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Month to month core rate increase was 0.3% percent on the last readout, which is 3.6% annual but nobody really cared to talk about it because everyone wants to look at laggy year to year numbers........ So they get housing costs primarily from rents. If leases go up, that's a big step jump that stays in the year to year numbers for at least the term of the average lease - i.e. 12 mo. Meanwhile purchase house prices get hammered but since mortgages are more expensive that doesn't show up, if at all, until everything is over and interest rates start falling again. It's all navigation looking in the rear view mirror.

This is the key. I 'm more skeptical, but I'll be happy to be wrong. There are enough positions in need of upgrading that they could do a lot of work toward being a better team without ever getting to 3rd base, which is also OK I suppose.

any kind of word on Soderblom?

to a large extent this a comparison of problems with much different time scale solutions. Economies can bounce back and be built up by the quarter. The planets align to provide an opportunity like this to help free a population from tyranical government and incorporate it to the 'West' (a poor term but for lack of better shorthand..) maybe once every few decades. As I write the above I am immediately skeptical of it's neo-con tilt, but TBF, the neo-con program for Iraq didn't fail for it's concept as much as for its projection of a cultural framework onto Iraqi society that was too different from what was actually there. One assumes that being less culturally distant, we comprehend what we are doing in Ukraine more clearly. We hope.

The problem is if they were going to keep him they needed the version that was still <30 yrs old. He had once provided some speed and forechecking but those skills were going to be fading.

We can hope. But if they nominate some kind of steady-eddy-non-controversial plodder who decides he has to review every page of the case files himself ---- well you get the idea.

Definitely. One of those moves that may have made sense at 50,000 ft that still hurts on the ground.

He's going to have to develop some kind of stop action in his delivery to pitch there.......

another major delay though. If he was going to do this he could have done it the day he was appointed. It's not like it was difficult to see where things would end up.

Astudillo could at least replace Tucker in the bullpen.

Hard to believe the team can't make some improvement their face-out performance, but it's been like this for a while now and doesn't seem to improve. Of course part of the problem is having only one true center.

Wings tie it at two. Perron deflection from a Larkin shot with second assist to Kubalek.

all thee Wings forwards up ice from the puck on the Shark's entry on the 1st goal and they never did catch up, eventually leaving leBanc wide open.

I don't really remember if Halter was a competent middle infielder or not, but Willi does not turn the double play with anything like major league quickness and he clearly couldn't hold down SS after getting some early run there. Just because A-I-love-me-every-jack-of-all-trades-player-that-comes-along-J.Hinch can't help himself when it come to insuring he is playing a lineup every single day with more utilty knife functions that he will actually use in a given month doesn't make it winning baseball.

Looks like a great opportunity may be coming open for anybody that's got some big servers laying around near some dense fiber optic lines.....

Maybe the dems should have run Thomas Bishop against Walker. Of course that's the point, a black man that knows what he's doing is a threat in a way that Walker is not.

Jeepers. IDK what the job market for IT skilled people in Silicon valley is right now, but I have to believe that it's still very strong. It would seem in that environment telling the 1/2 of your original employees that remain that they have the choice of staying and having their lives be hell, or finding a new gig maybe wasn't such a good idea? Who knows if this guy has any clue about the real number of employees left but if we take him at his word, that would mean another 2700 people took Elon up on the severance offer! Now granted we have all seen operations that have a lot of fat, but I haven't seen too many get down to 15% of their original staffing other than during the swirl down the drain. The thing about being a dictatorial employer is that you have to have the leverage to make it work. Maybe he had that over factory workers at Tesla or SpaceX, seems doubtful to me he would have it over software engineers in anything like the same way. This story just gets crazier.

No, Rep Jim Clyburn sounds like countless blacks from the deep south while not obsuring his his intelligence at all. Heschel doesn't sounds dumb because of his elocution, but because the content is non-sense.

That year the Vikes played the next game U Minn's stadium but that was still snowed under as well so they basically threw a big party and had the public come in and help shovel it out.

Tim Snyder has a response to that:

He ran for Gov again in 2018, couldn't live with Trump, couldn't live without him. Lost his primary despite reversing himself and endorsing Trump. Claimed he was quitting politics.

I think I've noted here before that I think Tesla is overvalued, but I have no stomach for high flyers anyway. I'm a plodder investment wise!

Spelling has never been a forte, typing even less so! I can't buy or short twitter stock so it's not a question. Again, I have no personal interest in the man, but I find the situation bizarre and interesting. I think the service is useful so I'd as soon not see it fail completely. It will be a classic case study it Twitter goes under, a spectacular one if he somehow saves it given the current trajectory. Apparently folks that do hold Tesla stock are in court trying to claw back the compensation he's taking from Tesla while spending all his time at Twitter. The other reason it has to be of general interest as an investment topic is that a complete meltdown of twitter could draw a government response that might affect us all. Twitter is one piece of tech that Congress-criters do know oh so well.

This is always a close if not quite 'what-a-bout' arg that I don't really like. Granted, you can't do everything everywhere, but how could you ask for a better opportunity than 40 million people on the East gate of the 1st world just begging for nothing more than the help to do the job themselves? It's every foreign policy objective of the US for the last 70 yrs served up a silver (well, blue and yellow) platter and carries the support of every major ally. It's exactly everything Vietnam and Iraq and Afghanistan were not. Do you just go bomb Moscow? No. But there is a way to put the Ukrainians in a winning position without starting WWIII. I think we have been close the correct track: keep upping the military capabilities of Ukraine so that options slowly close off to Russia one by one. This is 100% the frog in boiling water paradigm. You have to normalize each level of losing for the Russians before you go the next one. You want the situation for Russia to become hopeless, not dire. It's true that a Ukrainian might see this as a cynical way to fight the battle that asks greater sacrifices of them than if a NATO force just stormed right up to the Russian border, but you have to deal with peace after the war as well, and while I think we all want some kind of political upheaval in Russia, I don't think anyone wants to risk the possible consequences of its total collapse.

They don't have a dominant line that can consistently force offense at even strenght right now. Maybe once Bert gets back into the swing, or if they are willing to put Kubalek back with Larkin. Heck, Rassmussen, Soderblom, Sundvquist were generating better even strength pressure than any of the lines last night.