnic votes not seen in decades and even a century. It’s the greatest comeback in U.S. political history, bar none.
But the juiciest win is seeing the Obammy legacy get exposed and taken down. Most of us knew he was a fake and fraud to begin with but him quadrupling down and scolding his “Brothers” while Cumeela was promising free weed was glorious in their desperation.
Obomy thought his “walk on water” status was going to deliver his people to the promised land but when he couldn’t move the needle, his legacy was readjusted and put in its rightful place. He was/is nothing more than a passing moment in presidential history
I think the thing that was was lost on the “elites” is something I mentioned earlier this year. The rising tide has not lifted every boat. In fact there are so many people priced out of the dream that they are bitter and willing to follow whoever hates the same people they hate. Do you really think that the US is a “shithole”? I don’t but I live pretty well here. Many many folks are struggling mightily and voted with their pocket books. Kamala’s “joy” was simply that she had a steady job. Now that she is effectively unemployed I wonder how Joyful her thoughts are?
1:38 His appeal along with Clinton’s has waned as would be expected. Betcha the poors will miss Obama-care though once that is revoked without a replacement.
1:38 but then you know Obama doesn’t take up nearly the space is my head that he appears to in your Gary. Trump will be a disaster as President. It’s his M.O. I don’t wish for that either, but I predict tough times ahead once he is installed. I would LOVE to be wrong about that. History shows us differently though.
The root cause still is the lefts pivot away from the working class. They’ve become the party of coastal elites and public worker unions.
The party policies have aligned that way from open borders to inflationary spending, all of which benefits them.
When it was clear the public saw through the nonsense and sanctimony they escalated the condescension and became apoplectic. Referring to people who don’t comply as maggots and garbage.
I see the Dem stooges, those guys that had convinced themselves that Joe had generally done a ‘pretty good job’ and after the debate that Carmella ‘wasn’t that bad’, still don’t get it. Instead of simply admitting that the modern Dem party is incapable of good governance, they resort to nonsensical whining about “Trump’s populist lies”, “Grift on the GOP side” and “Trump tries to move the US further toward a theocracy”. As I told you guys, there was no chance of Carmella (or Joe) legitimately winning this election, and most of the country (especially men) outside of the sclerotic blue states is abandoning the Dems. I just hope the blue state duds on this site didn’t let anyone see them crying like Jim Kimmel did — pathetic!
I suspect that to a segment of the population, the ultra-woke DEI crowd that the Dems allow to be their most vocal spokesman are about as appealing as the Jerry Falwell/Speaking in Tongues types that are a bit less in the forefront of the Republican party. Trump was smart not to thump the bible or campaign on abortion. The anti-abortion crowd has nobody else to vote for anyway. His “leave it up to the states” stance was a compromise that didn’t hurt him with women as much as Kamala hoped.
Florida had a constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights, it got 57% support, missing the 60% necessary to enact. DeSantis declared this a victory, but clearly the majority of Floridian voters, including a lot of people who voted for Trump, want abortion choice.
2:54 you have absolutely no idea what “good governance” is.
Your last term with Trump was a train wreck.
Yeah, the Jimmy Kimmel crying thing is really bad. It seems the guy has mental issues. Coinciding with that is colleges dismissing classes for bereavement time, safe rooms and counseling. It’s no mystery why they looked at Tampon Tim as the American machismo male. Toxic masculinity to that side seems like any guy that’s 100% heterosexual.
And how about women now withholding sex from men? Go for it, babe. If you think guys will curl up and die, share those silly thoughts with your
beastiesbesties. I’m sure you’ll learn how to chop wood and gut a kill so power to ya. It may take 2 or 3 of you for one of us but… have it! A cigar, some bourbon and a guitar works just fine!Let’s see how and what Trump does. I await his position on Israel and Hamas with a huge smile on my face.
Anybody guess how much he will increase the deficit.
– tax-cuts, – SALT modification, – no tax on tips/soc security income
– deporting illegals who were net contributors to ssn/medicare taxes
– massive outsourcing gov positions to Elon and Cronies.
