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  • In the 2010s, regulators in both the European Union and the United Kingdom stopped requiring companies to report quarterly results, moving to six-month reporting periods instead.

    It also has precedence, real world demonstration.

    In 2018, Trump urged the SEC to study moving to a six-month reporting system to “allow greater flexibility & save money.

    And it’s even something he’s thought about for a while rather than a momentary impulse or reaction. I wonder what the results of that study were.

    The US stock market is fairly strong at encouraging innovation, new companies, growth. My employer is one of many that moved its headquarters here to take advantage of that innovation economy. I don’t like this one proposal on the grounds that it erodes yet another US advantage. We’ll be worse off for it.

    But we do have examples of it working so it’s not the end of the world. This seems far less destructive than most of his actions



  • I believe there were many “low information” voters who only knew they wanted change.

    Where those voters might have wanted Biden Harris initiatives, those tended toward long term investments that people were not patient for or were not trumpeted as loudly. Improvements were neither visible nor immediate. Building is boring. Too many people never paid attention, wanted instant gratification or only heard the loudest voices.





  • They seem to disagree that it’s in their power. However local law enforcement is not allowed to assist in any way and state facilities are not allowed to provide detention space. At the very least it slows them down and makes them spend more money to do less

    National guard troops are in a conflict of interest between two masters plus aren’t usually appropriate, plus how does it help anyone to turn that violent?

    My state and several cities are among those who increased their legal budget and have successfully sued over illegal orders. It doesn’t make the headlines but several illegal orders have eventually been halted by courts. Successfully.

    My city councillor was roughed up during an earlier raid by masked thugs, and while there may have been no visible consequences, the raids did stop locally

    My state attorney general is successfully defending doctors from extradition and personal liability for providing reproductive care to women in undeveloped states.

    Harvard is putting its money where its mouth is instead of capitulating like Columbia did. When the regime tried to block foreign student visas, that was successfully invalidated by the courts. Most of the blocked research grants have also been restored.

    This is a variation of T.A.C.O and needs to be more public - the regime may have issued illegal orders and tried to make it so, but backed down when challenged.





  • But also consider human development. Someone always argues that China has also been building more coal power plant. However it’s reasonable when you’re bringing more of your population out of poverty. China has developed into a modern economy/society far faster than any other country in history and that’s a positive thing even if they rapidly increased energy consumption.

    More importantly all indications are China passing peak carbon emissions in the next year or two, far sooner than they committed to. How is everyone else doing on their commitments?

    I’m no fan of the abuses of their authoritarianism, but give credit where it’s due: they made some great decisions with renewable energy and followed through aggressively to all of our benefit








  • Pull out a gun and start blasting? Do you really think it’s only a binary choice?

    How about matching the severity of response to the infraction? As far as I know overstaying a visa has always been done through the judicial branch. More importantly if there are that many at a single company violating their visa restrictions, the company is the problem, not the individuals. An even better response might be legal action against the company. Either way these mass detentions are way out of proportion


  • I m not seeing it.

    I mean in both cases we have plenty of existing cases to be skeptical

    • corporations do skirt the rules so it’s easy to believe Hyundai had some of their people doing work in violation of their visas.

    • ICE is a stain on our ideas of justice and human rights, so I’ll always assume they’re in the wrong.

    However even with these assumptions, how is this an arrestable offense? I’d expect levying fines against the corporation. All it takes is one lawyer. These are not criminals