Bikes on Craigslist

[Tom Kunich]

The local craigslist seems to have really strange bike listings. The sizes all seem to be the one's that no one wants. Who rides a 56 cm MTB? Also a whole lot of 47's and the like which are pretty obviously children's bikes or perhaps women considering the number of high end bikes in that size.

As for large bikes, there used to be a lot of 62's. Now a Trek 62 is really a Trek 60. This is because the seat tube extends past the top tube quite a bit so saddle height of a 60 is in the old 62 cm area. But this also means that the size is more flexible.

My Trek Alpha 1.5 looks pretty much identical to the Trek Madone Alpha that a friend just bought. I thought that the fork was aluminum because the there was a continuous dinging when I rode. But the fork has the Bontrager name on it which would indicate that it is carbon fiber.

The main tubes have slightly different shapes but they are the same shape as the carbon fiber Madone of that time. I have a Madone. This Alpha 1.5 actually rides better than the CF one did.

I just put a new Athena ultra torque standard crank in it because the people riding these things are all flyers. They don't like compact like I do. It does have the 11-32 on it so that they can climb with the 39 tooth.

I don't expect that one to be around long since it is everything that a good rider with a moderate budget would like.

But who knows in the Joe Biden marketplace?

[ritzann...@gmail.com]

Job growth by month during Biden's term so far.
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/ces0000000001?output_view=net_1mth
Feb 2021 710k
Mar 2021 704k
Apr 2021 263k
May 2021 447k
Jun 2021 557k
Jul 2021 689k
Aug 2021 517k
Sep 2021 424k
Oct 2021 677k
Nov 2021 647k
Dec 2021 588k
Jan 2022 504k
Feb 2022 714k
Mar 2022 398k
Apr 2022 368k
May 2022 386k
Jun 2022 398k
Jul 2022 528k
GOD D-MNED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Joe Biden is creating TOO MANY JOBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of new jobs every single month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why oh why is Joe destroying America by creating so many new jobs for Americans???????? Why???????? Tell us why Tommy.


Year-over-year change in private-sector nominal average hourly earnings during Biden's term.
https://www.epi.org/nominal-wage-tracker/
Feb-21 5.18%
Mar-21 4.41%
Apr-21 0.63%
May-21 2.19%
Jun-21 3.95%
Jul-21 4.28%
Aug-21 4.34%
Sep-21 4.78%
Oct-21 5.35%
Nov-21 5.33%
Dec-21 4.88%
Jan-22 5.45% 
Feb-22 5.19%
Mar-22 5.62%
Apr-22 5.50% 
May-22 5.34% 
Jun-22 5.24% 
Jul-22 5.22%
OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why of why is Joe Biden making everyone's wages go up so much???????????? Tell us Tommy. I know you know the answer. Why is Joe making everyone earn so much extra money? Why is Joe doing this Tommy?

[Ernesto Martinez-Ordaz]

> But who knows in the Joe Biden marketplace?

What does that have to do with it?

[Tom Kunich]

On Tuesday, August 30, 2022 at 4:53:04 PM UTC-7, ernest...@gmail.com wrote:
> > But who knows in the Joe Biden marketplace?
> What does that have to do with it?

I don't know if you've tried to buy any bicycle parts recently but the wild-eyed inflation caused by Biden is also in bicycle parts.

[Ernesto Martinez-Ordaz]

I don't buy retail. I buy wholesale since I own a bicycle business. Biden doesn't cause inflation. It's supply and demand.

[Tom Kunich]

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I just bought some plastic water bottle cages - two years ago when I bought a supply they were $1.50 apiece. These identical ones are now $5. If you can notice that in wholesale pricing what exactly are you looking at?

[Ernesto Martinez-Ordaz]

I am looking at the price lists manufacturers put out.
Inflation will always happen no matter what.
It's not like a president has a button on his desk that says "inflation" on it.

[Tom Kunich]

I think that you don't understand the reasons for inflation. I argue with Janet Yellen for two days on Facebook before they suspended me for arguing with an "acknowledged expert". Inflation occurs when the money supply expands more rapidly that the good to buy (Gross National Product or GDP) This is hard and fast rule and it has occurred in every society in the world all the way back to Rome.

