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I'd like to get some responses to this chart: The article it is from can be found here: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-27/when-work-punished-tragedy-americas-welfare-state and the subject is further expanded on...

This doesn't answer your question about what proportion of your paycheck goes to welfare, but it discusses total "means-tested federal welfare" spending, which is huge. http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/12/crazy-incentives-in-welfare-system.html "According to data from the...

Good old fashioned free market competition where customers, not a third party, are comparing prices and service and picking the best value would seem to be the solution that works in other, less regulated sectors of the economy. Insurance, HMOs, and government programs, at least in our current...

Thanks for posting this, his blog is very enlightening. I've spent the past hour or so reading his past posts and learning a lot about why current US healthcare is so much more expensive than a simple free market approach...

Investor RT has the same volume profile and volume delta capabilities as Market Delta, but costs less. Its basically the same platform as market delta without the footprint charts. I believe it is probably the most popular for volume delta, and seems to be the most feature-rich in this area...

The text you quoted doesn't seem to give your employer any rights to work you do for yourself on your own time, unless you choose to include such work in the work you do for them (which is prohibited by first paragraph of the contract you quoted.) However, if you have a great idea during your...

IANAL but it sounds reasonable enough. "However, in the event that Contractor incorporates, uses, or otherwise employs ("Use") any Other Inventions to perform or in the course of rendering Services or develop or modify any work" seems to be the key section. From the employer's...

"A monopoly exists because it is able to eliminate or otherwise hold competition at bay. " This statement is true, but it just proves his point, because in reality, the means by which monopolists "eliminate or otherwise hold competition at bay" is nearly always the government. "Usually the...

This. The idea that government has ever or can ever protect us from monopolies is laughable. Government is in fact the sole creator and enabler of monopolies. Can any of you statists name a single instance of a monopoly that has existed for any substantial length of time without...

http://www.mypivots.com/trading/feddays has charts for FOMC days for the last 13 years or so. These sites have charts of price action during past economic news releases, but only for forex, and only for pre-scheduled economic data events like unemployment rates, pmi numbers, etc...

I don't know if it's going to solve homelessness, but it looks like an interesting advance in construction techniques, with a number of real advantages. More power to them.

Aside from the utilitarian question of whether it would "work" or not, proposing to take 80% of anyone's income is just incredibly aggressive, arrogant and authoritarian. What gives you the right? Do individuals have any rights to keep what they earn or do you believe all property belongs to the...

I'm only about 80% convinced that he's winding us up but that little bit of suspense makes it even more enjoyable. Great thread.

It has been argued that corporate governance regulations & practices in the US give comparatively more power to executives and less to the board of directors and shareholders, when compared with those in other countries.