The Housing Bubble

I love the guy for his honesty and his realism. I don’t see anyone else on either side talking about the wars we’re in actually making relationships worse with the rest of the world. I personally think the newsletter stuff was him being a bit stupid and naive (allowing others he trusted to do the work).

But there’s no way in heck I’m voting for a guy who wants to eliminate the capital gains tax. No way.

I suppose I have to realize that there’s never going to be the “perfect” candidate, but that policy would be the last nail in the coffin of the 99.5%ers. Capital gains should be taxed at the usual rates. Period.

“Capital gains should be taxed at the usual rates. Period.”

Here is how cap gains is taxed in other countries:
Argentina: 0%
India: 0%
Germany: 0%
Belgium: 0%
Netherlands: 0%
Singapore: 0%
Japan: 7%
Italy 12.5%
Brazil: 15%
UK: 18%

In fact there are only 2 countries that have a rate higher than 35% (which is what you’re proposing). Denmark (45) and Chile (40). Even France’s rate is only 27% for crying out loud.

And yet, GEG, the Wall Street bankers haven’t fled en mass to one of those countries.

That’s the point. If the difference is 15% vs 0%, they won’t flee. If the difference is 35% or higher vs. 0%, they just might.

Or if not flee, move their assets to Germany and trade on the German floors instead of American floors.

NY used to be the world’s financial capital. Not any more. Trading fees and taxes have made NY less competitive. The money now is going to London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapre, etc.

So many of you think it’s still 1811, not 2011. There is no international boundary for money. Money will always chase the highest return. And when tax on money is 35% or whatever Harry Reid’s latest millionaire tax is, money will flow away from America and to places where it’s 0%.

London has overtaken NY as the financial capital of the world. Here is brief synopsis:

“The UK has a number of characteristics that seem to mirror the factors responsible for Delaware’s comparative advantage. Certainly the financial services industry is critical to the UK, growing from 5.3 percent of the economy in 2001 to 9.4 percent in 2006. The industry employs half a million people in London alone. From a regulatory perspective, the UK’s credible and responsive Financial Services Authority (FSA) might be viewed as the securities law analogue to the Delaware Chancery Court’s role in corporate adjudication.

The flow of foreign companies stopped and, more worryingly, reversed. After the SEC relaxed standards for foreign companies wanting to de-list, a flood of companies headed for the doors. London seized the opportunity; 14 of the top 20 IPOs listed on the London Stock Exchange came from outside the United Kingdom in 2005-2008. By contrast, only four of the top 20 IPOs in New York came from outside the United States. At the same time, London’s pool of liquidity was growing deeper as it developed its own community of hedge funds and private equity.”

I know we’re all supposed to hate evil Wall St. But would you rather have those evil millionaires and billionaires earning their evil millions and billions (and paying taxes) in London or in NY? Keep taxing the snot out of them in NY, and they will go to London and Singapore and anywhere else money is allowed to grow.

From the Boston Globe: Romney will not reveal tax data, at least for now

“Mitt Romney said yesterday he has no current plans to release his tax returns, and suggested that he would not shrink from using a controversial provision of the tax code that allows him to pay at just a 15 percent rate on income he continues to receive from Bain Capital.

Partners at firms such as Bain, which buy companies, as well as hedge funds, qualify for a 15 percent tax rate on “carried interest,” or the profits they make on investment deals.”

There must be some kind of capital gains taxing rules in those countries to prevent people from trading any gain in for profit, which would seriously promote day trading among small investors.

Just as an example, so your shares made $40 in gains.

In the US, you would actually only take home (using a 20% tax rate and $20 in buy/sell costs) $12. In those countries, you’d take home $20. $20/$12 = 60% higher.

In the US, a gain of $25 would be $0 take home, with $20 in transaction costs and $5 in taxes vs $5 in foreign country. Below gains of $25, the US take home turns negative, but the foreign take home doesn’t go negative until at $21.01.