Money represents the goods of the people and printing more money than the increase of those goods either through an increase in population allowing more goods to be produced or increases in productivity that increases the amount of goods available.

If you do not print extra money to meet the increase in goods, your money becomes more valuable - you pay less for the things you buy. because there are more goods and services to be covered by the amount of money that is available. THIS is why the US went off of the gold standard and not the looney tunes ideas some people have. There simply wasn't enough gold to cover the increases in goods and services,

If you print more money the idea is to print only as much as the increase in goods and services represents, so that the dollar retains a standard value.

What Yellen and Biden have done is to immensely increased the amount of printed money rather than the goods and services. This means that in response, the prices on everything increase. In our case there is a slight lag because they can't print the money fast enough because the Department of the Treasury has designed a non-counterfeitable monetary system and making the paper and the printing of that paper very slow so it takes time to print "too much" money.

But with the amount of money that Biden has spent Yellen has called for the printing of all of that extra money. You can't get something for nothing and the inflation has just started.

Now there is another thing. A smart leader of the Federal Bank can only guess at the yearly increase in goods and services so they tend to OVERESTIMATE it. This is what causes "normal" inflation. But what is presently occurring is a growing printing of money that is making your earnings and savings worthless. And the people that are doing this ALL can simply give themselves raises and other benefits to compensate for the devaluation of our currency from overprinting.

None of this is guessing - every part of it is pure unadulterated history. You think that Biden doesn't have a button that says "increase inflation"? Well he does and he hasn't pressed it, he has locked it in the ON position.

I suggest you get any of the dozens of books by financial experts up to and including Nobel Prize winning economists who all do nothing more than repeat what I just said. They are all over the place and no one reads them because it is too dull for someone that prefers Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

[Ernesto Martinez-Ordaz]

ok

[ritzann...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, August 31, 2022 at 4:16:57 PM UTC-5, cycl...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 31, 2022 at 10:47:08 AM UTC-7, ernest...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Wednesday, August 31, 2022 at 12:23:18 PM UTC-5, cycl...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, August 31, 2022 at 7:34:09 AM UTC-7, ernest...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday, August 31, 2022 at 9:10:38 AM UTC-5, cycl...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > > > On Tuesday, August 30, 2022 at 4:53:04 PM UTC-7, ernest...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > > > > > But who knows in the Joe Biden marketplace?
> > > > > > What does that have to do with it?
> > > > > I don't know if you've tried to buy any bicycle parts recently but the wild-eyed inflation caused by Biden is also in bicycle parts.
> > > > I don't buy retail. I buy wholesale since I own a bicycle business. Biden doesn't cause inflation. It's supply and demand.
> > > `
> > > I just bought some plastic water bottle cages - two years ago when I bought a supply they were $1.50 apiece. These identical ones are now $5. If you can notice that in wholesale pricing what exactly are you looking at?
> > I am looking at the price lists manufacturers put out.
> > Inflation will always happen no matter what.
> > It's not like a president has a button on his desk that says "inflation" on it.
> I think that you don't understand the reasons for inflation. I argue with Janet Yellen for two days on Facebook before they suspended me for arguing with an "acknowledged expert".

Tell us another one Tommy. You're humorous.

> Inflation occurs when the money supply expands more rapidly that the good to buy (Gross National Product or GDP) This is hard and fast rule and it has occurred in every society in the world all the way back to Rome.

You are describing the cause of inflation in places like Venezuela and other third world countries. Not the USA or western Europe. Or the vast majority of the world that is experiencing inflation right now. Europe has 8.9% inflation right now. Australia has 6.1% in June 2022. New Zealand has 7.3% inflation. Canada has 7.6% inflation in July 2022. South Africa has 7.8% inflation in July 2022. Russia has 15.1% inflation in July 2022.

The cause of inflation in the USA and most of the rest of the world is due to basic supply and demand principles. Demand decreased severely during Covid. And supply was also restricted during Covid due to people not working and making things. Because demand was down. Unemployment was high during Covid. Then Covid kind of sort of ended, and everyone wanted to buy buy buy again. Greater demand. But still small supply. Because they could not build things fast enough to meet the demand. Supply is behind. So prices went up. Inflation.

