From CNBC:
More home sellers are sitting out of the spring housing market
It might seem like a great time to list your home for sale. Buyers are flooding back into the market, mortgage rates have fallen off their recent highs, and there are still far too few homes for sale to meet demand. But potential sellers aren’t budging.
New listings continued to fall in March, according to Realtor.com, down 20% from the same month last year. That decline in new listings outpaced the 16% drop posted in February. New listings in March were nearly 30% below pre-pandemic levels.
The active inventory of homes for sale is, however, 60% higher than the start of last spring, but that is only because homes are taking longer to sell. Inventory is also half of what it was at the start of spring in 2019, before the Covid pandemic caused an unprecedented run on housing.
Homes are now sitting on the market an average of 54 days, up from an average of 36 days at the start of last spring. Time on market was longer in all of the top 50 metropolitan markets, but the greatest increases were in Raleigh, North Carolina (up 42 days), Kansas City, Missouri (up 37 days), and Austin, Texas (up 37 days).
“Amid fewer new choices on the market and still rising home prices, home shoppers have shown that they are very rate sensitive, only jumping back in the market when rates dip, and so what happens with rates this spring will likely play a strong role in determining whether the housing market bumps along or picks up speed this year,” said Danielle Hale, chief economist at Realtor.com.
first, ha!
first
Trump indicted …..all but insuring his reelection lol
Dictatorship not a good look. Yearn for the old days, we need to make republicans great again. Neither Bush would have pulled this kind of shit, sure as hell not Ronnie. I guess law and order is nothing more than a convenient platform?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-trump-charges-are-un-american-says-florida-will-not-assist-in-extradition-request-by-manhattan
Down with dictatorship. IRS agent knocks on Matt Taibbi’s (twitter files journalist) on the same day that Taibbi is testifying before congress. Down with the Deep State.
Trump indicted …..all but insuring his reelection lol
Easier to predict that everyone in America will become an expert on the 14th Amendment before that.
On that note, apparently Pelosi has gone full totalitarian as well. What the f*ck is in the water in Washington?
https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1641594971462541315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1641594971462541315%7Ctwgr%5E43b295c10dc5abf37647e17dab84e42c207532fd%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Flive-news%2Ftrump-indicted-by-manhattan-da-in-case-over-stormy-daniels-payments
“‘Gentlemen, I bid you farewell. ‘ With that, Wallace Hartley, bandleader of the Titanic, was washed away – with his precious violin, in its case, strapped to his waist.”
We’ve crossed the Rubicon, kids.
If an ex president goes to jail, does the secret service go in with him/her to protect them still?
Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up!
Fast
We’ve been run by oligarchs for centuries. Social media and the fracturing of mainstream media are allowing the masses to finally realize that.
Does anyone know if he will be tried as an adult?
Oh that made me laugh, thanks for that.
If an ex president goes to jail, does the secret service go in with him/her to protect them still?
Won’t need them, he’ll be king of the jail in days. Zero doubt. I actually think he’d be far more respected in a far more dangerous jail than in some white collar joint. There was some nonsense of him being afraid of Rikers. Hell no, the biggest baddest MFers in there would be by his side just for the bragging rights. Dude would make the goodfellas prison seen look tame – he’d smuggle in gold leaf for his bars.
In other news , excellent opinion piece over on Marketwatch by Roubini.
We’ve been run by oligarchs for centuries.
And it’s quite obvious they’re still at it.
Are people really that over joyed that Trump has been indicted? So many appear that all was well, until Trump. Who cares.
Dude would make the goodfellas prison seen look tame..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm3GIRhT1To
The people who are happy to see a banana republic are the lefts equivalent of the J6 people taking the selfies. Both unwitting fools.
“Yearn for the old days, we need to make republicans great again. Neither Bush would have pulled this kind of shit…”
The Bushes are revolting.
I was really just trolling, was the best I could come up with that early.
Figured. Was out of character lol. You know I can’t let something like that go unanswered though, ha.
Any more background on VLY, where you seeing chatter?
Not gonna defend Ronnie on his position, but that being said, kinda silly to reference the rule of law with a District Attorney that has refused to enforce all kinds of laws that are currently leading to the decay of the city.
