https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2002/01/how-did-the-u-s-get-a-naval-base-in-cuba.html

The US took the area by force during the Spanish-American War, and then signed a “lease” with no end date with the Cuban government at the time.

I bet every time Cuba says they want to take it back, the US says “Yeah? You and what army?”

where air should be monetized

This is because you are not the customer. Your employer is the customer, they are the ones who get to choose the HSA provider for their employees. You are the goods to be sold. The HSA provider is simply harvesting profits.

No shit, Sherlock

Definitely go and find Marathon and it’s sequels, preferably in their original form on the Mac. But you don’t need to go through all that trouble necessarily, Bungie released all the source some time ago and it is all freely available for new hardware now.

It’s not entirely without risk. 2008 saw the S&P lose over 30% for the year, and 2002 was over 20%. But it is up more often than down year-to-year, and it is usually up by at least 10%.

I found some good charts here, even though it is a EU site:

https://curvo.eu/backtest/en/market-index/sp-500?currency=usd

If you are investing for the long haul , you will take the occasional 30% haircut if you can get 10-20% the rest of the time. But it would suck if you got that 30% haircut just before you needed to sell…

Because too many people treat politics like a sporting event. You root for your team no matter what, and against the other team. You have to do it this way, because if the other side wins that means your side loses.

So there are too many people who view Trump as “Their Guy”, and are “rooting” for him. Anything they hear that might portray Trump in a negative light (like a criminal trial, for instance) must be the Other Side trying to cheat to win unfairly.

I remind people that Roger Ailes was Nixon’s media consultant, and the lesson he learned from Watergate was that Nixon could have gotten away with it if the media was more sympathetic. He then went on to be the CEO of Fox News. That’s no accident. There is a direct line from Nixon to Trump, and Roger Ailes drew it.