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by Stewardship
Tue Aug 18, 2015 3:31 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Immigration / open borders debate
Replies: 38
Views: 15629

Re: Immigration / open borders debate

I like a lot of libertarian ideas, but implementability matters. The most beautiful, theoretically correct idea in the world isn't worth a hill of beans if it can't be implemented, which in politics means that it's supported by a majority or an extremely passionate, well-organized, well-funded, pol...
by Stewardship
Tue Aug 18, 2015 1:36 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Immigration / open borders debate
Replies: 38
Views: 15629

Re: Immigration / open borders debate

The program is rife with abuse. Of course it is.  Its a government program. Law abiding or not it doesn't matter. It matters to you.  Or at least it seemed earlier in this thread when you were pointing out illegals as a group have no respect for the law.  Would you say legal immigrants as a group h...
by Stewardship
Tue Aug 18, 2015 5:07 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Immigration / open borders debate
Replies: 38
Views: 15629

Re: Immigration / open borders debate

But the fatal flaw in highlighting them is the implicit assumption that these problems are somehow politically rectifiable with an infusion of libertarianism, as though a plurality or majority of the U.S. population is somehow going to become sufficiently libertarian as to cause the government to a...
by Stewardship
Tue Aug 18, 2015 4:55 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Immigration / open borders debate
Replies: 38
Views: 15629

Re: Immigration / open borders debate

Actually the government has made it relatively easy for people to immigrate legally and illegally. They just put the focus on bad immigration that helps large companies get cheap labor instead of citizens that want a stable and safe society. The H-1B non-immigrant visa requires employment in a spec...
by Stewardship
Mon Aug 17, 2015 5:50 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Immigration / open borders debate
Replies: 38
Views: 15629

Re: Immigration / open borders debate

If not, let me state for the record that open borders liberals/libertarians are idiots. Calling on govt to fix a govt-created problem... Who's the idiot now? Is this a trick question? No!  Government has made it very difficult for law-abiders to immigrate and very easy for law-breakers.  Like with ...
by Stewardship
Mon Aug 17, 2015 2:58 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Immigration / open borders debate
Replies: 38
Views: 15629

Re: Immigration / open borders debate

craigr wrote: If not, let me state for the record that open borders liberals/libertarians are idiots.
Calling on govt to fix a govt-created problem...

Who's the idiot now?
by Stewardship
Sat Aug 15, 2015 4:11 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Hillary's Private Emails: The Vise Slowly Tightens (What if...)
Replies: 27
Views: 9806

Re: Hillary's Private Emails: The Vise Slowly Tightens (What if...)

Ad Orientem wrote:
Mountaineer wrote: I think these two might get along too.  Might need a resurrection.  Looks like it will be a rather large party.

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Poor taste.
Don't be sexist.  Its perfectly fine for women to wear pantsuits.
by Stewardship
Sat Aug 15, 2015 4:06 am
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Speculative Rebalancing
Replies: 20
Views: 11477

Re: Speculative Rebalancing

jsnikeris wrote:
Well, when it Looks Like Rain, I want a rainy-weather portfolio.

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Understood.  So that chart makes it look like rain to you?
by Stewardship
Sat Aug 15, 2015 3:56 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Hillary's Private Emails: The Vise Slowly Tightens (What if...)
Replies: 27
Views: 9806

Re: Hillary's Private Emails: The Vise Slowly Tightens (What if...)

Mountaineer wrote: If it comes to pass, in the land of the woebegone SALs, I will most definitely have to do a poll of this illustrious forum members to determine the exact amount of booze required.  I would not want to have any left over that could be absconded by the derlicts in DC.  ;)
lol
by Stewardship
Fri Aug 14, 2015 6:11 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Speculative Rebalancing
Replies: 20
Views: 11477

Re: Speculative Rebalancing

After reviewing some of the literature on market valuation, it seems to me that the stock market is currently overpriced. I'm aware that an orthodox PP implementation eschews speculation of any kind, but how bad of an idea would it be to tactically underweight an asset class while still remaining w...
by Stewardship
Fri Aug 14, 2015 2:02 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Hillary's Private Emails: The Vise Slowly Tightens (What if...)
Replies: 27
Views: 9806

Re: Hillary's Private Emails: The Vise Slowly Tightens (What if...)

