Posts by Gregory Ramos3

Samuel Bennett60 said:You guys are losing your touch. During the 20/21 season, we had five European spots and even snagged second place in the Champions League playoffs. Sadly, it didn't last long. It’s just the classic way our clubs operate: sell off every living soul before the European qualifiers start, maybe hire some random fisherman from Malta, and suddenly everything is right back to being mediocre.

My bad, I guess I'm just getting old... I completely blanked on the Wolves' epic Champions League run. 🙈

If my memory serves me right, they were playing in the Europa League before that too, and honestly, they were doing pretty well for themselves. 😬

Terry Howard7 said:So, I’m reading here—is it true that Istria is officially out of the running for Europe? They just took their fourth straight domestic cup loss.

🤣 🤣

I honestly don't think America has ever actually held five spots in Europe—well, maybe for a second back when that Intertoto Cup thing was still a thing, but I doubt it. 😉

Terry Howard7 said:Wait, hold on—so you're telling me the bird isn't even heading to Europe?

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George Diaz63 said:Look, Frank Hayes71,
you guys are acting like you're some kind of big shots just because you pulled in five units in fifteen minutes—yeah, we did the exact same thing. But let's be real, we aren't the same.
You didn't even manage to pull a win in the last round.
Seriously, man.

I was just sitting here thinking about 🙏 🙏

Fast forward sixty years, and it’s pure déjà vu all over again.😬

Man, Osijek is going through such a rough patch right now... they haven't managed to snag a win in 12 games straight, which is just brutal.😲

https://twitter.com/bneintellinews/s...80632601063424

So, I was just reading this and apparently we’re looking at over $3 billion worth of grain potentially going to waste because of all these distribution headaches, leaving warehouses totally packed while everything just sits there rotting.

The Ruble is still looking pretty strong, honestly—Sanctions not working!! ☕

stormyangler32 said:Man, how much faster is Grgic actually than Grgic... 😲 For real though, the ball was definitely flying toward Grgic instead of Grgic—but again, I honestly had no clue if Grgic was just that slow or if Grgic is actually that lightning fast.

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Ethan Jones5 said:Yet another top-tier prediction from our buddy bluebison47☕

I mean, come on, you were actually way closer to the final score than that 4-0 call you made earlier. 😬

We're sitting right on the edge of a two-point gap in this whole battle for 3rd place, 🙏

Honestly, there's just no way Hajduk is going to roll over and take it now, they'll never be that easy...
I caught the last match between Dinamo and Hajduk, and man, it was actually kind of shocking how much they've fallen off lately... 🤦

There's zero hustle, absolutely no vision, and when it comes to moving off the ball, you're just left wondering, "Wait, what are they even doing?" and stuff like that.

gentlestag15 said:Back in January 2022, the Russian government was pulling in about $2,089 billion while spending roughly $1,964 billion
leaving them with a surplus of $125 billion.
Fast forward to January 2023, and things look pretty different: revenues hit $1,356 billion against a massive $3,117 billion in spending.
That’s a deficit of $1,760 billion—basically, their hole is deeper than their entire income.
https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/...t-budget-value

Just waiting on the February numbers now.🍿

It's funny how you're throwing all these specific figures at me when the chart is basically just showing a tiny little dip in GDP 🥳

I mean, hey, we're in America, right? And Americans are probably the absolute world experts at living way beyond their means and spending more than they actually make☕

Urals 🙂

Urals hit a low back in Jan '21 at 53.62

TTF was up at 57.37 back in Sept '21

roughly speaking

The Ruble is still going strong, clearly🙂

Edit: my bad, I messed up, Urals was actually even lower last month, but you know, the point still stands☕

Carl Lee27 said:I’d honestly expect the Russian GDP to see some modest growth in the near future. You see, whenever nations start frantically shifting their savings into massive public spending sprees, you usually end up seeing a spike in GDP—and often a pretty significant one at that. Just look at how American citizens' savings fueled such an incredible surge in US real GDP back in the decades leading up to WWII; we're talking about a 75% jump in just four years, moving from age 41 to 45. That wartime production alone practically doubled the entire US economy.
As long as Russia has the cash flow to fund this massive expansion of their manufacturing base, they’re going to make it happen. And honestly, they can probably scrape together hundreds of billions of dollars relatively easily if they need to.

Personally, I wouldn't sweat those specific categories too much. If you want to know what actually matters, look at oil prices; that is significantly more vital to the survival of Russia's war efforts and the stability of the nation itself. At the end of the day, this isn't a society or a civilization with the kind of internal spark needed to truly dictate global trends. Their only real edge is geography—specifically, that staggering amount of resources they have per capita. When they can dump those resources onto the global market and snag a decent price, Russia is a powerhouse. But when they can't? Then Russia starts retreating.

