Prof. Craig Evans Debates Rabbi Tovia Singer: Is Jesus the Promised Jewish Messiah? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGVochFzup4 Stand up routine aside, Singer presents Judaism as being 1) a caste based religion with an potential adoption for those willing to leave behind Jesus and adopt the mantle ...

Maybe if the "forget about" period is shorter than one day's market session. O0 Could you elaborate? The leveraged PP thread cataloged some of these "daily" ETFs and ETNs in use over long periods. While there wasn't a definitive explanation for the lack of observed decay, I beli...

I found this interesting thread and I agree with the conclusions reached at that time: http://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/variable-portfolio-discussion/vix/ But now with the VIX hitting 7-year lows and US Treasuries still near all-time highs, is anyone considering at least a partial substitution ...

Until the Ds figure out that working class people matter, and matter more than climate change and transsexual bathroom rights... IMHO, Jim Webb could have undercut much of Trump's support with the military, and, his platform would have been a perfect opportunity for the Democrat party to reconnect ...

While I'm against H1-B abuse, I still get solicited to apply for programming jobs even though I'm not even looking. Same here, though DBA work in my case. The decision to leave was not based on lack of opportunity or offers, but rather, the poisonous culture of IT (H1-B wage undercutting was a larg...

Also, what do you mean by "pressure?" Pressure to quit? Move? Take pay cuts? Could you elaborate on that? If you're genuinely curious: One cost of living increase and no pay raise in eleven years for everyone in our shop (other than senior management), regardless of performance reviews. F...

Please write to your Members of Congress to ask for H1-B visa program reforms, to prevent Americans workers from being replaced with low-wage indentured servants on H1-B visas. It's not just in tech, it's in almost every industry. It's here in the Texas oilfield, where the unemployment is rampant, ...

This is a very important question. If the money is coming from a tax-deferred retirement account, you may be able to roll some or all of it into a new tax-deferred account and let it continue to grow without paying taxes. Took a while for the details to come in, but much of the money *is* in tax de...

Thanks for the advice, all. Seems I was overthinking things. Having worked decades for every dollar now in my savings, it seems somehow wrong to receive this much free and clear ...like the Feds or state are poised to give it an imminent haircut. Guess I wouldn't be invested in the PP if I didn't ha...

My wife came into a 200k windfall and we'd like advice on how to invest it in a tax efficient manner. The money is inheritance from a recently deceased grandmother and will presumably be held in a taxable account. We're considering opening a brokerage account, however, we're not experienced in manag...

Bought 32 for $20 when Bitcoin was approximately .60 cents a piece (2011?). Sold the lot for around $700 or $900 (can't recall). Dollar-cost-averaged back in when the price was around $350 and now have $17,000 in unrealized gain. It'll be tempting to pay off what's left on the mortgage should Bitcoi...

Curious if any here have looked into using preferred stock for the fifth-leg of a Golden Butterfly. The following chart details the price of preferred stock in relation to historic interest rate changes: http://www.globalfinancialdata.com/gfdblog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Preferred-Stocks1.png As e...

That there is more to the universe than that which arrives through one's nose or eyes or touch is a proven scientific fact that I readily accept. The next step is realizing that there are things one will never know. Ever. For example, even if humanity sent a probe to the furthest regions of the uni...

Speaking only for myself, I am an ex-Christian and I never, ever bring up the subject of religion to anybody. When somebody else brings it up, I do get passionate about my unbelief in the things they assert are true with no evidence to back up their claims. I could just ignore it, to be sure, but t...

Facts i.e. things he has done: + Cabinet picks. Because he has chosen competent people and people who can clearly help with immigration issue, school choice, replacing Obamacare after repealed, taming the EPA, etc. Trump's tapping of Andrew Puzder for Labor Secretary is concerning with respect to t...

Liberals need to re-read that book. From what I can tell they are currently labeling ALL Trump voters, possible cabinet members and non-mainstream media as: -Racist -Sexist -Homophobe -Anti-Semite -Nazi -Alt-Right -White supremacist -Uneducated -Deplorable -Anti-Muslim I'm sure I missed a few, but ...

The problem *is* the insurance; adding more or different insurance schemes will not fix America's healthcare, IMHO. There's at least one field of medicine with procedures that decrease in cost year over year: cosmetic surgery. The reason? Insurance is not involved in these transactions. If a patient...

I'm probably stepping in it, but I think a contributing factor is whether the reader is "me focused, i.e. a taker" or "others focused, i.e. a giver". I think that is much more important that what a given poster says. I'll leave it at that. And for what it's worth, I enjoy your p...

Just a suggestion: If any poster here has a history of being annoyed by any other poster on this forum, please pre-emptively add them to the "Foe" list in "Control Panel -> Friends & Foes" so as to roll up their comments by default. I suggest trying this before calling for ba...

Wife and I donated to Trump several months ago and routinely receive e-mails asking us for input (which the campaign presumably uses to shape stated policy during the election cycle). Today we received a request for input on a Trump administration's cabinet. Here's how we answered: Secretary of Stat...

Prescott ( "Press-kit" ), AZ. Cooler weather, plenty of history, fair share of left-leaning inhabitants in a "Red" state. St. George, UT. Hotter weather, good demographics (like much of Utah), mix of left and right-leaning inhabitants. Butted up against Zion and Bryce national pa...

Sometimes a little corruption is a good thing :-) And perhaps a little inefficiency as well. As a thought, contrast the Venice of Italy with the Venice of California: http://allday.com/post/4478-the-hidden-history-of-the-now-paved-canals-of-venice-california/ .  Whether the paved-over or the gondol...

I see where you're going with this, but a lot of your questions are really inapplicable. Of course they didn't have a unified code of laws, property deeds, etc. They were a primitive people compared to European settlers. Not all of them were nomads, either. Quite a few tribes had permanent settled ...

If the United States "stole" anything it was barren land marauded by aboriginal nomads That's, uh, one way of putting it. Not to get sidetracked, but how else should one say it?  If the lands that would constitute the United States were "stolen" from aboriginal nomads, the quest...

I prefer to think of it as Karma given the fact the we basically stole about 1/4 of their country. Most of that 1/4 of Mexico's land was in fact unsettled due to the threat of Indians.  If the United States "stole" anything it was barren land marauded by aboriginal nomads, and certainly n...