 dish! It is a digestive aid that also aids in the elimination of natural toxins in the body by liquifying ama (toxic build up). Ginger has a warming effect on the body, helping to reduce excess kapha dosha and vata dosha. It also supports healthy circulation, regulates blood pressure, and promotes cleansing.
Each of the Ayurvedic doshas can experience bloating. In order to remedy this all too common imbalance, it’s good to know which type of bloating or doshic imbalance you are experiencing.
The vata dosha is composed of the elements, air and space, making it the dosha more susceptible to experience bloating. Bloating due to a vata dosha imbalance tends to feel more airy and expansive and can be alleviated by passing gas or releasing the excess air that has congregated in the stomach.
If you suffer from this type of bloating after eating a meal, it’s always a good idea to write down what you ate for that meal as well as your emotional state while eating, as our mindset can also play a huge part in the proper function of our digestive system.
For relief from this type of bloating after a meal, try sipping on fennel tea directly after your meal, as this simple remedy will help alleviate gas build up.
If you suffer from this type of bloating regularly, try cumin tea or adding cumin to any dish you are cooking, as cumin stimulates the secretion of digestive enzymes and accelerates the digestion process, thus helping you eliminate bloating.
Note: It is recommended to drink tea first thing in the morning on an empty stomach.
The pitta dosha is composed of the elements, fire and water, and normally does not bloat as often due to its robust agni or digestive fire. Bloating due to a pitta imbalance is usually caused by inflammation and can feel sharper in nature and sensitive to touch. This can make it feel difficult to bend over or even button pants.
For relief from this type of bloating after a meal, try sipping on caraway tea directly after your meal, as this simple remedy will help good bacteria properly digest the food. It also helps to relax the intestinal tract to alleviate gas build up.
If you suffer from this type of bloating regularly, try golden milk tea or adding turmeric to the food you are preparing, as turmeric holds anti-inflammatory properties which can help reduce any symptoms of inflammation.
The kapha dosha is composed of the elements, earth and water, which can cause a bloating that feels heavy and very uncomfortable. The heaviness associated with kapha bloating also causes everything in the body to slow down, including circulation. This means that another signal the body is giving us when experiencing a kapha imbalance is an overall feeling of being cold.
Whether you experience this type of bloating after eating or regularly, try adding ginger to the mix. You can chew on fresh ginger or pickled ginger, make ginger tea, or add it to any dish that you’re preparing, as the enzymes in ginger can help break up and expel gas as well as stimulate movement in the digestive tract.
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It's Deja Vu all over again on Wall Street
Mark Twain once said, “History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes.”
Karl Marx once said, “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
Which one is right? They are both right in this case.
Those of you who watched The Big Short know that the original instrument of fraud for the 2008 crash was subprime mortgages bundled in a collateralized debt obligation (CDO).
Welcome to 2017..
CDO. CLO. You say "tomato". I say "institutionalized fraud".
You say "potato". I say "systemic risk".
It both rhymes AND is a farce..
I could say something here about regulatory capture, but then we would have to mention Congress.
So where is this AAA-rated subprime junk coming from? One place is the auto industry.. Like last time, the risks are spreading as they’re bundled into securities for investors worldwide.
...Wall Street has rewarded lax lending standards that let people get loans without verifying incomes or job histories. For instance, Santander recently vetted incomes on fewer than 1 out of every 10 loans packaged into $1 billion of bonds, according to Moody’s Investors Service. The largest portion were for Fiat Chrysler vehicles.
Some of their dealers, meantime, gamed the process so low-income borrowers could drive off in new cars, prosecutors said in court documents.
Through it all, Wall Street’s appetite for high-yield investments has kept the loans — and the bonds — coming
I really hate sequels.
Wait a sec. How is this possible? (other than regulators refusing to do their jobs)
Congress passed Dodd-Frank. Wasn't that supposed to stop this fraud?
I've got a joke about this, and the punchline is a real killer.
Back in 2010, when Congress adopted rules designed to limit the lending excesses that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis, auto dealers managed to carve out an exemption for themselves.
Oh goody.
It should be noted here that the real subprime problem isn't auto loans. It's student debt..
I should point out that $1.34T is larger than the subprime mortgage market in 2007, which had roughly the same rate of defaults.
But never fear.
Despite the seemingly grim trends, economists are not especially alarmed.
In general, they believe the subprime debt situation shows little danger of spiraling into a similar situation as the financial crisis.
Their complete failure to see the financial crisis coming aside.
Just in case you were feeling nostalgic about the old day, Wall Street has something for you too.
Brokers willing to learn the lost art of making risky mortgages are in demand again. Brandon Boyd was a high school junior during the financial crisis. Now, the former Calvin Klein salesman is teaching mortgage brokers how to make subprime loans...
Now, small and midsize independent lenders want the brokers back. Nonbank lenders that typically cater to riskier borrowers say they need brokers to fan out across the country and arrange mortgages to people with lower credit scores, or who can’t prove their income through a typical tax return.
In the first quarter, nonbank lenders accounted for about half the mortgages originated in the U.S., according to industry publication Inside Mortgage Finance.
Hurray! We've learned absolutely nothing.
Bailing Out College "Smartasses" Like Me Is Going to Go Over
real well with the blue collar crowd.
Wow, this is like a debtors prison legislative initiative.
"Entitled college kids stole your future. They should pay for it."
Ought to rouse the 23%, for sure, and could get widespread traction with many demographics.
If I were running this show, I'd throw it all on the lazy entitled freeloading college kids. I'd be rid of smart, traveled people and intellectualism in one fell swoop.
I'd then go after time. Time wasted, time spent inappropriately in relation to your debtload.
And I'd have masses of RWers and many minorities voting for me in droves.
Gulp.
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
Here's Max and Stacy:
Nobody could have foreseen...
that letting criminal Wall Street bankgangers get away with their sins meant they'd go out and sin again. Nobody could have foreseen that.
OTOH, I'm in the market for a used car, so if the bubble bursts, there'll be lots of choices available at fire-sale prices.
BTW, here's a nice resource for loan default statistics.
S&P/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices
Clicking on a chart heading, Auto Default for example, takes you to a details page where you can adjust the time frame to see up to 10 years of data.
FFO,
that's Feckless Fucking Obama let the bastards who committed fraud walk free. Then on top he smiled and accepted his "Peace Prize" while millions, some 8 to 10 million estimated, lost their homes.
But I'm supposed to vote Dem because they're better than the R's.
How exactly are they better?
Dear Dems: You lost the WH, Senate, House, dozens of governors, state level SOS and AG and about 1,000 state legislative seats. Maybe...you're doing something wrong.
Why, they're better at stealing
@lizzyh7
Exactly! And they also used to be the charming, con man type of psychopaths, although it seems that Obama may have been the last of those...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
BLUE COLLAR KIDS
Dont be so sure on the ire of the