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Yes, I saw that also. And I agree... the chances of a reasonable recovery to a situation where give/take and compromise is possible don't look good. Not at all.
@Art: Of course, understandable... why would you need to know the facts of what's happening before commenting?
Lewis has asked Ted a number of times to please stop presenting his work via an internet site that plays fast and loose with other people…
"It sure looks like Trump is lying about his agreement with Kim Jong Un"
"President Donald Trump either doesn’t know what he agreed to with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last week or he’s lying about it."
"It’s not surprising that something Trum…
@Ted says: "I've had this checked out several times, and have not committed any crime or violate any copyright law since I do not profit from my links."
Welcome, Comrade! Under our new socialist system you have every right to use someone else's wor…
@Art: You've got one hell of a nerve telling the author of a piece of financial writing that he doesn't have the right to comment on the misuse of his own original work.
An update to above CD post- First Republic Bank in SF now has 10 month @2% and 20 month @2.5%. So things are starting to move.
FWIW, I'm guessing that they are looking at 3 to 3.5% in 20 months.
ADD: Current @ 4:45 PDST, from the WSJ:
Powell Says…
Edited excerpts from an article by Max Boot, in The Washington Post:
"Ivy League schools such as Harvard are not just trying to select the best academic performers but also the students who will go on to have the greatest success after graduation —…
These parents hoped to raise $1,500 for separated migrant families. They raised $12 million and counting:
"It began with the smallest possible quantity of optimism, which turns out to be $1,500.
Charlotte and Dave Willner had seen the pictures of …
Trump and Kirstjen Nielsen’s embarrassing surrender on separating families
"It's at once an admission that the politics of the issue had gotten out of hand and that the administration's arguments were completely dishonest."
Analysis by The Washin…
A headline that I would like to see:
One Trick I Learned from Other Worthless Financial Posts
"One trick I learned from other worthless financial hacks is that if I write a column with "Five Tricks I Learned" in the header some guy named Ted will…
Once again I was well ahead of my time. When I "made up facts" in high school, I was sent to detention for my efforts. If you do that now, they send you to be president.
Stay tuned. You interrupted me in contributing observations on yet another realm of totally useless bullshit. Should be posted shortly.
BTW, is "4 million" pretty close? :)
@davidrmoran- That's absolutely frightening. I don't know the specifics of the population density, dispersion or existing transportation issues in Nashville, but I can surely testify that without a good public transit network the SF Bay Area would b…
"Politifact is totally biased."
Right out of the right-wing playbook:
They can deliberately provoke a situation by providing information of dubious authenticity, but as soon as any sort of significant response is encountered one of two things hap…
June 15:
"How deliciously ironic that the poster who enjoys painting everyone who disagrees with his warped outlook as a "socialist" or "communist" is so totally duped by the real thing."
June 16:
"they play the role of victim upon the mere whiff of pushback to their claims/views, even when civilly presented."
@rforno- You've nailed it. Exactly why I've withdrawn from any commentary directly with Maurice. To respond civilly and factually req…
Classic. Right out of the right-wing playbook: they can introduce any subject they want, but they immediately try for censorship if anyone else does the same.
They can deliberately provoke a situation by providing information of dubious authenticit…
"Helps equal out the free tuition to illegals."
Care to back that up with a few facts? (That would be real facts, not the alternate type that you prefer.)
Every living first lady has condemned border separations:
• Melania Trump
• Laura Bush
• Hillary Clinton
• Michelle Obama
• Rosalynn Carter
"Every living first lady — including Melania Trump — has condemned the policy of separating immigrant famil…
@VintageFreak- Yes, pretty much same here. Never use regular salt and almost never add "light salt" to anything. Pizza about once a month (with red wine) and no soft drinks. A little lemonade on a hot day, though. Like you said, moderation in everyt…
@Sven- for stuff like that you need to go to The Economist or another similar high-quality source. And I'm afraid that even they don't get it right much of the time. As either Rono or Catch 22 (I can't remember which) liked to say: "My crystal ball …
