The real news ... how the election was funded ...

Started by Baruch, February 23, 2017, 07:51:04 PM

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Baruch

Renaissance Technologies, on of the world's most secretive, and successful, quant fund ... has had an internal falling out after the election.  The principals are billionaires, and the firm has 55 billion dollars in assets.  They can buy or sell people like Bill Clinton for chump change.  Anyway, some of the principals supported Hillary and some supported Trump ... to the tune of millions of dollars.  One of them was the second biggest boner to Hillary.  After the election, one of the principals had a meltdown, he really hates Trump and his entourage, and kept speaking out publicly, and getting involved in post-election politics, after he promised not to.  That guy got fired today.  The original story is behind the WSJ paywall ...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-have-to-stop-renaissance-executive-tells-boss-about-trump-support-1487845803

Voters are just ants to these people.  People like the Clintons are just boy toys.  There is real power in the world, and they are exerting that power.  Ave Caesar!
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Táadoo ánít’iní.
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Don't do that.

Unbeliever

#1
And may the richest billionaire win!







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Baruch

Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.


PopeyesPappy

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Baruch

#6
Quote from: PopeyesPappy on February 24, 2017, 11:35:46 PM
I'm pretty sure that's a termite.

The other white meat ;-)

Injured termites get cannibalized by their fellows .. waste not want not.
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Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

fencerider

Who are the termites and who are the ants? the D, the R, or the financers?

I don't know if the ants can inherit the earth or not. The roaches will still be around after the next nuclear war, but will the ants survive?
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Cavebear

That's all conspiracy theory.

And, BTW, the cockroaches won't inherit the earth.  They can't survive winters; they need our warm buildings.  Ants can however.

Actually, if humans vanished tomorrow, most creatures would not notice the difference and other large mammals would thrive.  The seas would be filled with fish, and whales would increase, and there would be lions, rhinos, and tigers spreading around.
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Quote from: Jason78 on February 26, 2017, 05:28:17 AM
Can I be a dragonfly?   I want to be a dragonfly.

I admire dragonflies. A grand old order of predatory insects extraordinaire.  Magnificent mosquito-catchers.  I grandly allow you to be one. 
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Baruch

Real estate is real wealth.  CDOs and REITs and Stock/Bond derivatives ... no so much.
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Cavebear

Quote from: Baruch on March 01, 2017, 08:13:12 PM
Real estate is real wealth.  CDOs and REITs and Stock/Bond derivatives ... no so much.

The map is entirely arbitrary.  You could equally change it to show everything from California to Illinois and down through Oklahoma as being of minor economic value compared to the east and west coasts.
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Unbeliever

I think the map is only considering the amount of area, not specific geographical regions.
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