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New comment by naijaboiler in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"

naijaboiler — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:25:22 +0000

it did. GFC was a financial recession no doubt, but oil prices was one of the final things that tipped everything over. Oil prices climbed high, slowed economic activity a bit, and the whole financial that teetering just collapsed.

New comment by naijaboiler in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

naijaboiler — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:40:38 +0000

Conservatives all over have 1 disease. They are incapable of abstract empathy. Until it personally happens to them, or someone very very close to them, they are incapable of noticing injustices or hurts.

New comment by naijaboiler in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

naijaboiler — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:37:11 +0000

big business will always act in the interest of big business. Only a stupid business man will confront the full-might of the executive branch of the federal government heads on, particularly when the President is showing that he is willing to use that power against anybody

New comment by naijaboiler in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

naijaboiler — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:35:08 +0000

58% of Americans were okay with goverment shooting at protesting students at Kent State shooting.

New comment by naijaboiler in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

naijaboiler — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:36:04 +0000

same usually, i read this and see this some flawed or hackneyed tripe. But these ones are actually true and anyone who has had a long career and led people and product will resonate with many of them.

New comment by naijaboiler in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

naijaboiler — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:34:26 +0000

we are human being interacting with other human beings. what you call "kissing ass" is just learning to influence and work with other humans. It is by far the most useful skill to have in workplace. But don't worry. continue your disdain of it, includeing calling it negative names, and watch your career stagnate.

New comment by naijaboiler in "Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay"

naijaboiler — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:10:20 +0000

those are trends. prior to that, it was nike airforces. A business like Nike can't build their business solely on trends. Trends are cyclical, they can bring you massive windfalls, or bankrupt you.

Nike was a sports shoe company that forgot it was a sports company and started acting like it was a pure consumer goods company, leaving itself at the whims of fashion trends.

New comment by naijaboiler in "Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay"

naijaboiler — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:06:45 +0000

turned 40, switched to Brooks and my feet thank me everyday for it. I only wear 1 black brooks adrenaline GTS.

Rain, sunshine, snow, indoor, outdoor, running, it doesn't matter. Work, shopping, meeting, travel, church. 1 shoe. My achilles no longer hurt, bye bye shin splints, bye bye back pain.

New comment by naijaboiler in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

naijaboiler — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 13:47:44 +0000

Correct. Most americans view those targetted strikes as just continuation of the broader wars against terrorism (AQ, AQ++, ISIS affiliates)

New comment by naijaboiler in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

naijaboiler — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 13:45:07 +0000

- against ISIL, againg al-Qaeda - UN Security Counsil resolution

All those are either against some terrorist organization or its multi-country sanctioned.

New comment by naijaboiler in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

naijaboiler — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 13:34:29 +0000

Afghanistan was more justifiable. The argument was that it was a failed government that housed a terrorist organization that just attacked US.

What Iraq had to with it, i honestly have no idea. Somehow we pivotted from Afghanistan to Iraq

New comment by naijaboiler in "Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say"

naijaboiler — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 09:35:04 +0000

wrong. confession is the pimary way most people get convicted

New comment by naijaboiler in "Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices"

naijaboiler — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 07:27:53 +0000

Exactly pricing discrimination (i.e. selling at different prices to different customers) is absolutely legal and is market efficient in a market with multiple sellers and multiple buyers.

Pricing discrimination combined with monopsony(single large buyer) or monopoly ( single large seller) powers is not market efficient. It leads to higher prices by end consumers. Price discrimination via collusion + Walmarts monopsony in grocery industry violates that 1930s act and is illegal

New comment by naijaboiler in "In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All"

naijaboiler — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 10:41:04 +0000

you are talking economics. you have to realize America is weird inherently racist country. Enough people here will rather be economically worse off as long as it means their taxes are not being used to support "those people"

New comment by naijaboiler in "In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All"

naijaboiler — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 10:27:16 +0000

i just got quoted 300/wk for 2-day daycare

New comment by naijaboiler in "30 Days, 9 Cities, 1 Question: Where Did American Prosperity Go?"

naijaboiler — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:17:20 +0000

That’s exactly and inherently what capitalism is. Rate of return on capital is higher than rate of return on labor. The people with capital continue to pull ahead. And in America, we now decided to compound this by not taxing and undertaking capital. Which then allows those with capital to transfer some of their capital to political power that then accrues even more advantage to capital owners

New comment by naijaboiler in "Linear algebra explains why some words are effectively untranslatable"

naijaboiler — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 23:51:21 +0000

I think he’s rather arguing that no language is perfectly translatable to another. He only uses “untranslatable word” an instance of that claim

New comment by naijaboiler in "Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k"

naijaboiler — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:50:50 +0000

No sir, everybody does not break laws. Only people who routinely do like Trump thinks everyone else is doing it. That’s why he’s so sure he can find cases against his perceived political enemies only to find out the in thing he can find is the woman bough a second home, which she indicated is a second home, and let her neice stay there.

Only criminals think everyone else is a criminal

New comment by naijaboiler in "'Do not trust your eyes': AI generates surge in expense fraud"

naijaboiler — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 16:17:05 +0000

Not solved but constrained. If I post you per diem. I no longer have to worry about if what you spend it on is legit or not

New comment by naijaboiler in "ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media"

naijaboiler — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:43:16 +0000

The thing they are series about is racism, and having power to terrorize anyone they deem “undesirable”, a group which may one day include you