Yes, banking laws don't make sense. It would just be giving banks the allowance to do business with criminal enterprises rather than legalizing those enterprises.

The agencies aren't independent. He appoints the head.

Yeah, its interesting comparing the TSLA posts now vs when the stock was in the 300s.

What what supposed to be a super interesting class where I can share my passion for music and sound with young adults is in the end just me fighting with wanna be audio engineer to just fucking listen to music and train their ears.

Yeah, if you are looking to share your passion, it can't be for a grade. Nothing sucks the passion out of a subject like grades.

I don’t get a say on how I choose to follow some department rules, even if they are ridiculous.

Yeah, but if I submitted the wrong document format I would just get an email asking me to correct it. I wouldn't get a 0 for my next paycheck.

(a) a disciplined student who follows your rules but is weak on your content, or (b) an unregulated student who doesn't follow rules but has mastered your content?

For math related courses, the student that mastered content will often do better. When 90% of your grade comes from a handful of tests where effort gets you no points, then mastering content is quite important.

I will agree that for humanities and softer sciences, that discipline can generally compensate for weak content mastery. Which is why it is not unusual for students who do well in humanities to really struggle with a Calculus course.

Except Harvard is hard to get into, so its naturally going to have, on average, better students than the local state schools.

It used to be that most students worked full-time over the summer and lived off of that for the year,

That might have been true 40 years ago, but it wasn't the case 15 years ago and doesn't explain the decline we have seen over the last decade.

Maybe, but there are way too many colleges in the US for employers to keep track of them. At most, it will hurt the school's reputation with local businesses.

That makes sense. My experience is that employers with GPA requirements tend to have very high ones. It doesn't really matter if you graduated with a 2.3 or a 2.9.

Fair, but I find it hard to imagine a police department deciding they don't want an extra 500k in their budget.

Not just the SEC. The DOJ has also been taking a stronger stance against crypto and it can actually send people to prison. Plus the POTUS committing to veto pro-crypto legislation. And that dynamic is unlikely to change for at least 5 years.

Ofcourse the SEC will lose in court.

I wouldn't be certain about that. There are judges who would side with the SEC and judges who wouldn't.

For example, a Biden appointee is likely to have a similar philosophy to his administration.

They wouldn't send it to a burn address. They auction it off if anything, but that takes a while.

In the US, you would be held in jail for contempt if a judge thinks you are refusing to give up the information.

Not sure how the UK would handle it.

For recreational products, schedule 1 vs schedule 3 doesn't really matter. Its illegal either way.

Schedule 3 drugs have to be sold through pharmacies already. It is an odd change, in that it still criminalizes every existing marijuana distributor.

None of those companies benefit much from a move to schedule 3. They are all still operating illegally and will be for years to come.

Maybe some of them will start the process to get FDA approval to have pharmacies sell their product to people with a prescription in 5 years.

this is a major tax change with 280e removed for equities.

Not really. Existing cannabis businesses will still be illegal.

What this means is that a medical company could apply to manufacture and distribute marijuana to people with a prescription in 3-5 years. And that company would have better tax treatment.

Not all of them, but a large portion of foreign academics do come from well-off families.

That gets exaggerated. Being a female academic certainly wouldn't be better in the 60s than today, for example. And a big factor was that the rest of the world was way behind, with Europe being devastated from WW2.

As other countries closed the gap and more people got advanced degrees, academia got much more competitive. I mean, having women enter the profession effectively doubled competition by itself.

This is entirely situation dependent. You will get entirely different answers living in a low cost of living college town vs an expensive big city. Plus there is significant variation in pay between universities.

Nuclear is in an awkward spot in the US. Per Gallups, Republicans are broadly supportive of nuclear, but they are also fine with much cheaper fossil fuels. Democrats are more willing to pay to get off fossil fuels, but are much less supportive of nuclear.

These disclosures are mostly legal butt-covering and PR. It doesn't necessarily have to actually impact their business.

Where I live, Target's food selection is much more limited than Walmart's.