Now, if you believe in economics, then at some point making less than minimum wage trading stocks would not be a good way to spend your time, but if you are foreign trader and can make money on much smaller gains, it really changes the investing game.

There must be something structural in the foreign economies which prevents this.

A large amount of the time of corporate tax lawyers is spent figuring out ways to convery ordinary income to capital gains. When I was in law school the difference between the two rates was smaller, and the prof told us if the transactions he described seemed too complicated to be worth the bother for that much of an advantage, we should just keep adding zeros to the described transactions until the actual amount saved felt like it was worth it.

Hedge fund managers get almost all their income as long term capital gains, even if all they have done is picked stocks and bonds and decided how much to leverage up the transaction. That is what the carried interest provision does. It converts compensation for work (in this case, investment advice) into capital gains. A few democrats (including the president) have tried to get it reformed, but the response by most republicans plus a few democrats (I think Chuck Schumer might be one of them being from NY, but someone should check me on that) is so violently opposed that it always gets tossed out. At this point, it is almost like they only include it as a bargaining chip, something they know is going to get tossed out, but it might help them keep something else.

I took a quick looksie on wikipedia. Here’s what it said about Argentina:

“here is no specific capital gains tax in Argentina; however, there is a 9 % to 35 % tax for fiscal residents on their world revenues, including capital gains”

India:

“As of 2008, equities are considered long term capital if the holding period is one year or more. Long term capital gains from equities are not taxed if shares are sold through recognized stock exchange and STAT is paid on the sale. However short term capital gain from equities held for less than one year, is taxed at 15% [7] (w.e.f. 1 April 2009.[8]) (plus surcharge and education cess). This is applicable only for transactions that attract Securities Transaction Tax (STT).”

Germany:

“The German capital gains tax is 25% plus Solidaritätszuschlag (add-on tax initially introduced to finance the 5 eastern states of Germany - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Brandenburg - and the cost of the reunification, but later kept in order to finance all kind of public funded projects in whole Germany), plus Kirchensteuer (church tax), resulting in an effective tax rate of about 28%”

etc.

“Capital gains should be taxed at the usual rates. Period.”

Be craeful what you ask for.

For most people, the only significant capital gain in their lives is appreciation of their home due to relentless inflation. If a family were to sell their home mid career and pay 35% of the supposed profits in taxes, they would be in a piclke trying to buy another house.

Is that the kind of “usual” you want?

Overdog,

Would you please write out the math you are using for your calculations?

Sure, just a $40 made up gain.

So $40 gain at at a 20% tax rate (random regular tax rate a small time day trader might have) is $8 in taxes.

$20 in transaction costs (most places you buy/sell stocks for $9.99, so together close enough to $20 for a buy+a sell). So total expense is $8 + $20 = $28 in costs and taxes. $40 gain - $28 costs = $12 net gain in the US. Remove the $8 in taxes and you have $20 in net gain for a country with no capital gains tax.

There are some tax write offs for buying and selling transaction costs (the $20), but not 100% and so to simplify I didn’t include it.

The math is the same for the $25 gain. $20 gain, $5 in taxes at 20%, $20 in transaction costs for a net gain of $0 in the US.

Up until about 1998 or so, profits from the sale of a SFH WERE subject to Capital Gains taxes, unless reinvested in another house within 24 months.

Gee…….what a coincidence. Doesn’t that coincide with the start of our recent “Housing Bubble” calamity?

Return the capital gains treatment of profits from selling a SFH back to the way they were pre-1998, and a lot of the incentive for inflating house prices and house flipping disappears.

You actually think that you don’t get to deduct the entire amount of the cost of selling stock from the capital gains you make? Really? I’m going to need a citation on that. What part of the cost of selling stocks or any other capital asset isn’t used to offset the gain on the sale. This isn’t a cost of purchase which might have to be amortized. Even if it was, amortization would be accelerated into the year of sale because you can’t amortize a cost over a time period when you don’t own the asset.

