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First off, the mainline U.S. airlines actually own most if not all their aircraft. It's more the startups like the former WOW that lease a large percentage of their fleet. To your question, however, you to can lease a plane and crew from any number of firms, here's one that caters to one-off...

That's a very different (and far more reasonable) argument than anything along the lines of "I can list a thing that kills lots of people therefore why are we putting resources into a thing that kills fewer people (solely because I list this other thing that kills more)". If it's already killed...

Again, by that logic why should any of us have cared about 9/11, after all fewer than 3,000 people died and 30,000 people die of the flu each year. If someone says they're going to walk into a stadium and open fire should we not care, because after all they'll probably only kill a few hundred...

They're not principled but they are somewhat predictable. We perform a darwinian selection process called elections that very effectively selects for people who are able to determine the size and power of the various constituencies who vote for and against them. While we may rightly make fun of...

If the airlines weren't bailed out after 9/11 then it's unlikely now. You all remember 9/11 right, although I don't know why anyone cared because fewer than 3,000 people died and more than 30,000 people die of the flu each year (yes, that was meant to be sarcastic but everyone think about it...

Actually successful lawmakers are acutely aware of optics and perceptions. And the optics of appropriating funds to prop up the stock market while appropriating nothing to actually fight a virus that people appear to be very afraid of are atrocious. So there isn't a chance in hell they'd do...

Absolutely, heck the law could change to allow for stoning in cases of adultery, Saudi Arabia has been doing it for years. The law hasn't changed in the U.S. though, it's trivial to go look at this actual law to see exactly what it says. Not to mention it's borderline moronic to think that an...

Yeah, sounds about right.

I actually sold rather than bought and got something like 50 basis points above the equivalent Treasury. For reference last summer was the last time I used this.

Sorry, don't post that kind of information. Just give it a try for a short dated box; at some point you gotta just dive in and get some first hand experience.

What in the world ever led you to believe they'd appropriate funds to buy stock to support the market? If you really want to know the specifics, the actual text of the law can be accessed at congress.gov. But some basic civics refreshers would probably also be pretty beneficial.

I've realized a nickle off the mid as long as the bid and ask are solid (during normal market hours with no odd on-off bids/asks in the stack).

Not for nothing that "the cure for cancer" is used interchangably with "solving world hunger" or "world peace" as a euphemism for very hard, intractable problems. This, on the other hand is something we are reasonably sure we'll have a vacinne for in a years time and we have the choice have...

Let's be crystal clear here. You made a very specific and entirely bullshit claim that the Fed owns 80% of ETFs. I called BS on the bullshit and clearly you've got no credible response to back that assertion that you or some other conspiracy theorist pulled out their ass. At this point anything...

So they own 1 share of 80% of US ETFs? Because they sure as hell don't own 80% of any other measure of US ETFs. You can see what the FED holdings are right on their website, care to point out the 80% of ETFs? Oh, right, they're hiding that just behind your tinfoil hat.

I kind of wonder about this line of thinking. Let's apply it to something else. Right now about 17 million people die from heart disease around the world each year. Let's say a new thing pops up, let's call it disease X, that "is about as deadly as heart disease", meaning it kills an additional...

And some of us who have a different view of government than you actually have built companies and hundreds of jobs. Just remember that your viewpoint doesn't have a monopoly on job creation, and it seems the people I hear who scream the most about "the government not letting me create jobs"...

You know what they say, if you have to ask.....

Not exactly. You have to be the "I just happen to live in the same small town in Montana that the Interior Secretary is also from and have this 2 person firm that was chosen for a $300M emergency relief contract...." Guy. Oh, sorry, that was Whitefish and Puerto Rico. I'm sure it will be...

How many people do you personally or the company you founded and run employ? If the answer is zero, then please spare us the bullshit about all the jobs you're creating.