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The market isn’t random is one of the first things you will discover after viewing charts long enough. Then you discover cycles and repeating patterns. Then from there MA crosses predicting price moves. Then waves and fibs. Before long you see everything. Is based on math and follow a programming with some noise thrown in. Then you discover news isn’t random either. It comes out to make it look like it was the news that caused the movement but from reading charts you know it was gonna happen anyways. So the news is obviously fake and made to fit the narritive of the market when needed. Then you start wondering how much of this matrix is actually real or just a simulation that you’re slowing decoding. Once you know all these things you can never look at anything or the world the same way. It’s actually pretty heavy and takes a toll on you but I use this information to my advantage to help me. My family. And others. I’m not on this earth to get rich at others expense. I’m on here to expose the reality of what is really happening not what they gaslight us with 24x7. I miss the days of three tv channels but I will continue on for my grandchildren. The wealthy in control might think we are their little playthings that they can take advantage of and slowly take everything from us and we’re non the wiser. I see what they are doing. I know others also see. Unregulated capitalism only benifits the wealthy and they are basically going for the kill shot. There is no jobs and you don’t hear a single peep from our wealthy leaders on fixing any of the issues. Tiring healthcare to slave wage jobs…. Nice but obvious. Giving raises that don’t except the COLA every year. Year that’s why after 18 years at a bank I was like F this. The American dream is dead because of Reagan and all these greedy sob. I hate them all. I will fight for others till the end. The smoke and mirrors of this matrix is being exposed buy the army of matrix seers. We will raise others up and not be part of their destruction or greedy selfish ways. That isn’t what life is about.
Poor consumer: please, we need help. COLA is too high 🥭: I’ve called interest rates at 10%, thank me *banks cancel high risk accounts and slash limits* Poor consumer: no not like that, now I can’t buy shit. This’ll be catastrophic if it somehow happens
I think you should consider a few other variables. 1) My 2.6% COLA ~ after Medicare ~ was so small I won’t bother to calculate it! The moral of this story: you will be a negative run rate day one. 2) RMD’s. This is when you have to pay the tax on all the money you’ve saved. I make my first RMD this coming year, and my Certified Fiancial Planner (free via Fidelity) said I could estimate 4% per year tax to be paid on RMD’s. Be mindful this percentage was a guesstimate. I’ll get more of a feel (hopefully) this time next year.
Not for COLA, no they didn't. If you got a promotion coincidentally or something, that needs to be compared to the same position's salary last year, not your other different position.
Wait for OKLO to get back down to $20-30 within the next 2-3 years depending on how fast they get their COLA. Just replace all those risk with RKLB, thank me in a year. Large cap just go mainly Google, then Amazon, then Nvidia, Then Microsoft and Broadcom. Depending on how much money you have go 50-70% VOO. This is not financial advice 😂
Blew the clutch on my truck cause I was hot dogging it. Quoted $2,100. Bad timing. Lost middle class job - over hiring in 2022 (me), then 2024 COLA’s. Anyways, working 70hr weeks at the time, two jobs, and like $100 left over after rent and no groceries if I didn’t blow $50 of it on whiskey at the bar. I was sitting with my buddy and he was like, I will help you. Got it on jacks. Used our friend’s barn. Smoked our asses off, dropped the tranny; we only had enough energy for like an hour every night. A little here and there. Clutch and flywheel replaced. $200.
Probably a combination of things over a 10-20 year period. Higher taxes, slow the rate of spending or even cut spending. I’d likely cut military spending, raise corporate taxes, raise individual taxes, walk a fine line of inflating the dollar above the target rate without spiking the interest rate on the debt. Rework the entire healthcare system to match more successful systems. Slowly erode entitlements by raising the age or capping benefits, lower multipliers for COLA, and pray while I do all that I don’t slow growth too much. It’s a challenge there is no “good” way out of having a debt burden that is 120% your annual “salary”. A combination of all of these is what is likely to happen as incentives are never aligned to make big bold moves at any given time so it will be 100’s of small things that all suck over a long period of time. How would you do it?
