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Then what exact part of anti-trust law are you alleging? Anti-trust requires either a monopoly/market dominance by one firm or collusion. You don't have either you don't violate anti-trust. You have neither in any of your examples. A bank could absolutely say that you can't buy from Amazon...

So you do understand that you have to prove actual active collusion to win an anti-trust case if you claim that multiple companies are in on it. That's the only possible case you'd have given the fact that card processing isn't a monopoly. Also, it's not illegal to decline to support your...

Probably should have responded to the OP instead, I liked your little thought experiment!

Nice thought experiment. Unfortunately for all your good work the OP and/or their accountant are mistaken in a couple of ways. First, you don't need long-term losses to offset long-term gains. Gains of the same type are netted against each other first, then you use whatever losses you have left...

I was very specifically reffering to the very specific and completely unsubstantiated assertion that Tesla was fabricating the number of deposits they had received on the model 3. I'm sorry if that wasn't clear to you. That would be illegal and would certainly be pursued by both the SEC and...

Alot of that just changed for 2018 with the new tax law. Interesting point though.

The obvious conclusion here is that once you reach 95 you can drink as much alcohol as you want!

Good point, although keep in mind that the losing broker seems to be able to drag their heels on position transfers. Back in the day ETrade took weeks and weeks on my one and only attempt at a position transfers, so I haven't tried it since. Better than a sharp stick in the eye though, which is...

No, I don't think you do, and if you do they're not CALPERS size investors. Large institutional investors invest in hedge funds for uncorrelated returns, not minimizing drawdown. As was pointed out to you, most of the hedge fund universe wouldn't exist if your assertions were true. I don't...

So they don't invest in any index? Clearly no venture capital or PE? What kind of institutions are these again?

Most of us don't have a lot of choice on our last name, and for that reason most of us don't judge someone on it, certainly irrelevant to a person's financial savvy, no? You don't like his opinions critique the opinions, his name's got nothing to do with anything and bringing it up is kind of a...

I don't really have a dog in this fight, but Pekelo you're veering off into paranoid black helicopters guy territory with an assertion that a publicly traded company is fabricating deposit numbers that they're publicly reporting. I mean if you actually know about this, there's a pretty...

It's interesting that every discussion about the impact of immigrants on the U.S. economy ends up being an economics discussion on the one side of the issue and rapidly devolves to sophomoric name calling on the other. That pretty much says everything that needs to be said about the strengths of...

Over 20 years in the military and started two successful companies one of them based entirely on supply and demand which you accused me of failing to grasp. Picked berries for a summer, not a day, but a day would be long enough to give you enough of a glimpse of what it was like that you...

We'll the military took me to the NE, mid-atlantic, Florida, California, Hawaii, and Alaska and I grew up in the PNW so I'm not really "from" anywhere but have lived almost everywhere in the U.S. I've actually known quite a few migrants, both legal and illegal, I wonder if you have? I'm also an...

Well you've done an outstanding job of making my point for me, thanks for that. I generally don't engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man, so I'll let you get back to school. Don't forget to tell Tommy he's a stupid stupid dumb dumb.

For the second question, yes. If you held the EFT as long as you would have held the underlying bonds had you owned them, you'd have exactly the same amount of money. And I'm not sure bond prices fell dramatically in 2008, stock prices did but bond prices, at least Treasuries, actually went up...

What a perfectly juvenile response. I'd say it's at a sixth grade level except my kids and most of their classmates were more eloquent, more intelligent, and more capable of higher level thought in sixth grade, so I wouldn't want to offend sixth graders. When you have any actual data to...

It's hard to have a serious discussion with someone who isn't even clear on what they're discussing. The vast majority of immigrants, both legal and illegal, have Social Security and Medicare withholding taken from their W-2 wages. Please note neither Social Security or Medicare are welfare...

Actually everyone want's what immigrants provide. They want people to pick their fruit, clean their hotel rooms, and a variety of other crappy jobs for minimum wage or lower and sure as hell don't want to do something like that themselves or have their kids look forward to that as a "career"...