A new thread for ChiFi, from the Bergen Record:
How did North Jersey’s real estate market finish off 2024? Our December market update
Real estate activity in New Jersey slowed down as 2024 came to an end, with the state seeing fewer homes hitting the market and active listings staying on the market for longer. And while many counties continued to see a rise in home prices during the month, several saw home prices decrease.
Despite this slowdown in New Jersey, though, December marked the 14th consecutive month of inventory growth, Realtor.com reported. But while there were 22% more homes actively for sale than this time last year, inventory levels were at their lowest since June due to the season’s slowing activity.
Homes for sale stayed on the market for about 70 days, which is nine more days than this time last year and eight more days than last month, according to Realtor.com. This made this December the slowest in five years, and the slowest month since January 2023.
The Federal Reserve also announced a third interest rate cut in December, lowering its target interest rate range from 4.25% to 4.5%. With these cuts, rates for 30-year and 15-year fixed mortgages remained in the 6% to the mid 7% range at the end of the month, Bankrate reported.
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Twelve of New Jersey’s 21 counties had a decrease in new listings compared with December 2023, while all 21 counties had a decrease in new listings compared with November.
In North Jersey, Morris was the only county that had more new listings in December than this time last year. The county had 212 new listings during the month, which was a 39.47% increase when compared with the year before.
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When compared with December 2023, 14 New Jersey counties had active listings stay on the market for a longer period. And when compared with November 2024, active listings stayed on the market longer in every New Jersey county.
At 51 days, Essex was the only North Jersey county that saw no change in the number of days that homes stayed on the market in December compared with the year before. With this, North Jersey’s other five counties had listings stay on the market for fewer days in December than this time last year.
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Of New Jersey’s 21 counties, 19 had an increase in median listing prices from December 2023. However, when compared with November 2024, 15 counties had a decrease in median listing prices.
Hudson was the only North Jersey county to see a decrease in median listing prices compared with this time last year. The county had a 10.53% decrease, with a median listing price of $607,500. Otherwise, all other North Jersey counties saw prices increase.
Foist
North Jersey remains strong as NYC keeps finding ways to get people to leave the island permanently.
Thanks everyone for your input.
We’re going with the a o smith heat pump. Easier to get parts and get it repaired. We get 30% of the cost back as a tax credit, and it will save us $400 or more a year in electricity. Maybe even more since we’re going from 2 hot water heaters down to one.
Ten 461
I’m desperate. I’ll take hat-tip any way I can get it.
Trudeau to resign, getting trounced by conservative movement. It seems that the globe has had it with liberal policy that rewards the rich at the expense of the poor.
Of New Jersey’s 21 counties, 19 had an increase in median listing prices from December 2023. However, when compared with November 2024, 15 counties had a decrease in median listing prices.
The YOY increase tells the story. The decline in one month, especially from November to December means nothing. You’re going into the holidays and expect an increase? At the very least, it’s going to be flat.
In North Jersey, Morris was the only county that had more new listings in December than this time last year.
In North Jersey. So, bottom line, nothing has changed, all is the same and will continue to be. Housing has become an asset for those who have assets.
Fat Eddie,
I for once agree with you on issues that are not food related.
What is getting trounced is Neo-Liberal/Clinton/Third Way Democrats economics which in the mid-70’s would have been called Rockefeller Republicans.
The NY Times had a series of articles over the weekend around the Democrats walking away from the working class. They brought out the usual apologists. James Carville still can’t admit that Clinton was wrong on everything. Rahm Emmanuel barely admitting that Obama let the banksters go with barely a wrist slap, but still talking about reducing healthcare cost while talking badly about Medicare For All, while still in shock about the support for Luigi.
Another article had the story about the reconstitution going on with the Democratic Party, with the Schumer supported Beltway Machine candidate vs. the state party guy from the midwest along the lines of the new younger Bernie Sanders.
So yes, as much as I hate to say it. We might need the next 4yrs of OrangeTurd food poisoning to expel out the combination of Locust Boomers + Neoliberal economics + Neoconservative foreign policy. The questions are: Are we going to survive 4 yrs in the toilet? Are we going to run out of toilet paper? Is there enough Preparation H in the country?
BTW – NYTimes is getting unbearable, they are all in in this Congestion Pricing scam. Watch and see as the price goes up and it expands as drivers clog up the Upper West/East Side and Central Park North/Morningside Height/Lower Harlem/Spanish Harlem.
