Trump Economy and Poker
About six years ago I put up a post pointing out that the good Trump economy was probably very good for the poker games
Is the k-shaped economy that Trump and his supporters have championed and created good for poker?
I'm not a big believer in K-Shaped economies. I'm more of a "rising tide lifts all boats" sort of person.
And this should be easy to see. Suppose poor people are initially left out of a Trump K-shaped economy while the wealthier people do well. What then happens to the money that these wealthier make? In most cases it gets invested back into the economy and that should benefit virtually all groups.
As an example of this Two Plus Two Publishing LLC, during our hey-day, had over 3 million books printed. And who did the printing? At the printer we worked with the shifts that ran the presses were hired as "shift work." That means if the printer had nothing to print, these people didn't work. So our success put many people to work when our books were on the printing press.
I'm not a big believer in K-Shaped economies. I'm more of a "rising tide lifts all boats" sort of person.And this should be easy to see. Suppose poor people are initially left out of a Trump K-shaped economy while the wealthier people do well. What then happens to the money that these wealthier make?
No, it doesn't.
It's the lie that republicans and oligarchs have been telling us for decades.
So, people with jobs are not poor.
I see conservatives have been dumb ****s for nearly 50 years.
Thomas Sowell was highly critical of Obama on exactly this point. He stated that most of the jobs created under the Obama Presidency were low paying jobs which didn't pay enough to help people better themselves.
What is the point you’re trying to arrive at?
Get there faster plz
That's when I first watched Free to Choose (in 1979 on PBS). At that time I was working for the US Census Bureau in Suitland Maryland. This series moved me from liberal views to conservative ones. It's still available on the Internet and I think some of the posters here should watch it (or read the book which I also did).
Wow, you worked for the Census Bureau? How odd, you've never mentioned it before.
Are there other consistently running NL cash these days?I only play ACR 6 max 50-200nl about 5-10 hours a week. It involves me sitting at an empty table to where a newbie or game starting reg sits in which leads to four other Russian bots immediately jumping in and me playing a 6 max game with one live one hopefully - which often isn't terrible but far from ideal. Then, it's
I stopped playing 200z and 500z on Ignition a couple of years ago, as the volume of players dropped quite a bit and there was (is?) a known bot problem. However, MTTs on Ignition, Global, WPT are incredibly soft. American MTT fish have been tripping all over themselves to give me 200k over the past 5 months, which is why I'm so befuddled when people talk about online poker sucking these days. Maybe in the rest of the world, but not here!
If you have access to these US-facing sites, I'm baffled that you would choose ACR, the only place which allows Euros and Asians. Global no longer has 500, 1k, 2k running all of the time, but a few games still go, including many tables of 50-200nl. WPT has straddle+ante games like 1/2/4 (1), all 8 handed. The straddle+ante game is way less solved than regular nl cash is; I've played it a few times and the action is awesome, please check it out!
There's far less of the predatory bumhunting to which you refer on these other sites, too. Always gonna be some, but there are far more fish around, and so the regs are less shameless about it.
Mason:
Thomas Sowell is a stone moron used solely as a token by white reactionaries to be like, "look, we've got one of our own!". Milton Friedman is somehow even dumber than Tommy. Austrian economics is the most idiotic and least humane economic ideology ever invented.
Also, how's that Trump economy doing?
18 months in, I think we can answer this. The Trump economy is pretty terrible. Anemic job growth, real wages have gone down since 2024 and consumer ratings and future expectations of the economy are at all time lows. Tariffs, disruptive deportations and nonsensical Iran war all seem to be contributing to poor economic conditions.
Don’t be ridiculous, if people have jobs and stocks go weeeeeee then there’s no such thing as poverty and economy crushing
trump runs on bringing down inflation, affordability, no more forever wars and super duper economy
His self-created problems of tariffs and this pointless war have increased inflation since his inauguration and oil is up 30% since his inauguration
‘Buh buh buh buh bidennnnnn’
Chessmate libtards
It’s fun how a trump supporter can never defend any policy or trend on its face and keeps needing to whatabout
It’s even funner that these morons can’t whatabout properly
‘Everything has gotten more expensive month over month since trump was inaugurated’
‘Well it was worse under biden’
Do you maybe see the fallacy here? No? Ok. Go back to dank memes and cybersex with grok
Mason:
Thomas Sowell is a stone moron used solely as a token by white reactionaries to be like, "look, we've got one of our own!". Milton Friedman is somehow even dumber than Tommy. Austrian economics is the most idiotic and least humane economic ideology ever invented.
Also, how's that Trump economy doing?
Milton Friedman did win the Nobel Prize in Economics. I think that means he was very smart.
Milton Friedman did win the The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. I think that means he was very well liked by a bunch of corrupt bankers who literally were told by the government of Sweden that they needed to give the state their profits to fund a public housing program and because they hated poors instead said "what profits? we just donat
literally why the prize exists, it was theft from social services intended to build housing for the poor and it's not a nobel prize either, just an award allowed to be associated with the organization, not one of the actual awards.... they only allowed them to attach themselves to the estate of alfred nobel by paying off the organization millions of dollars to accept it, his descendants were so pissed off that in response they changed the bylaws so no other outside influence could ever buy their way into the program ever again
friedman's selection was extremely controversial, the most protested event in nobel history, and he himself criticized the program, saying it gave undue influence to something which was subjective preference rather than cold hard science
there was even one year where in the early days, to try to gain legitimacy they gave the award to the friedman's ally in hayek while having him share the award with his polar opposite in myrdal - they were both disgusted to share the stage with each other, neither being able to believe that it was possible to award two competing philosophies in the same year with the same award, and like friedman both campaigned to have the award abolished due to the outsized influence it had in picking winners of economic systems - which is what's going to happen when you let a bunch of bankers be kingmakers
stock market is booming under trump I love it.
Milton Friedman did win the Nobel Prize in Economics. I think that means he was very smart.
Yes, but you also think that Sklansky’s letter to Brandi was “stupid”, when it was cruel, evil, mean, nasty, soulless, over-the-top, inappropriate and a gazillion other things before it was “stupid”.
It’s clear that when you think, especially when dealing with human communication, interaction and interpersonal relationships absolute nonsense gets produced.
Tone it down, dirtbags.
