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"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 i…

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, th…

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 car…

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 li…

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 …

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 th…

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 gra…

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 …

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 …

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. T…

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 g…

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 u…

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…

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 sch…

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 se…

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; prefe…

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 f…

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 a…

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 tha…