Get ready to move your 401K’s into 301K (or 201K) again once the term closes.
https://x.com/hussmanjp/status/1854540798018179485/photo/1
Btw Fab, you illustrated my point. It’s not that the right isn’t corrupt. It’s that the left needs to take the high road. It’s clear that the right could care less about morals, character, even mixing church and state when they know it’s a recipe for disaster. Yeah, it would be difficult to make a law to stop all of the grift. Here’s a better idea. Just don’t do it. Remember, Trump didn’t get any more votes than he did in 2020. The Dems just got a lot less. Why do you think that was? Because they know their shit stinks too. It hardly empowers one to vote.
My biggest fear is what you are advocating for. More of the same. If we are pushed to further extremes it’s over for the Dems. Remember, MAGA XMcan do no wrong. It the Dems really can’t anynore. Think deeply about that!
Sorry ‘bout those typos.
I guess my point is this. The Dems social positions (and not the extreme ones they have have been pushed to) are enough. They went way too far with the equity and gender bullshit, which didn’t really need much discussion. It’s low hanging fruit. It’s establishment corruption and not telling the AOCs and the Talabi’s that their positions are wrong. It truly has become the snowflake party. It’s why Trump’s alpha male bullshit was so effective. Especially with the less educated.
The microwave caught fire in my house today when we were out and the kids were microwaving something. The microwave was faulty and arced. I researched it a little bit. Apparently, in 2020, the Best Buy microwaves were made like crap (big surprise). A lot of them are faulty and this is a real danger. Anyone who bought at that time, I suggest you take a look.
BRT
Panasonic for the replacement. Trust me. The sensor defrost feature request is worth it alone. We are on our second. The first won lasted from the early 80s until about 2007. The replacement is still working perfectly. The funny thing is, besides the layout of the buttons, absolutely nothing else has changed. Even the circular rotating glass plate is the same. I saved the old one just in case we drop the new one.
thanks lib, I’ll check it out
It’s morning in America!
Somehow I missed that Passaic county went for Trump. There must be a lot of closet MAGA in those parts.
Lot of pushback on open borders. There is infiltration to nearly every community that has been felt.
Midterms and Final markers to watch for in the next 4 yrs.
-So OrangeTurd pardons the insurrectionist. No what? If they go quietly away and DOJ steps on them plus OrangeTurd signals to be quiet and make no fuss is one thing. If private militias start parading around and are encouraged is another and will be a tinder box BECAUSE.
-Corruption. All authoritarians accepts a grand bargain with their underlings in a quid pro quo for their loyalties. The price is accepting variable underling corruption. Again watch DOJ/FBI/DEA/ATF/CIA/NSA – these are the old pros. If they are truly kneecap understand that the replacement will become deeply corrupt using the cleaning out the deep state mantra.
So when you add the private militias from above to the corruption, you got Organized Crime with muscle. No different than present Hells Angels, Cosa Nostra, Triads, Russian and other ethnic mobs making money in crimes. It is just more competition with the old Organized Crime and new entities private militias overtly representing certain billionaires/ideological/religious cliques but in reality all are just Organized Crime syndicates.
And if you have a weak DOJ not pursuing the perpetrators then sooner than later is a loose anarchy make me do it with spurts of violence might makes right society, in short the late 1800’s west. It also means kiss national security good bye. Everyone will become bribe eligible, think Al Capone’s Chicago. So any secrets, border security, etc are gone as someone will make money or further their interest by selling out BECAUSE.
-There is no longer any national pride or ethos. Is just my interest over yours, in short F.U. Pay me conglomeration of interested parties. Which by the way is what Margaret Thatcher said about society “There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families”. Along with ” The legal system we have and the rule of law are far more responsible for our traditional liberties than any system of one man one vote. Any country or Government which wants to proceed towards tyranny starts to undermine legal rights and undermine the law.”
I do think that the Tech Billionaires are in starting to behave in a Brave New World Alpha style. You could see it by chinese commie party reaction to their billionaires. Jack Ma and others disappeared for a few months for some ideological purity reflective processing time as order by Xi. Orange Turd could do the same if the country went totally off rails, but it won’t BECAUSE.
