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You left me with fairly easy questions to answer. Thanks. No. But I also believe only a very small fraction of them are owned by criminals. So the idea is to get rid of most of them, so whenever the few that remain show up, and they will, they will be easy to spot. first question: The money...

Is this a tweet? Whatever. Though I shouldn't care, I can't get entirely over the embarrassment of knowing whoever tweeted this is probably a Homo sapien also.

Don't you think he looks a bit like George Washington?

These arguments are juvenile. It is similar to arguing, "when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns." or, "when speeding is outlawed, only outlaws will be caught speeding." When chewing gum is a criminal act, only criminals will chew gum.

If you correct for the number of rich vs number of poor how does it come out. Probably the same I would guess, but not necessarily. So although the statistics don't preclude the assumed cause and effect, they just don't prove it. You would have to look at the underlying factors, largely social...

You had me convinced at one time that this was an issue. Now I know it is not a significant factor impeding the control of ownership of certain types of dangerous weapons because the distribution of these particular weapons is far from uniform. Well, were I President, I would first strongly...

This is absurd on its face. People are fundamentally the same everywhere. And the mix of cultures in Canada and the UK are, if there is any difference, even greater than in the U.S. The differences in types of violence come down to social and educational factors and availability of certain...

Not necessarily. Civilized countries have guns for sport, and their semiautomatics are all registered.. The civilian populations in these countries do not own guns designed for efficiently killing people because they are both illegal to own and are not available for sale in these countries...

This is on of the more insightful Bloomberg articles I've read in a long time. I condensed it where ellipses appear and deleted the photographs. The entire article can be read at...

This morning while ordering a book from Amazon I noticed that there is a new 2006 edition of Wray's book -- I had recommended the 1992 ed above -- out in paperback at an increased price. I think if you search used book sellers on line you'll still be able to find the 1992 ed in hardback at a...

:D And now there is this below, which is reminiscent of Hayek's crazy diagrams of arrows and interlocking circles. Hayek worked on a micro scale thinking he could then somehow put the pieces (his diagrams) together the way a jigsaw puzzle goes together to show a grand picture of Niagara Falls...

fair enough, but I wonder how you'd feel about Putin's straight talk after after a bout with Polonium tea.

Hahaha. Yes, it would be nice to know in detail where the private sector money is, what form it is in, and how it got there. Hayek tried to do what you suggest on a more modest scale in a more modest world without computers of course, and failed of course. Then along came Keynes and said we'll...

I think he has admitted that he has bi-polar disorder. Regardless suit yourself. It's your money at risk, not mine.

I think I do understand. It used to be called manic-depressive disorder; nowadays it's bi-polar disorder.

No problem. There is only one party that needs the filibuster, and even the talking filibuster is not sufficient for them. It's the Republicans. And they need it to stop the Senate from doing anything other than protecting the wealthy. The Democrats don't need the filibuster. And so what if...

They had both houses, but they also had, in the Senate, "democrat" from Montana, Max Baucus, who had taken more money from the pharmaceutical industry than any other member of Congress. Baucus would not let the ACA get out of committee intact with the public option included. Then as soon as it...

DEEP POCKETED COMPETITION! (and a mentally unstable CEO!)

No, keep doing what you're doing. Diversify among the best stocks in stable, well capitalized S&P companies with bright futures. Sit on cash or Treasury Bills if you have to, to avoid buying at near all time highs. Every few years there will be buying opportunities on market corrections of 10%...

The main thesis of this thread, vz., "Dividends is [sic] bad and meaningless" is of course hopelessly defective. It assumes markets are rational. They aren't. They are irrational most of the time with prices either irrationally too high or too low. Although it is true that when stocks go...