Pug, chill. Where on earth did I say being wealthy disqualifies you from office? I said enriching oneself while in office….big difference. Boebert is a strange character. I merely am looking for whether there is any truth to her reported 40 million dollar net worth that she most certainly didn’t hav...

Does changing it to inquiring about Pelosis reported 120 million dollar net worth make it a more palatable topic? Should there be laws regarding politicians enriching themselves from public office? Does it not reek of rampant corruption? And if true, how on earth does one reform this given the state...

Read report that Lauren Boeberts net worth is over 40 million. Anyone have evidence regarding this? If true how on earth does this legally happen?

Definitely aware that organic pesticides and methods of growing are not necessarily healthier or safer. It's a mistake to think natural equals safer or better. The point I'm trying to make is that it strikes me as strange that conservatives don't seem to want to conserve anything......in many ways t...

It might be a pipe dream, but I would simply like to see: - A government that represents the people its supposed to serve instead of global corporations, special interests, and the elites. Main Street instead of Wall Street. - A government that follows the rule of law and is held accountable when i...

I do have to appreciate Bill Maher's live and let live philosophy. Russell Brand is another liberal that has been pro freedom. I think there are plenty of left wingers that feel this way it's just that they don't make for good material for Fox news to use to rally the Republican base. I'm completel...

John Mackey has never been a 'leftist'

Another head scratcher for me....why are natural and organic grocers and health food stores generally associated with left wing? Wouldn't conservative food practices look more organically Amish than Monsanto and syngenta?

The left has the wokesters and the right has the conspiricists. They are equally terrifying from my perspective. The reason I currently vote democrat is because I feel like the wokesters have less of a grip on the Democratic party than the rights brand of crazy does on the Republican party. My guess...

Sheer curiosity...

I just recently came across Bill Maher's work again after decades of not following him. His criticisms of the extreme left are so much more effective than anything I have ever heard out of traditional right wing media. I think his might be a voice that almost everyone on this board could get behind....

I can't say, but I think as long as people are struggling to get by energy should be as cheap as possible. The alternative is rich people removing the ladder that got them there. Life is struggle….no matter how far the human race advances in living standards we will just keep moving the goalposts a...

Haven't read the contents of inflation reduction act so can't comment on it's effectiveness but what role does leadership or legislative action play in moving humanity into a new era of energy production? Their role should be to get out of the way. Energy is already one of the most regulated indust...

Not to try to push this conversation too far off on a tangent, but is there some recognition that failure to transition off fossil fuels could have massive inflationary impacts in the not too distant future? Haven't read the contents of inflation reduction act so can't comment on it's effectiveness ...

I don't have an issue with Mathjaks criticism of the portfolios performance as it's mostly just objective performance numbers at this point. What I don't understand though is his unwillingness to consider that perhaps his investing lifetime encompassed an exceptionally prosperperous time for stocks ...

I think Mathjaks analysis is a bit clouded by recency bias as well as analyzing outcomes specific to one country blessed by exceptionally favorable circumstances and demographics. The performance of the stock market in the United States over the course of Mathjaks lifetime has been truly incredible....

But if you're right and the whole world ends up like Japan, wouldn't we be ecstatic? Japan is a wonderful place: politically stable, high income, high standard of living, high life expectancy, good education, good health care, reasonably affordable, advanced transportation infrastructure, ease of a...

I'm not as optimistic about renewables as you are. I'm sort of in the camp that fusion is our best option with maybe nuclear as a bridge. Wind and solar are intensive in terms of input energy for mining, manufacturing, installation, and come with a host of highly polluting processes in production an...

Interesting and telling that in terms of returns, the 100% stock portfolio was the best overall (at least in the USA; negligible difference in the UK example). This pretty much supports my thinking over the past couple of years that the best long-term portfolio is 100% stocks. If you don't want to ...

Follow up interview:



https://youtu.be/8St36RjHd2E

Well worth watching. Most lucid, well researched and informative thing I've seen to date regarding this space

https://youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g

Man, I don't know. I keep running into business people and businesses that are desperate for workers. And big wage increases. I'll spare you the anecdotes, but they are everywhere. My prediction, inflation soon and bigger than you expect. So will that be stagflation? Seems like a plausible scenario...

I guess that inflation fear mania really signaled a buying opportunity for long bonds. What say all the interest rate vigilantes now?

From the longevity studies I've seen and the scientists I've listened to...lately David Sinclair...what you eat by and large comes second to frequency of feeding in that smaller feeding window coupled with calorie restriction (while simultaneously maintaining complete nutritional intake) will delive...

Main reasons I'm not interested in having kids:

Expensive
Too much responsibility
Future too uncertain

In the US, more people are entering their peak spending/reproducing/earning years But they dont seem to be reproducing...and children are one of the primary reasons driving housing and spending. To me it seems that relative to 60 years ago we have strongly declining demographics. How long it takes ...