Normalizing? You mean like saying the Russians didn't try to influence the election?
We have yet to have a single piece of evidence that supports that claim. In fact, we don't even have a NAME of a source that makes the claim. We DO have Assange and others associated with Wikileaks explicitly stating it was NOT the Russians, but an inside job. So who do we believe: nameless, faceless sources in the CIA (who have shown no evidence at all) or Wikileaks who have leaked true and accurate e-mails (as not a single one was disavowed by the Democrats or the Hillary campaigns)? Who stands to benefit, politically, from blaming it on Russia? The same team claiming it was Russia...
Net profit margin is of huge importance to most investors. It's why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have high market caps, rather than companies like Walmart, Safeway, and others. Even though the others trounce the former in terms of revenue, they make a lot more from each dollar spent with them. Net profit margin (or EBITDA margin, often) is an oft-used market measurement of the long-term viability of a company. If it's high, then they can be a cash cow, or survive a price-war if needed. If it is low - there's not a lot then can do the last long-term if revenues start to slide or someone else enters their main market and squeezes prices.
He should keep his mouth shut Wickard v. Filburn means his growing of wheat was probably against Federal regulations and could result in a hefty fine or prison...
Apple grew because of the iPhone - and that market, for them, is going away. Once they fall below 10% of the market (probably sometime in 2018) you'll see their market cap really start to slide. No one will bet on them for the long term, because there's nothing there to dominate a market. Apple IS the iPhone, the rest of its business units are failing. MSFT on the other hand still has its stranglehold on its core products and is adding new business units now.
I use it quite a bit; I try to update by profile when anything significant happens (product launch, patent issued, etc) and also comment a few times a week, as well as write an article once a month. I've gotten quite a few contracts because of it, including a current one that's making me around $12,000 per month part-time (20 hours/week) - people I know from the past see the updates, scan my profile, and offer me work.
Heck, if anything those numbers show that LinkedIn is massively UNDERvalued! I mean, Uber is worth $60 billion and they are only losing $2.5 billion a year. That means LinkedIn, who's losing less than 1/5th the amount of Uber should be worth $900 billion all on its own!
So anecdotal over calcuations. Inflation typically tracks lots of things, and it's been raging pretty strongly (for instance, try to find a half gallon of ice cream any more; sizes have dropped as prices have increased, but the CPI is now based on "package price" rather than ounce/gram of food, so it's a free way to cut inflation). If we calculated inflation now, as it was back in 1990, we'd be around 6.5%. And that would put us right back into the 2008 recession (which we probably never actually exited).
Might want to get ready to munch some QWERTY... AAPL has about a 19% net profit margin. Google around 22%. Microsoft is at 23%. Microsoft actually makes more net profit for every dollar of revenue than Apple. Doesn't take too many quarters doing that to see a stock price jump up quite a bit. And it only takes about 27% increase in MSFT for them to eclipse AAPL; they added 30% to their stock price in the last 6 months alone.
It is somewhere between 6% and 9% depending upon the criteria you use. Much like being employed used to mean at least 20 hours of work per week, but now means just 1 hour of work per week. Change the criteria, you can improve the reported numbers.
President Elect Obama spent quite a bit of time lecturing us from his "Office of The President Elect" podium, as well as telling Congress what it should do. And that continued into his "elections have consequences - I won" and "they can get in the back of the bus" rhetoric early in his first term. And he has pretty much wrecked the economy, unemployment (if you calculate it as it was pre-2008) is still around 9%, we just ran another $1.4 TRILLION deficit (our debt from Oct 1, 2015 to Sept 30, 2016 increased by $1.4 trillion), and inflation is wildly understated (closer to 8%, not 2%) resulting an actual negative GDP if it was accurately reported...
QUIET! If he's too stupid to know about TSA Pre by now, the LAST thing I want is him in the TSA Pre line asking "do I need to take my shoes off?" or trying to dig his iPad out of his bag... I fly weekly from LAX to SFO and back, typically catch the 8 AM Delta flight, and arrive at the airport at 7:30 AM to park my motorcycle. Never missed a flight yet, TSA Pre is always 5 minutes, I'm at the gate a solid 10 minutes before they close the door... If he was in the TSA Pre line, my margin gets a lot smaller...
