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if killed during the commission of a federal crime of violence.

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What would be the federal crime?

I did take out a bridge loan to buy a house. I wouldn't recommend it, unless you have enough savings to pay both notes for a few months.

It was a deal on a house that I couldn't pass up, it had been under contract. For whatever reason it didn't work out and the sellers were living out of state, they were selling it at a steep discount.

It sucked for the first month but once we sold the house, we were able to use the equity to pay down the principal and converted to a lower rate with a 15 year note.

Wendy's has a massive problem

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Buried inside Wendy's brutal second quarter earnings call last week was a mention that 289 locations closed in the US during the first half of the year.

There are about 5,700 Wendy's in the US.

It doesn't sound like US closures will be abating.

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Wright has his work cut out for him in saving Wendy's.

Wendy's same-restaurant sales in the US crashed 7% in the second quarter versus a 2.3% drop a year earlier. Adjusted operating profits tanked 13.2% year over year.

Bernstein analyst Danilo Gargiulo said, "We think investors are likely to stay on the sidelines until the next update provides a quantified plan, even as the leadership and capital allocation overhangs we have flagged over the past year are now more constructively addressed.

We view the dividend cut as a more deliberate decision to free up capital for investments rather than a distress signal. However, net leverage at 5.0x, the top of the company's target range, still constrains the pace at which management can deploy capital toward the turnaround, and with FY26 guidance withdrawn, investors have no financial framework to hold the plan accountable to until the next quarterly update. We reduce our estimates to account for the flow-through in the model from 2Q."

Wendy's stock has fallen 65% in the past five years. Wendy's has posted six straight quarters of same-store sales declines,

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Tomorrow will be the last time that Sirius rises with the Sun.

The dog days of summer have come to the end.

The fact that Americans are having less children is having a real impact.

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The state’s public schools lost 60,000 students over the past decade as families moved away, had fewer children or opted for charter schools and homeschooling.


The same trend is playing out nationally, with school closures surging 35% over the past four years, according to federal data.

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It wasn't just Tua they released, they also cut Tyreek Hill and Bradley Chubb. Then they took additional cap hits by trading Waddle and Fitzpatrick.

I don't think they give a cap about this year, they replaced Micah Fitzpatrick by signing Major Burns.

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The 2 schools that add the most value are UNC and Virginia

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This is correct

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Black women started 2025 with an unemployment rate of 5.4 percent. They ended it at 7.3 percent — the highest rate in four years. Disproportionate job losses occurred among Black women working in government and federal positions following workforce reductions

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She was correct.

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If my math is accurate, all that is needed is a 20% federal spending cut across the board to fund ssi at @ 100%. Annual social security payout is approximately $1.5 trillion. If federal spending is $7 trillion, 20% = $1.4 trillion. I call it the bestbanker plan.

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two problems with that plan-

1) You just cut 20% of the funding for Social Security, Medicare, & Medicaid. Which combined makes up 50% of federal spending.

2) Federal Spending would still be at $7 trillion but revenue just over $5 trillion. The national debt would surpass $50 trillion by 2031.

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U.S. District Judge Charlotte Sweeney

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the question is did she have the authority to make that ruling

I tried it for a monthly budget, broke down 3 months of spending vs our income from the period. With a goal of increasing savings by 20-25%.

It suggested that I get a divorce and gave me some lawyer recommendations.