And yes, I will agree that the various government subsidies helped increase demand for some items. More money supply. In March 2020 Trump passed the CARES Act for $2.2 TRILLION dollars. In March 2021 Biden passed the American Rescue Plan for $1.9 Trillion dollars.

But despite the extra money, basic supply and demand of goods is what caused the inflation.

>
> Money represents the goods of the people and printing more money than the increase of those goods either through an increase in population allowing more goods to be produced or increases in productivity that increases the amount of goods available.
>
> If you do not print extra money to meet the increase in goods, your money becomes more valuable - you pay less for the things you buy. because there are more goods and services to be covered by the amount of money that is available. THIS is why the US went off of the gold standard and not the looney tunes ideas some people have. There simply wasn't enough gold to cover the increases in goods and services,
>
> If you print more money the idea is to print only as much as the increase in goods and services represents, so that the dollar retains a standard value.
>
> What Yellen and Biden have done is to immensely increased the amount of printed money rather than the goods and services. This means that in response, the prices on everything increase. In our case there is a slight lag because they can't print the money fast enough because the Department of the Treasury has designed a non-counterfeitable monetary system and making the paper and the printing of that paper very slow so it takes time to print "too much" money.
>
> But with the amount of money that Biden has spent Yellen has called for the printing of all of that extra money. You can't get something for nothing and the inflation has just started.
>
> Now there is another thing. A smart leader of the Federal Bank can only guess at the yearly increase in goods and services so they tend to OVERESTIMATE it. This is what causes "normal" inflation. But what is presently occurring is a growing printing of money that is making your earnings and savings worthless. And the people that are doing this ALL can simply give themselves raises and other benefits to compensate for the devaluation of our currency from overprinting.
>
> None of this is guessing - every part of it is pure unadulterated history. You think that Biden doesn't have a button that says "increase inflation"? Well he does and he hasn't pressed it, he has locked it in the ON position.
>
> I suggest you get any of the dozens of books by financial experts up to and including Nobel Prize winning economists who all do nothing more than repeat what I just said. They are all over the place and no one reads them because it is too dull for someone that prefers Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

Tommy, you are not a very intelligent person at all. Too bad. If you had only applied yourself earlier in life, you might have made something of yourself. But I suspect its too late for you now.

[Jeff Liebermann]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 10:47:06 -0700 (PDT), Ernesto Martinez-Ordaz
<ernest...@gmail.com> wrote:

>It's not like a president has a button on his desk that says "inflation" on it.

Inflation is where there is a shortage of products and a surplus of
money available to buy those products. That causes buyers to bid up
the price of the scarce products. In early 2020, congress hammered
out a 2 trillion dollar economic stimulus package. When the
government dumps that much money into the economy, inflation is
guaranteed. Had the government not done so, the entire US economy
would likely have collapsed. It wasn't enough so the government sent
several $1,400 checks to everyone as part of the American Rescue Plan
intended to deal mostly with unemployment and inability to pay
personal debt. The resulting inflation is not likely to arrive
overnight. It will take some time for prices to rise and stabilize.
At what price point, I have no idea. Eventually, the debt will need
to be repaid, which implies higher taxes, probably for the next
generation to pay.

Hint: Notice how the national debt has recently risen 1 or 2 trillion
dollars every year and how it now exceeds the GDP (gross domestic
product). See chart at:
<https://www.thebalance.com/national-debt-by-year-compared-to-gdp-and-major-events-3306287>
<https://zfacts.com/national-debt/>
<https://www.usdebtclock.org>
If the value of everything sold in the US went to paying off the
national debt each year, it still would not be sufficient to produce a
balanced budget.


--
Jeff Liebermann je...@cruzio.com
PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

[Frank Krygowski]

On 8/31/2022 5:16 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:

> I argue with Janet Yellen for two days on Facebook before they suspended me for arguing with an "acknowledged expert".

Tom, you're fantasizing again. Janet Yellen would treat you the way I
treat a house fly.

