How about if we make it our business to not decide how everyone else is permitted to run their business? My memory is fuzzy but I think some people call this concept free market capitalism.
It seems to me the biggest cost of providing same-day delivery is the actual cost of delivering the items. If we presume that this delivery cost goes down as the volume of deliveries to a specific area goes up (more items delivered per trip, less travel time, less gas, etc..), then it would stand to reason that the service would be much less profitable in areas with a low concentration of same-day orders, ie poorer neighborhoods. Does Amazon not have the right to make a business decision on which tiers of service to offer which areas in order to maximize their profit?
Because inflation is a function of money supply x velocity. The situation right now is a very large money supply but with slow velocity, ie the money is being moved around (spent) because most of it is being hoarded on balance sheets or non-productive investment. The remainder is being held by the ultra-wealthy but there's only so much they can buy (and what they are buying has seen enormous price inflation, such as fine art). Put that money into the hands of the masses and they'll put it to actual work, ie buying stuff. That will cause a more general price inflation.
It's not that capacity is growing faster than the money supply but that demand is not growing. The two concepts are similar in theory (opposite sides of the same condition) but quite different in practice.
Bill successfully trolled you. He doesn't want anything of the sort. And bonds don't get propped up by money printing - the exact opposite happens actually.
You have BIll Gross confused with someone else, perhaps Michael Milken. Gross doesn't issue junk bonds like many of con artists of the past - he invests in them, along with lots of investment grade and government bonds as well. He became wealthy by having an uncanny ability to predict where the economy (and in turn the bond market) will go during his 30+ year career.
You must understand that Bill Gross was speaking in jest. He's a lifelong bond investor and the inflation he predicts from this strategy is anathema to bonds. Now he wouldn't mind some inflation if it meant the net interest rates would rise as a result (ie, interest on bonds minus inflation) but he doesn't expect that from the strategy he proposes in the article. Again, it was written in jest.
In the scene where the judge ordered Walter and Margaret Keane to both paint something to prove they are the artist behind the big-eye paintings. Halfway through the hour allotted to him and with nothing on his canvas Walter turns to the judge and pretends he threw out his shoulder trying to lift the tiny paintbrush.
Perhaps, who knows? But my name isn't "Capitalists" so it doesn't apply to me.
If capitalists are guilty of not recognizing the "true costs" of capitalism then anti-capitalists are even more guilty of not recognizing the "true costs" of not having capitalism, such as the democratization of wealth and prosperity.
It's an unpopular notion but various U.S. Government agencies are required to place a dollar value on a human life in order to make reasonable economic and policy decisions. The exact value of a human life varies by agency but the range is currently about $4M to $9M. With only 11 lives lost from to this airbag fault and a reported 70 million airbags affected by this recall, each likely costly hundreds each to replace, is this recall justified?
Pao is still operating under the delusion that she's no longer a VC due to sexism. Anyone who closely followed her bias case against Kleiner Perkins knows the exact opposite is true; she was given extraordinary opportunities there, much more than the average partner-in-training. Yet she still couldn't get out of her own way on the path to success paved for her by John Doerr. Diversity was not her foe; it was entitlement, jealously, laziness, and incompetence.
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How about if we make it our business to not decide how everyone else is permitted to run their business? My memory is fuzzy but I think some people call this concept free market capitalism.
It seems to me the biggest cost of providing same-day delivery is the actual cost of delivering the items. If we presume that this delivery cost goes down as the volume of deliveries to a specific area goes up (more items delivered per trip, less travel time, less gas, etc..), then it would stand to reason that the service would be much less profitable in areas with a low concentration of same-day orders, ie poorer neighborhoods. Does Amazon not have the right to make a business decision on which tiers of service to offer which areas in order to maximize their profit?
Would be the roller coaster pulling its stock price.
Because inflation is a function of money supply x velocity. The situation right now is a very large money supply but with slow velocity, ie the money is being moved around (spent) because most of it is being hoarded on balance sheets or non-productive investment. The remainder is being held by the ultra-wealthy but there's only so much they can buy (and what they are buying has seen enormous price inflation, such as fine art). Put that money into the hands of the masses and they'll put it to actual work, ie buying stuff. That will cause a more general price inflation.
It's not that capacity is growing faster than the money supply but that demand is not growing. The two concepts are similar in theory (opposite sides of the same condition) but quite different in practice.
Bill successfully trolled you. He doesn't want anything of the sort. And bonds don't get propped up by money printing - the exact opposite happens actually.
Then describe why you believe Bill Gross is a con artist. He's the most respected bond investor of his generation.
You have BIll Gross confused with someone else, perhaps Michael Milken. Gross doesn't issue junk bonds like many of con artists of the past - he invests in them, along with lots of investment grade and government bonds as well. He became wealthy by having an uncanny ability to predict where the economy (and in turn the bond market) will go during his 30+ year career.
You must understand that Bill Gross was speaking in jest. He's a lifelong bond investor and the inflation he predicts from this strategy is anathema to bonds. Now he wouldn't mind some inflation if it meant the net interest rates would rise as a result (ie, interest on bonds minus inflation) but he doesn't expect that from the strategy he proposes in the article. Again, it was written in jest.
It will stop.
In the scene where the judge ordered Walter and Margaret Keane to both paint something to prove they are the artist behind the big-eye paintings. Halfway through the hour allotted to him and with nothing on his canvas Walter turns to the judge and pretends he threw out his shoulder trying to lift the tiny paintbrush.
Perhaps, who knows? But my name isn't "Capitalists" so it doesn't apply to me.
If capitalists are guilty of not recognizing the "true costs" of capitalism then anti-capitalists are even more guilty of not recognizing the "true costs" of not having capitalism, such as the democratization of wealth and prosperity.
NY times says there have been a total of 139 injuries. And I don't think you know what vendetta means.
It's an unpopular notion but various U.S. Government agencies are required to place a dollar value on a human life in order to make reasonable economic and policy decisions. The exact value of a human life varies by agency but the range is currently about $4M to $9M. With only 11 lives lost from to this airbag fault and a reported 70 million airbags affected by this recall, each likely costly hundreds each to replace, is this recall justified?
For the logical behind this process here is Milton Friedman explaining it to a college student:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And not a penny more!
Pao is still operating under the delusion that she's no longer a VC due to sexism. Anyone who closely followed her bias case against Kleiner Perkins knows the exact opposite is true; she was given extraordinary opportunities there, much more than the average partner-in-training. Yet she still couldn't get out of her own way on the path to success paved for her by John Doerr. Diversity was not her foe; it was entitlement, jealously, laziness, and incompetence.
It's called the post-graduation gap, as in having difficulty finding a job after you graduate, depending on what your area of study was.
Innovation is not making something slightly thinner or lighter or faster or missing a port or with a better screen.
Marissa Mayer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Elizabeth Holmes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
To rain on your security.
It's definitely rigged.
Insurance companies should create a smartphone app that monitors whether you text while driving and gives a discount to drivers who don't.
How many of those were involuntary though?