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Yes. If you mean contiguous U.S. territories or continental United States you specifically say so, otherwise any territory of the U.S. is by definition domestic. Domestic simply means part of the United States. As someone who's lived in both Alaska and Hawaii I can tell you there is no end to...

It actually did apply to territories, at the time much of the U.S. was territories. Certainly the DoD legal interpretation today is that it applies in all U.S. territories. The Central High case was probably a violation of PC, it just wasn't ever litigated to the Supreme Court because Arkansas...

May very well be the case. Too bad we can't jettison all the other states that don't generate positive economic output, that would cut out most of the red states!

With all due respect that's complete BS. There are plenty of strategies that trade narrow vertical spreads where the total risk is something like 5% of the cost of taking delivery. In other words, you have to keep $95 in cash in your account to cover $5 of exposure. Certainly you wouldn't...

If you don't mind indulging a couple of ignorant questions; I get the market manipulation piece but don't understand the delta piece. Wouldn't MMs in existing cash settled index products like SPX (thrice) weeklies face the same issues or is there something different about indexes that I'm...

Inflation in the US leads to capital flight to the US? What universe does this line of "thought" come from?

Why, the manipulation potential?

You seem to have the "I disagree by insulting you" concept down pretty well, amazingly without adding a single substantive item to the conversation. Takes real skill.

If insurance cost 10% of my house's value each year it wouldn't be silly at all. Making apples to oranges comparisons may be called silly by some.

When was this ever done? The President can't overturn a law with an executive order. There was a brief time during the Bush administration when the Insurrection Act was changed to allow some limited executive override of Posse Comitatus but that has since been repealed and was never used...

Dominican Republic, literally half of the same island as Haiti (and the half closer to PR, by the way), isn't another Haiti. So it's a little bit of hyperbole to say that PR would become one of the poorest nations in the hemisphere, now isn't it? Also, you might want to brush up on the Posse...

Exactly! Clearly both.

What the OP didn't realize is that I've been doing work with the approaches in quarks and leptons to establish the Schrodinger equation for the appropriate wave functions. I was thus able to cause the Schrodinger function to collapse when observed, thus toggling the OPs prediction from correct...

So I'll buy your last sentence. With that in mind, if you read at least the first couple paragraphs of the wikipedia entry on quantum entanglement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement) you'll get much more entertainment value out of someone flailing around trying to explain how...

Again, what he posted is gibberish if you understand even the first thing about quantum entanglement, something I most certainly understand. Just as gibberish as the guy on the street corner, who you don't listen to (do you?) They purposely picked something that's rather technical so that most...

No, if someone posts something batshit crazy then we shouldn't let them continue to try to rip off more people, not at all! If I said I had a pair of butterfly siblings that I had separated at birth, moved one to Singapore and one to New York, and was predicting the market based on a complex...

Quantum entanglement is a neat phenomenon. It has as much to do with predicting market direction as tunneling electrons, black holes, and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. If you had any idea what it was you'd realize how rediculous your post is. But then you probably know that and are just...

There are a lot of securities that aren't necessarily HTB but have borrow rates significantly greater than the margin rate, i.e. 7-10% range, which are the sweet spot. Unfortunately you're probably right, but we can always hope!

That's a tough one. On the one hand I tend to share your feelings. On the other hand, it looks like this was a private equity deal, where the model is to buy a company with established cash flows and lever it up as much as the lending market will bear to extract value from it through financial...

That's great news! The main reason I'd like to be able to use SSF is for exactly what you stated, access to the full interest rate when lending a stock. Right now it's impossible to get more than half the borrow rate when you lend a stock, usually you get nothing. SSFs allow you to get 100% less...