Prove me wrong. Give transcripts.

--
- Frank Krygowski

[John B.]

Well... if you are arguing that the earth really is flat and the moon
really is blue cheese.

--
Cheers,

John B.

[Jeff Liebermann]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 14:16:55 -0700 (PDT), Tom Kunich
<cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:

>I argue with Janet Yellen for two days on Facebook before they suspended me for arguing with an "acknowledged expert".

You seem to still have a functioning Facebook account:
<https://www.facebook.com/thomas.kunich.14>
Oddly, when I search your posts and timeline, I can't find anything
mentioning Janet Yellen.

[ritzann...@gmail.com]

You're right Jeff. Not that you needed to be told that. I just went over to Facebook and looked up Thomas Kunich. And he had an account. And a picture of him too. Do you think Tommy was lying to us?

[John B.]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 21:43:29 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <je...@cruzio.com>
wrote:

>On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 14:16:55 -0700 (PDT), Tom Kunich
><cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I argue with Janet Yellen for two days on Facebook before they suspended me for arguing with an "acknowledged expert".
>
>You seem to still have a functioning Facebook account:
><https://www.facebook.com/thomas.kunich.14>
>Oddly, when I search your posts and timeline, I can't find anything
>mentioning Janet Yellen.

Details, details. What's with you that you need details?
Remember! This is Tommy!
--
Cheers,

John B.

[Jeff Liebermann]

On Thu, 01 Sep 2022 12:31:18 +0700, John B. <sloc...@gmail.com>

wrote:

>On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 21:43:29 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <je...@cruzio.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 14:16:55 -0700 (PDT), Tom Kunich
>><cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I argue with Janet Yellen for two days on Facebook before they suspended me for arguing with an "acknowledged expert".
>>
>>You seem to still have a functioning Facebook account:
>><https://www.facebook.com/thomas.kunich.14>
>>Oddly, when I search your posts and timeline, I can't find anything
>>mentioning Janet Yellen.

>Details, details. What's with you that you need details?
>Remember! This is Tommy!

The devil is in the details and I am the devil.

There used to be a TV detective show where everyone knew who had
committed the crime. That's quite different from the usual "who done
it" detective story:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbo>
The objective was to prove it. The lead character would lead the
obvious culprit around until the culprit walked into a situation that
made it clear to everyone that they were guilty.

I think it's fairly clear that Tom is lying most, if not all, of the
time. The objective is now to prove he's lying. The answer is
usually in the details.

[John B.]

On Thu, 01 Sep 2022 01:23:56 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <je...@cruzio.com>

I wonder where he gets some of his notions. He posts that the monsoons
make travel impossible for a quarter of the year and he does this to
me, a bloke that has lived more then 50 years in places where the
monsoon blows. Currently we are well into the South-West monsoon which
is the "rainy season" with some flooding of rivers but no problem in
travel. In fact we made a (about) 200 km trip yesterday with no
problems at all.

--
Cheers,

John B.

[AMuzi]

+1

to wit:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7216580-inflation-is-always-and-everywhere-a-monetary-phenomenon

--
Andrew Muzi
<www.yellowjersey.org/>
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

[Tom Kunich]

While that quote is quite right, the question is why is he right. And I answered it clearly by saying that the Federal Reserve Banks in order to have enough money on hand to pay for the expansion of the GDP ALWAYS print more than is necessary rather than less.

This makes inflation a normal matter. This is done in order to retain the most value of the printed dollar with the least change in that value. What Biden has done is to spend 10 years worth of GDP before it has been actually made.

Two things can happen. If the Federal Reserve prints that much money without the backing of the goods and services it represents, it will drop the value of the money to nearly nothing, If they do not print the money to pay for Biden's spending we have a recession, and a very large one at that. The same thing happened during Obama.

But I also spoke of the Department of the Treasury making the printed money in a fashion that it cannot be counterfeited. This of necessity makes the printing of money a very difficult process and so there is a delay in overspending and the consequences of a recession. Obama DID NOT himself cause the recession via overspending. That occurred two years before when the Democrat majority of the Congress was elected. THEY overspend in their zeal to produce on their campaign promises. Obama was only the visualization of the gluttony that is the Democrat Party.

