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It’s virtually impossible to buy a gun or get a carry permit within Chicago city limits. Even with a FOID card. There were 4,331 shooting victims and 762 gun murders there in 2016. They lost the landmark Supreme Court ruling McDonald v. Chicago, 561 U.S.742 (2010) and paid out a hefty...

Sounds exactly like the Russian - Trump election conspiracy promoters bs group think.

Relying upon the IAEA for nuclear weapons enforcement is akin to FIFA’s regulation of World Cup Soccer. Enforcement of the Iran deal was a farce. Did you know that France, China, Israel, Pakistan, India, North Korea, and Lord knows who else has developed an organic nuclear weapons under the...

Even the traders on the DRW desk just might think that’s an embellishment :D

Well, the deal was unanimously approved by the UN Security Council - which is composed of the P5 +1 nations; so, six votes ? I don’t think that the United Nations collectively voted. But you’re right - Obama wasn’t necessarily “on his own” outside the United States. But the Obama Executive...

I read the BBC article you cite differently - I think it details a dismissive condescending attitude the Europeans (P5+1) harbor towards Iran’s regional neighbors and the legitimate security stakeholders. Smacks of colonialism to me.

More precisely he’s regurgitating the BBC’s propaganda

It’s taken me about 18 months - but I’ve recently concluded that if I can separate Trump’s asshole pyrotechnical communications skills from the policies he’s implemented it is useful to help me understand. Trump has actually accomplished quite a bit on the policy front. And he has focused on...

Well, Obama’s oratory was unmatched. If your only qualification for ranking Presidential greatness is oratory then he’s the GOAT.

Here’s a nice primer on treaties from the US Senate website, it’s a short easy just the facts read: https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Treaties.htm Obama did what he did using the power of the pen because he’s a rather nihilistic man (much more so than Bush, Clinton...

If I might be allowed to kick it old school - IMO your scenario of world wide systemic economic collapse makes a better case for precious metals based upon a premium for liquidity, fungibilty, and more universal acceptance. Just an opinion.

Well stated.

Well, to be fair - the media, Hollywood, pundits, gun control advocates and politicos have held out the Australian example on high as the ultimate utopian solution for America. That’s why if the left is truly serious about actually controlling guns instead of scoring political points and...

That was tough to read - especially about the children. Family dynamics can get to be so toxic. Look at marriages - the first homicide suspect is always the spouse. It has always bewildered me as to how blood relatives can get to the point of violence like that against each other.

Cool. So the Yuan now has full float like the dollar or the franc or the euro ?

Apparently it does because it was. Technically any executive order can be rescinded or left in place by a subsequent executive unless codified into law by the legislature. Masterful, historically “greatest of all time” diplomatic agreements should have been approved by 2/3 Senate and formally...

It's easy to criticize the more senior ambassadors of financial markets as being too old to appreciate the technology aspect of cryptocurrenies. And that is a fair point. By the same token, we've seen some serious fungibility limitations and security issues with crypto that should not be...

What a refreshing, candid speech. Bravo to him.

Personally I think that touting a symbiotic, corollary relationship between successful trading and gambling has been historically just a tad overstated - maybe even gently abused. That's just me, FWIW. I'm fairly confident that I can state that a person can find a greater number and more...

To be fair, the left and likely most of the media is rooting for the Russians as well. They desperately and neurotically wish for there to be some sort of criminal Russian collusion conspiracy that brings down Trump. The left has a very ingrained pathological expectation of that narrative...