Big chunk of Boomers approx 10 million are expected to take their final dirt nap in the next four years during Trump’s presidency. I assuming with the extra secret service coverage and platinum health care and daily “vitamin” shots he will be around in 2028.
Will TDS be listed as Part II on the Death Certificates of these Boomers? One could argue it has a place.
The death certificate contains the physiological issue that led to death, and it is reported in two parts. Part I is the chain of events that led to death, with the immediate cause of death on line A and the underlying cause of death on the lowest line. Part II contains other significant conditions that contributed to death but were not the underlying cause such as TDS.
NYTimes is getting unbearable, they are all in in this Congestion Pricing scam. Watch and see as the price goes up and it expands as drivers clog up the Upper West/East Side and Central Park North/Morningside Height/Lower Harlem/Spanish Harlem.
Wait until you see how it kills small businesses and jobs, too.
Trudeau is out.
Ô l’humanité !
Lots of lower income people , delivery drivers, EMS workers etc, will be hurt by this congestion pricing. $ 45.00 additional to get into the city. But Liberals don’t care about these folks as much as they say they do. And of course very little of the additional monies will go to improving mass transit.
Anyone else getting an insane amount of Robo calls lately? Mostly the same type trying to hawk loans, Helocs, refinancing debt etc. Most calls are picked up by the software and mark as Spam Calls but it getting annoying as they leave voice mails etc.
I read he is only resigning head of whatever political party he’s a member of. He’s still PM
Fast Eddie says:
January 6, 2025 at 11:12 am
Trudeau is out.
Ô l’humanité !
And of course very little of the additional monies will go to improving mass transit.
It’s an epic smash ‘N grab. Sidewalk supervisors will go from pudgy to coronary diseased much quicker now. Never underestimate the underperformers’ ability to devise ways to fuck you in the face in new and devious ways.
He’s still PM
In the same way that O’Biden is still president.
Medicare is the largest government expense.
Universal Socialist healthcare for boomers
Maga will never touch it
“So yes, as much as I hate to say it. We might need the next 4yrs of OrangeTurd food poisoning to expel out the combination of Locust Boomers + Neoliberal economics + Neoconservative foreign policy. The questions are: Are we going to survive 4 yrs in the toilet? Are we going to run out of toilet paper? Is there enough Preparation H in the country?”
Why do you assume that everything is going to sink into the toilet with Cheeto?
He is personally reprehensible and I can’t listen to him speak, but a chunk of things that are coming down the pike seem just as tolerable/intolerable as any of the nonsense of the last few years
This has nothing to do with the economy. Maga is all about returning women and blacks back to 1960.
Blacks endured the greatest apartheid until 1960 civil rights movement. 1960’s legislation gave them for the first time the opportunity to vote
FreeLuigi HeShouldRunHHSNotThatBrainWormNepoBaby says:
January 6, 2025 at 10:44 am
Fat Eddie,
I for once agree with you on issues that are not food related.
What is getting trounced is Neo-Liberal/Clinton/Third Way Democrats economics which in the mid-70’s would have been called Rockefeller Republicans.
Very Stable: Democrats have done little for Black Americans. And they treat them like children.
VSG is one of the earliest algorithms of artificial intelligence. The input varies but the output is too vague and repetitious to be of any use.
Chi,
I expect to giggle and laugh everyday to the clown show just like I did in first term. In the mean time I expect recession, Crypto currency scams, Private Equity/Finance blow ups, Black Market tariff run-around corruption, market driven high interest that the Federal Reserve can’t do anything about with a nice chunk of inflation for seasoning that is not going to show up until after summer (from guest in Bloomberg Surveillance this morning).
However, I don’t think he’s going to last that long as nature abhors 300lbs+ males in their 80’s. I expect once gone and Vance takes over, it will look like the comedy movie “Death of Stalin” with different power centers, ideologies, grifts, and shear stupidity running amok.
So yeah, if you are poop related or poop adjacent it makes no difference, you’ll float or sink in the Water Closet the same.
VSG,
Is always about economics…
Voted for Trump in ’16, not in ’20 or ’24. Can’t stand the Clintons, my hatred goes back to the 90’s. 90% of today’s problem are their fault (China in WTO + NAFTA + Taking Wall Streets handcuffs the FDR put on + Turning their back on the poor and being servile to Plutocracy – Rupert Murdoch, Sandy Weill, etc). In short Bill Clinton and the Third Way Democrats made the Democratic Party into a Rockefeller Republican Party with the expected arrogance of a know it all boomer and looking for a market to serve the GOP became the Nut Job party it is now, push all the way there by amoral locust boomers like Gingrich. All economics here.