That’s a political response to a political indictment. He has to be heard. I guess he relevance of it is so the left can try to take the “rule of law” high ground. Stalin gas courts too.
Not all the Trumpy news is bad these days. ‘QAnon Shaman’ was freed early from federal prison today.
Figured. Was out of character lol. You know I can’t let something like that go unanswered though, ha.
Blog is a lot more fun to read when everyone has their guns blazing, I’ve always been a provocateur.
On Valley? Shit, my brain is wild about patterns, almost obsession like when dots start to connect on random topics. When Valley comes up more in two weeks than in the past 10 years, I hear it everywhere. I mean hell, I drive by the mortgage HQ every day, and until a few weeks ago it had faded into the background.
Their move for SVB assets felt very out of character. Those guys have been on an acquisition tear for years – but it’s always been sleepy little local banks (other than Leumi). Hell – Clifton, Allwood, Passaic, that’s my home turf.
I have no insider intel, even though a lot of their headcount is still in Wayne I believe.
I wonder what he will trade in prison for Burnt Orange clown makeup #9.
Lest we forget, another major TV personality with a cult was charged and served time in prison for something that everyone has been doing blatantly (and far, far worse). Martha Stewart- who did she p$ss off? Oh wait, no deep state back then under Bush.
Pro grade trolling:
https://youtube.com/shorts/iP867ZErF2k?feature=share
Qanon shaman has a legitimate claim of entrapment the way they gave him a personalized guided tour
Bystander
She got busted for lying to a federal agent. I bet If she had just said lawyer. Instead of trying to talk her way out of it she would have been in the clear.
I wasn’t following that closely. Once I heard Q’anon had a Pedophilia link, I read no further.
Hold,
That is what they got on her but why did they go after her in the first place? It was pocket change.
BRT – re: Shaman? They did interrupt an official proceeding, congress had to vamoose in the middle of the certification count. There is no denying that. He plead guilty to a felony charge of obstructing an official proceeding, it was not the charge of trespassing.
He is out of jail as of today as well.
The Roubini piece is a good read that lays out the variables in play. Be warned, halfway through Roubini can’t resist going full Roubini.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/most-u-s-banks-are-technically-near-insolvency-and-hundreds-are-already-fully-insolvent-roubini-says-18b89f92?mod=nouriel-roubini
He got released early because of the tapes from Jan6 Committee released to Fox and broadcast showing him being let in and escorted around the Senate chambers.
As BRT notes major evidence not provided to the defense. You can bet his lawyers were already typing an appeal.
Releasing him early pre-empts any appeal, and saves those in charge (Capitol Police, Pelosi, Jan 6 Committee) the embarrassment that would come with it.
Bringing Martha Stewart into the crusade against trump. Omg, now that it’s some tortured shlt.
But, hey, the Jan 6 Committee was bi-partisan arm of Congress investigating the breach of the most hallowed of places….not a partisan, stacked deck or anything…..
Lets not forget the fact about how close these unorganized and differently intentioned individuals actually came to entering the core of the beehive.
Had this been a trained and cohesive group with real malintent I believe they could have succeeded in emptying the chamber of lifelong varmints. Instead they did the silly things teenagers do like selfies.
Fact is that gate was wide open at the time. Like a zero day exploit.
Not sure what would have happened had they dispatched the entire lot. A vacuum like that would probably end up with real dictators running the country. Not good.
Well, it didn’t happen. So instead it’s just groundhog day, business as usual with the MiniMe dictators, the scandals, the payoffs, nepotism, and all other forms of corruption.
The system wants Trump eliminated. He is getting in the way of their grifting activities. Kind of like the mafia wants to rid themselves of a made man that is costing them money or interfering with their larger plan.
They did the same thing with Henry Wallace, just didn’t need the criminal system to do it. My “theory” is that something similar happened with Ross Perot.
A tortured brain is one that portrays that bloated corrupt idiot as a victim as well as presidential. It is a question of investigation. I do think they target big whales where possible especially when something concrete. No bigger whale than Dumpy. literally and figuratively.
Very Stable Genius says:
March 31, 2023 at 7:28 am
Does anyone know if he will be tried as an adult?
