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Gravy Train

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  1. Did you match Matt Watson's spec?
  2. I'm under the impression the MBS market has dried up. The Fed had been backstopping the entire MBS market and they don't want to any longer, due to their ballooning balance sheet-- that was never in their charter. It's gonna be dismal for housing going forward, but all that former MBS buying activity plus cheap capital, plus mega-inflated equities forged a market where even the dog down the street owns an 'investment' property.
  3. Not fast enough, but we'll be paying for it. SSI wage cap jumps up to $162K (from $147K). They're also taking an additional 0.9 percent in Medicare taxes on earnings that exceed: $250,000 for married taxpayers who file jointly $125,000 for married taxpayers who file separately $200,000 for single and all other taxpayers OTOH, 401k limit jumps to $22,500 and IRA up to $6,500, so any raises you're planning on are probably spoken for. Is taxation a component of "Wage-Price Spiral?"
  4. Right on. https://www.axios.com/2022/11/01/interview-fcc-commissioner-says-government-should-ban-tiktok https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/10/20/tiktok-bytedance-surveillance-american-user-data/?sh=416023e16c2d
  5. For a peek at where we're going with this, in the potential to return our social media platforms to open protocols, and content creation restored to personal ownership, I see Jack Dorsey crossed this bridge well before Elon's takeover. It also provides credence to the dogshit-investment-grade-asset Elon acquired, the concepts behind Web3 are valid and supported: https://news.yahoo.com/bluesky-potential-twitter-alternative-being-111738532.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr' So Dorsey and team have been working on a new social media platform, using open protocols, called "BlueSky." It kicked off in 2019, and builds a new, decentralized social media protocol. That protocol is essential for core function, but also allows a user to 'port' content from one platform to another, as if your one post could be presented in textual transcription in one app, linked to a voice recording in another, linked to a video on a different platform... because those alternate platforms have also adopted the new standard. This is what Web3 should be, but we're a long ways off from "neutralizing" content ownership out of the host-ecosystem, and into an open-air medium that all platforms agree to adopt. It will also be the absolute ruin of Facebook products as we currently know them. https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/19/23412482/bluesky-at-protocol-decentralized-twitter-social-networks-app There is one problem with this, in that Congress already knows about it. Your weight of tinfoil hat may vary, but let's assume they WILL have controlling interest of the same underlying protocol. Thumb to page 40 of the transcription from the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, dated March 25, 2021: https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/111407/documents/HHRG-117-IF16-Transcript-20210325.pdf Wikipedia background on the 'BlueSky' protocol initiative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_(protocol)
  6. I got neg-bombed for this in the Nancy Pelosi thread (from the typical CR intellectually-void types), but the Twitter accounts @NancyTracker and @TrialTracker were suspended in early December. The 'NancyTracker' account was established by those in finance and capital management industries, tracking sources of equities trading and insider trading accusations of congress members. Nancy's trades were already followed by Jr. Wall Street Analysts building memes on their Instagram pages, pissed that SEC regulations prevented them from trading activity, but others were well doxxed. The 'TrialTracker' account was providing updates from the Ghislane Maxwell trial. Since Elon's takeover, 'Nancy Tracker' has been restored and established under a new account:
  7. There was a plan, unfortunately, this is what it looked like:
  8. Sooo.. the smooth-brained GQP theories on Paul's attack were rooted from two pieces of fake news: 1. Report he called the DePape a ‘friend’ (though he may have actually used that as code-word) on the 9-1-1 call 2. Oakland Fox affiliate station falsely reported the assailant was in his underwear It started with a KTVU report that they later retracted in very small print https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/fox-news-affiliate-forced-retract-report-pelosi-depape-found-underwear-another-pelosi-wrap-smear/ Ironically, KTVU was the Oakland news station that reported those amazing Asiana Flight 214 pilot names which crashed on the approach to SFO. 🥴
  9. Billy Cole (Billy Blanks): "Ain't life a bitch?" [shoots himself in the head] https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/bettor-needs-prop-on-mnf-to-turn-7-77-parlay-into-124k-2667601/
  10. I genuinely considered that exact post/comment in my reply above, but the content creator is so lost in life that I don't even acknowledge it. There's occasionally entire congregations of such babblefucks spewing incomprehensible shit like that. I'm not even there to attempt to process it.
  11. Where's the lie? Negged for creepy .GIF and intellectually void response, but keep deepthroating your own narrative. What is there to deflect? The discussion on ethics and professional demeanor is completely independent from personal safety and assault. We all condemned this attack, and it's even more alarming that the motive was intended for Nancy. I remember when the Republican lawmakers practicing softball were gunned down and it was condemned by all. The same was true when Gabby Giffords was shot. Thankfully, our nation hasn't sunk so low that we've lost such compassion. I haven't found a single comment celebrating this and any deplorable endorsing such isn't fit for society.
  12. I'm objectively trying to give her tweets consideration, but she failed to mention M2 and the role of Central Banks in the rapid bounce-back from COVID-19 (which directly contributed to inflationary pressures). She also floated out some confidence in rents falling at such a rate to not significantly impact CPI until the middle of next year... a metric that's mostly demand-side driven. Guess I'll keep reading? LOL I should ask her which portions of the Inflation Reduction Act address austerity measures.
