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TexasEd

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  1. Interest Rates are one of the Fed's tools in managing the two main economic indicators they track, Inflation and Unemployment. My observation may be wrong but it seems they weigh Inflation as the more important of the two and would tolerate slightly elevated unemployment over high inflation. Raising rates was a move to make borrowing more expensive to get people to spend cash instead of borrowing, this would reduce demand and lower demand would help bring prices down. The balance is to slow spending enough to get inflation in check but not enough to spur mass layoffs from demand falling too much. Driving the economy is more like a boat than a car, you can't stop or turn on a dime, you have to use momentum and velocity changes to make gradual moves to stay in the right ranges. Timing is critical. Both indicators have hit a point where they have to act now or the opportunity to avoid recession will pass. Inflation is near the target 2% and job growth has slowed to where it could get dangerous. From a pessimist POV the 50 point cut could be a signal that they waited too long, they see recession coming and they are trying to overcorrect.
  2. Bill Engvoll had a bit for these people. "Here's your sign"
  3. Yeah, why not alcohol or other drugs that have been around first? Is there something about Fentanyl that lends itself to this vaccine defense that alcohol, heroine or meth doesn't? Or is Fentanyl just in the news enough to get the research funding?
  4. The indictment has some pretty juicy details. https://www.cnn.com/entertainment/live-news/sean-diddy-combs-arrested-nyc-09-17-2024/index.html
  5. I think that New Congress gets seated before January 20th so if Dems win the house we should have Speaker Jeffries in the House.
  6. Reminds me of that IP Lawyer in the weird group sex thing up in the Park Cities a few years ago. She ended up getting hospitalized but she tore everything down first. I hope Loomer tears everything down around her.
  7. I don't think they were polling per say. They were watching engagement clicks and targeting messages at certain susceptible groups. Basically creating the warped dual reality where some people just parrot things like radical left, border, and woke without knowing anything about the issues just that they need to have a guttural/emotional response of fear and hatred that motivates them to vote. There wasn't any polling on it just building the legions of braindead facebook zombies. This.
  8. So would you say California is emptying their prisons and insane asylums and sending them East? We need a wall. Exactly. They have cognitive dissonance because the head coach of their team is a shitheel getting DUIs and cheerleaders pregnant with a bonus case of syphilis after spiking their drinks and it reflects on them but they can’t ignore it and don’t want to switch teams. Think of all the Penn St fans and Paterno.
  9. Remember that Trump was fired by 81 million voters
  10. Which states has additional D leaning districts added as a result of redistricting court decisions? Alabama? Georgia?
  11. Can we hope for Reagan Mondale numbers in Harris’ favor?
  12. I said in the conspiracy theory universe.
  13. I would not put Vance above being LBJ in the conspiracy theory universe where he is in cahoots with Russia to Get control of the White House by any means necessary. Even Carl Spackler on the golf course.
  14. Yep, there are thousands of families in the US that have kids asking their parents “Why does President Trump hate us and want us in jail?” What about the kids that were separated from their parents at the border? Sick sense of entitlement.
  15. Pretty sure grandpa Arch wore 16 too. I saw Mo Bamba
  16. What happened with the pick 6 in the first half that was called back?
  17. Georgia receiver should have gone down in bounds.
  18. On guitar?
  19. Got that one. You’ve had some bad takes tonight. Helobious sock?
  20. Passing clinic
  21. Nice punt return
  22. Heisman Trophy contender out? We got backups.
  23. Wtf was that
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