"EBITDARD [is a] new term [for] EBITDA with R&D treated as if it were capex. Incoherent to exclude capex depreciation expense from an earnings measure but then allow R&D expense to be included. Should be expensed alike."
1️⃣ scale legal system to exact individual user liability (in cases of legal abuse a la brandenburg or libel)?
2️⃣ more democratic solution for everything else (instead of centralized corporate arbiters)?
... I proposed arbitration as least bad solution for 1️⃣ and @sheeraf's Myanmar example was best exhibit of what I called the "geopolitical problem"
... but can we talk about the US only for a sec?
... I know, 'home country bias', etc; but 1️⃣ is in the spirit of domestic progress on these issues in light of congressional hearings – specifically the *legal* aspects of free speech on social media per US law – so I wanted to focus on that
... dollar volume matters as much as (if not more than) market cap:
e.g. speculators in singlenames can be marginal buyers inflating prices (with asymmetric size bias due to bandwagon a la $aapl $tsla) by reducing supply for more structural ETF demand
@DaveNadig interview with ARK COO did a deep dive into the ETF family's liquidity/capacity hypotheticals (spoiler alert: ARK's ETF-mandated transparency means investors are buying $arkk, et al to own the underlying)
Friedman's maxim "inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon" is somewhat apt here -- albeit somewhat inaccurate in its original context (i.e. money supply causation)...
If you're a subscriber and want to participate, just go to the Forum URL, which is run atop Discourse, and you just use your email and PW from your sub and there's already a profile for you...
@Wike_Meinstein@johnloeber@BlairReeves@nikillinit ...nevertheless, I can now confirm that the exact number of active Stratechery subscribers is 25,189 per a remaining loophole (the "Groups" option in the Forum) 🏁