Not to mention margin calls if the stock goes down past a given price.
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I've eaten camel. It was offered during multiple meals to us during the trip. Seems somewhat common.
2) He's right. Japan post-WW2 endured foreign occupation yes, but without significant internal turmoil. Other states that underwent massive change (e.g. Russia: WW1->Civil War->2 Revolutions) had significant internal turmoil. This helps explain why so many "old" businesses survived in Japan.
From what I have read, it's strongly in dispute.
The super-delegates issue was really just a poor policy by the DNC, one that could be exploited by a strong establishment/mainstream candidate. Bernie has always been an outsider, relative to the Clintons, in that sense.
Some debate questions were provided to the Clinton campaign apparently because they had asked for them, whereas the Sanders campaign had not. In retrospect, probably not a good look, regardless of whether or not he/she asked for them. Probably should have immediately released the same questions to Sanders' campaign once Clinton's received them.
I feel like DWS was forced to resign because she was incompetent and directionless, and only got the job since she was a crony of establishment Dems who wanted a "friendly" to occupy the seat. This might also be me projecting, since I have a hunch that Republicans are better at mobilizing resources to achieve specific goals (e.g. judge appointments to courts of all levels, governorships), but I think I'm starting to digress so yeah.
Please stop spreading this misinformation, particularly if you are not an expert.
I agree, but this is just the information that the vast majority of the public is receiving from the media. Perhaps you should direct your displeasure in that direction.
>> It's sequenced already. There's a reasonable R0 for it. There are patients that have gone through the entire lifecycle of the disease while under observation. There's already a RT-PCR test for it. It has known similarities to existing coronavirii that are well understood.
Major publications are not smacking you over the head with jargon like R0 or RT-PCR tests. Those words mean nothing to most people. What matters is relatable things: how does this impact my travel plans, what precautions should my co-worker take on his business trip to China next week (literally).
>> Don't be a conspiracy theorist, particular when the "unknowns" are just - and there is no nicer way to put this - ignorance of internationally sourced public epidemiological data.
Is this not exactly the problem here? The government's response to the outbreak was slow, with reports of local officials suppressing information. When information became available, it was factually incorrect (human-to-human transmission) and propagated. The way this played out is remarkably similar to SARS. And much like SARS, the credibility of the government handling the outbreak has significantly harmed the public's trust. There is much reason to believe that the Chinese government is not being forthcoming with information.
>> If someone can't intelligently process news about this topic, they shouldn't add to the already large level of concern and confusion about it.
The question was "why /this/ level of isolation is necessary". He answered that question by saying "we don't know how bad it could be". He isn't shouting off the top of a roof to distrust the CDC.
For example, initial reports only days ago claimed that human-to-human transmission was not possible, but that's been disproved already. Combine that with the government's mismanagement of SARS/African swine fever, and you've got plenty of reason to speculate.
I think it may be too early to claim this. I think we can only judge these companies' well-being (especially with respect to their recent controversies) on a medium- to long-term scale.
I've banked at Wells Fargo since 2013, and I intend to close my 2 WF accounts and open up new ones at Chase soon. If I could remove my information from Equifax or another credit bureau, I would. By all standards, these companies are "doing just fine" at present. But what about 5 years from now, 15 years from now? The damage to a companies' reputation and the impact it has on consumer decision-making can be slow-moving and hard to notice/quantify.
ninja edit: graduated from* college
Wouldn't this mean that landlords are effectively leaving money on the table? If it's not rent controlled, couldn't they just jack up the rent whenever they felt like it?
They believe Creationism because the US/west offers the freedom of choice. There is no government regulation forcing you to believe in one way or the other - you choose based on your own beliefs and experience.
This is more anecdotal, but my time at a logistics company has shown the opposite to be true. Every cost increase, whether it was a tariff or increased fuel surcharge, was passed on to the next company, and to the next, down to the end consumer themselves. Every increase in vendor/supplier price was reflected almost immediately in the next invoice as our CFO instructed us to maintain our profit margins. There was even a multiplicative effect as each company applied their margins onto each price increase, such that a $100 increase in fuel costs could be double or triple that by the end.
It is possible that companies with massive margins might be willing to bite the bullet, but I doubt the advertising industry is full of companies with big margins. Perhaps the tech companies at the top, but definitely not the more numerous and smaller companies. For this reason, I find it extremely unlikely that "the end user will pay nothing". The end user will pay something, but the size of that "something" is certainly debatable.
Yet, at the most recent city council meeting, there were a large number of residents complaining about the personal cost of opening up supportive housing for homeless people. Not a financial cost, but a personally subjective "cost" of sharing their city with transients. This housing complex includes mental health services and employment services on-site and has support from the local city government. Instead of compromising and considering alternatives, these people advocated for removing the program entirely and passing the buck to the next city.
High costs of living exist regardless of "empathy" or awareness of "inequality". The problem is policy, not personality.
I also don't think bringing up FB's stock price is relevant, not sure what your point is getting at there?