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1. Once upon a time, a few men get together from Vancouver. They bring in a man from Oman, two from Jersey, one from Switzerland and one from the UK. They buy a shell from a car salesman in Vancouver and back it up into a little dead pubco. Magically, shares get issued in Panama.
2. The magic shares from Panama give the Vancouver guys control of the shell. Weirdly, addresses in Mexico are used for some shareholders (Hells Angels perhaps?). They hire a porn film business manager to manger the pubco. Fat consulting contracts are entered into. They wire
3. money to the Marshall Islands and set up some companies where you can’t find out who owns the shares in order to get a bank account and brokerage account. They transfer shares to those entities. They hire promoters to tout the pubco with false positive news. The stock shoots
No thanks.
Given the responses here, I think I could turn a camera on myself knitting & fussing over my dogs & cats (truly boring according to my family) & there’d be more interest. The delta between listening to Cuomo or Fauci bring info & Trump campaigning every afternoon is a big one.
Coming back to Twitter after cooking dinner for my family with our farmers’ market haul, it’s clear to me that #NoThanks is the right approach to Trump’s daily campaign rallies, inartfully disguised as press conferences. 
This is your daily pension announcement: @GrantHunterUCP this is for you! Down and dirty!
A lesson on institutional investors. JK ran on jobs, economy and pipe. He has done nothing yet but drive investment away and destroy jobs. #nothanks
A lesson on institutional investors. JK ran on jobs, economy and pipe. He has done nothing yet but drive investment away and destroy jobs. #nothanks
During my time at ATRF I got to meet a fair number of institutional investors from all over Canada and the USA. Let me introduce you to their unique psychology. They prioritize predictability above all else.
Predictability in government policy for instance. So when JK starts waving the #wexit flag and fanning the flames institutional investors run. They want political stability over a 10-15 year time horizon.
Leaders' debates are a bad idea & encourage all the worst trends in UK politics: presidentialisation, the cult of personality ("Cleggmania"?), the reduction of parliamentary parties to fandoms for their leaders and the mistaking of fluency/"authenticity" for statecraft. #NoThanks
These presidential-style debates also raise yet another barrier to new entrants/smaller parties, at a time of widespread disillusionment with the Big Two. You either shut out the Greens/LDs/UKIP/SNP/Plaid Cymru etc, or the format becomes hopelessly unwieldy.
There's also a constitutional issue. Leaders' debates make elections more explicitly about a personal mandate for a potential prime minister. That creates a legitimacy problem if the PM changes mid-term - yet the Fixed Term Parliament Act makes it harder to seek a fresh mandate.
