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by Calculated Risk on 12/09/2025 07:53:00 PM Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.Wednesday:• At 7:00 AM ET, The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the mortgage purchase applications index.• At 2:00 PM, FOMC Meeting Announcement. The Fed is expected to cut rates 25bp at this meeting.• Also at 2:00 PM, FOMC Forecasts This will include the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) participants’ projections of the appropriate target federal funds rate along with the quarterly economic projections. • At 2:30 PM, Fed Chair Jerome Powell holds a press briefing following the FOMC…

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Copy and paste this HTML code into your webpage to embed. Union St. Gilloise World Class 0 Solid 0 Bang Average 0 Lucky 0 Shocking 0 Marseille World Class 0 Solid 0 Bang Average 0 Lucky 0 Shocking 0 Turn off spoiler to view match statistics0.27Expected goals (xG)1.48-1.00Goals Prevented-1.00Passing323 (83%)Accurate passes537 (89%) Turn off spoiler to view match events Coach Sébastien Pocognoli Substitutes 34 F Robinio Vaz 88′ Replaced by M. Greenwood 50 M Darryl Bakola 19 M Geoffrey Kondogbia 88′ Replaced by P. Aubameyang 8 M Angel Gomes 76 M Tadjidine Mmadi 6 D Garcia Ulysses 28 D Benjamin…

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North Carolina Tar Heels star freshman Caleb Wilson is a huge fan of the late great Kobe Bryant (averaging 19.3 PPG/10.6 RPG/2.4 APG/1.6 SPG/1.2 BPG/1.8 TOV/2.3 PF/53.2% FG/57.0% 2-PT/18.2% 3-PT/54.1% eFG/77.1% FT through nine starts). (via Inside Carolina): Reporter: “Caleb, speaking of the NBA, one of my friends was telling me that when he watches […] The post Caleb Wilson: “I watch a lot of Kobe” appeared first on TalkBasket.net.

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A parade of strong clippers moving through the Midwest bringing a mix of snow and rain to the Great Lakes and Northeast, with Winter Weather Alerts stretching from Minnesota to Michigan, while Chicago sees a rapid swing between snow and rain.The month of December has been slammed with everything, from subzero temperatures to severe storm systems sweeping the nation and that’s just the beginning of it.POWERFUL COAST-TO-COAST STORM KICKS OFF DECEMBER WITH MAJOR IMPACTS FROM HEAVY SNOW TO ICE ACROSS THE NATIONA series of rapid-moving clippers across the Great Lakes through the Northeast will continue this month’s active pattern, as…

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The Ambassador of the European Union in Tirana, Silvio Gonzato, stated that Albania needs an electoral reform fully in line with the OSCE-ODIHR recommendations, in order to create a fair and equal political competition. Ambassador Gonzato delivered his speech at the conference: “Building trust in elections: Political Financing and Electoral Reform in Albania”, organized by International IDEA and the Rule of Law Center of the University of Helsinki, in cooperation with the Central Election Commission, where he emphasized electoral reform. “An electoral reform is needed that creates an environment with genuine competitiveness and equality for all parties. We are calling…

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This is the latest in our series of posts in our series on price theory problems with Professor Bryan Cutsinger. You can see all of Cutsinger’s problems and solutions by subscribing to his EconLog RSS feed.Share your proposed solutions in the comments. Professor Cutsinger will be present in the comments for the next couple of weeks, and we’ll post his proposed solution shortly thereafter. May the graphs be ever in your favor, and long live price theory! Question: Over the past several decades, the inflation-adjusted price of healthcare has increased. Based on this information alone, can you infer the source…

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The Brazilian is back in the goals. Joao Pedro ended his run of four games without a goal for Chelsea as they took a 1-0 lead in Tuesday’s Champions League tie with Atalanta. Pedro had drawn a blank in Premier League games with Burnley, Arsenal, Leeds United and Bournemouth, but broke the deadlock in the 25th minute in Bergamo. Atalanta had made much of the early running, with Gianluca Scamacca and Marten de Roon going close for the hosts in the 19th minute. But six minutes later Pedro rediscovered his goalscoring touch when he latched onto Reece James’ low ball…

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Current forecast models show the circulation of the Polar Vortex weakening later this week into the weekend. As this occurs, cold air is expected to spread across much of the Central and Eastern U.S. With cold air in place, a batch of energy is also projected to move out of the Northwest as a dip in the jet stream begins to intensify. As this system moves east, it could bring snow from the Midwest into the Northeast. With cold air forecast along the I-95 corridor, including Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston, the first significant snow of the season is…

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With the tax-free money in a health savings account, a person can pay for eyeglasses or medical exams, as well as a $1,700 baby bassinet or a $300 online parenting workshop. Those same dollars can’t be used, though, to pay for most baby formulas, toothbrushes — or insurance premiums. President Donald Trump and some Republicans are pitching the accounts as an alternative to expiring enhanced federal subsidies that have lowered insurance premium payments for most Americans with Affordable Care Act coverage. But legal limits on how HSAs can and can’t be used are prompting doubts that expanding their use would…

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I don’t have a resolution to the debate, but I have an insight, regarding per capita series (which is different from aggregate statistics used to determine a recession), summarized in a couple graphs. Figure 1: Real consumption per capita, in Ch.2017$ SAAR (blue, left log scale), and U.Michigan Consumer Sentiment (tan, right scale). FRED population series POPTHM used to calculate per capita consumption. December Sentiment in preliminary. Source: BEA via FRED, U.Michigan Survey of Consumers, and author’s calculations. Note that not only has consumption per capita flatlined, per capita real retail sales is now below November 2024…

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