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&gt; The ACA was objectively bad for healthcare/insurance companies.   Citation needed.    [In Rare Unity, Hospitals, Doctors and Insurers Criticize Health Bill](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/health/health-care-bill-criticisms.html?mcubz=0)   Healthcare stocks have been performing just fine for the last 10 years.  In Medicaid Expansion states, the healthcare exchanges have generally stabilized and are serving the public just fine.  Health insurance prices have risen, but they were rising before the ACA as well.  Obamacare wasn't designed to fail.  It was designed to be a first attempt at delivering health insurance to all Americans.  However, like every piece of sweeping legislation, it was probably going to need some legislative tweaks after a few years to address unforseen problems.  They clearly didn't anticipate losing the Medicaid expansion in 25% of states, including many of the poorest, sickest, and most expensive to cover states.  I am still baffled to this day how my own state legislature sleeps at night knowing that they're denying healthcare to our poorest and most vulnerable people because they would rather have some sort of political advantage.
"This is great. The ACA was objectively bad for healthcare/insurance companies. Now that it's a huge mess, people are looking to blame the GOP. ""It's republicans' fault Obamacare failed"" is ludicrous. It's more likely that the ACA was designed to fail.  But why would our lord and savior Barack Obama do something like that? No way would the Democrats ever do something malicious. They're the party of the People! The downtrodden! The little guy!  I'm willing to rail against the GOP just as much as the next guy, but this is next level mental gymnastics. Obamacare failed; it's the Dems fault. Own it."
This is the second article I read this week where these casual chains blame Millennials. Neither mention that, perhaps, people just don't really value going to a restaurant and being served microwaved and fried pre-cooked junk. Glamorized TV dinners. The vast majority of the time when a restaurant fails, it's because the food isn't good. It's not demographics or whatever else they want to blame it on. The. Food. Sucks.
Proportional is good, but we don't need redistribution. The market mechanism does that on its own when it's free. The bailouts of the banks and auto industry should have shown that the only thing stopping a major, but poorly run business from bankruptcy (and having its assets redistributed) is government intervention.  Maybe the change will light a fire under complacent companies and they'll start earning their profits again, or maybe they'll fail. There's no way to know ahead of time, but with no legal barriers to entry, the playing field will be fair again.
Don't forget that they also decided, rather than building new stores that fit their existing successful layout schemes they bought out a dying department store chain that was failing, in part, due to it's stores being in shitty locations.   It was like opening a store in the middle of a dead, empty mall and wondering why people weren't showing up.
The reason a company creates more stock is to generate more capital so that this can be utilized and more returns can be generated. It is commonly done as a follow on public offer. Typically the funds are used to retire high cost debts and fund future expansion. What stops the company from doing it?   Are Small investors cheated?   It's like you have joined a car pool with 4 people and you are beliving that you own 1/4th of the total seats ... so when most of them decide that we would be better of using Minivan with 4 more persons, you cannot complain that you now only own 1/8 of the total seats. Even before you were having just one seat, and even after you just have one seat ... overall it maybe better as the ride would be good ... :)
Either it's because he's a bad leader or because the guy was corrupt. Hoping for the latter   Edit: it's hilarious how the people who down voted me clearly just wish our president to fail. Y'all must be braindead hoping for our president to bring down the US
If you fail, what's going to happen? Corporate jobs are going to think you lack ambition and the ability to work?   Tbf, it is what it is. There are plenty of high skilled jobs you just need to acquire the skills and experience these jobs are looking for. Hit the ground running and get internships asap, have a curiosity that can't be quenched. Go to career counselor, go to office hours etc.   Plan it out and go full steam, don't slack.
I get the point you are trying to make, but Walmart is a multi billion dollar company, this would never happen, even if Amazon tried, Walmart could outbid them.  Net neutrality protects the small companies that can't throw around millions of dollars. If you were to create a startup to compete with Amazon or Walmart, without net neutrality they could pay to throttle your website and effectively kill your business.
Note that this is just looking at public firms, whose numbers have declined while the overall number of firms has increased. It would be interesting to compare their profits to GDP, that might be a better measure to find out whether profits are more concentrated than they used to be.  Also note:  &gt; However, what could indeed be a deterrent—especially for smaller companies—is that the US Congress wields far more regulatory power over public companies than private ones, note the authors.
