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If my calculations earlier today are correct the NASDAQ is now down @ 17%. Without checking, I believe the S&P may have closed in correction territory today.

Very interesting article. Clyburn makes some good points. Born in Detroit…is she a Tigers fan? Fans want to know.

Agree. This move doesn’t make sense at all.

Agree for the most part. However, consider the run-up in the market the last several years, particularly the past year. I don’t know that we’re close to “very low prices” yet. I’ve been averaging into existing funds when the reddest of trading days come around. Best of luck going forward.

After this month I’m surprised this thread hasn’t gotten any love. Has anyone taken any actions during the volatility this month? Sell? Buy? Hold?

…and then there is the real world.

If anyone is suggesting my motive for speaking up on this issue is based on partisanship -wrong. I think I have made the purpose of my objections clear. The basis of my objections here have nothing to do with political preferences.

But doesn’t anybody see the hypocrisy or irony in this? Every employer, be they private, public, whatever, states front and center in bold print that hiring processes/practices will not discriminate on the basis of (you know the rest of the song). Any violations of this song & dance and the Feds are knocking on the door, rightfully so. Regardless of the past, at what point do we stop basing decisions on race, any race! It’s the hypocrisy and double standard that I object to. When do we, as a nation, get beyond making race or sex a part of conversations regarding hiring practices and selections? I know it won’t be in my lifetime.

I’m not at all opposed to Biden selecting a black female candidate for the high court. I just don’t agree with the selection process disqualifying candidates, at the very outset, based on skin color.

I’ll go on record as saying that when ANY President states that his or her selection process will, at the very outset, exclude other candidates based on skin color, I have a problem with that. I don’t care what their preference is. Regardless of political affiliation or any other preferences, this is wrong. Biden’s selection may well be, in the end, the most qualified for the court. Who knows! But to publicly announce that the selection of the next nominee will be based on a racial preference (the very subject the high court will take up in coming months regarding Harvard and UNC admissions) is wrong.

If inflation isn’t resolved in the near future, Biden and his party are going to have a problem. This isn’t a partisan comment, it’s a fact. Prices and wages are rising for obvious reasons. Unfortunately, prices are more than offsetting wage hikes. And as history has shown, the folks with the lesser means always feel the most pain. The Federal Reserve demonstrated yesterday that they still are intimidated by market moves. Will someone explain to me the reason the Fed sees fit to continue buying bonds for another month and a half with inflation rising as it is! Personally, I believe the markets volatility this month spooked Powell and his comrades to an extent.

Is there any word on whether or not they’re meeting today? I haven’t seen anything either way.

Although I don’t care much for Biden, how do you not get totally frustrated with that question! Joe has a lot of domestic and geopolitical issues on his plate now. He’s probably missing his senate days right about now.

Between Sinema and Chaney, Arizona does politics right. Sinema gets censured at home for having the ‘nads to think for herself and Cheney gets punished and loses a committee position for the same reason. Maverics they are.

By the way, we made a road trip last year to Fredericksburg to see a game at the new baseball park-nice! As Jim Price would say, Nice area.

Now, that’s the kind of feedback I’m looking for.

The North Carolina General Assembly, which has been majority Republican for several years now, has lowered the flat income tax rate here from 5.25% in 2021 to 4.9% in 2022 and will bottom at 3.9% in a couple more years. This rate applies to everyone statewide. They managed to do this with a sitting Democrat in the executive. Cooper signed it but you can take it to the bank, a Democratically controlled legislature would have never taken this initiative and it only moved forward because the GOP had the majority in both chambers. How’s life in VA? I’m too lazy to follow the rates there?

Would you like to see the Pope on the end of a rope - do you think he's a fool? After Forever Black Sabbath

Per MLB…just for you casimir. “Unlike last week’s meeting, which took place on a Zoom call, Monday’s meeting will be held in person in New York.”

At least they’re talking…sort of.

I hope you’re right. My optimism meter regarding baseball happening anytime soon is running in the red.

The Tigers play the Yankees and Red Sox in Lakeland the last week of spring training. There are plenty of good seats available for purchase for both games. This would not be the case any other season. Clearly the consensus is that they won’t start anytime soon.

I’ll not say pitchers were ever equal to everyday players as hitters in MLB. The introduction of the DH into the game is nearly 50 years old now. Pitchers don’t bat in college ball or any level of minor league ball to my knowledge. I’m not aware of high school baseball rules regarding pitchers batting. My point is that pitchers’ skills at the plate, by the time they arrive at the major league level have been diminished as a result of never being a part of the offense through their progression up the chain. So today, pitchers are viewed as a wasted at bat. Well, that’s what the system has created over the years. I prefer having pitchers bat-in both leagues. Hated the DH the day the idea was hatched. It seems that the more the game changes, the more problems surface.

Far far away in a land called Lakeland spring training tickets went on sale this morning.

“When national Democrats talk to the country they always seem to be talking to themselves. They are of the left, as is their constituency, which wins the popular vote in presidential elections; the mainstream media through which they send their messages is of the left; the academics, historians and professionals they consult are of the left. They get in the habit of talking to themselves, in their language, in a single, looped conversation. They have no idea how they sound to the non-left, so they have no idea when they are damaging themselves.” - Peggy Noonan I am lukewarm on Noonan but I agree with her point here. In fact, I wonder if Peg has been trolling the Motown Politics Forum.