Funny (Hat Tip The Big Picture).
I wrote this in response to a friend who said he agreed with Goldman Sachs that austerity is the biggest threat to the economy. After all, look at Britain (see, for example, “Why Budget Cuts Don’t Bring Prosperity”, David Leonhardt, The New…
Yesterday on Kimberly Clark’s (KMB) 4Q22 earnings conference call, CEO Mike Hsu offered to take Barclay’s analyst Lauren Lieberman to KMB’s “war room on poop superiority”. Lieberman replied that it was on her 2023 agenda. Apparently this is an expensive…
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Using an overly aggressive seasonal adjustment factor, the statistical magicians turned an actual 6.5% surge in gasoline prices into a small decline. I wonder if they can read the minds of very skeptical American motorists who are not fooled by…
Shiznit, adj: (1) the best (2) the greatest in a certain category or universally (3) gaddam’ phenomenal, bi-atch! In the spirit of “Malibu’s Most Wanted”, which I had the pleasure of watching last night, and on the occasion of Fed…