It is regulatory, but maybe not like most people think. Take a look at the amount of your ticket that is taxes and landing fees. I fly LAX - SFO weekly, and LAX - HKG monthly. The fees for LAX to SFO are much higher than LAX - HKG. Multiply the $30 extra landing fees by 200 people per flight, and that's $6000 extra expenses per flight that need to be made up. Almost ALL overseas (International) landing fees and taxes are lower than in the US, meaning there is less cost associated with running the flight in the first place - and thus less need to overbook to cover costs.
The claim is that ice loss is because of man's activities. Thus the onus is on them to show that this is NOT part of the natural cycle. How is it different, in timing and extent, than past ice loss records? If it is significantly different, what is your proposed mechanism and does the math/research back up that mechanism?
At least in the US, the Federal Government owns massive amounts of land (about 28% of all the land), and can do whatever it wants on that land already.
You miss a very, VERY important point. If you have the solar panels at an angle, it's hard to drive on them! Why would you put the panels at an angle facing the sun, just so all the cars and trucks could slide off of the road?
Turns out that Arctic sea ice extent varies on a 60-80 year cycle, at least since the early 1700s. Perhaps what we're seeing is part of that trend, given it's on schedule and on scale?
Don't tease the old guys. If anything, we should be asking them what it was like to live in the last inter-glacial period a few hundred thousand years ago...
Actually, there is good analyses showing that Government intervention significantly lengthened the Great Depression. And given that our unemployment rate - if calculated as it was pre-2008 - is still around 9%, and inflation - if calculated as it was pre-1990 - is still around 8%, we are still in the recession (lowering the inflation rate artificially results in an artificially increased GDP growth rate).
Yes, the stock market is way up, but when you pump several trillion dollars straight into investment banks, it's no surprise that the value of the investments increases on paper. But hey, we're still adding around $1.4 trillion a year to the debt so we do have another year or two of ever-increasing stock market values.
Unemployment is only going down because we now count part-time employed people as fully employed, and have dropped more long-term unemployed out of the ranks of the unemployed - thus the steady drop in the labor participation rate. Use the rules around prior to 2008 and we have 9% unemployment - no change. And the debt has increased dramatically; we added $1.4 trillion just last year - more than any year prior to 2009.
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Syria, Libya, and boots-back-on-the-ground in Iraq say otherwise...
Normalizing? You mean like saying the Russians didn't try to influence the election?
We have yet to have a single piece of evidence that supports that claim. In fact, we don't even have a NAME of a source that makes the claim. We DO have Assange and others associated with Wikileaks explicitly stating it was NOT the Russians, but an inside job. So who do we believe: nameless, faceless sources in the CIA (who have shown no evidence at all) or Wikileaks who have leaked true and accurate e-mails (as not a single one was disavowed by the Democrats or the Hillary campaigns)? Who stands to benefit, politically, from blaming it on Russia? The same team claiming it was Russia...
Net profit margin is of huge importance to most investors. It's why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have high market caps, rather than companies like Walmart, Safeway, and others. Even though the others trounce the former in terms of revenue, they make a lot more from each dollar spent with them. Net profit margin (or EBITDA margin, often) is an oft-used market measurement of the long-term viability of a company. If it's high, then they can be a cash cow, or survive a price-war if needed. If it is low - there's not a lot then can do the last long-term if revenues start to slide or someone else enters their main market and squeezes prices.
Tilling that farm is pretty hard on it, though... Doesn't like the combine either.
He should keep his mouth shut Wickard v. Filburn means his growing of wheat was probably against Federal regulations and could result in a hefty fine or prison...
Apple grew because of the iPhone - and that market, for them, is going away. Once they fall below 10% of the market (probably sometime in 2018) you'll see their market cap really start to slide. No one will bet on them for the long term, because there's nothing there to dominate a market. Apple IS the iPhone, the rest of its business units are failing. MSFT on the other hand still has its stranglehold on its core products and is adding new business units now.
I use it quite a bit; I try to update by profile when anything significant happens (product launch, patent issued, etc) and also comment a few times a week, as well as write an article once a month. I've gotten quite a few contracts because of it, including a current one that's making me around $12,000 per month part-time (20 hours/week) - people I know from the past see the updates, scan my profile, and offer me work.
Heck, if anything those numbers show that LinkedIn is massively UNDERvalued! I mean, Uber is worth $60 billion and they are only losing $2.5 billion a year. That means LinkedIn, who's losing less than 1/5th the amount of Uber should be worth $900 billion all on its own!
So anecdotal over calcuations. Inflation typically tracks lots of things, and it's been raging pretty strongly (for instance, try to find a half gallon of ice cream any more; sizes have dropped as prices have increased, but the CPI is now based on "package price" rather than ounce/gram of food, so it's a free way to cut inflation). If we calculated inflation now, as it was back in 1990, we'd be around 6.5%. And that would put us right back into the 2008 recession (which we probably never actually exited).
