Given that, I don’t see any way he doesn’t try to make that first debate. He would LOVE to be in that debate. Other candidates have to worry about appearing boorish or entitled. We expect it of Trump. He can walk all over everyone and never harm his own reputation in the slightest. I would expect a fiasco.
Are we about set for the GOP? (listed without snarky bios - feel free to add)
Current Govs:
Walker
Kasich
Jindal
Christie
Past Govs:
Perry
Huckabee
Pataki
Bush
Current Senators:
Rubio
Cruz
Graham
Paul
Past Senators:
Santorum
No elected office:
Fiorina (though did run for senate)
Carson
Trump
Any thoughts on assigning individual SDMB contributors a candidate and update their ideas and contributions along with past histories in this thread, Asshole of the day blog, politifact, etc…
Not sure what you mean by “set”. A bunch on your list haven’t declared their candidacy yet. I don’t think any of the current governors have, but I could be wrong.
You can Tell the high-functioning Cray-Cray by the random Use of capitAlization. Beyond there, lies only the the quiet horizon of true madness, where multiple exclamation marks dwell.
An historical note. HSBC bought Republic National Bank of New York toward the end of 1999. During a good portion of the 1970’s RNB’s gold price had been the one quoted on financial newscasts. That vault is huge, and was built by Edmond Safra (RNB’s major shareholder and founder) to hold not only gold, but banknotes as well. We’re talking $5 million bricks of cash.
It could be the largish storage fees at HSBC as compared with the FRB come with better overall custody services.
You know, this is what fourty years of rampant Marvel retcons have wrought.
He was a skrull all along ! She wasn’t dead, she’s from a race that does suspended animation very well ! It was a clone from another timeline ! They were *really *quadruple agents ! The founding fathers drew extensively from humanists and natural philosophers, the better to build the very theocracies and religious strife they were disgusted with !
But really, how much do you need in the way of custody services? I guess if you flipping your gold purchases and actually physically receiving and sending the bullion out frequently, there might be some value to a custodian who delivers overnight instead of next week.
But that gold was purchased years ago - how much does it cost to have some guy wander by every so often and say “Yep, still there”?
Giovanni Capriglione, MBA’d private equity manager, is the State Rep behind the Texas gold boondoggle. He proposed this in the previous session but it failed–partly because setting up a proper, secure facility would be too expensive.