Companies will just hold onto the cash, wait for Republicans to get power, and lower the rate.  This is why every US company had a ton of cash overseas.  They didn’t want to bring it back to the US to be taxed, and knew they could wait out Congress to make it an essentially reduced tax / tax free event (not that a lot…

So this is obviously a problem, but it’s not one that countries are just “giving up on”. The EU in particular is running the BEPS project, and is basically working on a united front to stop this from happening in EU markets. State Aid cases are being brought more and more, and companies are going at least from zero…

I didn’t watch this game because I just don’t like soccer very much. However, after hearing about the 1-0 victory I commented to a co-worker that the reason I don’t like soccer is that a team can just score a goal and play defense / keep-away for the remainder of the game.  In no other sport is that strategy possible,…

So there was no team willing to go 2-3 years? I call BS on that. If he re-injures himself he could be costing himself a ton of financial security, all so that he could get something with intrinsic value and not that much considering the team he’s going to won it without him two years in a row. 

Does the Mooch not count?

What I don’t get (among the many many many other issues with it) is the concept of a universal down. Why don’t the stars / sun / moon fall on Earth if gravity pulls things only in one direction?

There was an entire dance scene to Daft Punk “Up All Night” at some point on the Colbert show after an MTV exec wouldn’t let Daft Punk on the show for a performance because they were playing the MTV music awards the next week. I refuse to find this and post a link because I’m lazy.... but it exists

So Kyrie is not saying that NASA is lying and it’s a big conspiracy... he’s just saying that.. umm.. we should all do our own space-travel and take our own space pictures. Just to be sure.

Maybe this is the one scenario Dr. Strange was talking about?

I don’t know anything about Hockey but thought Ovechkin was a good player. If he is good, why is he on the bench with 3 mins left in a 3-2 game in the Stanley Cup?

If you’re a Toronto fan, you don’t want their 19 year old superstar in the majors this year. You just made your point, there’s no winning anything this season. It’s lost. Bring up Vlad Jr. two weeks into the season next year and get an extra year of service out of your surefire superstar, which may land in a season…

Fingers crossed this works out. So far Scott Perry seems to be a fairly sane person doing sane things with the Knicks, so I’ll trust him until this all inevitably blows up because Knicks...

So how many deadspin staff quit / ask to be assigned to play poker for their stories after reading this?

If you look at the Box Score it’s even more clear. Curry didn’t just put up a +26, Davis put up a +2, Durant was -5, and Thomas -8. He basically came off the bench and won the game for them.

He also didn’t seem to care that he’s basically paying Barkley as if he’s already made the pro-bowl by picking a RB #2 overall. Basically the best case scenario is that you’ve paid market price for an expensive RB as opposed to drafting a great player for far below market price via the draft.

I remember only two drafts ago laughing at Jerry Jones using number 4 on Elliott only to have Gettelman one up him with Barkley at 2.... FSDJKLFJKS:FJKEL:F

There’s definitely a balancing act, but I for one would rather err on the side of too much coverage / some freeloading (which is in fact currently a very small issue based on some statistics I’ve read (I have no cite and am too lazy to look it up, so take with a grain of salt)), rather than being stagnant out of fear…

I think a major reason the losers don’t remain losers forever though is because of the social safety net. Such a net helps people get through the periods where they will need to retrain / retool to get back into the workforce, because they do not have to sell their homes / cars, etc. while they look for work.. The US,…

Mini Mint ice cream sandwhiches in oreo cookie... amazing

It actually was not the Knicks... they were not actively tanking, they just had bad players. They won their last game because Cleveland actively tanked that game.