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by james1071 9y ago
Normal rules don't seem to apply in Silicon Valley.
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by james1071 9y ago
Council tax is not a tax on property values. The amount that a person has to pay depends on the budget of the local council and the banding of the property that the person lives in.
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by james1071 9y ago
Better according to you or according to the French?
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by james1071 9y ago
My guess would be that the film industry in France is good at persuading politicans to pass agreeable laws.
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by james1071 9y ago
You know what hppens when you have been driving at 70mph - 30mph seems incredibly slow. So it is with money and finance.
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There are two separate issues. 1 The expected returns from the two investments. 2 The likley returns at the time the bet was made.
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by james1071 10y ago
You have not got a clue. Companies with monopoly power do not allocate resources optimally (for society) because they choose to optimise resources optimally for themselves. Because they have pricing power, profit maximising behaviour does n
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by james1071 10y ago
1 I think we all understand that there are are degrees of monopoly power:one company might be a pure monopoly, a few big players (known as an oligopoly) can behave cooperatively (like a monopoly) or engage in price wars (with the objective
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by james1071 10y ago
The reasons that you have given might be part of the explanation, but on their own they do not explain it. Yes, it is true that there is a tax benefit to employers purchasing healthcare insurance, which is tax deductible, and providing it a
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by james1071 10y ago
You need to check out perfect competition, monpoly and oligoply. Briefly, with (textbook) perfect competition, profit maximising firms will price their goods at marginal cost and produce a socially optimum amount. A company with a monopoly
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by james1071 10y ago
You asserted that a highly concentrated industry is evidence of optimal resource allocation. It isn't.
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by james1071 10y ago
Someone needs to learn some economics.
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by james1071 10y ago
There are many things that started 70 years ago which have long since gone. So, there must be forces which sustain the US model, where the employer pays for medical insurance. Also, I fail to see how employers offering medical insurance sho
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by james1071 10y ago
Things might be different now, but Bloomberg used to be unique in what it offered:fixed income price feeds, analytics, news feeds and messaging service for market participants. Another killer feature was that there were addins to excel spre
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by james1071 10y ago
Oxford:27 Cambridge:14 Since 1945 Oxford:10 Cambridge:0
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by james1071 10y ago
The point of long-term incentive schemes is that bonuses can be clawed back.
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by james1071 10y ago
The main problem is the greenbelt.
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by james1071 10y ago
Because Americans worship celebrities and bribe their politicians.
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by james1071 10y ago
It all stems from the Chinese tradition of competitive examinations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination
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by james1071 10y ago
What is hard to understand?
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by james1071 10y ago
What is at issue is that Ireland did not enforce its own tax laws.
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by james1071 10y ago
Yes-that is exactly what this case is about.
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by james1071 10y ago
There is no work in selecting the companies-what is difficult is running a fund with very low dealing costs.
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by james1071 10y ago
I am not sure that you appreciate what is involved. Running an index fund is largely mechanical, but the main issue is dealing costs. What Vanguard have to do is seemingly impossible, which is to deal at the mid-price every day, when they i
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by james1071 10y ago
That is what programmers like to say (when they are comparing their salaries with the value they say they have created). The reality,of course, is that most of the value created is attributable to the franchise value of the company, not the
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by james1071 10y ago
Private equity means leveraged buy out.
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by james1071 10y ago
I really don't see what the problem is. What does it matter who funded his legal case?
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by james1071 10y ago
There is a good chance that the person who took the laptop was acting with an accomplice, and that the woman making the scene was involved.
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by james1071 10y ago
My guess is that the person who took it was acting with an accomplice, possible the one who caused the distraction. They would make an exchange in a place where there are no cameras. The person who took it would have a story ready in case s
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by james1071 10y ago
Its click bait plus some useful info.

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