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Dude, go away! You clearly don't understand how this whole interwebs thing works, and it's debatable if you even understand basic communication. Literally everything you've posted is jibberish, either you're a bot or a moron!

Hey there tough guy. You've added jack shit for value, either in your two posts in this thread or any posts on this site. And now you're yelling, and not even justified yelling at that. Just go away, you're not wanted here (or probably anywhere). You not only don't add value, you actively...

On balance if you asked a random person in the world who they would want to impose their "evil" on them they would by a pretty clear majority pick the U.S. Obviously by a convincing majority they'd choose "no-one", but given the world we live in despite a lot of crap the U.S. has pulled it pales...

If you look at global geopolitics in the nuclear age the unpredictable and irrational is far worse for stability than the rational and bad. Trump clearly represents the former, Xi the latter.

I don't disagree with the lesser of two evils idea at all, I certainly don't want China in Greenland. It's just a big blindspot we have in the U.S. that we don't seem to realize others will see us as a threat when we pivot carrier battle groups to their backyard and we ending up forcing...

Given that I devoted 20+ years serving in the U.S. military and you devoted jack shit you're in no position to question my loyalty. It turns out that the ability to understand why your opponent or someone you're negotiating with is thinking the way they are is a huge strategic advantage. I do...

Once great, Britain. Pretty much all predicted by those of us dispassionately observing the lunacy of Brexit has happened exactly as we said it would, right here in this thread. In fact, what happened to the biggest Brexit fanboy, @Visaria? After about 20 failed predictions, it looks like he put...

Yeah, I don't know of anyone who was engaged in that kind of gaming, although their certainly may have been some. I'm guessing they get enough back when they're alumni that it's all a wash. You can do a lot with a $25B endowment for a school with 7,000 undergrads.

The irony that China expanding into Greenland=evil, U.S. insisting that Denmark entertain selling Greenland to the U.S.="no problem", is obviously lost on our friend @toc here. In case you don't follow U.S. military strategy, the "pivot" into Asia to contain China is a real doctrine we've been...

On the plus side, they have predicted 27 of the last 2 recessions. It's always funny when someone quotes them here and seems to actually be unaware of their standing, kind of like when someone quotes Breitbart or Vox as if they're an authoritative source on some political topic.

Yeah, they're significantly overstepping there. Guy can donate his money wherever he wants, there's no social justice requirement to donations. They could have gotten a lot more bees with honey than vinegar on that one with some private conversations, at this point he's probably pretty much...

You've probably got the most realistic and humble attitude I've seen for someone in your position, certainly more realistic and humble than I was starting out. I too have done a little of everything and have done a good bit of cruising (I've got a Fountaine Pajot cat at the moment) so I get a...

We disagree only in degree or nuance on most of this I think. I would argue that the distribution curve of actual price paid by college students for college ends on the right with the list price with a mean that's substantially lower. i.e. no-one pays more than the list price, but most pay less...

This is fucking hilarious! Exactly as I said in post 21 of this thread, the 4 lb bag of sugar that used to be 5 is literally what they're basing their beliefs on, having not only never read the methodology but not even being aware it exists! As if the guy who does nothing in life but track the...

First off I want to specify that these are the kinds of intelligent, well meaning people discussions about this subject when we get to actual methodology. They're a far cry from the previous assertions that massive swaths of the economy simply aren't measured made by people who haven't the...

The Taiwan angle is interesting. I know that there's been some noise there lately over F-16 sales, so maybe that ends up where the line in the sand is drawn.

I think the only person who hasn't actually tried to address the original subject on this thread is @nooby_mcnoob, actually. He/she/it projects a lot. I'm curious if there are any second order impacts beyond the obvious of shorting the index, i.e. industries or sectors that are to some extent...

I'm actually curious to hear your opinion on the original topic given your familiarity with Hong Kong?

Yep, and that's the difference really. I would really have preferred Trump wasn't elected. When he was elected, I didn't run around talking about violent overthrow of the government via my firearms, instead I'm peacefully working within our democratic system for a change. That's what separates...

He's lives in a land beyond reason. There are certainly arguments that intelligent well meaning people can make about CPI methodology. But, you have to realize that there is a methodology and understand what it is, as well as be intelligent and well meaning, to make those arguments. I fear that...