Screwball

Wall Street Engineers Invent a New Head-Spinning Options Trade At least they used derivatives and boom in the same sentence. I wonder how America will like it when we bail out the swine bankers again?

The first quote is by bailout king Warren Buffet. The second should read ""Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered"

So we need to lower rates? What, exactly, are we fixing? Low rates for too long got us to where we are now. Been trending down since early 80s, flat lined (ZIRP) in 2010 when the banks blew up the world until 2016ish, a little blip, and flat again(probably due to COVID). And here we are. If cheap money was the solution we wouldn't be where we are. Wherever we are, I'm not real sure.

Job growth totals 114,000 in July, much less than expected, as unemployment rate rises to 4.3% U-6 at 7.8% Full BLS report; Employment Situation News Release @ 8:30am today Market not happy with AMZN (-11%), INTC (-27%). DOW -800, S&P -127, NASDAQ - 500 Your move Powell and Co.

Actions to Accelerate our Progress - from INTC (official release best I can tell) What a long winded pile of typical corporate horse****. Stock getting pounded after hours.

Forgive me, I thought people were smart enough to figure that out. The only point it is proving right now is you missed it.

I'm retired. I spent 35+ years in the world of Office Space/Dilbert. I can count on one hand how many managers/bosses I respected over those years. Most were slimy corporate worms who would do anything to climb the ladder, while being an incompetent ass kissing robot while doing so. Yet they kept a job - because they worked for more incompetent ass kissing robots who had no clue how it all worked in spite of all their fancy pieces of paper and countless hours of corporate obedience training. Corporate incompetence (and greed (penny smart, dollar stupid)) breeds waste, and plenty of it. Savings could go towards wages and benefits. Haha! Who am I kidding. The next 10K

Unions will never make a difference again, NAFTA was that nail in the coffin. Automation will replace labor in every way possible, AI will replace human digital tasks in the same way. It's all about the bottom line ($), humans don't matter. Until they do...

Orange Hitler is due to speak at the convention sometime, but will he? Does he have the nads? He literally dodged a bullet last week, which might be quite humbling. Can the world’s most famous huckster become humble? Millions of people will be watching to find out. If he is humble and sounds presidential, he will win in a landslide over the Party Of Snobs (POS). The blame cannons will look like the 4th of July, but will be pointed in the wrong direction. Incapable of self-reflection, the POS will serve up endless excuses and blame as they wallow in their own pool of tears, clueless as to why they were rejected. This will be, for the second time, a giant middle finger to the POS and their endless stream of blue BS, and a giant dose of STFU.

Wall Street says thank you

Candidate for idiot of the month in this current **** show

The boards most unhinged rabid warmonger.

I would pay cold hard cash for a Ballmich vs. Gomer debate.

So there is nothing we can do because things.... Not acceptable, and people that want to make excuses should be fired. You're fired.

Let's play hypothetical and say we found out it did come from a lab in Wuhan. Honest accident, no nefarious intent by anyone. Why are they doing this dangerous testing/research in the middle of a highly populated area of China where an accident can cause what we now are going through? Is it really worth funding such a dangerous kind of thing? Let's say it is, why is it not being done on a island out in the middle of nowhere so if something happens it won't infect half the fucking world? To me, knowing where it came from should help us make sure it never happens again. It killed over a couple million people, and over a million here in America. But no, let's make it all political instead of finding the truth, so all the partisan hacks can argue, point fingers, get TV sound bytes, while people die. What a fucking country.

Shipments of contaminated waste to resume from Ohio train derailment site - CNN FTA: Apparently, the complaints from Texas and Michigan worked as they are now going elsewhere. Vickery, Ohio is the winner it looks like. Underground injection wells. Yea, I've heard about them, since they are about a half hour from where I live, and it's also a few miles from Lake Erie. I sure would like to know more about those wells since there have been stories of people getting sick in that area for years. These wells are around 3000 ft deep, similar depths of a fracking well. How safe are they? I know the official answer, but that is no doubt coming from the same people who tell the East Palestinians their water is safe to drink. The train wreck is solely on Norfolk Southern and their implementation of PSR (Precision Scheduled Railroading). The horrific response is solely on everyone who should have responded. There are no innocent parties here. From above; That sounds like 2.5-3.0 PER DAY too many. Why is this happening? Maybe because nobody gives one good shit as long as the railroad continues to make record profits, stock buybacks can continue, railroad pays pissy as fines and the POS politicians keep getting their pockets lined to look the other way. Nobody gives a fuck about the environment or the people who live in it.

