So, reporting on companies defrauding investors by lying is a bad thing? But it's OK for the companies to do the opposite by taking unreasonably optimistic views to keep up their share price.

Or maybe we could talk about how he was calling COVID-19 a hoax when he clearly knew it was not.

No, let's talk about his rantings about how he will refuse to relinquish power when he's voted out of office and will continue to incite violence to achieve this.

If you want to end up with a million dollar account, start with two million....

He did study this at the feet of a master, Roy Cohn.

In Scots Gaelic, cum is keep, hold (n), related to the Old Irish congabin.

Is this a sign that the current age of the dum-dums may be waning? Not getting my hopes up too much...

The T administration makes bad choices as a matter of policy.

It only gets capital gains treatment if you pay for the options when you get them.

> ...reverse stock splits (your 10 shares becomes 1)....
So you think that if someone gives you a dollar for 10 dimes, they are ripping you off?

It's a private company. There is no public market for the stock.

Wait - are you talking about the guy who was calling it a hoax and downplaying the danger well into March? Who continues to spew misinformation every week? Of course, this was long after he cut the budget for the CDC and disbanded the pandemic team that Obama set up because, well, "Obama".

Even better is his abrupt turn-around on March 17th when he said that he knew it was a pandemic from the start. So, when he was calling it a hoax, saying we have it under control, blaming the Democrats by saying they were trying "...to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant...." (March 6th), he actually knew it was a pandemic?

I don't expect much from someone who was surprised to learn, earlier this year, that the flu kills lots of people. He was also unaware of the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 that killed his own grandfather, maybe because that was not about him.

“No one in this world...has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people." (H. L. Mencken)

A whole $50/hour? Wow! That's something like $100k/year! Those consultants are sure raking it in!

I was talking to some of my Colorado colleagues recently at an event here in New York City and they were complaining about how cold it was. I was surprised because I think Colorado is generally colder - we had been having temperatures ranging from low 20s to high 30s (F) at that point - but they were not used to being outside longer than it took to get to and from their cars.

In a place like this where few of us own cars, we are outside a lot more. I, like many people, continue to walk and bike even when it gets down to the 20s or teens. I have lost touch with how much suburban life is spent in those ecology-destroying income-sinks known as "cars" - not that I'm biased or anything.