I think your $40 of gains is really $20 of gains because you get to deduct the $20 of transaction costs and the 20% tax is only $4 leaving you $16 of profit on $20 of capital gains.

Polly

Your calculation is correct. One has to deduct the “cost of doing business” from the gross gains. The nett gains are then taxed.

One can also deduct any interest paid (margin etc.) from the gross gains. In other words if you make any nett gains then you pay appropriate tax.

It converts compensation for work (in this case, investment advice) into capital gains.”

unbeleivable no wonder the country is failing in so many ways

“Do we have a link to what was actually published?”

I chased down a link a few weeks ago after Allena raised the issue. I ended up on a black website that had some excerpts of some issues posted. I didn’t read the every article but what I did read was insensitive but not incorrect. I don’t remember anything about calling people animals, that surely wouldn’t be right.

I honestly think our collective problems have been a direct result of people becoming conforming and PC. IMO, if we called BS when it was appropriate we could have nipped a lot of this in the bud. One example, Realtors are Liars.

I am not familiar with this site (simple google search), but it has a lot of info.

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/12/22/paul-in-1995-say-have-you-read-my-newsletters/

Did you watch the video I posted above?

someone was tweeting quotes last night…most of which were just not pc, not necessarily untrue.

I did watch the your video before posting. Hard to tell when comments won’t nest who your question is aimed at, but when I wrote my post I considered it in support of your video.

Thanks SV for your attempt to get to to the actual quotes. If this story grows legs we’re going to eventually get to see the real McCoy.

I know RP’s campaign is fledgling enough to know he doesn’t want to turn away any vote. But w/o seeing what he actually said I’m guessing there is a way to gather momentum back to what we used to call common sense. In my mind, common sense is the binding feature against the 1%. What was once referred to as “common sense” is all the rest of us have to bind us. I believe it will provide the inner strength that will carry us all forward.

Here’s a good article about the Ron Paul newsletters, with links to some of the originals. Most of those in a position to know seem to think Lew Rockwell wrote the articles, while he was Paul’s chief of staff. Lew was also encouraging the libertarians to become more ‘redneck populist’, and support people like David Duke.

I still think it’s hard to imagine that Paul was unaware of these debates going on around him, and of these articles posted in his name in a magazine named after him. Unless he’s a real Mr. Magoo- and would such a person make a good president?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/12/20/the_secret_origin_of_ron_paul_s_newsletters.html

Ben- I just got back and will watch the video you posted now. Response forthcoming…

This is from an article in Reason magazine:

“The most detailed description of the strategy came in an essay Rothbard wrote for the January 1992 Rothbard-Rockwell Report, titled “Right-Wing Populism: A Strategy for the Paleo Movement.” Lamenting that mainstream intellectuals and opinion leaders were too invested in the status quo to be brought around to a libertarian view, Rothbard pointed to David Duke and Joseph McCarthy as models for an “Outreach to the Rednecks,” which would fashion a broad libertarian/paleoconservative coalition by targeting the disaffected working and middle classes… These groups could be mobilized to oppose an expansive state, Rothbard posited, by exposing an “unholy alliance of ‘corporate liberal’ Big Business and media elites, who, through big government, have privileged and caused to rise up a parasitic Underclass, who, among them all, are looting and oppressing the bulk of the middle and working classes in America.”

http://reason.com/archives/2008/01/16/who-wrote-ron-pauls-newsletter/1

alpha,

It you want to see good old fashioned bona-fied racism in play do a quick search on Eric Holder’s tenure. And who does he work for?

SV guy,

Does he work for the Straw Man Association?

Hello John Quinn.

Obama is going to pay for her gas and mortgage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36×8rTb3jI

I don’t get the reference to “john quinn.”

