You do realize that Bezos doesn’t have that capital lying around and that it is tied up in Amazon stock? If he sold the stock or lost control, the value would drop substantially and wipe out his wealth and others equity, including most people who have a pension or 401k.

Well some complaints here are that they people working at the paper should have been paid more and that the quality of journalism is suffering.

If they would have had better pay, then the economics of this publication would have broke down sooner, fewer people would have been employed, and the layoff would have happened longer ago. 

Unions didn’t help themselves either. I was paying union dues but the focus was on protecting and serving the older members, often at the expense and to the long term detriment of younger workers. I was at UPS and when FedEx opened a facility (non-union), they offered higher wages and comparable benefits and a a lot…

Sure but where do you factor technology into this?

Why is this a union versus non-union issue. A business unit was shut down because people no longer consume print media and advertisers aren’t advertising in these publications anymore.

ETF’s have the potential to be the tipping point for the next recession in the same way mortgage backed securities were. Low and negative interest rates will make this potentially worse with more cheap money.

They aren’t wrong. There will be no medicare for all because unless the Democrats have a filibuster proof majority in the senate, it will won’t pass if it even gets to the floor.

“Specifically, your beach house located on the southeastern coast of America, or in the Caribbean.”

Because no one who was going to vote for Trump, cares if he uses the word retarded or mocked the journalist

It is still early on. Rick Santorum won Iowa and at this stage, candidates will continue to move in the ranking and Biden or Warren could have a gaffe or screw up that gives way to Booker, Pete, Klobuchar or a rise from Harris. 

This is all on Brown. The Raiders had out clauses because Brown has demonstrated he is a diva/head-case and ultimately a risk.

As an Eagles fan I remember TO doing sit-ups in his driveway. TO had issues but he showed up and performed and he didn’t usually make excuses for bad games, unlike NcNabb.

So now if this passes then Uber/Lyft will likely respond by capping hours.

Rates are variable and you can choose to operate at periods of higher demand to get higher pay. You can also toggle between Uber, Lyft, Amazon, DoorDash, Caviar and other services at will, with no limitations.

Splinter is probably the last source to go to on finance or real estate decisions. Agree completely on subsidized flood insurance. Even in coastal areas along the Atlantic, gulf, or along rivers, there are houses on higher elevations, where there are natural barriers to wind, etc. Then there are others where it is a…

Uber and Lyft want pricing consistency as part of their product. Too much variation isn’t what they want as a product. They offer tiers so for higher rates drivers can operate larger or more luxurious vehicles.

The list of criteria from the FBI isn’t singular but it is a set of criteria to evaluate against and states evaluate differently with a different emphasis (well explained here: https://www.thebalancesmb.com/how-the-irs-determines-independent-contractor-status-398618)

Agree how and when though? Agreement between who?

The MIT study was revised in March 2018. It changed a lot from one version to another which means it was garbage to begin with. The Stanford one remains the most comprehensive and the most recent revision is dated from March. It’s focus is gender but the data is comprehensive: https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/UberPay…