You can literally look at any official numbers out there, none of them claim the US was in depression from Q1 through Q2, which was what our bet was about. You are clearly going back on our terms at this

Condescending? I was simply showing you the terms of the bet since you seem to have forgotten them. None of the data shows the kinds of predictions, and projections you were making in that time period,

I think you forgot the terms of the bet... first of all you said depression, not recession. Second of all your chart shows the second quarter INCREASING in economic output, which wouldn't even validate

You said the economy would be in recession by midyear, I will pull up your exact comments if you want. I clearly won the bet...

I think I won our bet...

Looking the terms of our bet is getting a little more expensive by the day... :)

We are all @jrcornel.

Nice call! Do you use peakd on here much?

I never said anything about myself, I was making a point referencing people upvoting what they like. I am not defending anything at this point, I am simply making the point that you, among several others,

But but I thought it was all about post quality?! If a post is good enough to vote why does the author attached to it matter?! Literally the exact argument you have made for years...

I've literally bought tens of thousands of dollars worth of this coin with my outside money, brought a dozen friends to this platform, most of which have also invested tens of thousands of dollars of their

Careful cross posting on STEEM. It's ok for some, but not for others.

Uh, actually I did apologize. I didn't ask anyone to do anything for me and don't have vote trading partners. It's funny that when you have people that you vote and they upvote you (that you talk to),

Pretty much how I had been looking at it as well...

Thank you for the kind words. I appreciate that.

Good point, thank you for the level-headed input.

Very well said, and I completely agree. I think at some point HIVE will evolve into a platform where things are built and the blogging rewards aspect won't matter nearly as much, which is probably the

I'm not justifying anything, I'm simply pointing out that not everyone seems to have the same rules. Some can post from alts, some can't. Some can cross-post, some can't. Some can vote for their friends,