Stock Issues are policy debate doctrines which divides the debate into 5 subtopical ideas.

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1. Harms: what are the problems in the status quo?

2. Inherency: what are these problems not already being solved? (Or not already being solved in the best way?)

3. Significancy: comparing the advantages and disadvantages of the status quo and your proposed solution, why is the proposed solution more worthy than the status quo?

The Ws:

1. Why this? Why is your proposed solution the best (most effective, or most feasible, or fastest, etc.) one?

• Around 20,000 stocks valued at $47 Trillion
• Only about 2,000 matter
• Transaction frequency is high, liquidity is generally low — grade sizes are small
• Roughly 59 places to trade stock (exchanges + darkpools)

strain is the proportional deformation of a material given some stress applied

revising:

• character as subjects, actions as verbs
• old before new (connect sentences’ subjects from tail to head)
• short before long: (say the short phrase before the long phrase, move the verb up front if you can)
• topic then stress (the last position is being stressed—the thing that’s most important to communicate is the end of an utterance)
• The above principles apply to all units—as in, each sentences paragraphs, and arguments should all follow a similar principles