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[Valkyrie]

[h=1]https://clashdaily.com/2024/05/bidenomics-3-new-data-points-showing-the-economy-is-a-dumpster-fire/

BIDENOMICS: 3 New Data Points Showing The Economy Is A Dumpster Fire[/h]""The two largest banks in the US are declaring a loss on $4.5 billion in debts that customers are unable to pay.Spending like drunken Marxists comes with consequences. Consequences that have toppeled empires in years gone by. Even Rome learned the hard way what happens if you devalue your currency. Your money becomes worthless, and inflation skyrockets. How do you devalue currency in a modern era of Fiat currency? You print more money and take on more federal debt. Biden had done both at a dizzying pace.
The US government’s balance sheet continues to expand at a scorching pace, with more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in debt added in two months.
New data from the Treasury Department’s Debt to the Penny system shows the country’s national debt rose from $34.297 trillion on February 21st to $34.571 trillion on April 24th.
That’s an increase of $273.859 billion in about 60 days.

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[Valkyrie]

WOW! God have mercy on us.

Blackrock's Larry Fink Explains the Real Goal of Depopulation is to Make it Easier to Substitute Humans With AI

Larry Fink Explains the Real Goal of Depopulation is to Make it Easier to Substitute Humans With AI

 

[Whipsaw]

I don't have any business with BR, thankfully. Anyone who does should go elsewhere.

 

[Valkyrie]

I don't have any business with BR, thankfully. Anyone who does should go elsewhere.

doesn't Blackrock still control the TSP Funds? or did that change?

 

[WorkFE]

I don't believe they do entirely anymore. I remember a consulting firm recommending they reduce BlackRock's overall management of the TSP due to risk involved. I believe Blackrock is still the Primary and State Street Global Advisors is a second fund manager.
Maybe someone else has the percentage break downs.

 

[mmk119]

according to this article... Breaking Down the TSP Investment Funds

"All five funds are managed by Blackrock Capital Advisers and State Street Global Advisors and are available only to TSP participants."

• Thrift Savings Plan. "Fund Information, March 2024." Pages 5-12.

nothing in the paperwork I saw broke down how they share the management.

 

[WorkFE]

A few year old article.

BlackRock again will serve as the primary manager for the C, S, F and I funds. It will manage 80% of the S,F and I funds, and 90% of the C fund, McCaffrey said.

The FRTIB selected State Street Global Advisors as its second fund manager last month. It will manage the remaining 20% of the S, F and I funds, and 10% of the C fund, shares that range from $9.9 billion to nearly $22 billion.

TSP hires new vendor to take the plan into the 21st century

 

[mmk119]

thank you WorkFE. Interesting!

 

[WorkFE]

No problem

 

[Valkyrie]

what the he## happened?? haven't been on here for a few weeks and come back today, and I see a terrible nightmare of a forum.
big problem there isn't a pull down for all of the threads I was subscribed to. seen this on many forums over the yrs. they have a great website and decide to upgrade to a terrible system put together by web designers that have almost zero common sense. just terrible!

 

[Epic]

what the he## happened?? haven't been on here for a few weeks and come back today, and I see a terrible nightmare of a forum.
big problem there isn't a pull down for all of the threads I was subscribed to. seen this on many forums over the yrs. they have a great website and decide to upgrade to a terrible system put together by web designers that have almost zero common sense. just terrible!

It takes some getting used to, but don't give up.
I think it "Had" to be done cause the old forum wasn't supported any longer and had some bugs.....or something like that. Tom put it off as long as he could. At least I think that's the reasoning. He can explain it better. Cheers.

 

[Valkyrie]

It takes some getting used to, but don't give up.
I think it "Had" to be done cause the old forum wasn't supported any longer and had some bugs.....or something like that. Tom put it off as long as he could. At least I think that's the reasoning. He can explain it better. Cheers.

yea I know. the old forum systems don't support the new appendage most humans have grown onto their hand today.
just that most of these web designers from other countries and here, are missing a lot of common sense.

 

[Valkyrie]

Ok, I found that "watched threads" is the same as subscribed threads, and all of my saved threads are there.