Ooops… I meant Jim Quinn. Read all about 2banana.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Quinn

Banana, Are you Quinn or Jefferson? Which one of you runs The Burning Platform dot com? Or do you both?

“Paul seems to think racial segregation is allowable due to the sanctity of property rights”

Without enforcement by law officials, yes that seems to be his position. I can understand the position as an academic exercise, but he says, “the market will take care of it”. The market takes care of certain things, imo, but that’s not one of them. Nor is pollution. These aren’t deal-breakers for me, but they’re fatty food for thought. When in doubt, he errs on the side of libertarian orthodoxy. That can be good or bad, depending on the topic at hand.

‘He won’t get the nomination’

I decided to listen to talk radio the past few weeks just to hear what they are saying. This is exactly what Limbaugh, Hannity and Savage are saying too.

This is what I want to know; why is it that almost no one running is against the police state? Why is it that almost no one running is against more wars? Why is it that wall street people fill up the white house no matter who gets elected?

I watched a few GOP debates. It’s all “bomb Iran, bomb Syria”. More Patriot Acts. Jeebus, the people in DC just passed an indefinite detention law. No trial, no charges, no release. And it didn’t even get much attention in the press. They are trying to censor the internet now. How far are we going let this go? That’s what I want to know.

‘I’d suggest watching the 2008 town hall meeting that candidate Obama gave in Farmington, Indiana, where a woman in the audience prompted him to reaffirm his promises on civil liberties. He began with his frequent refrain about how “there should be no contradiction between keeping America safe and secure and respecting our Constitution,” and went on to say this:

When you suspend habeus corpus, which has been a principle dating before even our country — it’s the foundation of Anglo American law, which says very simply, if the government grabs you, then you have the right to at least ask, ‘Why was I grabbed?’ and say, ‘Maybe you’ve got the wrong person.’ The reason you have that safeguard is because we don’t always have the right person. We don’t always catch the right person.

We may think this is Mohammed the terrorist. It might be Mohammed the cab driver. You may think it’s Barack the bomb thrower. But it might be Barack the guy running for president. So the reason that you have this principle is not to be soft on terrorism. It’s because that’s who we are. That’s what we’re protecting. Don’t mock the Constitution. Don’t make fun of it. Don’t suggest that it’s unAmerican to abide by what the Founding fathers set up. It’s worked pretty well for over 200 years.

Where happened to that guy?’

If obama actually governed this way, threw some 1000+ bankers in jail for fraud and cut spending (all “beliefs” he espoused before he was president) - I would even be a huge supporter.

When you suspend habeus corpus, which has been a principle dating before even our country — it’s the foundation of Anglo American law, which says very simply, if the government grabs you, then you have the right to at least ask, ‘Why was I grabbed?’ and say, ‘Maybe you’ve got the wrong person.’ The reason you have that safeguard is because we don’t always have the right person. We don’t always catch the right person.

I don’t believe he’ll get the nomination. What I am looking for is his message of Freedom to penetrate the skulls of the prozac addled masses. Freedom from economic slavery. Freedom from a police state.

It’s so obvious to me and yet I find oblivious bliss rampant at every turn.

To say Thomas Jefferson was prescient would be somewhat of an understatement. My advice would be to exercise your first even numbered Constitutional Amendment right while it still exists.

I decided to listen to talk radio the past few weeks just to hear what they are saying. This is exactly what Limbaugh, Hannity and Savage are saying too.

At least Limbaugh and Savage can be amusing, but how can you listen to Hannity without throwing up in your mouth every time he opens his?

Why won’t Paul win in 3 simple answers:

1. He’s a neo-Nazi
2. He’s a crazy person.
3. See #2 and #3

There’s no conspiracy here.

This is exactly what Limbaugh, Hannity and Savage are saying too.

Ha, eyes plum run out of “Brain Bleach” years ago. (Hwy50 turns the dial, changes the channeling…oh cool, Alaska Gold ru$h, RFD-TV (Training Mules and Donkeys) in x1 hour…mutes commercial)

Excuses for delaying personal American $timulus x2 days before $anta,…relaxing & refreshing.