-Orange Turd is too old and will be gone soon enough. The dangerous part is all the factions of greedy opportunistics, ideoligical and religious zealots that will take positions of influence now and fight it out for control when OrangeTurd become CyanoticCorpse. With the mayhem that follows as all legal, constitutional, societal and any type of guardrails have been taken off.
Lots of low-educated, selfish immigrants who are living the dream and not willing to share the opportunity. You know, they got theirs. Fuck everyone else. Just like Trump taught us.
On a tour of fort Sumter this morning. Down here, they don’t talk about three things. Religion, politics and college football. You wouldn’t have even known there was an election this past week.
Just sit back and watch it burn.
Turd says:
November 9, 2024 at 10:13 am
“OrangeTurd pardons the insurrectionist”
Libturd says:
November 9, 2024 at 10:15 am
“Fuck everyone else. Just like Trump taught us.”
TDS, yes!
Like I told the whiny dope that was on a ‘convicted felon’ rant the other day, you toxically-feminized, blue-state duds need some new material. You can embarrass yourselves with emotional outbursts about felons, insurrections, misogyny, sexism, racism all you want but guess what — NO ONE CARES!
EX says:
November 9, 2024 at 10:27 am
“Just sit back and watch it burn.”
Good point. I’m going to miss watching SlowJoe being hustled away from crowds by the Easter Bunny.
Tired of hearing this, the voters have spoken.
https://youtu.be/26-VzfBZg1w?t=9
Some of you guys need to go on the Reddit pages, they’ve move beyond anger to straight jacket, rubber room howling. It truly is a glorious time. The legacy media is dead, DEI is dead, pronouns are dead and warped ideology is dead. The stars and stripes seem brighter today as we return to a determined, unwavering and resolute, traditional America. The people have spoken and common sense has prevailed.
Eddie,
On Reddit, the women are talking about putting antifreeze in their husbands/boyfriends drinks.
That gender is very angry right now.
I’m just embracing my inner alpha male. I’ve been performing air BJs on the hour.
Russians pounding away in Ukraine. This is the big one.
America on fire like Pompton Lakes.
You got the President and leadership you deserve.
“The future is Draconian.”
Phoenix.
Phoenix,
Click on practically any sub-reddit and they are apoplectic. It took me 5 seconds to find this as an example:
Yup! Those fat redneck racist misogynist bastards riding their tiny dick ELON truck need their bacon, egg, and cheese to be affordable. To hell with everyone else!
LOL.
It’s his hotdog leather face and that puckered anus mouth. God I hate him.im so sick of seeing his face every day of my goddamn life.
Omg… lol!
Some colleges are offering legos, coloring books and cookies and milk for the grieving children. Great. It’ll help us identify those that need to be rounded up to be moved to the camps.
And some people believe schools should have a copy of the Ten Commandments in every classroom. Where do we send them to?
Some colleges are offering legos, coloring books and cookies and milk for the grieving children.
Better they deal with their election disappointment that way than by storming the capitol and looking for senators and congressman to hang.
Bergen County on fire it seems. I have been up here in Bergen today and the whole area smells like a forest fire. My family in NY state has a fire burning near as well.
Juice,
There is a price to pay for this beautiful and enjoyable Santa Barbara like weather we had over the last ~60 days. So big deal, we get a day that smells like Hoboken or the Bronx in 1981.
All we are missing is some nice earthquake and we might get one if get Fat Eddie to dance to ” Jump Around”. Come on Fat Eddie do your best “Sweating to the Oldies” set.
Phoenix,
Stop complaining, your posted life experience says that in your 20’s – Crazy Hot Women was your thing.
Fire is not far from Wayne
https://abc7ny.com/post/nj-wildfire-red-flag-warning-new-jersey-dry-weather/15526071/
I was up in Napa a few years ago for a wedding when the place was burning and the firemen could barely keep up with it. I watched dozens of fire trucks, zoom around that week from hot spotting hot spot putting out all the fires. So many. It was crazy..I’m not really sure if our volunteer fire departments are up for the task if it gets worse, the whole area is a giant tinderbox with way more stuff to burn than Napa Valley ever had.
I can think of some cities near Wayne where they can do some controlled burns of.
Jersey’s going through a pretty significant drought right now.