What your opinion on annuities with a COLA? I'm inclined not to buy-in, but I feel I can handle another 20% drop.
MANGO SAID: - MCDONALD’S HAS THE BEST COCA-COLA Bros a fat ass, who TF asked him who has the best coca cola
For interested parties that want to know the path forward for OKLO: With the DOE selecting OKLO for their nuclear project, OKLO is moving forward with building a reactor with criticality (reactor is running) in the summer of 2026 ( about eight months away). They cant sell electricity without a COLA and NRC approval, but they can have a working reactor with DOE approval. They already have the fuel for this first reactor. After having a working reactor, OKLO is betting that the NRC approval will happen faster since they will have a working model rather than a design on paper. After NRC approval, all that is required is to hook up their reactor to the electric grid and do all the necessary startup testing. I have no clue as to what the OKLO stock is worth, I made my money this year and got out.
OKLO expectations for call is a very low bar and likely already baked in, wouldn’t be surprised if we see $130-$140 by end of week. Especially since they can submit COLA later this week when the government reopens.
Their actively building right now, so that’s not true. My best guess is COLA submission or a significant partnership.
OKLO can finally submit COLA once gov reopens… huge catalyst
OKLO can finally submit COLA once gov reopens… huge catalyst
OKLO hopefully to announce COLA submission soon once gov reopens
Fluor is selling off their SMR stake, which is causing an early dip in nuclear sector, still think OKLO COLA submission will drive $150+
OKLO can submit COLA once shutdown is over- $150+ when that happened
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Government shutdown will now allow them to submit their COLA, which has been holding things up.
OKLO $150+ this week, shutdown ending means they can finally submit COLA
The problem is the logic of the question. For you to estimate any of the points in the last paragraph you'd have to specifically be talking about timing the market. If not now, when? Would you rather ride the ups and downs and come out the other side with a modicum of ownership and returns? Or would you rather keep money out entirely and watch the slow grind of inflation + COLA destroy your "interest"?
That makes more sense. Probably pretty close with the COLA adjustments. I’d take a look at a retirement Target date fund that your broker offers and pick the one for the year you’re going to retire.
Wife is 100% $4k I’m 40% $1k then figuring COLA of 3% x 14 years. $5,000 x 1.42 is $7100.
Wife is 100% $4k I’m 40% $1k then figuring COLA of 3% x 14 years. $5,000 x 1.42 is $7100.
OKLO $130 Monday open after shutdown- allows for COLA submission finally
OKLO $130 Monday open after shutdown, allows them to submit COLA
OKLO $130 Monday open after shutdown, allows them to submit COLA- huge
OKLO COLA submission soon, $150+
I’ve never worked somewhere that didn’t do atleast 3-4% as the COLA, the 1-4% more for merit. My current job gives COLA based on the Cost of living index. We’ve been very lucky that in 21,22 and 23’ the index was super high 2021 9%, 2022 it was 11%, 2023 6%. My salary has gone up around 45k in the last 4 years but so has life overall, just lucky they actually give raises the way they do here.
Most important comment I felt was the driving in the fog. Clearly showing lack of data more likely to pause than perhaps intended purpose of accelerating more cuts. That comment makes the most sense and why perhaps there shouldn’t have been a rate cut this month since we got CPI (due to COLA) but no PPI used to extrapolate and understand CPI.
Local OKLO bottom, COLA submission soon
I thought they let CPI be released so that social security recipients can get their beloved COLA adjustments, otherwise they'd miss out on a cost of living adjustment?
What’s this talk about COLA bump?? Like a coke bump??
Starting in January, the average monthly check for the nation’s 53 million retired recipients will be $2,064, up $56 from this year, the Social Security Administration said Friday. The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, follows this year’s 2.5% increase, which was the smallest in four years.
