"Love of money is the root of many evils." It's a subtle but important distinction: money of any kind is a tool, existing for a valid purpose; otherwise inert. Accumulating money in a manner viewing it as a score versus…
Jesus proclaimed Jewish leaders of the day as hypocrites for telling people to do as they said while not following their own preaching; in other words: committing sin. Likewise, there is a great deal of biblical…
One data center brings the whole bank down? Right... This is suspiciously quickly after military exercises in LA right next to a Wells Fargo. It looked like something was being carried out of the building.…
If you don't know about him already, you might find Martin Armstrong interesting. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/blog/
I find it even more interesting that my comment, which is factually correct, has been flagged. The Yellow Vest movement started in France and has been prominent in the countries listed within the article. The…
I find it interesting that those are the countries where Yellow Vest protests are greatest, where government has been ignoring citizens the most.
Without context you'll always get assumptions. Part of discourse is establishing clarity. Of course a toxic environment makes life harder. Glad you're doing well.
A highly dense population will always experience activity. Unless you're going into private properties, which is generally a prosecutable offence so don't do it, you wouldn't know which buildings have high or low…
A thief can go to his grave thinking he's a victim. Being coddled into a lie is the saddest thing that can happen to a nation's people.
They're actually getting even better at it - 1.12% in 2009-10! I like how you've pointed out the amount relative how much theft^H^H^H^H^H "tax" revenue is brought in rather than the absolute amount of: £3,673,797,000…
Human behavior is quite simple - it's the magnitude of interactions that that make it appear more complex than it is. I do agree that it is easier to be lazy and obtain instant gratification than delay it for great…
The other part of that is doing something about it. No action, no success. Of course, by the time you figure it out you'll realize that most wealthy people are not the evil sleaze we expect them to be and you'll take…
Is it more beneficial for yourself to blame others or figure out how to improve your situation? If you're not content to remain a crab in a bucket, it might be a good idea to meet some successful and/or wealthy people…
The benefits are not purely monetary - raising the quality of an area due to investment that otherwise would never come in is an enormous benefit for people already living there. That isn't too say throwing money at a…
So complicate the tax issue which increases costs elsewhere and contribute to government managed funds that prove inept? Taking funds from a farmer growing crops successfully and giving them to the one nextdoor who…
Imagine if you weren't allowed to use a calculator without a $5,000 license and six months of training. Sounds absurd? Welcome to the financial world, where outsiders are frowned upon. The market is highly regulated in…
Any tax decrease "disproportionately" benefits the wealthy because they have more. A 1% decrease on $50,000 income is going to be less than the same percentage decrease on $500,000. Of course, you could argue that…
No other factors are provided: were you in an affluent area? What other demographics influenced your school? Is there a high ratio of homeschooling or private schools to public schooling? Your anecdote is one data…
I will not do business in California or NY due to excessive costs. Many others are either already moved out or are scaling back in high tax areas; Florida, Puerto Rico and Texas seem to be the top tax-friendly…
It seems you assume I was taking about tax collection and government being highly funded - I'm referring to the economy as a whole, of which government is only one component; preferably a shrinking one. Investment is…
Weakening of integrity in science is the issue, not the fact that research begets advancement.
No. The magnitude of such an omission is absurd. If I were to model the solar system and leave out the sun, it would be laughable and I would quickly find myself out of funding.
I am considering citizenship options for the same reasons - access to financial instruments that US institutions such as the SEC prohibit, despite some of those instruments being far better than can be obtained…
The cost and risk banks take to ensure that US citizens comply with US law is absurdly draconian. It is massively safer for a bank to simply deny participation than to risk fines and expulsion from the global financial…
Yes, and the bar has been raised[1] in recent years. When high net worth individuals start to leave, it's good to question the reason since they typically have more flexibility than lower-income earners who might do the…
"Love of money is the root of many evils." It's a subtle but important distinction: money of any kind is a tool, existing for a valid purpose; otherwise inert. Accumulating money in a manner viewing it as a score versus…
Jesus proclaimed Jewish leaders of the day as hypocrites for telling people to do as they said while not following their own preaching; in other words: committing sin. Likewise, there is a great deal of biblical…
One data center brings the whole bank down? Right... This is suspiciously quickly after military exercises in LA right next to a Wells Fargo. It looked like something was being carried out of the building.…
If you don't know about him already, you might find Martin Armstrong interesting. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/blog/
I find it even more interesting that my comment, which is factually correct, has been flagged. The Yellow Vest movement started in France and has been prominent in the countries listed within the article. The…
I find it interesting that those are the countries where Yellow Vest protests are greatest, where government has been ignoring citizens the most.
Without context you'll always get assumptions. Part of discourse is establishing clarity. Of course a toxic environment makes life harder. Glad you're doing well.
A highly dense population will always experience activity. Unless you're going into private properties, which is generally a prosecutable offence so don't do it, you wouldn't know which buildings have high or low…
A thief can go to his grave thinking he's a victim. Being coddled into a lie is the saddest thing that can happen to a nation's people.
They're actually getting even better at it - 1.12% in 2009-10! I like how you've pointed out the amount relative how much theft^H^H^H^H^H "tax" revenue is brought in rather than the absolute amount of: £3,673,797,000…
Human behavior is quite simple - it's the magnitude of interactions that that make it appear more complex than it is. I do agree that it is easier to be lazy and obtain instant gratification than delay it for great…
The other part of that is doing something about it. No action, no success. Of course, by the time you figure it out you'll realize that most wealthy people are not the evil sleaze we expect them to be and you'll take…
Is it more beneficial for yourself to blame others or figure out how to improve your situation? If you're not content to remain a crab in a bucket, it might be a good idea to meet some successful and/or wealthy people…
The benefits are not purely monetary - raising the quality of an area due to investment that otherwise would never come in is an enormous benefit for people already living there. That isn't too say throwing money at a…
So complicate the tax issue which increases costs elsewhere and contribute to government managed funds that prove inept? Taking funds from a farmer growing crops successfully and giving them to the one nextdoor who…
Imagine if you weren't allowed to use a calculator without a $5,000 license and six months of training. Sounds absurd? Welcome to the financial world, where outsiders are frowned upon. The market is highly regulated in…
Any tax decrease "disproportionately" benefits the wealthy because they have more. A 1% decrease on $50,000 income is going to be less than the same percentage decrease on $500,000. Of course, you could argue that…
No other factors are provided: were you in an affluent area? What other demographics influenced your school? Is there a high ratio of homeschooling or private schools to public schooling? Your anecdote is one data…
I will not do business in California or NY due to excessive costs. Many others are either already moved out or are scaling back in high tax areas; Florida, Puerto Rico and Texas seem to be the top tax-friendly…
It seems you assume I was taking about tax collection and government being highly funded - I'm referring to the economy as a whole, of which government is only one component; preferably a shrinking one. Investment is…
Weakening of integrity in science is the issue, not the fact that research begets advancement.
No. The magnitude of such an omission is absurd. If I were to model the solar system and leave out the sun, it would be laughable and I would quickly find myself out of funding.
I am considering citizenship options for the same reasons - access to financial instruments that US institutions such as the SEC prohibit, despite some of those instruments being far better than can be obtained…
The cost and risk banks take to ensure that US citizens comply with US law is absurdly draconian. It is massively safer for a bank to simply deny participation than to risk fines and expulsion from the global financial…
Yes, and the bar has been raised[1] in recent years. When high net worth individuals start to leave, it's good to question the reason since they typically have more flexibility than lower-income earners who might do the…