Might want to get ready to munch some QWERTY... AAPL has about a 19% net profit margin. Google around 22%. Microsoft is at 23%. Microsoft actually makes more net profit for every dollar of revenue than Apple. Doesn't take too many quarters doing that to see a stock price jump up quite a bit. And it only takes about 27% increase in MSFT for them to eclipse AAPL; they added 30% to their stock price in the last 6 months alone.
It is somewhere between 6% and 9% depending upon the criteria you use. Much like being employed used to mean at least 20 hours of work per week, but now means just 1 hour of work per week. Change the criteria, you can improve the reported numbers.
President Elect Obama spent quite a bit of time lecturing us from his "Office of The President Elect" podium, as well as telling Congress what it should do. And that continued into his "elections have consequences - I won" and "they can get in the back of the bus" rhetoric early in his first term. And he has pretty much wrecked the economy, unemployment (if you calculate it as it was pre-2008) is still around 9%, we just ran another $1.4 TRILLION deficit (our debt from Oct 1, 2015 to Sept 30, 2016 increased by $1.4 trillion), and inflation is wildly understated (closer to 8%, not 2%) resulting an actual negative GDP if it was accurately reported...
QUIET! If he's too stupid to know about TSA Pre by now, the LAST thing I want is him in the TSA Pre line asking "do I need to take my shoes off?" or trying to dig his iPad out of his bag... I fly weekly from LAX to SFO and back, typically catch the 8 AM Delta flight, and arrive at the airport at 7:30 AM to park my motorcycle. Never missed a flight yet, TSA Pre is always 5 minutes, I'm at the gate a solid 10 minutes before they close the door... If he was in the TSA Pre line, my margin gets a lot smaller...
It is regulatory, but maybe not like most people think. Take a look at the amount of your ticket that is taxes and landing fees. I fly LAX - SFO weekly, and LAX - HKG monthly. The fees for LAX to SFO are much higher than LAX - HKG. Multiply the $30 extra landing fees by 200 people per flight, and that's $6000 extra expenses per flight that need to be made up. Almost ALL overseas (International) landing fees and taxes are lower than in the US, meaning there is less cost associated with running the flight in the first place - and thus less need to overbook to cover costs.
BRILLIANT! Let's patent it... We'll make billions. BILLIONS!
The claim is that ice loss is because of man's activities. Thus the onus is on them to show that this is NOT part of the natural cycle. How is it different, in timing and extent, than past ice loss records? If it is significantly different, what is your proposed mechanism and does the math/research back up that mechanism?
I like where you're going with this... OR could we put suction cups on the tires so they can handle the angle at lower speeds?
At least in the US, the Federal Government owns massive amounts of land (about 28% of all the land), and can do whatever it wants on that land already.
You miss a very, VERY important point. If you have the solar panels at an angle, it's hard to drive on them! Why would you put the panels at an angle facing the sun, just so all the cars and trucks could slide off of the road?
Hah, you scoff now, but when I unveil my windmills with solar-panel-covered blades, you'll just stand in AWE of my awesomeness...
Consumer Reports showed REAL courage in not recommending your product...
Turns out that Arctic sea ice extent varies on a 60-80 year cycle, at least since the early 1700s. Perhaps what we're seeing is part of that trend, given it's on schedule and on scale?
Don't tease the old guys. If anything, we should be asking them what it was like to live in the last inter-glacial period a few hundred thousand years ago...
Actually, there is good analyses showing that Government intervention significantly lengthened the Great Depression. And given that our unemployment rate - if calculated as it was pre-2008 - is still around 9%, and inflation - if calculated as it was pre-1990 - is still around 8%, we are still in the recession (lowering the inflation rate artificially results in an artificially increased GDP growth rate).
Yes, the stock market is way up, but when you pump several trillion dollars straight into investment banks, it's no surprise that the value of the investments increases on paper. But hey, we're still adding around $1.4 trillion a year to the debt so we do have another year or two of ever-increasing stock market values.
Unemployment is only going down because we now count part-time employed people as fully employed, and have dropped more long-term unemployed out of the ranks of the unemployed - thus the steady drop in the labor participation rate. Use the rules around prior to 2008 and we have 9% unemployment - no change. And the debt has increased dramatically; we added $1.4 trillion just last year - more than any year prior to 2009.