Inflation still raging, yet 2.8% social security COLA. Looks like I won’t be getting a crisp $100 bill from meemaw for Christmas.
Also, we dont want to have to increase COLA toooo much next year. Poors still need to be poor
Yes retard.. they need it for COLA for social security adjustments. How do I lose more money than people who don’t know anything about the market.
CPI to be published due to social security COLA
Nope, COLA application submission soon, PPA conversions and/or more partnerships- lots of catalysts right now.
As long as we live. If my wife passed before me I’d loose her portion ($4100 of the $5100). That number increases with COLA.
OKLO sits on milestones and news, wouldn’t be surprised if something big is announced tomorrow- could be COLA submission, partnerships (up to OpenAI) or business milestones
OKLO’s COLA submission any day now
Yes, they’re (BLS) making an exception (or trying to) for September’s CPI, it’s being pushed to October 24 so the Social Security Administration (SSA) can compute the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA). So maybe some data?
OKLO’s COLA submission to the NRC is any day now- looking forward to the morning they announce
You’re doing this before all of the major catalysts ahead (COLA, Partnerships, PPA conversions) I would do the exact opposite.
Social Security needs it for COLA so BLS was called back to do this month's report. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/business/economy/inflation-report-release-shutdown.html
This blog has a great writeup and a simple Google sheet for evaluating pension/annuity versus lump sum: https://earlyretirementnow.com/2023/02/06/evaluating-annuities-pensions-social-security-swr-series-part-56/ Here are some additional details that are required to get any accurate response to your question: 1. Is the lump sum payable immediately or at a certain age? 2. When would the monthly option start paying, immediately or at a certain age? 3. Do you have a spouse and does the monthly option have a spousal benefit? 4. If so, what is the spousal payment? Is there any inflation/COLA adjustment on the monthly benefit? 5. Are you male or female (this affects your life expectancy)? Even assuming the $230 a month is immediate, the calculator I linked above seems to indicate that the lump sum is better. And if you have a spouse, they would appreciate having the lump sum in an investment account rather than a monthly payment that disappears when you die.
I have a VA Pension that's $4300 currently and with COLA should be around $8, 000 in 25/30 years as well.
For DoD and DOE builds, yeah. However Oklo will be submitting their COLA to NRC soon for commercial.
Progress * They **broke ground** on their first commercial Aurora reactor (Aurora-INL) at Idaho National Laboratory. Construction is underway. * They completed the **NRC Readiness Assessment Phase 1** for their Combined License Application (COLA); meaning they’ve satisfied several pre-application regulatory requirements. * Their NRC “Principal Design Criteria” report (setting safety, reliability, and performance requirements) was accepted for review under an accelerated timeline.
For me, it's not about worrying that it won't be there but rather a means to increase the overall odds of success. Also, my pension doesn't have a COLA so in real dollars it essentially does vanish over time.
Shorts covering, COLA submission soon, and speculation surrounding OpenAI partnership and/or gov contracts
You're all sheep. Everything's a distraction. RELEASE THE COCA COLA RECIPE!
Everyone is waiting on Cost Of Living Allowance COLA raises in Q1 to offset goods inflation now. 2.7% COLA raise for 2026?
But they don’t really have either of those - they got rejected for a COLA and they’ve only agreed to review it. None of the major catalysts this week have mentioned OKLO once
My current COLA that's what I need at least too. With inflation that number may go up to $30M if there's 1 or 2 major printing episodes in the US. But those living in cheaper areas people can probably get by with a lot less.
