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Kashaan Merchant

@KashaanToGo

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Director in Private Equity, Restauranteur, Bank Owner, Plant Grower, Cat Dad, Glazed Donut lover, film fan. I'm active on twitter in waves, so my b if I go MIA

West Des Moines, Iowa
Joined September 2009
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2 years
Who’s gonna be the first rapper to drop a single/album cover with Trump’s mugshot?.
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6 years
Just realized I misspelled "Buffet" but either way we eatin
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6 years
Liquidating Tesla stock I purchased in high school for 1532% of the value purchased. Goes to show that long term investments beat out short term speculation #BuffetMethod.
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6 years
stability with the Euro or the Yuan. On the other hand, divestment from the dollar would nerf global economic shockwaves in the long term, ironically the switch to other currencies would lend itself to more economic instability in the short term.
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6 years
for alternatives to SWIFT like Instex. A side effect is also the funneling of resources in digital currency and the exploration of central bankers in the fintech world. Although the dollar is slipping in global shareholding, there's no way we'll ever achieve the same level of.
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6 years
Here's the Lyre, Quetzal, Saw Whet and Kingfisher!
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6 years
My favorite birds in no particular order: Lyra, Resplendent Quetzal, Saw-Whet Owl, Great Horned Owl, Peregrine Falcon, Crow, & Pygmy Kingfisher. Honorable mention to Robins since they're the only wild birds I've been able to befriend. What are your favorite birds?.
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6 years
trying to understand how John Doe will vote in a state you've never visited means your party will support its lowest common denominator, a recipe ripe for lower voter turnout.
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6 years
The era of voters being fluid along party lines is largely over, people tend to stick to whomever their nominee is, and the polarized field gives them higher floor of support. It's ok to debate politics and see who your friends are voting for, but.
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Kashaan Merchant
6 years
National media questioned whether the country was ready for its first black President during Obama's run. You can even find Fox News commentators describing President Trump as "unelectable" in a race with Cruz, Rubio, Kasich and Jeb Bush.
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6 years
Gauging your support for a candidate based on their "electibility" just doesn't make sense. Gerald Ford thought Reagan was too conservative to be electable. Clinton was seen as unelectable during the primaries in the height of the "Gennifer Flowers" scandal.
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Kashaan Merchant
6 years
You can't shift the LVT to tenants, and it reduces the unequal amount of private wealth that landowners have, while encouraging them to develop land to offset the tax.
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6 years
Unlike money or labor, you can't really hide land. The LVT encourages social development, the main people who benefit are those who live on the land. In many countries, the LVT has been linked to the development and betterment of public transit.
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6 years
I'm talking less speculative land holding. This incentivizes development in poorer inner city areas and lowers the incentives for reckless urban development. It works for the environment too, land owners are discouraged to "waste" prime locations.
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6 years
Unlike a property tax, LVT doesn't care so much about the buildings that are on the land, but taxes the land itself. Separating land from property offsets dead weight loss, padding market swings.
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6 years
Parts of the Rust Belt have been in recession since the 1970s. For an idea that's as old as ancient India and deeply supported by the "so called" founder of capitalism himself Adam Smith, you'd think this would be a policy slam dunk.
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6 years
With all the conversation on reducing income inequality and holding larger corporations responsible for social governance, the conversation should begin now. We need to shift focus from only talking about recessions in a national level, and more so on a regional level.
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6 years
Incredibly disappointed in the lack of national conversation regarding a Land Value Tax. It's frustrating to see even the basic foundational discussions regarding it, despite its ubiquity in the econ world.
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Kashaan Merchant
6 years
"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." - E.B. White.
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6 years
Someone who's 60 years old has been alive for a quarter of American history.
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