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Also the likely reason why Trump has changed his tune on whether TikTok should be banned.

Not sure how that would work. Easy to balance a budget, much harder to balance the actuals.

Uhm no. The issue is raising taxes to pay for what you are getting now, so you can balance the budget.

Pretty sure Martin Durkin has not won a Nobel.

33 million Americans think the earth is flat.

Weren't you earlier today lamenting how bad the economy was?

Bonus points for working lagniappe into a sentence!

If I have $100 million in unencumbered real estate my bank would happily provide a revolving line of credit for $40 million. If I had a net worth of $2 billion, I am sure a bank would happily provide a $400 million revolver. Unless my net worth was measured 2 years ago and much of my holdings are in office assets....that Mark to Market has dropped a bit since then.

Not entirely true. The Australian stock market has beat the US Market over the last 120 years when converted to US dollars.

Unencumbered equity, not unencumbered liquidity. The loan is there to provide liquidity. Trump is probably running into a multitude of problems. He is convicted of lying about his assets. The assets are likely heavily cross collaterized. The office market is currently absolute shit and I wouldn't be surprised if many of his assets are under water. Lastly, it is unlikely he is going to win on appeal. The amount might get reduced a little, but more likely than not, he is going to have to pay.

Anybody who has ever had to get a security clearance knows that large debts are a disqualifier. Having a president who is known to only care about his wealth needing a lot of money should be seen as a large national security risk.

Meal team six drills are fun. IPSC and IDPA matches are fun.

The loan tends to be pretty standard for most private banking or wealth management customers as a percentage of their net worth.

Western Democracy has hinged on those in power voluntarily giving up that power after an election. What Trump has shown is how fragile that voluntary part is.

Isn't that what they want women to do?

This. It is Russian style oligarch time.

And Orban just visited too, maybe they split the bill.

He just posted the money.

I don't understand where you read it is tied to coercion or forcibly? The actual offense is defined as follows in the bill: What am I missing?

I mean, if you go by the official summary of the bill, it would certainly not be based on "forcibly transition". This is how Social Transition is defined: The proposed bill would also make offenders a Tier 1 Sexual Offender with the requisite registration and annual reporting. The proposed bill is scary as fuck.

It is complete insanity really that Biden and Trump are the best leaders the US has to offer.

Cause they are awesome people and every day in Newfoundland is a great fucking day. I love Newfoundland.

I was born in Canada, but raised in Europe and moved back about 25 years ago. Soon after I had resettled in Canada, I worked with a gentleman who was born in Newfoundland prior to 1948 and I used to rib him how I was more Canadian than he was....

2023 saw the largest influx of immigrants since we allowed Newfoundland to join Canada.

In all fairness, you two are comparing two different things. GDP and GDP per capita are two different measurements. The federal government agrees it has overdone it and has adjusted immigration targets downward, they appear to be on the upper range of what the National Bank report (which the above is based on) deems viable to escape this "population trap".