Anyone else buying WOLF COLA IPO? They just got cleared of their investigation with that Boca Raton mixup, me personally I'm all in the CEO seems like a real stand up guy been waiting for this all year
This Reddit thread and your comment are 3 years old but it came on my mind today. I do not regret holding on to my Tesla shares and I still own them and plan to continue holding on to them for many decades to come. 3 years ago you mentioned I could retire in 15 years and that's why it came on my mind. Truth is my life is vastly different now. In March 2024 I was very lucky to be awarded VA disability (100% P&T) from my past US military service. It is a permanent & continuous income stream for life and has a COLA every year to keep up with inflation. After much consideration, I decided to retire abroad in January 2025. Right now I live in China but might move to another country in Asia in the future. The cost of living is much cheaper and it is very safe here. I have no regret retiring at the age of 32 (just turned 33 in August) and I'm doing very well financially. Your comment made me realize how lucky I am since I was indeed planning on retiring in 15 years as you stated. But here I am, retiring even sooner. Thank you for the comment.
Techincally anything can be taken away with political authority, including your 401k, your house and your rights. I just happen to have a political promise they won't do so, and they know they can't because doing so would create upheaval that would unravel the country and descend it into chaos. Nothing is guaranteed. This whole SS is some benefit and not an entitlement is a narrative spun by conservatives to convince you that it's okay to use political authority to steal your money as they raid the coffers and leave nothing for you once they are done, without creating that upheaval that would unravel society. Don't fall for their lies. My whole life I've heard this lie as they pay out in full, raise payouts for COLA and do nothing while predicting this "doom". But time and again this whole funding issue isn't truly an issue with a few tweaks. We keep paying in to keep the thing funded so it doesn't "run out". The whole run out thing is if we stop paying in altogether. But they keep singing this song because they're trying to create a self fulfilling prophecy as an excuse to defend the whole thing. Do not be bought into this excuse from those that wish to con you it's okay to steal your money.
Oklo is the best SMR company IMO, and it’s not even close. They have a first-mover advantage, backed by a highly scalable model with roughly 14 GW in their order pipeline, strong DoD and DOE partnerships, additional revenue verticals in nuclear fuel recycling and medical/industrial radioisotopes, proven reactor technology, and the strongest balance sheet amongst SMR projects. Their leadership team consists of MIT PhDs who have deep ties to both government and major tech companies, positioning them perfectly for markets like data centers, microgrids, and remote industrial sites. The current valuation reflects only a small fraction of the contracted and anticipated future revenue stream. Oklo’s microreactor design allows for factory fabrication, rapid transport, and on-site installation, bypassing many of the bottlenecks of large-scale nuclear builds. Their COLA application route also allows for subsequent review windows of 6-18 months, and that doesn’t factor in tailwinds from the recent executive orders. Most importantly, Oklo’s ability to project-finance debt against future recurring revenues creates a structural scaling advantage, enabling them to roll out multiple units in parallel through the 2030s while many competitors will still be in initial deployment. Just this week, both Oklo and their radioisotope partner Atomic Alchemy were officially selected for the DOE’s reactor pilot program, streamlining the path to their first operational units by July 4, 2026. NFA: I’m a long-term investor, not a trader.
Couldn’t disagree more… Oklo is worth way more and it’s not even close. They have a first-mover advantage, backed by a highly scalable model with roughly 14 GW in their order pipeline, strong DoD and DOE partnerships, additional revenue verticals in nuclear fuel recycling and medical/industrial radioisotopes, proven reactor technology, and the strongest balance sheet amongst SMR projects. Their leadership team consists of MIT PhDs who have deep ties to both government and major tech companies, positioning them perfectly for markets like data centers, microgrids, and remote industrial sites. The current valuation reflects only a small fraction of the contracted and anticipated future revenue stream. NuScale, while further along in traditional NRC processes, is at least three years behind Oklo in timelines, uses less advanced Gen-III PWR technology, has fewer strategic partnerships, and is hampered by a utility-scale model that is slower, more capital intensive, and less adaptable to the distributed energy shift. Their design certification is not the same as an immediate build approval… any project would still require lengthy, site-specific construction and operating permits from any potential buyers of their design, adding at least another 3-4 years before deployment. In contrast, Oklo’s microreactor design allows for factory fabrication, rapid transport, and on-site installation, bypassing many of the bottlenecks of large-scale nuclear builds. Their COLA application route also allows for subsequent review windows of 18 months, and that doesn’t factor in tailwinds from the recent executive orders. Most importantly, Oklo’s ability to project-finance debt against future recurring revenues creates a structural scaling advantage, enabling them to roll out multiple units in parallel through the 2030s while many competitors will still be in initial deployment. Just this week, both Oklo and their radioisotope partner Atomic Alchemy were officially selected for the DOE’s reactor pilot program, streamlining the path to their first operational units by July 4, 2026. NuScale wasn’t selected and one of their largest investors, Flour, is publicly looking to exit their 15 million shares position.
