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Only "entitlements" because we said they were, we could easily decide that they're a safety net instead if we chose to. We've already cut the amount of the "entitlement" by changing the eligibility age for those who had already started paying in, so the terms of the "entitlement" are clearly...

I never said people shouldn't save for their own retirement, I am all for means testing SS. We do live in a society, thankfully, that doesn't let elderly people die of starvation eating dog food because they made poor life choices and deserve it. And it's absurd to think a 6 year old should be...

You don't understand leveraged ETFs if you think they're equivalent to futures. You continue to display that lack of understanding with every post.

I thought it would be uncontroversial to suggest one not trade something they don't understand. Apparently not.

Which do not behave in the same way as a 3x ETF, so not an apples to apples comparison. The times you get into trouble with leveraged ETFs are the times you don't understand the difference.

Tough to educate a 7 year old without some external motivation, plus half of the k-12 education is EQ not IQ, which requires constant interaction with other kids. At the college level though, MOOCs are a huge game changer.

My point has gone way over your head or your ignoring it. You are complaining about our society paying for educating everyone's kids, you don't think you should have to pay for your education if it's not for your own children. You're too short sighted to see that even for your own selfish...

All those things are done by other people's kids my friend. At some point, someone else's kid is going to risk their life to protect you. It's in your selfish best interest that we have a pool of well educated people to do that. At some point you're going to need someone to insert a catheter for...

As a somewhat related interesting aside, I read that the spelling and grammar mistakes in "Nigerian Prince" type scams are intentional because it screens out everyone with an ounce of credulity who they might waste time on only to have them eventually bail out. Another interesting aside...

I'm continually amazed by these people who take full advantage of a well educated population but complain about paying for school for "other people's kids". They're the one paying for your social security, your Medicare, dying in the military to protect your ungrateful ass, changing your...

I agee. From an economics perspective the only tax we should have is property tax. Since everyone needs to live somewhere, the demand curve for property is extremely inelastic, which means taxing property creates far less dead weight loss than taxing something like consumption, if you remember...

And you can say the same for Fox or Breitbart. In case you didn't know, the first amendment doesn't mean a private company has to give you a forum for your speech. If you believe they should be forced to do so, then calling Twitter totalitarian is the height of hypocrisy on your part!

Seems like a dumb demographic to target, especially in someplace as small as Belgium where anyone in a company manager role would be instantly suspicious of a random boiler room guy with no connections in the network.

This guy's probably a gearhead (that's a term of endearment for me) and enjoys working on cars as much as astrophysics, but wow, I'm guessing more than a few world class telescopes would want him turning wrenches on their gear instead of working in a garage!

Yes, that was exactly it! I vaguely remembered that MM mostly did it and now I understand why.

There used to actually be a pretty interesting play that people would make on assignments where they'd purposely buy thousands of options that normally would net them 0, but because some funds and others didn't act optimally a few random ones were worth something. Because they were assigned pro...

I'm sorry, I missed your qualifications as a "scientist", can you run those by us all again? I am but a humble electrical engineer, so also I guess not a scientist. But like anyone with a liberal arts education I certainly understand both the concept of the scientific method and the definition...

Thanks for the condescending words, like I said I have two companies under my belt with a successful exit on the first and count far more successful people than me as advisors, so I'll take your "I know of one business" story against my actual experience any day. You're living in a fantasy world...

No, that includes taxes. At least in the US you don't pay taxes unless you have a profit. If you don't even know what type of company you want to start like the OP you're putting the cart well before the horse if future taxes are what you spend your time on. Building a profitable company is hard...

A lot of that is due to market size. I run into that almost every time I look at expanding internationally. Let's say I started my company in the UK, since they nominally also speak English. I've got the population of CA and TX to market to, where as with basically the same effort in the U.S...