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If you sell a large quantity (whether regular selling or short selling), it will drive the price down. If you short sell before regular selling, it will drive the price down even b…

Taxpayers do not subsidize most mortgages in the US (with the exception of Ginnie Mae programs). Having a guarantee against default and fixed interest rates are two different thing…

A mortgage with a fixed interest rate and no prepayment penalty is no subsidized since the borrower pays for the option to prepay the mortgage with a higher interest rates than the…

A tender offer is a means of building a large stake, so the poison pill would still be active. Therefore, he will not launch a tender offer.

The oil rig was owned by Transocean, but leased by BP. "In September 2014, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that BP was primarily responsible for the oil spill because of its gros…

California has about 39 million people: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/CA

> Price discovery is broken when large market participants and market makers have access to mechanisms that enable unlimited shorting. Actually, it's the other way round: you can o…

Why do I need to own the copyright to mint an NFT of the image?

While the article is not really about the database schema, could you do a table with just two fields? 1) hash of concat(ip & helo & m_from & m_to) 2) time

It should be A = P(1 + r)^t because of compounding.

Thank you for the links. I followed them and came to a different conclusion: 1) "The vaccination rate of a country is not correlated with its covid infection rate". From the articl…

Yes, governments can take Bitcoin down: https://joekelly100.medium.com/how-to-kill-bitcoin-part-1-is...

Let's not talk about Bitcoin again.

I had to look this up: Android is based on the Linux kernel.

Moderate inflation is a feature, not a bug, due to sticky wages [1]. Without inflation you get longer lasting recessions and worse unemployment. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

Wouldn't that make inflation a regressive tax?

Once the SPAC has identified a company to buy, investors in the SPAC get a choice to either stay invested or get their money back with interest. So it's only a blank check initiall…

Once the SPAC has identified a company to buy, investors in the SPAC get a choice to either stay invested or get their money back with interest. So it's only a blank check initiall…