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No, it's absurd because there was no crash. Just a normal market correction.

The question really is, IS SHE a decent gal?

You can't tell a snake from a rabbit. It's pointless talking to you.

Of course the best lawyers are not exclusive to the USA, I would say the best lawyers are in Japan, but regardless the vast majority of major financial produts and techniques, such as modern securitization, CDOs, CDS, CLOs, ABS, MBS were INVENTED in the USA. So the knowledge flowed from the US to the UK and then other law firms. JP Morgan invented the Credit Default Swap in 1994. The vast majority of cutting edge financial techniques and capital markets products were invented in the US and the greatest source of knowledge for all of them is in New York, not London or Tokyo or Frankfurt. Besides, if you have an investment fund whose target investors are in the US you simply HAVE to use a US law firm. There is no way around it. Not because you could not use a UK law firm with a US office, but because the best funds law firms are in New York, ie US firms. Nobody ever, EVER, chose a lawyer because of "compliance issues", lawyers are chosen based on reputation and expertise. Of course every now and then you can see a small law firm or accountancy firm used on a big deal, mostly because of personal relationships. If you think Deutsche Bank are now going to start using non US firms for their investment funds you really live in La La world.

They certainly are if you get that big police Maglite. Personally I rely on a machete next to the nighttable, but that could work.

Your best bet is to work out in the gym and then offer services as a sex worker at Nana. You will need a sex change of course, but hospitals here are cheap and good quality.

That point is valid, however, we need to be extra-vigilant against the uneducated, for their lack of refined education may hide a cunning, street smart mind, always out for its own advantage, adept at lying and practised in betrayal. Our education is no shield in the arena where these girls have experience far beyond most men.

If you're not interested in a maglite torch you're not human.

It is an inescapable law of the Universe that you will reap what you sow. You cannot take from someone without consequence. You cannot exploit the good without cost. What they took unjustly will be their burden. What you gave out of kindness and love, what you sacrificed may not have stopped your betrayal at the time. Life has a way of teaching lessons. Call it Karma, call it divine justice. Betrayal is never left unanswered. The universe keeps score. They will be haunted by the emptiness of their own betrayal. The comfort they crave, they will not find. Their downfall will happen. No act of betrayal escapes the eyes of justice.

The USA is the most attractive market in the world. Still. There is nothing Canada, Mexico or Zimbabwe can do about it. Just accept it. American market, American rules.

Sure. The Maglite. Wonderful torch. The Leatherman multitool. Often copied, never equalled. Wilson and Spalding basketballs. The Waring Blender Kitchen Aid mixers. Pyrex glassware. Gibson guitars. The Zippo lighter. Igloo coolers. Levis 501 jeans. New Balance sneakers.

Trump is honoring a woman's rights leader? What? What a betrayal of my vote!!!!

Oh no, will Thailand rename the Americano into "Thalandiano"? Like Canada did with the Canadiano? How will the US survive?

I couldn't agree more, why didn't you just rent a house then? I live in a 4 bed house and am loving it.

True enough. But their win is only temporary. Betrayal, lies and selfishness are seeds that grow terrible fruit for the perpetrator. The silence and suffering they will reap, for you reap what you sow, will be the price they will have to pay. The universe doesn't forget the heart they drained without gratitude.

Have you been to Pattaya? You'd think you're in downtown Moscow. Even the shops have Cyrillic signs. Even the bargirls are turning Russian.

Thais don't even like Big Macs! If the price of Som Tom increases to 1000 baht, there'd be a revolution. But Big Macs?

There is never equality in any relationship. A man or woman only go into a relationship because they want something the other party has. The notion that you have "equality" in a relationship is total fantasy.

Exactly right. And of course their character, their behaviour is the key focus. For instance if you find out about her past relationship history, if she cheated on a guy before, then the odds of her cheating again are increased substantially. Does she agree things with you and not abide by them? You can't trust her word? She has no integrity. Does she hide important things from you? There is a lack of honesty. Honesty, consistency, integrity and loyalty. These are the qualities she must have.

We are going to see a future filled with Chinese nobel prize winners, with a run that will make the run of jewish nobel prize winners look second best. In academia the Chinese will triumph, because 1) their IQ is above that of any others and 2) their work ethic is unique. This will naturally translate into excellence in technology. Culturally also the Chinese take a long term approach, politically too, whereas the democracies of the West are myopic short term bunglers in the worst case (Europe) or dependent on once in a generation genius (the US).

Indeed women can be excellent captains. But as I explained, they will not find quality passengers. Because men who have devoted decades to build their ship are not going to hop onto a woman's ship to become a passenger. This applies to Thai and Farang equally. You don't have arguments. Only insults. That is very regrettable. But not unexpected. Much like female captains standing at the dock, cursing there are no good male passengers.

Thais don't even know where America is. Less still what the economic policies are. I doubt they even noticed what is happening.

I never said only men can be captains. These days indeed women can also be captains. However, if they build a ship and become a captain, they encounter the "Two body problem". It takes a long time to become a good captain. It can take decades. The more time a man invests in becoming a captain, the less likely he will be to give all that up to become a passenger. Therefore if a woman parks her ship at the dock, she will be competing for the male passengers. Not the male captains. Men who have devoted decades of their lives to build their own boats will never park their boats and hop on a female's boat to become a passenger. This is why successful career women complain there are no good men left. Because they only compete for the passengers, not for the captains. Your argument that there need not be one ruler, but that there could be two is not persuasive. Captains taking turns is inefficient and dangerous.

This statement betrays massive ignorance of how the world actually works. The reality is that US law firms and US investment banks have expertise which other investment banks and law firms simply do not have. If a major bank wants to do a securitization they want the BEST lawyer and the best team doing it. They know who is the best lawyer, who has the best team and the best expertise. They are NOT going to say oh well, we want to do a 900 million securitization but we won't engage Chris McBride from Mayer Brown because we don't like the politics of the US White House. I mean that's just massively ignorant thinking. This is why the US do not need to worry. They have expertise others do not have. In addition they have a massively attractive market. No matter what politics is happening companies will want to be in that market making money from Americans. There are Chinese firms in America now, sitting it out, while they hate Trump, they know they still need to be in the US market. It's ludicrous to think or hope otherwise.

' If you take the analogy of a ship with a captain, it's actually a very good one. The man has to create an attractive framework, have competence and know where he is going in life, that is his ship. The woman will vet this ship. Is it attractive enough? Is it going to the right place? Is the captain competent enough? If she is satisfied and believes this captain and his ship can make her life better she will get on and start a journey with the captain. Just like the man, the woman will only enter into a relationship if the other party has something she wants. Like an attractive ship, a good lifestyle, good resources, status, good looks, charm, attention, whatever it may be. It need not be money. It often is, but it can be other things, like status, wisdom, charm, looks etc. So there can NEVER be equality in a relationship. Each party only enters into the relationship because they are lacking something, which the other can provide. Otherwise there would be no relationship. "Partnership" is a male fantasy. Men want an equal partner. However, women don't. Women want a benevolent absolute monarch. Someone they can respect and look up to, whom they can trust to take the main work off of their hands and make their life better. "Decisions by consent" work nowhere. Literally nowhere. Even in the corporate world you have the chairman of the board have a casting vote. In the end the captain always decides, and he has that authority. Why? Because he cannot take care of all her problems, her safety and everything if he does not have that authority. It's not possible. And this notion of decisions by consent always being possible is a fallacy, often they are not possible by consent. Which is when the authority has to lie with the captain. I think Mike's analogy is correct.