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Frayed Ends: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 3.0

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5mn_Major said:
Pricing on antennas, ect. is based on the fact that its an accessory. Merchandising strategy for the category says that these are not traffic drivers nor are they price sensitive in the same way as the TV itself. And as such, the objective of accessory categories is strictly profit. Price it up until you stop making money.
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See also: Apple
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
Your pizza now costs $30! But don't worry, the people working there are getting $15/hour. http://dailyheadlines.net/2015/08/n...-how-much-californians-are-paying-for-pizza/#
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Soon they're going to come up with the automated pizza maker that will remove the worker from the equation. You'll order your pie(s) from a touch screen, swipe your debit card, and get your pizza when ready. VOILA!! No workers except the person making sure the materials bins are full.

If you want delivery - the drone will be there in 30 minutes or less.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
Can't read the article through all the pop ups and ads.
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Googling "$30 pizza California", there's apparently a place in the Bay Area where pizzas cost $30 a piece, partially because the restaurant follows the no tipping model. Of course, no where in any of the articles I've seen on legitimate sites (ie, not Breitbart, Freerepublic, or any of the right wing derposphere) does it say what they cost before the minimum wage hike. Likely it was already well over $20.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-me-emeryville-minimum-wage-20150817-story.html
 
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St. Clown said:
I closed in two weeks in 2005.
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That was before the boom! My inlaws closed on a house in a similar time frame. Got $400K for a $200K house. My father-in-law was in the loan business and took one look at the finances of the buyers and wondered how they qualified for a loan.

What I think happened as the loan officer and the agent were in cahoots. They did the sale, pocketed their commissions, and sold the loan to a third party who got stuck with the bad paper. The house went into receivership and the next door neighbor's son got it for $167 18 months later.

If Dodd Frank could stop this sort of poop, then great! But fraud and greed are awfully tough stop.
 
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Very brief discussion of Bernie's plan to encourage worker ownership of businesses.

This has the potential to bring a lot of people together: people who are worried about growing inequality, owners and supporters of small businesses that still drive most employment, generally pro-business interests who also recognize that Wall Street's manipulation of the economy through financial instruments has seriously hurt Main Street (witness the recent stock market boom with no concomitant increase in overall economic health).

It could also counter both the overhyped perception and also the occasional truth of liberalism's self-defeating anti-business bias. The problem isn't business per se, which is simply how goods are priced and distributed in a free market system, but the domination of business by huge corporate entities which then distort the market for their own gain and most people's loss. Paleo-liberals (or whatever you call the Cold War liberals who were before the McGovern liberals who were before the DLC "third way" anti-liberals who now control the Democratic mainstream) always understood this: JFK would have approved of Bernie's ideas.
 
Kepler said:
Very brief discussion of Bernie's plan to encourage worker ownership of businesses.

This has the potential to bring a lot of people together: people who are worried about growing inequality, owners and supporters of small businesses that still drive most employment, generally pro-business interests who also recognize that Wall Street's manipulation of the economy through financial instruments has seriously hurt Main Street (witness the recent stock market boom with no concomitant increase in overall economic health).

It could also counter both the overhyped perception and also the occasional truth of liberalism's self-defeating anti-business bias. The problem isn't business per se, which is simply how goods are priced and distributed in a free market system, but the domination of business by huge corporate entities which then distort the market for their own gain and most people's loss. Paleo-liberals (or whatever you call the Cold War liberals who were before the McGovern liberals who were before the DLC "third way" anti-liberals who now control the Democratic mainstream) always understood this: JFK would have approved of Bernie's ideas.
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I believe you will have to require the Corporate officers and Board of Directors to take an equity stake in any company that they're involved in. And get rid of the parachutes. If the company fails, the Executive floor is going to get hit just as hard as the workers on the floor. In fact, I'd require the executives to take out a loan to purchase their stake

If the company does well, then everyone benefits.

Oh taxes. You raise taxes when the economy is expanding and cut them when it is contacting. It does not seem to make sense, but it works (see Bush 41 and Clinton 42).
 
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At this point, you'll see a roller coaster. Prices drop one day, people buy in droves the next because they see "a good opportunity", sellers sell like crazy the next to take what profits are available, then the slow panicked ones sell out of fear, dropping prices. We've seen the pattern before, and we'll see it again. Disciplined buying and selling. Unless you intend on playing short term craziness, let everything do what it needs to do. Save the cash and purchase when everything is on sale.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
At this point, you'll see a roller coaster. Prices drop one day, people buy in droves the next because they see "a good opportunity", sellers sell like crazy the next to take what profits are available, then the slow panicked ones sell out of fear, dropping prices. We've seen the pattern before, and we'll see it again. Disciplined buying and selling. Unless you intend on playing short term craziness, let everything do what it needs to do. Save the cash and purchase when everything is on sale.
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These are the days where I deliberately stop looking. I assume any instinct I have will be behind the curve of the market anyway. I am not smarter than the market. So I leave it all alone and the virtual "gains" and "losses" all happen without me ever seeing them. In the long run none of it matters anyway.
 
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Kepler said:
These are the days where I deliberately stop looking. I assume any instinct I have will be behind the curve of the market anyway. I am not smarter than the market. So I leave it all alone and the virtual "gains" and "losses" all happen without me ever seeing them. In the long run none of it matters anyway.
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That's certainly one thing Jim Cramer, Suze Orman, and all those gurus never seem to mention enough, if at all: It's never a gain or a loss until you realise it. If you're planning on investing more, though, it's not a bad idea to take a quick look and set some limit orders that might trigger. If you miss the boat, oh well, just find something else to invest in; there's plenty available.

NEVER USE STOP LIMITS! That, combined with the setup of limit triggers, is what causes "flash crashes" to occur. Market orders also leave you at the mercy of the flash. Welcome to 21st century investing.
 
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Should automated systems be limited in trading frequency on each stock/fund/etc.? I'm thinking of one trade every 2 minutes. The market seems to be controlled not by investors but by algorithms.
 
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joecct said:
Should automated systems be limited in trading frequency on each stock/fund/etc.? I'm thinking of one trade every 2 minutes. The market seems to be controlled not by investors but by algorithms.
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Investors have given the computer programmers the requirements for writing the algorithms. The algorithms are merely the proxies for the investors.

Someone would have to research this, and it ain't me because I just don't care enough to do it - I'm not a reactionary investor, but there are three or four levels of investors, and those levels determine your priority when logging a trade request. The closer your are the brokerage houses and market makers, the higher your priority rating. Retail investors are the lowest.

If any change comes of these investigations that people want, it's leveling the playing field by reducing either disparity between the priority lists or reducing the number of priority levels that currently exist.
 
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