The whole supply chain can hide the losses from tariffs over the short term. Over the long term they have to have a certain % return on capital and profit margins have to go back to whatever they where before the tariffs. Proces eventually have to go up to pay for the tariffs. Plus a cost increase in one place increases costs somewhere else that may take some time to play out. Thing of the cost of parts and labor going up and now thos year car insurance rates spiked. Lastly COLA increases reverbarate through the economy. So a price increase in 1 year causes certain contracts and government payments to automatically go up in the next year. This causes inflation in year 2.
Hyper scalable model via custom COLA route, 14GW in order pipeline (1% of nations power), proven tech from 3 decades of running EBR-II at INL, best balance sheet among all of the projects, OpenAI relationship to spur future demand, ELT consists of MIT Phds, close ties to current administration… the competition doesn’t have that.
yep. my company dropped our COLA to 2% from 3% a couple years ago now (or maybe it was just this year, I already forget what last year's was) so 2.7 is bad for my bank account I am happy we got anything, I guess.
The simple process is: Emergency fund: HYSA = 3 - 6 Months expenses House down payment fund?: HYSA to the tune of what that looks like under your budget and plans. 401K/IRA: the rest in S&P Index Funds. So let's assume some random shit for a moment: you're 22, you make 70K/year in a mid COLA and are renting. 70K tax and crap = 55K = 4,500/month (all rounding to easy numbers). Let's assume you spend on the expenses 3,000/month. And you have 1,500 "disposable income." Let's assume you currently don't contribute to a 401K or IRA and haven't socked any away for any purposes. Let's assume yhe 70,000 you mentioned is the total sum of all your net worth. Let's assume you feel like 4 months is good for you. That is 12K emergency fund. Let's assume you're going to seek a national average 400K house with 20% down or 80K 12K emergency fund + 58K housing fund. 1500/month you cut 675 into 401K from now on. Leaving you with 825. (Ignoring the tax advantage potentially so we'll say you decide to do a Roth). 825, let's say you feel compelled to fun money 225 for shits and giggles, leaves you with 600. 600/month toward house fund = 7,200/year. 80 - 58 = 22, or 3 years to funded. Ignoring interest gains on funds and assume it paces inflation, and assuming this is all manageable within the current income in terms of affording the house at these random rough avg numbers. If we assume an avg 3% employer match, that means $810 total 401k contributions. If we assume you retire at 62 and that all of these numbers stay the same within the inflationary context (like you never get a promotion at work and always make a 70K equivalent.) Then you retire at 62 with a house paid off by 52 and $4,338,000 in your 401K. At a standard 4% withdrawal rate, that gives you $173,000/year to survive on. And your Social Security would be something like maybe $2,300. So if you never changed anything, at 61, you are making "$4,500/month" and at 62, you are making "$16,700/month" and life is gravy.
Who knows? Who cares? It is just a moment in time. I am seeing people making 6 figures for all kinds of jobs that were paying 50-60k just a few years ago. It depends on the job market you are in and what they can hire people for. There is no obligation for wages to track consumer prices. Even COLA adjustments are always tied to the previous year not what things cost today. Seriously I am not sure where you get this nonsense from.
