John Hjorth

Welcome to fast-lane, @LC.

@dwy000, Thank you, I hope you're right. lol. Cultural thingy, I think, also.

@Patmo, Have you even studied any facts about this? USAfacts - Steve Ballmer [August 1st 2024] : Just the Facts About US Immigration: Steve Ballmer Talks Through the Numbers.

Added a bit to DANSKE.CPH [Danske Bank A/S, Denmark] today. - - - o 0 o - - - Edit : About six years ago, I opened a separate topic in the Investment Ideas forum here on CofB&F about Danske Bank, here, - without any traction or takers, whatsoever. You are still naturally welcome to chime in there, still, if nosy, or just interested. - - - o 0 o - - - I've never understood why certain shitty banks get traction here on CofB&F, while others do not.

Great and fun reading this on a Friday, it doesen't matter all the fun took place on Wednesday!

Awesome entertainment in this topic today, ... I can't stop laughing!

U.S. Department of the Treasury - News - Press Releases [April 30th 2025] : Treasury Announces Agreement to Establish United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund. Any complaints about sources etc. here, Greg?

Greg [ @Gregmal ], I'm not going to pick up the glove, and continue elaborate this particular discussion here. Please call me out, if you think I'm posting biased sources in this topic going forward.

This is an awesome idea for a separate topic, @Rainier, Information sharing, with the intent to stay out of otherwise surprising trouble! [... After which I'm out of the topic, because of no relevance for me as a Dane].

Blake [ @Blake Hampton ], Here is to POTUS just becomes a break screen / break signal in history. - - - o 0 o - - - Here is the Danish break screen and signal back in the '70s when Danish TV was a state monopoly : Later, it became a bit more advanced, with aquarium fish :

Greg [ @Gregmal ], No, because it's not about well artigulated and phrased opinions, which we all have the personal privilege of here on CofB&F, it's more about : Responding to tone, Ad hominem, and Name-calling, in short, it's about bad community behavior here on CofB&F.

Hektor [ @Hektor ], You're doing a just great job in this topic. - Thank you for that. - Keep them coming!

Yes, I would say so, Hektor [ @Hektor ], With the catch, that we likely already know, Mark Rutte won't apriori touch such a quarrel between NATO members, from his behavior in the White House commenting on POTUS' Greenlandic imperial aspirations. But NATO members could likely force him to. What's going on here is unheard of in NATO environment for all 76 years of NATOs existence.

Hektor [ @Hektor ], Please remember that Canada is also not just a NATO member, it is a founding member. So it not about if POTUS actually cares, it is also about if others care, which I can tell you : They do.

Hentor [ @Hektor ], I think it's fair to say it's all over the place, not only in UK, but in most of Europe. Here is a clip from the main page of Danmarks Radio - dr.dk - today : with a video clip of Carney's '... It's never going to happen.'

There are now objectively observable cases of CofB&F members dragging certain kinds of totally undocumented and unsubstanciated political stuff and information from X in here on CofB&F in this topic, where such *BS*, - not even in this topic - just doesen't belong. Now go grow up, or go grow a new brain, if you feel hit by this. What is it really, that you obvoiusly don't understand? -Or are you just brain lame, not furnished with any real arguments for your stance presented here? I'm going to report such cases from here onwards, on sight.

In practice, doing so, Hektor [ @Hektor ] is just a garden variety of a default. When the creditors can't get their money back with interest at agreed time, and it has become evident for the creditors, that it actually is so, they get soft and in stead of to continue demanding overdue payment in full, they shift to asking : '... if I can't get full payment now, what can I then get, and when?' And then starts a giant circus, with the overall aim at , - extraordinarily, naturally, but still defintive, transferring value from the creditors to the lender, by losses generated by the decisions of the lender being transferred to the creditors. Physical person, firm, company, municipality, region, state, contry - doesen't matter, it's basically all the same. - - - o 0 o - - - I remember just after GFC every material, large real estate company in Dubai, in some cases even the Kingdom was involved as shareholder, had hired a socalled CRO, a socalled Cheif Restructuring Officer, which sole job was to beat up creditors dearly, and look at what happened, Dubai fairly quickly came out on the other side of the total real estate blow-up caused by the GFC, shining more than ever. That was when I was taught that not only do we need be be very aware of Itailian and Greek people wearing sandals, we really need to include arabs from Dubai, that when wearing sandals, they steal with both their fingers and their toes.

McKinsey and Company [January 13th 2025] : The State of Luxury: How to navigate a slowdown. - - - o 0 o - - - Report attached. McKinsey and Company. - The State of Fashion Luxury - 20250428.pdf

McKinsey and Company [November 11th 2024] : The State of Fashion 2025: Challenges at every turn - - - o 0 o - - - Report attached. McKinsey and Company - The State of Fashion -2025-v2 - 20250428.pdf

Douglas Elliman & Knight Frank - 2025 Wealth Report - - - o 0 o - - - Interesting stuff for those CofB&F members interested in the luxury sector.

Pretty awesome morbid humor, if you ask me, on the frontpage of the coming weeks edition of the Economist, if you can take it : The American Eagle just a bit and temporarily down on maintenance, repair, service and inspections, but not in any way out the game.

Russian-Ukrainian war, Saturday April 26th 2025 : TASS - tass.ru [April 26th 2025] : Putin declared his readiness to negotiate with Kiev without preconditions. Original website, in russian language and text. - - - o 0 o - - - Bloomberg [April 26th 2025] : Zelenskiy Hails Potential Historic Outcome After Trump Talks. - - - o 0 o - - - To me personally, this is really great news, in stead the existing deadlock. I confidently speculate the POTUS has been pressing two belly buttons other than his own quite hard as of lately, and the results of doing so at least seem starting to surface. I really respect the provided efforts for at least trying at ones very best to contribute a sustainable solution. The cause is noble. I personally cheer for the best, while really fearing the worst : European havoc.

Google Translate is just awesome, however I think I need to report bugs [more like missing features, actually] to Google, -I can't get it translated from simplified Chinese to Morse code or Braille.

Both @Sweet and Greg [ @Gregmal ] are right here. It's presented in several European mainstream media with totally misleading and biased headlines, too. I don't think @Mephistopheles is to blame here. We all have a duty to ourselves to 'read through', not just headlines *BS* click bait.

@changegonnacome, It's all spin, propaganda, *BS* and Big Lies. It's almost incomprehensible, I would say. Charlies [ @dealrakers ] predictions about who controls what and vice versa comes to mind here. If we're not already there, where the man is actual controlled by the consequences of what the man has already decided and initiated, then we are approaching that point, with good cadence. It's like a DIY car mechanic, in a blue overall, naturally blue, laying in the pebbles on his back in the driveway under the car, trying to fix the car, and the only tools available is a hammer and chisel, to dismantle everything, without no hope what so ever to assemble the car again. And what he is tinkering with is the worlds largest economy.