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by dereg 15y ago
Market expectations do price shares. These expectations can be assumptions about growth, dividend payouts, and such. You're claiming that there is no random walk component, which there clearly is. There is no such thing as paying an amoun
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by dereg 15y ago
That's a really good question. First, to clarify, capital appreciation refers to the increase of the price of a stock. Investors buy stocks for a different reasons. The primary reason is to receive a return on that investment. Return is an
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by dereg 15y ago
You're wrong. You're oversimplifying stock valuation to a hazard. You cannot use the dividend discount model to value stocks that pay no dividends. This is a fact . Furthermore, a dividend is not the only source of return from a stock, t
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by dereg 15y ago
If resemblance was a major factor then they'd bring back Noah Wyle.
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by dereg 15y ago
Tim Cook said on the conference call that they have well more than enough to make strategic investments and to support growth. Plus, a company's #1 goal is to create shareholder value.
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by dereg 15y ago
Because Apple's duty is not to pursue community goals. Furthermore, they don't have the competence to make those sorts of investments. Apple is not a philanthropic organization, and it would be to everyone's detriment if they were to act li
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by dereg 15y ago
Actually drivers do pay for roads in the form of gasoline taxes. Moreover, the gas tax incidence lies purely on a driver whereas funding for mass-transit comes from the entire populace (including those who will never use it).
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by dereg 15y ago
This is okay if you're a tourist traveling between popular tourist spots. As a local, taking the bus 10 miles from home to work would take me at least an hour and half to two hours, verus 40 minutes in a car.
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by dereg 15y ago
The smart person steps away from the table. Alas, that's not an option.
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While there is a large black market of people pirating content, it is unclear as to whether that market would be willing to enter the legal market at any price point. Improving the distribution system is not a source of explosive growth, ra
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Nassim Taleb addresses this sort of thinking. He calls it a "ludic fallacy", which is the over application of games to our down detriment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludic_fallacy
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by dereg 15y ago
That's not how you use P/E ratios, which are totally irrelevant when comparing firms with entirely different revenue and cost sources.
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by dereg 15y ago
Do you understand the audience for these NPD reports? NPD releases their research to paying (usually corporate) customers. The press release is a small portion of what's actually in the reports. Furthermore, don't you think a financial anal
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by dereg 15y ago
This is a specious argument by the bls. The question isn't whether education pays or not; the real question is whether or not education increases a person's productivity. I'd argue not. It all depends on the degree. College is a form of job
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Capitol Gains: Congressional Insider Trading(marginalrevolution.com)
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by dereg 15y ago
Hmm, so reallocating a few billion dollars is going to fill the multi-trillion dollar output gap we've fallen into these past few years? No, the answer is no.
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by dereg 15y ago
Serious question, is "self-inflicted" a euphemism for "suicide"?
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This should be mentioned more often. Furthermore, people criticize companies like Foxconn for things like employee suicides, when the suicide rate at Foxconn is actually lower than the suicide rate of China as a whole.
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by dereg 15y ago
Lets take your evaluation one step further. If you evaluate evaluate Gates and Carnegie through that lens, then governments are invariably more nasty than the sum of the world's past "monopolies". Do you agree with this? On another note, Ga
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by dereg 15y ago
So did the Donner Party.
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by dereg 15y ago
You're getting it all mixed up. The extra cost of hiring a single ditch digger to do the job is the forgone cost of letting a dude with a giant earth-mover handle the job. You're implying that we're becoming less productive, that's totally
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by dereg 15y ago
Not at all. Immigration laws are not the primary inhibitor of migration, (lack of) money is the greatest barrier. The fact that you say your un-learned opinion is a "fact", proves burgerbrain's point that immigration laws are more xenaphobi
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by dereg 15y ago
Samsung is indisputably more "tyrannical" than Apple. The corporation has unsurpassed political influence in South Korea. For instance, scumbag Chairman (former CEO) Lee Kun-Hee is a nepotist and admitted guilt to political bribery in 2008.
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by dereg 15y ago
I'm tired of the term "artificial scarcity". First, do you understand what scarcity means? The supply of content is unlimited. Putting a price on content is not creating "scarcity". Consumers make content purchasing decisions based on the s
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by dereg 15y ago
What Apple has done has brought technology into the realm of mainstream consumption, not conspicuous consumption. People have said the same thing about Macs since forever. "People buy Apple products to be noticed." When you're selling hundr
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So, how do make that simple for the ordinary consumer?
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Muammar Gaddafi 'killed' as Sirte falls(telegraph.co.uk)
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by dereg 15y ago
So you think all internet comments need to be read in order to learn something? Do you also believe that employers should spend a few days with each applicant before making a hiring decision? Would Amazon be better without product ratings?
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by dereg 15y ago
You've nailed it. I disagree, however, with your labeling that as "conventional capitalism". That's crony capitalism, and always has been. As they say, capitalists hate capitalism.
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by dereg 15y ago
I feel the same way about Heavy Rain. No other PS3 game has brought me close to the feeling of playing that game.

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