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The intracoastal isn't the ocean. But living on a boat at anchor to save money is a pretty miserable life, and I say that as someone who loves boats and has lived on one for months. I see the barely above homeless liveaboards and both feel sorry for them and a little pissed that they're probably...

This is correct, I've had most of my year's tax withholding held out of my Dec pay and avoided the quarterly payment penalties. Much easier to do when you own the business and can decide what to pay yourself every pay period!

I read an interesting article recently that studied why people in professions that are generally thought of as requiring a high level of intellect, i.e. professors, doctors...appear to as a group delay dementia compared to the general population. The depressing result was they don't, they...

The fact that Bermuda and the Cayman Islands show up in the mix shows how little it matters where the buyer of the debt supposedly originated. I assure you neither locals nor the government of the Cayman Islands (with a GDP of $3B) holds $217B in U.S. debt!

From your first post "First, I sell weekly puts that are cash-covered." Just basic math here, if you sell $100 of cash covered puts and the company goes bankrupt you have lost $100....full stop. You can't "roll" that over or claim that it's "opportunity cost". You certainly can't claim "you need...

Yeah but if you take the cans to Michigan....

Except we're spending $10B more (total of $16B) on ag subsidies this year to protect the overproduction!

Short Rand.

First off, why in the world would a protocol (5G) cause cancer? The arrangement of bits that does you in? Oh, you mean the power level of 5G? Nope, must not be thinking about that since it's generally going to be lower than previous generations. Oh, it's the frequency then? Them millimeter band...

Alaska doesn't surprise me, spread among the 37 people who live there that oil money is allot! Actually Mississippi doesn't surprise me either. I'd be more interested to see NC or TN vs OR or MA.

Would be interested in seeing that converted to GDP/capita.

To be fair, real estate is equally or more expensive on the Peninsula, none of which has rent control. It's really more of a case of being a narrow strip of land surrounded by water with every buildable inch already built on.

To their credit Texas, along with NC, have realized the value of a robust startup community which they have in Austin. There's a perfect niche for both states for startups that also require a lot of affordable skilled labor, not sure they've quite exploited that like they could yet but they'll...

Texas is not representative of anywhere else in the south.

It also brings to mind federal marijuana bans, maybe banning gay marriage, which impacts the bigots not at all, and was something the federal government overrode states on for years and the majority of conservatives would like to go back to...how was that "live and let live again"? Or maybe the...

Just an FYI, that wealth hasn't amassed by day trading! I'd much rather all the punters could day trade with less than 25K, give me more suckers to act as counterparty to my trades. I certainly have no fear that eliminating the PDT rule would have an iota of impact on my wealth, and I actually...

He actually makes a fair point. Name some purely rural areas in the South (we're talking the civil war South) that are outperforming economically? On the other hand, you have Charlotte, so liberal that they put the rest of the state in a conniption fit trying to shut down their local law...

I don't know that our aid has to be direct aid. You and I both would probably be able to round up a pretty big chunk of change in private funds to spend money in the power sector in Myanmar, for example, if we had some federal guarantees to cover the risk that the counterparty disappears over...

Again, in all fairness, we spend many billions a year building deepwater ports for our navy all over Centcom and increasingly in Pacom, hell we have 30,000 troops in South Korea and regularly practice for an invasion of a country on China's border. Can you imagine how we'd feel if there were...

In all fairness, those countries were mostly ignored by the west which made them easy pickings for China. Now we're only interested in them because China is. Kind of echos the worst of the imperialism from the past and doesn't make for great policy on the part of the west.