After Clinton you got the neo-con W Bush with his War Profiteering Events and killed/maimed a lot of working class kids. Then Hopium Obama where people thought they were getting Shaft with the Resolution Trust Corporation part 2 and crooks prosecuted and they got Urkle that bailed out the banksters and created a profit pathway for private equity in housing. Obama’s lack of balls in kneecapping the banks, force him to give the house away to Health Insurance Companies with the ACA. Finally, I remember Hillary’s TransPacific Partnership that would override the elected officials in interest of the Plutocracy, this was the apogee of the apathetic meritocratic based plutocracy with Occupy Wall Street from the Left and Tea Party from the Right- both triggered by Envy. Again, all economics here.
The Third Way Democrats’ problem is that they are classic meritocrats. Meritocracy is the best way, but it has not acknowledge its gigantic blind spot. The blind spot is the self-righteous behavior based on achievement is no different than what you expect with a religious fanatic which makes them apathetic to others that are not able to accomplish what they did regardless of the underlying reasons, they never learned the words – Noblesse Oblige. Economics here again.
So they become full of themselves, trigger the green eye monster Envy and start the process where a guillotine starts looking good again. Trump is the guillotine in ’16 and this time around too -reasons are many, but no true democratic party primary in the last 3 elections. First Hillary’s coronation in ’16, the rush job to consecrate Biden in ’20 and in ’24 and sneaking Harris in the back door gave the moral high ground to Trump, cancelling his January 6 treasonable hijinks.
In all 3 elections if given the marketplace its true freedom – Bernie Sanders would have won primary and national elections. It does not matter that OrangeTurd is part of the plutocracy. As Luigi has proven there is blood lust for plutocrats’ heads. The anger is always about economics disrespect.
Anyone hearing friends, family, colleagues argue that inflation will skyrocket, whole industries will fail without the current state of illegal alien labor?
I have personally seen this from several sources over the past few months, before and after the election.
I think some segments would definitely be hit, some farming, some restaurants, landscaping, maybe some low end construction.
But what amazes me is the selective attention these people have. The same people who argue that the absence of illegal immigrant labor will send inflation skyrocketing are generally the same people who claimed a year ago that illegal immigrant labor was NOT depressing US labor prices, and that the number of illegal laborers was very small anyway. Also exactly zero of them ever complained about state minimum wage price hikes potentially driving up inflation, which would presumably work in the same way.
One of my theories about the weird, non-linear effects of both illegal immigrant labor and of minimum wage laws is that the US welfare state is so large and generous that the government effectively pays people quite a lot not to work. And during COVID effectively paid people even more not to work than they do now. Every employer has to compete against government payments to get labor.
The Chinese government is evil, but one of its smartest policies over the past couple decades was to reject the introduction of welfarism into their economy as they got richer. (They do a different, also bad kind of welfarism via government projects, which is a different story).
Actually, for you leftists, s0cial1sts, communal, democrat village types, why not just hardcode the words “Trump Sucks” into a response and post it here every time you feel like an unwanted foster child. I’d say you could possibly sway someone to see your view but the words come across like a FORTRAN explosion.
Fast: VSG says he is a progressive, but he does not want multi family housing in his town. From his perspective why should a guy like him who wears $4,000 suits have to look at multi family housing next door or across the street from him. Also, multi family housing will block his sunlight, and he won’t be able to work on his tan in his backyard while wearing his Speedo and drinking an Aperol Spritz.
>He’s still PM
>>In the same way that O’Biden is still president.
In the same way that Trump will be the president on TV, but Musk/Thiel will run the show…
In the same way that Trump will be the president on TV, but Musk/Thiel will run the show…
Great… the posse! As long as they keep pounding the left, DEI, symbolic nonsense and everything to do with mediocrity, regulation, strangulation and distribution, I’m all for it.
Hot water heat pump is installed. It has an emergency self shut off so if it detects the tank is leaking it closes the intake valve so we don’t get thousands of gallons of water flowing through the garage if we’re not around and the tank fails.
Has a $120 a year estimate to for energy use. Our old traditional tanks had a $550 annual estimate cost for each one from 12 years ago. Between the 30% tax credit and reduction in electricity costs I think it might pay for itself in 3-5 years.
