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gold1 said:
Given that Musk is expected to be a trillionare within the next couple of years,I reckon there would be enough liquidity for him to open a bank.
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Its not his wealth its cash that would be able to derive what you are thinking. Bearing in mind that a large % of his assets are still made up of shares in Tesla (something like $90bn) and SpaceX (something like $170bn), the expectation of growth in his assets is from these investments.

Now, if he wanted to liquidate his assets, tell me, what would happen to the share prices of those businesses should Musk sell a significant sum??? What would then happen to his "wealth"?

Just on your "business model", it shows a distinct lack of knowledge of how banks run, how they earn profits, and how they provide liquidity to remain open, but I'll leave that for you to figure out.
 
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Redford said:
FFS. Now he's threatening the EU with tariffs as well. "They will definitely happen".

Between his tariffs, his unwillingness to support the Ukranians nor NATO, and his withdrawal from other well held world organisations (eg the WHO), talk about isolating yourself from your traditional allies. And at a time when they need those alliances to be as strong as ever too.

US Futures stock markets beginning to get jittery.....
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Ironic that the country that pushed for globalisation, is the one pushing for the end to it because they have suddenly lost control of the ability to control supply chains etc.
 
Sintiger said:
I dare any Trump supporter to defend this.

USAID is in chaos as is the international aid and development landscape. All aid has stopped, even grants that are contracted to other agencies to deliver and money is owed on them, it’s all frozen.
The USAID website has been taken down, the majority of senior staff have been stood down on leave. Thousands of employees working overseas don’t know if they should come home, whether they would get reimbursed for the cost and even if they have a job. There is no one to ask.
To be even clearer organisations like USAID contract lots of work out to agencies like Oxfam, save the children, world vision etc and they pay in instalments. These organisations employ people and incur costs based on those contracts. Not only has the aid stopped but work done not yet paid for appears that it won’t be paid.
Aid organisations will be left with big bills to finish things or close things down effecting other programs as the money runs out.
This is the act of tyrannical administration not a normal government. It’s obscene.
Even if the US wanted to cut aid, which is its right in the end, this is not the way to do it. It lacks any ethics.
Anyone who can defend this is beyond helping imo.
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Well this is absolutely *smile* and is being led by Musk.

How can someone be so out of touch with the sufferings of others. I have done overseas aid work and this has me absolutely disgusted, I am stunned and don’t know what to do.

This one decision is going to directly cause significant loss of life, human suffering on a massive scale, and why.

Musk, what an absolute …………….

note @Sintiger, I checked multiple sources, tried to log onto the USAID website cause I didn’t actually believe it.
 
year of the tiger said:
note @Sintiger, I checked multiple sources, tried to log onto the USAID website cause I didn’t actually believe it.
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Me too. I couldn’t believe that a government could be so callous. I was being texted about this and continually responding with “are you sure that’s right” and “surely not”

I have relatives and friends in aid and they have many contacts all over the world. It is all that is being talked about. They are stunned.
 
Sintiger said:
I dare any Trump supporter to defend this.

USAID is in chaos as is the international aid and development landscape. All aid has stopped, even grants that are contracted to other agencies to deliver and money is owed on them, it’s all frozen.
The USAID website has been taken down, the majority of senior staff have been stood down on leave. Thousands of employees working overseas don’t know if they should come home, whether they would get reimbursed for the cost and even if they have a job. There is no one to ask.
To be even clearer organisations like USAID contract lots of work out to agencies like Oxfam, save the children, world vision etc and they pay in instalments. These organisations employ people and incur costs based on those contracts. Not only has the aid stopped but work done not yet paid for appears that it won’t be paid.
Aid organisations will be left with big bills to finish things or close things down effecting other programs as the money runs out.
This is the act of tyrannical administration not a normal government. It’s obscene.
Even if the US wanted to cut aid, which is its right in the end, this is not the way to do it. It lacks any ethics.
Anyone who can defend this is beyond helping imo.
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Big issue where I am .
 
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Tigers of Old said:
Attacking your traditional allies is certainly an interesting strategy from Trusk..
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And your internal allies...

The interviews with people realising the price of things are going to go up (yes Trump lied he would bring prices down) or that shutting down the department of education means the federal funds supporting the school they run / teach at / send their kids to school to are going to disappear is pretty sad.
 
RoarEmotion said:
Medium term it should stimulate local supply but still at a higher price than before so lower quality of life.
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And this is the issue. What investor is going to pump money into local supply when Trump has a one-term presidency? How will local supply suddenly ramp up to replace the imported goods?

