You forgot the 12C, HPs most popular financial RPN calculator. It's the preferred calculator of MBA's, bond traders and investment bankers. On any given day tens of billions of dollars (literally) rely on the 12C.
Won't this thing make an astonishingly large target for terrorists, or even for enimies in a wartime situation?
But we could throw things at them from very high up.
Amusing, but no one is forcing the world to invest in the US.
Supply equals demand, so rather than smirking at America's inability to live within its means, the world should be marvelling at the ability of the US economy to profitably and efficiently absorb capital.
The company is gone today--bought out by their chief competitor--because they lost sight of the product and customer and, instead, tried to please the investors.
...who, God forbid might expect a return on the financing they provided.
His New Crobuzon novels Perdido Street Station and The Scar are about the most original fantasy/steampunk I have ever read. Think Charles Dickens meets Hieronymus Bosch. The plots may seem a bit contrived, but his world building is unmatched.
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You forgot the 12C, HPs most popular financial RPN calculator. It's the preferred calculator of MBA's, bond traders and investment bankers. On any given day tens of billions of dollars (literally) rely on the 12C.
Won't this thing make an astonishingly large target for terrorists, or even for enimies in a wartime situation?
But we could throw things at them from very high up.
Amusing, but no one is forcing the world to invest in the US.
Supply equals demand, so rather than smirking at America's inability to live within its means, the world should be marvelling at the ability of the US economy to profitably and efficiently absorb capital.
The short term effects, plainly put, are a drop in the standard of living for most of the population;
This is simply not true.
http://www.eh.net/hmit/gdp/
The company is gone today--bought out by their chief competitor--because they lost sight of the product and customer and, instead, tried to please the investors.
...who, God forbid might expect a return on the financing they provided.
His New Crobuzon novels Perdido Street Station and The Scar are about the most original fantasy/steampunk I have ever read. Think Charles Dickens meets Hieronymus Bosch. The plots may seem a bit contrived, but his world building is unmatched.