Now we need an electrician to tap out the wires for the other unit that was removed so we can get it inspected.
Up Your Butt Jobu (Fuck You Edition):
Closing Hoboken Path station starting Jan 30 coincident with Congestion Pricing implementation.
njtownhomer,
It‘s all about the narrative. Musk is really going to run things, Trump is just a figure head. Of course the narrative of the last couple of years was that Trump would be a dictator if re-elected. So which is it? That is why you just can‘t pay attention to the main stream media anymore. It‘s all about whatever narrative these people want to push. The other narrative for the last four years was that Biden was sharp as a tack, never been better cognitively, etc, and any videos proving otherwise were cheap fakes.
Chad: There was an article in the WSJ at the end of December, where aides to Biden acknowledged they controlled Biden’ environment, when his meetings were, with who, and for how long. Cabinet members on a whole had little to no contact with Biden. As well, his aides only provided him with polls that showed he wa winning against Trump, or it was a toss up. And we are told the Democrats are the good guys.
Chad,
Is not that OrangeTurd is a figure head or dictator dichotomy. Is that he can be both at the same time based on the issue, depending how close is the issue to 1) making money to him? 2) how close is the issue to his ego stroking, fealty needs? 3) need to strike back as revenge because of perceived lack of fealty?
Number 2 and 3 are easy to use his general low information and misinformation/lack of attention environment that he lives in, to manipulate him into decision making that benefits the interest of other parties by anyone in close enough in his orbit.
Picture this: federal agencies just up and stop working – given the current nominations this should not be a big surprise. No CDC, no social security support, no disaster relief. Who steps in? Yep, private companies. And they’re not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. Now, you know why that cartoon with billionaires kneeling to Trump never saw the light of day.
Want healthcare? That’ll cost you—probably your life savings. Roads? Toll booth city. Disaster hit your area? Hope you can Venmo FEMA 2.0 for that rescue. Oh, and forget clean air or water; Big Oil’s too busy turning national parks into parking lots.
Mega-corps start running whole towns, setting their own rules, while the rich chill in their ivory towers. The rest of us? Paying through the nose for stuff the government used to handle.
Welcome to America 2025 –
I do believe a lot of these narratives are just projection by the far left. Trump is controlled by Musk. The reality is that no one believes that Joe Biden was the one making decisions in the White House during the last four years. According to reports he was only in the office a couple of hours a day, and of course spent a record amount of time on vacation at one of his houses. Papers were put in front of him to sign. He gave prepared remarks from a teleprompter and rarely took questions, and if he did the questions he received were rigged with the ‚journalists‘ ahead of time. The house of cards fell apart at his debate with Trump.
No porn for Texans and Floridians. Isn’t America great? Starting to feel more and more like Afghanistan by the day. Oh Gary, don’t look at the price of eggs.
Chad Powers, if you compare countries like Italy or India with Cuba or former Syria, you will see patterns.
On one hand governments may be inefficient and bureaucretic, but they function nevertheless. And then there are country looters.
As a young country, America has seen neither of these, but it does not mean it’s not in her future. Which direction is it headed? To just say we are exceptional and different doesn’t make it so.
Hak: A little deflection there on your part. You used to be an equal opportunity critic.
Chad: It was clear almost from the beginning of Biden’s presidency that he was in decline. If you said that there were cries of how dare you, you must be a Trump supporter. Even smart people on this board claimed they saw no evidence of his decline. Astounding, but true. Anyhow, fast forward and Trump will be President again. In spite of the chaos of his first 4 years, people decided they would take a chance again rather than vote for Harris. That says a lot in my mind. The Democrats should be embarrassed.
Florida and Texas now require age verification for porn sites and now we are Afghanistan, you can’t make this stuff up.
Dedicated to Phoenix. Our champion for all that is good and pure.
https://x.com/FearedBuck/status/1876088745730121748?s=01
It was clear almost from the beginning of Biden’s presidency that he was in decline. If you said that there were cries of how dare you, you must be a Trump supporter. Even smart people on this board claimed they saw no evidence of his decline.
I mean I saw it prior to the 2020 election. It was obvious why they hid him in the basement. The “corn pop” speech was 5 years ago. Robin Williams left us in 2014 but he had the foresight to see it ahead of all of us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMs1d7xRDKM
I posted this Apr 2020 on a different site
Remember when your grandfather’s mind started to go? How was it 2 years after that day?
