Thanks to the gold collar criminals at the central banks and their insane asset bubbles, young people today don't have a hope in hell of ever owning their own home free & clear.
Sir Douglas Flint has first-hand experience of meltdowns in the mortgage market. The former chairman of HSBC steered the British lender back on track after the global financial crisis left it reeling in 2008.
The crash in US sub-prime mortgages hit HSBC particularly hard as it owned a $118billion book of American loans. Now, the City grandee, 66, is warning that households should once again be wary of racking up giant debts to buy a home just as interest rates begin to rise.
'I personally don't think this is the time to encourage people to over-leverage [borrow too much] in the housing market,' he told The Mail on Sunday. 'House prices, as a multiple of average income, are at an all-time high.'
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Senate Vote for Net Neutrality
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Money in Elections and Voting
Campaign Finance Disclosure Requirements
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Backup Paper Ballots - Voting Record
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Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
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Sets reasonable limits on the raising and spending of money by electoral candidates to influence elections (Reverse Citizens United)
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The Economy/Jobs
Limits Interest Rates for Certain Federal Student Loans
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Student Loan Affordability Act
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Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Funding Amendment
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End the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
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Kill Credit Default Swap Regulations (Remove regulations on the types of transactions that caused the 2008 housing market crash; watch The Big Short to learn more)
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Revokes tax credits for businesses that move jobs overseas
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Disapproval of President's Authority to Raise the Debt Limit (House)
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Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (House)
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Rep. Don Young, Alaska Republican, had a stark message for former President Donald Trump, telling him to “just shut up” about his opinions. DON YOUNG IS CORRECT!
Mr. Young praised Mr. Trump’s policies, though he said his boisterous personality overshadows the impact of his work.
“I think his policy is just so good,” Mr. Young told The Washington Post. “Just shut up — that’s all he has to do. He’s not going to. I know that.”
Mr. Young, 88, is the longest-serving member of Congress. He was elected in 1973 during the Nixon administration.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/dec/4/longtime-gop-lawmaker-don-young-says-trump-should-/
"we would have been amazed to find other than that we were born and live in some beloved air and the life of the affections is what we mean by life" is the quote I'm looking for. I've looked in "Heaven Trees" and "So Red the Rose" but it's not in there. Google searches have not turned anything, and I'm starting to look through poems now, is someone here familiar with Stark Young?
Franky as teenager was able to build an armada of dangerous advanced warships. He could have taken out dozens of pirates with them.
As little kid he was already able to build cannons out of scrabs.
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If the marines would have found out about his talent, he would have easily made it to Vegapunks assistant.
Jon Arryn leads his two foster sons, Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon, as well as thirty men-at-arms, into battle against the savage mountain clans they have been tracking.
A tale from the Vale, four years before the Battle of the Trident
11k words, main story completed but I am about to start writing an epilogue/ a sequel.
Canon typical violence, unrated on AO3 but it's fairly explicit
https://archiveofourown.org/works/33096367/chapters/82159900
If you do give it a read, please let me now what you think :-)
Look at Ned Stark potentially foreshadowing some major events back in AGOT:
>Yet last night he had dreamt of Rhaegar's children. Lord Tywin had laid the bodies beneath the Iron Throne, wrapped in the crimson cloaks of his house guard. That was clever of him; the blood did not show so badly against the red cloth. The little princess had been barefoot, still dressed in her bed gown, and the boy … the boy …
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>Ned could not let that happen again. The realm could not withstand a second mad king, another dance of blood and vengeance. He must find some way to save the children. -AGOT, Eddard XII
- and the boy … the boy …
Obviously Ned doesn't know that Yong Griff exists, and its likely that Martin hadn't full fleshed out what he was going to do with Aegon back in AGOT (the first evidence I've found of Martin mentioning an additional Targ claimant is after ACOK)
That said the way the rest of this quote flows, mentioning Aegon like this (instead of saying he was dead, Martin just hints at it in a "Ned was too disgusted to even put it in words way" that also leaves the door open for "I never said Aegon was dead here".
2)The realm could not withstand a second mad king
If the books mirror the show at all, Dany could replicate some of her father's behavior. I don't know if it will be King's Landing or what, but Dany burning a city (or cities) is heavily foreshadowed, as is the constant mention of Targaryen madness.
3)Another Dance of Blood and Vengeance
While Ned is not referencing Robert's Rebellion, I think its quite easy to parallel these words to the first Dance of Dragons, especially since we are supposed to expect a second.
TLDR: In his fear of what Robert will do to Cersei and her children, Ned Stark seems to unknowingly foreshadow 3 major upcoming events.
what's that? legends are important in getting mainstream attention? niche audiences arent sustainable in the long run? well color me suprised at the risk of not being relatable to the basement
"No. Now it ends." - Young Ned Stark
I believe that originally, Harley was going to fulfill the role that Peter Parker eventually took. Namely, a "sidekick" and surrogate son for Tony to mentor. There are several reasons I believe this.
Ty Simpkins (Harley's actor) is signed for a three-film deal in the MCU. Seems a bit much for a character that would otherwise be a one-off. There was a good deal of buildup regarding Harley being a tinkerer like Tony, and there is a lot of development given to there being a father/son relationship between them. I remember that for a while after Iron Man 3 there was a lot of speculation as to when he would return, not if, because it seemed like a given that he would.
Iron Man 3 was released in 2013. A year and a half later, the Sony deal went through, allowing Spider-Man to appear in the MCU. This drastically altered the plans for the MCU, changing Civil War and adding a whole new movie to the lineup (2017's Spider-Man: Homecoming). Spider-Man would become a key figure in the MCU and central to Tony Stark's arc in Infinity War and Endgame, with their father/son relationship being the driving force behind him deciding to research time travel and undo the Snap.
Infinity War and Endgame were in development since at least mid-2014, months before the Sony deal went through. It seems unlikely that a major component of the films like Tony and Peter's relationship would be left out of these early developments. I think Harley was supposed to fill this role. There are many similarities between Harley and Peter. Both are interested in science and mechanics. Both have a close relationship with Tony. Both have lost their fathers. It really would require pretty minor changes to have Harley in that role. Maybe have Tony visit him and give him a suit in Civil War, etc.
I believe that the original plan was to have Harley grow into the Iron Lad throughout Phase 3 and continue to develop his relationship with Tony, but upon the Sony deal going through, Marvel Studios (obviously) chose to give that role to the bigger character of Spider-Man. But now with the death of Tony Stark and Harley making his triumphant return at his funeral in Endgame, I believe that we will be seeing him return to his planned role of the Iron Lad in future films.
Stark always had the idea of the next Avengers. He always thought of mortality and he thought of the Avengers going their own path. Once he recruited Spider-man (Not deeming him as an Avenger but a very vital asset to fighting Cap.), the cog-wheels of having the next generation of Earth's defenders started spinning and recruiting people under the government's noses. However, this project was stopped once Parker was snapped. Stark's guilt trashed the whole operation.
I just want this theory to float somewhere because the excitement of WANDAVISION SPOILERS >!Wiccan and Speed.!<
