JoeWeber
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19% of Columbia's endowment is unrestricted, apparently. https://endowment.giving.columbia.edu/endowment-performance-and-management/
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Unless shit happens.
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Thank you but it seems to me that if Columbia's plan, or any institution with that level of endowment, requires an annual infusion of cash equal to 3% of reserves to operate without drastic cuts and changes they really ought to restaff their economics department.
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And when it all goes to hell you can sell your Bitcoins on Etsy and eBay along with your Beanie Babies and Pet Rocks.
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They don’t. My ignored question was why can’t a billionaire college ride out a few years without harming this year’s students and diminishing important programs?
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To be completely honest Nigel, I think you need a bit more time in the pickle barrel. For some of us it’s more than just shooting the breeze. We live here. You don’t. Try harder to see the difference.
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But if'n you got the money, honey you have the spending advantage. Otherwise it's not an endowment it's golden handcuffs.
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John, you know the university ropes, for sure. Here's my issue: Trump is, over bogus stuff which is his thing, cutting $400M in Grants, Funding etc. to Columbia University. Of course, he's an ass for doing it for the obvious reasons. Columbia is cancelling this and that now to show all of the pain it causes. But, Columbia has a $14.8 Billion Dollar endowment. CD interest would make up more than the $400 Million. Please tell me why, for at least for some years, Columbia couldn't just absorb it?
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Oh, good. Another unidentified but highly enlightened contributor. Thank you for nothing.
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Could be his Commodore computer doesn't have search and he's reduced to sorting through old newspaper clippings and Parachutist Magazines.
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I suspect most of the Christian Veterans, like Hegseth, are still on board. Why not? They never believed that Democracy was the solution and Trump is just speeding things along.
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And after the War he spent 30 years flying for Trans World Airlines! Well, no surprise there.
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It's because he is completely out of his depth in this forum, plain and simple.
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Because like too many conservatives here and elsewhere they either don’t believe the news, think it’s fake news, or consume right wing propaganda and think they’re truly informed.
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I’m thinking they simply believe that Trump works in mysterious ways.
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True, but it’s you making the claims about how a big business chooses who to layoff something that you know nothing about.
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Do you have that level of HR experience in a downsizing big business?
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You are wrong, so wrong that I doubt any explanation about why government isn't supposed to be run like a business will be ignored.
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Ability and capacity are different things and don't think China wouldn't be happier not paying for your minerals or that anyone will come to help you when you haven't helped yourselves or couldn't help them.
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Maybe, maybe not. The European Defense Material Industries, while excellent producers, will need to ramp up capacity which will take a lot of money and years. For a bonus, from whom do you suppose they'll need to turn to for weapons while they make up for going on the cheap? You guessed it, the USA just as your own country does because Australia also relies on uncle sugar for the serious kit and just now bumped your defense spending up to a whopping 2.02% of GDP so you can continue to contribute your annual one half of one percent to the world defense bucket.
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Irony meter explodes!
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Probably there isn't anything now that will stop China from taking Taiwan, the Spratley's, or anything else they want. We can only hope that Europe can keep the front lines in Ukraine steady to keep Russia from re-arming while all of Europe gets their military capabilities up to speed. What a shit show. Trump is giving Europe to Putin and Republicans in Congress are standing up and applauding him while he's doing it. Unbelievable.
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For sure! What Trump was lying and being a fool about was irrelevant in juxtaposition to a few Democrats making protests. Truly, your view of what is happening in world politics today is as relevant, by comparison, as your belief that old 20 man formations are relevant to skydiving today; that is to say ossified. Like the many hundreds of big ways I've been on by luck it's just another thing I've done. PM me your address and I'll spot you a couple of patches that extoll your old accomplishments.
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The beautiful thing is we're not talking about the cataclysmic destruction of world democracy that will eventually result in the Chinese taking it all, he's just making a deal! How innocent is that?
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Until we get Brent back he's the best we can do. Be patient.
