It should be noted that anti-dumping laws are abused to an insane extent. Organizations in the U.S. which benefit from them obviously hold much greater political power than their Chinese rivals, and are able to manipulate the system to shut down competition. Simply producing for less than the U.S. cost of manufacture has been successfully used as an argument to put "anti-dumping" regulations in place.
...and said open market is manipulated by the U.S. government. A big part of the positive effect of QE is because it acts as beggar-thy-neighbor currency devaluation.
Firefox suffers from horrible memory leaks that the devs either don't care about or lie about fixing in every single version for the last...3 years? Its javascript engine is slow as hell. Start-up is slow. Updating breaks addons. Firefox is worse at following standards than Chrome! My development process at the moment is to code for Chrome because it renders stuff correctly, then hack the code so that non-compliant browsers like Firefox and IE will also display right.
The difference being of course that the iPad is a large cellphone, while tablet PCs are PCs in tablet form. Completely different hardware and capabilities.
You are an insane person. I know your mind fights against this concept, but it is the truth. You are insane, and you should seek medical help as quickly as you can.
Microsoft hardware is amazingly bad. They make no mechanical keyboards, so that immediately puts them out of the top ~20 or so keyboard makers. As for the mice...they're more of a practical joke than actual pointing devices.
As mentioned above, that's due to increases in minimum wage and social safety net programs. The former means young people are pretty much banned from working, the latter means people stay between jobs for longer thus increasing the natural rate.
That is not true. The target is to have no unemployment, which means having natural unemployment. That includes people between jobs, etc. and is generally thought to be in the 3-5% area.
By the same principle, no person with an IQ over 100 would be willing to work in the United States, which is obviously not true. Maybe you overestimate the prevalence of humanists..
I think you're overstating the difference the lag compensation of tf2 makes. It kinda makes the 70-100ms interval playable, but anything above that is still very noticeable and extremely frustrating unless you're playing a camping engie.
Yes, it is collectively worth 1.5 times more. Valuations are not intrinsic, they are directly dependent on the average level of risk aversion of investors. Obviously in a recession risk aversion goes up, and thus valuations go down. The process is reversed when you exit the recession.
I'll give you the issuing of more equity, but debt issues are not affected by stock market prices..fixed income investors look at ratings and financial ratios such as interest coverage. The stock market price does not really affect the
In any case, the long-term movements that would affect equity issues are not really affected by HFT.
>Long term investment is the POINT of a stock market. It's to encourage the private sector to ALLOCATE MONEY EFFICIENTLY toward PRODUCTIVE activity.
That does not make any sense whatsoever. The actual investment in a corporation is not affected in any way shape or form by what happens in the secondary (stock) markets. The efficient allocation of capital to investment opportunities happens in the primary markets i.e. IPOs.
Comparing the long-term prospects of an economy to its current or short-term state is the equivalent of saying that global warming doesn't exist because it snowed a lot this year. You may wish to revise your argument.
>Explain how stock trading liquidity is a benefit in and of itself
The higher the liquidity, the lower the bid-ask spread. Illiquid assets have gigantic spreads, to the tune of tens of percentage points on their actual value.
>The whole concept of the stock market is to create a central point for people to invest in a corporation.
That is an absurd notion. Whatever happens to a stock in the secondary markets (that is the stock markets), the actual investment in the corporation is unaffected. The primary markets (i.e. IPOs) are there for people to invest in corporations.
The role of the secondary markets is to provide a mechanism to a. trade the equity and b. to price it. You seem to think that the valuation of a corporation only depends on specific news about it, but nothing could be further from the truth. The vast majority of the variance in prices is explained not by fundamental factors, but because of changes in the risk preferences of investors.
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It should be noted that anti-dumping laws are abused to an insane extent. Organizations in the U.S. which benefit from them obviously hold much greater political power than their Chinese rivals, and are able to manipulate the system to shut down competition. Simply producing for less than the U.S. cost of manufacture has been successfully used as an argument to put "anti-dumping" regulations in place.
...and said open market is manipulated by the U.S. government. A big part of the positive effect of QE is because it acts as beggar-thy-neighbor currency devaluation.
