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  1. hellolin

    (update) social security issues

    OFF-TOPIC RANT 
    Try to see if companies like freedomdebtrelief.com can help you with that, they can set up a program of savings to wipe out part of your debt, and help you build a habit of saving a little bit each month over a couple of years. The thing is, you don't have to wait to move out while you are doing...
  2. hellolin

    The Antiwork Movement, Lazy or Enlightened?

    HOT! OFF-TOPIC 
    Oh man, should ask all the K-12 social studies teachers, I don't think that's the message being passed to the next gen.
  3. hellolin

    Hyperinflation starting? What's happening in your area? Post your ground reports.

    HOT! INVESTING 
    So after I got a big pay raise and my new job in Tempe, AZ, I took a week of vacation to live there and check out the town. Jesus, if the labor shortage situation in SoCal is bad, then it is absolutely buckers in Phoenix. Signs by the highway saying they are giving out $1000 for someone to...
  4. hellolin

    Hyperinflation starting? What's happening in your area? Post your ground reports.

    HOT! INVESTING 
    Respect, lot a lot of right leaning folks are willing to admit this. Truth is he didn't have a better idea either, matter of fact, the entire western economy are all doing the same thing, and real economy hasn't grow a bit after 2008.
  5. hellolin

    The Worldwide C0VlD-19 Coronavirus Pandemic Discussion Thread...

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    I read somewhere that private GDP growth for the year 2021 is exactly big fat 0% (not sure for us or entire western economy), that for the US at least, 50% of our GDP spending was through the government. It's no wonder everything is super expensive and it just seems that time has stopped.
  6. hellolin

    The Antiwork Movement, Lazy or Enlightened?

    HOT! OFF-TOPIC 
    Such a good reply, several points I want to add to what you said here: "A lot of people that don't understand that their pay is closely related to the value they provide their company (or provide to anyone in society). They don't understand that their skills are currently in huge supply, or not...
  7. hellolin

    (update) social security issues

    OFF-TOPIC RANT 
    Get the heck out of SoCal. I just break the mid low six figure mark and I can't wait to get out of here, it's hell for working people. Let the rich retired liberal boomers figure out how to run their utopia project without cheap immigrate labor and let's see how that pans out. There are plenty...
  8. hellolin

    Dave Ramsey being asked how to get rich

    HOT! MINDSET SLOWLANE 
    "He used too much leverage on properties when it was not cool to do so unlike right before 2008, resulting in him becoming bankrupt. " Fixed for ya, nowadays that's what everyone is doing and no one ended up like him. "Back then when bailouts ain't the flavor of the month".
  9. hellolin

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Lots of products follow this model today, else how could a horde of corporate types gets their jobs? When you look at most people's jobs, it isn't hard to find out most people's jobs aren't really as useful as they think.
  10. hellolin

    Hyperinflation starting? What's happening in your area? Post your ground reports.

    HOT! INVESTING 
    There are no other productive assets to invest in at the moment, the only productive people are those who can afford to buy the houses. People are now saying no to the essential jobs during the pandemic, people who wants to work already are working. Without immigration, western nations simply...
  11. hellolin

    Hyperinflation starting? What's happening in your area? Post your ground reports.

    HOT! INVESTING 
    For all of ya all that are investing gurus, what's gonna happen at the other end of this? Investment eventually becomes money that go to people's hands, mostly working people's hands, because at the end, someone has to use those money to produce something. With the labor shortage in the US, and...
  12. hellolin

    Hyperinflation starting? What's happening in your area? Post your ground reports.

    HOT! INVESTING 
    So...you mean our economy right now looks like Voldemort sucking on the unicorn blood, trying to barely stay alive, you don't say....?
  13. hellolin

    Hyperinflation starting? What's happening in your area? Post your ground reports.

    HOT! INVESTING 
    The developed countries are flush with cash but without many productive investments to put them in at the moment, the RE is the only option to store value in them against inflation. Many people have remarked here on the forum that they can't even get people on the phone to do some paid work...
  14. hellolin

    Is a market crash coming? Or massive hyper-inflation?

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    3 bd 2 bath is very basic in my area. Anything smaller should be considered an apartment. Yes I am aware that the RE listing still classify it as a condo, but that's not really the reality. And please, someone with that kind of income in a past time would be able to buy much nicer things. Now...
  15. hellolin

    Is a market crash coming? Or massive hyper-inflation?

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    Coastal Cali outside of LA, that is not enough as of today for a 3 bed 2 bath condo in my area. No I am not talking about city proper either. And yes I have a six figure income.
  16. hellolin

    Is a market crash coming? Or massive hyper-inflation?

    HOT! 
    Tell me a time when someone in the US who is in the nationally top 10% in income, and can't afford to buy even a basic condo outside of a suburb in a metro area that is NOT NY or SF, I will let you know if hyper inflation is already here or not. Ridiculous if anyone think it hasn't, the young...
  17. hellolin

    A current labor market and creative hiring discussion

    PEOPLE 
    Are they waking up and demanding an easier way to start up companies? Or are they demanding more handouts? I don't think they are thanking MJ or even MJ is happy to see what their actions are right now...
  18. hellolin

    A current labor market and creative hiring discussion

    PEOPLE 
    Also consider not long ago, an employee means "someone does work and gets paid". Today it means that, plus benefits, being taking care of, have a ton of liabilities, all before the said person start producing anything viable in the first place.....
  19. hellolin

    A current labor market and creative hiring discussion

    PEOPLE 
    You are talking way up in the air, the truth is, most jobs, even before the 2008 crush, does not offer any kind of benefits or anything close to 401k. Most jobs just plain suck, but the internet made everything look airy today, so most people got their hopes way up in the air, only to find out...
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