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You said that NYC today is essentially the safest that it has been in the past 50 fifty years. I disagreed with you, so what does crime in Chicago have to do with this? Compare crime in NYC today versus 2013, or 2010.

You cannot be serious. Crime is way worse than it was for a 15 year period between 1999 and 2014. You may come up with statistics, but when police downgrade crime, prosecutors don't indict, and criminals do not go to jail, what's the point of reporting a crime?

@John Hjorth, I honestly did not read the subtitles. He did not address Prigozhin by name, but he did say that people could go back to their homes, enlist in the army or go to Belarus. However, I don't trust a word that Putin says. This whole thing is very, very weird, and I have never been good at reading political tea leaves, particularly in the Kremlin.

What do you make of this? Seems to be a bunch of empty words to me (I read, speak and understand Russian fluently.)

Japan is a declining power that depends on the US, so their nationalism is not a threat to the US.

Most of the people on the boat were Egyptians and Pakistanis. Again, interesting that you do not discuss the fact that the West cannot take the hundreds of millions who want to immigrate here.

Interesting that you do not debate that Egyptians and Pakistanis are not refugees. As for Syrians, if indeed there is a war there, why don't they claim asylum in Turkey? Same culture, much closer. Oh wait, Europe gives great social benefits!

Time will tell whether that will be good for the US and Europe. India seems to me no less nationalistic and protectionist than China.

The people in the Mediterranean are NOT refugees. Invaders or illegal immigrants but NOT refugees. Pakistanis and Egyptians are not fleeing war! The west cannot take hundreds of millions of people from the third world without destroying itself! If you truly want to help the third world nations, bring free birth control and family planning there. Their biggest problem is population growth. You do not see millions of Indians and Chinese leaving, but you see millions of Africans and Muslims trying to leave.

MSGE at $33 as well

MSGS, and JOE.

Good points, and yes, social programs are like a drug.

Greg, with all due respect, I vehemently disagree. While the US has numerous problems, it is much easier to build wealth in the US than in Russia. I know quite a few very hard working and successful people in Russia who had their businesses stolen from them either by criminals or by government officials. Yes, clearly there is different set of laws applied to Hunter Biden and an average Joe or President Trump, but it cannot be compared to Russia or Venezuela.

Alexander Matrosov is what you are looking for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Matrosov. Not perfect but close enough. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2008/P7192.pdf

The premiums are that high because the stock can move 50% at any moment either up or down depending on what deal is being struck or not done at all.

So, Gregmal is a lot more knowledgeable than I am on this subject. My guess is that it will most likely to be sold to Sheikh Jassim for around $33-37 per share. However, my bet is that nothing will happen for the next seven days, and I felt that I got paid very well for the risk - $1.15 per option. Yes, if the Sheikh walks or club gets sold to Ratcliffe, the stock probably goes to $14-$17, but I doubt that it will happen next week. I have been writing at the money options on this since January...

NEN. Sold June 23rd MANU puts with a $21 strike for $1.15 each.

Spek, why not worth a large bet? Thank you.

Monarch cement

I believe in either 2020 or 2021.

Correct. The only reason that she worked, and unfortunately will have to go back at some point is health insurance.

I think that having more money helps to solve problems and reduce stress in life. For each person, the optimum point is different. Of course if you love what you do - academics, or you are workaholic (many people in finance) then that is different calculation.

No, it means that while our income declined, quality of life improved because she had 40 more hours per week to devote to our family. Given that I came as a penniless immigrant with my parents to the US from the former USSR, your suggestion is interesting... My parents and I lived on less than USD 20K per year in NYC in the early 1990s. I would suggest that before giving this advice to me or anyone else, you take your family (including kids) to NYC/Tokyo/London and try to live on USD 40K a year today. I have lived a very frugal life - no air-conditioning for me during NYC summers, worked as a garbage man to pay for college. I started to work at 16.

Actually, I disagree. My relationship with my wife improved drastically after she got fired from her job. She had way more time to devote to our three kids, took a lot of burdens of me, and our stress level went down drastically. Of course we are going to have issues when Cobra coverage runs out....

It depends. The theory behind stock options and stock grants is that it aligns managerial interests with those of shareholders. If done properly (like at Watsco) then I think it is a very useful tool.