No business can toss aside a more qualified applicant. Have you hired any young people lately? American twenty-somethings as a general rule...
What's wrong with that? Countries that require their citizens to be hired first have much higher long term unemployment rates and a lower general...
Most people think the cap protects American Jobs. It doesn't. If Americans are not qualified or too expensive for the job, it either moves...
I thought all that belonged to Obama. Or Kanye.
Wars are a different type of "time of stress" than the one we have now. Rising tax rates in the depression prevented economic growth and a...
Misthos, the posted tax rates were very high for a tiny percentage of the population. However, nobody in the highest tax brackets paid those...
Nice charts. Notice how all was pretty stable until we decided to have a Federal Reserve in 1913? The dollar has lost 95% of its purchasing...
Dammit. I don't know how the hell my post got so garbled. "getting buy"? I'm just tired and I was concentrating on getting the calculations...
Sorry. I meant to say there's no way in hell taxes were HIGHER in 1953.
Using of inflation rate of 4% (which is the long term average over the period). $49K in 1953 = $441,000 in 2009. Taxes of $21K...
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Awe....don't be too upset. You and I will be in the ghetto. But, don't worry. The political elite will still live in grand style and we will...
Two things. They were doing fine but they all had a lot less stuff. The average house today is 2500 square feet compared to just over 900 square...
Beat me to it!
Really? There is. It's called an income tax. The politicians like to use said tax collected from the population as their own personal slush...
idiotic. Defense of the realm - including war - is the responsibility of the government, as outlined in the constitution. Defense spending is...
You're right.
I'm only saying a version of what the other two responders have said but... Moral hazard is preventing people from selling some assets and 100x...
I don't know anyone who blew up this year, but I do know a lot of market makers who are either down slightly, returning less than they do in an...
Get a job, live well below your means and save some money. Nobody but your mother will back you with two years of losses.
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