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Comment Survivor Bias in survey (Score 1) 99

The last 10 years have been a bonanza for mergers and acquisitions. Firm A buys firm B. A moves all the code to its IT shop. Firm B's IT shop is gone. How many firms has Facebook acquired in the last 10 years. FB code base grew enormously. How about the firms they acquired? The are not in this survey, they do not exist any more.

Comment Re:US freedom (Score 3, Informative) 206

Reagan's tax cut for the wealthy exploded (tripled in 12 years) the debt. Clinton reduced the deficit his first 4 years each year and increased the surplus each of his last four years. Bush, handed a surplus, cut taxes for the wealthy and had deficits every year but the first, leaving with a Trillion dollar deficit. Obama reduced the deficit every year but the first and last. Trump, after his tax cut for the wealthy, increase the deficit (and there for the debt) each of his first 3 years and his 2020 budget called for over a 1.2 Trillion dollars of debt. Data from St. Louis Federal Reserve

Comment Finlandia (Score 1) 30

Finlandia is a brand of vodka produced in Finland from Finnish-grown six-row barley and glacial spring water. The barley is distilled into a neutral spirit using a continuous multi-pressure distillation system at a distillery in the village of Koskenkorva in Ilmajoki, operated by Finland's Altia Corporation and Imported by Brown-Forman

Comment US Government buy stock (Score 1) 402

After the massive tax cut for corporation much of the money was not invested or used to raise workers wages, instead it was used to buy back corporate stock. The stock was bought at very high prices at the end of a long bull market. Now the CEOs, CFOs and directors have seen the value of the stock reduced by half. Time to do two things: 1 Fire the CEOs and CFOs for their stupid strategy and shake up the board of directors. 2 Buy the stock at the reduced prices and sell later when the US can make a profit - there is no need to give the corporations money - let them sell stock to the taxpayers and when this is over the taxpayers can make a profit.

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