Sweet

One for the traders.

With Putin nobody knows unfortunately. I hope Trump can end the thing, but I don’t think he will be able to.

Disagree, actually for the reasons you stated. Hard men like Putin only respect power. Too little too late I fear though.

It's quite amazing how little this is being reported on.

Not good news: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0dpdx420lo

This made me laugh. Good list John, won’t be starting a bank anytime soon.

There are too many to mention but thanks to all that commented.

Thanks @Saluki I’m using two factor authentication so I have that layer of added protection. They have to either get a code sent to my phone or use an Authenticator app. @Blugoldsyes I think I’m probably going to change my email address and the accounts linked to it. Something long and new and only at my for my investing should reduce visibility. @Xerxes it’s my investing accounts, not my banking accounts. Even if they get into my email there would still be a few hurdles to pass before they got into my investing accounts. Yes @Ulti someone recommended me protonmail. I read that it is better for privacy but I’m not seeing it more secure from getting hacked. Do they have two-factor authentication etc?

Hi all. This is an important topic which I am sure some of you have grappled with so I'm hoping for some advice. I have an outlook email address and all my investing accounts are registered to it. My email must have been in a data leak because I can see from my recent activity that someone other than me is trying to access my outlook account - there have been numerous attempts in the past few days to break into my account but they have gotten the password wrong. I have two-factor authentication on, so even if they did get my password they cannot access my email without an authentication code. Does anyone have any recommendations on what I should do? Should I change email account? Is outlook the best email to link your account to or are there any more secure? More generally, is there anything you do to keep your investing accounts secure? Cheers

Anyone ever think about these? I think they are all types of funds that sell calls on the stocks within the indices or the indices themselves. I’ve looked at some other covered call ETFs but kept away because I just feel they are a blowup risk.

Give me a break. Have you ever meet anyone in retail who doesn’t try to inflate their real estate asset prices when negotiating sales or financing deals? Don’t take my word for it:

I find this a crazy take.

Isn’t elections always about the lesser of two evils? When one side believes Trump is Hitler you can see why they vote against Trump, some push politically motivated prosecutions, some even try to kill him.

Generally speaking? I don’t know if he follows the law or not. In this specific case I’d lean towards the view that he would have paid Daniel’s regardless of his presidency bid - he has a record of doing just that which means no case to answer to. Normally this type of campaign finance violation is taken up by the DOJ or the FEC, but it wasn’t, and what’s not normal is a politically motivated prosecutor in a Democratic state taking on a federal issue. Bragg has many quotes saying he was going to get Trump, he’s not impartial. It was prosecuted in Manhattan, one of the most Democrat leaning places in the US and the jury almost certainly leaned that way. Trump is a polarising political figure, if the jury is biased the trial can’t be fair. No actions were taken to try ensure he got a jury of his peers - i.e. Dems and Reps in equal amounts. The payment occurred in 2016 beyond New York’s own statue of limitation laws for these crimes. They found a way around the law, which (I think - could be wrong) was to link the book keeping entry of it a year later. But if he didn’t commit a campaign finance crime then there is no book keeping crime. The main witness is Michael Cohen, a convicted liar who also lied on the stand by saying he had nothing to gain from Trump’s conviction, even though he had made lots of money talking about Trump. It has been reported that there were a range of irregularities pre-trial and during the trial… but I don’t really know enough about the legal cases to know what is normal - so I ignore but mention. Overall I’d side with others. If this wasn’t Trump it wouldn’t be brought. If it was outside of NYC there would be no conviction. The DA was politically motivated - clearly.

The crux is whether Trump's money to Daniels was a campaign donation, and whether it fell foul of breaking campaign finance laws. I explained this earlier so I don't know why you are asking if I understand the legal standard. I don't have anything to correct on my point of being able to discuss the merits of verdicts. Juries judge, Judges judge - verdicts are what is challenged and what I was referring to (clearly I might add). There is nobody gaslighting you Buck. If you don't know what gaslighting means look it up. I'd appreciate it if you used it appropriately. And yes I am sure white-collar crime is complicated... so what though. Overall I'm pleased that you are allowing us to speak about the convictions.