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LewisBraham
Hi Hank,
Your satire came across very well. Don't worry about the user name.
Best,
Lewis
This is what happens when you make it up as you go along.
Revisionist history. Obama used executive orders because he had no other choice when faced with the most obstructionist Congress in U.S. history:
https://washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/20…
@Maurice Please, your obsession with Clinton is embarrassing. You said and I repeat:
"You know that the Democrats have taken more advantage of PAC money than Republicans." That is not true and you don't have the decency and honesty to admit it. Hill…
@Maurice That's nice. The problem is Clinton wasn't even a candidate in 2014, so why are you posting that data? And why do you carefully ignore the simple fact that in the 2016 election cycle $605.8 million was spent by conservative Super Pacs and …
@Maurice I already posted the facts via OpenSecrets. You just don't care about them. It's pretty funny that you would post old data from 2014 instead of 2016. Nice try.
@Maurice You know that the Democrats have taken more advantage of PAC money than Republicans.
No, they haven't:
https://opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?cycle=2016&chrt=V&disp=O&type=S
https://opensecrets.org/outsidespending/su…
@MSF I think members of the House and Senate would have more of an impact on the local and state level and how federal contract dollars might be directed towards campaign contributors because of their sway. Regarding the McDonnell case, the defense …
@MSF I think that would depend a great deal on the type of industry, type of politician being paid and the specific laws being considered. On the local or state level such payments I bet might significantly influence whether a company gets, say, a g…
The final outcome and whether it helps or hurts an employee also depends a lot on whether the market goes up or down. Such a shift to a Roth style account would've been far more valuable perhaps in March of 2009 than today.
The key word is "nostalgia." I wonder if it's possible for anyone to completely separate the aesthetic and functional value of those rotary phones from their nostalgic attachment associated with those phones from memories of their youth. The myth th…
@MSF I see your point, but I'm thinking more of what it's like to call Verizon/Comcast and say I'm unhappy with the triple play and there's no Netflix, Sling, Vonage, HBO Direct, Hulu, etc. to throw in their face. I've noticed since the great un-bun…
@davidrmoran I would think in a natural monopoly as Krugman describes one it wouldn't be in pricing of the goods where society suffers the most. It would be in the quality of the goods and in how that company treats labor, the environment and would-…
@MSF I think you're right for the most part as even in monopolistic industries people can often substitute with other goods. The problem is what happens when the marginal utility of a product is essentially unlimited. Such is the case with life savi…
@MSF Perhaps, but there's something absurd regarding the idea that tax cuts will lead to any massive increase in labor for today's tech giants. These are not labor intensive businesses for the most part like automobiles once were. (Now autos aren't …
@Ted Google has contributed more to human inquiry than all the dictionaries and encyclopedias ever printed.
Spoken like "the linkster!" I think you've just indicted yourself. Books are more valuable than links for human inquiry, especially when tho…
@Ted First, Arianna Huffington was a conservative Republican before she became a moderate Democrat. So, no "left-wing rag." Second, no less than Adam Smith himself--the founding father of modern capitalism--felt that monopolies threatened capitalism…
@davidrmoran You might find this interesting regarding tech monopolies:
huffingtonpost.com/entry/google-monopoly-barry-lynn_us_59a738fde4b010ca289a1155
Do these ETFs deduct 10% and give it to the poor for tithing? I guess not:
https://thegospelcoalition.org/article/7-reasons-christians-not-required-to-tithe
or maybe:
https://washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/08/29/we-were-never-close…
It's an interesting question whether a 72 year old manager faces imminent retirement in 2017. People are living longer and can work a lot longer than they used to especially if they're wealthy and have access to the best doctors and treatments. It …
@AndyJ Could've also been an allusion to Riverdance or Lord of the Dance. A Rockettes-like line of Cliff Asness, Tim Buckley and Barry Ritholtz doing the can-can at the EBI Conference?
@Ted OK, leave.
Also, I don't see your link to this specific WSJ story, but to an Investment News story about Gundlach. Oh, wait there it is....yet still, your attitude is ridiculous.
Stripping index funds of their voting rights or influence on corporate governance makes no sense. Those voting rights aren't just the funds' voting rights. They are the shareholders who own the funds voting rights by proxy. So taking the funds right…
"DoubleLine is a very unique firm that is independent and privately held, and Jeffrey is his own man and he speaks his mind," said Loren Fleckenstein, DoubleLine analyst and spokesman.
Just the phrase "very unique" here speaks volumes about arrogan…
It's rather amazing to attack an article before even publication. Even more so are readers who support Gundlach for doing it. Those are the kind of anti-free-press tactics that exist in dictatorships. Apparently, it's "fake news" before it's even ne…
@Sven The talk of the U.S. having the highest corporate tax rate is intentionally misleading. It is the effective tax rate that matters more than the statutory rate. Here's a link to a study from the U.S. Government Accountability Office on the effe…
@Maurice Ah, the old meteorologist argument:
slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/04/meteorologists_and_regular_people_still_aren_t_sure_humans_cause_climate.html
Another reason for the low acceptance rates may have to do with who AMS …
This is good news and about time. But doing private negotiations with companies doesn't give Vanguard's shareholders much transparency as to what's really going on. The fact that Vanguard has actually shifted its proxy votes at companies like Exxon …
@Maurice No, I am not a scientist. That's why I actually respect the evidence of the 97% of climate scientists who have done the hard work and research proving that climate change is real and of human origin. What the Republican strategy has been to…
@Maurice You said: "The thing is I am not a scientist nor a statistical mathematician."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_not_a_scientist
https://nytimes.com/2014/10/31/us/why-republicans-keep-telling-everyone-theyre-not-scientists.html
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