I was out at Spruce Run Reservoir this AM moving my sailboat and I was shocked by how low the water level is. Looked to be like 10-15 ft lower than normal. The waters edge was several hundred feet beyond the bottom of the boat ramps, and acres and acres of dry lake bed exposed.
Didn’t see any bodies though.
Juice
Y’all need to get them undocumented travelers out in the woods and taking the leaves.
Raking the leaves.
Autocorrect got me again
Fat Eddie is wheezing from all the smoke. My girth can’t take it.
OC1,
All of those new apartment buildings should help those reservoirs with the capacity issues. /s
Fat Eddie is wheezing from all the smoke. My girth can’t take it.
Then get rid of that girth!
You’ll never bang a porn star that way (unless you got a billion $$).
And since you’re gloating about Trump, I’m going to throw in my own gloat- I’ve lost 12 lbs over the last 6 mos.
So there.
You’ll never bang a porn star that way (unless you got a billion $$).
I haven’t seen my pecker for years, 64 inch waist and all. ;)
I haven’t seen my pecker for years, 64 inch waist and all. ;)
Everybody here now thinking:
Please brain, delete that image! Now, please!
We had a small fire break out in town. Fire Department got to it quick and contained it.
They bought a souped up 4×4 ATV with a tank and hoses. Looks like they just justified that purchase. The big truck could not have got close.
Cmon fast, it’s almost dinner time. I’m throwing up over here.
PS get a small hand held mirror so you can check for melanoma.
Kumella’s campaign staffers leaking out bits and pieces of infighting, unorganized planning, no communication, etc. The dems pulled in $1 billion dollars and wound up $20 million in the hole. Every celebrity got paid big bucks to “support” Cumala. It’s akin to paying for s.ex. Trump said they have a lot of money left over since everyone supporting Trump did so because they wanted to… said they’ll lend the Kameela campaign money if they need it.
Yeah the optics of paying celebrities many millions of dollars to endorse looks bad.
Even Oprah got a taste… 1 Million dollar payment to Harpo Production for the September interview.
The FEC October Monthly filling aren’t do for another week or so.
I have always said get the money out of politics……..No better time than now. Politicians from both sides of the isle have said our democracy shouldn’t be bought and paid for by the wealthy and powerful.
Supreme Court has declared many years ago unconstitutional limits imposed on PACs by the legislature under First Amendment grounds but that was never the case for individuals wealthy or poor.
Will it ever happen? Not in my lifetime is my final opinion…
BREAKING:
Nancy Pelosi has begun drafting Articles of Impeachment.
OC1- congrats on your weight loss!
Now fess up? Here is a hint….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLFvTg11kdQ
Nope.
Less sugar and more mountain biking.
OC1- Good for you… I also ride a mountain bike… Less mountain these days… Haven’t added sugar in years…
Grim is/was our Ozempic Guinea Pig….should hopefully be a fun watch…just like SouthPark..
Smoke now bad in monmouth county. Where is it
Coming from? What do you mean we live in a tinder box?
Make sure you have a go bag. Look it up stuff you will need, is the fires
Get worse.
Juice
Couple of fires in Jackson, wind pushing it this way.
My golf club is in Jackson, smoke wasn’t bad yesterday.
Drove by the Pompton Fire yesterday around noon, never seen anything like it, smoke coming up from damn near everywhere on both sides of 287. Even larger fires over the ridge lines. Jayne drove past early in the AM and said it was even worse. Good thing that wind died down, it would have been really ugly otherwise.
Gilmour at MSG was fantastic BTW.
Rain tomorrow should put an end to this FF madness.
Gilmour at MSG was fantastic BTW.
Awesome. Glad you enjoyed it. An iconic performer!
Driving up route 17 into NY yesterday was thick with smoke. As I type this, the smell is still strong outside.
lol, they charged her for their endorsements? I thought they were supposed to be donating to her. Did George Clooney get paid too?
Get ready for your homeowners insurance to double with statewide fires
Fire in Jakson NJ started at the Central Jersey Rifle Range …. One arrested..
“the fire was caused by magnesium shards of a Dragons Breath 12 gauge shotgun round igniting available combustibles on the berm of the shooting range. The firing of this type of incendiary or tracer ammunition is prohibited in the State of New Jersey.
