Even those places that where people "are on thin ice" likely are fairly placid places, I would think. Let's remember that in the US there are 4000 col...
Current political narrative in the universities doesn't go hand by hand by those in political power. There is a loud minority in the academia made by ...
I remember some polling done in 2016 that found that Trump would have lost against any other candidate than Hillary. Against Hillary he had a chance. ...
Then again, catastrophic wars have boosted our technological advances profoundly. Furthermore, something like globalization and it's intercontinental ...
I've allways stated that if you go through university education and still are excited about what you have studied, remain motivated and have an open, ...
I think it means that Robinhood gives a way for Citadel to frontrun those who trade at Robinhood...if I got the meaning of the article correct. And ba...
The real cultural divide happens with how large is the "family", where do people draw the line in seeing as an obligation to help the elder person in ...
Do you see the similarity? When you say "The Dems never contested the results of the 2016 election, nor were there accusations of theft", I simply mak...
If nation states should have a logic to them. But they don't. The strength of the US is that the US means so many different things to different people...
LOL! Yeah right: See Hillary Clinton Maintains 2016 Election ‘Was Not On the Level’: ‘We Still Don’t Know What Really Happened’ And oh, she gave that ...
That people can live at their own home would be also one very important thing. We all hope that when the end comes, we still will be sharp in mind and...
Fear sells, of course, and there are those that have basically have found their niche as "permabears", yet if exclude those constantly and only talk o...
Usually it isn't an option that they decide not to take. Without an ample welfare net, the family in general has a far more important role to the indi...
But when a perpetrator gets his or her punishment? (Hope you don't mean that when it's expressed behind the victims/sufferers back) I don't think we e...
More like insanity, because you are shorting on how crazy people can be. And they can be far more crazy and for far longer than you can anticipate. Fa...
What he isn't is a Party leader. Period. (And yes, obviously the GOP doesn't have a leader now...) What he's interested is his own image, and even the...
The My Pillow guy? What you have is many people using him, riding on his wake. You see, Trump isn't a party leader. He isn't any kind of leader of peo...
Of course. But they are only thinking of how many of those 74 million or so that voted Trump are indeed "Trump loyalists" and think that the election ...
Many things look worryingly unsustainable. Not just the stock market and it's stellar performance during an economic crisis. However that doesn't mean...
Tell that to them. The fact is that never has been so much leverage been used in the stock market. https://static1.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2018/12/3/...
Generally yes, people are happy with the voluntary transactions they make. Yet tell that to someone that has to sell when they have gotten a margin ca...
Yet the portrayal of "David" defeating "Goliath", the "little people" shoving it to the hedge funds was excellent PR: it got people interested in the ...
Barter doesn't imply anything with currency. My lawnmover is worth x amount of your loafs of bread that we both agree on. Or that I mow your lawn for ...
The Quantity Theory of Money goes like this: money supply × velocity of money = price level × real GDP. If something is sold out, it doesn't mean that...
Other one is a continent, but the other a chain of Islands. But as both are quite able to restrict and survey those coming and going from there, it's ...
How so? Remember that spending is an transaction. There would be this just enormous bout of economic activity and yet afterwards the money would still...
Yes. Be an island in the southern hemisphere and be so lucky that the virus didn't reach your shores when COVID-19 still was "under the radar" as a pe...
This trade is called arbitrage and the traders arbitrageurs. And those traders aren't typically appreciated. That there's mispricing is the plain theo...
How monetary policy has become basically the method of assisting the stock markets and the financial market is explained quite well in this interview ...
More like professional wrestling. The media frenzy around it. Or likely how rules don't matter (naked short selling) and what odd things gets the atte...
Seems like gambling has replaced investing at least with some people. It has become a recreation. Compared to these times, in 1929 things were reasona...
The deflationary aspect in my view comes from the speculative bubble bursting or when it bursts. At least we do have the euphoria, which typically hap...
Oh, that sounds just like what an economist of the Finnish Central bank (when there was an independent one) said about the worst economic depression t...
Well, running around like their hair's on fire has been the new normal. I've already seen - a huge banking crisis, real-estate bubble bursting and eco...
The system works for him. Those that get the money before inflation kicks out are the winners in this World. Notice that there wasn't huge inflation i...
And more is coming... George Soros personally has argued the following (last year): See Opinion: Soros: The EU should issue perpetual bonds to fund th...
If you are buying a house to live in yourself, I agree. I did buy my present home with cash too: where you live, it's not an investment, actually. Onl...
Well, this symbiosis with the DNC has worked for them very well. The last thing the DNC and the GOP want is their duopoly on political power to be bro...
And not to just someone, but a specific vocal and dominant group that defines what is good or 'toxic' in the World we live today (among other things)....
How the GOP manages to wiggle out of the influence of Trump is obvious. Let the media and the democrats attack Greene, let Cheney and the other ten Re...
Mr Executive Order... I guess this has become a tradition in US politics, first days repealing the former presidents decisions, if that President came...
Well, interest rates are the lowest ever, like in thousands of years low. And creating mortrages is the most normal thing any bank will do. Buying rea...
Index funds likely inadvertently make the stock market even more volatile and pushing some stocks to very high prices, when you take into account that...
We had a President from 1956 to 1982 and only when totally incapacitated of old age did he retire. He won four terms in free elections and one extensi...
For starters, the P/E ratio would be a good indicator. Or if the company is near bankruptcy in a dead end business sector or not. :roll: https://www.y...
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