Cmon, left..they took no part in it bc they were all complicit in it. Recall that Trump was president on Jan 6th but I love how you absolve him of own actions. That video showed nothing other than cops trying not to shoot intruders and escalate situation. Like saying those San Frain security guards were complicit because they let shoplifters walk around store and steal. I guess the shoplifters did not commit a crime? Panel? Jim Jordan..what a joke. Like putting Anthony Weiner on panel to protect kids from social media predators.
Excellent
Just reading the hyperlink made me laugh.
Boomer Remover says:
March 31, 2023 at 10:02 am
The Roubini piece is a good read that lays out the variables in play. Be warned, halfway through Roubini can’t resist going full Roubini.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/most-u-s-banks-are-technically-near-insolvency-and-hundreds-are-already-fully-insolvent-roubini-says-18b89f92?mod=nouriel-roubini
” It is a question of investigation.”
It is a question of who is doing the investigating over what.
“Who” is a politician of the opposing party who campaigned on promising local prosecution of a Federal official….yes, county district attorneys in NY are elected…there are actually 62 of them, one for each county…
I have no problem with DJT’s prosecution by some random elected partisan local LEO from one State…
I would sincerely hope that some random county attorney in FL, TX, or TN is investigating any laws high profile Dems may have breached…
Leave Biden and his family alone….Dems don’t care about them, they are placeholders anyway…hit them over people they care about….Pelosi, Sulzberger (NYT), any of the three lead prosecutors on the DJT case, Bloomberg, etc.
Their planes touch down anywhere in Florida meet them with armed sheriffs and cuffs. No notice, no courtesy, don’t care if it’s over a traffic ticket.
Want to play hardball, with local officials making political prosecutions?
Let’s go baby! Bring it on.
The trilemma with a stagflationary debt crisis.
Better stating in the spitfire word-swallowing Ottoman-French accent.
“Cmon, left”
Doesn’t matter how you interpret what it shows or not…potentially mitigating evidence not given to the defense….that gets overturned and remanded back for a new trial in any superior court…
Dude, how blind are you to the obvious…why did Pelosi not allow the Repubs appointed to be on the Committee, contrary to 250 years of precedent?
SHE stated it was because of their viewpoints…ie, when this evidence would have been made available to those who were actually appointed and declined, yeah, there would have been some very tough questioning of the Capitol Police. And the of the person who runs the office to whom they ultimately report which is….Nancy Pelosi.
I loathe Trump…but, talk about a railroading and whitewashing….
“Let’s go baby! Bring it on.”
You just want a civil war.
The problem, though, is that the politically entrenched would never let their gravy train be in peril.
Left, you really have to stop watching that Tucker First Segment. He was sentenced to 42 months and will spend the last 6 in a halfway house where he has just been transferred. He got credit for time spent pre trial so at this point he has served 27 months. So he earned 9 months good credit.
Processed through the system like everyone else. But don’t let that get in the way of a talking point.
Former prime ministers or presidents have been prosecuted (and usually convicted) in France, Italy, South Korea, Taiwan and Israel, so prosecuting former national leaders is hardly banana republic stuff.
Probably should wait to see what’s in the indictment before we start raging about whether the prosecution is justified or not.
“something similar happened with Ross Perot”
No a third candidate cannot win without Electoral College Reform.
Left
Again with the Tucker Revisionist history. Pelosi objected to specific republicans (who will likely be charged with J6 Events unless they have a pardon). Big Kev, instead of nominating alternates, pulled his whole slate. Pelosi called his bluff and sat two Republicans.
So put that one on Kev
“but, talk about a railroading and whitewashing….”
Ok, Gym Jordan yesterday, dismissing people before Dems can ask questions.
Is your outrage selective?
https://twitter.com/Sky_Lee_1/status/1641448088404652036
Republicans unequivocally support election deniers.
It’s their consistent talking point. It’s rubbish, but then so are
most republicans
Fun with ChatGPT.
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1641803840449134592
He HATES me!’ Furious Donald slams judge who’ll preside over his hush money trial – the SAME man who found his family business guilty of fraud, as anti-Trump protestors swarm NYC’s Trump Tower.
Judges can be biased, just sayin’
Liz Cheney is a R left so your issue (and those who want to blame Ds) is that she was not slanted enough to support Trump’s view of the day. Pure BS.
