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Cherokee Lizzie is now pointing at Fed chairman Powell for the SVB crisis. I do think she has a point in terms of the Fed's mandate following the 2008 economic crisis. And I think I read there were supervisory warnings about duration risk of SVC's MSE/Treasury holdings.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 20, 2023
Of all of Trump's bad decisions, the hush money scandal of Stormy Daniels has to be near the top. The dude reportedly bragged about adulterous affairs with wealthy married women in his infamous "The Art of the Deal". Maybe he thought having sex with a porn actress hurt his image.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 20, 2023
My latest essay reflects on the SVB failure.https://t.co/8CRU2i5TfN
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 20, 2023
No, Franklin Graham, "Corinthians 2" Donald Trump is no "victim". He is reaping the seeds that he has sown. A true Christian, unlike you, would call out this self-admitted adulterer of married wealthy women as did John the Baptist would. pic.twitter.com/bOAk8tkrXm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 21, 2023
You didn't read the article I cited in HBR. HBR is well-known by us MBAs. But there are lots of articles not referencing your conspiracy. Stop quoting ESG scammers. https://t.co/toCnJdc7dd
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 21, 2023
I don't believe that woke investments perform well financially or even improve on compliance criteria. I think it's sad that Biden has wasted his first veto defending ESG scams in retirement plans. But note that workers like me will have better options. https://t.co/jHeI673QZl https://t.co/aHqymRKiRF
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 21, 2023
Is it just me or does WWE performer Liv Morgan have a Trish Stratus-like giggle in her intro?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 21, 2023
Another complaint to @elonmusk : I've noticed that Twitter often seems to spin its wheels when my PC is on VPN.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 21, 2023
I mean, the dude owned a freaking beauty contest. I don't quite understand evangelical support for his candidacy, but they deeply disliked pro-abort Clinton.https://t.co/ICxL8QJynG
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 21, 2023
BidInflation has now resulted in a 50% price increase to NYC's iconic $1 slice of pizza. according to FNC.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 21, 2023
Leftist memes are embarrassingly hypocritical. Take Gerry Studds, a gay Dem Massachusetts Congressman first elected in 1972. He had an affair with a 17-year-old male Congressional page his first year. (It was exposed a decade later.) He continually served until 1997. https://t.co/1o4Ifz23zl
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 21, 2023
It's interesting to see the leftist take on the SVB collapse. Usually, their pitch is the bankers gamble on risky loans at the expense of the government. Except in this case, SVB had to take losses selling US Treasuries, supposedly the gold star of safe investments.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 21, 2023
If anything, I would have liked to have earlier releases of the (initially experimental) vaccines, for those in high-risk groups. How many lives could have been saved? I know many younger people (e.g., school teachers) who got shots before many senior citizens.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 21, 2023
Anti-vaxxer rubbish by scientific illiterates Maria Bartiromo and Rand Paul. The cold hard truth is the mRNA vaccines saved probably millions from serious hospitalization and/or death and allowed us to return to a more normal reality. We went from 0 to multiple vaccines in 9 mos. https://t.co/vcJnCby4nT
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 21, 2023
We, for example, think NATO is an anachronism. Trump by his "America First" motto seems to suggest the same, but it's more nuanced. He still wanted NATO but under his control and with member states picking up more of the costs. However, he wanted the biggest defense budget ever.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 21, 2023
Trump offers little more than failed mercantilism. Big Government plays a corrupting influence on deciding winners and losers in the economy versus market competition. For example, Trump wanted to hit foreign steel, which made steel-based goods more expensive to consumers.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 21, 2023
Wow. I love entrepreneurs who spend endless time and expense to bring goods & services for consumers. Here is a Maryland businessman who lost his restaurant during the pandemic. He won the lotto but wants to use the money to reopen his business. God blesshttps://t.co/zNPTxiruRp
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 21, 2023
Federal civil servants, like the recently retired Fauci, are NOT at will employees; they aren't appointed by, and serve, at the discretion of POTUS. They can be fired, only for due cause, by their supervisor.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 22, 2023
Trump TRIED to resurrect the spoils system.https://t.co/3s0Fnbc3Pb https://t.co/O6VHEvIzwg
I mean, Trump fired AG Sessions, who was Trump's breakthrough supporter in Congress and properly recused himself from Russiagate. He hired and fired Bolton, Mattis, and numerous others. You want him to pack the government with Trumpkins?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 22, 2023
Can you imagine the incarnation of political corruption, Trump, trying to make everyone in the government his bitch, like when he fired Comey for not kissing his ring? Oh, he'll invent some pretext, like the "Deep State", to rationalize his power grab to gullible Trumpkins.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 22, 2023
Well, Biden may be "Born to Run", but Trump's been to "Candy's Room".
