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by balderdash 4y ago
It’s all about a) the amount (enough to make up for the lower developed birthdate, and to keep inflation low, but not so much as to completely destabilize the quality of life of the native lower/middle class) b) composition (not all im
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by balderdash 4y ago
It’s a fair point. In the last year USD.EUR is up ~20%, dollar index is up ~20%, so to your point the other half the index is has also weakened against the dollar. WSJ Dollar index which is even broader is also up.
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by balderdash 4y ago
Not sure what resources your referring to with regards to china, they seem to be net importers of food,energy, metals, etc…
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by balderdash 4y ago
The dollar is strengthening, you can look at the dollar index [1] which compares the dollar to a basket of developed market currencies [2] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Dollar_Index [2] https://www
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by balderdash 4y ago
I’m glad you pointed the driver economics out, I meticulously keep track of my auto costs (hour out to road trip [1]) and am always surprised by what my actual mpg/cost per mile is, as well as how repairs and maintenance add up over ti
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by balderdash 4y ago
While I have no sympathy of the taxi industry some of my family lives in/is from a resort destination, and Uber has created a huge problem, while it’s massively improved the availability of rides in the high season, it put many of the
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by balderdash 4y ago
Sure there undoubtedly many false claims made against police, that does not mean there are not many valid ones, and In all of the most egregious, proved (full video - no question of the facts) cases of misconduct (often times when the video
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by balderdash 4y ago
Using a little deductive reasoning, If the law was really about officer safety, you could remove all reference to video recording, and just make it about people staying away from “police activity’ / not interfering with investigations,
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by balderdash 4y ago
Totally agree with not being able to hide owner ship (especially when are a director, major shareholder, and ceo) but I think DTCC is really only in the mix when you buy/sell shares via an exchange, and their focus is the settlement be
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by balderdash 4y ago
He (or an entity he owns and controls) owns the shares, and and another company (computershare in the case of Tesla) maintains a list of all the shareholders (registrar and transfer agent). No one else “owns” them He may just own the shares
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by balderdash 4y ago
They both produce the same outcome, they feed the consumers existing biases/priors and reinforce the notion that the other side is contemptible. They just do it it in different ways.
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by balderdash 4y ago
With regards to your comment on the rates, most LBOs are done with floating rate loans/ bank loans/levers loans, as such they trade at a spread over libor/sofr, which chops ~3% off your interest rate…
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by balderdash 4y ago
Not really, that rule of thumb is that if you can grow EBITDA at higher percentage than the EBITDA multiple you bought at, thing will just work out fine (e.g. buy at 20x need 20% cagr on earning over the next 5 years)
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by balderdash 4y ago
Most LBOs aren’t really that interest rate sensitive, let’s say you buy a company for $100m dollars 12x EBITDA, and 15x unlevered free cash flow ($7m), you would have put $50m of non amort. debt in the business @ 3%, so had a $1.5m interest
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by balderdash 4y ago
Why? What does a system of voting have to with privacy?
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by balderdash 4y ago
Sounds like an allusion to blue ocean strategy “ BLUE OCEANS, in contrast, denote all the industries not in existence today – the unknown market space, untainted by competition. In blue oceans, demand is created rather than fought over. The
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by balderdash 4y ago
Just pull up a 20 year price chart on crude oil or natural gas.
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by balderdash 4y ago
Or add in a financial + graphing calculator
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by balderdash 4y ago
Look I’m all for addressing climate change head on. But I guess at the end of the day I just see this as regulatory overreach. Can one squint and see the rationale, definitely. But my simplistic mind sees the original intent of the bill as
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by balderdash 4y ago
Wow this thing is impossible to decipher
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by balderdash 4y ago
So your argument is that companies and people should not follow the law or do what’s right because people can circumvent their efforts?! “Why’d you sell vodka to that 12 year old? Ahh well it’s trivial for them to go out and get a fake ID…s
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by balderdash 4y ago
I’ve seen people hit the 1m row limit plenty of times
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by balderdash 4y ago
#1 literally the first full sentence of text “In 2004, 17% of state prisoners and 18% of federal inmates said they committed their current offense to obtain money for drugs.” #3…you might have to read past the first sentence…
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by balderdash 4y ago
While a prenup can address some child related elements (paying for school, the religion they’re raised, etc.) I don’t think they can be used for things like custody, visitation, child support, etc.
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by balderdash 5y ago
That’s not how it works
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by balderdash 5y ago
I’m curious what the author expected Amazon to do? Put him on paid leave as a brand new (expensive) employee?
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Data breach has Manitobans fearful(winnipegfreepress.com)
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