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LewisBraham
Hi Hank,
Your satire came across very well. Don't worry about the user name.
Best,
Lewis
@davfor Have you read Old_Skeet's posts?
OK, how about this instead:https://pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/compare/views-about-human-evolution/by/state/
Or this: https://latimes.com/politics/la-xpm-2012-mar-12-la-pn-poll-obamas-a-muslim-to…
Are you seriously going to bring up Biden sexual allegations with the "Grab them by the p----" candidate on the other side? https://businessinsider.com/women-accused-trump-sexual-misconduct-list-2017-12
@rsorden Liberal blue states should secede and watch red states devolve into bankrupt banana republics without blue state tax revenue propping them up.
It's about time. According to the Fed, America's household net worth after deducting liabilities stood at $111 trillion at the end of the first quarter of 2020: https://federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/z1/balance_sheet/chart/
Of that $111 tri…
@Old_Skeet Being someone versed in fund stats, you should be aware that the numerators of important statistics are most relevant in relation to their denominators. Looking at the total-number crime stats for a city like New York, which at 8.6 millio…
Allow me to disabuse anyone of the idiotic notion that Biden is remotely like a hard left socialist: https://motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/biden-bankruptcy-president/
The man comes from Delaware, the corporate wonderland. Were it not for the fact…
Oh wait and the major blue states like California and New York are the driving engine of our economy without which the U.S. would be a third world nation, but somehow any politician who comes from those states or the bluest of cities in those states…
Sure and you could ask a pitcher about baseball or a reality TV star about starting imaginary businesses. That doesn’t mean they know squat about politics or brain surgery, and any comments they make on those topics could be the subject of outside c…
@old_skeet Zerohedge is a Russian asset:
https://google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/news/benjamin-wallace-wells/is-the-alt-right-for-real/amp
https://newrepublic.com/article/156788/zero-hedge-russian-trojan-horse
It would be nice if we had an atheist or even a deist for a president who believed religion had no place in politics like our founding fathers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Faiths_of_the_Founding_Fathers
It should have been Stacey Abrams. Anyone who thinks Kamala Harris is "far left" doesn't know her record as a prosecutor. Of the many talented women Biden could've chosen she is the safest and most boring. Harris will destroy Pence in a debate. The…
I honestly believe there is a strong case for a lawsuit here—mispriced on the way down and mispriced on the way back up so some shareholders get more than they deserve and some a lot less. This should never have been an open end mutual fund. The ass…
The most interesting thing about this story is the presence of sharks isn't described as negative. I often see shark attack stories as signs of a slow news cycle.
@FD1000 Delusional reply. The only ones suffering TDS is your side. I could go point by point but why bother with someone who thinks withdrawal from the Paris climate deal is a positive instead of disastrous as it is and will be for the world, or so…
@FD1000 Obama would never have done this in a million years: https://nytimes.com/2020/07/19/us/politics/trump-fox-interview-coronavirus-race.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20200720&instance_id=20454&nl=the-morning®i_id=137083247&a…
@bee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Every politician is corrupt to a certain degree, but there is no rational comparision between Obama's, minor, and Trump's, unprecedented in U.S. history. If Obama did one-tenth of the things Trump did …
Oh, FD1000 doesn't give a hoot about the truth, i.e., the nature of Obama's commutations. They were almost all for minor marijuana drug-related offenses for people who shouldn't be in prison in the first place: https://businessinsider.com/obama-comm…
I'm not disagreeing with you regarding the "ESG managers" part, but with the author's assertion that "Their environmental and social concerns less clearly reflect self-interest." I fundamentally disagree. The average employee age is irrelevant unles…
@MSF From the M* article: For example, ESG investors obviously expect the third part of their acronym, governance, to improve their portfolios’ performance. Their environmental and social concerns less clearly reflect self-interest, but ESG managers…
I haven't examined the fund too closely, but if you are looking for the reason for the returns and the potential liquidity risks, I would suggest considering the commercial mortgage backed securities CMBS exposure. They came under a lot of pressure …
There's a simple test to see the extent of white privilege the current president enjoys: Ask yourself what if Obama had done this? I don't think Trump was completely kidding when he said "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebod…
Usually, when Republicans like FD1000 talk about race, the term "personal responsibility" either comes up or is embedded in their arguments as it is in his case. This bogus every-man-for-himself bootstrapper argument denies that genes or environment…
@FD1000 You continue to extrapolate based on your personal experience what you think the reality is for the average American. Such personal extrapolations aren't accepted in the financial or IT world, and they shouldn't be regarding race or income i…
@FD1000 This country gives plenty of opportunities to anybody who wants it.
No, it doesn't. Your extrapolating your unique personal experience for the rest of America is a fundamental category error. Did they teach much American history in the scho…
@FD1000 Your story doesn't disprove my statement that you're out of touch with the financial realities of most Americans but highlights it. You've had a good education, came here in your mid-30s, after being educated most likely, and I suspect had p…
My impression is that mutual funds are restricted to a maximum private equity exposure of 15% for liquidity reasons. There have been disastrous examples despite those constraints. If I recall correctly, the Van Wagoner funds were among the worst. Pr…
@bee Do small investors have a way to participate in private equity firms through mutual funds / ETFs?
Small investors do, but the vehicles that exist such as BDCs or I think it’s called—Sharepost—are mostly terrible. While private equity/venture …
@rono
I consider all of that crap to be not only disrespectful but illegal.
If you have to make disrespecting the flag a crime, you have already lost the war.
Sounds like you've already lost the war from those two paradoxical statements.
From Wi…
