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    Need Advice on Cancer remedies

    fwiw, my dad claims this stuff has cured him of cancer http://www.amazon.com/Wedderspoon-Organic-Manuka-Active-17-6-Ounce/dp/B000VK08OC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348962780&sr=8-1&keywords=manuka+honey (not joking, by the way: he says a cancerous tumor that was blooming after chemo and...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    Sorry. I'm unaware of a "Robin Hood Tax" on the rich. I have heard about a "Robin Hood Tax" that would steal from middle-income pensioners to pad the pockets of EC bureaucrats while exempting market-makers and other insiders from any additional levy. Please do tell more! Meanwhile NYT...
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    ES Journal - 2012

    Whatever this means, it's big.
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    Has ET reached the Tipping Point?

    Amen.
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    I was right out of college, working on the Hill, when that luxury tax fiasco was adopted. If I remember correctly there was little organized opposition; no widespread foreshadowing of the toll on the boat-building industry. In fact, I believe George Mitchell (of boat-building Maine) co-sponsored...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    that's really amazing. in other words, they're hoping an industry that directly employs hundreds of thousands of people...just goes away?
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    Ellison is not a member of Ways & Means. He's also a left-wingnut. Ergo, nobody cares.
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    ES Journal - 2012

    Thanks for the memories...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    Here's what's going to happen 1) minor figure in House minority party introduces weird-ass bill to committee 2) cue crickets
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    Keith Ellison is not a mover-and-shaker, to put it mildly. Wake me when Chuck Schumer decides to co-sponsor...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    You definitely have a point. Repeat the same idea over...and over...and over...and over... Keep it to-the-point. Keep it short. Keep it focused on their wallets. Yep. No argument there.
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    Target audience: Opinion-makers, opinion-leaders. People who need facts and resources, fast. http://financialtransactiontaxes.com seeks to put reliable, credible resources at your fingertips...immediately. It seeks to ensure that, under the crush of a deadline and amidst the noise and fury...
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    Asset protection

    you're right. and, besides, we're all gonna die anyway, so why get worked up?
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    Asset protection

    No one else has any thoughts about this? Is that because: A) I'm just a shell-shocked paranoic? or B) Because not many people here have much in the way of assets to protect?
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    Asset protection

    Deranged family. It's also an awfully litigious society. What do folks like Soros and Buffett do so they're not targets for adventuresome contingency lawyers?
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    Asset protection

    Too terse?
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    Asset protection

    1) trading account through LLC 2) LLC owned by irrevocable trust. Thoughts?
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    FB support at 50% of IPO price?

    Reason?
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    FB support at 50% of IPO price?

    Still letting it run?
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