It's pretty simple right? Individual decisions are 100% owned by you and so you feel entirely responsible.
Markets have other actors and responsibility of consequences is shared. If I offered ten bucks to kill a mouse, and someone took me up on it, then the responsibility is shared and you...
1: I would guess that any unemployment numbers reported by fee media is from the BLS. evidence of bias imo would be selective use of adjusted or non-adjusted numbers to show the trend that you want to. But a quick Google of reports shows that's not the case.
NYT reports that unemp...
I'd guess that it has to do with reporting facts (ie General consensus) instead of fringe theories. Eg. CNN runs a piece on global warming. This is taken to be bias when it's scientific consensus.
In other words, reporting stories contrary to what you believe in equates to bias. Which...
These were RSU's.
"Unlike stock options, which traditionally carry a "strike" price at which recipients can purchase shares, restricted stock units are granted outright at zero cost to employees. The IRS taxes RSUs as ordinary income on their full market value as of the day they vest."
"Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information Institute, says he isn't aware of private insurance for infrastructure such as roads that were damaged or destroyed during Sandy. They are typically owned by city, county or state governments, he says.
Private insurance could be purchased...
Is there something similar to a non compete thats for govt employees? Otherwise, how do you stop someone from quitting and joining a lobbying firm? You have no control over what they do after they leave
simple question. what is the purpose of your spreadsheet? what argument does it try to support or refute? why are you showing us this data?
If the answer to these questions are "for discussion", then it's been discussed. your spreadsheet does nothing to show the effect (positive or...
you did nothing of the sort. your "normalization" of population only displays your ignorance. did real wage increase along with population? what about worker productivity? what about non-rate tax changes e.g. deductions?
again, casio calculator watch trying to solve for trigonometry.
I'll fall for it. How did you fudge the population? Did you isolate the interaction between population and GDP growth? Was it statistically significant?
even if you wanted to try and incorporate these other variables, would you even know how? here's the hint again. you don't use a spreadsheet.
you're like a 5th grader that just got a shiny new casio calculator watch for xmas and now want to use it for trigonometry.
do you not read other people's posts? They pointed out other relevant variables, but you don't listen. population, gdp, and whatever else eskimospy mentioned.
here's a simple analogy that you can understand.
You have a pickup truck currently with a V8 that gets 20mpg. The engine is downsized to a V4 and the pickup is loaded with 20 cows. You drive the car again and find that it now gets 15MPG.
In this grossly simplified analogy, your "fact"...
God you're dumb. this is exactly what everyone is telling you is wrong with your argument. Your "fact" i.e. conclusion is based on an "analysis" (i hesitate to use that word as calling what you did analysis is an insult to analysis everywhere) that is entirely incorrect.
3 reasons. Romeny was shifty, and spewed too much blatant bs. The influence of tea party non rational and just plain crazy folks. And of course, as an extension of #2, silly policy ideas and the tendency to debate on emotion rather than merit.
Bonus point #4, not a fan of immigration...
I think the point was that if you understand stats, aggregating data reduces variance and increases accuracy. There could have been a systematic polling bias across all polls but that's very unlikely. You can believe that a few polls are biased, but thinking the whole system was biased was...
This shouldn't be that hard to believe. Companies have been using statistics and mining data for a very long time. This is just applying the same principles to the election, and as much as we like to think of momentum and gut instinct as an unknown, it's not actually that big of a deal.
You're asking about the quality of jobs, which is a legitimate question. However, this report doesn't attempt to answer that question. It only answers whether or not we are adding jobs and how much.
This is still useful as an indicator to the economy, but more info on quality would provide...
underutilized cash flows are an issue, but there's also the potential for conflicting incentives. Investors want to recover their capital as quickly as possible, but by increasing the debt burdens of a firm, it can also weaken the competitiveness of the firm.
I don't think private equity in & of itself is bad. Buying poorly run companies or to realize economies of scale/scope across a portfolios of companies is a pretty good idea. It's just when they lever up and suck up the cash flows of a healthy firm that things get dicey.
corporate bonds are usually interest only during the life of the bond. Principal is repaid when the bond matures.
As for his reference to increasing valuation (he used "profitability") due to debt & tax shields , it's true. Firm valuations increase when you increase debt levels because it...
The sad truth is that it's only a small portion of the customers that need/demand the majority of healthcare. Some people have life-long expensive to treat illnesses, and they consume much more than everyone else. Then it becomes an ethical question and should we spend $500K to extend the life...
Not quite.
Yes, oil price & gasoline are somewhat correlated, and the cost of oil is an input into gasoline, but ultimately, the cost of gas is more determined by worldwide demand for gasoline & production capacity. For example, if you look at when Katrina hit, gas prices shot up through...
there is a 100% certainty that 100% of the population will get sick and die. They will require healthcare and hospitals will be obligated to treat them. What's wrong with the individual mandate in that context?
production hasn't been able to keep up with consumption for the past few years. we still have 1.4 trillion in proven reserves left but that's not what's important. production gets less efficient as the fields get depleted so you can't pull out oil fast enough to meet daily demand.
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