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What is shocking is how rich our "poor" really are compared to the "poor" in most of the rest of the world. Ever been to India?? If you want to dumb down what "rich" means, the average middle class american is ultra-wealthy too!!! Politicians love people who think like u do.

dude, just keep trading.

Segregation already exists just about everywhere people are free to make their own choices. It exists along the axis of economic position/status, prestige, as well as race/ethnicity. I speak not simply of America but the entire world. That is how people choose to live. "Diversity" on the...

I obviously do not see it that way, and somehow I think we will not be in agreement any time soon (ever). It seems to me only white people are supposed to "enjoy" diversity while every other nation and peoples should "celebrate their heritage" and form activist pressure groups to take...

Most all peoples on the face of the earth voluntary self-segrigate with people similar to themselves. Look at lunch rooms in schools. Look at Neighborhoods. It is completely normal and natural. Only liberal fools think "integration" is some type of ideal. Of course, they believe in it so...

One more point Ricter, as it is possible you did not decipher the nuance: I was not stating my OWN VIEWPOINT, but rather stating what I think is an UNDERLYING PREMISE to LIBERAL IDEOLOGY. -Folks, lets not let let Ricter lead this conversation into the gutter with calls for violence and...

Well Ricter, This is sad. It appears blind hatred and rage has taken control of your critical reasoning facility. In what to this point has been a civil conversation (on controversial topics, which is difficult to do) you wish a painful death upon me. Two children would be left...

"We'd love to not have our personal freedoms taken, bit by bit, justified by high rates of crime, committed disproportionately by other groups; yet the rules must apply to everyone equally hence we loose liberty too." The above is an extremely important point in a post filled with them...

Special situations and "events" are merely places people look to find value. The type of investing described in the book is a subset of value investing.

There is an underlying assumption in much of the civil rights rhetoric that I think would be insulting to any intelligent or ambitious black person. The notion is that Blacks are unable to open their own businesses, build their own communities, have their own, black owned diners, etc. Today...

Good place to start: https://angel.gsb.columbia.edu/AngelUploads/Content/9301-066-20093/_syllabus/Syllabus%20Fa09.pdf Readings: Greenwald, B., et al., Value Investing –– required Haugen, R., The New Finance: (4 th edition)–– required Greenblatt, J., You Can Be a Stock...

The company i worked for did Roofing and pouring cement foundations. My Job was alternating between the two job sites as the bottom of the totem pole laborer. I remember my first job: for the first week I was the only person unloading Cement forms from the truck and giving them to the...

Awesome post, thank you for the first hand information.

Only individualists are able to recognize unpopular truths. Human differences are scientific, empirical facts. Does seeing reality make one hate others? Does being cognizant of the truth make one a collectivist? I do not think so.

Funny i was just talking to my spouse about the damage "physical" jobs do to the body. I had my experience with it working construction over my summer vacations in high school. (The crew thought I was from mars.. you wear a coat and tie to high school?) Anyways, all the guys who had been at...

Much of America's recent immigrant population are (like our permanent underclass) cargo cultists: They want "the goods" but they are not able to create, maintain, or live up to the requirements of the advanced civilization/society they find desirable. If this is allowed to continue...

Try to become a plumber who can hold a sign out to the public and have a real business (rather than posting to do work on craigs list.. plenty of people can fix/try to fix your pipes who are not part of the profession). It is a regulated profession, that does not mean people do not work under...

Plumber is a "good" job because it is a regulated cartel. How many plumbers does the world really need? If we want most Americans to have good jobs like "plumber" the solution is actually simple: End international wage arbitrage for products sold in the USA and institute more...

The USA has had a high quality population for most of it's history, and in many ways it is still excellent, depending on where one is. It is a big country. 3rd world immigration and the welfare state are driving the negative changes. I am an economic nationalist so it is difficult to...

You are missing something: Jobs today are quite often just a way to, "spread it around" as Obama says. The middle class jobs are increasingly an artificially creation by the state, and this includes the upper end like "healthcare", lawyers, etc. Our job it to provide for ourselves and...