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...

We are not talking about "asking" Mexico to do anything. We are talking about issuing what is tantamount to an ultimatum backed by the threat of draconian economic sanctions. Any country would consider such a thing to be, if I may borrow a diplomatic phrase, a "hostile act." And...

I'm glad I'm holding several bitcoins as a "remittance-hedge". Day 1: President Trump announces suspension of cash and capital flows into Mexico from the United States. Day 2: Mexico announces a new treaty of friendship with Russia including the right to build a naval air station at Madero...

The Levite tribes of Christian love that show No care nor pity for a neighbor's woe; Who meet, each distant evil to deplore, But not to clothe or feed their country's poor; They waste no thought on common wants or pains, On misery hid in filthy courts and lanes, On alms that ask no witnesses but Hea...

[...] The lesson drawn by commentators is that it is fruitless to allow moralists to use criminal law to control intoxicating substances. Many now say it is equally unwise to rely on the law to solve the nation's drug problem. But the conventional view of Prohibition is not supported by the facts. ...

Every group in America would seem to need their own "Anti Defamation League" to get ahead of the media's near-endless libels.  As it stands, a tenth or a hundredth of the people who were lied to about Ferguson will ever hear the truth in arrears, the police and this nation's institutions w...

C I don't assume that the Democrats take the senate. It was just a hypothetical. I think it's likely that Trump wins the presidency and Republicans keep the senate. Throwing out principles, this is all tactical. Confirming Merrick is risk mitigation in case Hillary wins, because they can't and won'...

It's obvious that in the current climate and level of polarization, Republicans are never going to like a Democratic supreme court nominee, and the reverse is true too. However, despite this, Republicans confirmed Sotomayor and Kagan, and Democrats confirmed Roberts and Alito. Obama just isn't goin...

I find it odd that many of the Trump supporters on this forum are in favor of appointing a Supreme Court nominee, who, if nominated, will more than likely fight Trump on several of his signature issues: a border wall, a temporary ban on Islamic refugees, and a re-examination of birthright citizensh...

I find it odd that many of the Trump supporters on this forum are in favor of appointing a Supreme Court nominee, who, if nominated, will more than likely fight Trump on several of his signature issues: a border wall, a temporary ban on Islamic refugees, and a re-examination of birthright citizenshi...

I'm sort of astonished that Obama came up with a straight white guy for a nominee.  I was starting to think that there wouldn't be any more white male heterosexuals added to the court. There's a little more to today's ethnic/gender/sexual orientation circus than "straight and male".  Merr...

What leadership.  I believe it was the Spartan Agesilaus who said that fighting long wars is, in-effect, teaching one's enemies how to fight you.  Putin will likely been seen by posterity as one of the few strong Western leaders of this rotten era.

All that is fine other than the "lower" part. What is the criterion for "higher" and "lower"? I can't speak for PS, but I'm guessing "higher" and "lower" was meant in the economic sense, e.g. forgoing an area of "high-status" BMW 7-series ...

Slowly I'm coming to realize that I'm basically a class traitor. I am naturally a member of this elite class, and I happily benefit from the economic opportunities it affords me, but I don't like living in the kinds of societies it creates--fast-paced, exhausting, stratified, expensive, obsessed wi...

But she does have the blessing of the mass media.  Their "votes" count for a lot. Have you noticed that every published photo of Trump tries to make him look as bad as possible?  It's obvious the media doesn't like him, and that may even be quite understandable, but I'm thoroughly disgust...

The multiculturalism boat has sailed. We decided to be a multicultural society before there even was a United States of America, when the first African slaves were brought to this continent. American multiculturalism continued when the federal government failed to commit complete and total genocide...

But however we got here, we have a multi-ethnic society, and I think you have to tailor solutions to that reality.  I don't see how you can possibly talk about transforming a multi-ethnic society into an all-white society without the discussion turning dark pretty quickly. America has not yet "...

One of the things that made it so great was the diversity of cultures there, and the ability to experience them easily.  You could go down to Chinatown for dim sum lunch, or to Little Italy for late night coffee, the Ukrainian area on the east side, etc. The above arrangement sounds more like Apart...

These Americans want a kind of freedom—a freedom to hate. They want the freedom to use words like “nigger,” “kike,” “spic,” “chink,” “raghead” and “fag.” They want the freedom to idealize violence and the gun culture. They want the freedom to have enemies, to physically assault Muslims, undocumente...

Last paragraph, with which I agree wholeheartedly. There is only one way left to blunt the yearning for fascism coalescing around Trump. It is to build, as fast as possible, movements or parties that declare war on corporate power, engage in sustained acts of civil disobedience and seek to reintegr...

If only GTU had held out for a few more months the fund would likely be selling at a premium now, invalidating Sprott's under-performance claim.  What a shame.

Sorry if that all seems complicated.  When you try to talk about the flaws of our current tax-code and the benefits of one going forward, you essentially need to say WHY the current complications need to go rather than talking about "a few brackets" and getting rid of "some deduction...

Sorry if that all seems complicated.  When you try to talk about the flaws of our current tax-code and the benefits of one going forward, you essentially need to say WHY the current complications need to go rather than talking about "a few brackets" and getting rid of "some deduction...

You might look into PEO as well.  Been around since 1929 and currently trades at a 16% discount.  The discount, however, has been persistent and a decade ago stood at ~8%, but a sudden reversal of fortunes in the energy sector could cause it to narrow.  Fees, at 0.63%, are good for a CEF but a middl...

Still holding GTU as I'm not sure how long it will take Sprott to assimilate Gold Trust.  The discount has narrowed from when I bought in at ~9% (it's now 1.5% last I'd checked) so I'm already ahead, but it is possible we could see a premium given the recent worries in foreign markets.  While a prem...