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Squash matches are commonplace within professional wrestling. They're often designed to win a young talent over with the fan base or give a returning star some momentum moving forward. However, we seldom stop and wonder what those matches do to the talent on the losing end. To put it bluntly, a squash match is an on-air butt-kicking. The matches last a few minutes at most and are primarily one-sided. The "squasher" usually has minimal offense but must find a way to shine if they want to be remembered. Those types of matches are part and parcel of paying your dues. Either you're an established talent working your way back up the roster, or you're an up-and-comer trying to get in the good graces of the booker and creative team. During a recent interview with me via the "Taylor Talks Wrestling" podcast , former AEW talent Fuego Del Sol discussed the importance of paying your dues. "I think ego has hurt a lot of people's careers, especially in the past 10 years," Del Sol said. "I think my mindset going into any match is play the role that you are giving to the best of your ability in hopes of earning a better role later...So no matter who I'm wrestling, if I'm wrestling the best of the best or the worst of the worst, or a celebrity coming in just to, you know, help get more eyes on the product, you gotta do what you gotta do, uh, because that's what you're paid to do." Squash matches aren't fun to watch. They're boring and predictable. However, like most things in life, they have their place. There's a clear method to putting them on a show, especially if they segue into a promo, which is often the case. Nevertheless, talents have to walk a fine line. Del Sol found his tenure in AEW primarily consisted of squash matches. As such, he understands the downside of becoming known as someone who shines while losing. "If you're really great at taking an a** whooping, then you're only going to be known as that guy," Del Sol said. "I remember I just heard a Ricochet interview recently where they (WWE) would tell him, 'hey, you got this match on raw tonight, or hey, you got this many minutes. Can you find a way to lose in a spectacular fashion?' He was like, 'yeah, I keep doing spectacular things, but I keep losing and that's not what I wanted. And I just became the spectacular losing guy.'" Figuring out how to walk that fine line can't be easy. However, if you want to climb the political ladder within a wrestling company, it's a tightrope you must walk at one point or another. The only way to avoid it is to join a company when you already have a following or a big reputation. Still, it's easy to see why so many talents stick to the indie scene. Leaving your ego at the door is a must, even if it's counterintuitive to reaching your goals. 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It's the Giants most in a win since a 45-14 rout against Washington in 2014 and most at home since a 52-27 win against the Saints in 2012. Nabers finished with seven catches for a career-high 171 yards. Flacco was 26 of 38 for 330 yards with two interceptions, the second by rookie Dru Phillips shortly after Lock's TD run. Taylor, who rushed for 218 yards in a win over Tennessee last weekend, finished with 125 yards on 32 carries. Pierce had six catches for 122 yards. Nabers and running back Tyrone Tracy become the third pair of rookies to have more than 1,000 yards from scrimmage in the same season. The previous duo was running back Reggie Bush and receiver Marques Colston of the Saints in 2006. Colts : Richardson was inactive with foot and back injuries sustained against Tennessee. Giants : DL Armon Watts (knee) was ruled out in the first half. Colts : Finish the regular season by hosting Jacksonville. Giants : At Philadelphia to face Saquon Barkley and the Eagles. 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What a merger between Nissan and Honda means for the automakers and the industryAuthored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President-elect Donald Trump has said he intends to cut government spending by reasserting the presidential power of impoundment , a move certain to spark a court battle and one that could redefine presidential power for decades to come. Impoundment occurs when the president chooses not to disburse funds authorized by Congress; instead leaving them unspent in the U.S. Treasury. This power is not mentioned in the Constitution but has been employed by presidents since Thomas Jefferson. Congress enacted limits on the practice 50 years ago. Now, Trump intends to challenge the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 ( ICA ), which he believes is unconstitutional. “ I will use the president’s long-recognized Impoundment Power to squeeze the bloated federal bureaucracy for massive savings, ” Trump said when announcing his plan in June 2023. Others say the ICA was needed to prevent the misuse of impoundment to alter congressional spending priorities, not merely eliminate waste. Expanded use of impoundment power seems certain to be challenged in court. Resolution is likely to hinge on two constitutional questions that define the balance of power between the executive and legislative branches of the federal government. Jefferson appears to have been the first to use impoundment. In 1803 he delayed purchasing gunboats to patrol the Mississippi River because they were no longer needed after the United States acquired the Louisiana Territory from France. Since then, most presidents appear to have used the practice from time to time, and usually because the spending was no longer in the public interest. President Ulysses S. Grant used impoundment to prevent federal funds from being used on river or harbor projects that would benefit private parties rather than the public. President Franklin Roosevelt used it to limit spending on civilian construction projects to concentrate on wartime spending. President Lyndon Johnson impounded some money to reduce inflation. President Richard Nixon used the practice more frequently than previous executives, and his use of impoundment represented “a difference in kind, not simply in degree” from his predecessors, according to Joshua Chafetz a professor of law and politics at Georgetown University. Nixon’s opponents argued that he was assuming the power to do away with certain government programs by simply starving them of funds, which violated the will of Congress. His