Delinquency rates are rising while credit volume grows and a growing share of middle class families is struggling to make ends meet. These boom and bust cycles are getting out of hand!
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11 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 9 Oct 2023
I kept looking at the 10 year, wondering why the yield wasn't budging. I imagined all kinds of conspiracies until I remembered it was Columbus Day!
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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 9 Oct 2023
Congratulations, Sir!
Best wishes
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33 sats \ 2 replies \ @carlosfandango 9 Oct 2023
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 9 Oct 2023
Yes. It was a big deal in my family growing up. We weren't thinking about violent colonialism, though we should have been. Many people I knew were either descended from Irish or Italian immigrants. St Patrick's Day for the Irish, Columbus Day for the Italians.
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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 9 Oct 2023
I’m not sure the day should be banned as in some cities. Things need to be remembered or their significance is forgotten and oft times repeated.
One of my favourite quotes from The Fugitive talking about Chigaco on St Patrick’s Day;
“If they can dye this river green today, then why can't they dye it blue the other 364 days of the year?"
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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 9 Oct 2023
The Tsatsiki oracle came to the same conclusion. It told me this morning that the new conflict won't have a long term impact and that the process of overrolling will resume soon...
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