‘how can you listen to Hannity without throwing up’

I believe in free speech. But it is remarkable that these people can insinuate the GOP candidate with the highest support from African Americans is a racist, even as they can barely contain their zeal for killing hundreds of thousands of brown people halfway around the world.

‘The party bosses will have to do everything in their power to prevent Paul from reasserting the values of the ‘old-right’ Republicans who once stood, steadily and without apology, in opposition to wars of whim and assaults on individual liberty. The party’s amen corner in the media is doing its part. Republican-insider radio and television programs have begun to go after Paul, the veteran congressman from Texas who is either leading or near the top in recent polls of likely caucus goers. Rush Limbaugh ridicules Paul on his radio show, while Sean Hannity’s Fox show has become a nightly Paul-bashing fest.’

‘But the truth is that his politics descend directly from those of former Ohio Senator Robert ‘Mr. Republican’ Taft and former Nebraska Congressman Howard Buffett—old-right opponents of war and empire who served in the Congress in the 1940s and 1950s and who, in Taft’s case, mounted credible bids for the party’s presidential nomination in 1940, 1948 and finally in 1952. In all three campaigns, Taft opposed what he described as the ‘Eastern establishment’ of the party—the Wall Streeters who, he pointedly noted, had little in common with Main Streeters.’

‘Taft was a steady foe of American interventionism abroad, arguing very much as Paul does today that it threatens domestic liberty. Indeed, just as Paul joined US Senator Russ Feingold in opposing the Patriot Act, spying on Americans and threats to freedom of speech and assembly in the first days of what would become an open-ended ‘war on terror,’ so Taft warned during the cold war that ‘criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.’

‘After his defeat, Taft griped, ‘Every Republican candidate for President since 1936 has been nominated by the Chase National Bank.’

‘The notion that the Grand Old Party might actually base its politics on values, as opposd to pay-to-play deal-making, unsettles the Republican leaders who back only contenders who have been pre-approved by the Wall Street speculators, banksters and corporate CEOs who pay the party’s tab—and kindly pick up some of the bills for the Democrats, as well.’

‘And if he wins Iowa, he could begin a process of transforming the Republican Party into a conservative party. That scares the Republican bosses who currently maintain the party concession on behalf of the Wall Streeters. But it, if the polls are to be believed, it quite intrigues the folks on Main Street who may be waking up to the fact that the ‘conservatism’ of a Newt Gingrich or a Mitt Romney is a sham argument designed to make the rich richer and to make the rest of us pay for wars of whim and crony-capitalist corruption.’

“At least Limbaugh and Savage can be amusing, but how can you listen to Hannity without throwing up in your mouth every time he opens his?”

I thought Hannity was the worst until I tuned into Savage a few weeks ago. In some ways I have a bit of empathy for Hannity. He’s a closeted gay man that just can’t forgive himself.

The fact that Paul is doing as well as he is despite the constant bashing from the Hannity and Limbaugh juggernauts indicates that core Republican sentiment is shifting.

Just the other day, I caught a bit of Limbaugh’s show. He actually semi-bashed half of Wall Street. Of course, it was heavily qualified. But he said something along the lines of “half of Wall Street (and all liberals) would damage America if it helped themselves.” He went on to say that well, yeah, half of Wall Street would do it because they wouldn’t think America would really be damaged. But, he put the initial statement out there. And for any Limbaugh watchers, that is huge.

But I listened to Limbaugh for years, till the mid-2000’s. Saying something even remotely Wall Street/Business unfriendly - is huge. Rush must be sniffing a change in his audience.

I thought Hannity was the worst until I tuned into Savage a few weeks ago. In some ways I have a bit of empathy for Hannity. He’s a closeted gay man that just can’t forgive himself.

