Volvo is not a luxury vehicle brand.

That “fake” wealth seemed pretty real when it bought Bezos a $500 million yacht and a support yacht worth a couple hundred million,...

When the debt is free or close to it, it starts sounding a lot more like income. They can have a discount on capital gains if they actually sell stock to pay the debts... which they usually don’t.

Unless you’re really slumming it with us poors, the proposal would not have affected you. If you are taxed at a certain level and then it goes down, you get a rebate. 

I think that the optimal solution industry wide would require a level of cooperation that doesn’t really happen in capitalism,...

I don’t know if they started calling it something other than “Just In Time”,... I don’t think the branding really matters, but I do believe that it’s an evolution of just in time rather than turning away from it.

I’m sure you don’t ascribe to any party and probably don’t even vote... You strike me as the “I’m super smart because I have a unique perspective that doesn’t actually make logical sense” type person,...

Hype and lack of competition. They are powerful things. For most people who are interested in buying them, they are the coolest car in the world. I really believe that the vast majority of car buyers don’t get excited about buying a car.

So,...

Porsche defaulted on a bunch of the loans that they took out to buy VAG stock,... that’s called being over leveraged. They also did it to themselves because they created their own short squeeze. They had so many options to buy stock that there were more shorts than outstanding shares,... They were counting on it…

The problem is that he’s not just a geek who wants to geek out about his interests... He’s the CEO of a publicly traded company with insider information. It is classified until it becomes public. “Insider trading” specifically deals with the information that he has access to and is not allowed to share any time he…

I’m obviously not a campaign slogan writer/wordsmith...

It’ll be interesting to see how businesses will react to this. The best reaction would be for them to invest the time in studying their supply chains (maybe even decide that onshoring more suppliers is worth the increased cost)... Some will certainly throw out JIT and go searching for the next buzzword manufacturing…

It just feels like they consider themselves a more evolved human,... Like they’re superior in every way and so they lack the ability to empathize. Like I would have a hard time empathizing with a turtle or something like that.

This reminds me of Matt Damon being proud in an interview that he stopped using the f-slur in late 2020 or early 2021...

It moved that direction with Brexit. I think Northern Ireland and England are pretty closely tied, but there is some (justifiable) animosity directed at England from the other countries in the UK...

Toyota sort of invented Just-In-Time inventory control and they’re dedicated to it. As a result, they do it better than almost anyone.

There are historical reasons for poor participation. Automatic voter registration and universal mail in voting tends to help.

I’m hearing lots of really bad things about the Dem’s campaign so far. I don’t know how accurate they are. It seems like it was a dog shit campaign,...

Dimes to dollars the cops who quit are exactly the ones that you want to quit. Hiring better replacements won’t fix most of the issues, but keeping the pressure up and making sure that taking a job with the police department is going to involve having your actions scrutinized to make sure you aren’t abusing your…