John Hjorth

@changegonnacome and @Spekulatius, Thanks, yes perhaps armchair psychology / pocket psychology. I just found it striking, creepy and verging to scary, how Mr. Vexlers description of the personalities of these two men and how their interactions are assumed to function. Also based on that the descriptions seem to fit all too good. Based on that, that talks now at least continue, is based on that a resounding successful outcome, based on how bad the whole thing could have evolved today between the two men.

From the Reuters rolling News feed : That was not much - war continues. Likely a sign of how hard a task it is to get this conflict contained and under control. And Europe and Ukraine are still on the sidelines. - - - o 0 o - - - More, now : So, basically, nothing.

Very good humor on a very serious day! - Sold as 10% preferred new capital while having no real earnings!

I listened to the last YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen today, and got guided to this Youtube video by Vlad Vexler : YouTube : Vlad Vexler [March 15th 2025] : The Real Reason Trump Submits to Putin Warning : Pretty creepy stuff, if one asks me. Disclosure : I'm not a shrink.

Now that is damn serious, but also funny!

@Ulti, Please don't let your memory fool you. Themes may vary over time, some times, the time span over which they vary are short. Nineteen-Eighty-Four.

Mark Carney visiting France today. That's absolute unheard of, Canadas newly elected premier minister not visiting USA as the first thing.

Does anyone here on CofB&F have an opinion or better : an expectation about what to be presented from the Russian-American war talks to take place tomorrow? -Personally I do not in any way trust either of the two men involved here.

SD [ @SharperDingaan ], It reads ... South-American.

@Spekulatius, To me, personally, and my household, these withholding taxes are already in place here in Denmark. The situation I think may vary from country to country. In both taxable and tax deferred accounts, I'm subject to withholding taxes on basically all dividends. The only dividends we receive in which dividend taxes aren't withheld, are dividends from tracker positions in Shell and British Petroleum. On Danish taxable dividend income we get credit for withheld dividend taxes in the country of the dividends origin. Investment returns in tax deferred accounts are taxed here at 15.3 per cent, again with credit for withheld dividend taxes in the country of the dividends origin. If the above may read complicated, I can assure you, that you are right. It just such a nightmare with tax returns, to check if everything ends up being correct. We pay dividend taxes in Denmark, USA, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, France, the Nederlands, Belgium, not from the hip here sure about Luxemburg. In short, it's a fr*gging nightmare to manage and control!

Thank you for sharing that, Roger [ @rogermunibond ], I found it. Certainly food for thought, and interesting. However, I personally think that some of his considerations about taxes may not be totally correct.

The red baseball cap is awesome! [for snipers, who have him as job]. Marketing gimmick. One may say that the incumbent POTUS normally is dressed accordingly to the position he by now holds on loan. USA is still young, thus US culture is a melting pot of cultures.

James [ @james22 ], From the Giverny Client Letter posted by Charlie [ @Charlie ] today, *SIGH* I think the solution to the problem at hand is not to be born, because it eventually will cause you to die.

Sound reason, consistency and stamina will carry you well into the future, no matter periodically fast changing and trying times.

I've got to say, that you have got the attention of my senses, since you started posting in this topic, @73 Reds . Thank you for that, @73 Reds.

James [ @james22 ], You have alreday already by your posts in this topic proved that you have absolutely no clue about what you're talking about, related to Icelandinc cf. Greenlandic history here, obviously. I've had enough of trying to provide informational balance to your fast *BS* posts in this topic. If you from here continue your line of posting informational *BS* without any real Kjoules invested, time involved, serious sources included, etc. put in to your posts here, I'll just report you for political *BS*ing. Please stay logical and reasonable, it will eventually serve you well here on CofB&F.

James [ @james22 ], Why are you bringing Iceland into this discussion? -Iceland isen't Greenland. Please look up a map! -Should we also continue by bringing into this discussion the madness the Faroe Islands' 'drill, baby, drill!', by drilling tunnels between the islands, while suddenly, all the fish around the islands left, because waters around the Faroe Islands got warmer?