“Left, you really have to stop watching that Tucker First Segment. He was sentenced to 42 months and will spend the last 6 in a halfway house where he has just been transferred. He got credit for time spent pre trial so at this point he has served 27 months. So he earned 9 months good credit. Processed through the system like everyone else. But don’t let that get in the way of a talking point.”
No Tucker. Yahoo, pretty liberal skew, reports “54 days off a sentence for each year served”.
Your numbers don’t add up.
Maths.
The First Step Act (FSA) permits eligible inmates to earn additional time off their sentence for participating in and completing approved Evidence-Based Recidivism Reduction programs. Briefly, for every 30 days of qualifying programming activities, inmates can earn ten days off their sentence. After two six-month risk and needs assessment review periods, this increases to 15 days off per 30 days of qualifying programming activities.
https://federalcriminaldefenseattorney.com/first-step-act/
Math
Guys, not going to get sucked into a bottomless pit of pointless conversation with a couple far left wingers who have well cemented preconceived ideas and then project that on me…
Simple fact….250 years of precedent were broken by Pelosi. No footnotes or asterisks. Which, yes, Jordan is in the process of repaying and hopefully the Repub House will keep a spine and continue doing more and harder. Payback. Just like putting conservative Supremes on the Court after, against the strong urging of McConnell, Dems made a majority adequate.
“Liz Cheney is a R left so your issue (and those who want to blame Ds) is that she was not slanted enough to support Trump’s view of the day. Pure BS.”
This is flat out laughable…as you state she was not appointed to the committee, but seated by Dems…and she went in before any hearing without a shred of testimony stating that Trump needed to be charged…and as to her being an R, you do recall after being seated and the establishment pulling out all plugs in the primary to get her re-elected she lost with that last name in her home district? Definitionally not representative, which is again why she was never put forward in the first place. And, none of that matters, because for 250 years the point is moot. Parties select which of their members to sit on select committees.
And Lib, no I don’t want a civil war…but as you know there is only one way to deter someone who abuses their power (ie, a bully). Respond in kind, twice as hard.
Best hockey coach my kid had was a seasoned Canadian who took them to Nationals…We were a small team. Other teams would run us, sometimes hard. No calls by the officials? Once, maybe twice, OK…third time…I love this guy….he’d get up on the bench and casually look over the scorers box and shout to the other coach “Pick one! Pick one!”
The clueless limp wristed pussy NJ coaches would look at him wide-eyed like WTF. The guys who get it, got it.
Coach was asking you for the number of your player you want carried off the ice, because one was going. And a player would get carried off the ice. And, funny enough, then bullshit stopped.
Three planes, Dems or their major supporters arrested on the hot FL tarmac…
Pick one.
Good day on this topic guys, I am checking out on it.
I am not Pro-Trump, but it does seem lame to me that it’s payments to a hooker that trips him up.
Washington is full of career criminals, this is the best you can do?
Not saying he doesn’t deserve it for breaking the law, but why are all the others free to walk?
I also don’t want a civil war, but you might just get one, good job Boomers-you could have cut your greed to a minimum but couldn’t help yourselves. You may cry if it happens but it’s not you that will feel the brunt of it, it is those coming after you.
Good job leaving the world a better place than you received it. Dumb F’s.
America only has the “appearance” of justice.
It is a bottomless pit left because you have your bias and blind spots. You want to call out Cheney for her comments, blaming Pelosi for not appointing Jim “Stop the Steal” Jordan. Should I even post a list of his comments on Election denial? The Rs believed the Big Election Steal Lie and now time has proven it false across the board with Barr, Ivanka, Faux News and numerous Rs calling it lies & trash while supporting the lies to the R mooks who believed any BS. All exposed.
This is exactly what banana republics do. They use the tools of the state to fabricate cases against political rivals. That’s how the ruling power maintains control. Banana republic 101
Biden is a corrupt bag of blood. He was installed so the powers that put him there have a free hand. An actual leader would maintain order.
“Bystander says: March 31, 2023 at 1:02 pm”
Does not matter. Irrelevant. Red herring.
Parties choose their own members to seat for select committees. There is no litmus test, there is no vote, there is no popularity contest, there is no tiara or prom gown.
