I consider myself a fairly normal person. On a recent flight from Istanbul to Taipei, I checked the flight path to make sure it wasn't flying over any "suspect" countries.
The airline would need to be deliberately avoiding them: the great-arc circle between those two passes directly over Grozny. Smart call to double-check that.
The funny thing about the leaky gut truthers is that they aren't wrong about intestinal issues causing systemic inflammation... but they're still totally wrong about what those intestinal issues are and what the ensuing systemic inflammation looks like.
I guess "leaky gut causes autism" is more exciting than "Crohn's can give you eczema and uveitis" :P
Let's say every year your portfolio goes up 10%. Every year you borrow 3%. You never pay down the principal, and I think you can just let the interest payment get added to the principal. Also, the interest is tax-deductible.
Seizing it would also have the secondary effect of a mass exodus of investment capital from the country, like capital flight in China.
A more reasonable way is to seize it is through taxation, either by a wealth tax or tax on unrealized gains, but it would be very difficult to implement.
Capital flight to where? The US economy is still the largest in the world, there aren't enough assets in the rest of the world for that capital to buy.
Plus, the US government could just implement capital controls overnight (or better yet, in the night before), then the money would have nowhere to go.
Meme replies should be downvoted, there are other places online where joke comments are a regular occurrence. I like how HN at least tries to force a real discussion and attempts at humor need to be both sincere and not low effort.
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