$78.5 million of the $92 million of net assets are cash and short-term financial investments.

2016 Donations & Revenue (gross inflows)
$ 82 million

2016 Expenses (selected):

$ 32 million - Salaries
$ 11 million - Awards & Grants
$ 6 million - Professional Services
$ 4.8 million - Other Operating Expenses
$ 3.6 million - Donation Processing Expenses
$ 2.6 million - Travel, Conferences & Special Events
$ 2.0 million - Internet Hosting

2016 "Net Income" (increase in unrestricted net assets)
$ 15 million

See for yourself: https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

Two comments:

1. ShadowStats has its alternative M3 money supply growth running at about 3-4% right now. That's not "way higher" that BLS's measurement of CPI-based inflation. Source: http://www.shadowstats.com/alt...

2. Sounds like you're from the Austrian school. Question: If the "way higher" increased money supply doesn't seem to have an impact on the prices of goods and services, then what is your concern? That inflation has unnaturally been bottled up by the Fed and is predicted, for the nth year in a row, to come roaring back resulting in massive price-level inflation? That prices of financial assets are too high? That the Fed won't be able to properly manage its balance sheet over the next decade resulting in spiking yields? If "inflation is growth of the money supply and not about price levels" is more than mere semantics, what does it actually mean?

Ah, yes, ShadowStats, which mixes reasonable criticisms of BLS methodology with massaged conclusions that are widely improbable and don't comport with reality in front of you. It asserts that U.S. GDP has been declining 2-4% every year since 2000 regardless of increasing industrial production and rail transport and electrical production, it asserts that you are actually paying 3x more for groceries than what your receipts shows, and that actual consumer goods inflation is 10% or more every year (doubling the price every 7-8 years), regardless of what your receipts and the Billion Prices Project confirm to be true.

Source: http://www.economonitor.com/do...

As for ShadowStats' unemployment figures, I'll just paste this: "The bottom line here is that the ShadowStats alternate unemployment rate of 23 percent for May 2015, and similar rates for other recent months, are completely implausible. To get an unemployment rate that high, we have to include millions of people who do not even claim to want a job, let alone make any effort to look for one."

Source: http://www.economonitor.com/do...

A good article in The Economist magazine about how the porn business model has evolved on the internet, particularly focused on the recent rise of the porn tube industry:

http://www.economist.com/news/...

From the article, perhaps this is the anecdote you where thinking of:

"IT WAS 2012, and Fabian Thylmann's goal was world domination. The man who had put together Manwin, an emerging online-pornography giant, now controlled most of the top ten porn "tubes" - aggregators that, like YouTube, contain thousands of videos and are wildly popular, because much of their content is free. If he could get hold of the two biggest, XVideos and XHamster, he could put it all behind a pay barrier and build an online porn empire. If competitors emerged, he would buy them, too. What antitrust authority would rein in a monopolist in a business that upstanding people pretend does not exist?"

"But neither of his targets would sell. The French owner of XVideos is said to have turned down an offer of more than $120m with a scornful "Sorry, I have to go and play Diablo II." Mr Thylmann later sold out of Manwin (since renamed Mindgeek), after coming under investigation by tax authorities in Germany, his home country."

While your point about Carly is taken, I think the parent poster is referring to the fact that Meg Whitman became CEO of Hewlett-Packard in 2011, and caused that entity to split up into HPE and HPI in 2015.

"Go read the definition of what a Ponzi Scheme is again."

Ponzi scheme: new money coming in (in increasingly larger amounts) is necessary to make payments to prior participants, and any interruption in the new money coming in results in no payments to prior participants and the whole thing collapses.

Insurance: new money coming in is mostly saved so that future payments can be made from this saved amount. Once a large enough risk pool is achieved, no new money coming in is necessary to provide for payment to prior participants.

Unlike Ponzi schemes, insurance companies are at all times required to have adequate funds to pay expected claim payments, and insurance companies are regularly shut down (no new money) and wound down (payments made to prior and current participants) without significant problems. Completely contrary to Ponzi schemes.

N.B. I don't consider U.S. Social Security a fully-funded insurance program because it is not, it is more akin to a Ponzi scheme where funds from new participants allows for payments to prior participants, but it isn't a Ponzi scheme because that term loses meaning when applied to a multi-generational societal structure, with an indefinite time period and probable increasing population or new participants (and/or temporary in/out disconnects are manageable assuming multi-generational reversion to the mean).