Desert wrote: If Trump and Hillary are both eliminated, I'll throw a major party at my place.
I think that is likely.  We'll be invited, right?
by Stewardship
Thu Aug 13, 2015 3:16 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Explain differences in property taxes
Replies: 24
Views: 7563

Re: Explain differences in property taxes

Also Nevada has no income tax and below-average property tax.
by Stewardship
Thu Aug 13, 2015 1:39 am
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Has gold lost to bitcoin?
Replies: 9
Views: 4394

Re: Has gold lost to bitcoin?

You can explore all the different methods of payment to exchange BTC for EUR, which range from paypal, skrill, moneybookers to sending gift cards, to sending cash by mail, to meeting in person, etc. all with an ebay style ratings system so you're not completely blind to who you're dealing with...an...
by Stewardship
Wed Aug 12, 2015 2:17 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Has gold lost to bitcoin?
Replies: 9
Views: 4394

Re: Has gold lost to bitcoin?

OTOH, there are plenty of ways to hide BTC and a ton of different ways to sell it locally and throughout the EU (ex: https://localbitcoins.com/country/GR). Your link shows a list of banks and Western Unions which would be closed. BTC's problems actually seem worse in your "crisis mode in a situatio...
by Stewardship
Wed Aug 12, 2015 4:39 am
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Has gold lost to bitcoin?
Replies: 9
Views: 4394

Re: Has gold lost to bitcoin?

No.

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by Stewardship
Mon Aug 10, 2015 5:26 pm
Forum: Gold
Topic: Predictions For The Bottom In Gold
Replies: 47
Views: 23815

Re: Predictions For The Bottom In Gold

Libertarian666 wrote: I'm pretty sure it won't go below $50/oz., because then the face value of $50 US gold eagles would be worth more than the gold content. :P
Then Austrian gold Philharmonics would be worth 2x as much as gold eagles.  :D
by Stewardship
Mon Aug 10, 2015 4:19 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: NYC Homeless Problem Vexes City Hall, Spurs Action (WSJ)
Replies: 20
Views: 6091

Re: NYC Homeless Problem Vexes City Hall, Spurs Action (WSJ)

Reub wrote: What is important is radical progressive/leftists Democrats & Republicans undermining our country by spending us into bankruptcy and opening up our borders to illegals wantonly. And in a million other ways.
FTFY
by Stewardship
Fri Aug 07, 2015 4:59 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: NYC Homeless Problem Vexes City Hall, Spurs Action (WSJ)
Replies: 20
Views: 6091

Re: NYC Homeless Problem Vexes City Hall, Spurs Action (WSJ)

Reub wrote: Btw, I believe Paul finished dead last in the post debate polling. Possibly all of his supporters were too stoned to cast a vote?
Perhaps they're voting instead for Hillary.
by Stewardship
Fri Aug 07, 2015 4:36 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: NYC Homeless Problem Vexes City Hall, Spurs Action (WSJ)
Replies: 20
Views: 6091

Re: NYC Homeless Problem Vexes City Hall, Spurs Action (WSJ)

Reub wrote: With Rand Paul as your face, libertarians are doomed to more decades of marginalism. Wow is he rude and angry!
I guess stating "I am not a libertarian" isn't enough to stop being the libertarian face, eh?

Fortunately a face isn't as powerful as an idea whose time has come.
by Stewardship
Sun Aug 02, 2015 11:51 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Killing Cecil The Lion
Replies: 52
Views: 16703

Re: Killing Cecil The Lion

I still don't see what the issue is.  People can still go see Cecil.

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by Stewardship
Sat Aug 01, 2015 2:37 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Killing Cecil The Lion
Replies: 52
Views: 16703

Re: Killing Cecil The Lion

TennPaGa wrote: A gold-plated hunting rifle with Cecil's image on it, for example, would be tacky. ;)
rofl
by Stewardship
Fri Jul 31, 2015 10:44 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Killing Cecil The Lion
Replies: 52
Views: 16703

Re: Killing Cecil The Lion

Pointedstick wrote: My own personal experience with dentists is that they can do more harm than good.
I'm beginning to suspect the same.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n7-Ry1bBCU
by Stewardship
Mon Jul 27, 2015 4:19 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Dems booed off stage for saying All Lives Matter
Replies: 23
Views: 10684

Re: Dems booed off stage for saying All Lives Matter

TennPaGa wrote: The solution to what?
The solution to offending others by saying "all lives matter" or the solution to being offended by it.