Sorry, Vinny, I may have been unclear. I'm not asking for your opinion of Naomi Wolf. What is your opinion of what she is saying here? He didn't have an opinion on Naomi Wolf. Wikipedia did. It is my perception that Vinny has no opinion on anything and no ability to critically think on his own, onl...

Turns out Carlson said shot. Somehow I heard killed. My mistake, not his.

Vinny, you often seem to strongly to see the forest and not the trees, imo. When you encounter an erroneous statement, your whole focus goes there, to the detriment of a bigger picture. So yes, apparently they were wounded, not killed. Does that really change the significance of the event that much?...

It's good to know there is still a county where you can buy an average house under 300K. Actually I'm sure there are a lot of them, but most of the "good job" places are way above that. It's rough.

January 6th stands alone in the annals of our country's history. Balogna. :) I have to credit Tucker Carlson's segments for reminding me of this. In 1954 Puerto Rican separatists killed, yes killed, 5 members of the US Congress in the House. As far as a riot type thing, in the George Floyd riots in...

Releasing footage just to a guy on the right sure does sound like weaponization of government This morning I watched a couple of the Tucker Carlson segments. He has a very compelling case. The biggest thing he has shown is that exculpatory evidence against the "QAnon Shaman" was withheld from him a...

This is all political on both sides. They are distressed by the efforts by MCarthy and Carlson to mitigate the perceptions, because of all the police who were injured. During all the “mostly peaceful” antifa riots, did the mainstream media spend much time on how many police were injured? No doubt th...

whatchamacallit wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 05, 2023 12:01 pm

Here is this question answered by Burton Malkiel at the beginning of this year:

https://youtu.be/n9sVJQS5TXw?t=2343


The whole video is enjoyable and impressive coming from the 90 year old Burton Malkiel.

That’s great! And thanks for indexing it to the correct spot.

Sunday Times lab leak article, if you can access it. A nice recap of the past and current viewpoints.

https://apple.news/ApznaEknWQOGZ7ex_IAYLKg

Xan wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 03, 2023 11:11 am

Old people in the Senate isn't unprecedented.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying too.

There should be a fossil museum attached to the Senate.

You can read about it for hours on bogleheads. tldr you only need a handful of market makers. Even here many dont hold total market. They make sector and factor bets. I can see that making sense. I wonder how hard it would be for some big money to REALLY move some stocks, then. Maybe not a practica...

I could see a future where people who start companies don't incporporate, {etc} This is quite astute. I like it. One of the difficulties that would have to be overcome is that of obtaining capital. Investors would need some mechanism to guarantee their equity allocation. That doesn't sound unsolvab...

I think the militia types were a small part of the article, more of the sizzle than the steak. You'll get no argument from me about their potential effectiveness if directly confronting the US government. The govt does not do a lot of things well, but one thing they are great at is killing you if th...

Understood.

But, there has to be a market share inflection point, when the index funds have no underlying price discovery and things go crazy.

I get this free market and ramblings email from Jared Dillian, which I enjoy. Today's was about indexing being a time bomb. This is something I have thought for years. When everyone owns the index, it will no longer be a safe thing. I could not find a link so here is the actual text. Thoughts? Here ...

Thanks for the report, Vinny.
I hope other people can read it.

This is a long article in Vanity Fair that is a great read. I am posting it as a placeholder so I can come back later with more thoughts. It’s more about where the right wing is headed but also about the center. The right wing is not, as Vinny wrote, what the Republican Party does or says. And a lot...

Doug Casey, a lifelong successful speculator, likes to trade options. He likes the small easy gains. I can’t remember which way he trades except he says he plays the role of the casino and the other parties are more the gamblers. He also says most people can’t/shouldn’t try what he does. I found a ...

Doug Casey, a lifelong successful speculator, likes to trade options. He likes the small easy gains. I can’t remember which way he trades except he says he plays the role of the casino and the other parties are more the gamblers. He also says most people can’t/shouldn’t try what he does. I found a c...

Well, that video exactly illustrates my problem with Fox News. TC doesn't have anyone on record saying the things he is projecting onto the Biden administration. Yes, the administration is looking for racial equity problems everywhere. But there isn't much reason to think that someone said, hey, tha...

jalanlong wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 14, 2023 9:08 am

I Shrugged wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 13, 2023 7:03 pm

Correction, war is the biggest government program.

Not according to Politifact, unless you do not consider Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid to be programs.



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Ah, you ruined my bumper sticker.

Chat GPT?

Correction, war is the biggest government program.

I can’t view the article, but I’m familiar with the concept. I think your former boss was way too conservative on that. I agree. His other partner had no formulas like that for the salary / Sub S split. Were you a Sub S? If so, what was typically your split? In recently reading how health insurance...