  13. I don't "cHoOsE a SiDe," because it implies you're rooting for a game rather than objectively seeking the best outcome for most, while actively engaging those who might be captive voters/supporters. Sure, let's alienate those spreading catshit misinformation or resorting to violence, which is so bizarre to me, I'm not even going to struggle with understanding how one could adopt. But those few aren't the focus, when the 2020 election cycle identified nearly 33% of the electorate middle as moderates. For Pelosi, the midterms might not be her decision, and not by a majority change, but that other House Democrats are already shuffling behind the scenes, proposing new leadership. Then again, Hoyer and Clyburn are right behind her.
  14. That's how you pitch a shutout to oSu? Fuck it, I need to see creativity, adaptive playcalling (halftime would be nice, 3-4 posessions even better), and, something demonstrably missing in Sark but smugly emerged from Lane Kiffin, is "killer confidence" in his guys with a shit-eating grin. Sarkdroid looks lifeless.
  15. The whole "politics as sport" position is quite the helpful self-identifier. I WANT MY TEAM TO WIN is not how a properly-functioning democracy works, and we are a society of merit. The Speaker is a House-nominated position, albeit parliamentary leader of. If you have a personal agenda to see through some legislation, that's fine, but we're rapidly approaching a generational shift among voters who shouldn't be alienated with the opinion that Congress won't evolve at the same pace as their constituents. They have 223 other members to select, this shouldn't be difficult.
  16. I brought it up, mostly because the proof is already out there, her accusations arose from the finance community, the self-dealing is something her husband very much benefited from, and her tenure is disgusting to me-- but not nearly as much as the replies from those wilfully dismissing anyone's grift. It's not a partisan problem, but holistic that a number of us in this thread acknowledge. The topic should be on here, because it's an open-season thread specifically about Nancy, and I'm tired of her. Failure to step down or groom a successor into position is selfish act OR a failure of the system, but NOT a failure of the voters.
  17. No condescension, it was a ripe opportunity to voice the opinion that perhaps it's time Pelosi steps down, though criminal acts threatening personal safety shouldn't be the motive, unless pitchforks truly are amok. There's enough media fueling this theme, did you need any more evidence after the Capitol Insurrection? "Both sides," because I'm disgruntled with partisan politics and performance of Congress, among supporters who rarely lift the cover and examine inward. "Bullshit deflection that benefits the assholes responsible?" Go ahead and say GOP, then realize their own messaging opportunities were completely lost in this attack: The weirdest part is for years we've heard that San Francisco is falling apart to "the crazies, radicals, antifa, and curb-shitters." When the evidence finally proves that even the rich can't insulate themselves from the mental health crisis, the right utterly fails to miss the point. They're so hung up on gay shit they miss obviously by-line that this could be painted as a "failure of liberal policies" because they're so interested in old-man-gay-stuff.
  18. GTR is buzzy trash anyhow, for the money they try to fetch from it.
  19. 1.) Presumptions are all they ever will be until legislation is enacted and/or prosecution is levied. The Burr example above proves stalemate. 2.) Yes, I'm disappointed, circle-jerk back to my original opinion that Nancy's time in office is done and my support has waned. 3.) We already established that's not how Paul amassed his wealth, just that the couple seems to have enjoyed a nice windfall along the way. It feels like abuse of privilege to me. 4,) What the hell does the GOP have anything to do with it when their own members are documented with wider-reaching and worse allegations of the same activity? 5.) Agreed, hope Paul recovers swiftly, and we discover more of the attacker's true motives as his assault seems to have been intended for Nancy.
  20. Re: Senator Burr's activity as intelligence agencies were discovering the severity of the COVID-19 outbreak: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-intelligence-reports-from-january-and-february-warned-about-a-likely-pandemic/2020/03/20/299d8cda-6ad5-11ea-b5f1-a5a804158597_story.html
  21. The trading activity certainly isn't a vehicle that amassed their wealth, but was a nice windfall along the way. The trouble is, such trading activity is still above-board for Washington officials, and a bulk of their trades are not registered electronically, so the same-day audit trail is missing. That's by design. It's disengenous to permit such activity when the SEC restricts trading activity from mere analysts within accounting firms, based on their audit clients. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar-and-criminal-law/why-members-of-congress-should-not-trade-stocks
  22. You might as well take a look at the SQ8 as well, if you're patient enough to order or wait for the right allocation spec to pop up. It's kind of a 'sweet spot' SUV-ish with the same driveline as the RS6/RS7/RS Q8, just a weaker tune. S-Sport package adds the same torque-vectoring differential and electromechanical rear sway bar that the RS vehicles get, activated by its 48V mild hybrid system. You'll still be missing the 'RS mode' electronics, flared fenders, wider contact patch and brakes, but for a daily, it's a lot of hardware that also saves you roughly $30K from the RS Q8.
  23. This topic can't be newsworthy to you. Just acknowledge it as a problem for Federal officials that should have been actioned upon long ago. https://housestockwatcher.com/summary_by_rep/Hon. Nancy Pelosi https://www.businessinsider.com/nancy-pelosi-husband-paul-pelosi-congressional-stock-ban-2022-10 https://www.wsj.com/articles/wall-street-traders-or-washington-officials-sometimes-its-hard-to-tell-11666103385
  24. Like insider trading through Nancy? He got a nice start, she took him to the finish line through pending legislation and timely detail. Serving public office, must be nice, right?
  25. I'm new here and you don't know shit.
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