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by muzz 13y ago
The purpose is to lay down the false premise that IPOs are largely (solely?) responsible for wealth creation so that if you don't participate you are missing out, and that jobs are created in the process. As if the capital structure o
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by muzz 13y ago
Agreed. Here's the data in chart form, it looks nothing like total stock-market return (the 2008 collapse and subsequent rebound is nowhere to be found, etc): http://blogs-images.forbes.com/sageworks/files/20
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by muzz 13y ago
Where do you get this number from? Social security tax is 6.2% of the first 113k of income, 0 after that Medicare is 1.45% for income under 200k, 2.35% for income above 200k. At no income level do these add up to anything more than 7.7% ht
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by muzz 13y ago
if that number were true, then I would be all for it. even with a restrictive definition of "rich", and even at the current rates (top marginal of 39.6%), 2 days out of 365 days of spending is less than 1% of govt expenditures, a
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by muzz 13y ago
The data denies it. Number of IPOs fell 90% in the two years preceeding SarBox, and increased afterwards: http://www.xconomy.com/wordpress/wp-content/images/2008/06/i...
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by muzz 13y ago
Examples or counter-examples? I.e., are you saying that the public should have been allowed to invest in Groupon and Zynga earlier?
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by muzz 13y ago
> Arguably the most significant among the changes was the 2001 move to decimalization Wow, the claim that the ability to trade stocks in dollars and cents, as opposed to dollars and fractions, is one of the most significant factors in cr
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by muzz 13y ago
I think it was a pretty feeble attempt at excusing a $60 Billion accounting fraud
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by muzz 13y ago
I wanted to pay. There was never a way to do so.
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by muzz 13y ago
Yes, it reads like it could have been a press release for Bruce Katz's new book.
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by muzz 13y ago
It is very misleading, if not downright dishonest, to claim that Silicon Valley cities "aren't having a construction "boom," when actual construction tells us otherwise. http://www.mercurynews.com/busines
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by muzz 13y ago
Planet Money had a good article on this: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/19/172402376/why-buyi... Basically dealers have codified protections via the franchise laws(even in places like T
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Silicon Valley's Hottest Matchmaker(inc.com)
1 points by muzz 13y ago|0 comments
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America's Leading Metros for Venture Capital(theatlanticcities.com)
15 points by muzz 13y ago|14 comments
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The Silicon Valleys of Everything(theatlanticcities.com)
1 points by muzz 13y ago|0 comments
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by muzz 13y ago
no, that's not the cost to fix the $14M is just for "an assessment of the problem with the S-80 submarine program and the scope of the work that would be required to correct it"
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by muzz 13y ago
Your original claim is still incorrect. Even nearby San Jose has a higher proportion of reverse commuters than San Francisco, much higher: http://www.census.gov/hhes/commuting/files/ACS/Table3.xls
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by muzz 13y ago
Sure, but his claim is still wrong. Even nearby San Jose has a much higher proportion of reverse commuters than San Francisco. http://www.census.gov/hhes/commuting/files/ACS/Table3.xls
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by muzz 13y ago
Ignorance, whether real or pretend, is often a great way of spreading FUD.
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by muzz 13y ago
No, the opposite is true. SF population increases by 20% because of the net increase due to commuters. Table 2 on page 11: http://www.census.gov/hhes/commuting/files/ACS/Commuter%20Ad...
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by muzz 13y ago
Comparisons to Detroit have been the case for longer than I can remember. The formula appears to be: Recession -> Area is becoming Detroit Boom -> Area will be Detroit There are newspaper articles comparing Silicon Valley to Detro
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by muzz 13y ago
In efficient markets, buyers are theoretically not irrational either. In theory, the cash buyers of today have factored in their expectations of rising interest rates and the effect on home values going forward.
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by muzz 13y ago
This has been the case for a long time. Rather than wonder why reality isn't as one would predict, it would be better to understand why it is the way it is.
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by muzz 13y ago
Mortgage rates do not affect cash buyers. Despite low interest rates-- and high dollar amounts-- there are surprisingly many cash buyers in the Bay Area. http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/04/03/rise-in-all-cash...
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by muzz 13y ago
I realize they have a building with lots of empty square footage, but how do they get enough power, bandwidth, cooling, etc? Data centers built by Google, Facebook, etc. seem to all be built from the ground up, and close to things like powe
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Startup Office Hours with Vinod Khosla(vlab.org)
1 points by muzz 14y ago|0 comments
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by muzz 14y ago
For simple purchases of common stock, the purchase price is NOT reported to the IRS. Although, many brokers may provide it for your information.
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by muzz 14y ago
> having lived here I know that Delray represents a huge cost savings and a 10 min commute. If you work in Palo Alto or Mountain View, you can live in Santa Clara or San Jose and significantly lower cost. Additional commute is 10-30 m
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by muzz 14y ago
the key thing that "come to Texas" commenters fail to realize is that opportunity and taxes are not independent variables
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by muzz 14y ago
Did you read the article? In paragraph 4 he specifically tells us he takes the founders age off the table.

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