Have you benefitted from the recent economic uptick!

[Danny Whitehead]

You'd think we could only have one or the other. Neither free market capitalism or whatever one decides to call 'socialism' are going to the ash heap of history any time soon. The 'human nature' argument is pretty useless. Both competition and cooperation have made us such awesome primates.

 

[PricelineNegotiator]

If only there was a way to get masses of people into the continent... Oh wait!

Unfortunately, that is the very last thing you want. Culture is something which is not easily rebuilt.

 

[arossetti]

The 'human nature' argument is pretty useless.

What do you mean by useless?

 

[Danny Whitehead]

Unfortunately, that is the very last thing you want. Culture is something which is not easily rebuilt.

Sure, but I'm sure you're doing your part with the occasional tribal dance.

 

[Danny Whitehead]

What do you mean by useless?

I think it's a bit of a blind alley. It can be used to support anything from a complete every-man-for-himself ideology to the forced sharing of everything equally. We're both a competitive and cooperative species. I'd rather talk about what actually benefits us.

 

[sjp1]

Definitely business has gone up since Trump took over. New clients starting businesses, older clients spending more. Cannot complain!

 

[namelessentity]

No real change in business that I've noticed. I mostly just see house prices steadily climbing waiting to burst again like no one learned anything.

 

[Slammer]

One "uptick" if you want to call it that is I read that Ford are selling 2000 pickups a day since Trumpy got into power, I wonder if they would sell as many if fuel actually cost something? All in all Ford shares soar, buyers happy, environment loses, but who cares about the stupid environment?

 

[gordo]

One "uptick" if you want to call it that is I read that Ford are selling 2000 pickups a day since Trumpy got into power, I wonder if they would sell as many if fuel actually cost something? All in all Ford shares soar, buyers happy, environment loses, but who cares about the stupid environment?

Ford pickup sales have been increasing steadily over the years ( http://fordauthority.com/fmc/ford-m...rd-sales-numbers/ford-f-series-sales-numbers/ ) so I don't think that Trump can take any credit for that.
Ford share prices haven't exactly been soaring. In fact, if anything, it's been on a downward trend.

 

[Slammer]

Absolutely. Same snake two different heads. I am just pointing out the fallacy of government control, mandates and excessive taxation and what that does to producers of wealth and the negative effects on economic reality. Amazing how the fantasyland numbskulls want to make a political debate out of it.

Ooopsie, held the graph the wrong way round, what a klutz I am, but almost 2500 trucks a day??? Wow!

 

[Slammer]

Holy gasguzzler Batman, had a few minutes over coffee so I did the math, just for a bit of fun, now I have no comprehension of MPG so I broke it down to Litres per 100 Kilometres and with a bit of metaphysics I get it to cost 170 USD to fill that behemoth full with a 26G tank.

 

[Joe]

I just bought gas last night for US $2.38 per gallon. To fill a 26 gallon tank it would be US $61.88.

 

[DYP]

Given the fact with all the scientific evidence, Big Oil can no longer claim that oil and gas are a limited fossil fuel so it will be much harder for them to inflate the price of fuel. But I guess the good part of the high prices was we have become much less wasteful and have researched and developed new ways to get to the source of deep earth produced hydrocarbons.

 

[Slammer]

I just bought gas last night for US $2.38 per gallon. To fill a 26 gallon tank it would be US $61.88.

Sorry, I should have added: "Here in Europe"

 

[Slammer]

Given the fact with all the scientific evidence, Big Oil can no longer claim that oil and gas are a limited fossil fuel so it will be much harder for them to inflate the price of fuel. But I guess the good part of the high prices was we have become much less wasteful and have researched and developed new ways to get to the source of deep earth produced hydrocarbons.

That would be by fraking, also known as "scraping the bottom of the barrel" Problem is not that Oil is running out but it will become too expensive to produce, when Oil costs as much to produce as it brings in revenue it is no longer a energy source but an energy sink, the only way you can get around this is by producing more which will then become cheaper. And you get a vicious circle. For instance Saudi oil comes in at around 8 USD, oil produced by shale at 23 USD, not factored is the horrific environmental cost of fraking. In my humble opinion the postulated oil wars have already begun, not with guns and bombs but with prices.

 

[arossetti]

Wonder if everyone is feeling the same as they did almost a year ago.

 

[gordo]

Wonder if everyone is feeling the same as they did almost a year ago.

I’m sure that at least 50% do.

 

[curiosity]

Personal political bias isevident in some of these posts. Even your OP Gordo. Geesh!
Politics makes most people sound like cherry-picking prognosticators. Frickin' dopey.

To answer the question portion of the OP:
Our business is up over 25% to date from last year, which was up slightly in 2017.
Both my wife and myself immediately saw additional income per paycheck beginning in January of this year (which was due to that Tax Act passed in 2017).
And we calculated our income tax filing for 2018....almost an $8k turnaround in our favor with very little changing in our incomes.

Surprising to me is how many people I've spoken to that were not aware of paycheck and tax return changes, until I suggested they check for themselves.
Apparently the narrative about the Tax Act passed in 2017 that they believed, is the sentiment they've heard/seen spawned from the relentless media opinionites, with which I disagree, and a simple look into one's paycheck and simply looking into 2018 tax estimates proves that media narrative is incorrect.

 

[gordo]

I don’t know how I could have asked my question in a more unbiased way.

 

[curiosity]

perhaps ur OP was tainted from previous posts, or maybe from this:
"NB I’m not asking if you think Trump is a saint ir a taint."
It was unnecessary. There's no need to qualify your query in that manner.
And for that reason, I thought you showed your bias.