Whether you agree with him or not, Savage (real name Michael Weiner), like Limbaugh, is capable of creating good radio.

“At least Limbaugh and Savage can be amusing, but how can you listen to Hannity without throwing up in your mouth every time he opens his?”

I mentioned this a few days ago, but I’ll say it again. Michael Savage reminds me of the “Prothero” character in “V for Vendetta”.

The fact that Paul is doing as well as he is despite the constant bashing from the Hannity and Limbaugh juggernauts indicates that core Republican sentiment is shifting.

This is what amazes me.
I posted that poll of Tea Party Republicans and his support in that poll was a whopping 6%. I think Romney was #1.

Either the poll is FOS
or those who initially were in the Tea Party have fallen away and no longer support it.

I’m voting for Paul in my primary just to make things interesting. His message will get a wide audiance in the presidential debates.

Romney Obama will just be a debate about things that don’t really matter but will keep the sheeple from focusing on the big issues.

“What happened to that guy?”

Maybe “The Man” got to him, and has him under the influence of mind control drugs. We’ll know for sure if he announces that he is going to start a fried-chicken franchise.

Time to call in Sistah Girl, Conspiracy Brother and Smart Brother.

“What I am looking for is his message of Freedom to penetrate the skulls of the prozac addled masses. Freedom from economic slavery. Freedom from a police state.”

Freedom to have no affordable medical coverage when you’re old. Freedom for the factory next door to dump its waste in the creek out back. Freedom for kids to work in coal mines (they fit better!).

Nobody wants that alpha. Is your last name Bernanke or what?

Bernanke has nothing to do with medicare, environmental protection, or child labor laws.

And are you sure RP doesn’t want that? I’m pretty sure he does. Or at least he’d allow it, due to the sanctity of private property, contract law, yadda, yadda…

Can’t speak for GEG, but the sad reality is our interventionism is what keeps the economy going. Without it, the House of Saud would be overthrown, Iran would control the Persian Gulf, oil would be $500/barrell, and we’d all be driving horse and buggies to work….if we even had work.

Stewie,

We’ve got a little of our own oil you know. There would surely be an adjustment period but the world wouldn’t end. And that world would have a lot more opportunity for our own children rather than the debt slave casting call being played right now.

I would welcome the change and would happily absorb a great loss just to see a few thousand bankers and their paid for politicians walked to the gallows.

SV Guy,

Having your own oil only helps if you believe in restricting trade so that the oil produced here has to be sold here. Ron Paul does not, so US oil producers would sell where ever they could get the best price. Would that go to $500 a barrel? Darned if I know, but “having our own” is irrelevant if world demand keeps going up and OPEC gets really feisty with restricting supply.

“Obama’s a neocon? You learn new things every day.”

His actions on the world stage have been indistinguishable, at least to me, from other globalists.

Puleez. Obamas foreign policy is to the right of the neo-cons. We’re still bombing brown people.

Anyone catching on yet? ANYONE?

Best comment:

“The military industrial complex has gone an entire day without profitting off Iraq… Quick bomb Iran!!!”

Yeah really, onw would think the MID could have waited a couple months before seeking the next round of RFPs from the Pentagon.

Thank you for sharing

“Eventually.”

Look at this one in my ‘hood:

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/16214-3rd-St-E-Redington-Beach-FL-33708/46987666_zpid/

On Zillow: 609 days

10/13/2011 Price change $220,000
04/14/2011 Price change $169,000
02/18/2011 Price change $149,000
02/04/2011 Price change $165,000
01/15/2011 Price change $174,500

WTF

Muggy, even worse, the Zestimate is $231K.

This would be a very good price for the DC area, but here, we pay a penalty because we have “jobs.” What they use to justify the price down there?

Redington Beach is not prestigious. To even get there from any direction, one would have to drive through some of the worst parts of Pinellas county.

Worth 85k, max.

That was my exact thought too moman. I don’t know florida at all but that place isn’t worth a small fraction of asking.

