GG

On the flip side, you also saw Benjamin drop a TD pass

As predictable as the sun rising.

The biggest problem with today's game is that it was obvious that despite OBD saying that the game has slowed down for Allen, it wasn't the case at all. He didn't get any help at all, but he wasn't inspiring any confidence either. To me today he looked awfully like Losman in the hyped up 2007 Sunday night game vs Pats. Brady in his prime blows today's game open in the 2nd quarter.

But we shouldn't overlook the obvious mistakes that he made today. The same ones that he made earlier in the season. He had a tough outing, and it wasn't all on his supporting cast.

Just stop. Bills' starting WRs are practice squad pick ups from mediocre teams.

None of the TEs should be back next year

Diapers come off next year. If they're not contending for the division crown, McDermott is toast. Next year was always the goal.

If BB is smart, he'll sit Brady next week. Jets D line will kill him

Lack of NFL caliber on offense was on clear display today

Saying that ISIS is defeated is akin to someone else calling them the JV team. Nature abhors a vacuum, and the hasty exit from Syria could have the same repercussions to the untimely withdrawal from Iraq. History has proven that America ends up paying much more in lives and money when isolationist policies take precedence. It's too simplistic to think that the US foreign engagements are done solely to prop up the military industrial complex. Fact is whenever the US withdraws from world affairs, hundreds of thousands of innocents die. Nature abhors a vacuum, and more often than not, the global vacuum is filled by bad actors.

And you're feeling comfortable because Trump has a life long history of properly managing complex organizations?

You're almost framing it as good news. But I can't help but draw a parallel between the good things that have happened during the Trump era and Kelly closing ranks and taking control of the inner workings of the White House. With the notable senior level officials departing amid increasing noise that Trump wants to be Trump and stopped talking to his advisors, amplified by threats to fire Powell because he's raising rates should scare the daylights out of adults.

Guess who's the person who's provided the most ammo to critics that say that Trump is incapable of governing?

It's as if Trump's inner circle is full of neocons who are upset over last week's announcements. First Mattis, now Brett McGurk.

What if the Colonel devised a formula that made everyone turn back and reorder after pulling out from the drive-thru? Apparently the game mirrors the effects of heroin. Would you have the same reaction if a bunch of guys in a lab designed anything but a video game to produce the same response? The algorithm is specifically tweaked to release dopamine that triggers addictive behavior. The end result is far more harmful than any video game in the past. People get up in arms over second and third hand smoke that has very little scientific justification. Why ignore a new medium that acts identically to things that are universally agreed are evil?

There's still zero evidence that Trump acts based on a carefully thought out plans rather than the color of his cereal in the morning.

The Fed controls the statutory short term FF rate. It doesn't control the effective short term rates that the real world pays. That's why you have inverted yield curves. The majority of majority of short-term and variable rate loans in the US are most certainly NOT marked up over Prime. You're thinking of unsecured consumer debt. The vast majority of all debt in the US is based off Libor, plus a spread.

It's not all video games, but Fortnite specifically. They've developed the ultimate mousetrap where the more players log on, the more they learn about stimulating and addictive behavior and keep building it into the game. I don't know if there have been full scale studies done on it yet, but there's ample anecdotal evidence of the game's addictive qualities and it's not an accident.

It's not just the maturity but relative risk of the borrower. The bond spreads relative to the Treasuries are much more important indicators than FF rates.

Paying $500k for a 400 SF studio creates a very effective gated and guarded community too.

If it's ok for regulators to investigate and control drugs which have highly addictive properties that negatively affect the brain, should the same standard apply to developers of video games which intentionally program in features that stimulate and activate the same addictive tendencies? I know where the parents of teens and preteens stand.

I'll let sherpa describe what he was referring to, but my interpretation is that while the Fed sets the FF, and that essentially controls the stated Prime rates, there is a loose correlation between them and the market rates, because you are not factoring the risk spreads. You only talk about the regular 2.75 -3.00 spreads between FF and Prime. The bond and loan markets work on risk spreads, which fluctuate much more than the central bank rates.

Set to be phased out by 2021, maybe. Don't understand why you are fixated on the FF definition. Sherpa's point was that the actual rates paid by everyone is dependent on the market. The Fed may control FF rates, but they don't control the market spreads, which are far more important.

I found this one more disturbing. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46645348

Notice how 10 years after the fact Libor is still alive and well? If there was a better solution, it would have been implemented. The main wrongs about Libor was the unverified self disclosure of the rates, which encouraged lying during the crisis. Fix that disclosure problem and you eliminate Libor "problems" As an aside, the gaming of the Libor rates actually lessened the immediate impact of the crisis.