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 22, 2023
Bruce Springsteen https://t.co/eEHOAe7LyR
Trump is more educated than I thought: he used all the vowels in Ron "DeSanctimonious". (Never mind there's no C in DeSantis.) He got triple word score in Scrabble. But DeSantis trumped Trump in winning reelection in a landslide.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 22, 2023
Here's the recent reference to racoon dogs and/or other possible intermediary hosts for COVID-19 in Wuhan: "In some cases, the amount of animal genetic material was greater than the amount of human genetic material."https://t.co/5NGHMTBVUv
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 22, 2023
You can't make this crap up:https://t.co/qxZsdoDJOT
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 22, 2023
Yes, there are evil men everywhere, and the Church bureaucracy has notoriously mishandled bad apples.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 23, 2023
But did you know 86% of child abuse perpetrators are relatives, the overwhelming majority being parents?https://t.co/4lpyiTuIk1https://t.co/I0OiSrA7Lm
Well, not even Dolly Parton can compete against the Canadian transexual schoolteacher with prosthetic Z-cup breasts.https://t.co/vBq00CiTa5 https://t.co/FYky0AJQFM
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 23, 2023
Fauci lived a life in service of untold millions confronting horrific diseases. He became the scapegoat of the nation, not the jackass who didn't quarantine returning citizens from China, who didn't roll out testing as quickly as many countries, who argued against testing...
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 23, 2023
But let me be clear here; unlike almost every libertarian I know, I don't have Fauci Derangement Syndrome. And I don't do Politics of Envy. While I had at one point less than $100 as a doctoral student, my younger brother, a chemical engineer, had a house and vacationed.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 23, 2023
And to think--I once supported this guy (Sen. Paul) for POTUS.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 23, 2023
I'm somewhat surprised to hear some government scientists get some share of government patent royalties, but it's not a mandate to use a government patent.
Moderna https://t.co/JSdSp5SpKS https://t.co/eBIeIpiuKW
I'm a Vikings fan. Believe me, I know there are KC fans. (Super Bowl IV).
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 23, 2023
You have the usual leftist Sinema Derangement Syndrome and their morally corrupt Politics of Envy. Beyond the greed of Big Government statists, increasing the costs of investment has the economically perverse effect of discouraging investment & growth.https://t.co/yIEnpowhEN https://t.co/QVR9DGDGET
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 23, 2023
This is actually a very interesting thread because I think the FDA & CDC are still awaiting data on waning effects on bivalent booster protection. I and others are nearing the 6th month point we saw for getting a monovalent booster
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 23, 2023
"Scientific American"https://t.co/pCXG8zPVhi https://t.co/JD8I4LMXLI
I'm amused by this media and political obsession with TikTok. I seriously doubt the Chinese want to see my dance moves any more than American women.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 23, 2023
Right-wingers are hyping a dip in recent Biden approval polls. But he's above 43 in the RCP composite, maybe a point down. Not great, but he's still beating Trump by over a point.https://t.co/UQ3nG18Faa
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 23, 2023
Gonzaga's win over UCLA was one of the streakiest games I've ever seen. UCLA dominated the first half, went ice-cold in the second, only to make an unlikely comeback in the closing minutes, only for Gonzaga to regain the lead with an improbably long 3-pointer.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 24, 2023
I try to stay out of academia squabbles since my career ended in a 90's recession. But when Stanford Law School Dean of DEI Tirien Steinbach violated academic freedom by interrupting Fifth Circuit judge Stuart Kyle Duncan's address: Fire her!https://t.co/nHf3gjqWoM
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 24, 2023
I see the parliamentary vote bypass not as an anti-democratic move but as a gimmick to enable lawmakers cover from making a tough, unpopular vote. This way they have a facade of being against something unpopular but necessary. That's why Macron survived the no confidence vote.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 24, 2023
Apparently, French leftists learned some things from the "peaceful" post-Floyd protests.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 24, 2023
But not to fear; there is no Frenchman wearing horns in the Palais Bourbon. #sarcasm
This is Soft Rock America. Madonna, an aging pop star, finds that it's a drag growing old. Cue the Stones: https://t.co/FaL4QggWbS
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 24, 2023
You don't need to be Sec+ certified to understand the benefits of multi-factor authentication: it lessens the risk of others hacking into your Twitter account through predictable or cracked passwords.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 24, 2023
(I am, by the way.)
"Twitter Blue" https://t.co/ApRn3vAh8f
Just a reminder: whereas an Iranian drone killing or wounding Americans in Syria is tragic, we have no legitimate security interest in entangling ourselves in regional disputes of the Middle East/Gulf Region.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 24, 2023
The best American physicians haven't figured out how to turn off Biden's gaffe switch.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 25, 2023
"Canadian Parliament"
The Cougars outside shooting sucked in the second half, too many one-and-done trips on offense. And too many turnovers and unforced ones, period. Uncovered outside shots. They never really bounced back from a streak of 3-pointers.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 25, 2023
But give Miami's defense credit.
The Cougars outside shooting sucked in the second half, too many one-and-done trips on offense. And too many turnovers and unforced ones, period. Uncovered outside shots. They never really bounced back from a streak of 3-pointers.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 25, 2023
But give Miami's defense credit.
Well, at least one of my alma maters, UT, advanced to the Elite 8 in March Madness. Texas led Xavier from the start and never looked back. Both of my grad school alma maters games were on CBS tonight, a rare time I got to see either given my cable package all season.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 25, 2023
"[I]n the second half of 2022, 97.3% of people who died from Covid in this country were aged 50 and older."https://t.co/5hvDGE1oei
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 25, 2023
"Go Trump" to hell!
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 26, 2023
Hiring lawyers doesn't help the economy any more than broken windows.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 26, 2023
"Mike Lindell" https://t.co/3Dw1mgPLlQ
