vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
Oh I don't think its about money, though Saudi's show the middle finger to US sanctions opens the way for many more countries to do business with Russia and the economic benefits thereof. It the world telling America its opinion no longer matters  This is about Russia exposing an American Israeli nexus in the Middle east and spreading terrorism and wars because of Israeli influence. That is far more damaging because when its just America and the Fed and Israel left and no one to buy those funny money US treasuries, because a confused America and an Apartheid Israel can't sell US $ 20 trillion of debt to each other
So does a post-dated check have any valid use in a business or   personal transaction? Does it provide any financial or legal   protections at all? Yes, most definitely. You're writing a future date on the check, not past, to ensure that the check will not be deposited before that day. Keep in mind that this may change from place to place, since not every country has the same rules. In the US, for example, such trick would not work since the check may be presented any time and is not a limited obligation. However, in some other countries banks will not pay a check presented before the date written on it. While in the US the date on the check is the date on which it was (supposedly) written and as such is meaningless for obligation purposes, in many other countries the date on the check is the date on which the payment to be made, thus constitutes the start of the commitment and payment will not be made before that date. For example, in Canada: If you write a post-dated cheque, under the clearing rules of the   Canadian Payments Association (CPA), your cheque should not be cashed   before the date that is written on it. If the post-dated cheque is cashed early, you can ask your financial   institution to put the money back into your account up to the day   before the cheque should have been cashed.
Depending on your perspective of it, I can see reasons for and against this idea. Only with the benefit of hindsight can one say how wise or unwise it is to do so. Earlier in my career, I invested and lost it all. Understand if you do buy when would you be able to sell, do you have to have an account with the underwriter, what fees may there be in having such an account, and would there be restrictions on when you could sell.
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Infact we're killing more peasants in other countries than ever before--- just with military industrial complex built drones. &gt;There's also the unfunded Bush Medicare prescription drug plan. Yep, that prevents the government from negotiating prices on prescriptions for a token $10 Billion rebate, but which will yield $10 Trillion in revenues over the next 15 years. Sounds like a great ROI while the costs of drugs is skyhigh in the US. So what did Obama do? He fed that industry another 30 million new customers without so much as any discount. The government purposely stays out of the negotiation of price. Why? Because the bill was written by insurance industry and healthcare industry executives like most bills are. Healthcare is nice, but its the COST of healthcare that is the issue. If the cost was more reasonable, you wouldnt even need insurance, but because they can charge $70 for a single pair of rubber gloves, when the market price on a BOX is $5-10 we can plainly see the cost of medical care in the US is bloated and we get much less than comparative countries. Obama is just like Bush, he has enriched the various industries. The only difference between bush and Obama are which industries are enriched. You'll notice I didn't mention enrichment of citizens because they are an afterthought. Obama only needs to SELL the program to citizens, he sold it we bought it. &gt;You can't seriously think putting those people back in charge will lead to good things. No I don't think republicans or people like Bush or Romney are necessarily good for us either. The thing I have a problem with is that people like you think Obama is any different. He's not, new president, same as the old president. New speech writer, new cabinet (stuffed with corporate cronies and former lobbyists), but business as usual and marching orders from corporate and private masters."
&gt;So if some 3rd world country with 0 infrastructure offers a better tax environment, we should just join them in the race to the bottom?  US companies don't want to domicile in a 3rd world country. That's not who we compete with for corporate domiciling. We compete with other anglophone countries and some northern European countries with far lower tax rates.  &gt;but whatever is happening in the tax code that makes these inversions possible needs to be fixed.  That would be the high tax rate. Unless you want to make it illegal for an American company to buy another company or to sell itself. I expect we will hear that soon from some of the totalitarian leftists.  the NYTimes has the cyclical average effective corp tax rate for S&amp;P500 companies at 29%. That's pulled from CapIQ which pulls directly from SEC documents.  http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/05/25/sunday-review/corporate-taxes.html  Citizens for Tax Justice is a hopelessly distorted propaganda outfit. The summary (let alone the org's name) should have alerted you that any findings are distorted bullshit.  These dumb fucks don't think stock compensation is an expense. They do not understand the economic reasoning behind accelerated depreciation. They are financially and economically retarded. On top of that they desire the full 35% corporate tax rate on all global income of US corporations without any deferments, by far the most punitive corporate tax treatment in the entire world.
