Well done Trump voters. Hats off

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Oy.

Adam, Ross and I breakdown Iowa's 27-24 loss to Missouri in the Music City Bowl.

The #Hawkeyes secondary issues reared their ugly head again, Brendan Sullivan was simply not good enough in the second half, play calling was horrendous in the second half, Kamari Moulton and Jaziun Patterson shine, Iowa needs to dip into the portal at quarterback, officiating whiffs, plus more.

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Federal Reserve officials made their third and final rate cut of 2024 at their meeting on Wednesday. They also forecast two fewer rate cuts in 2025 than they had previously expected, as inflation lingers and the economy remains robust.

The Fed has come a long way from just a few years ago: In 2022, inflation was more than twice its current rate and many economists thought that the central bank’s decisions might cause economic pain — and even a recession — as it rapidly lifted interest rates to slow demand and wrestle price increases back under control.

That didn’t happen. The job market slowed without falling apart, and inflation cooled so substantially that the Fed was able to begin cutting interest rates in September. Policymakers are now trying to bring inflation the rest of the way down without tanking the economy in the process.
Yet the Fed is entering a new phase in its journey toward an economic soft landing. Officials thought that it was clear that rates needed to come down notably from their 5.3 percent peak, and they have steadily lowered them to about 4.4 percent by making three back-to-back reductions. But policymakers do not want to cut rates so much that they reignite the economy — and they are now approaching the point where it is uncertain how much further rates should fall.
Fed officials predicted that they will cut rates to 3.9 percent in 2025 in fresh economic estimates released Wednesday. They then saw rates coming down to 3.4 percent in 2026, and over the longer term, they thought they would level off at 3 percent — slightly higher than what they had previously expected.
“The economic outlook is uncertain,” officials reiterated in their statement.
Fed policymakers are balancing two risks. They do not want to keep rates so high for so long that they squeeze the economy and inflict serious damage. But they also want to make sure to fully stamp out rapid inflation, so they do not want to lower rates too much and too rapidly, heating up the economy.
Their economic projections suggest that they will pause rate cuts at some point next year, making just two quarter-point cuts over the course of their eight meetings. When they last released economic projections in September, they had expected to make four rate cuts next year. They expect to make two rate cuts in 2026, and one in 2027.
But even if rate reductions are poised to slow, the question is exactly when the pause will come. Investors may get a hint of that when Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, holds a news conference with reporters at 2:30 p.m.
The Fed’s revisions come after a surprising period in the economy.
Earlier this year, the unemployment rate was climbing, hiring was slowing, and inflation had been falling steadily. But since September, the job market has shown signs of stabilizing, consumer spending has remained solid, and inflation has been more stubborn than many economists had expected. Officials lowered their expected unemployment rate for 2024 and 2025 in Wednesday’s projections, but they nudged up their inflation forecasts notably. Policymakers predicted that inflation would end 2025 at 2.5 percent, up from 2.1 percent previously and well above the central bank’s 2 percent inflation target.
That combination — of resilient growth and sticky inflation — explains the Fed’s more cautious approach.
In fact, some officials thought that the Fed should not cut interest rates this month. Beth Hammack, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, voted against the rate cut, preferring to leave borrowing costs unchanged. And while only five of the Fed’s 12 regional presidents vote on policy at any given time, three of the non-voting officials appear to have favored leaving interest rates unchanged at this meeting, based on their economic projections.

I agree with most, but not all, of his answers.

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I don’t necessarily think this will happen to Kirk as my guess is he just wants to beat Woody’s record as the all time Big Ten winningest coach.

My guess is if he plans on serving out the rest of his contract till ‘29, he will get fired. Guy hasn’t figured out that Father Time is undefeated, and his time as head coach is drawing to a close.

The new AD was a huge piece to him getting shown the door sooner than Barta would’ve pulled the trigger.

Just an absolute display of weakness. A real man and leader keeps his emotions in check when facing adversity.

Are away teams allotted an even # of tickets as the home team?

"You ain’t never had no girl so why are y’all talking about me," he said. "Find someone else to talk about. … Go talk about your girl. Go find a girl. Go find a life. Stop worrying about what I got going on. I know what I got.

"My girl been wif me for five years. y’all are just now starting to talk about me… y’all go do something else with y’all life. Clickbait pages stop, y’all better stop I’m telling y’all. Something bad is gonna happen to y’all [if you] keep doing that. Y’all better stop that. I ain’t playing."

That is all KF has ever been and his shit has run cold.....being 0-9 against ranked teams latly should be enough to send this clown packing!

(CNN) – Black Friday kicks off one of the biggest shopping weekends of the year, but it may be a bumpy ride for Amazon, which is facing a global strike.

Amazon workers on six continents are planning strikes and protests from Friday through Cyber Monday.

The strike involves workers in more than 20 countries, including the United States, Germany, India and Japan.

Employees and supporters want Amazon to improve fair pay, working conditions and climate accountability.

This is the fifth year of the “Make Amazon Pay” campaign.

Didn't see a thread on this. There have been some awesome bowl games this season. For how little they do matter the games have been awesome. I'm enjoying watching Colorado getting their ass kicked now. Go Army in a few minutes!

Had the ball at the one, game tied, 1:30 on the clock. All they had to do was take a knee and kick the field goal.
Instead, they punch it into the end zone and leave Denver 1:29 to tie it up, which they did.
Idiots.

The future of the Iowa OL was a key topic during media availability this week and Gennings Dunker and Mason Richman talked about:

-- young guys who have impressed
-- how the OL can continue to improve
-- the importance of George Barnett
and much more.