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You might find it interesting that the original Articles of Confederation gave the then existing Canadian territories the option to opt to become states. They declined at the time, pretty certain they would now as well. When the Articles were replaced by the Constitution they dropped the option...

Perhaps you should learn how to use it then, you have to actually leave it on for it to do you any good! Looks like your computer skills are right up there with your critical thinking and statistics skills.

Where did I say any of that exactly? That's really the problem here, this attitude that if you don't support the countless moronic positions of Trump you must therefore agree with every position of Sanders. What kind of logic is that? And given that I served for over 20 years and have started 2...

Pretty much all of my company bets are done this way. I love the rise of sector ETFs!

I'm with you except...are you really a Republican? I mean Trump's approval is over 70% among Republicans. I think you're a conservative, but your party's been hijacked from you and those like you. And in all sincerity I wish you the best of luck in getting it back! By the way, I once called...

I run a minuscule tech company compared to Facebook and have a lot more than 6 employees. I think you may be massively oversimplifying what it takes to run a company in general and perhaps misunderstanding how Facebook earns their revenue (hint, the server farms don't magically generate it for...

Not pointing fingers at anyone on this thread, but one of my favorite "kids these days" is when some bitter old man complains about "kids these days, spending all their time on the facebook", not realizing that all of us "kids" on Facebook are over 40 now!

XEO is the same thing in European, if you really, really want a box in that index.

So now we're engaged in "I formed an opinion based on information that turned out not to say what I thought it did, so now I'm going to search for confirming information for that original opinion instead of thinking about why I came to that opinion in the first place"? Again, of freaking course...

That's the beauty of network effects. The one who captures them gets massive barriers to entry for competitors and so doesn't really need to do much to maintain their position. If you're interested, that's actually why everyone was throwing the seemingly stupid money at the social network firms...

You're right, my number was gross profit, OI was $22B as you correctly pointed out.

Nope, your gains and losses inside a year all net out. It's only an issue if it spans a year, since taxes are calculated on what happened in the previous year. Given that the law covers sales "ending 30 days after" the sale date, as long as your last sale was 30 days before the end of the year...

I wonder how much MySpace is worth these days! To be fair, Facebook turned $51B in profit last year. Back in the day it wasn't clear which company or companies would be sharing in the $50B pie, but the world pretty accurately calculated the size of that pie. If you'd gone short the entire...

You presented a sample set of that showed at most a small fraction of a percent of Fed employees had donated a meaningless sum of money as "proof" that the 20,000 person organization as a whole was biased toward democrats. Good that we all agree that was statistically a ridiculous assertion...

So a total of $83,270 (I know that's a lot of money to some folks, but it's a minute fraction of a fraction of a percent of total political donations). On a chart listing contributions of $2,000 or more, that makes what, a maximum of 41 people in an organization of 20,000+ employees. I'll do the...

It puzzles me why anyone uses a desktop these days. A laptop has a built-in battery backup system that you can test in about a second. And unless you are on the absolute bleeding edge AMD and Nvidia both make laptop graphics cards that can handle anything you need. Add a phone with a hotspot...

Any idea on the history of why they offer both on that index, just out of curiosity?

Interesting restriction of the definition of the word "professionals" to include only accountants, but that aside my point perhaps required a little too much mental connecting of the dots for you. Let me spell it out. Apparently you do think that folks who have extensive training and experience...

To the OP, in the U.S. you get a better tax rate on capital gains as an individual than you would get on ordinary income. A U.S. Corp doesn't get that same preferential rate on its capital gains, meaning if your corporation bought IBM stock and sold it for a profit that profit would be taxed at...

Exactly this. You put your funds in an overseas bucket shop and you have absolutely zero, zilch, no recourse when they simply decide to keep your money in the vanishingly rare case you're profitable. Who are you going to complain to? There are literally hundreds of stories of this happening...