Further investigation revealed that Shashaty was responsible for firing the ammunition and igniting the fire. On November 9, 2024, Shashaty surrendered himself to Jackson Township Police Headquarters in the presence of his attorney. He was transported to the Ocean County Jail, where he is presently lodged pending a detention hearing.”
https://www.facebook.com/NJForestFireService/posts/pfbid06JLaErLKi3wWs7P5pVzTuAtSV3VhdTv41V5vVnBRp4pvkxLYfUuGnLtjojgtYfA2l
This chick threw her team under the bus. Not sugarcoating it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3alzdNWoylQ
Fast Eddie says:
November 10, 2024 at 11:09 am
This chick threw her team under the bus. Not sugarcoating it here.
Of course. It’s a woman’s perogative to change her mind. Or sleep with her best friend’s husband.
Never let a good crisis go to waste. Hehe.
Best ever was 9-11. Bin Laden threw the lighted match into the dry tinder of Democracy.
That fire is still burning hot and will be for a very long time.
BRT says:
November 10, 2024 at 9:23 am
Get ready for your homeowners insurance to double with statewide fires
Good bit of rain coming.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/new-jersey/weather-radar#google_vignette
Eddie, Congrats, the party you voted for, won. The article you posted is definitely a reminder on where the Democrats lost their way.
What Republicans won – is based heavily on hope. Hope that Republicans won’t go MAGA crazy, and most of it is just talk. That Tariffs , affect the seller (China) and not the buyer (you). That, gutting the education department would mean less bureaucracy and better teachers. That, destroying the FDA and not mandating ANY vaccines will make us all safer. That, a person without a doctors degree can make better health choices. That, deleting Obama Care would not affect people who already have health insurance from their companies (remember, you lose protections from some basic rights even if it’s not from ACA).
That, a Real Estate tycoon will bring down RE prices for all.
So, yes Republicans won on hidden hope.
The reality is too soon to tell. So, don’t shout “Mission Accomplished” yet.
Greenwood lake neighborhood on fire, very close to homes.
https://x.com/uht_fresh/status/1855751270675407115/photo/2
RentL0rd says:
November 2, 2024 at 10:43 am
If you put aside everything you hear about in the news and ask yourself. Is your net worth better off now than 4 years ago, you know the answer on who to vote. Not your so called expenses.. but your net worth! Be honest.
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In realty what you stated is probably true on this board, but in reality people were and are hurting in this economy and the 30% inflation and 50% gas increase was just too much for the majority of Americans to absorb. Biden and the Democratic Party had their heads in the clouds, and are totally responsible for the loss to Trump. I would not be surprised to see oil and gas down 50% by the summer and food inflation down by another 5-8%. I pray Trump gets rid of the dangerous murders , rapists and terrorists before more damage is done. God Bless America!
As I said last month, it’s all fine and well when your money is in the NASDAQ and you are watching it climb to the sky while you live in the home you bought 10 years ago. Those that life paycheck to paycheck, pay rent, and would like to get started in life, it’s been a miserable 4 years.
I’m not too good at making predictions (the one I made about Fast Eddie a couple years ago still hasn’t come true), but I will make one:
If, in six months or a year from now, we have the exact some economic conditions we had on election day (2.2% yoy inflation, 4.1% unemployment, close to 3% real GDP growth) Trump will proclaim it to be “the best economy ever!”
OC1,
It’s also amazing how election fraud disappears when he wins. I still think his supporters were completely duped. Time will tell if I’m right. As you all have witnessed, I usually am. :P
I agree that inflation was the killer for the Dems. Though, I don’t think they created it. Nor do any economists. But Trump said it, over and over and over, so people believe it. I would like to know what Trump plans to do to lower food prices. Evicting immigrants will cause prices to rise as there continues to be a lack of Americans willing to work those entry level jobs. Tariffs will cause prices to go up. Last term, cutting corporate taxes failed to create jobs, but it sure enriched the rich. At best, I expect more of the same. I will be all in back into Large Cap growth. Forget the tariffs juicing small caps. And if he does try to fire the FED, I will pull all of my money out faster than you can say radical.
Wake me up when Trump deports the first immigrant.