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by Xan
Fri Jun 13, 2025 2:34 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
Replies: 2941
Views: 2038679

Re: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us

But I have a bias in that I'm one of those "Israel can do no wrong" people. Wow. Even I can’t say that. 😬 After what has been done to the Jewish people not in in World War II but before and after .. I totally support their "Never again." Greatly admire their extreme toughness in...
by Xan
Fri Jun 13, 2025 11:43 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
Replies: 2941
Views: 2038679

Re: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us

yankees60 wrote: Fri Jun 13, 2025 11:03 amFinally, one of the few times I agreed with Trump in what he wrote today.

What was that?
by Xan
Thu Jun 05, 2025 8:36 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Replies: 1386
Views: 1439756

Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

1. Why is that never brought up? Prange is well-known. Cannot answer that. I was well-documented in the book. It was all new to me at the time that I read it. But that does not conform with this, which states early 1941. https://www.perplexity.ai/search/according-to-gordon-prange-whe-LhfIgMs3QOWBd8...
by Xan
Wed Jun 04, 2025 4:35 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Replies: 1386
Views: 1439756

Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

I've never heard the 10 years figure either. Somewhere, probably this forum, I heard a theory that the U.S. knew the Pearl Harbor attack was coming. That's not impossible, but I just put it aside and never really took it seriously or thought about it again. Or at least, knew it might be coming. May...
by Xan
Wed Jun 04, 2025 7:24 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
Replies: 2941
Views: 2038679

Re: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us

Hello! I'm new on the forum. I just registered because I'm looking for informations to invest in cryptocurrencies. Thanks! Can you add any more details to make your story more believable? I discovered cryptocurrencies years ago but I was not interested to invest in them. I have some friends which b...
by Xan
Tue Jun 03, 2025 9:07 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Replies: 1386
Views: 1439756

Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

I agree. Obviously, Pearl Harbor has a tainted reputation, as it should. The U.S. was not a belligerent and anyway, was there anything particularly clever about it? I doubt many deaths occurred from the drone strike on Russia’s grounded fleet of bombers. Ukraine brought these drones in to Russia, l...
by Xan
Tue Jun 03, 2025 8:38 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
Replies: 2941
Views: 2038679

Re: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us

celia4 wrote: Tue Jun 03, 2025 8:25 am Hello! I'm new on the forum. I just registered because I'm looking for informations to invest in cryptocurrencies. Thanks!
Can you add any more details to make your story more believable?
by Xan
Fri May 23, 2025 6:57 am
Forum: Stocks
Topic: Other Peoples Money and High Frequency Bots
Replies: 4
Views: 3642

Re: Other Peoples Money and High Frequency Bots

Leverage and algorithmic trading now prevail in the majority of retail trading. High-frequency and algorithmic trading have been approximated to account for 40-70% of US equity volume traded. Such strategies are primarily executed by institutions through advanced, automated platforms, frequently at...
by Xan
Thu May 22, 2025 7:55 am
Forum: Stocks
Topic: The rise of China - global stocks in the PP
Replies: 15
Views: 9119

Re: The rise of China - global stocks in the PP

Yogi Berra wrote:It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.
by Xan
Tue May 20, 2025 5:58 pm
Forum: Bonds
Topic: "US States Likely to Defy US Downgrade to Keep Top Credit Ratings"
Replies: 6
Views: 7022

Re: "US States Likely to Defy US Downgrade to Keep Top Credit Ratings"

What you say makes sense but it seems that a municipal default is quite rare? Perhaps, but a default of an entity like the United States government has never happened. It might be impossible in theory. I should clarify that the United States have defaulted before, but not when using a system of fia...
by Xan
Mon May 19, 2025 2:40 pm
Forum: Bonds
Topic: "US States Likely to Defy US Downgrade to Keep Top Credit Ratings"
Replies: 6
Views: 7022

Re: "US States Likely to Defy US Downgrade to Keep Top Credit Ratings"

"Defy" I believe is the wrong word here; what they seem to be saying is that states will be keeping their pristine credit rating even as the federal government does not. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-states-likely-defy-us-163315923.html Does that really make a lot of sense, that the s...
by Xan
Mon May 19, 2025 10:14 am
Forum: Bonds
Topic: "US States Likely to Defy US Downgrade to Keep Top Credit Ratings"
Replies: 6
Views: 7022

"US States Likely to Defy US Downgrade to Keep Top Credit Ratings"

"Defy" I believe is the wrong word here; what they seem to be saying is that states will be keeping their pristine credit rating even as the federal government does not. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-states-likely-defy-us-163315923.html Does that really make a lot of sense, that the st...
by Xan
Thu May 15, 2025 9:46 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Forum availability
Replies: 15
Views: 3288

Re: Forum availability

Okay, I've determined that we've been under a distributed "Slow Loris" attack. Having deployed specific countermeasures to that, I should no longer need to be playing whack-a-mole with IP addresses.

