sherpa
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The Federal Reserve is independent, and has three mandates. 1. Maximizing employment. US jobless rates are at historic lows. 2. Price stabilization. Inflation rates are low and not an issue at all. 3. Moderating long term interest rates. Anybody can look at at a chart of the long bond over the past 30 years and see the trend. What banks do with their assets is their own business, and governed by market forces, not the Fed.
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That's the first accurate thing you've posted, and it would be fun. Any self proclaimed "CFA" that claims, in the context of this thread, that hedge fund managers can "leverage the heck out of small price movements in oil, the dollar etc.," is ignorant. None of that has anything to do with the ways one could have made money with very little risk if the event was known.
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You have so much to learn. Just a note, expressed in a polite, kind spirited way. If you want to be a conspiracist, you have to have some idea of what you are talking about. You don't, on anything related to this matter, from the actual event to peripheral issues. Calling someone Zionist isn't going to get it. It's like pointing a paint gun at yourself and pulling the trigger.
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You know, the more you type, the more silly you get. Forget the claim that I lived in Israel.That's just stupid, and irrelevant. You are not at all knowledgeable about markets or the ways to potentially make money off a single event. One would have to be ignorant to buy defense stocks to profit off of this. There are many other "options" that would be far more profitable, involve less risk and provide profit percentages that dwarf anything involving a defense stock purchase. You are not that bright. Not bright about what happened that day. Not bright about the work and research into it and the conclusions that work provided, and certainly not about markets.
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I have never posted a single thing about Israel. Yet....You have me living there, and it being "the only country I care about." I am getting the feeling that you are the reason the ignore option is offered. By the way, this stupid "why are there no OBL in Saudi Arabia picture" thing is getting you nowhere. He was one of many kids. His passport was revoked and there is no doubt about his origin, history or dispute with the Saudi Royal family. None.
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The FAA. No reason for it not to be privatized. Other countries do it successfully. The Department of Education. Most of this is best handled at the state level without the massive infrastructure costs of a federal department.
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If you care to find out about bin Laden, there are tons of books that deal with him. One of the most researched and thoroughly documented is a book called "Ghost Wars," by Steve Coll. Though it doesn't focus on bin Laden it lays faultless research on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; who was dealing with who, and how this all got started. You are posting absolute nonsense. High school..."Hey I just read something that's cool, but I know nothing about anything" nonsense.
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Should Sarah Huckabee-Sanders be allowed to eat in peace?
sherpa replied to #34fan's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Old reliable Maxine Waters wants it stepped up. "Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up and if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere." https://www.dailywire.com/news/32232/watch-maxine-waters-calls-attacks-members-trump-ryan-saavedra -
Have they surrendered it yet?
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If you want to interest people who know a lot about this stuff, you are going to have to ratchet up your game considerably. It was an airplane. There are hundreds of witnesses who not only saw it, but walked the grounds after and saw all of the evidence. Airplane parts with serial numbers, body part and all manner of other things. Further, you need to up your game on "cruise missiles." There are no cruise missiles that are bunker busters. Bunker busters are extremely heavy, not mounted on cruise missiles, and have delayed fuses. Get smarter or give up. .
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I don't know if you're doing this as a joke or what, but there is absolutely no doubt that an American Airlines 757 hit the Pentagon that day. You seem to be oblivious to the evidence. The "hole" is the exact size of the fuselage of a 757. 757 parts, specific to that particular airplane were recovered on the lawn and in the building. Specifically, the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder were recovered. So was a landing gear strut from the the main gear with a serial number that matched that airplane. The oft pictured compressor which is claimed to be way too small to be from a Rolls Royce engine that American used to power their 757's isn't from the engine. It is from the Aux Power Unit, which all 757's have and which is in the tail, used to provide ground electrical and air for the heat/AC units. American Airlines uniforms and a lot of DNA was recovered, and directly proven to be from the crew, passengers and terrorists. A great deal of effort was expended to keep the DNA separate for burial purposes. The reason parts are on the lawn is because the airplane actually hit the ground just prior to the building. There were scores of eyewitnesses who identified it as an American 757, easily identified because of American's polished aluminum fuselage. Anyway, there's a lot more evidence, but its a little more complicated and not worth typing.
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Unite The Right Rally To Be Held In Washington
sherpa replied to Tiberius's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
The title of the thread and the link are inaccurate. The application has been approved. There has been no approval of the event, nor any permit approval. We shall see. -
Iraq did, briefly. Aside from that, air supremacy involves much more than shooting down airplanes. It involves having the capability to detect threats to ground forces that are not always obvious. It's a complicated issue, but all of our military enjoys a tremendous advantage because of our unmatched air superiorit...y. It there was any doubt, note the order of battle the US has used since Vietnam. First two days......air defense command and control eliminated. Same game plan over and over, and it has always worked. No mission is more enjoyable or rewarding that close air support of the ground folks, but you have to own the sky to do it successfully.
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I'm not sure how much the concept of air supremacy is understood. The reason the Army and Marines were able to do what they did to support you was because of air supremacy. No superiority.......Supremacy. We have enjoyed that in each engagement since Vietnam. It is what allowed ground support from the services mentioned. I've never been a big fan of the Air Force, but they have sterilized the skies above our ground folks, and that is a good thing.
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I'm glad that's all you're saying. The other services don't have anywhere near the capability for pure numbers, command and control, airborne tanking or logistics movement the Air Force does. I've always been disappointed in their flexibility compared to the other services, and they are far more rule oriented, the the capability is undeniable.
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What's the Cloudiest Day You've Ever Seen Without it Raining?
sherpa replied to Gugny's topic in Off the Wall Archives
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What? I'm not sure you are aware of carrier capabilities or airwing numbers, but there isn't a chance in the world the Navy could "pick up the slack," and even a small attempt would be disastrous. The Navy provides a very capable strike force, but nowhere near the numbers the Air Force has. The reality is that we are at the early stages of a a major change in offensive air platforms, from manned to unmanned.