I must confess I don't know anything about Gordon Brown. Why is he considered to be so lousy? I only watched the movie "The Deal" (2003) and...
Fuck You money is an old concept on Wall St, and I think it is worth thinking about deeply because it tells you a lot about who you are and what...
It's very natural for people to want to ask who is the best at X ... even though if you were to think about it rigourously, it is a meaningless...
The most important driver of employment by far is the viability of the underlying product being produced - do people around the world want to buy...
Don't worry, no one wants to own a Trabant anyway. Getting Germans to produce worthless cars was a remarkable achievement by State control.
This is like me claiming I know of people who can win at roulette and you claiming that based on mathematics it is impossible. And then you...
I don't disagree with what you have said. As a free market capitalist & member of the human race I believe we as a species are better off for...
Good thread, probably a must read for all those "What should I do with my life" threads that appear on ET regularly. Nothing sj says is untrue....
Larry Williams does (did) that.
Not to detract from the main argument, but to point out that in certain cases, replacement jobs can be produce less value. eg, the rubber...
The problems with healthcare are legion. But many countries have a reasonably working kludge that is regarded as satisfactory, especially given...
In terms of *any* quality of life metrics - life expectancy at birth, infant mortality, susceptibility to any disease you might care to name,...
When most people say "the market is rising" they usually mean to say "the market *was* rising".
During the year ended December 31, 2008, income before income taxes in our market making segment increased 43%, compared with the same period in...
The other explanation is that he doesn't care whether his advice is informed or not. If he gets some marginal buying from his speech, then...
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse...
dood ... Moody's is a credit rating agency .... they rate the ability of borrowers to repay their creditors US infrastructure is long pieces of...
We already had in recent history two gigantic bonanzas of government spending that government was totally incompetent at being accountable for....
Asking civil engineers how much infrastructure we need is like asking dentists how much tooth work you need. "um ..... plenty!"
Baron, Chat doesn't appear to have many users at any one time, but the number of different users who have used chat at any one time probably...
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