My father did something similar back when I was a young’un. The thing he added (that I love in hindsight) is he told me “this can’t be the top”.

The biggest problem is that buying a discounted sports car in the winter would require me to unload my current one into the same depressed market!

It’s very likely that the cash simply doesn’t exist, but this was a very big deal in the past two months and would make the kind of blank check from China impossible (sorry if it’s gated, try googling the headline “China to clamp down on outbound M&A in war on capital flight”):

I’m no softie (and certainly no Giants fan), but I audibly gasped on the late hit by Mitchell. It was as obvious a cheap shot as you will see.

Ford’s continued obsession with currency manipulation is extremely bizarre to me. As it stands right now China is actually supporting it’s currency. Under the theory that artificial devaluation helps exporters, that means artificially propping it up should help importers, right? So shouldn’t you be happy?

Just to go against the grain of the commentariat here, I could go along with this... so long as you give terrorism a similar logic.

Or, you could just buy a regular economy ticket and not have to worry about it. Heck, there will even be more room for your overhead bag.

Woah there buddy. Burns may be about my favorite player to watch, but even if you say he’s worth $10M for the first half of the contract, those over 35 years are going to be brutal. There is one defenseman in the last 20 years who was worth $6M (in today’s dollars) in his over 35 years, so the odds are not in your…

WON’T ANYONE THINK OF POOR ST. LAWRENCE?

FWIW, regardless of whether conflict of interest rules apply, just remember that the law IS on his side when he says “the president can pardon anyone” and that is worth keeping an eye on.

Or maybe he should just play against the Raiders defense every week.

I know it’s not a lot of scratch, but uncertain mileage and pictures from two years ago? I am surprised how a usually very skeptical voting base suddenly is all in on this simply because it has a brand name that gives them good feelings.

I work at a HFT firm and have only worked at/recruited at one other firm, so other hiring areas could be different, but my sense is that schools are cranking out way too many masters students (those programs are revenue positive, read what you will) and there is a ton of competition for hiring the top undergrads and…

No, I hire the good ones I can find. When you start looking at really elite level graduates from technical schools, the supply is not nearly high enough to meet demand now that banks, HFT firms, consulting firms, and tech firms are all going after them.

I’d be careful with this line of thinking. If US companies want to hire the smartest people, a lot of the smartest people are in China. One of the reasons we’re able to identify the smart ones is because they filter through our Universities.

It’s not obvious that anyone but China is suffering for their currency manipulation. It’s horribly expensive for the government as it currently stands since they have been attempting to prop it up for the past two years, but it continues to fall. Putting a stop to their currency intervention would make the renminbi…

“China can also limit the number of Chinese students studying in the US”

The only time the “throw random guys in as captains for a game” thing was legit was when Jeff Fisher put all the guys the Rams got in the RGIII trade in to take the coin toss against the Dan Snyders.

It especially kills me because the older performance Audi stick shifts were so viscerally pleasing to drive. The old TT RS and RS4 had just the right amount of snap to the spring, and the original R8 gated shifter is the only transmission allowed in heaven. That said, the clutches were merely fine.

Said QB coach Chris Weinke: “Everone knows that professional QBs aren’t ready until they’re at least 29 years old”