If anyone was fooled into thinking he was mentally sharp at all and not suffering from some sort of brain decay, they either have extremely poor logical abilities or their entire information pipeline is cordoned off by internet algorithms. Maybe both…
Post debate, I suggested that people take a hard look in the mirror on where they get their information from. I’m not sure how you can tolerate being lied to consistently and still going to the same garbage.
Just wait until Trump is back in the pilot seat. 3b, you forgot how bad it was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WzcOwlr5sA
Hak: No, I have not forgotten the chaos and 3 ring circus, but the Democrats with Biden and then Harris and their current messaging is not the answer. As I said you and the other Democrats should be embarrassed that Trump won again.
I am embarassed. Don’t have anything positive to say about the establishment. But MAGA is going to set us back. Biden’s term (not his cognitive ability) was not that bad. Especially when you consider he did a great job with the inflation that he did not cause.
Forgot to share. Driving home from Philly this afternoon. Around exit 8 on the NJ Turnpike, the road is nearly dry after the massive salting of the roadway after the 1″ storm. Plow after plow continues scraping dry asphalt and they have the highway speed limit down to 35 MPH. This is NJ. The plowers MUST GET THEIR OVERTIME. Even if it was completely unnecessary. It had stopped flurrying about three hours earlier.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EGiFg4tYNvzDE8GXA
8:40 a Gonif is back in the White House.
Lib: Biden most certainly contributed to inflation, he did not cause it, but he made it worse. And the Afghanistan debacle, which is on him. Additionally, the perception of weakness that he projected to the rest of the world. I don’t know how you can now note his cognitive decline, and in the same breath say his Presidency was not that bad. Oh and of course the Hunter all encompassing pardon covering 10 years!
Stu,
Even dry pavement likes to be plowed now and then.
Afghanistan debacle, which is on him”
Actually No! That’s going to be he worst part of the next 4 years, your revisionist history.
Who invited the Taliban leadership to Camp David? Bueller Bueller?
SG
That’s actually funny.
Yes. Good one.
Even dry pavement likes to be plowed now and then.
Not necessarily, the plow will rip up the pavement and I wont say what it will do to the blade!
MAGA magnanimous in action.
https://x.com/ChrisDJackson/status/1876421763753808260
now and then means that it has time to heal between plowings.
Chi,
RE: your video
Can’t say I condone it, but I do understand it.
It’s too bad things like that have to happen.
The Establishment is trickle down, supply-side Reagan voodoo economics.
It destroyed the middle class.
Maga doubles down on it.
Libturd says:
January 6, 2025 at 8:40 pm
I am embarassed. Don’t have anything positive to say about the establishment. But MAGA is going to set us back. Biden’s term (not his cognitive ability) was not that bad. Especially when you consider he did a great job with the inflation that he did not cause.
Dems are in it for themselves. I like that they care about human rights, but they let the pendulum swing too far. Republicans weren’t that different than Dems. A little more conservative, but more live and let live when it came to social policy. MAGA is a bunch of mean morons who ignore reality and can do no wrong. Facts mean nothing when you are in a cult. My only real question about the coming four years is whether or not they will lose their approval of the circus barker and grifter in chief when the curtains are pulled back once again.
I like that they care about human rights…
The dems care about human rights like heroin dealers care about you overdosing.
Just 13 more days until we get to hear how everything Trump is the biggest, largest and hugest. I hope he has some more juicy nicknames for his enemies. I saw him perusing the playground at an Elementary school in West Palm for ideas.
McDonalds is the latest in a bevy of companies ending DEI initiatives. I can imagine the frustration, wasted time and headaches this caused in war rooms just to babysit misfits and outcasts. Profits compromised, resources wasted and Frankenstein strategy just to accommodate feelings. What a disaster.
The dems have gone from being the party of civil rights and blue collar workers to virtue signaling neo feudalism.
Beer,
The dem party doesn’t know who they are, who they represent nor where they’re going. The have no identity… a complete unknown… with no direction home… like a rolling stone.
Fab: No revisionist history on my part. Inciting the Taliban to Camp David, and the withdrawal from Afghanistan are not one and the same. Biden could have extended the withdrawal period and he did not. I will leave it at that as it’s been discussed multiple times before. Blaming Trump for his be conducted the withdrawal from Afghanistan is a cop out on Biden’s part. If it was the other way around you would be howling.
