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mamonster

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    Comment #49196114

    To make it very simple: Borrow money, get a 2nd portfolio that generates a lot of realised losses and unrealised gains, get a tax write off. Simple example: I have 100 dollars, I g…

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    Comment #49167995

    I'll assume you know what tax loss harvesting means in its usual parlance (i buy 2 stocks at 50 dollars each, the first is worth 40 eoy, the 2nd is worth 60 eoy, i sell them both =…

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    Comment #49123668

    >Now another EA has followed the path of making a lot of money relatively quickly and losing it just as fast, using the exact same arguments for why it happened. I would be very in…

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    Comment #49084626

    Makes sense. The biggest sin an American can commit is being poor. Welcome to Calvinism.

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    Comment #48864106

    No, I literally meant that. It's an alternative to not working at all.

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    Comment #48861380

    >The union said employers should take steps to cool down workplaces once temperatures exceed 24C, with workers able to stop working if temperatures reach 30C, or 27C for those doin…

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    Comment #48833661

    >If you are not a resident, don’t bother trying unless you plan to have 30M or more in the account. If you are UHNW every single bank, from private(Pictet etc) to universal, will b…

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    Comment #48819103

    >But, how much truth is there to her claims that the trial was a witch hunt It's not a witch hunt, she just sucks at doing the same thing that everyone else does. It's fairly stand…

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    Comment #48684049

    Nabokov is so snobby. Hating on Céline is one thing, hating on Balzac like come on. Also lol the guy who wrote Lolita criticizing Death in Venice as obscene.

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    Comment #48683924

    >Shurik This is a "meme" nickname that 95% of people called Alexander will get pissed over. It's a pretty old diminutive, but because of the movie a lot of people really don't like…

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    Comment #48658970

    We need AC in Switzerland yesterday. These last 2 weeks in Geneva have been crazy. Unfortunately with the amount of regulation on historical buildings it likely won't happen.

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    Comment #48656675

    >About 18 years ago now the Tories thought, incorrectly, that budgetary austerity was the prescription for responding to the global financial crisis. What I don't get about the Tor…

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    Comment #48628820

    Buffett should get much more credit for pioneering/mainstreaming the insurance float game which is what minted a lot of the P.E billionaires once they learned the trick.

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    Comment #48627944

    >Sadly charisma is valued more by voters than other qualities of the political leader of a country. Isn't this basically an internal coup? That said I fail to see the point of him …

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    Comment #48587241

    >We've had the technology to build skyscrapers for over 100 years. They're illegal in 90% of the city Not a great idea for coastline cities. Will cause soil to sink and the more yo…

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    Comment #48586002

    >You cannot live in Musk's banking account. You have to have the actual physical structure, and current laws in hotspots like San Francisco and New York do their utmost to prevent …

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    Comment #48576912

    >internet industry , military industry This is the part people are missing. You are investing into the most important U.S government/military contractor (SpaceX + Twitter). And if …

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    Comment #48567333

    >Amazon took 9 years, Uber took 14 years before its first profitable year Both had a path to profitability in an environment of falling interest rates. OpenAI is going public in an…

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    Comment #48488464

    They are the 2nd biggest after Swisslife (I think?), but the profitability is kind of a bad metric because they are required to both fund their pension fund (36 thousand employees)…

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    Comment #48474984

    EU can't put up these trade barriers because they need to keep interest rates below 3% and this would definitely get them above that.

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    Comment #48461781

    Not to be underestimated is the fact that the healthcare argument (I got like 5 flyers of a boomer in a wheelchair with a sad looking face with some nurse standing behind) is comin…

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    Comment #48409396

    Once you have an index, you can offer all sorts of products around it. -You can offer a return swap to an investor so he can "invest" in the index. You can alternatively build a wh…

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    Comment #48399549

    >Real jewels aren't trying to grow into a shrinking TAM Why do you think TAM is shrinking? It's pretty clear, to me at least, that Starlink is basically one of a kind military cont…

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    Comment #48395451

    My only real issue with SpaceX is that Elon has mastered the art of hiding real jewels (in this case the Starlink business) behind a whole pile of shit, and then forcing you buy th…

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    Comment #48349340

    >What does a CEO actually do for 60 hours a week In tech I dunno, in finance/trading the answer is pretty simple: European markets open at 9am, US closes at 10pm. There is your 12 …