The alternative employed in other petroleum producing countries is foreign investment, but the current environment for that in Venezuela isn’t particularly attractive.

The Saudis have pretty much the least expensive oil in the world.

In general Venezuela’s problem isn’t cost, but rather a lack of capital and management expertise to support further development. You’d need to invest a bunch of money in infrastructure to get their oil production (back) online.

If Frank McCourt is going to pay for it himself, and it doesn't make things worse, who cares?

It needs something. Maybe not oligopoly levels of “few”, but the industry could definitely could use some “depersonalization”/commodification. Pretty faces of real estate agents shouldn’t be what is selling homes.

Sounds like the other real estate sites that display the data allow sellers to selectively hide the risk scores. Seems that Zillow at least didn’t go down that road…

Also interesting that the average is roughly the same as it was a week ago, a month ago, and a year ago.

As someone who is currently unemployed, this 💯.

“I want ‘Small government’ except for my roads!!!” – some conservative

“No ceiling” can certainly include the 70-90% marginal tax rates the US had from the 1940s through the 1970s. As long as the marginal tax rate is less than 100%, there is no ceiling: it just becomes progressively more challenging the higher you climb (as it should be).

Our federal government isn’t a unitary state and is inherently powerless in absence of specific authority. The right question is “can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings *legal*?” The onus is always on the federal government to prove it is authorized to act.

It’s quite poetic that those events happened on Christmas.

Or they are a host with outdated ideas about what makes a good host. Your guests don’t have to be gorging themselves on food and drink to be having a good time.

That said, the ICC is supposed to be reserved for cases for when domestic justice systems are unable or unwilling to appropriately deal with violations of international law. I’m not ready to write off our institutions, yet.

The treaty has provisions for non-members to consent to jurisdiction on a limited basis. In a post-Trump world, that might be something the US might be able to do. The US could also just join.

Constitutionality might be a question, though.