It's just the Free Market.

Actually exchanging currency for a product is so old school. Now they just need a stock price, make an announcement, and the price goes up, and those in the know make a fortune. Nothing was sold, nothing changed, there was just an announcement, and those who know the announcement is coming, or are actually making the announcement, get to cash in. It was worth one thing yesterday, and it's worth more today, and that increase is very real money.

There are lots of smoke and mirrors tricks to manipulate stock prices and make money going up or down, and people thinking of new ones every day. Now they're just creating their own money out of thin air.

And none of it requires any products to be sold.

That's just the Free Market working like it's supposed to. That company's policies were so egregious that they eventually spawned a customer angry enough to do something about it. As a result, health insurance companies eased up on their restrictions for a time. That's a perfect example of the Free market working the way it's supposed to, and applying self-regulation

The only problem was that it wore off, and the companies went back to their same egregious policies. That just confirms that we need to Luigi CEOs on a regular basis, until they decide that the extra bit of profit isn't worth it.

Intelligence and the drive for ruthless power aren't necessarily connected. For these dumb MAGA Apes, ruthless power is just a toy to play with.

Voyager was always one of my favorites. Discovery was the real dog.

Trump has a war that hurts everybody except Russia, who gets their oil sanctions lifted during the oil crisis, so they can get rich.

I'm sure Trump will be looking for that favor to be returned in 2028.

I don't know, the guy was pretty bloody, and he wasn't having a good time. They may not have been the best punches, but they were effective enough.

Well, yeah, because Obama was black, duh.

We are ruled by the dumbest dipshits on the planet.

Who woulda thought that the lesson they'd take away from the Holocaust would be to Pay It Forward?

He's got his eye on the Gaza Riviera that he and Kushner want to build. It would be much easier if he were the Big Boss. He's got to get rid of Netanyahu first, he can't count on outliving him.

Well, yeah, he's MAGA. They're ALL pedophiles, and traitors, and corrupt, and racist...