It also ended because “Won’t someone think of the landlords?!” I know this because I heard it from a friend of mine who had one rental property, and she genuinely believed that laws around tenants and evictions weigh too heavily in favor of tenants. I tried to argue with her, but I got nowhere.
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It’s deeply frustrating when landlords think that they’re in a business that is supposed to be risk-free for them.
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They’re not the only ones…
Not only are there questions about risk on IRS tax forms (because there may be profit and loss in business), but also most investors sign off on risks before they buy shares. Of course they could claim that the language was unclear or too broad, but I’m sure the lawyers who drafted those statements and disclaimers will be prepared for that. 
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Once again, the ghost of de Gaulle is feeling very justified in their actions
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There’s some shitty “both sides” reporting in that article.
By automating, of course, the consultant means being replaced with AI as part of the second apparent phase of the tech industry’s latest crash following major layoffs in recent years. Michael Ryan, another of Newsweek’s experts, suggested that recent CS grads are, somehow, doing a crappier job than their AI competition.
“Every kid with a laptop thinks they’re the next Zuckerberg,” the finance guru behind MichaelRyanMoney.com told the magazine, “but most can’t debug their way out of a paper bag.”
Ah, yes. I see. It’s actually their own fault they can’t get hired. They suck! Well that explains everything, then. AI is just better. Nothing to see here, move along. /s
They’re recent grads with zero experience. I’m sure they’re not as good at some tasks as AI, but if Newsweek’s “expert” is going to throw out a comment like that as fact, somebody should really try to back it up with some date, because otherwise, that’s just a meaningless opinion masquerading as fact. And what makes this guy an expert? He’s not a coder. He’s not a computer scientist or engineer. He’s a retired financial planner who started a website, and hawks himself out to media as an expert on all kinds of things he’s not actually an expert on. If you want retirement planning advice, he might be the right guy to go to (he’s no longer a licensed financial planner), but he’s absolutely not an expert on computer science or coding.
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As boomers are forced to ‘unretire’ because they’ve not saved enough, 6-year-olds in Germany could soon have retirement accounts
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Ok, they’re basing that on a survey, so I decided to go read the actual survey. Here’s the question he’s talking about and its results:
And it continued on the next page on various other issues. This isn’t really showing what people think about the Democratic Party’s views on anything. This is showing that we have a bipartisan system, but that roughly a third of people don’t agree with either party. So sure, more people say they agree with Republicans on the economy than Democrats, but since Republicans are currently in charge, it feels important to me to point out that 61% of people don’t agree with Republicans on the economy. Frankly, I often don’t agree with Democrats on the economy, because I’m further to the left than most elected Democrats. Harry Enten is another ass who used to work for the chief data analysis ass, Nate Silver.
Also, the shitty current state of the economy, including the volatile stark market, isn’t something most likely Republican voters are aware of because they get all their information from right wing sources who tell them the economy is better than it’s ever been and that we’re in a new Golden Age. Democratic voters don’t get exposed to that kind of blatant propaganda from more balanced news sources (there aren’t really any major left wing news sources). Democrats aren’t behind in that poll because their policy ideas are bad. They’re behind in that poll largely because of misinformation and disinformation.
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Thanks for clarifying this.
What strikes me when looking at that image are the years. Did they explain why they are comparing 2025 with that specific range of dates from 2023 and 2022? It would have made more sense to compare with opinions before the election in 2024 and have two sets of dates that matched timeframes after the first 100 days for the current and previous administrations. That’s 2024 and 2021 - not what they used here.
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I can think of two reasons.
- They’re trying to match sample counts, not time ranges
- They’re trying to cook the numbers.
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I’d go so far to say that corporate news sources blame Democrats for Republican economic crashes then chase squirrels during Democratic economic booms.
I specifically remember even MSNBC talking about job reports during the Biden admin saying things like “The US economy added 250,000 new jobs in April, more than doubling expectations, but economists warn that a recession is coming.” A recession that never happened - until T**** was in charge.
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And even there, he really had to work hard to trash that booming Biden economy. But he did, and somehow blamed it on Biden. The MSM seems to be backing him in this, and his people believe it. So, there you have it.
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Even during the Biden administration, and in the run up to the election, there were Democrats who didn’t believe that they’d delivered a booming economy. On one hand, if you’re struggling, I understand that it’s tough to hear that the economy is booming (without you). On the other hand, people forgot just how bad it was in 2020 and even in 2021 as the economy was recovering but not yet recovered. By 2024, people had jobs (often better ones than they had prior to the pandemic) and wage growth exceeded inflation 3.2% to 2.4%.
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Yeah, your source of information really shapes how you see events like how the economy is going.
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Here’s a link to the actual poll, including the questions, methodology, etc., if anyone is interested.
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It’s such an obvious and extreme bias that I can’t bring myself to watch any of it.
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