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Reply to: Elmer, congrats on the econ degree, but how unfortunate you aren't open-minded to learn how real life VERY SUCCESSFUL businessmen perform! Your TDS is causing you to not think clearly. True, I don’t have an econ degree, but I follow the data and results closely...and enough to know that real economics isn’t just textbook theory-it includes incentives, leverage, and strategic shifts beyond just who immediately pays the bill. That’s what T and his team of REAL LIFE business leaders have shown. T's team consists of real-world business thinkers who have actually built things. They think outside the "same old consensus" that actually created these trade imbalances in the first place! I find it very hard to believe that most people on here were truly satisfied with the unfortunate situation previous administrations had forced on the U.S.-with decades of terrible trade deals...massive trade deficits...factories closing...jobs shipped overseas to China. I cannot believe you all were okay with America getting constantly taken advantage of. Who was actually happy watching our factories get shut down and our jobs shipped overseas while we handed money over to our biggest competitor?" I sure wasn’t, and I doubt most working Americans were either. Again, the predicted recession (by who, again?) hasn’t hit, inflation is cooling, and we’re pushing back on China. The doom-and-gloom I've heard on here from so many, hasn’t materialized-T is right again! It would be smart of you to realize that Basic Econ also includes long-term gains from better negotiations and reshoring. T is delivering in that direction. edited

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Reply to: I’ve had a bit of experience with a torn meniscus. Several years ago I was having sudden issues with my left knee swelling. That knee had given memproblems in the past from an old high school sports injury (or likely multiple injuries (basketball, volleyball, track, fell off a horse). Anyway, that knee would ’lock’ causing extreme pain for a minute or so and then relax. The swelling sent me to an orthopedic doc who determined i had a torn meniscus with arthritis and pieces of the meniscus were ’floating’ in my knee. So he performed arthroscopic surgery, i did some rehab for a few weeks and in 3 months all was nearly back to 100% normal and I resumed most exercise. A few more months and it was totally fine and I continued running. If you can undergo an arthroscopic surgery, I would recommend exploring that path more.

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Reply to: The technology for home testing has improved vastly over the last few years. Your Cpap or Bipap can send information to the clinic in some areas as well. All those wires and hook-ups can test for all sorts of things which is what makes it optimal. I cant imagine taking a sleep aid would give as accurate results. For me anything like that that I took would knock me out. I cant even take antihistamines. I can get sleep paralysis.

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Reply to: Pergola that Kevin and I built (with help from a friend who is a mechanical engineer) in our back yard in L.A. Instead of pouring concrete, we used concrete piers that we bought and buried them. I added redwood slats to the roof to fill in the gaps and give us more shade, and so it functioned more as a gazebo than as a pergola. I ordered the kit from an Amish group in Pennsylvania.

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Reply to: I love my storn doors. It seems that they are not so much for use in a storm as they are a nice glass door that still offers some security, to keep the nice people out, but they also function as a window and can be used in screen mode. I think that remodel program was just trying to sell some pretentious nonsense. Sure, if you had some special kind of door with fancy glass and all that, maybe not.. I wouldnt want that. I like a nice window/door. All this fear of being out of style with your home over a nice glass door is nonsense.

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Reply to: A couple of Pelicans aloft for milliseconds before joining their pod on the water.

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Reply to: Sunrise on Sanibel in calmer times.

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Reply to: Outdoors, close to home. My happy place last evening.

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Reply to: The stock markets can go to zero, but how low can they go before moving back up? It's been a while since my trading days but checking a few charts and indicators I'd say 30K on the Dow before a bounce, then much lower and closer to zero than the previous high. Margin Debt has nearly doubled since the 2020 covid sell off and Margin Debt started to unwind around Nov 2021 which coincides with the markets topping, and with the margin debt still unwinding 30K would of been my target as a normal retrace. This pull back had nothing to do with the Ukrainian war and seen well in advance with money flow indicators suggesting money was flowing out of equities since mid 2021 as a leading indicator. But a few black swans have changed the playing field. If I was playing today I would of flipped my positions late 2021 with a target price of 30K on the Dow as a safe bet but not now. Now I don't care because the Dow is going to 23K, then 18K, 12.5K and may a stop at 7K. I wish I was dreaming and knew nothing but 33 trillion dollars in stock market value is about to evaporate.

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