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"The obligation to respect and ensure respect for international humanitarian law does not depend on reciprocity"
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule140
Nations who break international law frequently spread misconceptions about this.
The US does poorly on this metric too: https://i.imgur.com/eYHUysQ.png [1] https://i.imgur.com/vLz5iUz.png [2]
(Note that the x-axis is "birth year.")
[1] https://equitablegrowth.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/04282...
There are plenty of reasonable arguments to short vol, eg: https://www.nomura.com/events/9th-annual-global-quantitative...
Does this reflect brokers' cost of technology (many tickers to keep track of)? Regulatory fees? Lack of competition?
edit: Perhaps it's largely profit. Seems https://public.com/invest/options-trading is trying to undercut on price.
I don't see how this is risk-free - surely it involves some opinion on the correlation between the assets?
(I admit I can't see how the blockchain adds any real value to their offering.)
> The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee investigation released their report in five volumes between July 2019 and August 2020. The committee concluded that the intelligence community assessment alleging Russian interference was "coherent and well-constructed", and that the assessment was "proper", learning from analysts that there was "no politically motivated pressure to reach specific conclusions".[11][12] The report found that the Russian government had engaged in an "extensive campaign" to sabotage the election in favor of Trump, which included assistance from some of Trump's own advisers.
In 1979, 14% of PhDs went to non-citizens. In 2024, it's 38%.
(Table 1-6 in https://ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/earned-doctorates/2024#data )
For example, monozygotic twins will always have the same eye color (99+% correlation), while dizygotic twins do not. Thus we can conclude eye color is genetic. Both twins are raised by their respective parents, so it's unlikely parenting is causing this difference in eye-color-correlation.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1970336290148434391
When the customer is indicted by the Hague for crimes against humanity? Yes, it's difficult to imagine a more clear-cut case of professional ethics.
The number of international arrivals is down YTD (-3%): https://www.trade.gov/i-94-arrivals-program
It also has excellent life expectancy.
The key question is: For all-cause mortality, do the benefits outweigh the risks?
It seems quite reasonable that unrealized capital gains would be treated differently for "a primary residence" vs "a multi-billion-dollar stake in a company controlled by the owner."
A far better question is: Why does my company pay me in cash (40% marginal tax rate) instead of "equity shares of 'special partnership units' representing the value added by verteu's labor" (20% capital gains tax)?
Or: "How did Mitt Romney's Roth IRA grow to $100,000,000 with a $7,000 annual contribution limit?"
Presumably it would function the same way as realized capital gains taxes (no refund on tax already paid)?
These are not the same, which is exactly the problem!
eg: The #1 most wealthy American is Larry Ellison, whose net worth increased $89B today with zero tax implications.