Suppose you had a hardware store and there was a power shortage. Now you jack up the prices of batteries an extra two bucks a pack.
First of all, you've lost your regular retail sales due to the power outage. No one is buying anything except batteries, so overall store sales take a hit...
Barack Obama went to meet his eighth cousin when he was in Ireland this week.
To give you an idea how far removed that is, my seventh cousin is Jackie Chan.
Reminds me of school. Our English teacher gave us this quote.
âIt is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.â
I raised my hand and asked "What does 'remove all doubt' mean?"
Decades of empowerment for women rights only to see it all evaporate by submitting women to body scanners and groping by the same gov't that gave them their rights.
You can google this info and it seems to be out there on the web back as early as 09. Maybe we're not talking about the same thing.
Example.
New York Fed:
âOn March 7, with spreads between 1-month Treasury repo and 1-month Agency MBS repo having reached as high as 140 basis points...
FORTUNE -- Sal Khan, you can count Bill Gates as your newest fan. Gates is a voracious consumer of online education. This past spring a colleague at his small think tank, bgC3, e-mailed him about the nonprofit khanacademy.org, a vast digital trove of free mini-lectures all narrated by Khan, an...
In a recent interview I was asked,"Give us some examples of yourself."
"Speak for yourself" and "Go fuck yourself" wasn't the answer they were looking for.
I've had a team of investigators looking into the type of laminate used on the card, forensic research of the Nadine Gordimer the "librarian" who supposedly issued said card, and if the President actually knows how the Dewey Decimal System works.
I've never been able question to answer that question to my satisfaction.
I'd like to sing like Sinatra but deep down I'd really like to be a big fat black man playing the piano singing the blues.Something like "Ain't misbehavin"
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He's going for the Goth vote. "I was an Emo before I was a Goth".
Maybe a Harry Potter thing. WduhFK.
Could of had a penis removed. I like speculating.
This brought back memories of when I worked as an Accountant from the age of 20 to 30.
They fired me for no apparant reason.... It felt like such a waste of 13 years.