Greg [ @Gregmal ], I can't stop laughing! It's so true what you posted. But I think it all started going over board with POTUS [aka Egg-price-slayer ] declaring war against egg price increases in his address to the Congress. - - - o 0 o - - - AgriWatch - Agriculture [March 14th 2025] : The US has asked Denmark for extra eggs [translated from Danish to English by Google Translate] Please note : Now fast forward to chicken design, ref. Wikipedia, especially this : Which again links to : Wikipedia : Cloaca, especially this : After this tiny lecture, I'm not sure at all there is any American demand for eggs from EU. - - - o 0 o - - - Why are American eggs washed and EU eggs unwashed? : This is due to the regulations concerning salmonella. Chickens in Europe are vaccinated against salmonella, so you do not need to wash the eggs. However, in the US, chickens are not vaccinated. Therefore egg washing is mandatory. [Also ref. post above by @Spekulatius ].

For information, here is attached the latest available Annual Report for Polar Seafood, 2023 Annual Report. Polar Seafood is mentioned as one of the initiators to that report I uploaded here yesterday about the footprint of fishery in Greenland. Polar Seafood is the largest private business in Greenland. Unfortunately the file is too big for Google Translate, so can't give it a spin to English translation. [For information, 7 DKK ~ 1 USD, give or take.] Here is a photo of two guys running Polar Seafood taken in May 2023, when they took over after their fathers, the founders, raised to be eachother friends. Practical dress, no suits, no fuzz. Polar Seafood - Annual Report 2023 - 20250315.pdf

Greg [ @Gregmal ], No, not validated by anyone what so ever, It just happened that @whiskybravo above posted something, that fit the actual glove perfectly. What you get out of that is naturally for yourself to judge and decide.

@Xerxes, No real facts avaible about anything here. So just drop thinking about it. Waste of your time.

How about a company issuing debt, due ~thousand years down the road, give or take, classifying it as equity? Can you guess the company? The existence of dumb bond investors seem evident.

@formthirteen, And now we're approaching going circular.

What I speculate most of Americans are luckily ignorant about, is that Greenland has its own 'oligarchs', who carefully stay out of the limelight, minding their own business [, almost Buffett-like] : Successfull fishermen, - very! - who - over many years - have continued to do, what they are really good at : Fishing! Attached is a report from Copenhagen Ecomics [CE] about the economic footprint of fishery in Greenland, in both Danish and an English Google translation. Some may say : 'old stuff, doesen't matter', but absolutely nothing has changed since the issuance of the report. How do you think your bragging POTUS empty suit is perceived among those few men, of which some of them still meet in at the office in overalls before everyone else, to stay in control and check of everything? Their productive assets aren't really grounded in the Grenlandic cliffs, they are floating entities [ships] in companies, which both can be moved anywhere by a fingers snap [ Iceland, Nova Scotia, whatever]. A public filing about change of residence, based on change of articles of association is what it takes. Even the most successful fisherman knows that there are things he should not think about, but leave to a lawyer in Nuuk. Good luck to America annexing Greenland without these productive assets. America will eventually get back to Denmark, suggesting Denmark to take over join Greenland again, with a giant check attached. In the mean time, welcome to the coldest hell hole with a population on earth, if this happens. Fiskeriets-økonomiske-fodaftryk-i-Grønland - Danish - 20250315.pdf Fiskeriets-økonomiske-fodaftryk-i-Grønland - English - 20250315.pdf

Mar A Lago Accords appear to me to be some kind of ghost on the Web. But based on the post by @whiskybravo above, I found this : Financial Times - Opinion - US Economy [March 7th 2025] : What a Mar-a-Lago accord could look like Financial Times - Opinion - US Economy [March 14th 2025] : Tariffs on goods may be a prelude to tariffs on money. I haven't been able to find anything real and tangible in writing about the thoughts about such a US zero-coupon bond program as mentioned above by @Spekulatius.