jstalin

I travel frequently and United is one of my favored airlines. I guess I just don't expect much and airlines tend to deliver. My biggest frustrations are usually with other passengers, not the airlines or their staff.

One thing I do miss is the airline Midwest Express, which used to hand out warm chocolate chip cookies on each flight. It was a delight just smelling them warm up about 30 minutes in to the flight.

Sounds good, in a complete vacuum. This ignores basic economic realities. But of course, these sorts of actions become far easier when the cost of capital is essentially zero.

Works for me to bypass the paywall.

I didn't realize anyone used Network Solutions for anything anymore.

Undoubtedly, the torrent will be available in a matter of hours. Let someone else do the dirty work.

Earlier this year I spent $25 for a FOIA request for my state's entire voter database. This isn't exactly private information.

The original federal indictment of Dotcom.

https://www.unitedstatescourts.org/federal/vaed/275314/1-0.h...

Russia has also been increasing production and Iran's oil is just waiting to hit the market...

It's probably more accurate to state that those economists who make policy didn't see it coming... the economists that matter.

http://www.forbes.com/2007/05/17/bernanke-subprime-speech-ma...

Of course, the economy nearly collapsed a year after that speech.

That's the great conceit of central banking, that a small committee of "learned professionals" can predict the future and claim to divine the actions of billions of market transactions.

Sitting in the theater now, waiting for it to start :)

Firearm suicide data: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/suicide.htm

Firearm murder data: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm

Unintentional injury death stats: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm

The case docket is here: https://www.unitedstatescourts.org/federal/nysd/446224/

They're "capitalists" as long as they have a thumb on the scale, but they're not really capitalists who would cheer a true free market in currency.

Central banking is essentially a price-fixing scheme and doesn't really have much to do with capitalism.

Politicians spending your money for you is better than you deciding how to spend it.

He's not dodging taxes. Why do people keep repeating this completely false claim?

The fact still remains, more taxes will be collected from this LLC arrangement than if he had donated his shares to charity, a la Bill Gates. Why is everyone having a collective aneurysm over that?

Hoping for automation for Nginx...

Politicians should decide how your money is spent, not you.

That's not true. The estate would be taxed at 40% for any value of the LLC over about $10.5 million (today's estate-tax exemption).

Family LLCs can work for reducing the estate tax if you transfer ownership interests during your lifetime at a reduced valuation, owing to the fact that the membership interests are not marketable, giving them a lower value than the market value of whatever the LLC holds.

The only way you avoid the estate tax is if you transfer an asset to an irrevocable trust or your family members before the asset gains significant value. If you own, directly or indirectly, an asset that has significant value, it is taxed at death.

So how about hacking and leaking their certificate and then making all Kazak government traffic vulnerable to public posting all over the internet?

Except this is a NYT editorial, not WSJ.

Because if you choose not to pay for your country club, the country club doesn't bust your door down, shoot your dog, taze you, and throw you in jail until you do pay.

Leave it to the NYT to shill for more taxes and more government. Of course the article doesn't mention one single factual dollar figure about this inversion, it only decries the horror. They estimate major inversions cost the treasury $2 billion a year. Wowsa, that's a rounding error in a $4 trillion annual budget.

I've encountered many deals where small foreign companies were looking at doing business in the US but when we explained to them federal and state corporate taxation they were discouraged from setting up shop here. I'm sure there are hundreds if not thousands of similar stories each year. Instead of reducing the US corporate tax burden (amongst the highest in the world) and encouraging companies to set up shop here, the US tax code discourages such investment and growth.

Lots of free publicity for Amazon.

I'm guessing most critics of Hitler are noncontroversial.

Looks like it's this:

http://magculture.com//wp-content/uploads/2008/05/wallpaperb...

More regulation begets more regulation. You can't expect bureaucrats who have been given authority over something to sit back and decide when they're done regulating.

Yet crime, including gun crime, is down dramatically since 1985.

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate-...