We went over this literally at the start of our conversation. Our government supports market inefficiency with anti-competitive practices such as subsidies that arbitrarily pick winners and losers, onerous regulations that are too costly for small businesses to comply with, and giving audience to frivolous lawsuits that squash American garage innovation.  The solution to every single one of these problems you've brought up is not to give government more power to do evil, its to give people more power over the government.  &gt; I turned on Wall Street for the same reason everybody else did: The American taxpayer was forced to cut mook deals to bail out guys who didn't deserve it.  &gt; Stephen Bannon  --  &gt; The permanent political class, as represented by both parties … you’re not going to drain that in eight months. You’re not going to drain it in two terms. This is going to take ten, 15, 20 years of relentlessly going after it.  &gt; Stephen Bannon
In 2 days I am at 40 votes. I just have 210 more to go. The biggest reason people do not vote is because they loath sharing their contact information with the Mission: Small Business application. This privacy issue is considerable and understandable. The good news is you can disable the app after voting however LivingSocial and Chase bank are still going to have captured legally your email.  Facebook, promises not to share your password. One can only hope that is the case.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service  &gt; [The Postal Service] has continuously failed to manage its budget properly, to the tune of $5 to $10 billion dollar deficiets every year with a total mail volume that has declined 29% between 1998 and 2008.  Problem -- the government is offering a service at great expense that people do not want and other private entities can do much faster and more efficiently at orders of magnitude less cost to their customers.  The obvious solution -- privatize  The governments solution -- placate the gov employees union and continue to fund the postal service as it repells customers and posts 5 to 10 billion dollar deficiets.  For me, this is not a question of what solutions can be found within the government. Government itself is the problem, this is merely a case study as to why I do not feel it can be trusted with greater authority over the production and distribution of goods and services in the economy.
"I'm in agreement with what you write. I think these are good questions.  From my perspective I think the staggering growth of technology is both the cause and the answer to stagnating wage/productivity increase conundrum. Today a small business will hire a secretary to use email and Excel while in 1980 they would have hired a team of accountants with piles of ledger books. We are paying less employees while accomplishing more.   At the same time technology gives us all in the general public a higher standard of living through better phones, more access to cheap/free education, better health care, better infrastructure more cheaply than anyone in 1980 would have imagined.  What happens when we get to the point that any person that is halfway capable and not on drugs can survive just fine in a 40 hour workweek? If we got to that point, the normal barometers of rate of growth and wage stagnation and economic mobility would flatline. There would be people happy to live a stress-free life at that baseline ""survive just fine,"" and there would be people working their butts off to acquire more than anyone might need.   I think it all comes down to people wanting what someone else has and calling it unfair because they don't seem to deserve it more than anyone else. I think the real goal we should strive for is liberty and opportunity for anyone to pursue their form of improving their quality of life. Government intervention and distorted views of ""fairness"" tend to hinder that."
I agree.  This is far worse than Wells Fargo and Tylenol.        Their core business is data.  That is all they offer.  Data must be secure and accurate.   They failed on the secure part.  The hackers may as well start offering credit scores to vendors for free, they have the data.       Why would any customer (we aren't customers, credit providers are), use Equifax moving forwards?  There are 2 perfectly acceptable replacements.       Only way Equifax survives is rebranding.   Senior management at banks across the country are having meetings with their legal departments to discuss liability concerns of continuing to use Equifax.  What if there is another breach, could the bank be sued for leaking consumer data, after they knew Equifax hires Musicians to manage data security?
Gotta love advice from a guy that bankrupted himself by spending like a moron. Also like how he didn't specify what taxes would be so crippling that he'd have to shut down the business other than the marginal tax rate which really has no impact on the business itself.  I also liked how he asked his employees if they would continue to work for 50% pay, which is a failure at multiple levels. First, it fails to point out at a 50% rate isn't currently on the table. Second, if it was it would mean that worker was making a crap ton of money. Third, most of his employees probably can't stop working because they don't have a crap ton of money like he does.
"The way forward in business is dumb piping.....being the biggest dumbest pipe you possibly can be, this will give your consumer the ability to use your pipe any way it sees fit. E.G. Lego focuses on making a great product, it does not ""add value"" by trying to anticipate or guide consumers in it's product usage. It also does not go after resellers who find ways to meet market demand that results in the selling of more lego product.  FYI this is the exact opposite of the media industries."