By the way, did you see this? It looks like banks from China, Turkey, the UAE, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan... well, everyone seems to be jumping on board with the US sanctions against Russian Banks.

Countries that Russia considers "friendly", contrary to expectations, fully joined the Western sanctions against Russian banks. According to RBC, this was announced at the Wall Street Journal conference on Tuesday by Vice President of JP Morgan Alexander Rakhmanin.

According to him, “colleagues” from China, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and even post-Soviet republics, including Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan, refuse to work with Russian credit institutions that have fallen under restrictions.

Expectations that a queue of those wishing to Help Russia would Lin up in China turned out to be futiti : The largest "states" - Bank of China, ICBC, China Construction Bank - refuse to accept payments from banks from the Russian Federation that fell under blocking sanctions, Rakhmanin said.

https://www-moscowtimes-ru.translate...en&_x_tr_hl=hr

Back when things were first kicking off in the spring, I stumbled upon this YouTube video where some guy was breaking down the invasion. He was using history to show how Russian wars are almost always tied to oil prices—basically, they go all in when prices are high and fold their tents the second they crash.

I couldn't track down that exact video again, so I just put together a quick list from memory of their invasions:

1. 12/1979 - Afghanistan
2. 08/2008 - Georgia
3. 02/2014 - Crimea and Donbas
4. 02/2022 - Ukraine

Carl Lee27 said:$65/MWh
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And Brent is sitting right at 77.

Looks like coal is the only thing taking a real dive as of 3 PM.☕

Don't even trip, my guy thinks there hasn't been any action on the TTF for two whole days 🤦

Jack Kelly5 said:It’s been a minute since we last talked about Kraft Heinz pasta. I mean, I guess you could say the sanctions on Russia and those crazy high oil prices were kind of the secret sauce behind their recent growth...

$8.25 pounds at Walmart 😬

Bryan Booth82 said:Russian oil sales have plummeted by 56%👍

lp

Ahaaaaaa... I guess that's how it goes, huh?

I mean, didn't some people claim they’d just pivot everything over to China or India and it would be totally fine, like no harm done at all? ☕

Amanda Allen4 said:It's called "price discovery." It’s what happens in a free market—nothing more, nothing less.

I mean, okay, but why is this all hitting the fan right now? Things seemed pretty steady for the last few months...

Then again, nobody's even trading it anyway, so I guess it doesn't really matter much in the grand scheme of things..

hollowdriver13 said:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fkf3X6BW...ng&name=medium

Natural gas prices on the New York City exchange just dipped below the $100 mark, currently sitting at about $98/MWh.

That’s basically a massive 40% drop compared to where things were just two weeks ago.

On top of that, the Dollar has strengthened against the Ruble, hitting 72 to 1 USD, even though there isn't really any active trading happening with it right now.

https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter...rom=USD&To=RUB

I was just about to start posting some memes about the US dollar, because man, this thing has been taking a serious nose dive lately. It’s honestly kind of wild—we're looking at a 15% drop over the last month and then another 11% just this week alone... like, what on earth is actually going on?

I was just sitting here staring at these exchange rate charts, trying to make sense of how much everything is swinging lately, and man, it’s a total rollercoaster. It feels like every time I blink, the value of the dollar is doing some wild dance against other currencies, and honestly, it’s enough to give anyone a little bit of a headache if they stare too long! I’m just over here trying to wrap my head around whether now is actually a decent time to plan any big moves or if I should just sit tight and hope the volatility settles down a bit before I make any silly mistakes.
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Nancy Gomez26 said:Regarding egg prices—it comes down to feed. Chickens eat corn and soy, both of which have surged by nearly 100% over the last few years. Grain costs began their climb long before the conflict in Ukraine, though the war certainly acted as an accelerant later on. What strikes me as odd is how egg prices remained stagnant on grocery shelves for so long. It suggests producers were likely tethered to outdated contracts with big-box retailers—who, predictably, enjoyed the margins while the farmers took the hit. Now, we’re all just feeling the delayed impact of those squeeze tactics.

I mean, it's pretty obvious to us why the price of an egg doubled overnight...

I mostly just write these posts to give people a little motivational push to actually use their brains for once instead of just rushing out to type nonsense. 🙂

Oil prices are basically back where they started at the beginning of the month, but somehow eggs have doubled in price, and everyone’s pointing the finger at the war and those sanctions

🤦^∞