It is ultimately inefficient. And does not work. Madness.

I am loving it, i want him to implement everything he said he would. So the Trump voters get the full experience. They voted for it.
 
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Feel a little for veteran journalist Peter Lalor who's been dumped from SEN for voicing opinions on the war in Gaza.
He's discovered there's not really a thing as free speech in this country. It's just whether the powers that be at the time agree with your POV or not.
 
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MD Jazz said:
And this is the issue. What investor is going to pump money into local supply when Trump has a one-term presidency? How will local supply suddenly ramp up to replace the imported goods?

It is ultimately inefficient. And does not work. Madness.

I am loving it, i want him to implement everything he said he would. So the Trump voters get the full experience. They voted for it.
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I dipped into the early version of this misery pit on YouTube. But it will be very much apparent in 6 months.

It’s definitely a mix of schaudenfraude and pity - as the system that lets a vast bulk of the population not understand what a tariff means / or have a way to educate it is pretty broken. Social media plays its part.

But freedom to chose and living with the consequences is very much the espoused American model.
 
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Tigers of Old said:
Feel a little for veteran journalist Peter Lalor who's been dumped from SEN for voicing opinions on the war in Gaza.
He's discovered there's not really a thing as free speech in this country. It's just whether the powers that be at the time agree with your POV or not.
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‘Standing up for the people of Gaza is not antisemitic’: Usman backs dumped cricket journalist
The Age Feb 4th 2015

SEN Radio has parted ways with prominent cricket journalist Peter Lalor halfway through Australia’s tour of Sri Lanka over his social media activity relating to Palestine.

Lalor was told on the final morning of the first Test by SEN chief executive Craig Hutchison that his services were no longer required.

Lalor’s X feed includes re-posts of news stories about Israeli attacks in Gaza, and about the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails.

Australian opening batter Usman Khawaja spoke out in support of Lalor on Monday night after the news broke.

“Standing up for the people of Gaza is not antisemitic nor does it have anything to do with my Jewish brothers and sisters in Australia, but everything to do with the Israeli government and their deplorable actions,” Khawaja posted on Instagram.

“It has everything to do with justice and human rights. Unfortunately hatred towards the Jewish and Muslim community will always exist. Pete is a good guy with a good heart. He deserves better.”

Lalor, formerly the chief cricket writer at The Australian, was used by SEN as a commentator in Galle. He also works as a commentator for Seven and writes and podcasts for the Cricket Et Al Substack.

Lalor released a statement on Monday night in which he said he had received two calls from senior management at SEN on the third day of the Galle Test, and was informed the following morning that he could not no longer work for them.

“I was told in one call there were serious organisations making complaints; in another I was told that this was not the case,” Lalor wrote in his statement.

“Perhaps I misunderstood. I was told there were accusations I was antisemitic which I strongly objected to. I was told my retweeting was not balanced, and insensitive to one side and that many people had complained.

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“I was asked by station boss Craig Hutchison, who was civil, if I didn’t care that my retweeting of events in Gaza made Jewish people in Melbourne feel unsafe. I said I didn’t want anyone to feel unsafe. Of course, I care. I have friends who are frightened and have heard the fear in their voices during conversations. It is an awful situation. But so is Gaza. It was a brief and cordial call.

“The following day Hutchison told me that because the ‘sound of my voice made people feel unsafe’ and that people are ‘triggered by my voice’, I could not cover the cricket for them any more.”

In a statement provided to this masthead on Monday, SEN confirmed it had parted ways with Lalor ahead of the second Test, which starts on Thursday, also in Galle.

“Sports Entertainment Network confirms it has parted ways with Peter Lalor, a freelance commentator within SEN’s cricket coverage,” read the statement.

Hutchison said: “We’ve been in dialogue through the back half of the [first] Test about some of the commentary on Peter’s private social media feed. Peter and I have a different view of the impact of that in the Australian community.

“SEN Cricket is a celebration of differences and nationalities and a place where our SEN audience can escape what is an increasingly complex and sometimes triggering world.

“We respect Pete as a journalist and long-time contributor to the game but also acknowledge the fear that many families in our community feel right now, and we also need to respect that.”

Lalor’s SEN colleagues in Sri Lanka were informed about the decision on Sunday morning.

www.theage.com.au

‘Standing up for the people of Gaza is not antisemitic’: Usman backs dumped cricket journalist

Cricket reporter Peter Lalor has received support from the Australian opener Usman Khawaja after the journalist was told he could not cover cricket for SEN any more due to his social media support of Palestinians.
www.theage.com.au www.theage.com.au

What a disgraceful thing! Boycott SEN.

