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- Fri Jun 13, 2025 2:34 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
- Replies: 2942
- Views: 2038712
Re: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
But I have a bias in that I'm one of those "Israel can do no wrong" people. Wow. Even I can’t say that. 😬 After what has been done to the Jewish people not in in World War II but before and after .. I totally support their "Never again." Greatly admire their extreme toughness in...
- Fri Jun 13, 2025 11:43 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
- Replies: 2942
- Views: 2038712
- Thu Jun 05, 2025 8:36 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1386
- Views: 1439798
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
1. Why is that never brought up? Prange is well-known. Cannot answer that. I was well-documented in the book. It was all new to me at the time that I read it. But that does not conform with this, which states early 1941. https://www.perplexity.ai/search/according-to-gordon-prange-whe-LhfIgMs3QOWBd8...
- Wed Jun 04, 2025 4:35 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1386
- Views: 1439798
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
I've never heard the 10 years figure either. Somewhere, probably this forum, I heard a theory that the U.S. knew the Pearl Harbor attack was coming. That's not impossible, but I just put it aside and never really took it seriously or thought about it again. Or at least, knew it might be coming. May...
- Wed Jun 04, 2025 7:24 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
- Replies: 2942
- Views: 2038712
Re: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
Hello! I'm new on the forum. I just registered because I'm looking for informations to invest in cryptocurrencies. Thanks! Can you add any more details to make your story more believable? I discovered cryptocurrencies years ago but I was not interested to invest in them. I have some friends which b...
- Tue Jun 03, 2025 9:07 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1386
- Views: 1439798
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
I agree. Obviously, Pearl Harbor has a tainted reputation, as it should. The U.S. was not a belligerent and anyway, was there anything particularly clever about it? I doubt many deaths occurred from the drone strike on Russia’s grounded fleet of bombers. Ukraine brought these drones in to Russia, l...
- Tue Jun 03, 2025 8:38 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
- Replies: 2942
- Views: 2038712
- Fri May 23, 2025 6:57 am
- Forum: Stocks
- Topic: Other Peoples Money and High Frequency Bots
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3642
Re: Other Peoples Money and High Frequency Bots
Leverage and algorithmic trading now prevail in the majority of retail trading. High-frequency and algorithmic trading have been approximated to account for 40-70% of US equity volume traded. Such strategies are primarily executed by institutions through advanced, automated platforms, frequently at...
- Thu May 22, 2025 7:55 am
- Forum: Stocks
- Topic: The rise of China - global stocks in the PP
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9125
Re: The rise of China - global stocks in the PP
Yogi Berra wrote:It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.
- Tue May 20, 2025 5:58 pm
- Forum: Bonds
- Topic: "US States Likely to Defy US Downgrade to Keep Top Credit Ratings"
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7027
Re: "US States Likely to Defy US Downgrade to Keep Top Credit Ratings"
What you say makes sense but it seems that a municipal default is quite rare? Perhaps, but a default of an entity like the United States government has never happened. It might be impossible in theory. I should clarify that the United States have defaulted before, but not when using a system of fia...
- Mon May 19, 2025 2:40 pm
- Forum: Bonds
- Topic: "US States Likely to Defy US Downgrade to Keep Top Credit Ratings"
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7027
Re: "US States Likely to Defy US Downgrade to Keep Top Credit Ratings"
"Defy" I believe is the wrong word here; what they seem to be saying is that states will be keeping their pristine credit rating even as the federal government does not. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-states-likely-defy-us-163315923.html Does that really make a lot of sense, that the s...
- Mon May 19, 2025 10:14 am
- Forum: Bonds
- Topic: "US States Likely to Defy US Downgrade to Keep Top Credit Ratings"
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7027
"US States Likely to Defy US Downgrade to Keep Top Credit Ratings"
"Defy" I believe is the wrong word here; what they seem to be saying is that states will be keeping their pristine credit rating even as the federal government does not. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-states-likely-defy-us-163315923.html Does that really make a lot of sense, that the st...
- Thu May 15, 2025 9:46 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Forum availability
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3288
Re: Forum availability
Okay, I've determined that we've been under a distributed "Slow Loris" attack. Having deployed specific countermeasures to that, I should no longer need to be playing whack-a-mole with IP addresses.
No idea why anybody would want to shut down this forum, though.
No idea why anybody would want to shut down this forum, though.
- Fri May 09, 2025 2:13 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Signatures
- Replies: 201
- Views: 316596
Re: Signatures
Mountaineer wrote:Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. Psalm 146:3
Mountaineer, I'm pretty sure that's a son of man, not the son of man.
- Fri May 09, 2025 12:44 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Forum availability
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3288
Re: Forum availability
There have been a lot of robotic user registrations lately. 497 of 3,352 total accounts were registered in the past week. These accounts don't seem to be spamming the forum. The only effect seems to be that I'm getting a fair number of email bounces from registration confirmation emails. The email a...
- Wed May 07, 2025 8:38 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Forum availability
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3288
Re: Forum availability
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
- Wed May 07, 2025 8:20 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Forum availability
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3288
Forum availability
Hi folks,
Sorry about the recent availability issues. It looks like we're receiving a DOS attack from Singapore, Russia, and Vietnam. I've blocked a bunch of IP addresses.
Sorry about the recent availability issues. It looks like we're receiving a DOS attack from Singapore, Russia, and Vietnam. I've blocked a bunch of IP addresses.
- Wed Apr 09, 2025 8:22 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Trump is the kind of person who would sign an EO to...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2854
Re: Trump is the kind of person who would sign an EO to...
Well if nothing else, I am thankful Trump has inspired me to read Bastiat. ;D <snip> There is no country in the world where the law is kept more within its proper domain: the protection of every person's liberty and property. As a consequence of this, there appears to be no country in the world whe...
- Thu Apr 03, 2025 10:56 am
- Forum: Stocks
- Topic: Stock Screener Recommendations
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12309
- Thu Apr 03, 2025 9:11 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Bridgewater All Weather ETF
- Replies: 42
- Views: 18322
- Thu Mar 27, 2025 9:38 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Yet more (but not unexpected) amateur hour from Trump and his nothing but the best team!
- Replies: 104
- Views: 54358
Re: Yet more (but not unexpected) amateur hour from Trump and his nothing but the best team!
Doesn’t anyone think that Jeffrey Goldberg “spilling the beans”, perhaps to get a big story for the Trump haters, is a national security issue, possibly helping the enemy? I do agree that Waltz inadvertently (?) adding him to the chat was a huge error. I missed this before. I think he was performin...
- Wed Mar 26, 2025 5:51 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Greetings, I’m Tom.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6669
- Wed Mar 26, 2025 4:09 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Greetings, I’m Tom.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6669
Re: Greetings, I’m Tom.
I went ahead and banned the account, but left the post up.
Dualstow, I'm not sure I get the joke?
Dualstow, I'm not sure I get the joke?
- Wed Mar 26, 2025 12:15 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: Gold Revaluation
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5475
Re: Gold Revaluation
There's not really any functional difference between doing that and just printing money, is there?
- Tue Mar 25, 2025 8:23 pm
- Forum: Stocks
- Topic: Stock Screener Recommendations
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12309
Re: Stock Screener Recommendations
Somehow I missed when this was posted earlier. I'm virtually certain that nil is a bot. How about it, nil?