I believe non-ESG businesses will outperform ESG businesses, all else being equal, so I'm on board! How could the companies that hire based on merit and focus exclusively on their business lose to the less talented, perfectly rainbow-colored companies who split their focus between their business and...

There is no end to the doomsday scenarios our brains can think up for any asset class But as we know https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-rfnzmq4/0/2a973f32/M/i-rfnzmq4-M.jpg Good point and totally agree. I'd like to think that my anxiety has access to a decent model of reality. Are we really worryi...

Is this a power we want the feds to have? In return for giving them this power, they are supposed to provide price stability. How is that going? Congress created that money, not the Fed. They spent it into existence. Without the Fed, Congress could (and did, before the Fed existed) just as easily s...

The money supply expansion during the COVID-19 pandemic was mostly saved until economies fully re-opened, at which point it unleashed a wave of demand that interacted quite poorly with the the unusual combination of labor shortages, raw material and energy shortages caused by the war in Ukraine, sh...

There are always stories about how "this time it's different". At some point it will be different....for stocks, bonds, LTT's, gold, etc. The question is how much do you want to bet on it (any instance of "it")? Exactly. Thus far it seems obvious that the prevailing economic env...

Although most people on the forum now tend to dismiss Budd, either I missed or there never was a great response to his opinion. If we are actually in a multi-year trend of slowly rising interest rates, what will keep the PP or any Risk Parity portfolio from having the losses we have seen this year ...

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 7:00 am Best laid chips

You're welcome. I truly love it. I don't feel like I worked a day in 2019 (got hired to do it full-time). We won't be underrated for long because we're going to take over the world muahahahahahahaha 8) The latest Debian stable made the mistake of freezing with Plasma 5.14.5, which was not an LTS ve...

Thanks everyone.

Maybe this is an indication that the CPI understates inflation. Michael Saylor makes the point that inflation is not a scalar, it is a vector. The more luxury the good, the greater the inflation, e.g. cost of an Ivy league education has outpaced CPI. Owning a home is a bit of a luxury, so I would ex...

Thanks! It went well. It took me three failed interview attempts, but on the fourth I succeeded. I feel better about inflation now; I did my part for my family. Great news!! Were the positions higher paying than your prior or did you have to negotiate salary? I don't think I made it to the salary n...

In my conception, freedom is not an immutable fact graven in nature and on the heart of man. It is not inherent in man or in society, and it is meaningless to write it into law. The mathematical, physical, biological, sociological, and psychological sciences reveal nothing but necessities and deter...

I'm applying to higher paying jobs. I spent 10 years at my last job, but after 1 year at my current job, this Biden economy has me begrudgingly interviewing again. I'm quite happy with my current position, but this inflation has me feeling like the frog slowly cooking in a pot. I’m sorry to hear it...

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 8:15 am Thank you, Spambot, for reminding me to post here.

It appears that Session has made some security concessions, which is bizarre.
I’m sticking with other apps.

I'm partial to Signal.

I remember hearing a narrative that we are actually in a secular deflationary environment - that's why all the government money printing was only getting us 2% inflation (until last year). But fund managers are always good at talking a good story....hence the appeal of a risk parity portfolio which...

#3, paper no, voter ID yes, single day voting also no...rationale: we should make voting easier not harder for real people. Built properly, electronic voting would be extremely hard to hack if not impossible. Safer than paper. BITCOIN lovers, step in here please. Your moment to shine/brag up the te...

2. Regarding TIPS: There's leeriness about them on this board for various reasons, including their poor performance vs. LTT's during the '08 financial crisis, their very short history and the old "don't buy your fire insurance from the arsonist-in-chief" argument. I used to buy into those...

http://voluntaryist.com/backissues/070.pdf

Print it out, read it in your easy-chair.

Scratch that, it's not printing correctly.

https://badnarik.org/michael-badnarik-1954-2022/ wrote:My spirits are high. I have absolutely no regrets. There is nothing on my bucket list that I have not accomplished… in style. If it is possible to have lived a perfect life, I have done it.

Xan wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 2:49 pm It doesn't seem appropriate for Disney to advocate marketing homosexuality to kindergarteners.

Regardless, it's Disney that's out of its lane here, no?

Yeah, I don't think that's appropriate either. However, we're not talking about making Walt Disney president.

What's the case against DeSantis? From what I read about his actions against Disney, he seems like a thug. Before he made the bill law, DeSantis said of Disney: “You’re a corporation based in Burbank, California, and you’re going to marshal your economic might to attack the parents of my state? We ...

Perhaps the left wing people are more willing to eat produce with insects, bird droppings, fungi, and assorted weed material. Just kidding - sort of! I worked for a large agricultural company that made herbicides, fungicides and insecticides. Extensive tests showed the vegtables and such produced u...

So the question would be for those who voted for him once or twice .... why not this time around? What did he do and when for him to finally lose your vote? I didn't vote for him, but my beef is that he had his chance. He got his opportunity to drain the swamp. Let's give someone else a shot. This ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q86f4ZsvJ6I

Hopefully we get at least one viable candidate between the two main parties. I couldn't bring myself to vote for either the last two presidential elections. I'll vote for nearly anyone the R's put up except for Trump or Desantis.