team argued that presidents have a duty to consider other factors, including inflation, when deciding if or when to release government funds. Congress then passed the ICA, which, in addition to reforming the congressional budgeting process, strictly limited the executive’s ability to cut or delay spending the money appropriated by Congress. Nixon signed the bill into law. The ICA stipulates that presidents must ask congressional permission to impound funds. The president can ask Congress to permit either a recision or a deferral of spending. A recision is a spending cut. When the president asks Congress to cut certain spending, he may defer that spending for up to 45 days while Congress considers the matter. If Congress does not grant the request, the president must release the funds. A deferral is a delay in spending certain funds to a later point within the current fiscal year. If Congress doesn’t respond to the deferral request, the president may defer the spending. Robert Kravchuk, professor emeritus of public policy at Indiana University told The Epoch Times: “In one case, he'd have to hear positively from Congress not to spend money, and that’s the recision. “In the second case, he hears nothing, then he could go through with his deferral, but he can’t defer it to the next year or the year after that.” Article II of the U.S. Constitution states that the president must “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” Trump has said the ICA violates that clause because it strips the president of discretion in how best to achieve the government’s purposes. “ The [ICA] dramatically limited impoundment, the power of the president to choose not to unnecessarily spend taxpayer dollars, forcing the executive branch to spend every penny of congressionally appropriated funds ,” Trump wrote in his statement. A second argument in favor of impoundment is that congressional appropriations specify a maximum amount that may be spent, not a minimum. “Congress has the ‘power of the purse,’ so its appropriations necessarily set a ceiling on federal spending for a particular purpose, but it should not set the floor,” Trump said. That argument was made as early as 1876 when Secretary of War James Cameron wrote that “spending the full amount” of an appropriation “was in no way mandatory.” Read the rest here...
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President-elect Donald Trump helped pen business advice in his 1987 book "The Art of the Deal" that has echoed throughout his posture on tariffs, from his first term to today: "Leverage: don't make deals without it." On Monday evening, Trump announced that he plans to use executive orders to impose a 25% tariff on all goods from Mexico and Canada on his . He said in a post on Truth Social that the tariffs "will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!" Though Trump promised to implement harsh tariffs throughout the campaign, actions from his first term indicate that the sweeping threat — which has reverberated throughout and like auto — might be a version of Trump's long-favored "leverage." In June of 2019, Trump threatened tariffs against Mexico if the country didn't alter its immigration system, which it eventually . "That was in a sense analogous to what he's doing now outside of economics, when he's talking about fentanyl and he's demanding more control of people coming to the border," Robert Lawrence, a professor of international trade and investment and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, told Business Insider. "Were the tariffs the reason the Mexicans became more compliant? I don't know, but he certainly did use that as a threat." Lawrence added that the threat of tariffs is effective rhetorically right now, particularly for people in the European Union who doubted Trump's willingness to follow through on his word. Trump also used tariffs as "leverage" when renegotiating the North American Free Trade agreement, Mark Blyth, a political economist at Brown University, told BI. Blyth said that Trump is notably unpredictable and that, until he steps into the White House again on January 20, people can only speculate about what promises he'll follow through on. "We're all shadow boxing. We're jumping at the show: 'Look, he's going to do this! He says he's going to do this!'" Blyth said. "He's still got to get in, he's still got to form his . He's got to put in these people and then he can do stuff." According to a report from the , tariffs set important context for the NAFTA renegotiations, and Mexico and Canada likely wouldn't have come to the negotiating table without them. But the report concludes that using tariffs-as-leverage do not necessarily result in significantly more favorable trade relations, though they do succeed in getting "other countries' attention." While are taking Trump's threats seriously, some banking leaders seem to think that Trump's most recent tariff threat is a continuation of his prior negotiation tactic. "This is President Trump's negotiating style: step one, punch in the face, step two, let's negotiate," Kieran Calder, the head of equity research for Asia at Union Bancaire Privée, said, according to . In a report published Tuesday morning, said that "the timing and narrow focus of the latest threat suggest scope for negotiation." By focusing on non-trade issues — immigration and drugs — Trump is suggesting that the tariffs are transactional, focused more on gaining the upper hand than implementing long-term tariffs, the authors argue. The global head for emerging markets strategy at Citi Bank, Luis Costa, spoke on on Tuesday morning to make a similar point in relation to Mexico. "To us, it is absolutely obvious that the Trump administration will use tariffs as one important lever to negotiate with Sheinbaum's government," he said. "It is probably something that is more about negotiation rather than about imposing tariffs." And Trump's own nominee for Treasury secretary, , published an earlier this month arguing that the president-elect uses "tariffs as a negotiating tool with our trading partners." A spokesperson from the Trump transition team told BI in a statement that "in his first term, President Trump instituted tariffs against China that created jobs, spurred investment, and resulted in no inflation." Read the original article onThe iPhone 17 is again rumored to be finally getting a high refresh rate display
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