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In principle, I'd agree that most people who order the sugary alternatives are not true coffee lovers, they want the caffeine and the buzz. The problem is these are the very same people who take their sweet time asking about every drink and then carrying on with all of their little alterations...

The asshole definition definitely needs to be expanded. The Starbucks Rule pretty much applies only to women or the "effeminate male" which there seem to be alot of these days. Plenty of otherwise huge asshole's will order a simple cup of coffee at Starbucks, yet fit the bill in other...

Many of these types of trades are like roach motels. Easy to enter and near impossible to exit in times of duress, like a surprise event or a gunned set price the week of expiration.

You seem well intentioned, but really, we KNOW you live in Texas, we KNOW you used to trade at Shoenfeld, we KNOW you work in Private Equity...that was established 1000 posts ago and re-introduced in every post since then. No need to status drop every chance you get, try just throwing some...

As sad as it may be, you are entirely correct. It's analogous to the prison system, whereby we opt to incarcerate rather than execute. The state bears the cost of imprisonment, which can be an astronomical figure for lifetime incarceration. Execution eliminates the costs and sends a...

I'd like to see a documentary that centers on how much of charitable contributions go towards administrative fees. Of course to even question some of the ridiculous skimming that goes on opens up a shit storm of politically correct rhetoric. Still, untold billions are poured into charities...

I'm sure this would threaten your state sponsored lifestyle. After all, it would be an end to your welfare checks, food stamps and Section-8 housing.

99 weeks of unemployment compensation? Food stamps for 41 million, Section 8 housing, public sector pension plans that guarantee retirement income at a substantial percentage of earned income, enormous subsidies and/or outright "free rides" to many private schools based on earnings (yet...

Spoken like a pansy-ass who has never participated in a competitive sport in his life.

They are also largely tied to the big banks, i.e. Morgan Stanley was the lead on the parking meters deal. It's one gigantic circle jerk...the taxpayer funds his own enslavement.

Chipotle isn't a bad option as far as fast food goes, a pretty sterile environment is the first thing that comes to mind. What they could really improve on are the god awful acoustics of the place. You can be sitting at the other end of the restaurant and hear some guy drop a pan in the...

I think that your belief that Bernanke has approached his analysis of the Great Depression from a purely academic stance is quite naive. The more realistic rationale for Bernanke's appointment was the simple fact that he went out of his way to show his willingness to embrace the most aggressive...

Notice the boom and bust, back to boom and so on are oscillating more frequently and with greater amplitude. Basically, we've gone thru the past 10-15 years of intensifying asset bubbles in some sort of desperate attempt to mask the failings of the real economy with a type of diversion. How...

Don't despair, this is just the beginning of what are sure to be many, many states opening up the bag of dirty laundry. That's why these bureaucratic hacks do everything in their power to coerce anyone who will listen to vote for their lackey. The skeletons in the closets of these public...

Personally, I'm finding it easier to believe because I felt damn sure the Fed was feeding the market its TOMO/POMO back then on a constant basis while commodities went parabolic, the dollar went in the crapper and the market flatlined. It's their "backdoor" mandate and it's the kind of shit...

It's pretty amusing that the candidates in this upcoming election have him dropping by as a "campaign boost". I'm sure most of them view this just as the Republicans viewed the Dubya effort towards the end of his two terms. Regardless of what the apologists say, the dramatic decline in...

I always hear these arguments about nobody forces these people to go into debt, which is all and well, but...by and large it's the deficit spending, the debt based monetary system that runs on this "inflate at all costs" idelogy that creates enormous pockets of inflation that the vast majority...

Exactly, the local governments will simply amend the equation or the assessed value to keep property taxes the same or increase them. Granted, I will concede there are some states who do play fair and do what is right, but many other states are filled with know nothing, fat fuck...

Right, but according to some of the geniuses on this site, the bank foreclosure process is simply a "technicality". Ya know, they are allowed to slice and dice, churning the products around to earn many multiples of the original fees, but when it comes time to foreclose and they no longer have...

You seem like a typical blockheaded parrot who regurgitates this empty rhetoric. It's a helluva lot more nuanced than what you've written above, but you certainly aren't too swift, so it's probably a moot point. I'm all for capitalism, but you can't bail out banks, let them feed off of Fed...