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That's a good reminder on separating out margin for muni ETFs. I think most of us have had that moment where we realize, holy crap, how did I manage to do that many trades and that poor of a job of record keeping! The onus is on you, not your broker, to track that. Deductibility of margin...

That's pretty typical. Stay around long enough and you'll run into a case like Amazon where, in the 2000 time frame exactly the same story was playing out. Only in their case Bezos managed to pull it off, and if you try to relate what it was like to contemporaneously live through that to someone...

Also holidays.

So you and I both know that wind participates in the LMP auctions same as everyone else, they just bid zero or close to it. And they get curtailed if the entire stack is made up of zero bids, curtailment is a real thing and actually the latest talk in the wind and solar industry is to push down...

I think that's a huge issue. I believe it's why we should be engaging in worldwide global environmental treaties rather than pulling out of them. And while I am generally dead set against tariffs, if we're going to go crazy with them why not base them on the externalities that aren't being...

You may be surprised. One of my b-school classmates moved to Bentonville and spent several years basically focusing entirely on reducing the plastic content of their packing. He had good things to say about the experience.

I don't disagree with your last sentence. However on the whole corporations are way ahead of government in the U.S. when it comes to clean energy, everyone from Walmart to Amazon to pretty much any tech firm is already procuring or on their way to procuring 100% renewable energy. This is one...

So Watson is pretty much an asshole. From his demeaning comments about Rosalind Franklin, to the comment about aborting fetus' with "the gay gene" to the belief that thin people work harder than fat people and he'd never hire a fat person to saying that our social policies in Africa are doomed...

Let's start with something we probably both agree on, that atmospheric CO2 levels are close to double what they were at the beginning of the industrial revolution and higher than they've been in 400,000 years. Agreed? From there, it's a simple equation...CO2 + H2O -> (H+) + (HCO3-) Double the...

I think that anyone in the renewables field would be happy to end any and all subsidies for renewables at the point that they're equal to the value in today's dollars of all the subsidies that have gone into fossil fuels and nuclear. To be fair we'd include direct and indirect subsidies such as...

I think the key is "healthy critical review". As you see on this thread, the ranks of those who are critical of climate change science are almost exclusively (present company certainly excluded) made up of those who come from a position of extreme ignorance and literally make up facts to support...

To say that all evidence points convincingly to human induced climate change is not to say you've made up your mind. I would also say that all evidence points to our current theory of gravity being mostly correct. There are in fact a few scientists who dispute it, and there are whole sections of...

Sorry, you clearly lack the intellectual capacity to hold an intelligent conversation. Ignored.

On the flip side, you could just as easily say this about anything, right. I mean we tax to support fire stations, should we suspect the fact that buildings burn down and we need fire protection? We tax to support police, should that lead us to suspect the fact that crime occurs. Or how about...

And your response falls exactly into my prediction....faced with a blatant and obvious internal contradiction in your logic you choose to ignore it because it's beyond your ability to actually process through it. But let's talk about your so-called "facts". Like "Earth atmosphere is 5000 meters...

No, it's not subjective. I really am smarter than you, I'm willing to put down a pretty substantial wager on that, let's say $10,000?, based on pretty much any objective measure you'd care to use (and I still don't think that alone means I should be in charge). And pretty much every scientist is...

That's a pretty fucked up vision, pretty much every dictator ever shared your view of the world. I consider you a moron based on the "logic" you displayed in your posts on this subject. And the fact that you are so lacking in self awareness that you simultaneously argue that if the vast...

What an utterly facile argument on so many levels. By the way, IQ is a measure designed so that by definition 50% of the population is below and 50% above 100. Your statement on IQ either says that you believe democracy should exclude half the population or you know as much about IQ as you...

So you do realize that Constantine is pretty much the sole reason that Christianity became the dominant western religion. He was emperor of Rome, converted to Christianity and so was Christian, like most of those after him. In fact much of what you believe to be divine truth was in fact...

The last time Christianity ruled the world they called it the dark age.