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You can just sell a treasury short, same as you would a stock. You're responsible for paying the coupon if there is one, just like dividends on a stock you're shorting.

Do a search here for "wash sales", lots of ink spilled on it. In short, if you are flat over a 30 day period that includes Dec 31st then the wash sales have no impact on taxes. Many people just stop trading the same security starting Dec 1 and running to the new year, at which point they're...

Well it's 2020 at the moment, speaking of senile.....

There has been tacit collision in airline pricing pretty much since deregulation, I'm not sure that changed a lot especially given the Spirit/Frontier/JetBlue/Alaska/Southwest spoilers thrown into the mix. Load factors have definitely gone up, but I don't think that's really given them pricing...

On the larger scale question, as someone raised a fundamentalist Christian...even if you comprehensively prove (which I believe is far from the case, btw) that a "god" is responsible for creating everything alive, how does that say anything about if that god hates gay sex or eating pigs or any...

Best way to become a millionaire is to have a billion dollars and start an airline!

I'd call folks like @bone, to pick one example of someone here, an intelligent, well meaning conservative. That's distinct from the Republican Party, which if it has any of those left certainly doesn't have many in leadership positions (maybe Mitt Romney?)

Thanks for pointing that out. Makes a lot more sense now, if he'd decided he can't use google or pretty much any other modern source of information, then I guess it is pretty hard for him to know basic facts like if a company is independently traded on the NYSE or not and he just has to go with...

At this point we can all only conclude that you have an intellectual disability. Good luck, it's possible to live a fulfilling and good life even with a disability like yours, I'd just recommend you be less antagonistic and we'll all do our best to treat you with dignity and respect.

Like I said initially, since I'm in the lowest risk group in almost all respects I personally benefit from aggressive actuaries and tight underwriting. I just also understand why "offering a discount", i.e. charging you more if you don't submit, to tracking is a slippery slope many people are...

Dipshit, Progressive is NOT owned by Google! It is it's own Fortune 500 company traded on the NYSE under the ticker PGR. As I just told you. Unbelievable! Thanks for at least answering the question as to if you were terminally stupid, the answer is clearly yes! Definitely don't let the door...

WTF? Try checking out the NYSE ticker PGR? It's a public company, component of the S&P 500! Does your hate of the other tribe eclipse all reason with you people or are you really just terminally stupid? You better drop them anyway, I mean truth in advertising, their name is "Progressive" so they...

I never really liked that "not everyone, just everyone who wants to ...." answer, it's pretty deeply unsatisfying. Using that logic we could require everyone wear a tracker showing everywhere they'd been if you wanted to travel more than 10 miles from your home. It's not required for everyone...

The second part of your comment is completely correct. What we call "health insurance" in this country is really only partly insurance and in large part just health care. However the first part is a misconception that is very frustrating and I think why there is so much talking past each other...

It's questionable because we make the insurance mandatory then the insurers get to decide what is required to have the privilege of something that's crucial to the day to day life of most Americans. It's a bit of an abdication of legislative responsibility in that by requiring everyone to have...

Insurance has been doing Orwellian stuff for decades. On the one hand, it's not government so it's not really anti-democratic. On the other hand, when it becomes mandatory insurance like auto liability in most states then it does start to become questionable. That said, as someone who is the...

Who are your market makers going to be? Build it and they will come doesn't work with markets, and markets at least at the startup phase don't work without a number of market makers committed to continuous pricing. The technical side of setting this up is less than 20% of the project if you want...

I've got news for you, you're not losing business because of the economy. If even a hint of the batshit crazy and semi-literate nonsense you display in your responses on the COVID threads bleeds into your daily life to your potential customers, and I have a hard time believing you could control...

What exactly did I say to lead you to that impression? Was it "Nine_ender sounds like someone who gets it in the end nine times."? Oh, no that was you. Was it me serving my country for over 20 years, you know the actual blood, sweat and tears that demonstrate love for one's country? You find...

This brings up the point of if juvenile middle school insults should be protected speech on a private forum. Seriously, are you 13 or just act like a 13 year old?