The fact is Biden should not have run for a second term and he did, only to be forced to step aside by Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, and George Clooney. Harris was weak, and I will leave it at that, and so she lost to Trump. An embarrassment for her and the Democratic Party. As I said people when faced with the choice of the chaos of another Trump administration, or Harris and the Democrats they chose Trump. Even in NJ , and in wealthy educated Bergen Co.
Paul Mauro just gave an epic, verbal treatise on the current state of NYC regarding crime figures, broken glass theory and the subway system. He said the subway system right now is akin to the tunnels underneath Gaza. He also said the MTA loses $750 million dollars per year on fare beaters while the implementation of the congestion pricing system will supposedly raise $500 million per year. Read that last sentence a few times. He crushed the gaslighting nonsense to bits.
Eddie, we know where MAGA stands https://imgur.com/gallery/UCAsNNB
Inauguration is a few days away, and it has begun:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/meta-ends-fact-checking-program-community-notes-x-rcna186468
All hail trump
Ten 464
Maga kids will now have a chance to apply jobs taken by illegals
Most of Maga can’t write or read too good
Fast Eddie says:
January 7, 2025 at 8:32 am
McDonalds is the latest in a bevy of companies ending DEI initiatives. I can imagine the frustration, wasted time and headaches this caused in war rooms just to babysit misfits and outcasts. Profits compromised, resources wasted and Frankenstein strategy just to accommodate feelings. What a disaster.
I agree with all pretty much all of you. The level of corruption within the party is not only at an all-time high, but it seems to get worse the higher up the ladder of leadership you go. Just like after HRC lost to Trump, the party is completely clueless when it comes to direction. All that seems to matter is winning so the gravy train can keep on rolling.
An example of this can be found here in NJ. As I drove 35mph up the dry NJ Turnpike yesterday I passed two billboards extolling Sean Spiller for the next Governor of NJ. For those not familiar, Sean is the head of the NJEA and has been for quite a while. His current salary to work part time (after all he is also the mayor of Montclair) is a mere $370K. Though he makes a bloody fortune and certainly has a massive pension and cadillac bennies, he decided to take a paid waiver instead of taking the health care benefit that, get this, he was not entitled to since the Mayor is a part-time position. When investigated, he plead the 5th. Now he is running for governor and it’s even worse. He is claiming we don’t need another rich Wall Street guy running the state. But better yet, his campaign is being funded almost entirely by the union dues of the educators of NJ to the tune of 35 million dollars. Probably more, but no one knows how much of the NJEA union dues that are sent annually to the huge NJ SUPER PAC that helped buy Murphy the Governorship are being earmarked for Sean Spiller.
Nothing to see here. It’s just more corrupt NJ politics.
I think Andy Kim is the only clean politician in NJ.
Eddie,
Everyone knows the congestion pricing is going straight to the MTA to make up for the post covid shortfall. As for the crime in New York, it’s no better in most red cities. Wait. Are there any red cities?
Very Stable Genius,
I’m still wondering when you’re either going to make a point, say something witty or troll effectively. I think you’re trying but you’re not very high on the charisma scale. Are you like a paralegal or proofreader or something?
When you first become a teacher, the union gives you paperwork to submit something like $5 a month to the PAC out of your paycheck. All the young twenty somethings check it off not knowing what they are doing. For a good rough estimate of how much is going into that PAC from the paycheck, multiply the number of teachers by $100. After you’ve done that, you can subtract $100 from the total as I did not check that box.
Here’s a red city. Keep on believin’.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/04/jackson-mississippi-violent-crime-murder-capitol-police-tate-reeves#:~:text=Though%20violent%20crime%20has%20been,million%20residents%20live%20in%20Jackson.
Gary… dumbass. Shut. The. Fuck up.
Take the win and move on with your pathetic life.
I just got back from hiking in Tucson. I must say it is nice out there! Just the right mix of a rich verdant desert, gastronomy, mountains, small town feel, and more bearable summer time temperatures. My wife checked the weather today and then immediately started packing her bags.
Everyone in/near Fort Lee claimed congestion pricing would absolutely jam up the local roads – even more than they were already – but so far it’s been just the opposite. It’s a bit early to tell but it’s been quieter than usual. Sunday nights are the worst, with local roads turning into parking lots, I’m curious how this will develop in the coming weeks.
10:58 am:
There ya go! Now you’re getting it! Gotta show emotion, wit, comedic response… something to be effective. A dry response does nothing.
