I've followed this and yes it does appear as if the supremes are dubious of his argument. Finally, maybe sanity is starting to creep back. It also bodes well for Powell. What drumpf may have done is enamored the fed to NOT drop rates out of spite. That might be an interesting twist. Not sure when the next real appointment comes up on the fed, but Powell even though his term as chairman is up soon, his term as a governor is not. I think he had planned on retiring, but a nice FU would be to remain and be a governor until trump dies.

That may have been reasonable after one term of trump. But after re-electing him again, I imagine everyone is assuming the US is not a trustworthy ally. Frankly I expect the EU trusts China now more than the US. And trust may be the wrong word. The behavior of China is more reliable. Schizo US, I mean what do you do with a partner that may slap you one minute and kiss you the next? In a word, divorce.

Agree up to "survive better than the opponent". Nope Donald is all about Donald. Specifically Donald. He couldn't give a rats ass about any other US citizen, well except maybe his own offspring. Maybe. Donald even said it with regard to the Nobel. He was getting even with the Scandinavians. Pure and simple revenge. If you frame all his actions revenge fits nearly everything.

Much like roomba for the house. Half the job. I had to pick everything up make sure no cords to entangle it. I imagine the lawn bots suffer a range of issues that make them near useless. We are a long way from the Jetson's maid Rosey.

Well I think you are assigning the wrong reason for trump tariffs on those countries. It is revenge. Otherwise how to explain the tariff on Brazil? https://usafacts.org/answers/w... ? It is all about what he wants and punishes with tariffs. It is his bully stick. He acts like a 3 year old smacking kids around on the playground.

It may not take much longer. The greenland thing is well, just bat shit crazy. And it may be a real red line for the EU. To the point of war. I could certainly see it driving the EU into China and away from the US. How many times can you bitch slap a friend before they tell you to FO? I think the EU is at the FO point. And once that friend has told you to FO, they don't come back. They find other friends.

I see that as well. In my city, you can pretty much count on if they are driving an EV, they are doing well. China has successfully built EV's to the price of what I see one of those fancy golf carts costs in the US. You have to give them credit for that. As to remote kill switches, practically all cars have them now. If BMW/Toyota can have a subscription for heated seats, I imagine they have the capacity to completely disable the car. If nothing else, they could download an "update" which completely wonks the car.

They sort of are. We the people get to access those protected works via their LLM's(for a fee of course). Assuming you know how to take down the guardrails, you can get the book word for word. All praise the ai co's. The new religion. /s

It is quite inexpensive to rent one. And not sure if Rack gives you freebie throw away addresses. Easy to do if you run your own server either by using aliases or if you want to separate the mails as the come in, multiple users. I use both methods depending on who I give it to.

Somewhat surprising to me. I'd have expected threads to first take web, then mobile. X is so engrained in government messaging and I'd expect that to be consumed more on mobile. Once "official" sources, and I'm mainly looking at you democratic states/cities who should know better, stop using X is their primary medium, X is done amongst mainstream. R gov's I give a break to. They are supporting their own. Much like Fox news.

I think I pay 10/mo for a small server. On it I run email and web.

Most articles I see say the opposite. Positive correlation with the stock market. https://www.sciencedirect.com/... So when stocks fall, the BTC's are going to as well. And to add to that, so let's say there is a recession and states need to tap their BTC. Note the word states. So many are selling. To maintain price, someone needs to buy the BTC the states want to sell. And these would be large sellers. Basic economics says price of btc will drop because supply will be up and demand down. Just when the states need the money the most. States would be far better off buying treasuries which pay interest. Especially at the moment when 30 year TBills are paying almost 5%. Back when they were paying 0. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/gr...

It has been a very long time since I graduated. I had very good grades and was near the top of the ee class. I had several offers at graduation. I saw friends though with middle of the road grades with no offers at graduation with ee degrees from a major probably top 10 ranked school. The early 80's were gruesome. We are headed back. I sympathize with them. When you start school, you kind of don't know what the market will be in 4 years. I wanted to be an engineer, so it wasn't a question for me. Others pick more based on the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Has to be tough when the pot vanishes when you get to the end of the rainbow.

I imagine true, not a fast food guy though. A burger has to have gone up significantly. A lb of ground beef is over 6 bucks now. I think I saw an ad for a dominos medium for 9.99. It seems like just a few years ago they were 6.99. Almost 50% more. Other big ticket items I'm seeing are things like home/auto insurance. I'm seeing near 50% more in just a few years and don't see them done raising rates yet. Standard of living for middle/lower class is dropping.

Wow, that is a cheap lawyer. I just had a case where the paralegal was 200, lawyer was 500. And I know from a trial that was a big deal in the early 2000's, a top tier guy made 600/hr back then. I've seen numbers between 1000-1500/hr for top tier today. Conversely, I also had a water heater installed a couple years ago and the pair of plumbers were here maybe 2 hours (x2=4) price was 3500 and I doubt materials were more than 1K based on what I see at HD. Or 625/hr. I'm sure some private equity firm got a nice cut since they own the plumbers these days. With that in mind, I asked the plumber if he ever would be interested in moonlighting and he had zero interest. He said he was doing great as a sub to this plumbing co. AC guys do well too. I use a co that I know is private, not PE. They installed a 4ton and I think it was 13,500. Materials I think run around 5K for that. so 8500 for 2 guys 4 hours 2 guys 8 hrs. 350/hr.