No idea why anybody would want to shut down this forum, though.
by Xan
Fri May 09, 2025 2:13 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Signatures
Replies: 201
Views: 316594

Re: Signatures

Mountaineer wrote:Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. Psalm 146:3

Mountaineer, I'm pretty sure that's a son of man, not the son of man.
by Xan
Fri May 09, 2025 12:44 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Forum availability
Replies: 15
Views: 3288

Re: Forum availability

There have been a lot of robotic user registrations lately. 497 of 3,352 total accounts were registered in the past week. These accounts don't seem to be spamming the forum. The only effect seems to be that I'm getting a fair number of email bounces from registration confirmation emails. The email a...
by Xan
Wed May 07, 2025 8:38 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Forum availability
Replies: 15
Views: 3288

Re: Forum availability

Some men just want to watch the world burn.
by Xan
Wed May 07, 2025 8:20 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Forum availability
Replies: 15
Views: 3288

Forum availability

Hi folks,

Sorry about the recent availability issues. It looks like we're receiving a DOS attack from Singapore, Russia, and Vietnam. I've blocked a bunch of IP addresses.
by Xan
Wed Apr 09, 2025 8:22 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Trump is the kind of person who would sign an EO to...
Replies: 5
Views: 2854

Re: Trump is the kind of person who would sign an EO to...

Well if nothing else, I am thankful Trump has inspired me to read Bastiat. ;D <snip> There is no country in the world where the law is kept more within its proper domain: the protection of every person's liberty and property. As a consequence of this, there appears to be no country in the world whe...
by Xan
Thu Apr 03, 2025 10:56 am
Forum: Stocks
Topic: Stock Screener Recommendations
Replies: 5
Views: 12309

Re: Stock Screener Recommendations

nil wrote: Thu Apr 03, 2025 10:30 amThanks Blue_ruin

Can you elaborate on that, nil?
by Xan
Thu Apr 03, 2025 9:11 am
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Bridgewater All Weather ETF
Replies: 42
Views: 18322

Re: Bridgewater All Weather ETF

Smith1776 wrote: Thu Apr 03, 2025 9:00 am Equity markets have been declining but All Weather is up. Must be the bonds and gold.

TLT is up, but not by a whole lot. Gold seems to be down. How is All Weather up?
by Xan
Thu Mar 27, 2025 9:38 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Yet more (but not unexpected) amateur hour from Trump and his nothing but the best team!
Replies: 104
Views: 54356

Re: Yet more (but not unexpected) amateur hour from Trump and his nothing but the best team!

Doesn’t anyone think that Jeffrey Goldberg “spilling the beans”, perhaps to get a big story for the Trump haters, is a national security issue, possibly helping the enemy? I do agree that Waltz inadvertently (?) adding him to the chat was a huge error. I missed this before. I think he was performin...
by Xan
Wed Mar 26, 2025 5:51 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Greetings, I’m Tom.
Replies: 7
Views: 6669

Re: Greetings, I’m Tom.

dualstow wrote: Wed Mar 26, 2025 5:16 pm
Xan wrote: Wed Mar 26, 2025 4:09 pm I went ahead and banned the account, but left the post up.

Dualstow, I'm not sure I get the joke?
‘Bot’ backwards
har har
by Xan
Wed Mar 26, 2025 4:09 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Greetings, I’m Tom.
Replies: 7
Views: 6669

Re: Greetings, I’m Tom.

I went ahead and banned the account, but left the post up.

Dualstow, I'm not sure I get the joke?
by Xan
Wed Mar 26, 2025 12:15 pm
Forum: Gold
Topic: Gold Revaluation
Replies: 2
Views: 5474

Re: Gold Revaluation

There's not really any functional difference between doing that and just printing money, is there?
by Xan
Tue Mar 25, 2025 8:23 pm
Forum: Stocks
Topic: Stock Screener Recommendations
Replies: 5
Views: 12309

Re: Stock Screener Recommendations

Somehow I missed when this was posted earlier. I'm virtually certain that nil is a bot. How about it, nil?