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superrific said:
Well, if I recall correctly, the feds only had preferred stock and no voting power. It wasn't a control play; it was a "they have nothing to exchange for this support except equity" play.

More importantly, the idea of governments taking ownership stakes in corporations is centuries old. China's economy is built on it. Plenty of European countries have ownership stakes in big industry. France is the largest shareholder in Airbus; Germany the largest shareholder in Deutsche Telecom; Spain has large ownership stakes in many of its big companies.

And of course, and this is probably why she is dancing around it -- Russia is famous for having large equity stakes in its big companies.
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Yeah, there is certainly precedent for it, and it can be a good idea in some circumstances; it is just very funny that it is coming from the supposedly "radically pro-free market" party.
 
rodoheel said:
While rates certainly are playing a role, for the most part people aren't buying houses because there aren't enough houses being built and supply is too tight. You know, the same problem we've been dealing with for years.
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The Home-Builder Heir Who Is Stoking the Jerome Powell Frenzy​

Trump’s freewheeling Federal Housing head Bill Pulte is waging an unorthodox social-media campaign to oust the Fed chair​


🎁 —> https://www.wsj.com/finance/bill-pu...0?st=MzDoLP&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

“… The 37-year-old FHFA chief, known to some as “Little Trump,” has recently inserted himself into the middle of the action, thanks to a relentless social-media campaign targeting Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. He even drafted a letter for President Trump to fire Powell. (Trump on Wednesday denied that he planned to, though didn’t rule it out entirely.) [He is also behind a new push to demand a Biden appointee to the federal resign that got Trump to post this today:


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…Pulte, an heir of one of the largest home builders, has 3 million followers on X, after gaining popularity by giving away money using the platform. Like Trump, he regularly posts policy changes or ideas in real-time and airs frustrations. Shares of Fair Isaac Corp., also known as FICO, fell sharply earlier this year after Pulte said he was “not happy” with the credit-scoring firm.…”
 
rodoheel said:
Yeah, there is certainly precedent for it, and it can be a good idea in some circumstances; it is just very funny that it is coming from the supposedly "radically pro-free market" party.
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Agree, but those circumstances are probably limited to (a) temporarily propping up a vital industry, or (b) signaling confidence in a vital company or segment to the market. What Trump is doing is just command economics.
 
Purple Nurple said:
Looks like Cock has two primary residences.
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1. Only if you believe the Trump people. Why would you? Everything they say is a lie. Do we need to go through all the Biden Crime Family bullshit again.
2. This is not nearly the smoking gun you think it is. The principal residence issue can be complex when you are talking about people who are in the midst of moving or are splitting time between two locations.
 
superrific said:
1. Only if you believe the Trump people. Why would you? Everything they say is a lie. Do we need to go through all the Biden Crime Family bullshit again.
2. This is not nearly the smoking gun you think it is. The principal residence issue can be complex when you are talking about people who are in the midst of moving or are splitting time between two locations.
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Calm down chief. I don’t think anything is a smoking gun. I was just relaying information.
 
Purple Nurple said:
Calm down chief. I don’t think anything is a smoking gun. I was just relaying information.
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That Cock has two primary residences? First, Cock, really? And second, relaying information would be: "The claim is that she has two primary residences." "Looks like Cock . . ." is an endorsement of bullshit.
 
superrific said:
That Cock has two primary residences? First, Cock, really? And second, relaying information would be: "The claim is that she has two primary residences." "Looks like Cock . . ." is an endorsement of bullshit.
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OMG….Cock was an error. I’m on an iPhone and eye sight is failing me in my mid 40s. I was relaying what I saw quickly as I was doing something else. I guess you can except that or educate me further.
 
Purple Nurple said:
OMG….Cock was an error. I’m on an iPhone and eye sight is failing me in my mid 40s. I was relaying what I saw quickly as I was doing something else. I guess you can except that or educate me further.
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Doubt he excepts it. You could always take a second to get something right the first time accept that’s not really the maga way
 
Purple Nurple said:
OMG….Cock was an error. I’m on an iPhone and eye sight is failing me in my mid 40s. I was relaying what I saw quickly as I was doing something else. I guess you can except that or educate me further.
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It's hard to tell sometimes with all the intentionally disparaging misspellings on the right. Dimocrat is not usually a typo. Newscum is not a typo.
 
By the way, my phone autocorrects cock to cook, not vice versa. It learns, of course, the language style of its users. I'm guessing your texts and my texts don't have much in common.
 
Purple Nurple said:
I don’t believe you.
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Don't believe what? That our texts are probably quite different? That I don't text my friends -- nor do internet lookups -- the word cock? That it autocorrects?

I was just ribbing you. I don't think the issue was autocorrect. I think you probably meant to type two os but instead you typed two cs. Once you disclaimed intentionality, that seems the more plausible explanation.
 
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