the demat account that I have in India is not an NRI account. Since I was not sure how long I would be in the US, I never converted my account to NRI account. Is it required to convert my account to NRI account? Yes it is very much required by law. One should not buy or sell shares in the Resident account. One has to close and open a new account NRO Demat account and transfer the shares / units into it. Sell from this account. If you need to buy shares when one is NRI, an Demat PINS account is required to be opened.
"Sell 200 at 142. What does that mean? I haven't seen the movie, so I won't try to put anything in story context.  ""Sell 200 at 142"" means to sell 200 units (usually shares, but in this case it would likely be gallons or barrels of orange juice or pounds or tons of frozen juice).   In general, this could mean that you have 200 units and want to sell what you have.  Or you could borrow 200 units from someone and sell those--this is called a naked short.  In this case, it seems that what they are selling is a futures contract.  With a futures contract, you are promising to obtain orange juice by some future date and sell it for the agreed price.  You could own an orange grove and plan to turn your oranges into juice.  Or you could buy a futures contract of oranges to turn into juice.  Or you could arbitrage two futures contracts such that one supplies the other, what they're doing here.   In general people make profits by buying low and selling high.  In this case they did so in reverse order.  They took the risk of selling before they had a supply.  Then they covered their position by purchasing the supply.  They profited because the price at which they bought was lower than the price at which they sold.   The reason why this is necessary is that before buying the oranges, the orange juice makers need to know that they can make a profit.  So they sell orange juice on the futures market.  Then they know how much they can afford to pay for oranges on a different market.  And the growers know how much they can get for oranges, so they can pay people to water and pick them.   Without the futures markets, growers and orange juice makers would have to take all the risk themselves.  This way, they can share risks with each other and financiers.  Combined with insurance, this allows for predictable finances.  Without it, growers would have to be wealthy to afford the variation in crop yields and prices."
"I typed out a long-ish answer, but I'm just going to direct you to [this study](http://www.farmdoc.illinois.edu/irwin/archive/papers/Farmers%20use%20of%20forward%20contracts.pdf) instead, which seems to summarize the available contracts quite well.  The biggest problem I see is infrastructure and credit risk. Say you have somebody with arable land who wants to start up a farming operation, as the financial institution how do you know this person can actually deliver the goods to a distributor? How do you know they won't just default on their payments? The lack of creditworthiness is a big problem in developing countries, and morseso many countries lack the proper legal institutions to enforce the contracts, further complicating the problem.  I think your idea is good, but I think widespread retail financing operations in developing countries need a lot of ""boots on the ground"", as it were, to ensure you know who you're lending to. Other alternatives are to just require a huge amount of collateral, but impoverished farmers by their definition probably won't be able to meet this requirement."
If we postulate that there is at least some element of truth to the phrase 'A leopard does not change his spots' and then consider this tidbit He conveniently forgets to mention his 1.5 million dollar fraud fine from the SEC over investment “advice” he sold through a news letter. The SEC claimed and the judge agreed that the report was “replete with lies”. I think that gives you just about all you might need to know regarding the man behind the video, and the nature of it's content. Oh, and it's purpose? To SELL YOU the same said newsletter. I guess it's natural for Stansberry to feel as he does. After all if the US gov had just busted me for conning and lying to folks, and fined ME 1.5Mill, I'd be having some pretty intense lurid fantasies about it going down in flames, and trying to hide any money I had left offshore also. A huge amount of his argument hinges on the US no longer being the world's reserve currency. Firstly, while I'll admit I'm none too happy with the way the national debt has been managed for oh, around 30 years how, (which includes I will note going from a pretty much balanced budget, to around an 80% increase in the debt from 2001 through 2008, when 'times were good' and there was little need to spend money we didn't have), when compared to a lot of other countries, we still don't look that bad. You have to ask yourself this first, if not the US, then WHO? are the governments of the world going to trust China? could the Yen handle the load? Is the Euro any better off especially considering problems in Greece, Ireland, etc. Do countries like Switzerland have enough liquidity and available ways to invest there? In order for the US to STOP being the world's reserve currency, you must have something to replace it with, and really, can we realistically think of one country/currency with the capability to become a new 'world reserve currency'??? Secondly, even then should such a shift actually happen, it doesn't mean people will ALL just magically stop buying US debt. Yes the demand would go down, but it would not go to zero.