I'm using 6% for returns and these as well for planning (NewRetirment.com software / aka boldin.com to do the analysis): General Inflation: 2.5% Medical Inflation Rate: 2.5% (probably too low) Social Security COLA: 2% Housing Appreciation Rate: 4% I'm within a year of retirement so the more conservative numbers reflect the actual portfolio. If I was further from retirement and more aggressively invested, I would use a higher return closer to 7.5%. 1% makes a huge difference and kind of points out how these planning tools and the calculated chance of success they come up with really depend on that rate of return number.
Oklo Inc. (NYSE: OKLO), an advanced nuclear technology company, has announced the successful completion of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC’s) pre-application readiness assessment for Phase 1 of the combined license application (COLA) for Oklo’s first commercial Aurora powerhouse at Idaho National Laboratory (INL).
You can’t really say universally that there are housing bag holders since homeowners with 6% rates will be benefited eventually if they don’t lose their job and can get COLA increases in pay. But I will grant that is a big IF.
NuScale won’t have a reactor built until early 2030s, whoever buys their design will need to submit for separate construction and operating licenses. This is where OKLO’s COLA model will drive first mover advantage and faster scaling.
This, SMR is nowhere near Oklo in terms of timelines, partnerships and their scalability with their COLA-based model, not mention their recent AFB contract. https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/s/y5KHFtTuaq
Look at why their projected deployment timelines are years behind competitors… design approval doesn’t mean much when you need each individual buyer to undergo a 3-5 year construction and operating license. Companies like Oklo don’t have to worry about that through their COLA structure.
I am on a path to an 80% pension myself, also without social security. Going to guess you are in public service like me. If the pension pans out, especially at 82% of your final pay, if your lifestyle remains similar to the age at which you retire, you would probably be fine with just the pension. Many recommendations for retirement income sit at around 80% of what you were taking in before. This assumes you are single (or single income), and putting full faith in the pension to deliver on its promise. I, for one, am skeptical. I have about 18 years (including buybacks) into my pension and have another 22 to go for full benefit due to the age factor. Risks include: * Job loss, and inability to get another job in the same pension system / buy into another * Pension not being fully funded * Pensions often get no COLA increases or small increases (my MA one is 3% of $13,000, so a measly $390/yr) which means it will lose its value quickly A Roth IRA is the perfect pairing with a pension. You probably are not in a high tax bracket working in a job with a pension, so Roth is reasonable. You will have high ordinary income with an 80% pension, so extra Roth money will not count towards your AGI. Traditional IRA or 403(b)/401(k) could push you into a high tax bracket. Using the logic from my favorite podcast/YouTube channel, The Money Guy, you should be aiming for a 25% savings rate. This logic gets a little messy with pensions, but if you take pension saving as just a number, probably around 10% mandatory saving, and maxing a Roth IRA would be another \~10-15% ($7,000 is 10% of a $70k salary). If you wanted to save more, your work may have 403(b)/457(b) options, but a lot of public service options have terribly high fees, so do your homework. (Happy to give more info on that)
Liter is French for GIVE ME SOME FUCKING COLA!
I asked the same question about 10 years ago. I'm currently retired. If you're looking for a number, IMO you have to do the calculations and projections. There are calculators out there, but I put together my own that assumed a certain starting IRA balace as well as other income from SS and a small pension (actually an annuity witn no COLA). I then put in assumed inflation rates along with assumed annual yields on my IRA. Then you needed to estimate your annual living expenses and gross pay required for the related withdrawals, while factoring in inflation. For the inflation I assumed SS will receive a COLA (yeah I know, that's another story) and assumed that COLA for my IRA and pension will both come out of my IRA. On top of all that, I factored in RMDs and the tax hits from those, even if I didn't need the entire distribution. Then there's a projected SS haircut around 2033 or so. All of the parameters are on a year-by-year basis. I also included an annual "extra withdrawal" amount for taking one-off purchases and events. I have my account at CS. They provide a calculator so I verified the results of my calculator match the estimates the provided. So I can use mine with confidence and I don't have to go through the process of logging into their calculator and reentering parameters when I want to run some scenarios. With mine, I can vary more parameters. Without that, as you noted, one is stuck with the "you need $2M" to retire narrative.