Boomer, was there two years back. Wife went to school at University of Arizona. Great place, and the hiking was great as well. If I lived there, I’d be in great shape as I could just walk up the mountain each day.
$730,000 for this, on a double yellow:
https://www.trulia.com/home/153-brookside-ave-westwood-nj-07675-38020758
It’s madness.
$789,000. Truly an asset for the haves. The have-nots don’t stand a chance:
https://www.trulia.com/home/7-catherine-ter-park-ridge-nj-07656-172595327
Sold 7 months ago for 630K, supposedly redone and listed for 798K; no takers so relisted at 850K:
https://www.trulia.com/home/32-prospect-ave-woodcliff-lake-nj-07677-38059260
Sounds like all is turning to shite like I said here in America. Europe even worse.
I’m not clairvoyant. Ray Charles could have seen this coming.
Invest in popcorn and bulletproof vests, with all of the guns here it’s gonna be a hoot in a few years.
Zuker succerberg’s comment about spewing lies over his platforms is making America sound more and more like Nazi Germany.
Ten 470…… yo’ bichez
How much is this in your master’s Dogecoins? Just wondering how much funny money is needed for the purchase.
White Trash Eddie says:
January 7, 2025 at 11:23 am
Sold 7 months ago for 630K, supposedly redone and listed for 798K; no takers so relisted at 850K:
https://www.trulia.com/home/32-prospect-ave-woodcliff-lake-nj-07677-38059260
No different than ever. The change is in the level of sunlight due to the internet and ubiquitous ability to surveil.
It is why crime statistics are ridiculous. Basically everything should be driven to zero under old rules. There is only a lack of bureaucratic will to prosecute.
Libturd says:
January 7, 2025 at 10:24 am
The level of corruption within the party is not only at an all-time high, but it seems to get worse the higher up the ladder of leadership you go.
Chi, couldn’t agree more.
Different topic. So what happens when mortgage rates follow that ten year? Housing could get ugly, no?
My home is already down 10% from peak.
No one is buying at peak or near peak. Everyone is sitting on huge real estate gains.
The volumes are already dented. Higher rates might put a lid on company margins and multiple expansion on equities. Otherwise, I think we are status quo until people start losing jobs.
Some people might be HELOC’ing themselves out. One of you might have those statistics. I have too mcuh else going on the mine for that……. regardless, HELOC go to the front end of the curve, and it is the back end that is rising.
For now everything is thight spreads and flowing credit….. tons of new issuance.
Maybe the Cheeto will fuck everything up….. he has been creepily quiescent…. I find it ominous…..
Libturd says:
January 7, 2025 at 12:08 pm
Different topic. So what happens when mortgage rates follow that ten year? Housing could get ugly, no?
My home is already down 10% from peak.
On Trump’s quiescence. I suppose, threatening to take the Panama Canal by force, acquiring Greenland and renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America are nothingburgers. And this is before he assumes power. Rather than quiesescent, I think the press has simply given up on reporting most of Trump’s Faux Pas. The world knows he is an embarassment and what comes out of his mouth is almost always a lie. Plus, MAGA denies any wrongdoing even when they attempt to nullify the results of an election.
It’s gotten to the point where quiescence equals acquiescence. (I think I’ll TM that one).
zuckerberg admitting dana to the board, and cancelling verification is great. Looks like for 4 (or 2) yrs, meta/x/inst/tiktok will be the warzone for disinformation. In the end the price of a dozen eggs will switch the power back to new-gen Dems and pendulum will swing back. This storm will create a much bigger populist ground effect that you won’t believe.
Has anyone here had to deal with a damp basement? The house we‘re in the process of buying has this problem. I‘ve been advised to open a couple of the basement windows for 10 mintues, once a week in the winter. Not really sure if getting a dehumidifier is worth it. The house was built in 1932/33.
Chad,
The dehumidifier is the easiest and best solution. My century old basement had a mold problem that went away with the purchase of a $150 humidifer. You can even run the output hose to a drain if you have one for worry free operation. I sent mine to the french drain sump pit. I guarantee you, the current owners are still using it. Do it and be done. Opening a window won’t help much. Plus what will you do during the summer?
Exactly what I have been saying for the past couple of years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/us/politics/trump-us-disaster-numbers.html
I just saw that oil is back up to 74. We haven’t been that high since October. Ten Year is back to last May’s highs before most of the FED cuts. My company is tightening it’s bootstraps and immigration has dropped to the level is was at before Biden shot the starting gun. Isn’t it Great?
