slv77

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by slv77 10y ago
Its frustrating that all the heat has been focused on the illegal immigrants and not the small business owners that hire them. Small business owners that hire illegal immigrants are able to out-compete business owners who chose to follow th
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Money sitting in a bank account is invested via loans and gets returns via interest. If the bank is savvy and makes good investments they keep the spread between the interest paid and the interest earned. From the perspective of the busines
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Venezuela is a country that is simply being looted and there isn't a lot of economic theory needed to explain simple theft. The Bolivar isn't freely convertible except on the black market so there isn't any market (from free
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Most likely a reaction to how dominant AA recovery programs are for those without means to afford one-on-one counseling combined with the religious overtones.
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And the non-technical side. Liability: who is liable when the car kills a pedestrian? Driver engagement: How do you safely transition from automatic control to manual control. Maintenance: Will the manufacturer be obligated to provide softw
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Completely understand the benefits of greater global integration including the reduced likelihood of WWIII breaking out but the USD acting as one reserved currency isn't one of them in a deflationary environment isn't one of them.
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So what? The world is literally starving for high quality assets with yield right now. Ten year bonds in Japan have zero yield and a lot of bonds are trading with negative yield. If China were to convert all those bonds into cash in a f
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Under Trump there is little chance that the US wouldn't enter a trade war with China since Trump has already publically declared that he will leave China as a currency manipulator. China is already struggling with massive over capacity
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Being a global reserve currency is a boon during periods of inflation and a drag during periods of deflation. Given the economic environment since 2008 countries central banks have been fairly aggressively trying to weaken their currencies
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Cash Crunch at LeEco(bloomberg.com)
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It sounds like you're suggesting that a lot of system admin/developer types that were left in a room without adult supervision and, oops, the Internet! The truth was that there was no lack of experienced architect/developer t
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Assume that Qwest invests $1B in copper wire, telephone poles and central offices in 1970. The accountants write that off over the next X years because, for accounting and tax purposes its getting old and will need to be replaced. In the ye
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Most likely the card was compromised from an online store weeks or months before hand. Cards that are stolen at brick and mortar stores have the CVV value from the magnetic strip and are more valuable than those stolen from online databases
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In the US at least regulators actively encouraged banks to consolidate prior to the financial crisis. Regulating a few large banks was thought to be simpler than regulating a larger number of smaller banks. Smaller banks also were typical
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The challenge in 2008 with the Lehman collapse and AIG's later struggles is that there was no method to wind down non-bank financial institutions except through the bankruptcy courts. After the financial crisis regulators were given au
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Confession time... I really want to see fully autonomous vehicles but I don't really believe we'll see them on the road in the next 50 years. I think Google's concerns with being able to reliably pass control between the driv
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This bankruptcy means that companies shipping goods are no longer going to be able to treat shipping as a fungible commodity and instead are going to have to price in a risk component as well. That suggests that the largest and best finance
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Each bacteriophage typically targets just one or at most few types of bacteria. The targeted treatment in many ways is an advantage because a phage treatment to target a pathogen wouldn't also wipe out the symbiotic bacteria that we ar
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I thought that there there was consensus amomg statitians that the death penalty has a deterrent effect and each execution saves between 3 and 18 lives: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/us/18deter.htm
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It has been a couple of years since I last read through the material and confused the Six Day War with the Yom Kippur War. Another correction is that while the Soviet Union was supplying Syrian and Egyptian forces it wasn't a war that
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by slv77 10y ago
Israel has an outsized role in US politics for reasons that have nothing to do with oil. In fact the US ability to maneuver in the Middle East would have been significantly less constrained with oil producing countries if Israel wasn't
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Is their fear of living surrounded by criminals any more valid than the kid who sleeps on the floor at night to avoid a stray bullet? I'm not sure how cash payment to prisoners solves the problems of recidivism. If it did a more cost e
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On the flip side the law abiding citizen working the same job on the outside has little to no opportunity to accumulate $10,000 dollars in savings because they have to put food on the table and a roof over their head. When do they get the c
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When my grandfather was a child (age 11) he took his 10 year old brother to the state fair by train a distance of about 40 miles. They spent their remaining funds on ice cream and then hitchhiked back home. The trains were gone by the time
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Conversely removing the threat to human life may reduce the probability of escalation and make a response more measured. For example two men break through a security fence. A robotic patrol would seem to be much less likely to respond wit
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An investor with low funding costs and stable funding source can always beat the market in theory. Studies suggest that the bulk of BRKs excess returns are due to leverage and deep balance sheets that allows him to buy deep value but more i
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Curious how people who have family members in Venezula are remitting funds to them? Do they have exchange funds at the official rate or is there ways to send Dollars directly. This has to be a pretty common occurance.
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Anybody else get excited when you hear about an obvious opportunity to solve a problem? Like water damage due to fire sprinklers and then get disappointed that there is already a solution? HiFog - Uses water mist to prevent limit damage: h
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Reserves are deposits with the central bank or cash sitting in the vault. Reserves are created when the central bank makes a direct loan which is typically to the central government or through the discount window (where they buy a loan at a
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Nit pick... Banks create the money when they create the loan. Assume the simple case where the buyer of the house has an account at the same bank as the seller. The bank puts an credit on its books for the loan and a debit on its books for

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