More Pete, please
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The last time someone handed me champagne for a toast, I poured it out after the toast and continued drinking something that tasted better. Even high quality champagne is just awful, I'll take a high quality red wine or beer or any number of liquors over it any day. But sure, they can blame people being sad rather than that people have more choices than ever today and just aren't choosing their products.
so it can’t account for a 23% surge.
Why not? I don't see this logic
The Fed raising interest rates affects lots of things directly, including the cost of home and auto loans, not just unemployment rates, which are indirectly affected
I can't count how many times I've heard people say "another 2008 is coming" over the past 5 years, yet here we are without another 2008.
In June, the percentage of subprime auto borrowers who were at least 60 days late on their bills in June was 5.62%, down just slightly from a record in February, according to Fitch Ratings.
A Fed rate cut could provide some relief. Traders are anticipating the US central bank will begin lowering its benchmark rate in September, following data showing inflation cooling. That, in turn, could allow borrowers the chance to refinance or enter the market to buy something else.
At a very fundamental level, this is nothing like 2008. What's happening here is pretty much just an intended effect of the Fed raising interest rates, which has made car payments more expensive, so more people are unable to afford them.
Isn't the point to look ridiculous, for the purpose of expression and entertainment? It seems like you got the point. Good job!
Surely there have never been any parodies of the Last Supper before this one.
(I'm partial to this one)
While this isn't a positive indicator, no, this isn't anything like what happened in 2008.
Well you see, the government is illegitimate, and it's also holding a bunch of money for me that is my birthright as someone who has been born, and when they demand an "ID" or "account number," they're actually just playing a game to hide the money from us. But we know better!
They've turned one mall in my city into a community college and office space, and the other is going strong and attracting new tenants
Yup! They live for 1-2 years as larvae in the ground, and they require moisture to survive. Keeping the leaves down and undisturbed raises the moisture level of the dirt underneath and provides habitat for all sorts of things the larvae will eat. You'll also find the number of lighting bugs you've got in your yard varies with how much moisture your yard had the previous two years. You can have a bumper crop of adults in a drought year, but two years later could have a rainy year with very few
I wouldn't put it past SCOTUS to insert themselves against all established precedent, but in "normal" times I doubt SCOTUS has any jurisdiction in this state issue
Why?