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My thoughts as well. A company that uses good customer service and transparency to differentiate themselves and PE ownership doesn't seem like a good match for either. Good on the founders for getting to cash out though, one of the few honest players in this market.

It's actually considered market manipulation, yes. And the exchange can bust the trade, even some time after it was made.

You're right. Was hoping to get some insights but doesn't look likely.

Just got it on the Kindle, thanks!

Hardly. If a black person said they refused to listen to any ideas not generated by a black person because only black folks could possibly understand the issues facing black folks I'd be just as critical of them as I am of you. Because that's exactly what you're claiming. I'm against insular...

More like "I can provide ideas for that may help black people because I was raised in a black family", but keep up with that arrogance that only someone currently living in a rural area could possibly have any good ideas about how to help those in rural areas. Again, how's that insular attitude...

Funny you wouldn't mention that when repeatedly asked. Funny you cite the biggest gripe of the people where you supposedly live to be the SALT write-off, seriously? The people I know are too worried about helping with the opioid crisis for something as irrelevant as SALT to even register! If...

Look in a mirror dude. You're the one lecturing someone who grew up in a rural area and has had close ties to rural areas his entire life that he needs to listen to these folks who as far as we know you yourself have never even spoken too. We don't know because you've gone out of your way to...

Seriously, this bunch of debunked crap is the best you could come up with? Surely you are aware, aren't you, that if you take the total paid in taxes by the good people of West Virginia, versus the total of federal expenditures in West Virginia, you'll find that they are subsidized by the rest...

It's patently obvious, and you keep making it more obvious with statements like "What prevents someone from getting a good job at the post office or DMV?" that you don't understand the grind of deep poverty. But hey, you know yourself, you're only fooling yourself I guess. The whole point is...

A contract requires two parties. If you and your neighbor sign an ISDA, you're right, it means nothing. If GS agrees to an ISDA with you, you have access to a bunch of products you didn't have access to before and few individual traders do. The ISDA isn't a big deal, an ISDA with GS or DB is (if...

If the good people of Appalachia are "being benefited" at this point by any conservative policy except the earned income credit I'd be interested in knowing what it was. Care to enlighten us? So far you've managed to convey nothing of substance except that you don't like liberals. So tell me...

What ever gave you the idea the Chinese aren't buying Treasuries? It's a structural feature of running a trade deficit while pegging your currency that China has to be a net buyer of Treasuries. Basic macro folks.

What a bizarre statement. First this is a thread about a proposed policy called universal income and the discussion thus far is about what such a policy would accomplish. Not sure why you'd get into a semantics argument about a policy versus an "agenda" unless you're just trying to troll, which...

You're absolutely right that many of the poor people I'm referring to are in Appalachia. I grew up in the very very rural PNW where many of the "tar heels" came for logging jobs around the turn of the century, so we had a good deal of the Appalachian culture in our little logging town. As for...

Again, this belief, which is false, comes from a position of deep ignorance of what true poverty looks like. First, you're simply too tired to do anything but eat, sleep, and work when you're doing 12-16 hours a day of manual labor. I was never desperately poor but did stand 12 hour watches and...

It's interesting what you chose to read in what I wrote. I didn't say that your shouldn't comment on if it's a good idea to voluntarily have children when you can't afford it. Not only didn't say that, but I agree! What I did say is that your idea that somehow poor people can just work harder...

Well that solves that problem then!

Good example was a guy I knew in high school. No dad, mom an alcoholic, two younger siblings. Worked 8 hours a day while going to high school, 12 hours in the summer at min wage so his siblings had food on the table and roof over their head. Hard worker, didn't win the genetic lottery for...

So tell me again how someone who's working 12 hours a day at two minimum wage jobs to feed their kids has the time to even look for a better job, let alone take a class or do an apprenticeship? You may have grown up around poverty, but you clearly haven't experienced the kind of grinding poverty...