Texas and Michigan officials say they didn’t know water, soil from Ohio train wreck would be transported into their jurisdictions - CNN FTA;

When I saw Ryan we were way out in right field behind a pole. We talked to an usher to took us to some office behind home plate where they gave us different tickets. They were on the right field side straight up the seats if you followed the left field foul line and about 30 rows up. Absolutely great seats, especially for Ryan. We could hear the catchers mitt pop. I wonder if those were season ticket seats and they knew the people weren't showing up. They were that good.

One would think so. I've had Direct TV since 1998 or 99. I bought the sports package to get FSD so I could watch the Tigers, and paid extra for the NFL Sunday Ticket (so I'm not forced to watch the Cleveland Clowns every Sunday), but over the years DTV has gotten way too expensive so I want to drop it for something else. The something else is where it gets complicated. I have decent streaming speeds (250-350 when I check) so I have choices like Hulu or YouTubeTV, but the channels are different of course. Each package have channels I want, but also some I can't get. Sunday ticket is going to YouTube TV, but there is little information as of yet as far cost. Hulu has the ESPN+ which I use to watch basketball. This is part of a $11 sports pack. YouTube TV does not offer this, but I could still by it through ESPN. Hulu has MavTV, YouTube TV does not without the sports package. That doesn't even get to the MLB stuff that neither seem to offer, so I guess you go through MLB and buy something. So you end up with an internet cable bill, a provider bill (Hulu or YouTube TV), a sports package charge, a MLB package bill, and the NFL Sunday ticket bill. So you could have 5 different subscriptions and bills to deal with - instead of one. And it all probably changes again in 5 years. That's kind of ala carte but a long way to get there. And don't get me started on the torture of cancelling Direct TV.

Thanks, that helps. Everything is so complicated. One would think it should be ala-carte, but it's not. I've had Direct TV since the 90s, with no issues, but just too expensive anymore for what I use. Plus, Cornhole has upped their game on bandwidth, so I have enough speed to use streaming. Direct TV no longer provides what I want (NFL Sunday Ticket for example). I knew when I tried to cancel I would get a sales pitch on why I shouldn't. It was truly brutal. This guy should get a raise and an Oscar. Lives in Kentucky, and a baseball fan to boot. I just want to send back the box, but it took an hour.

Question; I've read this entire thread, and I,m still confused. Probably because I don't live around Detroit. If I want to watch the Tigers next year - how do I go about doing it? I live in Ohio so I don't have local Detroit stuff. Best I can tell from reading here, it will depend of the RSN, which I think means "regional sports network." I get Fox Sports Detroit via Direct TV, which I am going to cancel. Am I screwed?

Some of my best lifelong memories were from Tiger Stadium. I was in right field behind a post but captured a Steve Kemp home run ball. Dove over 3 rows to get it - I was young. Then my kids years later ran out of baseballs and that one somehow went missing from my trophy case. Kids... Was there for the Bird when he made his comeback. Behind another pole. Talked to an usher and he moved us. Good seats - thanks. Saw Micky and McClain in 68, Nolan Ryan at another game after we got the ushers to give us better seats sometime in the 80s I think it was, (more pole problems). We used to drive a couple hours to get there around the time the sun came to stand in line to get tickets. Standing in line was easy when you are young. I have a wide screen picture of the last pitch in Tiger Stadium on my living room wall as we speak.

For shits and giggles I read that article. I would say it is unbelievable what they will do, but it's not. This is where we are, apparently. They will find ways to save you money, want all your financial information, access to all your shit - then whack you %40 percent "If" they save you money. And potential other charges, fees, and plans. What a fuckin deal. And the BBB ratings were shit before they changed names, another red flag. Someone would be better off spending a few bucks a month for something like Quicken. That would do what most people need to do, and probably provides plenty of help and instructions. Quickbooks vs. Quicken: What's the Difference? - from Investopedia Quickbooks is business while Quicken is more for home use, but the article talks about what it will do. Then there is always their website. I've used both and thought they were excellent.