Its much less likely for that to happen now as it was 20 or 30 years ago.  See [the link I just posted](http://ideas.repec.org/p/iza/izadps/dp1938.html). The positions of Europe and the US have to some degree reversed. Looking at the bright side for wealthy people, the US is a good place for wealthy people to live because the chance of them getting poorer than their parents is substantially lower than in other countries.   On the other hand, if you are poor, you have a better chance of moving to a higher income bracket in most Western European countries than you do in the US. Of course as recently as the 80s, the situation was reversed and it could easily reverse again.   The statistics in the US are much better if you are an immigrant, For some reason, this income stratification doesn't seem to hold as true for immigrant families as it does for American families that have been here for several generations.
I didn't even use my story as a college essay (in fact, nobody knows, not even my closest friends [they just think I'm some rich kid, much like you]) because I don't think the circumstances I was born with (and, alternatively, was blessed with afterwards) allow me special privileges or empathy in any way. The amount of effort I can put into my life solely depends on me, not my environment. And now that I'm here it could all come crashing down any second because my shithole country could decide to take it all away again. My parents can't even visit me in the US (hence the frequent flyer status you motherfucker) and who knows if I'll be able to finish my expensive program here while on a student visa – hence finance. I also find the American adoration of military service adorable when in so many countries (including mine) it's mandatory and a simple way of life, but I'm not going to argue with you on that because I realize it's a sensitive subject for you lot and I still respect your decision.
Now, a growing number of people, especially in Europe, seem to realize this is really scary and a red flag., but its not because the news was any help, its because of the net, the media - especially in the US, has been completely unhelpful. They dont cover this at all. TTIP is a huge controversy. But I have a feeling the worst one is TiSA, which has remained largely out of the news. Except for Wikileaks and the financial services chapter. Just one chapter is known. And its an old version. Now they want in TiSA to greatly [expand the scope of these FTAs to millions of service jobs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_pPqnbXpA4) in a huge number of countries. Countries want things, like the US wants to be able to charge more money for drugs and they want to force other countries to allow US companies into their markets, for example, insurance, or financial instruments, it seems that they are trying to deregulate banking when it should be re-regulated to avoid a repeat of the 2008 GFC. Another thing the US wants is to limit generic drugs and make it easier for companies to open factories, send contractors, etc. elsewhere. Its not always a good thing to open markets up to ""liberalisation"". In many cases, it could lead to substantial job losses, as it has in [Central America after CAFTA](http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2014/08/central-america-crisis-belies-caftas-empty-promises.html)."
I guess it depends on what you mean by 'too big'... IMO, the amount of Data collected aggregated and controlled by Google, FB, MS and Apple... is more than a little concerning.  It's not the size of the company or specifically, how much money they have that causes me worry, or even the fairly obvious monopolistic-like stranglehold they have on their respective markets, but rather the profound influence they have on the USA and indeed the world at large.  Google and facebook can 'paint' trends, create forces in the markets and politics with what equate to simple or minor changes to the way their softwares interact with the us... the population at large.
A short sale will be pretty bad for your credit report. It will linger for 7 years.  This may ruin your opportunity to buy in the new area. On the other hand you need to run the numbers, the last I looked into this, the bank will look at rent and discount it by 25%. So the shortfall of $800/mo (after adjustment) will reduce your borrowing power if you rent it out.  In general this is the idea. You rent for a year, and buy into the new area. If you short sell after this, while your credit is trashed, you still have your new home, and $50K less debt.  (Disclaimer - There are those who question the ethics of this, a willing short sale. I am offering a purely business answer and making no judgment either way. I owed $90K on a condo where others were selling for $20K. I paid until it came up enough that a lump sum got me out upon sale. The bank got its money in full)  An article on the differences between foreclosure and short sale.