 

[Valkyrie]

be healthy for a happy retirement.

"In white hair, the amount of tryptophan is higher than in hair of any other color. Although serotonin and tryptophan are very important during rapid growth, their presence in senile tissues is probably closely associated with the processes of decline. The hair loss that occurs in hypothyroidism, postpartum syndrome, and with the use of drugs such as St. John's wort (which can also cause the “serotonin syndrome”) could be another effect of excess serotonin."

"Serotonin's contribution to high blood pressure is well established. It activates the adrenal cortex both directly and through activation of the pituitary. It stimulates the production of both cortisol and aldosterone. It also activates aldosterone secretion by way of the renin-angiotensin system. Angiotensin is an important promoter of inflammation, and contributes to the degeneration of blood vessels with aging and stress. It can also promote estrogen production.


"In the traditional diet, rather than just eating muscle meats, all the animal parts were used. Since collagen makes up about 50% of the protein in an animal, and is free of tryptophan, this means that people were getting about half as much tryptophan in proportion to other amino acids when they used foods such as “head cheese,” ox-tails, and chicken feet."

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Serotonin excess produces a broad range of harmful effects: Cancer, inflammation, fibrosis, neurological damage, shock, bronchoconstriction, and hypertension, for example. Increased serotonin impairs learning, serotonin antagonists improve it.


The simplest, nonessential, amino acid, glycine, has been found to protect against carcinogenesis, inflammation, fibrosis, neurological damage, shock, asthma, and hypertension. Increased glycine improves learning (Handlemann, et al., 1989; File, et al., 1999), glycine antagonists usually impair it. Its antitoxic and cytoprotective actions are remarkable. Collagen, besides being free of tryptophan, contains a large amount of glycine--32% of its amino acid units, 22% of its weight.


The varied antiinflammatory and protective effects of glycine can be thought of as an antiserotonin action. For example, serotonin increases the formation of TNF (tumor necrosis factor, also called cachectin), glycine inhibits it. In some situations, glycine is known to suppress the formation of serotonin. Antagonists of serotonin can potentiate glycine's effects (Chesnoy-Marchais, et al., 2000). People who ate traditional diets, besides getting a lower concentration of tryptophan, were getting a large amount of glycine in their gelatin-rich diet.


Gelatin, besides being a good source of glycine, also contains a large amount of proline, which has some antiexcitatory properties similar to glycine.


If a half-pound of steak is eaten, it would probably be reasonable to have about 20 grams of gelatin at approximately the same time. Even a higher ratio of gelatin to muscle meat might be preferable.


Carbon dioxide, high altitude, thyroid, progesterone, caffeine, aspirin, and decreased tryptophan consumption protect against excessive serotonin release. When sodium intake is restricted, there is a sharp increase in serotonin secretion. This accounts for some of the antiinflammatory and diuretic effects of increased sodium consumption--increasing sodium lowers both serotonin and adrenalin."

Tryptophan, serotonin, and aging

Beginning with the industrial production of glutamic acid (sold as MSG, monosodium glutamate), the public has been systematically misinformed about the effects of amino acids in the diet.

raypeat.com

 

[Valkyrie]

Record 'fragility' among biggest US firms sends urgent crash warning

Economists are warning about record levels of 'fragility' among the biggest US stocks, signaling a warning for the market as a whole.

www.dailymail.co.uk

""Economists are warning about record levels of 'fragility' among the biggest US stocks, signaling a warning for the market as a whole.

Despite the stock market hovering near all-time highs, major stocks are increasingly vulnerable to big fluctuations.

This is much like what happened before the dot-com bubble burst in the late 1990s.

According to Bank of America strategists, 'stock fragility' is on track to reach its highest level in more than three decades among the largest 50 stocks in the S&P 500 index.

That includes tech stocks such as Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Nvidia, bank stocks such as JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, and retail stocks like Costco and Walmart.

Stock fragility is a measure of how much a share price moves a day relative to its usual volatility, Bloomberg reported.

The increased jitters among particular stocks is a warning for the broader market - especially when coupled with uncertainty around what could happen with tariffs and interest rates.
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