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LewisBraham
Hi Hank,
Your satire came across very well. Don't worry about the user name.
Best,
Lewis
The biggest employer in every state is probably the government, and interestingly enough, red states generally have higher concentrations of government employees than blue:
governing.com/news/headlines/gov-states-with-most-government-workers-are-mo…
@MSF and Ben I was wondering about coffee and the roasting of it and why light roast was worse than dark roast. So thanks. Yet it is still true in other foods that more cooking or crispiness releases more acrylamide: https://cancer.gov/about-cancer/…
@Ted I would say someone significantly responsible for getting Britain to exit the European Union and an extremist U.S. president elected is deserving of more than 15 minutes of fame.
@Ben My impression is that acrylamide naturally occurs in foods as a chemical reaction to how the foods are cooked or processed, and is not a chemical additive. So even if you're making french fries at home, it doesn't matter. Foods that are roasted…
Do you, Ted, beyond Merriam-Webster's reductive definition? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism
I can tell you for sure, it ain't socially responsible investing. One share one vote is not the same as one person one vote, so any form of investing…
First paragraph indicates author doesn't really know what socialism is. Individual investors taking their capital and doing whatever the hell they want with it--including giving it to socially responsible funds--is about as far from socialism as you…
@Maurice And why pray tell should the Obama campaign be investigated but to create a massive distraction from the criminal behavior of the current administration? What happened? Did they run out of Hillary crimes and emails to investigate?
@Maurice Didn't make any mention of you personally, say anything about "your friends," etc. But you choose to go ad hominem. Your statement about Obama again is classic whataboutism. Even if what your claiming about Obama is true, how does that have…
@Anna You just described "whataboutism," the soviet propaganda technique Fox News uses. If some conservative political figure has done something wrong, there is an immediate attempt to say well, liberals do it too when A. what liberals have done is …
Additional ones could be:
1. "I eat my own cooking."
2. "Bonuses are based on long-term risk-adjusted performance and paid in restricted shares of the funds we manage."
3. "This is not the same fund at $10 billion in assets that it was at $100…
Classic Whataboutism Faux News propaganda:
politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/mar/22/meghan-mccain/comparing-facebook-data-use-obama-cambridge-analyt/
But in Obama’s case, direct users knew they were handing over their data to a politica…
It's useful idiot or in Russian полезный идиот: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
It's important to get the terminology right for future generations of psychologists. To Tillerson he's a moron, but to Putin he's an idiot, and remains quite…
I think sometimes when these TV shows trot out an economist to make a prediction, he should have to wear a wizard's pointy purple hat and robe and stare into a crystal ball as he speaks.
@Sma3 2) that the majority of Americans not only don't vote (thus letting the 20 % fringe on both sides control the debate and the outcome
I agree that it is a shame more Americans don't vote, but it is a false moral equivalency to say "the 20% frin…
Regarding supply side economics referenced in the article, I don't think many of the politicians/economists Krugman is rightly skewering actually believe in supply side eco as he claims. I think it's worse than that. I think they know it's bunk, but…
This was bound to happen, but it's worth noting that human-driven cars kill 30,000 people a year. There are some interesting questions regarding self-driving cars, but I don't think safety is the biggest one. I'm fairly certain they will be much saf…
@Maurice The politics of a public state-run pension plan financed by taxpayer dollars and a private company like BlackRock's assets under management for private shareholders are two entirely different things. But I suspect you already know that. You…
What’s sad is how in the U.S. every stage of our lives from birth to death is turned into a business. It shouldn’t cost so much for an elderly person to receive decent care. The elder care business takes advantage of families at their weakest moment…
I think the company is overextending itself, especially in the food space. I don't think the Whole Foods acquisition will be the game changer everyone is claiming. All of the things that are Amazon's advantages--warehouses instead of brick and morta…
This is by the way another reason why it's stupid to limit immigration. Japan has long been a very insular country hostile to immigration and now their pensioners outnumber their youth and it is a problem.
It's called brinkmanship. It could work in business--perhaps certain real estate deals--but in geopolitics it could lead to more than a trade war. It could lead to real war.
One suggestion I haven't heard is combining a portfolio of bonds with a long-term call option on the stock market to create your own annuity. In the past this strategy was done with zero coupon Treasury bonds that would mature when you are retiring …
@bee You are correct:
nytimes.com/2005/05/11/business/united-air-wins-right-to-default-on-its-employee-pension-plans.html
This has long been a strategy in many industries to avoid fulfilling their obligations to employees. They subsequently emerge f…
@MSF Agreed, but my argument is that job insecurity, healthcare and retirement insecurity are a different sort of cage. Here are some different quotes:
“Hunger makes a thief of any man.” Pearl S. Buck
“A hungry man is not a free man.” Adlai E. Stev…
@MSF Seeing the promise of income for life in retirement as "shackling employees to their employers" is one way of looking at the situation. Another is a promise of job stability and security that no longer exists. It is interesting this notion of "…
I’m thinking those folks not lasting with the same employer for 35 years would have probably been far better served by a 401(k).
I'm thinking not:
latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-401k-20171010-story.html
The outcomes of many 401k plans ha…
You may be wise, OJ, but many non-millennials hate them:
https://google.com/search?source=hp&ei=zHqgWtH7IK66ggfLrKKQBw&q=hate+millennials&oq=hate+mil&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0l10.1300.3969.0.5734.9.8.0.0.0.0.82.552.8.8.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab…
Another one: businessinsider.com/millennials-saving-twice-as-much-as-baby-boomers-2017-10
That's three surveys/studies now proving the same point. I get that a lot of people hate millennials, but I think it is just a classic hating the younger gener…