I disagree that it is a silly way to do business. I think many industries are actually moving in the direction of MLM. The whole idea with a successful MLM like amway is that they spend no money on advertising. Did you know most companies spend about a third of their revenue back into advertising? Amway instead pays back that money as a bonus to their distributors. I can't remember which year off the top of my head but a couple years ago amway paid back over 4 billion dollars in bonus to their people. Now look at Uber, they are kind of cutting out the middle man also. Interesting right?
"Internet is a confusing place. With so many websites that exist, how can you make your place in cyberspace stand out from all the rest? A good ranking in Google is essential to make your site a success. I can help you adapt your Website Development Services so that it is one of the first to appear in search engines and get those important clicks. We know that people spend more hours every day on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google and other social networks, but getting millions of ""friends"" and ""followers"" is no easy task. It is essential that your business or company connects and participates in these spaces, but eye, you have to do well, as something more than a mere presence of brand."
Weather or not people believe in global warning or not, these moves are a step in the right direction because they raise efficiency and cut down on waste which is something companies should be doing no matter what to survive.  I guess we don't need Trump to keep us in the Paris accord because the business community will do what's best anyway.
"I was there for unrelated-to-Walmart work this time last year. The entire region's commerce seems *very* predicated upon Walmart's success. Imagine if Walmart fell how much of that local economy would vanish.    Tyson and JB Hunt can only do so much without the retail giant throwing reams of money their way. The University can only support so much. I hate to imagine what they region looks like in 40-50 years if Walmart's well dries up.    ---  ""Oh, you're moving to NW Arkansas? Big business there. Beautiful drive up from Fort Smith too. What takes you there?""   *""Walmart!""*    ...why else move there? It's all hinging on Walmart's continued success. I can't imagine the land value holding if Walmart contracts. *Maybe* you could sell some football-weekend houses to well-off Razorback fans if you're in Rogers or south, but there's been a lot of growth there without many more independent industries in case of collapse."
&gt; Bullshit. Entrepreneurs start businesses where it's easiest for start businesses, and if all of their networking contacts are here, the infrastructure they need to start their company is here, and the target market is here, they aren't going anywhere.  Part of being an easier place to start a business includes low tax rates, minimal (smart) regulations, state of the art infrastructure, and a highly educated and healthy work force. Notice how Republicans champion the first 2 and ignore the second 2 while the Democrats are vice versa.   I don't know why everyone focuses so much on the marginal rate of the rich, you can tax the rich 99% and you still won't have enough revenues to cover our budget deficit let alone make the investment we need in infrastructure, health, and education. Why don't we talk about how America can be competitive in a globalized market and what will have the highest return on investment. If we are raising taxes on the top 1% just to fund wars in iraq, then fuck that. If we are doing it to help fund our education system, then it only benefits them and everyone else even more because it will grow our economy. It's an investment, not a tax.
You guys have real potential to market yourself very well.  First off, your truck is a giant moving billboard so vinyl wrap your truck with the company name, phone number, and other factoids about the business.  Every time you drive, you advertise.  This might be out of your league, but viral videos always help.  I don't know how good you are at video work, but if you can make something short/simple/stupid/weird enough to gain traction on youtube, you can get your name out there even more.  However, I'd put my current focus in vinyl.
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My guess is they’re hoping to sell that data to multiple sources, to make up for the losses on ticket sales. Obviously no business is a guaranteed success but I’m sure they researched their options and made a decision they think will lead to profitability at some point.
It would be tough to make that move.  The traders at my work look down on the settlements desk, which is wrong because they do great work and without them we wouldn't be able to have a viable business. so thank you for your work! but to answer your question I would suggest making friends with the traders, joke around, find out where they go for drinks and just show up! be outgoing. make friends with them and mention you'd like a shot at it at some point.
I would prefer to see you register in your home state, and then focus on making money, rather than spending time looking to game the system to save a few bucks.  People worry way too much about these trivial fees when they should be focused on making their business successful.  Get registered, get insurance, and then pour it on and start making money. Make $650 your target for a week's income - you can do it!  Next year's goal should be spending $50 a month on a payroll service because you're SO BUSY you can't take the extra time to pay your own social security taxes.
The real reason for America's success is mainly that the King of England actually gave people property rights in N. America to encourage people to settle here, which shockingly enough actually worked and encouraged people to move over here and invest in building a new life. It's not a coincidence that the people moving were religious minorities who had been persecuted. When we rebelled, preserving those property rights (along with establishing liberty/freedom) was of very high importance when the Constitution/Declaration of Independence was written. When people have legal recourse to protect their property they unsurprisingly try and produce more and better property.