Fidelity's guideline: Aim to save at least 1x your salary by 30, 3x by 40, 6x by 50, 8x by 60, and 10x by 67. If you’re married, kids, health, and overall COLA will impact… BUT I’ve yet to meet anyone who says the above guideline from Fidelity is not at least a good place to start.
I am doing my best. I've raised the shop minimum wage to 25 dollars an hour, I've limited overtime to ten hours a week MAX (and I prefer ZERO so my people can rest, spend time with their families, and have a fuggin LIFE), I've implemented zero interest car loans up to 25k so people aren't paying 55k for a 25k car that SHOULD be priced at 10k, I have a zero interest home purchasing program up to 100k so people can be mortgage free in ten years (LCOL area. There are houses all around central Illinois between 20k and 100k), I have a 10% no matter what contribution to my employees' 401k, I have a tooling allowance so my people don't have to spend their hard earned money on boots and wrenches and whatnot (and I let them deduct those expenses from THEIR taxes as the tooling allowance is considered part of their salary), company paid health, dental, optical, and life insurance for them and their families (basic only. They can upgrade to a higher plan for like seven dollars a week for single and like 25 bucks for their family plan, I think). And it's been working. People are happier. Defects are way down. Production is through the roof. I guess that's the difference when a wage slave breaks through and understands the struggles of what the rank and file go through on a daily basis, and some corporate soul sucking financial cannibal running things. But there's only so much I can do. I can't help these people prioritize sound financial decisions and not overextend themselves. The one immutable quality that is apparent to me across all of humanity is that no matter how much we have, we always want a little more. From my experience, the majority of people I've dealt with keep that in check for the most part and only get into trouble every now and then. We're human. That's understandable. But when inflation hit hard during the Biden administration, I gave the entire shop a nine dollar an hour COLA, and some people still complained. It was actually their COWORKERS that took my side and ripped into those couple fellas and reminded them that I didn't HAVE to give them anything. Naturally, those fellas were also the weakest links in our chain, and one of them had already left due to job abandonment after I gave him his check at lunchtime so he "could get something to eat," he never came back from lunch, and the other fellas saw him already shitfaced in the bar they hang out at when they got off work at 3:30. Got that? The man could not wait three hours from when lunch ended and his shift ended to get sauced. I told him to go to rehab, and his job will be here when he got back. I was told to be intimate with a goat, and the man broke the screen door to the office on his way out. You can only do so much. Best wishes.
Oklo is unique because they are the only company looking to build, own and operate their reactors, getting revenue through power purchase agreements. Competitors instead opt to sell their approved designs to others for construction, which requires a separate licensing path, whereas Oklo is utilizing a new regulatory pathway for a COLA – combined operating license application. What this means is that once Oklo’s Aurora reactor is approved by late 2027, any subsequent applications for new sites will take as little as 6 months and they can project finance the builds through future cash flows. I think this model will allow them to dominate market share throughout 2030s. Not to mention their close relationship with Altman/OpenAi and enough on their order books already (Switch deal) to supply >1% of US energy alone by 2040.
" There's fentanyl in every can of COCA COLA and in every can of SPRITE and it's killing all of the American children! Once again, COCA COLA and SPRITE are the beverages to avoid. "
#WOLF #COLA #MUTHAFUCKAS #Splash into the beast!
That's because we're running through stockpiled materials and supplies right now, as companies realized Trump wasn't blowing smoke back in November about tariffs. Additionally, the tariffs have only been paused, but even then Trump has proved multiple times that he can and will change his mind at the drop of a (MAGA) hat. Unless he backflips into sanity by the time companies, organizations and government agencies start making 2026 COLA announcements this October, there is the strong possibility that the GOP will controll of either the House or the Senate in the midterms next year if not both.
