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A Senior Church Moment

A Preacher was explaining that he must move on to a larger congregation that will pay him more. There is a hush within the congregation. No one wanted him to leave.

Joe Smith, who owns several car dealerships in the City stands up and proclaims, “If the Preacher stays, I will provide him with a new Cadillac every year, and his wife with a Honda mini-van to transport their children!”

The congregation sighs in relief, and applauds…

Sam Brown, a successful entrepreneur and investor, stands and says, “If the Preacher will stay on here, I’ll personally double his salary, and also establish a foundation to guarantee the college education of all his children!”

More sighs and loud applause…

Sadie Jones, age 88, stands and announces with a smile, “If the Preacher stays . . . I will give him sex!”

There is total silence.

The Preacher, blushing, asks her, “Mrs. Jones, whatever possessed you to say that?”

Sadie’s 90-year-old husband Jake is now trying to hide, holding his forehead with the palm of his hand, and shaking his head from side to side, while his wife replies,

“Well , I just asked my husband how we could help, and he said . . . ‘Screw him!’ ”

Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth…

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Pretzel boss: We made more dough on min wage hikes

The CEO of the California-based fast-food chain said that when California raised the minimum wage from $8 to $9, its same-store sales rose 8 percent in the next six months. Two years later, after California raised the wage from $9 to $10, same-store sales were up 7 percent.

“You’ve got low income people who get a 10-11 percent increase, and probably a 30 percent increase in disposable income, so it’s just great for our business,” he said.

Similarly, Buffalo Wild Wings CEO Sally Smith told “Squawk Box” that pricing and productivity do become a factor when the minimum wage is increased, but overall, “I do think that there is an opportunity for that consumer to have more discretionary dollars.”

“You haven’t had an increase in the minimum wage for seven years. It’s crazy,” Phelps said. “I think the minimum wage should be increased more than every seven years, that’s just my opinion.”

Schultz also said that one of the biggest beneficiaries of increased wages could be small-ticket retailers.

“Higher wages could have a positive effect on consumer spending and we look at potentially higher wages or wage growth as one of the potential main catalysts for retail, small ticket spending,” he said.

Schultz also said that overall, the “wage pie” in America has not really grown. And consumers’ relatively fixed amount of income has been increasingly spent on autos and experiences rather than retail products.

“There hasn’t been that much left over for, say, visiting the malls and the apparel sector,” Schulz said.

McDonald’s, meanwhile, didn’t immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.

Comment:

Most friends relatives, and the public in general you talk to, are AGAINST a higher base wage. Why? Because that’s what the public was taught over many decades, by the mass media. In my view, the mass media (owned by business and gov’t) has started re-educating the public for higher wages for business and gov’t own benefit.

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/31/how-higher-minimum-wages-will-impact-mcdonalds.html

Credit Markets continue to collapse… HYG at 3 month lows…

HYG (the high yield bond ETF) has seen outflows for 8 of the last 10 days)

With stocks and bonds notably divergent…

Notably the last few days have seen both bonds and stocks bid (just as both were sold in late Oct)

The Loser democrats have turned to Sabotage to anything Trump is trying to accomplish  ,no MATTER if its good for JOB growth wages, eliminates poverty,LOWERS TAXES it dosent matter if they dont get elected…thats all that matters .The Cost of Health Care effected yesterday elections and Trump had NOTHING to do with COST of Obamacare .They sabtaged every effort he made to fix it.It dosent matter so long as he gets blamed…

THEY dont care about LOWER TAXES ,THEY dont pay them ANYWAY !   Dont expect a meaningful TAX reduction to take place ..in fact they want HIGHER TAXES because they think redistribution is coming their way .in any case they dont pay TAXES..  That dosent interest them…..so they are destined for Permanent Poverty ..The Chinese are doing the opposite !  NO HEALTH CARE ,too expensive ,it will puts them at a LABOR COST disadvantage thus they can sell cheap and undercut the US .WE need to elminate Health CARE INsurance..it adds 30 % to the COST adding nothing to service  or DR CARE.

I fact DR CARE has gone down since many DR.s have switched to Concierge service meaning if you want to see a DR,you need to pay him a $1400 premium to get in line and those that dont pay go to the end of the line and wait weeks for appointments if at all.and thats not for any special service ..its just to go to the front of the line .The net effect eventually is to only see those that pay the Concierge FEE ,and those that dont need to find another DR..if they can…

“palladium”

I was thinking platinum no big deal but palladium! Wow!

came out of a pennant today and is $20. higher. at this rate, it will surpass gold in early 2018!

rno

Again.

SM refuses to go down. Pm’s refuse to go up.

Pure comedy.

many thanks for that.  enjoyed the read.

On the same site I read this and found it excellent.

http://investmentresearchdynamics.com/electronic-gold-the-deep-states-corrupt-threat-to-human-prosperity-and-freedom/

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LOL Good story! Those Japanese soldiers had some dedication!

Farmboy is a Force of Nature!

The usual daily price-fence has been erected, though…but all turn arounds/rallies in G&S are stutter-step, ragged, and sometimes divergent…G&S bottoms/rallies are the most difficult to catch and ride…most traders are thrown off the train–few ride it out for their full share of profit–Hey! I know from experience…t’would be nice to see another modest leg up added to todays gains by the close.

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