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A genuinely curious question to taxpayers who think they are funding the country: With 33T debts and deficit spending being the norm, why should I pay taxes? How much of what we pa…

> In any case, I am a strong believer in making a decision and following through with it (within reason), rather than stagnating forever in indecision and research. Some research y…

> Why would they start QE? Fed rate is at 4% right now, there's more than enough room to drop rates if an issue occurs. Right but that will also increase demand and induce more inf…

That is the reason why all the monotheistic religions had fatwa on debt. And you can see how countries that are further moving away from the religious values at different points in…

OK so what happens if the chip shortage lasts longer (due to war and commodity prices)and with plummeting sales and corporate earning (which will reduce tax receipts as well) the e…

I am baffled at the Fed messaging. A year ago Powell's keynote said the inflation is a supply side problem due to "transitory" issues. How does raising interest rates with "demand …

The sad truth about a lot of Canadian universities is this - they are entirely funded by foreign money (through international students). There is a specific university in Montreal …

This is part of the problem that the parent comment is referring to - putting all conservatives under the same umbrella. Tea party is different from most Trump voting working class…

> You can argue either side to this, and make a good case. Here is an argument. Fed is a thief. First it recklessly bailed out all the toxic banks and derivatives in 2008, then kep…

I think Fed lost any credibility it had left after Greenspan. Now it's just a steep slide down. I mean, rates should have been raised in 2011. Remember when Powell tried this whole…

I had smallpox growing up in a third world country, how protective would the immunity be going against that?

For my own curiosity. > If you have financial assets worth over $2 million, you may have to pay a one-off exit tax calculated as a capital gains tax as if you sold all of your asse…

> In my city of Toronto, average real estate prices have gone from 2x average income in 1972 to 16x average income today. To continue growing at this pace they'd have to reach 128x…

Its actually much more endemic than this. To start off, Canada's service sector dominating economy means jobs are concentrated in cities like Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal etc. So m…

President Biden may not, but Fed certainly is. Remember with the eurodollar system, Fed's role at this point is pretty much a liquidity provider for anyone and everyone which they …

The ruling liberal party is out of touch here like many other things. Key problem here is that the inventory is super low, part of it is due to everyone wants to settle in places l…

The Fed has been consistently wrong over last decade in many of their policy, and their credibility is on the line. The reason home prices are not on line with fundamentals is - we…

Not a sympathizer of these idiots who clearly thought that would get away. But what really astonishes me is how SEC is consistently after these retail small players when members of…

The author is from India. India has been experiencing a wave of changes in the face of a growing middle class. The pollution level in every major cities is just abysmal, there is v…

What would be some good stocks to invest to capitalize this? Perhaps some trading in Russian/Ukrainian Stock Exchange? Is there any significant US company listed in Nasdaq or NYSE …

Live by the wokism, die by the wokism. Remember that weird time in 2020 when they were slapping "offensive content" to all tweets from supporters of one specific party while still …

COVID was the largest wealth transfer in our generation, from children as young as kindergarten (who will pay prices with the reduced social and IQ growth due to quarantine and sch…

Yeah and helping us defeat who he shan't be named in the 2020 election.

Yeah but it is the domestic extremist terrorism that is the real threat to its citizen. Got it.