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Finance and International Banking 806

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M1 Cash / Coins
M2: Negotiable instruments, Checking Accounts (Demand Deposits), Saving Accounts, Bonds, Stocks, etc.
M3: Other, Real Property (Land), Gold and silver.
M4: Real Estate (meaning structures, houses), Planes, Boats, etc
M5: Grey Market: Importing BMW's from Germany, Bitcoin and other semi-regulated instruements.
M6: Black Market, Things you can convert to cash through illegal means, Drugs, Weapons (think arms dealing - global). This is where it's at if you to take risks ,to launder the cash, the risks are high butt, the rewards are astronomical. Printing counterfeit bills, etc.



There are rules (Laws) which regulate and control money flowing across boarders. These are hard to understand, butt oh so important. I am not a Lawyer, Accountant or Meow.

To move cash out of the United States there are Rules. You used to be able to bring $10,000- out of the country. You had to declare it. Same for taking cash out. I'm sure they have changed. Other counties have their own rules, they can be tricky. Know both sides or better yet hire a consultant who can represent you if you are audited.

The reasons for these laws/codes are:

  1. Monetary Policy, how much M1 is out there.
  2. To monitor and stop drug traffickers, diamond merchants, slavery and other black-market activities.
For a while in the 70's -90's people in the U.S. would keep money in Swiss Banks because their advisors told them to do it. This was illegal, butt pervasive, so there was a grace period to declare pay back/repatriation fees.

You need to be hyper wealthy to consider keeping $ overseas. It's a scarlet flag to the powers that be.

Here we go....

I own none of these nor other negotiable instruments. I owe a credit union $300 or so.

I do have some silver.
 

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Okay, so let's say you want to run hash from Montreal to Portland Maine.

What are some of the legal problems you could run into? Let's assume. you are allowed into both county's and you have tested the hash.
 

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Okay, so let's say you want to run hash from Montreal to Portland Maine.

What are some of the legal problems you could run into? Let's assume. you are allowed into both county's and you have tested the hash.
No response is a good response.

"Perfect is a fault, fault lines change". -REM

It doesn't matter if the market(s) are going up or down. The key is to play a market that has a lot of movement and to not play with house money (Margin) unless you know what you're doing. Always "know" when you place an option bet the person on the other side of the bet is a pro and knows more than you or I.

For example, NYBD he's supper cereal.
 

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Moodys cuts US rating from stable to negative for obvious reasons.

Not good, who knew you can't spend money because you somehow have the ink to print it?

They do it in whoville dam it.
 

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The above was on Drudge, butt he took it down. :unsure:

The leaders of the free world and kleptocracies will meet in San Franisco this week to >>>>

TALK, love to be a fly on the wall.

Russia has lost 1/3 of a million men and counting. (y)
 

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Okay, you have $100,000 and you own Ford Detroit. Fo the sake of arguement let's say you own 10,000 shares. This is important because we want to own (part) of the underlying stock. We are going to borrow $900,000 from XYZ broker and corner the market. Moo

Be ready to lose it all. :)

We need to buy all of the puts and calls that are in the money.

If we can corner this future market, we could be up $1,200,0000 - $20,000,000.

We're not going to screw around with Ford gmbh (Germany). The currency fluctuation between the USD and Mark is way too volatile.

So now all we have to do is buy the puts and calls that will pull this off and we're playing against folks who have faster computers and will not analyze the data, butt jump in and out in a NY second (actually fraction of)
 

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Why trade options at Schwab?​

Schwab provides comprehensive resources for options trading:
  • $0 base + $0.65 per online options contract1
  • Education and expert commentary
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  • Support from options specialists
At some point you need experts not me? :cool:

Becasue the stock is up too much too fast we need to stop.

Back to plan A
 

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Nothing is settled. The oldest trick in the book is for a sitting President seeking reelection is to start a war. This is especially true if domestic problems exist with the economy.

Let's call inflation 5 - 7%. So, you have to have a gain of at least the same to break even.

For car manufacturers, the holy grail is perfecting EVs while continuing to pump out traditional. cars, trucks and heavy equipment

This is a horrible financial climate to grow your money.

Cut spending and expect the worse.

Happy Monday..
 

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The U.S. is having a problem selling bonds. So, the yield should go up despite The Dow hitting a yearly high. U.S. forever stamps are a great hedge, although no one looks at them as an inflation haven. At any rate, the world is changing fast.

Ford admitted the unions hurt productivity during the strike. Their profitable SUV plant was shut down early. Oh well...
 

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Gold is at an all time high. This is the way it should be. Bitcoin, the standard is also at a high. Bitcoin is crap, it's like selling a cow for magic beans. In the real world there is no magic.
Defence stocks are a good bet, butt not in my world. I'm sticking with Ford Motor Co. They're adjusting to a weak EV market and will prevail. Dollar cost into F and you will be richly rewarded.
The Accountant
 

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Screw Ford. I bought Rolls Royce when it was down and out coming off pandemic, just under $1. Closed today at $3.59, off it's recent high. Score!
 

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Rolls Royce is a new good way to make money in defence stocks.

You can't argue with success.

Meow
 

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It's always fun to hike up the hill when it is at rest. The creatures of the night and the others. You can set in a bar and watch football or see Mountain Ops turn beat up ice cube into ....
 

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Screw Ford. I bought Rolls Royce when it was down and out coming off pandemic, just under $1. Closed today at $3.59, off it's recent high. Score!
F-35B at Burlington Int. 5th generation fighters. You can barely make them out.Think they are Lockheed Martin. Plus a ton of other suppliers. Defence stocks are always expensive and at the whim of a. lot forces.

It's amazing how decorative they are.

Happy Holidays
 

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Went to a challet 3 miles from Stowe and started to rebuild Vermont.

Stocks at all time high on the major U.S indexes. Still going to buy Ford Stock. They are slowing production of E.V.s. The Burlington fire dept. runs them for rescue trucks. They will continue to declare dividends.
 

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Socates was walking to a meadow. He wanted to see a piece of grass. He knew he could never understand the grass; because it doesn't come from the mind of man. Butt, he knew if he could get there before the sun rose he could see the grass lean to the sun, phototropic. He could watch the due evaporate from the leaves and try to understand it as well as humanly possible.
As he walked, he heard a voice. "Hey, Socrates my son Glaucon is a mess, can you help him".
"No, I'm good"
Socrates "is it not just to pay your debts?" Socates said "yes" and he took Glaucon to the caves to show him the power of suggestion, he flashed images onto the walls of the cave and showed the lad the power of suggestion..

In short, finance and Banking does come from the minds
of men. Therefore it can be mastered. 💥

Money is man'$ way of keeping score of what has been contributed to society. Nothing more nothing less.

The way to achieve true everlasting wealth is to collect basis points and then trusts. Nothing more and nothing less. When you put on your smoking jacket and slip into the minds of the dead ( Socrates was more than one person there is no way one man could know all)

Buy Ford Motor Company Stock. This is a math paper war.
The Republic of Plato, parafased and brought up to date a few thousand years.
"One stock indeed, double MEOW"

Meow
For The Great One, The Honorable Humpty Dumpty.
 
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