Three pages? Try one sentence:

Go to cash until everything settles down, then focus your attention on buying quality.

Oh, and keep your job. A job means a steady flow of cash, something that is a bit scarce nowdays.

Oh, and keep your job

incomplete equation.

Action #1:

http://tinyurl.com/7jrhmz2

To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction:

Reaction:

http://tinyurl.com/67cx2k3 + http://tinyurl.com/yerroa2

Lucy: “Hwy50 you’re such a BLOCKHEAD!!!!”

It’s all in good fun Combo.

+1 especially on the financial and mid-life crisis advice…

Making dreams come true… the Oil City plan (western version) is Chaffee County, CO. No ski-town bubble prices, world class whitewater rafting and mountain climbing, and 300 days of sunshine every year

Ben…..you really need to file a copyright on “Oil City Plan”.

It may get to the point where living out in the boonies with inadequate medical service is seen as an advantage…….you will either be long dead by the time you are found, or you’ll die sooner, because of the inadequate doctors/facilities.

At minimum, the functional equivalent of the Inuit “Put the sick elder on an ice flow, and tow him out to sea” trick will be a lot easier to accomplish, without all of those pain in the azz “first responders” around, trying to save your life.

(As Josey Wales said: “Buzzards gotta eat too….”)

God forbid you have a stroke in a big city, where they can run up the charges at a rate of $150K a day, and put you in the poorhouse before you know what hit you.

I still like my idea of daily medical shuttle flights between major cities and Larado/Juarez, with daily connecting service to India for major surgury/treatment.

Company motto: “Making Globalization work for the Little Guy”

Or send them to me.

I have a “throwaway program”. Honest.

According to my 18 year old, and her loser boyfriend, you don’t just take the pill. You chase it with beer/alcohol.

If you are stockpiling ammo and guns, you need to be stockpiling drugs, too. For barter reasons, if no other.

A lot of those pain pills have acetaminophen in them too, which means you should _never_ take them with alcohol.

Can one take it at home while waiting for the ambulance, when they realize that they have had a heart-attack?

If so, what is the recommended dosage?

—-Can one take it at home while waiting for the ambulance, when they realize that they have had a heart-attack?

If so, what is the recommended dosage?
——

WIth the usual caveats that not all CP is heart attack, and with the usual caveats about aspirin safety, typically taking 4 chewable baby ASA (NOT whole-swallow of slow-release ASA), for total 324mg is the usual suggestion. Of course, if your chest pain really is Aortic Dissection as with John Ritter, de-stickying your platelets might not be the best thing…

Dr. William Davis, a preventive cardiologist says heart disease and such have a inflammatory cause, and not so much a cholesterol cause. He’s on line
http://www.trackyourplaque.com/blog/author/heartprotection
http://www.carbohydratescankill.com/503/dr-william-davis-ep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zIciBJNWFw heart scanning before the event
http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/

This doc is a great guy and knows his stuff. He’s been proven right over and over.

I am putting a call into Telstra to release the bandwidth throttling that they have on the PILs account so that I can look at the sites. Thanks for posting. I never got an explanation better than “bad genes” as to why I got a stenosis at such a young age and how it worsened so rapidly to critical/deadly levels.

Having to be hooked into the pharm boys indefinitely really blows.

I quit eating wheat years ago because of an illness I couldn’t figure out, I lost some weight as a result.

Anyway I figured out my illness ( nausea ) was a bad low back nothing to do with diet, got back surgery, started eating wheat again and have gained about 20 lbs.

However quiting wheat is a costly and pain in the ass endevor

Quinoea and rice was a big favorite back in my wheat free days, that and corn chips I still get people at work who remember when I wouldn’t eat wheat and ate corn chips instead.

I know a person who has celiac sprue or at least is pretty sure he has it but he won’t get tested because he’s afraid his insurance will drop him if its positive.