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I'm guessing you haven't ever started a business and certainly never one in the energy industry (I've done both, although I'm in electricity with a nexus to fossil fuels). First off, you don't make money on the crack spread or a pipeline, you make it on the stuff you get out of the ground...

I agree, this order is both a. Typical mealy mouth commission stuff and b. Would be completely absurd and naive if they actually planned to enforce it. Seriously, they had some staffers with full hindsight determine that the utilities shouldn't have been hedging is what was "clearly a declining...

If you're offshore and working with bucket shops anyway, then sure, you can transfer funds by trading against yourself at another account. Just find a very illiquid product with a massive bid/ask spread. Your gaining account offers the product a penny inside the current ask, making it the NBBO...

If there's anything wrong with it or not is an entirely different discussion (If you've ever lived in one the boom/bust cycles suck!). My point is that it's idiotic to compare the taxes and other economic policy in an extractive economy state with the taxes and other economic policy in a...

I was originally from Alaska, he moved back. A bit cray cray but story for another time! You definitely have to remove extractive industry income when considering economics like the impact of things like taxes on GDP. Take that away from Texas and what do you have? A pretty dynamic economy in...

If you haven't lived in the Bay Area it's impossible to convey how insane house prices are. I kind of laugh (not to diss you @srinir) when people say something like "houses cost $500K here, it's expensive" after living in the Bay Area where you can't get a studio condo for $500K and a minimally...

I was just quoting your post, the third one in this thread.

I'd challenge you on how you're thinking about causation, especially in the case of WA. It will probably institute an income tax, but not because it's become more liberal. Instead it's become more liberal because from the 70's on Boeing, MSFT, and Amazon have brought a synergy based economy to...

Since I grew up there 30 years ago! Looks like since around 1933 based on more empirical data (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_Washington_(state)) The east side of the state is definitely farm country conservative but since only a couple dozen people live over there and...

I actually wasn't surprise to see NC on the "exodus list" because they've actually got both in the Research Triangle area and Charlotte. That's a lot more credible to me than Florida, which always gets mentioned because of the no tax thing but the retirement thing really confounds that. Don't...

So what is bureaucracy? Is that the soldier sitting around doing nothing while he isn't fighting a war, or you paying for my military retirement (military spending is more than half of U.S. discretionary spending)? No, not those brave patriotic folks, then it must be those lazy ass PhDs at CDC...

I agree, you clearly meet the safe harbor. I've pretty much depended on this every year for the past 10 years.

Just a note that the wash sale rule only impact your December trading, just to keep that "benefit" in perspective.

That fixed commission without exchange fees is also great for things with high exchange fees like SPX options. In short no universal answer about which broker is "best" when it comes to cost. Now if we're talking about how much money you can lose when you get autoliquidated or hit by one of IB's...

Given that the 5 top states that New Yorkers are "fleeing" to are Florida, New Jersey, California, Pennsylvania and North Carolina I'm not sure that supports the whole "libtards ruined NY and everyone is fleeing" narrative that some on this thread are pushing (maybe just the NC part). It could...

Look at you big stuff, you combined the word "liberal" and "retard" to make "libtard". Your parents must be so proud of your intellectual accomplishments and contributions to the wold!

I wouldn't be surprised if they did. They're pretty pathalogical about their one size fits all, minimum service fully automated offering. For starters you'd have to find someone there with more than a double digit IQ to even be able to ask, good luck on that front.

Wasn't this supposed to have "gone bust" back in 2016 according to @Visaria?

Newsflash folks, you heard it here first. Who knew, you could use NATURAL GAS in a SPINNING TURBINE to CONVERT ENERGY into ELECTRICITY! Is this guy for real, or is it a SA thing?

From the links you posted, "Total, the operator of the licence, now plans to acquire 3D seismic data before drilling as many as four more exploration wells there. But it cautions that the operating environment offshore is tough. “The region is quite difficult to operate,” Total CEO Patrick...