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[glenn walker]

Dump Hundreds of Billions $$$ into Proxy and Ukrainian Civil Wars and you get massive inflation and
large GDP Numbers--but Little of this gets passed down to the working man and women as the Military Industrial complex and the wealthy get richer and richer. It's the old Classic Economics of the past " Guns or Butter " Appraisers are not getting any of the profits or business from the Wars and they are not getting any butter either.

Finally people in the real estate Industry are just trying to find a way to survive-- BUT at least people with real jobs get some wage increases due to inflation . So far have not seen any " appraisers " posting-how the AMCs and Lenders are offering them increased order volume or 25% higher appraisal fees

 

[TheRookie]

Alright, so let's ask the real question:

What is "slow" to y'all? 15 appraisals a month? 30 a month? 200000000000 a month?

Let's get some numbers going.

 

[LarryJewell]

Alright, so let's ask the real question:

What is "slow" to y'all? 15 appraisals a month? 30 a month? 200000000000 a month?

Let's get some numbers going.

I have 21 on the calendar for this month, so far thru the 27th, hoping for a few more.

 

[Joe Flacco]

16-20 in a month is super busy for me. Probably work around 60 hours per week with that.

I would say 12 or less is slow and less than 8 is super slow.

 

[chad hampton]

Less than 15 and bills don't get paid. 30+ and I'm keeping up with other comparable professional wages in my market.

 

[J Grant]

Those numbers would be stellar under Trump level low inflation. Trumps stock market beat inflation. Plus no wars. In addition low inflation. Also a secure border. A stable banking system plus a strong real estate market. Also higher ACT scores and higher life expectancies. In addition Trump had fewer covid deaths and fewer vaccine deaths than Biden. Plus cities were cleaner and safer. Trump looks golden after this total failure.

There were very few vaccine deaths under either of them - Trump had low inflation but so did the rest of the world. He would have been no better at avoiding inflation that was worldwide then he was at avoiding covid ( which he managed to get lol ) and on his watch the covid numbers in America were the worst in the developed world _ he started with zero deaths or cases and we could have done so much better. Biden's cases had to ride on the 500,000 plus he inherited when he took office.

Trump got a few things right and a lot wrong. I am curious why you failed to mention that he added over 3 trillion to the deficit before covid?

And then he added a total of about 8 trillion to the deficit. Total His promised return of millions of well-paying manufacturing jobs never happened. His border policy IMO was one of his strong points. His implementation numbers before COVID were good, but most o the job growth was low-pay and low-wage service and retail jobs ( which disappeared when covid hit )

He wrecked America's standing in the world when he pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord and endangered our safety and security when he pulled out of the Iran Nuclear Treaty. He made a traitor bargain at Doha with the Taliban, which practically guaranteed that Afahgnisan would fall to the Taliban when we withdrew. The world was quiet with wars IMO, largely because COVID-19 had everyone in lockdown. We were at war in Afghanistan the entire rime he was in office, so "no wars" is not entirely accurate.

 

[IlliniApp]

The world was quiet with wars IMO, largely because COVID-19 had everyone in lockdown.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

more accurate Big Mac inflation measure which has been 1.5% higher since the official CPI was manipulated in the mid 90

Note that the BLS inflation numbers did not use Health care in the calculations because if it had when Covid hit, the inflation index would have been thru the roof. Now they are attempting to normalize adding health care back into the system again, meaning some 34% adjustment was made down which wiped out a lot of the inflation. This is not the full Monty of the cost. They intend to gradually increase the number over time.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2023/a...sentativity-in-the-cpi-medical-care-index.htm

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

hen he pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord

Which is a charade anyway. Biden is going to discuss "climate change" with Xi - China being the biggest polluter. Do you think they care? And the US was providing all the money for the Paris CA and ditto most other such agreements. Everyone wants it and nobody but us pay for it. The UN Hdq needs moved to Libya or maybe Mali. See how eager the world is to attend there.

A Nobel prize winning physics recently pointed out the truth that climate change was a joke, the models were badly constructed and as a result, his work (despite his credentials) is now verboten and a speech to the IMF was canceled.
Nobel Prize winner Dr. John Clauser, who has disputed issues surrounding climate change, recently was told he would not be speaking to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), according to Co2 Coalition, a non-profit organization that believes carbon dioxide is beneficial to society.

"Nobel Laureate (Physics 2022) Dr. John Clauser was to present a seminar on climate models to the IMF on Thursday and now his talk has been summarily cancelled," the Co2 Coalition said in a statement. "According to an email he received last evening, the Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the International Monetary Fund, Pablo Moreno, had read the flyer for John's July 25 zoom talk and summarily and immediately canceled the talk. "​

Pretty clear. Anyone who disagrees with the political science is to be silenced at all costs.

Covid was hand made in China. The world refused to stop Chinese air traffic and spread it to the world. Not Trump's fault. And Biden then claimed the vaccine wasn't even available under Trump. What a despicable lie. It was developped under Trump and the fact it wasn't even available for a year after the disease broke out is a factor in the death rate here. Meanwhile the disease was weakening. And the deaths are a failure of managing the disease in rest homes in particular. It is hard to make a vaccine before you know what the disease is.

Congress overrode Trumps effort to stop Chinese planes. and Pelosi famously walked around Chinatown urging people to go there. And where did Covid hit hardest? In the red states where lockdowns were stringent and then what? Further on a per 100,000 basis the US was way down on the list based on deaths per 100k. About 10th or so. And Sweden's rate was below France and most other countries in Europe despite not locking down or mandating vaccine. And of course, we have no idea the real death numbers from China. Nothing there is not modified / hidden by the government.

 

[Zoe]

I think almost everything I pick up now is made in China. The slow creep that started years ago and slowly killing USA. That dictator ain't no dummy.