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I was quoted a price of around $1000 to $2000 for a standard and "deluxe" package of services to set this up. Obviously, the devil is in the details, but does anyone with experience doing this think this is in the ballpark? I don't want to overpay, but the proper legal structure will surely...

No, the future of manufacturing in the US is going to trend toward robots so advanced they don't need to be dedicated to just one task, thus becoming more like an infinitely trainable human worker. Ironically (well, not to me, who could see it coming a mile away), Obamacare will accelerate this...

When he was head of Goldman, his name wasn't on the currency, was it?

Yeah, I'm sure he did. His acceptance of the position had nothing to do with the power that comes with it. It's no wonder so many of the traders here can't make a buck in the markets. You have no concept of reality.

I was responding to the implication that it was only the business/corporate world that would attempt to avoid costs. If that wasn't the implication you were going for, then I stand corrected. If it was, then you are wrong because humans in general attempt to avoid costs if there is no...

I really don't care if you "disagree". Maybe you can post some actual examples and I will point out where the self-interest comes in. In the case of politicians and corporations, it will almost always boil down to getting positive publicity.

It's not rhetorical, it's definitional. Either you can appreciate the need for accuracy in defining words or you can't.

It's not altruistic, it's self-serving with the payoff being a psychological one, as well as the potential future payoff of having the favor returned.

No, you do it because you want to feel good about yourself. Heck, even I've done that.

Right, only try telling that to the naive posters here. They actually think altruism toward complete strangers without any strings attached exists. And worse, they think the government is the epicenter of said altruism and are willing to spend my tax dollars in an all-out attempt to prove that...

When you analyze what people do, rather than what they say, you realize that EVERYONE on the planet "would pay for a cost only if they have to, and would take away benefits whenever they can". It's an immutable fact of existence.

Fortunately, working in a very quantitative field, liberals tend to self-select out. You want to be a "better person"? Do it on your own time.

What he's saying is that his future forecast for those profit margins will change for the worse if Obama is reelected. What those margins are now not the relevant question, it's what will they be in the future.

Fortunately for me, I have rarely had to work with any liberals, but the ones I have worked with spent more time droning on and on about their politics than actually doing any work, so firing them first would make sense.

Want to know how I learned to be "selfish and self-serving"? By watching what people do, not what they say. I'm very observant like that. Although, to be more accurate, I think that almost all behavior is genetically-driven. I don't believe that there is really anything more to it than...

I don't disagree that it's a good "calling card", I just dislike it when someone who has the brains to do that sort of thing becomes so dominated by short-term thinking that he then turns around and says "No one should be allowed to do this in the future" and that appears to be the direction in...

All in all, I'll take the word of the US Founding Fathers, who, unlike Soros, fought off an empire and actually had to create a functioning government on the fly, not create a think tank model of a functioning government. Their consensus seems to be that government is a "necessary evil", which...

Hey, I don't want to burst your bubble, but transferring to Stanford from Ohio State is a real long-shot, so you should definitely focus on whatever is your plan B. And, while Stanford is a great place to meet finance connections, it's not the only one. I would say that to get a competitive...

The reason I exclude it is because it isn't someone's fault they need a lot of care right at the end, it is just the natural consequence of old age, should one reach it. Personally, I would prefer that, rather than Medicare, that care be privately financed by individuals and families, but that...

Hey, don't forget that it's about 20% of Americans who self-identify as "liberal", too. Damn skippy they cause 80% of the problems with their infernal yappin' about something or other. Get rid of that 20%, there go 80% of the "problems". Now that's what I call "problem solving".