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@volpi I'm still waiting for you to take me up on my offer to meet and talk about how the businesses you've started and your time in the military have led you to a different viewpoint on economics and leadership. I'm happy to come by your company as well, I travel a lot so I'll probably be in...

If you've ever led anything you'd realize that is a central tenant to leadership in any field, knowing your limitations, humility in knowing that there is much you don't know, and the ability to listen to subject matter experts. I only wish we saw more of that today, you?

And now we add reading comprehension to the list of skills @volpri lacks. @volpi I'm always happy to discuss your experience starting and running companies has compared to mine and how that "real world", "common sense" experience has informed your thoughts. Maybe we can talk about our military...

You'd be surprised that intelligent, well meaning, mature adults have no problem with discussing politics with those who hold different views. I have a number of friends who are far to the right and far to the left of me, and we're able to hold intelligent well meaning conversations and learn...

You're actually starting to form the beginning of a thought, so let's examine that thought. Your nascent concept seems to be, "if the economy improves then the party in power is doing something right". The first budget that the Obama administration was responsible for was the fiscal year 2010...

Oh no, here we go again. The world is full of people with the intellectual and emotional maturity of a 7th grader who think they're actually making a point by throwing random insults around. Grow up my friend, if you have a specific point to make that you can back up with at least a single...

I'm glad you liked my post, but you can just hit that little thumbs up icon that says "like" next to it, no need to just copy and repost exactly the same thing!

You of whoever provided you this graphic "conveniently" cut off the y axis labels and photo-shopped out the names of the Presidents. Presumably because it showed that the first period of higher taxes corresponded with this thing they called at the time The Great War and we now call World War I...

I'm left questioning what FDIC has to do with this and isn't it 2018? What took them so long if this happened in 2011? Another 3 years and he would have been home free!

I always thought you had a serious loss of perspective if you'd actually move to North Dakota just to save money on taxes. But in reality the people who write and consume these types of articles generally both already live in flyover country and have their whole life, and have a an obsession...

It's a tough line to draw. For example I'm routinely called a "communist" on this form (and recently was simultaneously labeled a fascist!), but strongly disagree with the Kelo v. City of New London decision, which allowed the taking of property by imminent domain essentially so a private...

I'm with you on that, nothing more frustrating. I've literally never had a limit order filled when it gets sent to the pit, even when it gets filled instantly when I cancel and resubmit at a smaller size so it goes to the COB, even if that is just a 1 contract reduction.

Like the discussion on freedom last week, extremism in practice is almost always suboptimal and one person's freedom often tramples on another's rights. Do I have the right to dig a ditch that siphons off all the water of the river downstream, killing the livelihood of everyone who depended on...

That's what I assumed based on my experience and some of your previous comments, but I haven't taken the time for the calls necessary to price the IB's out like it sounds like you have, so appreciate the info.

If you're able to share the information, is it cheaper to trade high exchange fee products like SPX options through your setup with Eroom than with some of the regular retail brokers that don't separately pass on the exchange fees?

Or as Churchill said "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."

Very true, his dad was well respected and his books are still a good read even 50 years later.

If you follow Branson you should follow his advice, "If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline." BTW, there's always was a 49% control limit on Virgin America, Branson never "lost" control over it and he himself gives a much different reason for the...

Carrer may not be an American but he/she sure seem to get their "news" from Fox, Breitbart et. al! Sweden also isn't part of NATO, so while not really relevant to what we're discussing, it does indicate Carrer might want to seek new sources of information about the world other than the clearly...

That's why Norwegians are leaving in droves for Somalia, right? Because by your simplistic metrics Somalia is a business paradise and Norway a hell. But in fact emmigration from socialist first world countries is virtually zero and economic emmigration an even lower percentage of that. So your...