"mozilla...is a tiny non-profit charity"

Mozilla is not tiny AT ALL, and it is an absolute wonder how development of a web browser and a maintenance-mode email client cost $317 million per year, or require a $261 million (and growing) endowment. From the Mozilla Foundation's 2014 Annual Report:

$261 million - Net Unrestricted Assets at the end of year

$329 million - Net Unrestricted Revenue over the year
$317 million - Total Expenses over the year

Expense include:
$212 million - Software Development
$ 40 million - Branding & Marketing
$ 38 million - General & Administrative
$ 13 million - Program Services

"The poor benefit handsomely..."

Oh yes, the sweet, sweet luxuries of being poor! I never realized how nice it must be to need SNAP to feed your hungry child and file EITC so you can barely afford both a shitty apartment AND clothes. They just don't realize how good they have it, those ungrateful poor bastards, that they aren't starving and homeless. The nerve...

"The poor get outright handouts at tax time and mostly end up paying no federal taxes at all."

BECAUSE THEY'RE POOR. What would you have them do, pay 15% of their not-enough-to-eat wages so they can "feel the burden" even more than they already do? Would you kick a man who's down because he didn't have the foresight to not be on the floor, or would you offer him a hand? Ah, the very best of "I got mine, Jack!".

"I think someone should read up on the "Earned Income Tax Credit"."

And I think someone should read up on ALL of the tax expenditures, including those that accrue to the middle-class and wealthy, before claiming that assistance to the poor is too much. The largest tax expenditures clearly benefit the middle-class and wealthy, not the poor. Tax preferences for employer-provided health care, lowered capital gains rates, retirement savings deductions, and mortgage interest deduction, all cost MUCH more than SNAP, TANF, and the EITC.

Source Material to Start Reading:

http://bipartisanpolicy.org/bl...

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org...

https://www.jct.gov/publicatio... , starting at page 47

"this doesn't appear to be about predictions, as much as stolen copies of scripts or something."

But TSDF isn't implying that they are going to release a copy of the full script, which would be a copyright violation, but rather the simple name of a character. If, per Twin Peaks, they don't accompany that with substantial verbatim excepts from the script, then it is quite likely that the release of a name would be be fair use (if the publication of a characters name would even violate copyright at all, which if it didn't wouldn't even need a a fair use exception)

"he would probably get sued for taking an action that traded a billion or two dollars of pure profit for "good will." From a fiduciary responsibility perspective, it would be just cut and dry."

Cut and dry, but not in your direction at all. Nadella might be sued, but he would definitely win.

Corporate fiduciary responsibility does in no way mean that a business decision must maximize short term profits.

The Business Judgment Rule means that unless Nadella had self-interest, self-dealing or operated in bad faith, he is presumed to have not violated his corporate duties. "The business judgment rule is very difficult to overcome and courts will not interfere with directors unless it is clear that they are guilty of fraud or misappropriation of the corporate funds, etc."

Further, some background about why this case is in the 3rd Circuit (which covers NJ) and not the 2nd (which covers NY): "the Associated Press reported that the New York Police Department sent plainclothes officers to Newark (NJ) businesses owned or frequented by Muslim people, took photographs of 16 mosques and mapped them."

The lawsuit, by New Jersey citizens over actions conducted in NJ by the NYPD, was filed in the 3rd Circuit District Court, and then appealed to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.

Some further background on the NYPD Intelligence Bureau and its extra-jurisdictional activities:

- http://www.ap.org/media-center...
- http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/...

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"The only reason people don't invest in US currency"

WTF?!?! USD$ paper money and all U.S. Treasuries (bills, note and bonds) are the same thing - obligations of the U.S. government that are freely tradeable in economic markets. There is $13 trillion in US federal debt held by the public, which is another way of saying that people invested $13 Trillion in paper obligations denominated in US Dollars, issued and backed by the U.S. federal government - i.e. US currency. An additional $1.4 trillion exists in paper money and coins, which people willingly receive in exchange for value delivered - i.e. wealth invested in US Dollars

In addition, there is $4 trillion notional traded daily in foreign currency exchange markets, a good chunk of which has US Dollars involved as the underlying reference asset in one form or another.

And finally, virtually all of the $18 trillion annual US Gross Domestic Product (2015) are financial exchanges that are denominated in US dollars. Every time I receive my wages paid in USD instead of goods, services, Euros or gold, I am investing my labor in US Dollars.

tl;dr: you're incorrect - lots of people invest lots of money/wealth in US Dollars every single day.