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I don't know anyone that ever went to TC for beer but every now and then a fast cheap margarita and chips after a long day at the river wasn't so bad
I'll probably have to check them next week, ing macho cheddar cheezy and macho nachos sound awesome.
I don't know anyone that ever went to TC for beer but every now and then a fast cheap margarita and chips after a long day at the river wasn't so bad
Yeah I've gotten takeout recently from Longhorn steakhouse but there's no ing way I'm buying their expensive drinks to go.
I don't see the casual or fine dining restaurants lasting this way too much longer
I haven't been to SA in years, but when did TCs start using liquor in their drinks? iirc their "margaritas" were made with wine
I remember back in the day going to the Tacasita on SW Military (cannot recall if it was that or the Taco Cabana). I haven't been to one in a long time obviously.
Dunno. I never went often enough, never asked. Probably after the corporate buyout
Yves Smith with the helicopter money update at Naked Capitalism.
If the Fed really is winding down QE4 right now, maybe it actually learned something from the 2008-9 financial debacle.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020...-in-march.htmlTotal assets on the Fed’s balance sheet rose by only $83 billion during the week ending April 29, to $6.656 trillion. That $83 billion was the smallest weekly increase since this show started on March 15, and down by 86% from peak-bailout in the week ended March 25...
...The Fed is thereby following its playbook laid out over the past two years in various Fed-head talks that it would front-load the bailout-QE during the next crisis, and that, after the initial blast, it would then cut back these asset purchases when no longer needed, rather than let them drag out for years.
I think the airplane bottles on the side are a fairly new wrinkle. It looks like TABC will allow everybody to sell booze to go, we'll see.
What a mess.
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's $660 billion small business rescue program has stumbled on missing paperwork, technology failure, and the misdirection of funds to big corporations. Now, it is lurching toward another hurdle: forgiving those hastily arranged loans.
The second round of the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program launched on Monday, allowing lenders to issue forgivable, government-guaranteed loans to small businesses shuttered by the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Smoothing the forgiveness process is critical for the program to succeed, but a lack of government guidance on the related calculations and necessary do entation could land borrowers and banks alike with billions in unexpected debts..........
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKBN22D598
Basically they still don't have the forgiveness rules down just yet.
they had liquor margaritas before the shutdown
at the to go window?
Survey Shows Pandemic’s Severe Impact On U.S. Small Businesses
Small-business owners across the United States were struggling with pandemic-related disruptions and
had already laid off large numbers of employees by the time Congress passed its initial relief package
businesses owners have become increasingly pessimistic about their company’s prospects despite federal relief efforts.
It also provides evidence that owners of the smallest businesses — those with fewer than 10 employees —
are often unaware that state and federal aid programs exist.
Even when owners are familiar with government programs,
their misconceptions may have discouraged them from participating.
More than 60% of respondents reported laying off at least one employee due to the pandemic, and
31% stated that they expected to have layoffs within the next 60 days.
A quarter of respondents don’t expect to ever recover, and
31% reported believing that they have a 50% chance of going bankrupt or out of business within the next six months.
https://scienceblog.com/516042/resea...nceBlog.com%29
Thanks to the Trash-made Trump Pandemic
Some Small Businesses That Got Aid Fear the Rules Too Much to Spend It
Requirements for using federal coronavirus loans are complicated and confusing for owners.
“It’s chaos,” one lawyer said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/business/economy/loans-coronavirus-small-business.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20200503&i nstance_id=18186&nl=the-morning®i_id=80821797&segment_id=26501&te=1&use r_id=992d608214b505003aa04bf10a595031
GOP’s Coronavirus Stimulus Priority: Make Workers Poorer, Less Safe
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump administration and congressional GOP have made preserving the (im)balance of power between capital and labor one of their top priorities.
1. Republicans’ top priority for the next coronavirus relief bill is to immunize employers who violate workplace safety standards from the threat of lawsuits.
2. To ensure that recently laid-off workers have no choice but to accept jobs in hazardous workplaces, Republicans are vowing to slash federal unemployment benefits.
3. Republicans have refused to endorse Democrats’ proposals to provide hazard pay to frontline workers (let alone to put upward pressure on wages for all workers by raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour).