The guy could be an ax murderer drooling on his shoes, precedent is if he’s an elected Member in good standing he gets seated. Until Pelosi broke that for the first time ever because she wanted to engineer a pre-determined outcome on a topic where she potentially has culpability.
I am checking out but answer this in all honesty, because this is the heart of what truly confounds me by Pelosi’s unprecedented action…
If the case on January 6 was so strong, if the actions were so egregious and clear cut, what in the world are you afraid of?
If the evidence and logic is so compelling to the Nation, what is the threat of having Jim Jordan or any one of the other four Republicans appointed occupy one of 13 seats on the Committee….remember Dems still had the House majority so they had eight of the 13 Committee seats and control of the Committee and its agenda.
Seriously, if the case were so clear cut and egregious why the need to stack the deck?
Especially when you were already the dealer?
What were they so afraid would come out?
I wonder what the “mysterious item” was. I guess if you walk into a lab with a series 7 fuel injector from a BMW while wearing a clown mask the reaction will be a massive response. I find that amusing.
‘Tactical units converged on the Elmwood Park headquarters of one of the country’s largest clinical testing labs Friday morning after a stranger in a Halloween mask walked in, handed over a mysterious item and immediately left.
An arrest was made in Clifton a short time later, law enforcement sources told Daily Voice.
A hazardous materials unit, bomb squad and other tactical officers joined borough police and firefighters at a building on the Elmwood Park campus of BioReference Laboratories just off Route 80 shortly after 9 a.m. March 31.”
Some humor for the day: A little K&P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJqiC8fURak&t=9s
“If the case on January 6 was so strong, if the actions were so egregious and clear cut, what in the world are you afraid of?”
That’s easy. Pelosi fucked up. She ruined any credence the panel would have had.
I would have loved to see those two jackass election deniers make complete fools of themselves as they tried to defend the defendless. Instead, Pelosi completely and unequivocally blew it. Perhaps she was too focused on her inside trading.
And why am I so steadfast about my opinion here? Because Gator, who never lets me go without a fight didn’t put one up when I mentioned how Pelosi poisoned the committee. Nonetheless, I wouldn’t have found anyone of those morons innocent. Outside of that old lady who was obviously looking for the ladies room, the rest of them knew exactly what they were doing. Regardless of the potential funny doings of the police that day. When you push down the temporary fences around a government building, you should pay the price. And they did. For which I am both happy and relatively surprised to see happen.
Facts matter Left. She approved three of the five picks. Kevin “her numbers are down due to Benghazi hearings” McCarthy pulled all his picks.
By,
It was all politics. As annoying as it would have been to listen to morons who are willing to outright lie for political theater, it still would have provided credibility to the panel. Once Pelosi picked the Republicans, you were wasting everyone’s time.
Everything else is noise. That’s what Left is saying and he’s right (for a change). :P
“Facts matter Left. She approved three of the five picks.”
Facts do indeed matter.
Everyones’s picks, all the time, get rubber stamped.
Except this time…..
If you have the high road and if you have the facts on your side, why did you break centuries of precedent?
Jeez – These scammers usually operate in India and are mostly out of reach of our lawn enforcement now there are here?
https://www.nj.com/news/2023/03/nj-men-tried-to-swindle-109k-from-senior-citizen-in-computer-virus-scam-cops-say.html
Let’s get this straight – we have violent attack on Capitol where person is shot dead, police dead, 100s injured yet the Rs would not support a Senate committee to investigate. Jesus Christ f-off about the Democrats being party to blame, being partisan, not willing to get to the facts.
There’s a new episode of the Bridgewater Associates series about current events.
Talk is about the fed being able to stop a banking run, but unable to un-ring the bell of awareness about deposit rates. They hypothesize that if banks are forced to fund near market rate deposits, it will have far reaching implications on bank profitability, if not create zombie banks dependent on liquidity facilities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKySSEtUqmQ
Not you specifically left, by f-off. I am talking about the whole notion that committee had no R support therefore findings are bogus. The Rs never wanted to get to the facts, as many were part of the months leading up to it.
A select committee always sets own rules. Precedence and tradition is not stone by law. You don’t have a point here.
