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[Higgenbotham]

Here's an extreme example of Stacking. The word Stacking is even used in the article.

Before reading the comments, I predicted the comments would congratulate the boy for Stacking. I wasn't disappointed.

Vaibhav Bhaskar, 17, recently graduated from Steinbrenner High School with an 11.99 weighted GPA.

To achieve his 11.99 GPA, Bhaskar took 44 Advanced Placement and dual college enrollment classes.

Now, some schools are relying on the Honors Point Average system, averaging grades instead of stacking them. The change is also aimed at curbing student burnout.

https://www.aol.com/articles/high-schoo ... 57000.html

This illustrates another problem that's been heating up. A lot of the people who are congratulating the boy for Stacking probably realize they need young people to be Stacking like crazy to fund their retirements. Then we see business leaders complaining about how young people don't want to work anymore while the young people talk about work-life balance. Also we see statistics showing that a lot of Americans are dropping out of the work force, and that the number of Stackees entering the work force is now, or about now, falling short of the number of Stackees retiring from the work force. This is going to be a very difficult problem to solve.

[Higgenbotham]

The population is getting sicker and one reason it's gotten sicker is due to Stacking in other fields. A recent example I'm aware of. A woman who worked at a high tech company notorious for Stacking had a stroke. She is somewhere in her 50s. Weighed over 200 pounds. Doctors were unable to find an obvious cause of the stroke. I would speculate the cause is stress from Stacking. It takes decades sometimes for things to catch up. She will be one of the 23 million disabled. Moving home with her parents who are in their 80s and still healthy. Four months (my best guess) after the stroke she still can't climb the stairs in her condo and will have to sell it.

Why Your Workplace Might Be Killing You
Stanford scholars identify 10 work stressors that are destroying your health.

Workplace stress — such as long hours, job insecurity and lack of work-life balance — contributes to at least 120,000 deaths each year and accounts for up to $190 billion in health care costs, according to new research by two Stanford professors and a former Stanford doctoral student now at Harvard Business School.

“If employers are serious about managing the health of their workforce and controlling their health care costs, they ought to be worried about the environments their workers are in,” says Jeffrey Pfeffer, a Stanford professor of organizational behavior. Pfeffer, with colleagues Stefanos A. Zenios of Stanford GSB and Joel Goh of Harvard Business School, conducted a meta-analysis of 228 studies, examining how 10 common workplace stressors affect a person’s health.

They found that overall, these stressors increase the nation’s health care costs by 5% to 8%. Job insecurity increased the odds of reporting poor health by 50%, while long work hours increased mortality by almost 20%. Additionally, highly demanding jobs raised the odds of a physician-diagnosed illness by 35%.

“The deaths are comparable to the fourth- and fifth-largest causes of death in the country — heart disease and accidents,” says Zenios, a professor of operations, information, and technology. “It’s more than deaths from diabetes, Alzheimer’s, or influenza.”

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/w ... illing-you

This study was reported over 10 years ago.

[tim]

https://modernity.news/2026/07/24/uk-ci ... -the-norm/

UK Cities Roll Out More DIVERSITY BARRIERS; Vehicle-Ramming Threat Now The Norm

All family events must now be protected from a three-and-a-half-tonne truck travelling at 30 mph

A family summer beach event in the UK city of Nottingham now sits behind portable anti-ram steel barrier, the latest admission that open borders have turned public spaces into soft targets.

Local authorities across Britain are quietly installing more of what critics now call “diversity barriers” — heavy portable steel devices designed to stop vehicles being driven into crowds.

The annual artificial “Nottingham Beach” event opened this week behind a line of bright red Husson H-Stop units.

??? Meanwhile in the UK

Local authorities are installing more and more ‘Diversity Barriers’.

Why?

Because as regularly seen throughout Europe – Radical Islamist Terrorists like to murder innocent people by driving their vehicles into crowds of people. pic.twitter.com/hq7tRKYcbW

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To maintain free cash flow (FCF) while navigating the inverse correlation between low-volatility stocks and bond yields, investors typically look for companies with "sustainable" dividends. Because high bond yields make "safe" dividends less attractive (shifting capital from stocks to bonds), the focus shifts from the highest yield to the most resilient cash flow.
Indicators of FCF Sustainability:
For a dividend payer to maintain its payout regardless of yield volatility,
the following financial metrics are critical:
Dividend Coverage Ratio: This compares profits to dividend payments.
A higher ratio indicates that the company generates more than enough profit to cover its distributions
FCF-to-Dividend Ratio: Since dividends are paid in cash, not accounting profit,
FCF is the ultimate validator. Companies whose dividend payments outpace their FCF are often forced to take on debt,
or dip into reserves to maintain payouts.
Payout Ratio: A healthy payout ratio (typically between 30% and 60%) ensures the company retains enough capital to reinvest in growth or repay debt while still rewarding shareholders
Dividend History: "Dividend Aristocrats" (companies increasing dividends for 25+ years) often possess the operational stability to weather rate cycles.

Strategic Guidance for 2028
To maximize resilience, avoid "Yield Traps"—stocks with 10%+ yields that are only high because the stock price is crashing.
Low Payout Ratios: Ensure the company isn't paying out 100% of its cash flow, leaving a buffer for lean months.
Diversified Tenant Bases: Look for companies with thousands of tenants across different industries so one sector's failure doesn't kill the dividend
Dividend Streaks: Prioritize companies with a multi-decade history of uninterrupted payments,
as they are culturally and financially committed to the payout.

No place to hide since structural inflation is the playbook. Demand destruction as they implement k structure logic
in a non value added under tow with the Keynesian Veil Food, Energy Tax Pump.

Effect of inflationary shocks in household well-being therefore required two inputs.
First estimates of the effect of the prices of goods and assets, as well as its effects on income.
Fortunately the existing toolbox of techniques precisely designed to estimate the effects was offered.

https://business.columbia.edu/sites/def ... sion_2.pdf

The flaw we suggest is already known. Transfer costs. Data sets to correct are available and as known ignored in Avarice and Hubris.
Lie cheat steal with appropriation.

All eight Democrats on the House Rules and Legislative Administration Committee voted against the measure,
dead‑locking the committee 8‑8 and preventing hearings, subpoenas,
or further probing of the massive state‑wide fraud scandal that officials estimate cost taxpayers up to $19 billion.

Nationwide reports indicated half is over 500 Billions.