4. McConnell hopes to starve blue states of aid until they are forced to cut the pensions of public workers.
5. Labor secretary Eugene Scalia is trying to deny unemployment benefits to as many Uber drivers as possible.
6. Trump’s Labor Department is also refusing to enforce CDC guidelines for workplace safety.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020...liability.html
Here's How The Small Business Loan Program Went Wrong In Just 4 Weeks
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/04/84838...n-just-4-weeks
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz wants Congress to extend coronavirus funds to chambers of commerce
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/poli...itics_05052020
"The SBA last night did extend by one week, until May 14,
its "safe harbor" deadline for some companies to return PPP money without question.
As for those companies that want to keep the money?
“It’s not acceptable to rely on your initial application and what you knew at the time because they have revised the guidance,”
said Aaron Cutler, a partner in the government relations and public affairs practice of Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C.
“They changed it. You have to go back and do another analysis and decide if you can keep the funds or not,”
Cutler told The Business Journals.
-- National Observer email
Will SBA name-and-shame those unqualified companies who don't return the $Ms?
It was Trash's SBA that ed up and sent the money to unqualified companies
Millions of truly small businesses are dead or dying, and won't be back, leaving American business culture degraded and impoverished.
Trash taking the side of Capital and oligarchy against Labor
In a recent Fox News town hall, Trump said,
“We’re not doing anything without a payroll tax cut.”
The oligarchy's eternal war to kill Social Security so people will have
to move the retirement to fee-and-wealth sucking BigFinance,
as part of the oligarchy's undoing all of FDR's For The People laws,
iow, to totally privatize ALL retirement savings.
"anything" is any more "counter-cyclical" govt spending to offset the The Trump Pandemic recession
Crushing the States, Saving the Banks:
The Fed’s Generous New Rules
The new terms could be harnessed for local governments to own and operate their own banks.
Congress seems to be at war with the states.
Only $150 billion of its nearly $3 trillion coronavirus relief package – a mere 5% – has been allocated to the 50 states;
and they are not allowed to use it where they need it most, to plug the holes in their budgets caused by the mandatory shutdown.
Banks can now borrow effectively for free, without restrictions on the money’s use.
Following the playbook of the 2008-09 bailout, they can make the funds available to their Wall Street cronies to buy up distressed Main Street assets at fire sale prices,
while continuing to lend to credit cardholders at 21%.
The Fed has opened a Municipal Liquidity Facility that may buy their municipal bonds,
but this is still short-term debt, which must be repaid when due.
Selling bonds will not fend off bankruptcy for states and cities that must balance their books.
States are not legally allowed to declare bankruptcy, but Sen.
McConnell contended that “there’s no good reason for it not to be available.”
He said,
“we’ll certainly insist that anything we borrow to send down to the states is not spent on solving problems that they created for themselves over the years with their pension programs.”
And that is evidently the real motive behind the bankruptcy push.
McConnell wants states put through a bankruptcy reorganization
to get rid of all those pesky pension agreements and the unions that negotiated them.
But these are the safety nets against old age for which teachers, nurses, police and firefighters have worked for 30 or 40 years. It’s their money.
It has long been a goal of conservatives to privatize public pensions, forcing seniors into the riskier stock market.
Today political opportunists are using a crushing emergency that is devastating local economies
to downsize the public sector and privatize everything.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2...rous-new-rules
SBA slashes disaster-loan limit from $2 million to $150,000, shuts out nearly all new applicants
Congress gave the disaster loan program more than $50 billion in new funding in recent relief bills
to offer quick-turnaround loans to businesses slammed by the coronavirus pandemic.
But by many accounts, it is failing spectacularly.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...=nl_tyh&wpmk=1
So broke companies, cash-short are supposed to just open up and not need any SBA support, so more tax cuts for oligarchy.
Ms of SMBs will fold, leaving the economy even more concentrated under the non-compe ive thumb of BigCorp
^ even being approved for a loan might not be worth accepting it with all the stipulations
yep, BUNGLED badly by Trash
search "ppp risk confusion"
The White House signals a pause on coronavirus aid, even as the economic situation becomes more urgent
Taking a timeout on economic relief is a risk the country can’t afford.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/5/3/21245815/larry-kudlow-cnn-jake-tapper-state-of-the-union-coronavirus-stimulus
‘It’s devastating’ —
Jobs number will be bad,
but the reality is actually much worse,
warns the Fed’s Neel Kashkari
https://www.marke ch.com/story/its-devastating-the-jobs-number-will-be-bad-but-the-reality-is-actually-much-worse-warns-the-feds-neel-kashkari-2020-05-07
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