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9y ago
If the beer taste great and is inexpensive I don't see how anybody can have a problem with that.
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Everyone is for higher taxes until it affects them personally of course. Berkeley is essentially an ivy league school and a guaranteed ticket to a upper/middle class life. Asking their students to pay more and help the government stay
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> Her monthly income consists of $1,200 in Social Security and a $190 pension That is a decent salary if she lived in a cheaper state like Mississippi or Kentucky. I realize there are other factors at play here, but its your choice to re
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Even with high consumer confidence, retail is dying. The middle class no longer has the same spending habits as it did for the past 60 years. Its fair to say that retail malls and outlets as we know them might not exist in the next 15-20 ye
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I'd bet this 12% stake is actually a behind the scenes loan in the form of buying stock. No way would any smart investment company have genuine long term interest in Snapchat at this point. Older people are not using snapchat, and youn
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> I would have to say the title is not sensationalist at all It's appalling that you don't find the title extreme. No way will a tax plan completely destroy higher education as we know it. > Where do you think those funds ar
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Sensationalism at its finest. At some point we have to demand some sort of integrity from our media. This is getting out of hand. The tax plan will force schools to alter graduate tuition accounting. But "Destroy" really?
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> Weird how New York City housed millions of poor immigrants at the turn of the century Are you really comparing housing standards for the poor today vs 100 years ago? Unless your solution is to throw all poor people in filthy slums like
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This is the result of population growth. Even if housing is built specifically for poorer and lower income individuals, middle class families looking for housing will inevitably trickle in causing demand and prices to rise naturally. Once a
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The main problem is population growth. Even if housing is built specifically for poorer and lower income individuals, middle class families looking for hosuing will inevitable trickle in causing demand and prices to rise naturally. Once aga
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9y ago
A lot of what if scenarios being asked. The key takeaway here is that anyone that drives a truck, taxi, uber, lyft, or any other vehicle for a living will highly likely be out of a job in the next 10-15 years. So roughly about 10-12% of the
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Government should not be picking winners and losers. Giving tax breaks and subsidies to Disney so they can stay afloat is horrible. Hats off to the LA times for exposing this, the people are waking up and are tired of big government and cor
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This article fails to address the major question. Why and how are not important. The only thing that matters is WHEN the bubble will burst. Nobody can answer that question. My best estimate is around the 2020 election cycle when regulation
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9y ago
Even at $105B this would be a bad deal for Qualcomm and its shareholders. Long term Qualcomm will be worth probably double that offer in the next 20-25 years if current trends continue. Cashing out now would be very a short sighted move for
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Why do articles like this always paint reductions in a negative manner? This is actually a positive. The credit should be scraped immediately. The credit was an initial incentive to help encourage drivers to adopt electric vehicles, and it
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When famous celebrities get involved in speculation that is the ultimate sign of a bubble. Similar to when pro athletes like A-rod and paul pierce starting making day trades back in 2004. As usual mom and pop investors will be left holding
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Tesla best car I ever owned. I will wait 6 months if that what it takes for perfection.
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I would happily work from home in exchange for feeling unsupported, Man some people just don't know how good they have it...
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I have learned over many years, that polling data is rarely ever correct and usually contains a severe bias. This same poll can be conducted by a different organization with the exact same sample population and the finding will be "71%
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Elon Musk has proved again and again that he is a gift from heaven to the human race. We must continue to support genius like him for the sake of humanity. Stop wasting money on endless wars, entitlements, fraud, waste, abuse, etc. Give our
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ESPN's downward spiral perpetuated when their talk show hosts started pushing their politic agenda and a liberal bias (Not saying a liberal bias is wrong, but many people get turned off by it). Sports should be an escape from the daily
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What is your goal to get rich or to change the world? If your goal is to get rich then just start an algo/AI hedge fund. Might have to add a couple quants, but sounds like you have the perfect initial team for it. However, if you want
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> And how, exactly, does one embark upon an endeavor By using the money earned from your career to fund ventures. A stable career should provide you with money to build wealth. However, simply working a 9-5 everyday will not provide weal
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> Where does the money for those things come from, if not your career? The money to fund wealth building ventures comes from having a stable career. However, the act of having a career does not build wealth as the rule implies.
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> Rule #1: Your career provides your wealth. I mainly disagree with the first rule. Your career should not provide your wealth. Your career should keep your bills paid, provide security for the future, and allow you to live a comfortable
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> It is urgent that we follow the Paris agreement and switch rapidly away from fossil fuels I think everyone, even skeptics deep down agree that climate change is real. However, giving billions, if not trillions of dollars to an internat
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You are comparing apples and oranges. > Why oppose a Russian millionaire buying an LA townhouse, but not a Texan millionaire buying the same townhouse? A Texan resident is subject to the same federal financial rules and regulations when
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Foreign as in an individual whos permanent residence is not in the United States. i.e. A Russian millionaire buying a townhouse in LA
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It would be nice to see the West do something like this in the major cities like LA, NY, etc. Foreigners shouldn't be able to come in and buy competitive property when they don't play by the same financial rules as us. seems unfai
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Walmarts are already overcrowded as it is. Adding robots is going to clog the aisles even more. It could still work I guess
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