Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

1. Enables more oversight of all transactions.
2. Assists in moving toward cashless system, which allows greater bank control (negative rates, etc.).

What is wrong with a cashless system? Now you're just trying to get me riled up.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I had the opposite of this repeatedly in St. Louis. I was there several times on a lawsuit. The train into town from the airport gives change in $1 coins. No one anywhere else (at least in Detroit) has any idea what they are, so it is hard to spend them. So I took to trying to get rid of them in the airport before flying home.

This led to me offering to buy the lunch a young man in army fatigues behind me in line at a food kiosk was about to order. You know, in thanks for his service. I had 5 coins I needed to get rid of. I think the guy thought I was coming on to him.

As it happens, this morning I was at one of the Federal Reserve Banks, speaking to the people there about how they handle cash (in and out). They send a lot of those $1 coins to banks in countries like El Salvador and Ecuador that use the USD as their currency, because the paper dollars there don't last as long.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

No argument from me.

Anyone else? Anyone?

I think I said before, but I will say it again. Trump is great, because he is going to destroy the Republican Party as we now know it. If he gets the nomination, lots of Republicans won't vote for him. If he doesn't, his supporters will be pissed that it was stolen from him and will walk. He has exposed fundamental rifts that the party had successfully papered over. And he won't win. He cannot possibly turn out enough whites to make up for the blacks and Hispanics who will turn out to vote against him, and he is going to damage the GOP with many voters for a long, long time.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Summers' only recent position has been we shouldn't raise rates. Raising rates had little impact. You cite no policy.

In twenty seconds on Google -- no, less than that, I can find a page with the columns Summers has written on the FT recently. Don't be an idiot. Whoops! Too late. (See? You got me riled.)

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

http://theslot.jezebel.com/lindsey-g...ium=socialflow

TM

This is why Lindsey Graham is my favorite Republican.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

No argument from me.

Anyone else? Anyone?

TM

Jim Webb.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Trump's down 10 points against Hillary. .

You can still get Bernie at 7-1. Nate thinks he will win the next 8 Dem contests He is the best candidate to lower your taxes.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

This is America for the people who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern (Hi Hank!).

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/06...imbaugh/203898

No one listens to Rush, not even enough to win a R primary. Stern supports Hillary. So no.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I am especially disturbed at the way they demonize inversion transactions and those who engage in them. This is ugly, ugly, ugly.

Some of my best friends are Irish now.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Raising rates had little impact.

Little is not none. And it's had enough that expectations have shifted against the additional rate hikes that were planned for this year.

Larry's is on the business page.

I know we've had this conversation before, but I'll say it again: you should not read the business page. There is nothing of value there.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Be it DJT ot HRC, we're going into the Middle East in a serious way.*


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* Obama's only blunder has been Libya. We should've left Gaddafi, the garbage pail lid, on that place. Otherwise, he's been conservative non-interventionist. He deserves more credit for this.

I'm really not sure why people think Hillary's foreign policy will deviate that much from Obama's. She had a major influence on his, after all, and Bill's was not all that different.

Maybe she's marginally more likely to bomb someplace than Barack, but she's not going to bring us another Iraq war.

[Replaced_Texan]

I swear this whole Republican campaign is just downright goldmine for comedians.

http://www.conservativeoutfitters.co...zs-sex-scandal

I find it difficult to believe that six women have wanted to have sex with Ted Cruz, but I suppose everyone has a fetish.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

I swear this whole Republican campaign is just downright goldmine for comedians.

http://www.conservativeoutfitters.co...zs-sex-scandal

I find it difficult to believe that six women have wanted to have sex with Ted Cruz, but I suppose everyone has a fetish.

The whole thing is fascinating. Like, I actually thought Cruz might a Federalist Society evangelical robot who would pride himself in being above such carnal temptations (seriously, he seems like every waking moment of his life has been a plot to gain power).

And then as you say, there's more than one women who would sleep with him?

Which probably means that he's as shocked as we are about that and couldn't bring himself to pass up the opportunities.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I'm not concerned about a CTR. I'm concerned about any move to increase oversight.

We are moving in that direction already. But those of us who aren't, for good reason, should be protected. The underground economy is an integral part of the broader economy.

This exchange is bizarre. I'm going to drop it.

TM

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

What is wrong with a cashless system? Now you're just trying to get me riled up.

I don't like that Apple, Samsung, banks, take a piece of every single transaction. But other than that, I'm all for it.

TM