landemva

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by landemva 4y ago
It may depend how overweight and if the person is otherwise fit. A fat guy in my platoon had last name 'Lay' which led to hilarious potato chip and family history rants by instructors. He lost a lot of fat.
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by landemva 4y ago
UCMJ does not have civilian protections of civilian courts (though it may questionable what really still exists there). No, you don't have the right of free speech in the military. Though apparently dresses are now ok.
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by landemva 4y ago
> anytime a country tries to sell oil in a currency other than USD they automatically become enemies of the US and get invaded. I agree. It's not a good look for self-proclaimed democracy heroes. Saddam was our friend, until he wasn
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by landemva 4y ago
That label was descriptive for a time. The times have changed, and now it's might makes right.
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by landemva 4y ago
I don't recall Vietnam or Laos trading much of anything before USA invaded. How about militarydollar or imperialismdollar or neocondollar.
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by landemva 4y ago
Right, the specialized chips are still catching up. And Dell forecasts a 20% revenue drop this quarter. https://www.electropages.com/blog/2023/02/semiconductor-over... I had read that rpi started selling bulk
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by landemva 4y ago
Currencies are used to facilitate settlement of international trade. Trade in various goods and services. Central banks often carry reserves of various currencies to help with those international settlements and to manipulate currency value
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by landemva 4y ago
While it is possible to manage for safety, regulators did not enforce that.
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by landemva 4y ago
I thought the corona payments ended. Computer chips and PCs are largely back in stock. Fertilizer and fuel prices went higher in past year. This drove up food production prices. Molecule flow in pipeline to Germany was sabotaged, preventing
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by landemva 4y ago
Large debt issuance to fund federal government deficit spending causes dollar to devalue. This affects price of labor paid in dollars.
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by landemva 4y ago
The virus lockdowns ended and manufacturing supply chains have been clearing. Please tell us why price increases are continuing, instead of dramatically dropping.
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by landemva 4y ago
> not raising short rates would increase inflation Proxy war in eastern Europe, with USA dumping big $ there, is causing price rises.
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by landemva 4y ago
The story of 'dollar backed by petrol' is fiction. Petrodollar exists as much as a corndollar exists. The dollar is US Treasury debt.
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by landemva 4y ago
And they will implement a chokepoint for income they determine may be immoral. https://www.forbes.com/sites/norbertmichel/2018/11/05/newly-...
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by landemva 4y ago
> forces anyone who needs to work in an economy to be accountable to an entity that can and will remove access Federal IRS and county child support enforcement have ridiculous powers wrote in to State law. They can seize accounts with a
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by landemva 4y ago
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g189154-Cascais_Lisbon_D... I lived in expat-friendly suburb of Lisbon, Cascais, and commuted into Lisbon or airport as needed. Terrible rush hour traffic, though it was years ago.
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by landemva 4y ago
Buy a calendar of deeply out of the money puts on the bank stock. Puts with strike price at 1% of trading stock price should be cheap. Uber rich don't need to do this, because they lever up until they are too big to fail.
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by landemva 4y ago
For now the Fed's newly created bank funding term loan mechanism is plugging the hole by having the Fed take underwater bonds at face value. SVB was solvent two weeks ago with mark-to-maturity accounting of their underwater bond holdin
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by landemva 4y ago
FDIC has spent funds. Drawdowns in FDIC reserves will be caught up with future assessments on insured banks. Anyone with a bank account will pay, though silently. Edit: I am interested in seeing something published by FDIC which shows preci
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by landemva 4y ago
Boring banking for the people: member-owned credit unions.
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by landemva 4y ago
To allow the bond sale before they had a cash infusion basically flushed the business. I wonder if board of directors had an understanding of how it would detonate the balance sheet. After that, the regulators took the obvious necessary act
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by landemva 4y ago
> The fed ... could simply allow all member banks to exchange low interest rate long term bonds for new higher yield bonds and pay the Fed for the spread with a loan. Maybe we should admit Congress will never repay the national debt and
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by landemva 4y ago
When interest rates began rising about 13 months ago, SVB should have taken a small haircut on the long term bonds and moved to shorter terms and T-bills. They held their losers until last week when they finally sold for a larger loss.
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by landemva 4y ago
> your local credit union just issues and holds them [mortgages] I was on BoD of a CU. About the only thing we didn't resell were loans which did not conform. The business was to originate, quickly resell, and do some more.
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by landemva 4y ago
Banks would charge fees for services.
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by landemva 4y ago
> US Treasuries carry risk that's not been accounted for. US treasury debt is approximately the safest. The risk was that SVB might need cash before the bonds matured. The regulations encouraged SBV to do this. Now the Fed put is re
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by landemva 4y ago
They went overweight in long duration bonds to get a little more yield. Terrible timing when interest rates were at 1000-year lows, but it kept the bonuses flowing and the stock compensation in the green.
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by landemva 4y ago
A lot of it depends on how often the prosecutor and the judge go to social events and golfing. Most defense attorneys can not beat the corrupt system and aren't willing to risk their career for one client.
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by landemva 4y ago
SBF prosecutors got a big number bail, but nobody actually put up that cash. They pledged to pay later. So it's working for a financial scammer.
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by landemva 4y ago
The regulators allow mark-to-maturity on underwater bonds. When do the regulators wake up and set more reasonable rules?

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