Yes, certain kinds of speculative and manipulative trading are prohibited except for entities that have traditionally done it.
I am trying to take advantage of the Gamestop example by buying a small amount of stock in a similarly positioned firm. It's kind of a lottery ticket. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Jan 31, 2021, 11:15 AM Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote: > But companies and mutual funds are collective investments. Hedge funds > are collectives. They don't think of themselves that way, but even Elon > Musk is a huge collective if you take into account everyone who holds some > kind of stake in Tesla, Spacex, Boring, and so on. > > Or are you invoking the collective than which none can be more collective? > > Although the argument is made endlessly in terms of individuals versus > collectives, isn't it really a battle by existing collectives to prevent > the formation and growth of competitive collectives? The assertion that > certain forms of "natural" collectives should be more privileged under the > law and protected from competition from "unnatural" collectives? > > -- rec -- > > > On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 12:43 PM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Eric writes: >> >> >> >> < The mechanics by which wealth skews place a spectrum of bets within or >> out of reach, and then the value judgments of the specific bets particular >> actors take, are both things to be understood. I find arguments >> frustrating in which one tries to get a clear picture of the mechanics, and >> suddenly the conversation gets overwrought about valuations, as if the two >> were the same topic. > >> >> >> >> One could imagine making the discretionary spending by the NIH opt-in on >> taxes. Since many pharmaceutical patents build on research funded by the >> NIH, the government could insist on a better rate on drugs than those that >> did not opt-in to that taxation. Patents could be blocked without a >> convincing examination of supporting research. “Oh I see you opted-out >> on NIH research on your 1040, your chimeric antigen receptor treatment bill >> will be $500k. Here is a CareCredit application.” (Sadly that’s the >> situation for most people, now.) >> >> >> >> If a large fraction of people don’t to even want to acknowledge the need >> for collective investments, it should be no surprise when the rest take >> matters in to their own hands, or use it as leverage to profit. >> >> >> >> Marcus >> - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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