Dustdevil

Needs a new home?! I'm sure everyone's clamoring for the poor pooch.

In addition there's always the state of Georgia, which did not appreciate the former guy's phone call asking them to disenfranchise almost 12,000 voters, and he faces possible criminal charges there. Using a phrase TFG is so fond of, "We're going to get to the bottom of this."

I believe him where, in that article, he says he had misunderstood the question. In any case I would have at least hemmed and hawed, because the CIA and NSA are not allowed to collect the personal phone numbers of US citizens resident in the U.S.

There is nothing petty about the vast criminality of Trump and anything Trump oversees. People who actually know things will tell you this, in countless books and articles. Already, about 15 or 20 books by former Trump aides testify that, as former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper wrote [in the title for his book]: Everything Trump Touches Dies.

As an American I'm not fond of NYC either, although Brooklyn and parts of Queens have some character. In fact Brooklyn is well known and sought after by the more discerning European tourists. The thing about the US is, there are so many large cities and different climates to choose from--but then, we weren't comparing countries but rather cities. In the US I like Miami and Seattle best.

Guliani, who's in dramatic mental decline anyway (considering he was the mayor who took down New York's mafia families years ago), is still a licensed attorney in DC, but that won't last much longer.

More to come. The Southern District of New York and the DOJ are not finished.

From now on, the Trump Organization will be thought of mainly as the conglomerate CONVICTED of FRAUD. There's no more hiding and hinting.

Absolutely agree. And the weather isn't compatible with walking around during the hot months, hence the popularity of malls. I think it's more soulless now than when I worked there from 1997 to 2002. Too many toll highways and overpasses and elevated train lines and fancy skyscrapers that are fun to look at but are really irrelevant to most people's lives. The old part of Dubai, the Souk on one side and Bur Dubai on the other side is the original "downtown" or city center even though the government markets the skyscrapers as "downtown." It still has character, with dhows loading and plying the Arabian Sea and the old architecture and minarets remind you of the Ottoman Empire even though the latter didn't quite reach the Dubai area. Arabs from all over the Middle East as well as westerners crawl all over the malls. Basically Dubai is like a city being designed by 14-year-old boys who want the tallest and biggest of everything. but that biggest mall is just extra real estate of a boring mall.

My point was simply that the tax on profits is enough already. We don't don't want even more taxes on trades, now, do we.

They are, at least Americans are, when they redeem a profit over a certain amount. Capital gains tax, it's called. It's up to 15%, but that's on a fairly large amount for those of us who aren't millionaires. Smaller profits are taxed modestly or not at all. I owned shares in a US-based Thailand fund once, but I wouldn't invest in anything within Thailand.

I can't completely agree. Serious day traders, including individuals on their home computer, get up early every day (depending on where they live and which markets they trade in) and read the financial news in-depth for three hours before starting their trading day. I already pay a 15% federal gains tax on realized profit I redeem over a certain reasonable amount. Therefore I would be extremely unhappy with a 0.1% tax just for trading, even at a trade loss! That's outrageous.

Yes, Vancouver has a reputation for unfriendliness; this is not the first time I've heard that. But comparing to Mexico City? Come on.

I've lived both in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and the last time I visited Dubai was in 2015. Was working in Abu Dhabi 2002-2004. I don't think they belong anywhere near the top 10. Well at least at that time it was nothing but a hick town with no interesting or fun places--you know you're in purgatory if the best thing in town is a mall--and it was difficult to get a drink. You really had to get a liquor license, and it wasn't all that easy. I'm sure it's better now. But to be in the top ten in the world? I'll tell you why foreigners rate it highly, because these are highly paid executives and professionals, their salaries are tax-free, and they get amazing free housing. Even I, as a lowly Petroleum Institute English lecturer, got an apartment that must have been 2,000 sq ft (181 sq m). But unlike in Dubai, where all apartment buildingshad to have underground parking, it's not (or wasn't) required in Abu Dhabi, and a LOT of apartment buildings are still there with outside parking lots. People don't know how to drive anywhere in the Middle East, and my car was scraped, keyed and smashed three times in two years just sitting in the parking lot. My wife's car, too, although that was in Dubai while she had it parked above-ground. I saw some Emirati lady bump into it. And there were no other cars around, either. They just can't drive. And nobody likes the hot months. Dubai used to be a half-decent place, and is probably the best city in the Middle East, but mind your Ps and Qs, it's not as free as Thailand.

The piece is from an actual news outlet, right? Hard news works like this: WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, HOW and if possible Why (motive).