Better health outcomes for less money.
There is no way anybody would want that! We can't allow a democrat to run on that! We better recruit the nearest racist billionaire we can!
Better health outcomes for less money.
There is no way anybody would want that! We can't allow a democrat to run on that! We better recruit the nearest racist billionaire we can!
Trumpettes are NOT Americans!
moderates suck wrote:
Sally Vix wrote:
A socialist society calls for public ownership, rather than private, of property and natural resources.
There are 169,000 millionaires (in dollar denominated terms) in Norway.
There are about 116,000 millionaires in Sweden (again in dollar terms).
These are both very small countries.
This is why there are so many millionaires in Norway. (Article form 2014):
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2536424/Everyone-Norway-millionaire.htmlNorway’s sovereign wealth fund has ballooned so much due to high oil and gas prices that every person in the country became a theoretical millionaire this week.
The Nordic nation is proving to be an exception as others struggle under a mountain of debts.
Set up in 1990, the fund owns around 1 percent of the world's stocks, as well as bonds and real estate from London to Boston.
The surplus revenue is collected in the Government Pension Fund Global.
Boom: Norway's sovereign wealth fund has ballooned so much due to high oil and gas prices that every person in the country became a theoretical millionaire this week. Pictured: Bergen +2
Boom: Norway's sovereign wealth fund has ballooned so much due to high oil and gas prices that every person in the country became a theoretical millionaire this week. Pictured: Bergen
A preliminary counter on the website of the central bank, which manages the fund, rose to 5.11 trillion kroner (£503.46 billion/$828.66 billion).
This equates to fractionally more than a million times Norway's most recent official population estimate of 5,096,300.
It was the first time it reached the equivalent of a million kroner each, central bank spokesman Thomas Sevang said.
Not that Norwegians will be able to access or spend the money - it is squirreled away for a rainy day for them and future generations.
Norway has resisted the temptation to splurge all the windfall since striking oil in the North Sea in 1969 +2
Norway has resisted the temptation to splurge all the windfall since striking oil in the North Sea in 1969
SO CAN NORWEGIANS ACCESS THIS MONEY?
The amount is only equivalent to just under £100,000 in sterling.
Not that Norwegians will be able to access or spend the money - it is squirreled away for a rainy day for them and future generations.
But the oil wealth may have made some people reluctant to work - according to Oeystein Doerum, chief economist at DNB Markets 'one in five people of working age receives some kind of social insurance instead of working.'
But Norway is expensive.
Oslo, where a pint of beer costs £5, is the world's most expensive capital according to the Economist. Dinner for two in an average restaurant can easily cost £200.
Norway has resisted the temptation to splurge all the windfall since striking oil in the North Sea in 1969.
Finance Minister Siv Jensen told Reuters the fund, called the Government Pension Fund Global, had helped iron out big, unpredictable swings in oil and gas prices.
Norway is the world's number seven oil exporter.
'Many countries have found that temporary large revenues from natural resource exploitation produce relatively short-lived booms that are followed by difficult adjustments,' she said in an email.
The fund, equivalent to 183 percent of 2013 gross domestic product, is expected to peak at 220 percent around 2030.
'The fund is a success in the sense that parliament has managed to put aside money for the future. There are many examples of countries that have mot managed that,' said Oeystein Doerum, chief economist at DNB Markets.
Norway has sought to avoid the boom and bust cycle by investing the cash abroad, rather than at home.
moderates suck wrote:
Q: We better reelect the nearest racist billionaire we can!
A: Donald Trump
Sally Vix wrote:
moderates suck wrote:
There are 169,000 millionaires (in dollar denominated terms) in Norway.
There are about 116,000 millionaires in Sweden (again in dollar terms).
These are both very small countries.
This is why there are so many millionaires in Norway. (Article form 2014):
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2536424/Everyone-Norway-millionaire.html
This is not why. The statistic I quoted are not counting that.
“Moderates” like Roger Stone do suck (in prison)!
jesseriley wrote:
“Moderates” like Roger Stone do suck (in prison)!
Rick Springfield maybe said it best about Roger S. being Jesse's "girl!"
Because Sally likes being ridden: "All you wanna do is ride around, Sally / Ride, Sally, ride"
Faker Trump wrote:
Because Sally likes being ridden: "All you wanna do is ride around, Sally / Ride, Sally, ride"
Touche!
Sally Vix wrote:
This is why there are so many millionaires in Norway. (Article form 2014):
A preliminary counter on the website of the central bank, which manages the fund, rose to 5.11 trillion kroner (£503.46 billion/$828.66 billion).
This equates to fractionally more than a million times Norway's most recent official population estimate of 5,096,300.
Did anyone else do the math on this? $828.66 billion / 5,096,300 people = $162k. Millionaire?
UsedToBeKnowItAll wrote:
Did anyone else do the math on this? $828.66 billion / 5,096,300 people = $162k. Millionaire?
It's a million kroner per. Which wasn't the measurement that I used and did not take any account of their sovereign wealth fund. It's just some dude displaying his own ignorance.
Roger Stone sentenced to 40 months in prison plus 24 months of supervised release. Judge Amy Berman Jackson said at the hearing,
He was not prosecuted, as some have complained, for standing up for the President, he was prosecuted for covering up for the President.
moderates suck wrote:
agip wrote:
Pretty amazing graphic
https://twitter.com/motherjones/status/1230266663171280896?s=21His main goal in entering the presidential race (beside feeding his own ego) was to prevent a wealth tax.
He was not shy about this either.
link? Where BB says or implies this.
agip wrote:
moderates suck wrote:
His main goal in entering the presidential race (beside feeding his own ego) was to prevent a wealth tax.
He was not shy about this either.
link? Where BB says or implies this.
Do you not have google?
How hard do you have to work to remain this ignorant?
moderates suck wrote:
agip wrote:
link? Where BB says or implies this.
Do you not have google?
How hard do you have to work to remain this ignorant?
humor me. I did a google search and found that BB is against a wealth tax but nothing like him being not shy about saying stopping one is his main goal.
Just humor me - I'd love to see where you got that.
Looks like mulvaney is trying career suicide by press conference.
He's said in the last couple days that Rs are ridiculously hypocritical for being pleased by trump's deficits
and
this is the kicker
that the united states of america desperately needs more immigrants.
he'll be gone soon.
Boom! Crazy Bernie could lose 49 states and this is coming from PMSNBC.
Now more than ever:
#Trumplandslide
"Four more years!"
KAG2020
FFS I actually cried a little when I read this.
Trump fired the acting director on national intelligence and installed an unqualified lackey.
What to know why? Do you?
Because the acting DNI okd a meeting with congress about election security.
This is just about the worst thing I've ever heard.
We now have a message from potus to the exec branch that election security is not to be sought after
we now have a message that national intelligence is not that important.
and he's going to be reelected.
Can we keep this republic?
moderates suck wrote:
His (Bloomberg) main goal in entering the presidential race (beside feeding his own ego) was to prevent a wealth tax.
He was not shy about this either.
There is no chance of a wealth tax being implemented even if Warren or Bernie were elected.
He did not enter the race to prevent that.
It's Ego and getting rid of Trump.
By entering the race, he can spend money on campaigning as some kind of tax writeoff.
The take-away from last nights debate is that every single democratic candidate on stage (except one) is more than capable of humiliating a thin-skinned insecure billionaire on national TV.