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In the reaction to the 2008 financial crisis the fed began paying interest to banks on cash reserves (no-risk deposits at the federal reserve banks). This made it became more lucrative to deposit money at fed reserve than to make loans to the public. This emergency measure has never been eliminated.

ref: CNBC interview with Economist Judy Shelton on 7/21/2025, on Squawk Box, by Joe Kernan giving her room to speak freely.

She has been saying that structural issues and policy like this with the Fed are comparable problems with the Fed decision making, not just the political witholding of interest rate cuts. IMO she should be the next chair. She was nominated to the board in Trump’s first term but blocked by the industry and vested interests, (per wiki).

Thanks for the help

I agree with almost everything you said. Butch even said “it was my fault”. There should be RICO and conspiracy charges for their entire organization.

But, re “Drive , baby, drive!”: did you see/hear that, or see it reported (as fact) first hand? Because I have read it in Semmon’s “satire” but nowhere else. It has the ring of truth but might only be his infuriating finely crafted misinformation.

BTW I call those boyfriend lesbians in plaid shirts “lumberjack lesbians”.

So you think there are 55 Greenlanders?

No, trillion, a million million, 10^12 is only billion in dated british usage. Not to quibble FRiend but $285B might be worth it, $285T is impossibly high.

The word buggery was used in England and referred to the Bulgarians reputed proclivities. To be fair in our generation it should be called englandry.

Thank you for contributing that reference.

Sharks don’t have scales, but yeah good thinking.

Who says it was written by people? Innumeracy is a possible tip that it was written by AI.

All basic generative AI does is predict (generate) the next word based on the sequence of words it saw in the prompt and the sequence already generated, with some noise injected to make it less prone to predictable loopy word salad. AIs are innumerate — leads to absurd results like this.

“London is one of the safest cities” under the same rules as other Muslim capitals - as long as infidels shut up and submit. Peace and safety are defined as absence of resistance to Islam

The article says “after vetting” they may be allowed to avail themselves of these programs.

Vet the hell out of them, including their financial history and how they got the money.

“good enough for government work”

Well said. It would be the best response for friendlt media to replay what he just said, and for someone to make it easy to find on the web.

He recently was on Squawk Box, Gutfeld (iirc), Bret Bair. He was hitting new peak heights of cultural influence. Even on Southpark.
- some may think it was a hit job but they were fairly representing his point of view, and his response was positively Washingtonian: “they even got my hairline right”. He WANTED to be charicatured if it meant his thoughts were brought up.

Yes, but I think Don Jr was specifically right though that the transition hormone cocktail is implicated.

Just for S&G I decided to carry it further. I have numerous observations of females soon after chilbirth during infancy of a child being over-the-top defensiven and violently aggressive where they were ok before. The only dog that bit me and drew blood, no tail wagging. A horned Hereford cow whose calf my dad was doctoring that suddenly charged my Dad. She-bear attacks.

Since this continues long after giving birth, I reasoned it wouldn’t be all the female pregnancy and birth hormones, and thought aha the lactation hormone, which is prolactin. Very first google search found abundant links in the literature between prolactin and aggressive attacks. And, turns out prolactin IS given to m->f “transitioners” not to make them lactate like a real woman but to give them more satisfying female breasts.

Mothers also comment on experiencing this unreasonable anger and aggressiveness. Yes, nursing a baby, gives a profound soothing feeling. But it may be that before releasing milk, swimming in prolactin establishes the anger, seething annoyance and irritation that is subsequently relieved by nursing. This would have a strong species survival value.

Yeah the one thing you can say getting the VAX made better was the pdp-11. ( Virtual Address eXtension i.e. an MMU).

I wondered what kind of attack. People in the cybersecurity industry share these things, and their tools gather info from an attack on one to identify and classify attacks on another.

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/scattered-spider-claims-jlr-cyber/

So maybe “vishing” cute name for voice fishing.

Crowdstrike ( yeah I know, Hillary crony / accessory,with alleged Ukraine connections, pointed Hillary server leak at Russia and never provided data to FBI, the fact FBI trusted them indicates they are inside the DS ) being the big one. Like them or not I would check what they know about an attack.

How they may do it:

https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/crowdstrike-services-observes-scattered-spider-escalate-attacks/

Exactly. When comments are anonymous and a person is specifically mentioned you are being tipped he is a source.

Remember how Bolton recemtly lost his security clearance and it was mentioned he was leaking, including releasing an unapproved book?

The hexagon. ( recognizing Space Force ) ?

Good article dumb headline.

I like this Anceshntr guy.
In Engineering referred to as Murphy’s Law
In Aviation as “Always Leave Yourself an Out.”

Your AI got the argument that Dems are “just using the system” 180 degrees wrong. It was the Republicans (Speaker Burroughs and AG Ken Paxton) that used civil warrants to make Democrats do their duty in Texas. The Dems were as wrong as any soldier who goes AWOL just when it is time to do his sworn duty.