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people have options now. you can go to the movie theater OR you can stream movies on netflix. you can go to the mall OR you can buy on amazon/ebay. you can go to the grocery store OR you can order from the store's online site. should we also eliminate automobiles and go back to...

i did include insurance in my CPI even though i didn't list it. my home owner's insurance is less; my health insurance is 10% more but overall it's a tiny piece of my expenditures, so 10% is insignificant i omitted my auto insurance because i bought another car, so the change would be...

for those of you who keep spreadsheets with personal expenditures, how have your annual expenses changed from 2009 to 2010? mine: housing and clothing were cheaper in 2010 than in 2009; groceries about the same; eating out costs about the same per meal; household utilities about the...

the poll is illogical because it implies money and happiness are mutually exclusive. they aren't. i have both now and i know others who have both.

why does india become the enemy? the US trades with iran.

the platinum is the really old device from like 2005, and i agree it sucks. you can trade it for a gold or aladdin, which are easier to use.

what about the rent and $1mm loan he needed to buy a mcdonalds franchise? when you consider those costs, the margins aren't as crazy as you say. and no, it doesn't cost 1 cent to make a soda. did you consider how much those machines cost to buy and maintain? perhaps you think that making a...

i know with computer programming jobs, there isn't a net loss to the US because most of the jobs they export to india would have disappeared regardless of whether india existed or not. example: i worked at a software company before, and we exported about 10 jobs to india to maintain some...

you're forgetting there's a floor in the UE rate. the minimum unemployment rate is around 3%. it never goes below this, even if GDP is growing 10%. the reason is, there's always some people who are between jobs. maybe their company went bankrupt and it takes 1 week to find a new job. or...

a few things caused myspace's decline 1. ads 2. too much control given to users. users would create lousy pages with loud music, poor-running scripts, and sometimes viruses 3. poor performance. for a while (2005-2006) myspace was so popular that their servers couldn't keep up. it was...

haha yeah right. there's no way a customer service rep would be given upwards of 1% equity, even if he/she were among the first 50 employees.

oh cry me a river!! if you're over 50 now, that means your working career spanned the 80s and 90s -- great times for the stock market and economy. you should have been saving during that time and investing wisely. you should not be in a position now where you're totally screwed if you can't...

a company like FB would have very high profit margins, in the 25-30% range. with $1.5-2 billion in annual revenues, i'd value them around $14-17 billion. i'm laughing at the posters who said they're worth $1.5b or $2b. sounds like someone just made up a number out of thin air.

jesus, if you guys think a housecleaner makes $50 per hour, then i've got some SPY stock to sell you for $250 per share. $50-65/hr is the rate for a TWO-PERSON TEAM. $80-90 for 3-person. that's what a bonded company would charge around here. a free-lancing, uninsured housecleaner charges...

myspace is declining faster than the US dollar. it may have had 50 million unique visitors, but those people don't spend much time on there. that's what advertisers pay for. if you simply log on, then notice that none of your friends have posted anything, then log off, how much ad revenue...

yep, these types of businesses like dry cleaners, house cleaning service, etc, are very unsexy but they can give you an upper-middle class lifestyle. some of the comfortably well-off people i know own liquor stores, hair salons, machine shops, and dry cleaners. and some of them have very...

very very true. older workers earn more, cost more in benefits like healthcare, and worst of all to the management, are more likely to resist when they see something they don't like or agree with. companies love college hires because they're naive, and 90% of them will gladly do what you...

-1 i'm sure none of the regular posters are anywhere near billionare status, but i'm sure a billionare has come across the site and browsed through. billionares tend to be interested in money and finance, so i can see one of them stumbling on this site accidently, reading the posts...

the odds of getting 4 numbers right (as Lost did) is 1 in 14,000. the odds of getting all 6 right is 1 in 195,000,000. there were probably hundreds if not thousands of winning tickets with 4 correct numbers. what Lost did was hardly remarkable or "creepy".

most of the anti-Vick people aren't even vegans. do you know how chickens and cows are raised?