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  1. Former President Donald Trump has not been able to get a bond to secure the $464 million dollar fraud judgement against him and his co-defendants, his lawyers said in a court filing Monday. Trump and his company need to post a bond for the full amount by next week in order to stop New York Attorney General Letitia James from being able to collect while he appeals. They've asked an appeals court to step in in the meantime and said Monday that they have not had any success getting a bond. "Defendants’ ongoing diligent efforts have proven that a bond in the judgment’s full amount is 'a practical impossibility,'" the filing said. "These diligent efforts have included approaching about 30 surety companies through 4 separate brokers."
  2. You can only beat what's in front of you.
  3. The Kennedy clan blew off RFK Jr to go see Joltin Joe on St Pat's Day with Varadkar. “One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me,” Biden said on Saturday in front of more than 650 guests who included the Taoiseach of Ireland Leo Varadkar, Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, and TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, whose US business could be banned by Biden.
  4. Should do the thing with the head of lettuce again - that was good.
  5. Regular season NBA is more meaningless than NHL.
  6. Britain still outgunned Germany The irony here. Conclusions: Nobody is saying the Russia is crumbling under sanctions. Everyone understands Ukraine is struggling massively. Crack on.
  7. It's been a huge change in just a very few years socially. There are cameras everywhere now and everyone has a cell. Folks know full well if they say something racist, deplorable etc it will probably be be on tape if you are in a public space.
  8. I know I shouldn't even begin this but -- are you looking at this projected GDP growth for the UK vs Germany and using it as a comparative barometer for the current economic strength/state of each country?
  9. Way too early for Trump to be losing poll numbers - Joltin Joe is too strong a finisher. President Joe Biden has gained a narrow lead over Donald Trump in two most recent polls, eight months before November's presidential election, despite his approval rating sinking to an all-time low after his State of the Union (SOTU) address. Biden delivered his SOTU speech last week and garnered positive reviews from a series of experts, and a good reaction from the American public, In general, polling has been quite split and the Democrat has led Trump in other national polls. Speaking to Newsweek earlier this week about other polls that showed Biden in the lead, Heath Brown, an associate professor of public policy at City University of New York, said: "I wouldn't invest too much in any given poll or even a handful of polls. Both campaigns know this race is just about tied right now, will likely remain that way for a while, and are executing their strategies accordingly."
  10. Alas - a forecast is not reality but you and Sunak are in agreement at least - This is your year! Rishi Sunak has urged Tory MPs to stick with him and see his economic plan through amid speculation about a challenge to his leadership. On Sunday, the Prime Minister told backbenchers that “the economy is turning a corner” and urged them to hold their nerve despite the Conservative Party’s dire poll ratings. The Prime Minister told his party: “There is now a real sense that the economy is turning a corner, with all the economic indicators pointing in the right direction. “This year, 2024, will be the year Britain bounces back,” he said, adding that inflation was on target to return to two per cent within the next few months. Mr Sunak said the economy had returned to growth in January and Britain was now forecast to outperform Japan, Germany, France and Italy over the next five years.
  11. Yea, reality bites. Brexit Britain has ‘significantly underperformed’ other advanced economies, Goldman Sachs says Post-Brexit Britain has “significantly underperformed” other advanced economies since the 2016 EU referendum, according to new analysis from Goldman Sachs, which aims to quantify the economic cost of the Leave vote. Goldman Sachs attributed the economic shortfall to three key factors: reduced trade; weaker business investment; and labor shortages as a result of lower immigration from the EU. The U.K. voted 52% to 48% to leave the EU on June 23, 2016, but officially exited the union on Jan. 31, 2020. Over that period until today, U.K. goods trade has underperformed other advanced economies by around 15% since the Leave vote, according to the bank’s estimates, while business investment has fallen “notably short” of pre-referendum levels. Meantime, immigration from the EU has fallen — a key pledge of the Vote Leave campaign — only to be replaced by a less economically active cohort of non-EU migrants, primarily students, the research said. “Taken together, the evidence points to a significant long-run output cost of Brexit,” the report’s authors said.
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