Does the dollar dropping count towards inflation measurements?? 1) Because I get COLA raises so it better, and 2) That makes rate cuts that much more unlikely right?
next year maybe, if they fail COLA again they are done
Isn’t this the guy that said absolutely not to a hypothetical increase in the minimum wage? You know, the federal minimum wage which is just over $7 an hour? That amount being about 1/3 of what it should be because of no COLA since like the 70’s? Yeah, I stopped listening to anything he said after that. And I can’t go along with the thought that he has any conscience at all.
I don't think people were "broke" as much as they felt "broke" because their dollar didn't go as far as it used to. Part of that was that COLA was going up 6-7% a year while companies were giving 2-4% raises. They weren't "broke" but they couldn't buy as much as they used to.
We did something in 2022 that may not have been popular, but when the bond market went down with stocks, it took us by surprise so we transferred the bond portion of our 70/30 portfolio and purchased a COLA lifetime annuity with New York Life, through Fidelity, starting with 5.60%. A COLA annuity starts with a lower interest rate than others, but for the peace of mind it offers, for us it is worth it. My wife and I retired in mid-2023 so it has been rainbows and unicorns since then, up until January 21st of this year. However, we both survived the dot-com bust of 1999-2000, the 2008 crisis, 2020 pandemic and 2022 by continually investing via DCA. Matter of fact, during each time period we increased our contributions to our employer's 401k and IRA programs. We celebrated the dips. By the time we retired, we were each contributing 20%. We understood early on that the stock market was not a place to be if you need money anytime soon. It is a place to be, where over long periods of time, has traditionally outperformed other avenues of saving. We also believed in diversification, and that is the secret sauce. You are in your mid-40's, you have plenty of time to adjust and pivot.
>>. Ahh yes nixons policies , the 1970s were a great time , checks notes , where there was stagflation and returns were flat and real returns after inflation were negative . Regans interventions were a scalpel for a an industry, these are an amputation with a sledge hammer . You need to check your notes and read up a bit on economic history. Nixon's surcharge on imports was in 1971. The stagflation in the 70s started two years later after the oil shock of 1973 triggered by OPEC's embargo and once again in 1979 during the Iranian revolution chasing oil prices to skyrocket which was the biggest import for the US. Other factors that contributed were the end of the Brettan woods system in 1971 devaluing the dollar coupled with loose monetary policy leading to excessive money supply which everyone pointed back to once again during the ,2021 inflation spike. There was a wage/price spiral also from many labor contracts that included COLA clauses to rise with the high levels of inflation pushing prices up and leading to a self reinforcing cycle.U.S. productivity growth slowed in the 1970s due to aging industrial infrastructure and increased global competition, making inflation harder to combat. Couple this with a period of high taxes, excessive regulation of industries and price controls started by Nixon had all been identified as the causes to stagflation in the 70s and continuation of it starting with the oil shock of 1973. >>Trump china tarrifs one could argue were inflationary and coupled with covid were responsible for the worst inflation in the last 30 years . Absolutely wrong empirically. Inflation rates in 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 were low. >>Also Scott besset looks like a brain dead yes man who would never tell trump anything he doesnt want to hear . Adhominun....so you clearly have no hard data or facts to argue with. >>. And since it was all performed by executive order, it is easily overturned by next guy which would kill any benefit we would obtain. Good. So you agree that this whole drama is "transitory" and a great opportunity to load up on quality if you are long term. But you predict a recession with a year so you are going all cash?
That means those of us on Social Security will get a large COLA in January, right?
If you want to exclude high earners altogether, median wages grew 5.8% 2022->2023, 8.6% 2021->2022, and 8.6% 2020->2021 [https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/central.html](https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/central.html)
WOLF COLA made me the person I am today
Fuck you I'm not buying Pepsi. COCA-COLA ALL THE WAY NOW I AM SHORTING PEPSI STOCK