Libturd,
That sounds like it is worth a try. I‘ll take a look on Amazon and see what is available. I think I read before some models will turn on once the humidity reaches a certain level. I was told in summer it really isn’t an issue, primarily in winter. That is really the only issue with the house. Other than that it is ready to move in once I paint the inside.
Yes to dehumidifiers. I think every basement needs one (or more).
If you set it to auto and a drain leading out to the sump pump, you are gold.
I have a 50 yr old basement, with moderate dampness. Running 2-3 dehumidifiers with pump and siphoned to the well. The year I didn’t use those I had some mold on my stuff. Dehumids are kind of must have. Costco carried Hisense model which is still running for years now.
Job openings are now at a 6 month high, and inflation is creeping back up again. Fed screwed up with their interest rate cuts. The long end of the market will fix it for them.
Pacific Palisades on fire. That’s going to be ugly. The routes in and out are very limited.
I am entertained by the pure spectacle of the grift and the cavalcade of greed and homage payment that the new guy is raking in. All under the guise of making the Country “great” again. Pure genius. Appeal to angry and disenfranchised voters in flyover country. Of course take full advantage of whatever it is that the Democrats have become. But if anyone thinks for a minute that this particular administration will do anything “great” besides strip the coffers for their own enrichment just isn’t paying attention.
Njtown: The pendulum will swing, but not back to the madness of the progressive left. Had the Democrats offered a viable moderate candidate rather than Harris, people would have voted for him or her. As I have been saying the Democrats should be embarrassed they lost to Trump. And the tired line from the left that it was racist ignorant blue collar types who voted for Trump. Trump did extraordinarily well in Bergen county including in the highly educated mega wealthy towns of Bergen co. I was surprised to see this but he did. I would reasonably assume this was the case in many highly educated super affluent towns across the country.
These people in spite of knowing full well the circus of the first Trump presidency decided they would rather take a chance with Trump again, than Harris and the Democrats. That to me says it all. No amount of deflection or glossing over, or ignoring will change that.
LAX: Are you including all the wealthy and educated in Bergen Co who voted for Trump as flyover country?? You can’t bring yourself to admit that it was not just the dirty, ignorant, blue collar workers who voted for Trump. If you and your fellow Democrats don’t get your act together, you will lose again in 2028.
The wealthy and educated will be ok either way.
The poorly educated are the ones voting against their self interest
Very Stable: Deflection on your part. Why did these educated wealthy people vote for Trump? As for the poorly educated number one, many of them did in fact for Harris, and number 2 the elite Democrats despise the poorly educated working class.
Shocking!! The rich vote republican.
LAX: But you have said in the past that only uneducated ignorant people voted for Trump? How do you explain all the educated and wealthy people that voted for Trump? Which is it?
They cheated.
I got mine baby! Biiiiiig deal for me as I came to public service as a 40 year old.
I can FINALLY collect the social Security owed to me…..Yesss!!
On December 20, 2024, the Senate voted to pass the bill 76-20. This bipartisan legislation would eliminate the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). Together, these provisions negatively impact or eliminate Social Security benefits for millions of retired public servants.2 days ago
3b I’ve got you on permanent ignore in 2025…..so keep yappin’
Oh yeah? Ignore this…..
https://youtu.be/gyzVFaMkEVc?si=xEafgLFQPFCBRMf-&t=444
So long Peter Yarrow. I always had to have the ingredients for a Caesar’s salad on hand along with a big wooden bowl so Peter could make salad for everybody backstage. The funniest sound check ever was Peter, Paul, and Mary playing kazoos. The last time I worked with them Mary was in a wheel chair and on oxygen but sang her heart out. Such sweet people.
5:54 never ignore what cannot be ignored.
Where have all the flowers gone?
RIP Peter.
>> Why did these educated wealthy people vote for Trump? As for the poorly educated number one, many of them did in fact for Harris, and number 2 the elite Democrats despise the poorly educated working class.
Let’s get some facts straight:
1) Educated people did vote more for Harris – percentage wise.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/interactive-how-key-groups-of-americans-voted-in-2024-according-to-ap-votecast
2) Wealthy does not equal educated.
And Wealthy people got spooked when they thought un-realized gains could be taxed (which is not what Dems agree on)