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by unknown_apostle 7y ago
Socialism every time the financial system needs to be bailed out with massive liquidity injections. But ultra aggressive capitalism for lower and middle class people.
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Rhodium prices soar on 'demand-driven story'(kitco.com)
1 points by unknown_apostle 7y ago|0 comments
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by unknown_apostle 7y ago
Quite amazing, happy to hear you have found Jesus! Did you read the Bible without any help? It's such a complex set of texts, all from very different ages, from very different people. Couldn't imagine myself getting the most out o
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by unknown_apostle 7y ago
Funny, if it wasn't for my family and my friends, I'd consider moving to the US.
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by unknown_apostle 7y ago
This kind of broad historical article is worth thousands of pages of financial press.
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by unknown_apostle 7y ago
Imagine a doctor stating "a healthy patient's heart rate is 70 bpm" and prescribing ever escalating medication and surgery to try and keep the heart rate at 70 bpm, regardless of age or whether the patient is sleeping or spri
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
Yep but they've toughened it up a bit in recent years (good for NZ to do so, in my humble opinion -- without wanting go into politics, I wish my own native country would do something similar). A few years ago I would have gotten perman
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
Even if they're paying you half your current salary? :-)
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
Thx for your reply! Housing is problematic in Auckland... half of the offered income would go to rent. About family & excitement: we have little kids, so cooking at home and not going out much will be normal for us, regardless of wher
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
My main worry is that I'll effectively be a guest labourer. If I loose my job in Auckland, I have a grace period and if I fail to find another job within this period (e.g. because we're in the middle of a global recession cleaning
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
But also 30% tax rate, totally open for business, common law, beautiful nature, forced by their difficult geographic location "to try harder" and be more open. I would also say that being a small country puts a limit to having big
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
Thx best of luck to you :-)
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
Yeah it's a job in IT but what if demand drops? My feeling is that people in IT have gotten a bit arrogant about their employability (not just in NZ) I remember the 2001 recession :-) But I don't mind loosing my job for a while. W
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
So same question: why did you go away, or how did you loose your work visa? For me it's a cool job in Auckland. What worries us is the distance and the logistics of bringing over our entire family... I can see myself working there, bri
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
So why did you leave? (Asking because I have an opportunity to move there.)
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
Forced prostitution and trafficking aside, I think quite literally because some people want to.
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
Actually only 4-8% claim "could not find other employment". Source: see other commenter's reply, he looked it up.
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
I know it pays little and is repetitive. But my question with this kind of analysis is always: why do they keep finding people to do it? There is another problem which I find more worrisome: we are expecting gig workers (and most other work
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
What's also interesting this time is the relationship between bond markets and modern ETFs. Especially in Europe, ETFs can be synthetic. In some cases this means they're made up of generic filler material (e.g. German bunds), with
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
Yep inflationism :-) Though I prefer Soviet Monetarism. It's an accurate description of the mindset, up to and including the existence of a whole army of Kremlinologists who specialise in interpreting the tones, nuances and choice of w
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
What's wrong with having a nice pile of cash at this point in time?
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
GSEs may be bigger but also healthier than before. Though still a huge market, I also think the global OTC derivatives market has become smaller since 2014 (you can check some estimates at the BIS). That being said, it's 10 years after
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
As an amateur, you have a lot of advantages over the "professionals". You correctly mentioned being able to turn to smaller companies and low liquidity situations. Some professional players also self sabotage due to a particular m
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
Even with the fix, I'm afraid you're still shilling out a lot of money for top hardware that can't be used to its maximum extent. Because of the thin form factor limitations, insufficient thermal design and possibly even some
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
Not sure if he just got fired for a relationship or if there's something more. But your remark about the "moralising" of US companies has also been my experience. I worked in a Europe-based office for a US-owned multinational
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
True, but I was taking a short cut :-) With the old "thick" MBP chassis (which was plenty thin for me), they could put in DDR4 and still have enough battery life. Btw never managed to get 24 hours out of any MacBookPro?
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
Yep. And no 32GB because they just had to make it 1mm thinner.
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
What can't they just take the old non-touch bar 15 inch MBP chassis, put a decent CPU in that and go to 32 GB using regular DDR4? We'd still have decent enough battery life.
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
When a company has nominally good news for the world but the share price tanks after its release, this is usually a bad omen going forward.
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by unknown_apostle 8y ago
Maybe if they release all job application files, we can search for science beyond the Standard Model to explain this asymmetry.

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