I agree, but don't think it is worth trying to compete with professional equipment down at the photo lab. If it cost $0.15 or more per print at home and $0.11 at Costco, I'll keep my black laser printer and let someone else own the good hardware. Personally, if I wanted nice color, I'd get one of those wax based plotters.
G rated films do gross higher than R rated films because they have better "legs" (the term for how long a film continues to sell tickets). However, Box office gross has not meant much to a movie executive for many years. With the exception of Disney, & Pixar, G rated films do not do as well in DVD and TV sales which is where all the money in Hollywood is made (box office is now basically an advertisment for other more profitable channels).
Why? The mob is expensive, but they enforce a certian level of fairness/justice on those who cannot go to a courtroom to resolve issues. People are quite good at setting up a social structure (in any environment) that centralizes a basic ruleset that will apply to everyone. Even black markets work (enforced by the threat of violence) most of the time.
I think humans, especially women who have just given birth, have a powerful emotional attachment to small children. That most young women would have a difficult time giving up a child for adoption once they see the child even if the rational part of their mind knows they would be strained to raise the child. Vacuming out some tissue is a much easier choice for them to rationalize. Not the best choice mind you, but it is easier for them to accept. Remember that we are not talking about the most responsible members of society yet.
I was looking for a subway station/street map (surprisingly hard to find) when I ran across a page that claimed all the streets and circles made a big free mason symbol when viewed from the air (it's a stretched hexagon running around the mall with the capital at the bottom). Many of the founders (and the architect) were masons so it makes as much sense as anything else.
It is pretty well known that investment banks work with transaction data that will make almost anyone rich if they knew of it before it was released to the public. Crap, just following the rumor mill has worked for lots of people. Just the names of the companies involved would probably be enough to make you a tremendous nest egg. Stock charts go straight up and straight down usually by more than 20% on the annoucement of this type of transaction. You'd get a hard look from the SEC, if you were involved in two well timed buys in a row. If you had ready access to non-public information the game becomes similar to counting cards at blackjack (easy to beat, harder to stay in the game.
I went to an admittedly smaller public school and in grade 6 & 7 we diagrammed sentances. I believe that would have been about 1990. Even so, I still tend to write run on sentances.
They keep chatting about it here (US), but no one is doing much about now. I think there is something like $100 billion worth in Fort Knox so it would pay the interest on the debt for a few months. I know the Swiss make a point of the fact that they keep a decent pile of gold reserves (They aren't on the gold standard, but have a healthy pile of it).
Sure it's fiat money now, but most central banks keep large asset piles to assure confidence that they will not drive the value of their currency down by printing reams of it. Gold gets kept because as the central banker's saying goes it's about the only asset that isn't a liability to someone else.
Enron and Anderson were both pretty big prior to 2001. Usually when a formerly big company gets purchased it has fallen to small company size (look at the once big airlines). Typically they are bought for something other than their main operation Sears (land), Great A&P Tea (land and foreign operations), Kansas City & So. Railroad (owned Janus).
If you think your stock price is artificially inflated, it makes a ton of sense to buy hard assets. How much do you think AOL would be worth if they hadn't bought TimeWarner? Strategicly I concur, there is nothing that makes a whole lot of sense.
Of roughly 6000 public companies that trade in the US (or trade a portion of their shares as ADRs) 42 are over $80 billion in Market cap. UPS happens to be next up the list (as of yesterday's close) Google might have shed a spot with their decline today.
Sure they could, same as AOL did most mergers aren't made with cash (although that changes from year to year). They just have to get TWX shareholders to agree to half ownership of the combined entity (which is basically what AOL did in 2000).
Generally focusing on the long term is best in the long term. The issue is that the long term can be a very long time. As an example, it was 50 years before Japan paid for their mercantilist policies with a decade of no growth and deflation. Something similar will happen in other parts of Asia, but it could be near our retirement rather than mid career. It takes a lot of grit to stick to the proper policies after 30-50 years of losses.
Typically, they limit this offer to a few thousand a year to prevent a 20% raise. Also ESPs usually have a holding period requirement (their goal is to align employee and shareholder incentives by making employees shareholders). Of course this is less impactful on executives who are almost always paid mostly with stock or option grants.
From my own experience working in an office, and working on the farm, I'd say you will find yourself busier (and with a longer todo list off the grid than on it).
Shelf keeping unit. It's sort of equivalent to a UPC code but references the product rather than the code. In gaming it is equivalent to titles if you count each platform as a separate title.
I doubt most people buy Gucci for the designs (they may choose Gucci over Prada for the design). People are buying Gucci because it makes them feel good or appear successful (as a first impression). Since Apple's status symbol is only seen in the home (generally by people who have already formed a first impression) there isn't as much value accrued to status. Look at the success of the iPod or their laptop lines both frequently used outside the home.
I'd guess that BMW would make a sweet treadmill, but it would probably have crappy sales if it were priced at the same premium to the market as their cars.
Its rarity is another big reason for its value. Al was once more valuable than gold (one of the French kings had an Al goblet) before the modern refining process was developed. People tend to ascribe high worth to things they cannot have.
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I agree, but don't think it is worth trying to compete with professional equipment down at the photo lab. If it cost $0.15 or more per print at home and $0.11 at Costco, I'll keep my black laser printer and let someone else own the good hardware. Personally, if I wanted nice color, I'd get one of those wax based plotters.
