Mark Davis

He's trying to be relevant again. Imagine interrupting anyone's worship service and thinking you are going to change anyone's mind. He's seeing unrest and a controversial topic and taking the hard left action to try and get relevance.

I wonder how many of these same folks have called the Confederate soldiers from a long ago era "traitors".

I would be good if we had a temporary pullback. I have some distributions coming from my S-Corp I need to rebalance into some equities. The cheaper the buy point the better.

Yep, 100%. Let him get everything he wants. No half measures.

Buying it long term would be a winner. The Danes know that and are unlikely to sell it. We aren't going to invade it, I wish that wasn't the rhetoric. America has wanted to buy Greenland for a long time. I do think it's highly likely what Trump is angling for more than a true takeover is more bases, security, and/or rights and ability to provide security to some of those rare earth minerals. We will end up with some/all of that and it will die down.

There's a lot going on here, but access to, and financial rewards from, the rare earth minerals is a long way from being a reality for anyone at those sites. Greenland has like 100 miles total of roadway, so you are looking at a 15-20 year time horizon if you started today to extract and produce from those sites. That's not to say there isn't long term value, there is, but odds are those in the headlines about it won't be around to see much personal gain there. All that said, something will get worked out, we aren't invading Greenland.

You're kind of like me. I voted for Bill Clinton and Al Gore, never GWB. Now my views are deemed to the right, although I'm not near right enough I'd fit in what the Republican party in my state is. I really haven't changed other than being OK with gay marriage, yet somehow I'm now more right in the scope of things because I think this looney idea that you can impede law enforcement and stir up unrest is wrong and dangerous. I don't know when it became ok for local leaders to just say "we won't comply" with federal laws and more so then to just assume the federal authorities would and should back down to them.

Is Trump still a Russian agent or was that last week?

Shameful. It's been shown how far students fell behind during Covid closures.

Collectivism/Socialism does tend to make things uninvestable. When the government seized all their assets once, you can't blame them.

There’s one sure way to stop these tragedies, don’t run from law enforcement. Bad things can happen.

That's not really what the nuts and bolts of the FTC suit are about you have it kind of backwards. The FTC suit I believe to be anti-capitalist because it's end result would limit resale and open markets. These actions actually increase the prices of tickets on the market. I have my own issues with Ticketmaster from my company's perspective but a lot of this is scapegoating them into full blame when the truth is they just have some issues and will do whatever it takes to maintain their market position. Ticketmaster is definitely high on fees but what they are doing with the FTC is taking out individuals with multiple accounts in an effort to allow the "rightsholders" (teams and artists) to limit resale. Well, when that is allowed the promoters or teams/artists become the resellers under TM premium packages or they send tickets only to their consolidated resale partners. By limiting the tickets that can be bought by individuals, whether brokers or general public, the artists and teams can dictate resale volumes and terms and force prices higher. These silly 10% cap on resale prices that some states, specifically in New England, have enacted is only going to drive prices even higher because it allows the supplier to choke off and hide what is really available at any given time. Since the team/promoter sets face value, they can always just change that so they can get around the law while you the consumer cannot. Often times Ticketmaster doesn't show you what is truly available in totality either. That's not a Ticketmaster choice, just like Ticketmaster doesn't mind resale, but they block it if the team/artist tells them to in order to keep their business. Ticketmaster doesn't have nearly the monopoly it used to on the primary with AXS and more specifically Seatgeek gaining larger market share. When it comes to pricing though, most events end up selling below original face values, if you limit resale and enforce price caps and floors, those last minute deals you can find would cease. It's easy to point to the 5-10% of events that explode to 2-3x face and say that's bad, but nobody considers the $250 face value ticket they paid $50 for to go see their favorite team on a Thursday night.

When politicians get involved in ticketing it always becomes more monopolistic and expensive. The FTC suits against Ticketmaster are only going to drive prices higher.

I was never that big of a 2A person, certainly not an absolutist. But when you see stuff like this and the fact that someone who supports these positions was elected, that moves me more in the 2A direction.

Point taken. But given what occurred, on a per capita basis you were still about as safe in Caracas on Friday night as you would have been in Chicago and you literally had a dictator taken into custody that night. I'd say that was pretty incredible.