So it will take a couple of years for the results of the mass spending of Biden to hit the streets and they have done this quite on purpose. These reactions are perfectly well known and it is also well known that the Republicans are going to have a massive victory in the election. This means that the results of Biden's spending will occur during the Republican majority Congress so the Democrats have done this to be able to say that the violent inflation is all the results of the Republicans.

[ritzann...@gmail.com]

Jeff, I am going to argue with you here. The objective is NOT to prove Tommy is lying. Everyone already knows Tommy is lying. No proving necessary. The objective is to demonstrate all the different ways Tommy is lying by providing contrarian proof. I personally admit to not catching all of Tommy's lies. I try to point out most. But sometimes for unknown reasons miss obvious lies. And someone else proves my missed Tommy lie. That makes me go Gosh!!!!!! How Tommy was that!!!!!!!!!!

[ritzann...@gmail.com]

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?locations=US
USA GDP 2021 $23 Trillion
USA GDP 2020 $20.89 Trillion
USA GDP 2019 $21.37 Trillion
USA GDP 2018 $20.53 Trillion
USA GDP 2017 $19.48 Trillion

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/federal-budget-receipts-and-outlays
During Joe Biden's first budget year as president, the federal receipts were $4.174 Trillion. Outlays were $6.011 Trillion. Deficit of $1.837 Trillion. MUCH less than the final two years of Trumps budget years with $3.1 and $3.6 Trillion in deficits. Biden cut Trump's deficits in half.

Now, Tommy boy says Biden has spent 10 years worth of GDP. That would be about $230 Trillion dollars. But Biden's outlays were only $6 Trillion in his first budget year. Is Tommy boy lying again? Or does he not know what he is blathering about? Or both?

Tommy, its not really a lot of fun proving you are a liar and idiot when you make it sooooooo easy. Try harder Tommy.

>
> Two things can happen. If the Federal Reserve prints that much money without the backing of the goods and services it represents, it will drop the value of the money to nearly nothing, If they do not print the money to pay for Biden's spending we have a recession, and a very large one at that. The same thing happened during Obama.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_United_States
Wikipedia does not really agree with you Tommy. You have to go down to the end of the above webpage to find the recent recessions. Last recession before Trump's monstrous recession was the one starting in December 2007 during the final year of Bush2 presidency, and going to June 2009. First few months of Obama presidency. Recession started a year before Bush2 left office. So this recession was Bush2. Not Obama. He merely fixed it.

And then of course we get the HUGE Trump recession in early 2020. 19.2% DECLINE in USA GDP. 14.7% UNEMPLOYMENT.

>
> But I also spoke of the Department of the Treasury making the printed money in a fashion that it cannot be counterfeited. This of necessity makes the printing of money a very difficult process and so there is a delay in overspending and the consequences of a recession.

???????????
Tommy, did you smoke some bad crack cocaine from your dealer last night? And maybe popped a few too many quaaludes? Is that how the above nonsense came into your head?

Tommy, the phrase "printing money" does not mean the literal printing of paper money with a printing press. The vast vast vast vast vast majority of money is not created via paper currency. When the federal government, and state governments, issue bonds or purchase debt, they are creating or destroying money. This is all done electronically via a few keystrokes on a computer. No paper money changes hands. No printing press necessary to make complicated USA dollars.

Here is a story about printing money Tommy.
https://www.thebalance.com/is-the-federal-reserve-printing-money-3305842

> Obama DID NOT himself cause the recession via overspending. That occurred two years before when the Democrat majority of the Congress was elected. THEY overspend in their zeal to produce on their campaign promises. Obama was only the visualization of the gluttony that is the Democrat Party.

Tommy, your lack of an education is showing itself once again. USA government is split into three departments. Executive, legislative, and judiciary. Judiciary does not have anything to do with spending money. That is solely an agreement between the executive and legislative branches. BOTH must approve any bill authorizing spending. So anything the Democrat congress wanted during Bush's final two years must have been signed by Republican Bush2. BOTH had to agree on spending money. BOTH.