G rated films do gross higher than R rated films because they have better "legs" (the term for how long a film continues to sell tickets). However, Box office gross has not meant much to a movie executive for many years. With the exception of Disney, & Pixar, G rated films do not do as well in DVD and TV sales which is where all the money in Hollywood is made (box office is now basically an advertisment for other more profitable channels).
It is all there, but what if it takes 1.1 barrels of energy to make 1 barrel of oil shale into gasoline?
Why? The mob is expensive, but they enforce a certian level of fairness/justice on those who cannot go to a courtroom to resolve issues. People are quite good at setting up a social structure (in any environment) that centralizes a basic ruleset that will apply to everyone. Even black markets work (enforced by the threat of violence) most of the time.
I think humans, especially women who have just given birth, have a powerful emotional attachment to small children. That most young women would have a difficult time giving up a child for adoption once they see the child even if the rational part of their mind knows they would be strained to raise the child. Vacuming out some tissue is a much easier choice for them to rationalize. Not the best choice mind you, but it is easier for them to accept. Remember that we are not talking about the most responsible members of society yet.
I was looking for a subway station/street map (surprisingly hard to find) when I ran across a page that claimed all the streets and circles made a big free mason symbol when viewed from the air (it's a stretched hexagon running around the mall with the capital at the bottom). Many of the founders (and the architect) were masons so it makes as much sense as anything else.
It is pretty well known that investment banks work with transaction data that will make almost anyone rich if they knew of it before it was released to the public. Crap, just following the rumor mill has worked for lots of people. Just the names of the companies involved would probably be enough to make you a tremendous nest egg. Stock charts go straight up and straight down usually by more than 20% on the annoucement of this type of transaction. You'd get a hard look from the SEC, if you were involved in two well timed buys in a row. If you had ready access to non-public information the game becomes similar to counting cards at blackjack (easy to beat, harder to stay in the game.
I went to an admittedly smaller public school and in grade 6 & 7 we diagrammed sentances. I believe that would have been about 1990. Even so, I still tend to write run on sentances.
There was a trailer before Batman when I saw it last week. Outside of here that was the first I'd seen of the film.
They keep chatting about it here (US), but no one is doing much about now. I think there is something like $100 billion worth in Fort Knox so it would pay the interest on the debt for a few months. I know the Swiss make a point of the fact that they keep a decent pile of gold reserves (They aren't on the gold standard, but have a healthy pile of it).
Sure it's fiat money now, but most central banks keep large asset piles to assure confidence that they will not drive the value of their currency down by printing reams of it. Gold gets kept because as the central banker's saying goes it's about the only asset that isn't a liability to someone else.
Enron and Anderson were both pretty big prior to 2001. Usually when a formerly big company gets purchased it has fallen to small company size (look at the once big airlines). Typically they are bought for something other than their main operation Sears (land), Great A&P Tea (land and foreign operations), Kansas City & So. Railroad (owned Janus).
If you think your stock price is artificially inflated, it makes a ton of sense to buy hard assets. How much do you think AOL would be worth if they hadn't bought TimeWarner? Strategicly I concur, there is nothing that makes a whole lot of sense.
Roughly $250 billion in Feb of 2000 (highest price I could find post merger*~4,000,000,000 shares outsanding).
Of roughly 6000 public companies that trade in the US (or trade a portion of their shares as ADRs) 42 are over $80 billion in Market cap. UPS happens to be next up the list (as of yesterday's close) Google might have shed a spot with their decline today.
Sure they could, same as AOL did most mergers aren't made with cash (although that changes from year to year). They just have to get TWX shareholders to agree to half ownership of the combined entity (which is basically what AOL did in 2000).
An additional $700 per share, assuming share count ratios remain fixed (which is a pretty poor assuption).
Generally focusing on the long term is best in the long term. The issue is that the long term can be a very long time. As an example, it was 50 years before Japan paid for their mercantilist policies with a decade of no growth and deflation. Something similar will happen in other parts of Asia, but it could be near our retirement rather than mid career. It takes a lot of grit to stick to the proper policies after 30-50 years of losses.
Typically, they limit this offer to a few thousand a year to prevent a 20% raise. Also ESPs usually have a holding period requirement (their goal is to align employee and shareholder incentives by making employees shareholders). Of course this is less impactful on executives who are almost always paid mostly with stock or option grants.
From my own experience working in an office, and working on the farm, I'd say you will find yourself busier (and with a longer todo list off the grid than on it).
National in a banks name means that it holds a federal charter (rather than a state charter), they aren't government run, but are federally approved.
Shelf keeping unit. It's sort of equivalent to a UPC code but references the product rather than the code. In gaming it is equivalent to titles if you count each platform as a separate title.
I doubt most people buy Gucci for the designs (they may choose Gucci over Prada for the design). People are buying Gucci because it makes them feel good or appear successful (as a first impression). Since Apple's status symbol is only seen in the home (generally by people who have already formed a first impression) there isn't as much value accrued to status. Look at the success of the iPod or their laptop lines both frequently used outside the home.
I'd guess that BMW would make a sweet treadmill, but it would probably have crappy sales if it were priced at the same premium to the market as their cars.
Its rarity is another big reason for its value. Al was once more valuable than gold (one of the French kings had an Al goblet) before the modern refining process was developed. People tend to ascribe high worth to things they cannot have.