Were you as upset that McConnell broke precedence with Merrick Garland? Of course not, doubt you ran a post on it so just admit it is your personal bias. I will leave it at that.
“Some unusual put activity (~500:1 over calls) is being seen in Valley National Bancorp (VLY – $0.09 to $9.22) which is primarily being driven by activity on the September 15th 5.00 put. Volume on this contract is 8,638 versus open interest of 265, so we know that the activity primarily represents new positioning. The bulk of the transactions on this contract consisted of various mid-sized blocks that were being bought around the same time at the ask price of $0.35 each, which suggests bearish intent.”
Anyway, I punched in here for this Grim…from my Schwab feed…indeed there’s a bit going on with VLY…haven’t pulled up individual trades to see exactly what ‘mid-sized’ blocks are and this is a bit of a long shot being 50% off spot…although it represents 1m shares of the underlying (volume is about 10k right now) at the low premium it only cost $450k so could just be a bunch of retail yolo’ers…there will be 1.5m and 2.0m share equivalents at the 8.00 and 10.00 strikes by the end of today…those positions cost $1.5m and $3.0m or so, and I did look at them before I jumped in yesterday there was some size there, ie. not just yahoos rolling dice.
View coming into focus that VLY is not going to be in a good position by the fall….
I started spreading my position to reduce cost, and am still up just shy of 40% from yesterday….
I hope all mushroom dick is called to testify, has a complete meltdown on the stand, and is taken away in a straight jacket.
“Not you specifically left, by f-off…A select committee always sets own rules. Precedence and tradition is not stone by law. You don’t have a point here.”
Testy when facts matter, eh? Show me one time where the chairman vetoed the opposition’s slate of appointments for a committee and I’ll shut up.
Committee sets its own rules, which by definition are those of the majority, but the majority does not pick the minority members. Just show me and I’ll deep six this topic.
Garland? You betcha. Part of the face punch for the Dems changing the appointment rules for Federal judges from filibuster to simple majority. One of the few times where McConnell realized he had balls.
And the same thing here on Bragg….get local FL LEO to issue legitimate (but local/state) warrants for Pelosi and one major donor. Arrest and book them the second the next time they hit FL soil. And let it be known that five more are in the sights but don’t say who…I want every wealthy liberal flying into a Florida FBO to be shitting their pants that when they land it will be them next. I want Soros running across the tarmac in his pajamas throwing a briefcase into the open hatch of G6 to just GTFO fearing it’s him. Party ON.
Pick one, coach.
I wonder if Trump will smuggle bronzer into Rikers in his @sshole….?
That’s Jared’s job.
The left abandoned all precedence, decorum, and etiquette once trump arrived. Dropped the facade they claimed to stand for. He broke them. Showed them to be a mob of mouth breathers.
I ♥️ America. This place is so entertaining.
Female California police union exec, 64, is charged with running eight-year, global FENTANYL operation from her gated community home – and using the union’s UPS account to ship the killer drug
Joanne Marian Segovia, executive director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association, was charged with attempting to unlawfully import valeryl fentanyl
Starting in 2015, Segovia had at least 61 drug shipments mailed to her San Jose home from India, Hong Kong, Hungary and Singapore
Segovia used WhatsApp messaging service and her personal and office computers to order thousands of opioid tablets and other pills to her home
I’d rather he had a stroke. Then he’d have to live with an impaired ability to speak. Watching him flail away in anger would be highly entertaining.
ExEx says:
March 31, 2023 at 2:42 pm
I hope all mushroom dick is called to testify, has a complete meltdown on the stand, and is taken away in a straight jacket.
America. A country where the jokes write themselves. And most of those that live here don’t realize they are the joke.
Granny. Woman. White. Cop. Gated Community.
Buying dope from China. Bet she has an American flag flying while she sells the dope killing American children.
Next she will claim she was a victim. Can’t handle prison.
