If people want to speculate on the short term swings in stocks then God bless them. A more volatile stock market just creates opportunities for long term investors to be able to buy investments when the price is right. Their commissions keep people employed no differently than purchases from Amazon or a local business. For anyone investing for retirement or any other long term goal short term swings have zero impact to us achieving our investment objectives 10+ years down the road.

Not really, in his presidential run he has supported a financial transaction tax which would have the effect of curbing short term trading like this. The HFTs that you mention would be the most hurt by his current presidential platform.

H-1B visa admissions should be tied to what we are lacking in talent in the US. At my company we are required to post applications along with salary info publicly for any position we are looking at H-1B candidates. We have developer positions, read non-management, that pay 150k to 180k. I interpret this as we are in short supply of this type of talent.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to hold Twitch town-halls. So I say go for it

For those that have not used Newsguard its a useful tool. Newsguard has done significant research and offers a comprehensive profile and a reason to believe/not believe the news source. If they come up with strikes against a news outlet they give that outlet the opportunity to refute their findings before the integrate the information into the their app.

Companies invest when they are optimistic about the future health and potential revenue growth of their organization. Take Amazon, Netflix for example. The majority of Comcast's corporate portfolio are in shrinking industries.

I would drop as well. I would rather they increase their fees by another few bucks, or better yet just offer a close to free option with commercials

Government funded research should be used ONLY to fill the void left behind after the private sector chooses not to invest in a specific line of research. For example, drug research where the group of individuals afflicted by a disease might not be enough to justify privately funded research that is able to recoup the R&D cost.Fields of study that are in their infancy, or subject matters that do not have a clear line of sight to being profitable at some point down the line.

The different political parties can be put on a simple line, on one end you have anarchy(right), on the other you have total government control (left). A democratic socialist is just further to the left on that spectrum than a democrat. Fortune ran a article that estimated Bernie's policy proposals would cost 19 trillion dollars over 10 years (google "estimating Bernie sanders policy cost") in addition to our current budget which is running at a deficit already. What he is proposing sounds great to a lot of people but it seems disingenuous to campaign giving away a bunch of free stuff to people that will not get the bill for it. On another point he proposes that the top tax rate should be 90%, even that this rate he would not bring in enough extra revenue to pay for his 19T in extra spending. Taxing the rich sounds great if you are not rich but its not the panacea to cure all our budgetary ills.

And he lost a debate to a inmate, then he would need to figure out how to self fund his education going forward. Talk about embarrassing. Whats next inmates earning extra cash writing college papers?

Another animated GIF i can steal and put up on my animated GIF geocities website! Aha, i miss the 90's

Demanding more money = making automation more cost effective = fewer jobs for those demanding more money be careful what you wish for if your intention is higher wages for lower skilled workers

Its like that for everybody, your broker will show your current positions instantaneously after a trade, the actual transfer of shares from one broker to another takes 3 b days

Currently its takes 3 business days (T+3) to transfer stock from the seller to the buyer in US markets. Implementing a blockchain solution would make the process same day settlement, and provide a layer of transparency that does not currently exist.