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LewisBraham
Hi Hank,
Your satire came across very well. Don't worry about the user name.
Best,
Lewis
It's the value investing problem only with bonds. People would rather invest in debt of countries with zero or even negative interest rates that they think of as safe than emerging market bonds.
Warren has been selling his Apple stock lately and is Apple still a growth company?
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/warren-buffett-berkshire-hathaway-potentially-sold-5-billion-apple-stock-2020-11-1029788091
https://macrotrends.net…
Whatboutism using individual anecdotes as opposed to hard data on real trends is a classic GOP strategy. They find the one welfare queen and say get rid of welfare. They find the rich environmentalist who lives in a big house and say climate change …
OMG, this discredits the whole Democratic platform! You've finally found the Whataboutism smoking gun to prove the election was rigged and coronavirus is a hoax and Al Gore flies on jets so climate change isn't happening and all those kids murdered …
Owning a business and owning a stock are two very different things. If Geico has a very profitable year, because Berkshire owns the entire business, it can take Geico's cash flow or profit from that year and do what it wants with it. It can use that…
Yes, except the costs are internalized at most publicly traded companies while most mutual funds technically are their own separate investment companies that ostensibly contracts out the fund's management at a disclosed cost--the expense ratio. So, …
Well, yes and no....If you were to calculate all of the employees salaries, at the arm of the division that picks publicly traded stocks you probably could come up with an expense ratio for that part.
Not like a fund or a stock but a hybrid between the two. Because it owns businesses in their entirety and controls their cash flows in their entirety as operating subsidiaries, one cannot analyze its share price relative to the value of its underly…
@FD1000 Point by point almost completely wrong or with terrible consequences. Regarding immigration and the Wall, given what awaits Latino and Syrian refugees who are turned away or deported, that immigration bullet point of yours in a different era…
Most Republicans have refused to state the fact of Biden’s win plainly, instead treating Donald Trump’s effort to erode faith in the election result, with baseless accusations of voter fraud as a legitimate legal inquiry.
7. Support a leader with fascist tendencies that has lied over 20,000 times, undermines our democratic process as “rigged” at every turn, brags about cheating on his taxes, treats women like dirt and says there are “very fine people” at a Neonazi ra…
And guess which party refuses to allow Medicare to negotiate on drug prices:
https://google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/policy/healthcare/477604-drug-price-outrage-threatens-to-be-liability-for-gop%3famp
@FD1000 Easy answer: That wouldn’t happen if we had Medicare for all and the government allowed Medicare to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies on drug prices. Such negotiations are currently prohibited because of the same corporate lobbyists. M…
@FD1000 But, the Libs refused to acknowledge Trump since day one. Several didn't show up to the inauguration.
How could they have shown up? That place was packed! There had to be a million, a million and a half people there. It was huge! It's true! …
Fair enough, but I find these Whataboutism arguments for why the GOP has behaved so odiously for forty years ridiculous. Time and again, moderate Democrats, which Harry Reid absolutely was, have attempted to "reach across the aisle" to achieve some …
His link tells a half-true story and specifically references the Supreme Court when Reid specifically left the Supreme Court out of the situation:
Eight years later in 2013, it would be Harry Reid and a Democratic majority that would do away with t…
@Gary1952 Except that your claims about Harry Reid and the Supreme Court are garbage: https://usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/01/fact-check-gop-ended-senate-filibuster-supreme-court-nominees/3573369001/
@FD1000 Sure, he has nothing to do with that. If Biden was in charge it would take much longer.
Your own sentences contradict themselves. And the vaccine isn't here until it's actually distributed, just very promising results that you yourself admi…
Carson, oh you mean that Ben Carson who believes the pyramids were built to store grain, that homosexuality is a choice, evolution is an idea encouraged by the devil and, most famously, Obamacare is “the worst thing that has happened in this nation …
What happens when the minority view is holding the majority view hostage?
Here are some policy views of Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, a state with a population of 579,000 in a nation with a population of 328 million. In 2018 he won re-election i…
States are not people. Theoretically, an extrememly wealthy person or corporation could buy up all of the private land in a state, evict the residents and then have two Senators all to themselves to rule on issues that affect 331 million other peopl…
I am not aware that the Senate prioritizes land and geography over other legislative issues on its agenda.
Never said that it did. I’m saying the structure of the Senate itself prioritizes land and geography over human beings and individual right…
I think the problem with the U.S. Senate prioritizing land and geographic rights--really property rights when you think about why "states' rights" exist--over individual rights is far more significant. There's no good reason if democracy is the aim …
Look at the population of California and the population of Wyoming and ask why they each deserve two senators in an ostensible democracy. Then ask why only the Senate has to approve a president's Supreme Court Justice nominations while the House is …
My impression is that comparing Matthews Asia Small Companies against its Morningstar Pacific/Asia ex-Japan Stock fund category peers is misleading as most of them are not small-cap oriented. If one looks at the fund versus a Asia small cap benchmar…
It's a pity Rondure New World won't buy companies with market caps below $1.5 billion. It seems like a missed opportunity with this level of small-cap talent.