Firefox suffers from horrible memory leaks that the devs either don't care about or lie about fixing in every single version for the last...3 years? Its javascript engine is slow as hell. Start-up is slow. Updating breaks addons. Firefox is worse at following standards than Chrome! My development process at the moment is to code for Chrome because it renders stuff correctly, then hack the code so that non-compliant browsers like Firefox and IE will also display right.
What are you, 5 years old? Haven't seen such naivete since I went to primary school.
The difference being of course that the iPad is a large cellphone, while tablet PCs are PCs in tablet form. Completely different hardware and capabilities.
You are an insane person. I know your mind fights against this concept, but it is the truth. You are insane, and you should seek medical help as quickly as you can.
Microsoft hardware is amazingly bad. They make no mechanical keyboards, so that immediately puts them out of the top ~20 or so keyboard makers. As for the mice...they're more of a practical joke than actual pointing devices.
How can you even mention Baldur's Gate in the context of Dragon Age...the quality difference between the two games is simply astounding.
As mentioned above, that's due to increases in minimum wage and social safety net programs. The former means young people are pretty much banned from working, the latter means people stay between jobs for longer thus increasing the natural rate.
That is not true. The target is to have no unemployment, which means having natural unemployment. That includes people between jobs, etc. and is generally thought to be in the 3-5% area.
Do you think that is a good thing? I mean currently, we chose the best of the candidates first, then run off between them.
No, we choose the most popular candidates. There's typically a pretty strong negative correlation between quality and popularity.
So...things that are not experienced do not exist? I did not realize you had been resurrected Bishop Berkeley!
There were NO APPS!
I guess you've never heard of Symbian, then.
Is it possible to design net neutrality legislation that still allows ISPs to charge each other for peering agreements, as they have always done?
Google Dwarf Fotrress.
Actually, the women's lawyer asked for the rape charge to be reopened, which then happened.
By the same principle, no person with an IQ over 100 would be willing to work in the United States, which is obviously not true. Maybe you overestimate the prevalence of humanists..
I think you're overstating the difference the lag compensation of tf2 makes. It kinda makes the 70-100ms interval playable, but anything above that is still very noticeable and extremely frustrating unless you're playing a camping engie.
Yes, it is collectively worth 1.5 times more. Valuations are not intrinsic, they are directly dependent on the average level of risk aversion of investors. Obviously in a recession risk aversion goes up, and thus valuations go down. The process is reversed when you exit the recession.
I'll give you the issuing of more equity, but debt issues are not affected by stock market prices..fixed income investors look at ratings and financial ratios such as interest coverage. The stock market price does not really affect the
In any case, the long-term movements that would affect equity issues are not really affected by HFT.
I would pay very large amounts of money for the DF movie.
No it wasn't. Stock markets are not zero sum games.
>Long term investment is the POINT of a stock market. It's to encourage the private sector to ALLOCATE MONEY EFFICIENTLY toward PRODUCTIVE activity.
That does not make any sense whatsoever. The actual investment in a corporation is not affected in any way shape or form by what happens in the secondary (stock) markets. The efficient allocation of capital to investment opportunities happens in the primary markets i.e. IPOs.
>Have you looked around lately ?
Comparing the long-term prospects of an economy to its current or short-term state is the equivalent of saying that global warming doesn't exist because it snowed a lot this year. You may wish to revise your argument.
>Explain how stock trading liquidity is a benefit in and of itself
The higher the liquidity, the lower the bid-ask spread. Illiquid assets have gigantic spreads, to the tune of tens of percentage points on their actual value.
>The whole concept of the stock market is to create a central point for people to invest in a corporation.
That is an absurd notion. Whatever happens to a stock in the secondary markets (that is the stock markets), the actual investment in the corporation is unaffected. The primary markets (i.e. IPOs) are there for people to invest in corporations.
The role of the secondary markets is to provide a mechanism to a. trade the equity and b. to price it. You seem to think that the valuation of a corporation only depends on specific news about it, but nothing could be further from the truth. The vast majority of the variance in prices is explained not by fundamental factors, but because of changes in the risk preferences of investors.