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They could try, but really smart people who follow that stuff closely would pick up on it right away and these are people with a lot of money and power. I don't think it's so easy to just make up numbers and get away with it.

They don't have to create fake numbers though. They can just tell maga world that the numbers are at record low and they'll be believed. Wall Street won't fall for it though. The CPI is real, although maybe not so meaningful as it's made out to be.

Is Stefania Constantini involved in that in any way?

This is really interesting. Producing a live tracker is not something I have done before, so I am curious . Are you using excel to do this? The hardest part would seem to be getting data from sites automatically. How are you dealing with baseball-reference which doesn't allow aotomated scraping?

I am putting more and more money into a CD ladder as I age. I am still in S&P 500, but also have a global fund which has done significantly better than S&P since the beginning of last year. I am not sure what to do with maturing CDs as interest rates drop. So far, they are still decent (close to 4% in January).

The worst numbers for measuring economic health are the probably market indexes. They are measuring something in which the majority of American are unable to participate. Why would someone who has no money to invest care about the S&P 500?

ZeroHedge is a conservative darling but he's just the messenger. I don't think these numbers are fake. They will be adjusted later, but that's not the same as being fake.

People are fighting against the authoritarianism and the protests seem to be working a little bit. Good for them.

He was good in the playoffs, but his second half performance was one of the reasons they almost did not make the playoffs. He was horrible in 2023-2024. Maybe that was because of his injury. I don't know, but I don't consider him a reliable offensive player.

Yes they are and that is a problem.

Who is Mike Smith? Edit: just looked him up. I emember you mentioning him before. I've been following him since then, but haven't been on twitter regularly.

Becoming a consistent playoff team is a process. Getting deeper into the playoffs is not a linear thing though. Having a better team doesn't necessarily mean you'll do better in the playoffs. Even Verlander admitted yesterday that the playoffs are largely a crapshoot. The key is to get there as as often as possible and have more opportunities to win. Having a lot of pitching gives you a better chance, but's is still not a guarantee as exhibited by the Dombrowski era Tigers.

My thought was that they were not being aggressive enough. Now, I have a l lot more confidence in their willingness to do what it takes to win.

I agree. It's always been a problem, but it's more widespread because it's so easy and acceptable now. It is now widely promoted as a fun, entertaining activity and it's going to get worse.