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Listen, I get what you're saying. The problem is that what you want has massive consequences that you are ignoring. I'm most decidedly not making "accusations", I simply set out a clear chain of logic, which is unfortunately inconvenient for you because it highlights these consequences. I'd...

Let's be perfectly clear. 1. You are advocating for a universe where TWTR, a private company, is not allowed to tell the leader of the country where it is based that he isn't allowed to use TWTR's services. 2. There are places where private companies aren't allowed to tell the leader of the...

Imagine indeed. It's unimaginable because China is a dictatorship where the leader is able to dictate what private companies do. In such a dictatorship, private companies aren't really private, their speech is controlled by the government and therefore it's unimaginable for a Chinese company to...

So this is the place where the mental disconnect is just so massive that it's hard to believe it can exist. Let's say we get rid of Section 230, make everyone a publisher. How does that force them to publish content by someone who breaks their user agreement again? Does Fox, a publisher, have to...

I'm not sure the correlation coefficients for unusual temperatures in Asia, Europe, and the U.S. is very far from zero?

That's the big boy world unfortunately. Bull Dog was a shareholder as well and every shareholder gets a vote based on the number of shares they own. There are ways to set up your corporate structure to avoid this kind of thing or at least make it hard enough that it isn't worth it. At this point...

To answer the OPs question, nothing unless the fund has a mechanism to create and redeem shares. There was a time in the 90s after several of the asian "tiger" economies melted down that closed end funds in their markets trades at premiums of 50%+ for literally several years. In fact, at that...

Let's be reasonable here. I live near DC, the mall is a vital part of the city for the people who live there. Any time but the dead of winter it's full of people playing kickball, ultimate frisbee, just sitting and chatting or reading. It's also a huge tourist draw with museums all around the...

I would say the folks who were screaming about the evils of those causing violence in protests this summer who aren't screaming just as loud about the evils of this riot could also pretty fairly be considered the ultimate political hypocrites, don't you think? Maybe right up there with the...

Thanks for that example, that's interesting. I'm not sure how France is able to compel the ADR issuers to collect the FTT, I'd have to ask one of the insiders here about the legal structure that allows for that. Interestingly the stamp tax in the UK has led to about 1/3 of UK shares trading as...

Its not clear to me how Italian law implementing an FTT could be binding on a company in, say Singapore running a stock exchange? I'm guessing this might happen on those French stocks if they trade on an exchange in another EU country and that's how they enforce compliance? I'd love to get an...

What requires U.S. stocks to be traded only on U.S. exchanges? In fact a number already are traded already on a number of other exchanges, and it's trivial for them all to dual list if the financial incentive is there.

Everything is a doomsday ceremony to these people. As someone said earlier, they drink their own Kool-Aid and don't seem to realize the difference between rhetoric and reality.

To be honest I'd lost the faith in Nov and am still surprised. It will be interesting to see how they pay for the existing and yet to be passed COVID spending or if they decide just to not to. If everyone in the world goes into additional debt by similar relative amounts at the same time, does...

Happy for you to point out any specific errors in what I explained. If there aren't any, then there's nothing to "watch", now is there? Buy hey, I only spent 20 years in government working with this stuff, what do I know right?

And we're back on!

Of course every agency is a political tool at the end of the day. Not for nothing the agencies are all part of the executive branch, that's the whole point of the plum book non-competitive positions of which there are literally thousands in government and the fact that every agency is headed by...

It's important to understand the difference between law (U.S. Code or U.S.C.) and regulation (Code of Federal Regulations of CFR). Regulation has to flow from a law and most certainly can't contradict a law. In some cases laws are written in a way that allows for a large degree of discretion for...

And the U.S. has vast natural resources in the form of not just oil but minerals, hydro energy, huge agricultural areas that allow us to grow nearly any crop.....all things Germany and France and the U.K. and Italy, the countries you cherry picked to compare to the U.S., don't have. So no, your...

And the U.S. is not just among the biggest oil producers in the world, it is the biggest oil producer in the world! And the largest producer of a whole host of other natural resources. So by your logic we then need to exclude us, right? Now about that inconvenient fact of what GDP per capita by...