Derivative markets are almost always there to provide leverage. Yeah, thinly traded options are a significant downside. If you can get in and out of the contracts, you can always combine options to remove some of those volatility costs by selling as well as buying, ie, spreads and ratios.

He prosecuted his own son.

If you assume that Biden had influence on the prosecution, then we should not forget that the original deal posed by the DOJ was for Hunter to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges for which he would have received 2 years probation, and pre-trial diversion on the federal gun charges.

The judge threw this out, but those are pretty generous terms for what penultimately amounted to guilty charges on 6 felonies and 6 misdemeanors (before all charges were pardoned.)

... and pardoned the moment it was declared guilty.

So the exact opposite of political prosecution, then?

What? Enough with the buzzy words. You are talking about ideas. And the more you stray from science and logic to justify your ideas, the more cognitive dissonance you will encounter.

This is not cancel culture. It is a violation of the First Amendment.

Maybe before social media. I have a hard time seeing how this country will self-correct.

Sir, this is a Wendys.

No one said it wasn't. It was not legal the way it was done.

When I commented the post said "illegally". Glad I could help :)

What was illegal about how it was done?

The USA is the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world. Why would ceding this soft power to other countries benefit the USA? These cuts will be meaningless in cutting the deficit while harming the USA's global influence.

In preventing a country from being invaded, yes, we are.