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Preach Brother William!

With the addition of micro trades available because of computing expansion, the average investor is DOUBLE screwed as far as the risk.

And speaking of tax and micro, there should be a very small tax paid on each trade. Rep. DeFazio tried and Wall Street DUMPED money into his opponent's war-chest.

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Alis, the fact that votes can be bought by ads, does not speak well to the facilites and faculties of humans, does it.

will not buy anything advertised on TV, and if I am already using it, I find a substitute.

TV ads are lies.

I saw my PCP last week for an annual Wellness check up. I control my diabetes and weight with a disciplined routine of diet and exercise. I dropped 40 lbs in 10 months, then hit a plateau, my weight hovers around 180, and the only way to lose more is to starve, but then my body wastes what little muscle I have left, and holds onto the fat. And starvation damages my kidney's and liver, and is hell on the endocrine system.

My PCP recommended Ozempic. I told him that Ozempic will shorten my life, it is hell on the kidney's and I also monitormy kidney function with a semi annual metabolic panel.

My PCP is a good guy, a D.O.,but like all doctors they are pill pushers today.

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Although the Tobin Tax centered on foreign currency trades ,

Its design was to reduce excessive speculation.

Currency derivatives play a large role along those lines .

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Alis ,

Nobel Prize winner in Economics

James Tobin proposed this tax many years ago . He was way ahead of his time because it might have been beneficial in controlling some of the irrational exuberance that precipitated the financial meltdown of 2007-8.

Tobin was a giant in the field of Economics. Now we are paying the price of the greedy small minded elite business class .

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