Good call Marc. Such antics are dangerous. Not only will you lose your dividend but the stock will fall too, a double whammy of bad. Sadly, this company is not the only one paying unsustainable dividends in excess of profitability to fund them.

Rates have been low for years. I think those who wanted to borrow to invest have done so long ago or are those who can't get low rates to do do. I would caution against borrowing more to invest this late in the cycle with rising interest rates.

Volatility and interest rates are expected to rise this year, so spreads and costs will increase for options this year without a doubt. Whether or not the winners will be longs or shorts is more nuanced.

Nice Charts. I look forwards to updates.

Is this mostly because their own currency keeps collapsing due to their deficit spending and poor fiscal state. There is little guarantee their promises from any new currency they mint will not be broken as well.

Sadly, Americans who have been around the last 30 years have watched their standard of living go out the window. We should care more about this than economic growth premised on a rising population, especially when it leads to a drop in the standard of living. As for labor issues, technology is working hard and fast to replace jobs not just with robots but with ever increasing efficiency which is why big companies are richer than ever.

The labor market is going to look pretty good compared to a downturn where the Federal Reserve can't lower rates more than a meaningless amount and the government is running too big of a deficit to fiscally stimulate. That is the real problem that is being totally unaddressed. We are spending our get out of a depression card to keep those in power looking good for years and years. It is dangerous for the people.

What has run up both healthcare and education has been government programs more than anything else. Likewise, government in housing can also be tied to its price increase. Basically, wherever the government intervenes leads to mass inflation and a disassociation from standard market forces leading to people being unable to pay for such services on their own. They create the problems they claim to be solving.

America did fine educating without massive student loans to indebt students for decades. Likewise America dealt with the ill long before we started socialized programs that complicated payment and favored the large companies over local doctors and hospitals. What really needs to happen is deflating of all these government sponsored bubbles so that people can afford education and healthcare on their own budget like before.

I think China's rule is fuzzier than it appears. I'm sure they are still mining there. The issue is China doesn't want bitcoin to lead to an easy way to get money out of the country unnoticed.

Even if his chart proves true, the longer term #bitcoin players still made out well. Those predicting an absolute collapse of this are mistaken. At this point in time the issue is really how this technology will evolve more than anything else. It has already proven its ability to endure. $BITCOMP