"&gt;Ah, but with all the business you'd do in gold, you'd constantly be increasing the value of gold. Think of it!  How does ""doing business in"" something increase its value?  By this logic, all businesses should be successful.  I feel like you're just grasping at straws at this point.  &gt;I'm pretty sure that most people want to be paid in dollars not simply because of the fact that their taxes have to be paid in it, but because of it's universality.  You have no way of proving this, though.  It's like saying ""I love paying my taxes!""  It may really be the case, but there's no way to know for sure, because you might just be afraid of jail.  &gt;Not everyone has a use for a sack of barley, or a fish, or some gold dust. But you can buy whatever you want with an amount of dollars.   Sure, in the current system.  But that's not really saying anything, because you're basically saying ""Things are currently like X, therefore things should (and would) be like X under a different legal structure.""  &gt;It's only taxed at a 15.5% rate, IIRC. You'd probably come out ahead.   I can't take this line of argument seriously, I'm sorry.  You're emotionally invested in a fiat paper standard."
&gt;I disagree and see it all the time.  Here's one example: people who grow up in towns where business has died off and don't move because it's all they have ever known.   I'm talking about the economy as a whole. There are more towns where business has died off/is dying off than there are towns with business booning/on the rise. You are highlighting the extent of the problem, not a potential solution to it.  &gt;Sure there are legit reasons to hang around (family obligations, etc..) and not leave, but many just don't take the initiative to go where they can earn.   If the stability of your economy depends on people *having* to leave the majority of towns in order to go to cities where they can make money, your infrastructure will crumble and the society will fall apart.   &gt;People did it all the time before the New Deal but afterwards are more content to draw off the government and stay poor.  [It's time to stop blaming Bob] (https://i.redd.it/4vxalvvyl0dz.jpg).
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Look, if you think you're differentiating yourself by filling out an application online... like every other person out there, you're kidding yourself.  I have some sympathy for your position, but you need to show some initiative.  Pick up the phone and call these people.  Go meet with anyone that will let you come see them and ask for a mock interview.  Or, ask them if there's anyone in their organization that you can talk to that needs help at the entry-level level.  It's time to get creative.  It's not time to cross your fingers and hope something happens, you have to make your own luck.  Finally, you're going to need to broaden your search.  I got it - you want defense finance... welp... try something else.  There are TONS of entry level finance jobs all over the country.  Go work for a restaurant, a clothing store, a grocery store, a bank... ANYTHING to get 1-2 years of experience... and keep cold calling.  Talk to people - build a network.  Get good at your job and then move - ask for more money somewhere once you qualify.  If you want someone to review your resume, PM me, I'm glad to look it over.  Oh, and you should be sending a custom cover letter for every position.  Hope this helps... be creative.  Successful people are successful because they are willing to do the things unsuccessful people aren't!
"You're right to question that. I would not respect him as much if he didn't have all that money. Business is a game and money is how we keep score. Without the money, he wouldn't be famous enough for me to hear his words. While success can come from an inherited name, luck, or dishonesty, his came from plans and execution.   I disagree with you that Thiel is not an intellectual. He may be wrong, but his thoughts on matters are complex and thoughtful. This is evident to me in interviews of him that I have seen and especially in the book that everyone knows him by ""Zero to One"". I think its a great book (obviously). It reminds me of ""The Innovator's Dilemma"" in that it seems to address a higher level of business competition dynamics. Whether you find its points valid or not, a large number of people find it uniquely insightful.  I also disagree with you that he is not a tactical heavy hitter. His last minute double-down donation to Trump was more tactical than strategic. He was supporting Trump for strategic reasons. The form, timing, and degree of his support depended largely on tactical considerations. I, and most of his peers, thought he was throwing away money. He wasn't. His feud with Gawker was for strategic reasons. His funding Hogan against them was a tactic and depended on his estimation that it was likely to succeed.   &gt;He has shown some very good strategies but they more often than not require a lot of upfront money to be able to weather any temporal bad results. Is rather vague. I would guess you are confusing strategies with tactics."
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&gt;Our first move wasn’t to think. Most entrepreneurs get caught in this what-if loophole. You ask yourself all these questions and by the end of your analysis, you’ve gotten too scared to take action.  My instincts tell me that this is terrible advice, and that these guys just got lucky. But I'll defer to anyone more familiar with the world of quick-to-market manufacturing. Maybe this is the only viable way to run that kind of business.