tax policy toward the rich should have nothing to do with the interests of the rich, per se, but should only be concerned with how incentive effects change the behavior of the rich, and how this affects the rest of the population. . . . Or to put it a bit more succinctly, when taxing the rich, all ...

I’m shocked. I had no idea JacksonM was a Muslim woman! I have only a high school education in grammar. How could I have better said what I did to indicate I was not the Muslim woman I was talking about and avoid the confusion? Sometimes there's not really much that can be done. And just because so...

ochotona wrote: ↑Sat Jan 05, 2019 10:23 amGood lord, where do you get 2.35% at a local bank money market? Marcus online pays 2.05%, Ally online is 2.0%.

A couple of days ago Marcus cranked it up to 2.25%.

Can't it be said that statism is the emergent order that forms out of anarchy?

Allen,

I believe maturity would be calculated correctly if you used zero in the formula you gave. You're right that "that part" of the formula will always be zero, but the amount that's zero will be the percentage of your portfolio that's in cash. That's exactly what you're looking for!

A belated Merry Xmas and happy new year to you, Budd. It's not belated; Christmas is twelve days long, starting Christmas Day. There's a song about it and everything. Fair enough. O0 So are you celebrating the other eleven days, beside the partridge and turtledoves and whatnot? Well, the tree is up...

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Dec 27, 2018 8:53 am A belated Merry Xmas and happy new year to you, Budd.

It's not belated; Christmas is twelve days long, starting Christmas Day. There's a song about it and everything.

Thanks, Ad O. And a merry (early) Christmas to you too!

My first book as a publisher, "The Fractal Man", by J. Neil Schulman (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D994VRQ), has been nominated for the Prometheus Award for Best Novel of 2019! Wow, Tech, that's a big deal! Congratulations. Is this different from being a "finalist"? When...

I disagree. Just because you don't believe in organized religion, or any God for that matter, does not mean there is no meaning or purpose to life. Meaning and purpose is what you make of it. Well, a couple of things on "Meaning and purpose is what you make of it": 1) This is a religious ...

If there isn't God, then there is no right or wrong anyway. I don't understand that statement. The 'Golden Rule' is a good place to start. My kids, like Corto's, were raised in a non-religious setting, but clearly know the difference between right and wrong and are very moral individuals. I am not ...

So you are saying we pragmatically have organized ourselves into societies that have determined what is right and what is wrong and those beliefs may no necessarily jive with God's right and wrong? If he made us in his image, I would think that what we've organized ourselves into is a pretty decent...

I agree that right and wrong can be learned without religion. Is there an absolute, objective right and wrong? That's much harder, right? Is the death penalty a good example? Death penalty is I assume against commandments. So anyone following the bible is 100% against the death penalty? For someone...

Not at all scolding here, but it's worth noticing that the Lively exit fee kept many of you with them long enough for them to respond. In retrospect, you may be glad that fee exists, and also by staying you're rewarding them from having the fee, even if you wish they didn't.

Well, you said, quoting me: Most importantly "This is all about something much deeper and more important, like what our situation is as human beings, how should we treat each other, is there such a thing as objective right and wrong," I agree 100%. I just did not need religion (personally)...

I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing, Corto. I'm asking what your source of objective morality in fact is, not how you learned what you currently believe to be right and wrong. What is the foundation of your belief of what's right and wrong? What is the source of your objective morality? ...

Thanks, Xan, I appreciate the thought out responses. Touching on a couple things from my experience, many times growing up I would sit through the part of the mass where the lines about eat of my body and drink of my blood come up wondering what an alien deposited on earth into a mass would think o...

Cortopassi wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 3:16 pm My PP at a low for the year now.

They have medicine for that now. :-)

I hope I can represent the answers correctly and faithfully! Serious questions from a non-religious person (me). --Was there something about the time period 2000 years ago that God felt he needed his son down here? Vs. some other time period? I don't think it's any particular event or situation that...

jacksonM wrote: ↑Tue Dec 18, 2018 3:42 pm

Xan wrote: ↑Fri Dec 14, 2018 9:04 pm Would you say that you love God with all your heart, mind, and soul; and that you love your neighbor as yourself? Always?

No, I would not say that.

How about you?

Definitely I would not. I'm intrinsically self-centered and need to repent, as I believe we all are and do.

Would you say that you love God with all your heart, mind, and soul; and that you love your neighbor as yourself? Always?

It's been 25 years. Even if you don't care about the NFL or sports in general, this is an intriguing story about an upstart company making some amazingly gutsy calls to jump straight to the bigtime. https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2018/12/13/18137938/nfl-fox-deal-rupert-murdoch-1993-john-madden-terry-...

A college advisor once told me that a good SAT/ACT score won't get you in, but a bad one will keep you out.

Right, barrett, it seems that PS could just as easily put everything into T-bills.

As Top Gear proved, those trucks are nigh invulnerable.