Albo has to come out and say that criticising the policies of the Israeli government is NOT antisemitic. Dutton needs to tell us this as well, but I have a feeling he won't.
 
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Trump is in the process of sacking the FBI agents who investigated the January 6 riots. They didn't ask to investigate the case, FBI agents never do because they don't want anything to compromise their work, they investigated, prosecuted, the rioters were found guilty in court. The FBI agents are being sacked for doing their job. Many of them are long-serving, top agents, very expensive and time consuming to replace, making a big hole in US security.

Pardoning the rioters is one thing, this is another.

Just when you think he might ease-up on the fascism, he ups the ante. Its deeply concerning,
 
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Nico said:
‘Standing up for the people of Gaza is not antisemitic’: Usman backs dumped cricket journalist
The Age Feb 4th 2015

SEN Radio has parted ways with prominent cricket journalist Peter Lalor halfway through Australia’s tour of Sri Lanka over his social media activity relating to Palestine.

Lalor was told on the final morning of the first Test by SEN chief executive Craig Hutchison that his services were no longer required.

Lalor’s X feed includes re-posts of news stories about Israeli attacks in Gaza, and about the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails.

Australian opening batter Usman Khawaja spoke out in support of Lalor on Monday night after the news broke.

“Standing up for the people of Gaza is not antisemitic nor does it have anything to do with my Jewish brothers and sisters in Australia, but everything to do with the Israeli government and their deplorable actions,” Khawaja posted on Instagram.

“It has everything to do with justice and human rights. Unfortunately hatred towards the Jewish and Muslim community will always exist. Pete is a good guy with a good heart. He deserves better.”

Lalor, formerly the chief cricket writer at The Australian, was used by SEN as a commentator in Galle. He also works as a commentator for Seven and writes and podcasts for the Cricket Et Al Substack.

Lalor released a statement on Monday night in which he said he had received two calls from senior management at SEN on the third day of the Galle Test, and was informed the following morning that he could not no longer work for them.

“I was told in one call there were serious organisations making complaints; in another I was told that this was not the case,” Lalor wrote in his statement.

“Perhaps I misunderstood. I was told there were accusations I was antisemitic which I strongly objected to. I was told my retweeting was not balanced, and insensitive to one side and that many people had complained.

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“I was asked by station boss Craig Hutchison, who was civil, if I didn’t care that my retweeting of events in Gaza made Jewish people in Melbourne feel unsafe. I said I didn’t want anyone to feel unsafe. Of course, I care. I have friends who are frightened and have heard the fear in their voices during conversations. It is an awful situation. But so is Gaza. It was a brief and cordial call.

“The following day Hutchison told me that because the ‘sound of my voice made people feel unsafe’ and that people are ‘triggered by my voice’, I could not cover the cricket for them any more.”

In a statement provided to this masthead on Monday, SEN confirmed it had parted ways with Lalor ahead of the second Test, which starts on Thursday, also in Galle.

“Sports Entertainment Network confirms it has parted ways with Peter Lalor, a freelance commentator within SEN’s cricket coverage,” read the statement.

Hutchison said: “We’ve been in dialogue through the back half of the [first] Test about some of the commentary on Peter’s private social media feed. Peter and I have a different view of the impact of that in the Australian community.

“SEN Cricket is a celebration of differences and nationalities and a place where our SEN audience can escape what is an increasingly complex and sometimes triggering world.

“We respect Pete as a journalist and long-time contributor to the game but also acknowledge the fear that many families in our community feel right now, and we also need to respect that.”

Lalor’s SEN colleagues in Sri Lanka were informed about the decision on Sunday morning.

www.theage.com.au

‘Standing up for the people of Gaza is not antisemitic’: Usman backs dumped cricket journalist

Cricket reporter Peter Lalor has received support from the Australian opener Usman Khawaja after the journalist was told he could not cover cricket for SEN any more due to his social media support of Palestinians.
www.theage.com.au www.theage.com.au

What a disgraceful thing! Boycott SEN.

Albo has to come out and say that criticising the policies of the Israeli government is NOT antisemitic. Dutton needs to tell us this as well, but I have a feeling he won't.
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Does he has to ?.
 
Nico said:
Albo has to come out and say that criticising the policies of the Israeli government is NOT antisemitic. Dutton needs to tell us this as well, but I have a feeling he won't.
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Of course Dutton wont- he will most likely claim Albanese's statement was antisemitic.
While violence against Jews in Australia is wrong and completely uncalled for, people need to be able to speak their opinions about the actions of Israel.
 
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