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by tfehring 9y ago
>We're living through an unprecedented global experiment, wherein central banks manipulate interest rates in order to encourage investment. The reasoning (as I understand it) is that if companies can borrow money with low interest r
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by tfehring 9y ago
No problem at all - thanks for sharing your perspective. It’s helpful to know that grocery stores themselves are responsible for those markups, not because it affects the value that the service creates for me now, but because it impacts how
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by tfehring 9y ago
No, I wouldn’t perform that calculation exactly and explicitly - but I absolutely think about my purchasing decisions in that way. I can give you ballpark estimates of how valuable my time is, how much time it takes and how much it costs to
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by tfehring 9y ago
Saying “we charge markups, but we won’t tell you what they are” is still not sufficiently transparent, in my opinion. Yes, Amazon and grocery stores do the same thing (at face value, anyway) by not disclosing their COGS. But the key differe
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by tfehring 9y ago
I’m not the previous commenter, but I’ll share my thoughts on this as someone from a lower-middle-class background. Having to support yourself financially while going to college makes it far more difficult to meet the standards that top fir
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by tfehring 9y ago
I agree with many of the tangential points in the article, especially the point regarding monopolies and oligopolies made up of rapidly-expanding companies. But while I appreciate the sentiment of the core argument, the math doesn't tr
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by tfehring 9y ago
Assuming the trader is still holding the position described in the article, they have made significantly less profit to date, and they may have even lost money. That's because for each long 15-strike VIX call they hold, they're sh