Speaking with a colleague/friend in the RE investment space. Having a harder time landing financing, but the spigot is still open. Asked him about Valley, and he said that they are still originating….. makes me wonder what exactly is happening? Are they just stupid over there or maybe they are on top of their game? Unknown if/when they blow up?
leftwing says:
March 31, 2023 at 2:34 pm
Reiterating….. on both the wholesale and retail levels, their reps are putting out a public face of confidence.
chicagofinance says:
March 31, 2023 at 3:43 pm
Speaking with a colleague/friend in the RE investment space. Having a harder time landing financing, but the spigot is still open. Asked him about Valley, and he said that they are still originating….. makes me wonder what exactly is happening? Are they just stupid over there or maybe they are on top of their game? Unknown if/when they blow up?
leftwing says:
March 31, 2023 at 2:34 pm
No reason to suspect her. Hmm. How about the order for 5k of Tramadol. Or the other order for 700 dollars more.
A cease and desist letter? Who did this lady know?
“The revelation shocked her colleagues, Saggau said.
‘We didn’t have any reason to suspect her,’ he said, adding that the union’s board of directors has pledged to fully support the federal investigation.
Federal prosecutors said that in 2019, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers intercepted a parcel being sent to her home address that contained $5,000 worth of Tramadol, a synthetic opioid, and sent her a letter telling her they were seizing the pills.
The next year, the CBP again intercepted a shipment of Tramadol valued at $700 and sent her a seizure letter, court records showed.
But federal officials didn’t start investigating Segovia until last year when investigators found her name and home address on the cellphone of a suspected drug dealer who is part of a network that ships controlled substances made in India to the San Francisco Bay Area, according to the complaint.”
Not you specifically left,
Left, you have been an apologist of J6 since the hour it started.
“I’m proud of yesterday. Americans coming together to protest their government for grievances. American flags everywhere…not being burned or defaced but waved proudly in support of the ideals of this nation. Blue line flags…LEO family presence. POW/MIA flags…..veterans. Bedrock of middle America. These protesters literally filed into statuary hall, respectfully…no destruction…..50 statues and priceless artworks lining the walls and not one destroyed or defaced. No burning. No looting. And they left peacefully on their own. Regular citizens making sacrifices to address their government. That is the highest ground possible.”
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/us/rioters-capitol-building-damage-photos-trnd/index.html
Are they just stupid over there or maybe they are on top of their game? Unknown if/when they blow up?
Please.
They know they will be bailed out by those of us who pay taxes. It’s a no-brainer.
Fabius,
Yes, we need Electoral Reform. Can’t come soon enough.
3:39 I like how you think. He’s a prime candidate.
Jordan Klepper @jordanklepper
If only there were a system where a jury of citizens could hear the evidence and defendants could have the opportunity to make their case. Then if that group of citizens felt there was evidence, an indictment would follow, triggering another opportunity to present evidence.
leftwing,
I agree with some of what you’re saying, but the only precedent that I’m aware of that goes back centuries is that precedents are always broken/ignored, ultimately.
We need a constitutional amendment for Electoral Reform which requires the states to vote for it. Does anyone think three-fourths of the State legislatures, or three-fourths of conventions called in each state for ratification would approve this even if it were to pass through congress?
The left abandoned all precedence, decorum, and etiquette once trump arrived. Dropped the facade they claimed to stand for. He broke them. Showed them to be a mob of mouth breathers.
Yep. They’re unhinged, loco, schizzo, unglued and a bit manic. It’s definitely a study in irrational behavior.
Boomer Remover,
Is Bridgewater/Dalio still licking Xi Jinping’s balls?
So let me get this straight.
Republicans want to ban books but not guns.
Republicans want to cut social security but not subsidies for the super rich.
They say they’re tough on crime but want Trump to go free.
Are Republicans backwards?
@BillyBaldwin
DeSantis doesn’t care about Trump. It’s all posturing. Carl Rove and company are pushing for DeSantis to run. They hate Trump. DeSantis can’t run anyway, he’d have to resign as Governor according to FL state law. They have a “resign to run” law that prevents people from holding multiple offices within government.
But wait…look what happened just in time for DeSantis:
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/7050/BillText/pb/PDF
oooof….. you’ve been laying in the weeds for weeks, and then you strike like an alligator…..
No One says:
March 31, 2023 at 4:21 pm
Boomer Remover,
Is Bridgewater/Dalio still licking Xi Jinping’s balls?
4:13 show me on the doll where the left touched you…
Bomb squad, Hazmat, Swat for a jar of salsa. One woman playing a prank on the other knowing the other is easily “triggered.”
Hahahaha….
