"It's no small feat to issue checks, even electronically, to households every month." Distributing funds to individuals is straight-forward. EBT/SNAP also loads cash to some recipients which can be withdrawn at ATMs and many payment processors (grocery store customer service often has this). Looks like ~40 million people were getting this in 2018. www.fns.usda.gov/yearly-trends

Insurance companies are going to be the death of the EV unless something doesn't change.

If an EV has its battery even slightly compromised, it must be replaced or the EV scrapped - no one has figured out how to repair/certify a repaired battery pack/EV.

GM reported the average sale price of new cars is $50K, that means half of buyers are spending EV money on cars, and half are not - I don't think cost alone is a major factor in EV sales - it's a factor, but not as much as many seem to claim.

My loud clicky keyboard typings drove my co(lleague/worker)s nuts at my previous employer. :(

So isn't not true that a better net return is good for the investor. I guess I don't run into people that think that very often either.

You know, as long as we're talking about "my" government, my point is all the stronger for foreign investors, who generally pay no U.S. taxes on capital gains at all, but do pay 30% on dividends.

Same with DOS. That spreaded during my college days and had to be cleaned with McAfee VirusScan (before it turned into crappy).

That's a 100-250% on every vehicle manufactured and sold. Their cost per unit approaches $200K/unit, their EVs sell at a fraction of their cost to manufacture.

They won't make it up on volume.

How long before the Biden Admin decides to start throwing billions of dollars at Ford to subsidize EV production? was not found on this server.

or an ant...

This link for GDP per hour worked (https://data.oecd.org/lprdty/gdp-per-hour-worked.htm) has Norway at 103.38 and the US at 107.03 for 2022. Still not at the top, but not nearly as low as 73. I've seen some discussions that Ireland's economy looks way healthier on paper than it is in reality, but I'm not an economist.

It's mostly caused by demographic differences. Americans are much more likely to be ethnicities that have a genetic predisposition toward shorter lifetimes.

Apple is the undisputed leader in tablets. Their phones are on par with the best of their competitors...and it's a very active sector. IMO, their laptops are far better than their competitors. So while there are no earth-shattering innovations in tablets or laptops in the last 3 years, there are subtle refinements and as a leader, they have different pressures. Stuff has to work...it has to work for a broad base of people. If Samsung screws up a folding phone...no one cares. Only early adopters bought it. If Apple screws up the iPhone 16, they will get sued. There will be a massive cost. I've worked for a tiny startup and now I work for a massive software company...the dynamics are much different...a small mistake is no big deal when you have no paying customers. When you have billions on the line, your innovation will be measured, but I view it as equally innovative. Also, I view innovation as relative. I will complain about my iPad when the competitors release a noticeably better version. Same with the laptop or phone. So subtle things like wireless charging adapters that actually work for laptops, like magsafe, are both innovative and HUGE...I wish I could get one on a lenovo...the only remotely close laptop I've seen in the last 10 years are the Surface tablet/laptop hybrids....from Microsoft.

You're welcome to hipster this and claim Apple & MS aren't "innovative"...but MS is holding up well against the competition and they have some really fierce competitors. Apple is way ahead of the market in most categories. Very few companies of their size innovate better. I will still grade Apple as quite good in the innovation category...mostly because I've recently used products from their competitors: laptops, tablets, and phones. You're welcome to complain, but until theri competition clearly beats them, I'm going to have to push back on that one.