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And what if the rest of the world (minus Russia) “does it’s thing”? I’m not buying the idea that this is a brief period of economic pain that will be over quickly and then the new world economic order will emerge with the US in a stronger position.

You misspelled liquor.

Congratulations! You're qualified to be an NBA ref.

These guys sound insane

I signed up for Run For Something. I scheduled a conference call for the 22nd. I'll see what they have to say. It says for progressives 40 and under. I just made the cut.

i still have high hopes for lombardi. i think people still underrate him. if he hadnt gotten hurt this year it would have been a goalfest for him, imo.

To the above point

OK, I see what you mean. I don't disagree with that. In terms of investments and business interests which is what this thread is about, doing something and sticking with it (even if it's a bad choice) is probably better than the uncertainty and fear of multiple bad choices hanging over our heads. .

I don't agree. Our country and economy was not in dire straits, so there is no reason for such dramatic measures even if you think they are fair in theory. Putting tariffs on every country in the world including allies and countries struggling to survive has a big risk of creating chaos and destruction which could be felt around the world including here. It seems that if he wants to play with tariffs he should be targeting specific countries which may be a threat to us. I don't think many would have a problem with that.

Something something we will never be more respected something something

This is so unnecessary. I can’t imagine another owner in the league putting out a statement after a normal NBA fight. Yet, this is so on point for Tom Gores. 6 paragraphs of meaningless word salad trying to remind people that he’s still here.

The tariff rates don’t matter. They aren’t real. It’s all another grift. The markets will crash tomorrow and maybe Tuesday giving the billionaire class that sold weeks ago time to buy in again at a lower price. Trump will once again pause the tariffs in a few days under the guise of other countries giving in to his greatness. The markets will quickly rebound giving the elites a massive windfall. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

Paramaount is a great app, especially for the price, but it is annoying that they list items available on Showtime. But overall their content is pretty good. Not unlike Prime. "Here's what you can't watch unless you give us more money".

Spitting on that thang is a pretty good description of what they've spent the last 10 weeks doing.

Yup. Nembhard has given Cade fits and Nesmith has been a problem for him as well. Carlisle will take the ball out of Cade's hands with traps, have his team picking up full-court defense, and simply out-strategize JB who's been great for this team's identity but is also pretty predictable. Turner will rain triples on Duren's head all day and Harris can't guard Siakam. The Pacers are a nightmare matchup and I agree, I'd rather face the Knicks + the refs. That said, the fights and ejections should be fun.

The OJ one made me laugh.

Russia is only using people who are loyal to Putin. But that includes Trump so...

US will get eviscerated in a global trade war because other countries will use their smartest people to navigate this. Trump will only use people who are loyal to him.

Maybe each team's home team and away team could play each other.

No. Another example of your latch onto an idea and never let go. And why listen to that crap?

Every stadium should be built with a retractable roof

I can't listen to 97.1 anymore because of all the sports gambling ads. Enough already. I know I am not as into sports as I once was because I am older and have other things going on, but the sports betting aspect is ruining everything. Just like the money is just destroying any good parts of college sports now. I don't want USC and UCLA in the Big Ten. And yes, while the schools make a fortune, the guys risking their bodies deserve to get paid, but it went from nothing to completely out of hand with no adjustment to it and it just doesn't feel legit anymore.

I hear that. Only time I bought it was to fund some poker sites I wanted to play on. Never to invest.

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I wish he had asked him how he thinks the Fed can lower rates. Everything just got more expensive across the board, which means inflation. Lower rates would be a disaster right now.

Companies exist to make money. Not to make products. If they can't make money making a product then they stop making the product. They aren't going to spend billions moving production domestically to then have to pay american workers more money. The investors and owners will just move on to another thing and we'll end up having just one shoe company in the world.

It's important to keep in mind as well that Trump (and people like Navarro underneath him) have simultaneously treated tariffs as both punitive measures to punish other countries as well as a reliable revenue stream to fund their priorities (ie. extending the Trump tax cuts). It's incoherent as hell - tariffs are usually applied in order to influence consumer decisions and what they choose to buy which, taken to it's end logic, will reduce how much people choose to buy and over time will reduce the amount of revenue that the tariffs will take in. Sorry, there is absolutely zero reason to trust this administration knows what the hell its doing here.

If the first few months of this administration have taught us anything, it's that the rest of the world is a lot more willing to tell us to pound sand than Trump's administration (or supporters) believed. Just a toxic combination of arrogance and delusion

anthony davis plays great in the 10 games per year he's healthy.

We are headed for an economy rooted on special pleading and exceptions due to insider sweetheart deals and outright graft.

You know, I really hadn’t thought of that. But now that you bring it up, that’ a very legitimate concern.

I really hope the Dodgers don’t match or beat 35-5.

Speaking of moving screens. Hartenstein was basically on roller skates when he set that screen.

Beasley always guards people 40 feet from the basket then gets torched on the back cut.

jim rome has higher standards for callers to his program than Fox News does for the commerce secretary

He left out protecting us from a violent Central American drug gang that makes up less than .001% of our population.

The poor Keith decision led to the first 2 runs. Pick it, throw it to first, inning over. Skubal will be dominate

Not a single player/team is more focused when facing Skubal than they were last year.

exactly - one of two things is true of everything Trumps says: It's either a lie, or something he will change his mind about in 10 min.

A banana? How much could it cost? $10?

Step right up! Ruin your team in one easy trade. Just ignore the teams that have done it before you.

Spoken once again like a man that’s never gone grocery shopping in his life.

I bought tickets to a game last fall…..only for McGonigle to be out injured and Clark given the day off…. got to see Travis Bazzana though

I had been coy about where I work since I didn't want to share too much personal stuff, but since that is coming to an end, I worked at Flagstar Bank for 13 years. I work in the risk and compliance area and basically did reporting for them primarily on customer feedback and insights. Identifying risk and compliance issues, efficiency opportunities, and just general customer support improvements. A couple years ago, Flagstar merged with New York Community Bank. NYCB was highly leveraged in commercial properties in Manhattan and multi-family housing in New York. COVID, which this merger was done during COVID, crashed the commercial market. New York's rent control crashed the multi-family housing. NYCB was a state-chartered bank and we were going to state chartered. The regulator for state-chartered banks, FDIC, didn't approve the merger because of how highly leveraged with bad assets NYCB was. Since Flagstar was federally chartered, they changed the merger agreement were NYCB merged with Flagstar and became federally chartered to get a different regulator, OCC, who approved this merger. This again is why we need regulation. If that wasn't bad enough, when Silicon Valley Bank went belly up, Signature Bank did to. Flagstar decided to buy that. The issue was it pushed Flagstar to over $100 billion in assets. That's a big deal because it makes it a category 4 bank and the CFPB requires a lot of reserve capital for big banks. Well, Flagstar didn't have it because it grew too fast too quickly. It then had to write down some billion dollar loses in New York real estate, so the company posted a surprise loss. The stock tanked quicker than Tesla. The CEO was essentially fired. Private equity bailed it out. It's basically right-wing equity firms. Steve Mnuchin is on the board and Joseph Otting, Trump's OCC his first term, is the CEO. They sold the mortgage servicing business and everything of value. They announced today they are also outsourcing the call center. They are basically preparing the company to be sold. I should have bailed a while ago, but I get a nice severance package. Didn't mean to go into a history of the company but it cathartic being able to tell the story on how this company ****ed up royally. Everything was going well before the merger, and it was a great place to work for. The funny thig is, despite being run by right-wingers, they still kept DEI.

I have just taken what I think is actually a pretty good survey by MLB about my fandom, and I have provided my most salient opinion.