This is what I suspect. When you get close to a border, the signal will bounce back and forth between the two countries. But roaming in a country you are not in denotes something else is going on. I know towers can be spoofed, but I'm not sure how this would work.
"But it isnt how countries work.  Republicans constantly want to pretend a country is a business or a home budget it isnt.  And I dont get why people dont remember that Bush ran on the fact that he was a businessman and that gore was the out of touch guy who was in politics all his life.  how did that work out?  the country isnt a business  we cant fire our citizens and hope they get new citizenship in a better country.  we cant carve off missouri and sell it to mexico to get rid of some of our less profitable states.  The US is not a business.  and last if you say ""thats just capitalism"" then perhaps we should examine if we want capitaism in our SOCIETY.. If that is good for SOCIETY. I mean if you are just going to send all the jobs over seas to were workers are cheaper, then all you are doing is asking america to go into a state of decline until all of us are willing to take the same pay as some guy who lived in a hut in middle of africa all his life.  Personally I dont."
"Yeah.... Colombia is one of the top Emerald mining countries of the world. I recommend you to investigate a little bit about it, check emerald prices in your country, then you'll find out if it's really profitable for you.  If so, I recommend you to buy them at the ""Emerald Trade Center"" located in Bogota, all gemstones there, are certified, sometimes you can find people selling really cheap emeralds on the street, but most of the time it's a scam.   Depending on size, color Weight, treatment, etc. Emeralds are less or more expensive. You can buy just the emerald or emerald Jewerly.  Once I met a Colombian guy in Aruba, who buys emeralds in his country and then he sells it in Aruba. He said, it was profitable in Aruba.   If so, I recommend you to buy them at the ""Emerald Trade Center"" located in Bogota, all gemstones there are certified, sometimes you can find people selling really cheap emeralds on the street, but most of the time it's a scam.   Depending on size, color Weight, treatment, etc. Emeralds are less or more expensive. You can buy just the emerald or emerald Jewerly.  Once I met a Colombian guy in Aruba, who buys emeralds in his country and then he sells it in Aruba. He said, it was profitable in Aruba."
Without getting into whether you should invest in Gold or Not ... 1.Where do I go and make this purchase. I would like to get the best possible price. If you are talking about Physical Gold then Banks, Leading Jewelry store in your city. Other options are buying Gold Mutual Fund or ETF from leading fund houses. 2.How do I assure myself of quality. Is there some certificate of quality/purity? This is mostly on trust. Generally Banks and leading Jewelry stores will not sell of inferior purity. There are certain branded stores that give you certificate of authenticity 3.When I do choose to sell this commodity, when and where will I get the best cost? If you are talking about selling physical gold, Jewelry store is the only place. Banks do not buy back the gold they sold you. Jewelry stores will buy back any gold, however note there is a buy price and sell price. So if you buy 10 g and sell it back immediately you will not get the same price. If you have purchased Mutual Funds / ETF you can sell in the market.
I asked this question in another sub, but I thought I might also get answers here.   I was just wondering how pension funds or investment firms calculate the interest that they give to their members or clients in the US, or whichever country you are from.   I ask this because I have a gut feeling that the national pension fund in my country does it the wrong way and is basically cheating people, so I wanted to make a comparison with other countries. Forgive me if I'm wrong and there's nothing to worry about.   OK, so what they do is collect money in a given financial year, which starts in July and ends in June. Let's say they collect 100 million in 2010-11. They then invest this 100 million in the year July 2011 - June 2012. After deducting admin costs and all that, interest for this 2010-11 money is declared on October 1st 2012.   That basically means that money someone contributed in July 2010 will earn interest 2 years later in 2012! I just feel like that is not how it should be done, but you can correct me if I'm wrong.   They also regularly give interest at about 12% which is good when I read about interest rates in the US being around 7%, but I feel like since this interest is basically announced after 2 years, that 12% isn't as good as it seems.   Someone help me understand if I'm wrong.  Thanks.