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Mr. Baldwin has used real guns as props in films for decades. It stretches belief that he never took a basic gun safety course. The first rule of every such course is to never assume the deadly weapon you are picking up is safe. Every time you pick up a deadly weapon you verify for yourself that it is safe. The fix was in.

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is convicted, the person who pulled the trigger goes free.

I am outraged! Always treat a weapon as loaded. Never point it at someone unless you are sure it is unloaded. He was the last person to handle the gun. It was his obligation to do so safely. He was responsible for the set, he chose to use a real gun instead of a prop, he chose to not have a competent armorer on the set, and he pointed a real gun at another human. This case should have gone to the jury. Disgraceful.

Thank God.

As prices have increased rapidly since the spring of 2021, the cheerleaders have continuously sung the same chorus. "Inflation is getting under control! Just look at the stock market if you don't believe me!". Meanwhile the lower waged workers and middle class has been crushed by ever increasing prices. May you be out on margin when the stock market tanks so you will get a taste of what average consumers have suffered over the past few years.

Yeah, value meals for 30 days only. Retailers are closing left and right because of the terrible inflation that has left the majority of the country strapped with no disposable income left after paying necessities, if they can even pay for the necessities. Things are just wonderful! 🤣

And this number excludes food and energy - again lol. Hey if you exclude the iceberg the Titanic’s first trip went pretty well too! Auto and home insurance rates are skyrocketing by high double digits all over the country. That's excluded too.

"Median" and "average" are 2 different things. And P/E ratios are too high for the magnificent 7. Have you forgotten about the high tech bust 25 years ago? And most people don't have money in the market anyway. They are suffering mightily! The lower and middle class like me.

My wallet doesn’t agree. Everything I pay for is still quite inflated. I should be ecstatic that my savings, retirement account, and purchasing power are now permanently 70% of what they used to be in 2020??

If you rely on a 10% currency devaluation on deciding where to live, your situation sounds very difficult.

@APPLE1 is a lawyer hence the compromising and disingenuous talk 😄

Happy Birthday to one of my favorite actresses, a true legend with a happy marriage that lasted 65 years, a career that lasted 80 years, and now she is a centenarian! She is a very remarkable human being!

Indeed. Even a beer festival in Atlantic City had to cancel because of poor ticket sales.

The videos and photos show thousands of people being wild and violent and amazingly enough, to some people it didn't happen. It's made up. Talk about denial! It's fascinating when people refuse to recognize or acknowledge objective facts or experiences.

I disagree. They had a nice article about Lady Maga a couple of months ago.

They are basically giving out good rates up until 15-18 months, then they are dropping after that. It seems the banks are anticipating rate cuts and don't want to go out too long. I'm getting 4.75% at my smaller regional bank for 18 months. What can we do?

That video from the NY Post says otherwise. I'd call that running amok.

This was no small thing. Thousands of low lifes rampaging. I know a cop at the 6th precinct, and he said there were dozens of muggings. Some of you might find this amusing until it happens to you.

Yeah sure, UNLESS someone in the community gets their ass kicked by a straight person and then there are demonstrations and outrage. Like the banker who punched the lesbian in the face in the Village after she attacked him FIRST a couple of weeks ago and now the banker gets arrested for assault. Total BS. Absolute hypocrites!!

NYC's Pride march was an absolute mess! Violence and chaos. And this article doesn't cover the attacks by the pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Plus, many robberies of gay people by thugs! A sign of our times. Multiple brawls break out in chaotic scene inside Washington Square... NYPOST.COM Multiple brawls and wild chaos engulfed Washington Square Park in the aftermath of New York City’s Pride Parade Sunday as police battled to control the unruly...

I only watch the View when I'm at the dentist or doctor's office and have the misfortune of seeing it on the TV set in the waiting room. To me it sounds like a bunch of chickens all clucking in a hen house. That's a stereotypical description but that's literally what they sound like. They constantly interrupt and talk over each other. They perpetuate the stereotype of catty, gossipy, shallow women. Joy Behar has dumb written all over her face. Vile and biased trash.

Your "friend" is a judgmental a-hole.

The whole economy would have done far better by letting SVB fail, and letting the uninsured depositors, bond holders, hedge funds, VC firms etc. lose their shirts. That would have taught everybody a long-lasting lesson in how to manage risk wisely by managing your own affairs carefully.

Ahhhhhhhhh....the immediate cause was their duration mismatch in assets and liabilities. Since then, we have learned that many of the loans were also bad HENCE THE LOSS OF $70 BILLION TO THE TAXPAYERS. Talk about rants. You are all over the place trying to shift blame for this.

I know exactly the "point" you're trying to make. This happened in 2022-2023. Silicon Valley Bank used to lend out money in short durations. However, in 2021, they shifted to long-term securities such as treasuries for more yield, and they did not protect their liabilities with short-term investments for quick liquidations. They were insolvent for months because they could not liquidate their assets without a large loss. Has nothing to do with Dodd Frank as the Wharton professor stated in the New Yorker article you cited, but everything to do with regulators not doing their jobs in 2021-2022.