An employee at one of the largest clinical testing labs in the U.S. triggered a large emergency response Friday when she walked into the Bergen County building wearing a devil mask, handed a supervisor a jar of salsa with her name on it and then left, authorities said.
Ray Greenwald, 27, of Ardsley, and the supervisor at BioReference Laboratories just off Route 80 in Elmwood didn’t know one another and apparently had never met before, Police Chief Michael Foligno said.
However, Greenwald, who works in another building, told police she’d heard that the female boss was a “hard ass,” so she decided to pull a stunt that “would make her feel uncomfortable,” Foligno said following the 9 a.m. March 31 incident.
The commercially-produced salsa was harmless, the chief said. But the supervisor didn’t know that.
Nor did a throng of emergency responders — among them, a Bergen County Hazardous Materials Unit, the county Bomb Squad and borough police and firefighters — who converged on the BioReference campus while the building was being evacuated of 125 or so employees.
“How would YOU react if that happened to you?” Foligno asked.
As the experts were determining that the spicy mixture was harmless — save for a potential pang of heartburn — police went looking for the masked stranger.
“How would YOU react if that happened to you?” Foligno asked.
Well, for one, I wouldn’t call law enforcement.
Just toss the jar and move on like an adult.
I imagine Dalio is still every bit the sinophile he was. As I understand it is he is no longer involved in the day to day.
I can one up you – how about having a Senate “bi-partisan” committee like this
“Vice President Richard Nixon, appointed a Senate bi-partisan committee, headed by Watkins to review and determine whether McCarthy censure was warranted. The senators were hand-picked by Nixon”
One of the specifics that Nixon called out for his D selections. They were not liberal.
Not even given a choice to add own D senators..how about that one?
Unprecedented would be Joe McCarthy. The guy was given ultimate power by Rs to run committees by himself and ruin peoples lives. I am sure plenty of books could tell you how that guy ran committees and people he bullied. Nancy is candy-land compared to the past ‘unprecedented’ congressional leaders, prior to media was recording every word on 24 hours news-cycle.
“A report by the trustees of Social Security and Medicare state that the financial situation of these programs is not sustainable.
The combined funds of Social Security will only be capable of covering 80% of scheduled benefits after 2034”
Response from Musk who gets it. Demographics are f’ed and alone scream deflation. Just remember 3b and others, falling prices are a signal for hell. Labor will continue to command more while at the same time will not be able to support asset pricing (services continue to experience inflation while assets deflate). It’s f’ed. look at japanese stock market performance since bust last century.
Musk response.
Big reckoning coming due to low birth rate. Japan is a leading indicator.
“Caught up with an old friend that’s a portfolio manager of a global L/S hedge fund. This is the most important thing he said:
“Haha f*ck commercial real estate. Get into Venture Capital. Start ups are forced to sell equity at fire sale valuations.”
Pretty much his exact words and I do agree with this thesis.
Can anyone in or closely following the tech/VC space opine?”
lol, so at least Pelosi isn’t Joseph McCarthy? Kinda reminds me of how US politicians justify everything they do with at least we aren’t worse than China. It’s not a standard to live up to.
Pumps google search still works.
https://fortune.com/2023/01/23/zombies-fire-sales-scrappiness-vc-venture-capitalist-startups-year-predictions-2023-maelle-gavet/
Interesting read on McCarthy. He was Trump before Trump. Fear mongering, cult like rise. He was a delusional narcissist who was obsessed with own power. Arrogant and disrespectful to everyone who did not kiss his rump and back crazy ideas. A useful idiot until he turned on own party. He even came up with nicknames for rivals like “Sanctimonious Stu” Symington. Sounds familiar?
Elon Musk and Bill Gates have butted heads over issues from climate change to artificial intelligence (if we’re being honest, it’s the Chief Twit that’s done most of the butting) — but the two tech billionaires may agree on one thing: the transformative potential of self-driving cars.
The Microsoft cofounder dedicated his most recent blog post to the budding world of autonomous vehicles, predicting that the technology will reach “a tipping point” within the next decade. Once cars become truly self-driving, he said, they’ll be as revolutionary as the personal computer.
“When it happens, AVs will change transportation as dramatically as the PC changed office work,” Gates wrote.