OKBoomerSooner

NBA record game 1 win :bow:

…so, getting out of the market (selling assets) because they don’t know what’s going on or going to happen (uncertainty)? :cheers:

You also clipped the one time I (admittedly lazily) said “people,” while the rest of my post was clearly directed at firms. Hedge funds in particular are large drivers in demand shifts. Joe Main Street might be frozen in fear watching the carnage (and thus not selling bonds), but Bradley managing accounts at the hedge fund probably isn’t.

All I feel comfortable saying for sure is bond yield up = bond demand down = people selling off bonds. Like I said earlier, I doubt it’s directly due to tariffs (that’s just not how bonds work…), but high uncertainty can lead to selloffs, and “uncertainty” is probably the word of the month for the markets lol.

I have some other guesses, but they’re more politicized and I don’t feel like throwing them out there without real evidence.

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I'll continue to tell myself that Ryan Williams caught that 4th & 31 pass from Milroe against Auburn in 2023.

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I don’t know if anybody has ever talked about this, but Ryan Williams was really young when he caught that pass. Should have still been in HS. Crazy!

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No college educated white guy watches the NBA. Watching people miss 3-pointers is old.

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I hope I’m not swallowing a baitless hook here but y’all are ridiculous :lol:

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She couldn't grain her balance and was unable to wheatstand the impact to her head.

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And as she hit the deck, her plans went all arye.

Appears to be a citizen’s arrest to me. :usa:

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older dude was a class A douche, 22 is not a kid and should have ceased with antagonizing bro, again older dude was a douche but you have to recognize that and move on, unless you’d like the arse whoopin’

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I will never understand why it’s so fricking hard for so many people on this board to just condemn bad behavior.

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I see no point in moving 130 Nike factories from Vietnam to USA.

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Sounds like you want real Americans stuck at their dead-end jobs instead of letting them find meaning in real work at the sweatshops. :usa:

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Sounds like we might want the new car plants and manufacturing to be done here?

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No.

That’s the entire point.

It’s much more expensive to do it here vs over there.

It’s like y’all think all the CEOs of manufacturing companies woke up one morning in 1970 and said “Hey, just for shits and giggles, let’s spend decades moving large chunks of our operations to some third world shitholes.”

They did it because it’s more efficient that way. The bottom line price of the goods goes down. Obviously it’s not strictly better for everyone, the people who lost their manufacturing jobs to outsourcing and couldn’t adapt to the new economy would rather have their old job and pay more for goods. But the rest of America benefited, including some of the workers who initially lost their jobs but were able to find new work.

Plus, “bringing them back” isn’t as simple as creating the jobs here (which is a huge endeavor itself that I’m glossing over). You need workers for them. We have worker shortages as it is, and we’re also sharply tightening immigration, so there won’t be any quick fixes to labor shortages. We would be pulling people from other jobs to have them build stuff at a huge premium compared to the status quo.

I don’t like Trump, but I’m careful to acknowledge where there are legitimate tradeoffs and differing value judgments and not just bash because I personally dislike one of multiple plausible solutions to an issue.

This is not one of those times. It’s complete economic illiteracy.

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I am not sure what the boat captain was trying to accomplish.

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He was just being cruel to someone weaker than him because he’s a demonic fricking monster. It’s not that deep. People like him should be taken out of our misery.