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Open thread July 21, 2017

Dan Crawford | July 21, 2017 3:18 am

US/Global Economics
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  • sammy says:
    July 21, 2017 at 9:35 am

    Mo Gawdat personally started many of the Google’s worldwide operations
    He was a former stock market trader, and made ‘a ton of money’ in Dubai
    His ‘life had ticked every box’ but he was still feeling miserable
    Death of Mr Gawdat’s son, Ali, 21, made him realise an equation for happiness
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4716514/Google-executive-devises-scientific-formula-happiness.html

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4716514/Google-executive-devises-scientific-formula-happiness.html#ixzz4nTPWvwMT
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  • EMichael says:
    July 21, 2017 at 11:21 am

    I used to think he lied because he did not care if people knew he lied, now I think part of the reasons he lies so often is that he is so incredible stupid. He is the epitome of the gene pool winning imbecile, as his interview with the Times clearly shows(linked below). He clearly cannot put two coherent sentences together.

    “But Bogatin wasn’t deterred by the limited availability or the sky-high prices. The Russian plunked down $6 million to buy not one or two, but five luxury condos. The big check apparently caught the attention of the owner. According to Wayne Barrett, who investigated the deal for the Village Voice, Trump personally attended the closing, along with Bogatin.”

    https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate

    TRUMP: I would say yeah. I would say yes. By the way, I would say, I don’t — I don’t — I mean, it’s possible there’s a condo or something, so, you know, I sell a lot of condo units, and somebody from Russia buys a condo, who knows?

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/trump-interview-transcript.html

  • Bruce Webb says:
    July 21, 2017 at 12:29 pm

    The story may be as simple as this: Since 2006 Trump lifestyle has been financed through immediate cash flow from Apprentice, golf courses and commissions on licensed ‘Trump’ hotels and towers he doesn’r actually own, while debt service on properties he does own depends on purchases in his own buildings. If those purchases are disproportionately Russian he is vulnerable to a Nyet from Putin to those buyers. And maybe ‘suggestions’ to oligarchs to sell.

    Could Trump org survive a Russian boycott? Good enough question to justify Mueller looking in to financials

  • Longtooth says:
    July 22, 2017 at 4:19 am

    I’m thinking Trump is hugely indebted to some Russian oligarchs backed by Putin. If he doesn’t play ball they’ll call their loans and Trump will go bankrupt.. He of course has no choice unless he wants to be a pauper. I can’t think of any other reason. This isn’t foreign policy this is personal financial policy.

    Besides that he’s mentally impaired coupled with delusions of grandeur.

    But shouldn’t we be blaming those who voted for him? Or the GOP congress for their complicity in leaving him in office? .

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