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Khan: Taxing Unrealized Capital Gains Would Destroy Real Estate
“What happens to the real estates? People who own all this real estate, they are illiquid. Are you going to charge them an unrealized gap gain? So they have to sell the real estate. You're going to destroy the real estate market.”
Khan: Private market investments face severe write-downs and permanent capital loss
“People didn't write it down to zero or near zero, And that will happen over time, and then people will realize that it's not only a DPI issue, it's also permanent loss of capital. I don't think people are realizing that they have permanent loss of capital in m…”
Khan: IPOs with minimal day-one pops cause aftermarket stock crashes
“If they're buying the stock at the price that it doesn't go up, only goes up 10%, they're gonna dollar-weighted average, so they're not gonna go buy the stock. So you're gonna have a supply belt that, you know demand imbalance, they will probably sell the stoc…”