They could do better with graduated capital gains rates, though - instead of 1 year for long term rates, make it 10 years, and a slightly higher rate for 5-10 years, higher yet for 1-5, and sky high for day trading...

The problem with Enron wasn’t the fact people were invested in company stock - it was that the people who pulled the scam, those senior executives, had their financial rewards tied to short term performance, not long term. They could pull their stunts, pump the stock, then dump their shares, pulling in small fortunes…

After being sold by Google, who only wanted the patents...

And their vaunted smartphone factory in the US closed almost immediately after opening.

Interesting, but I very much disagree with their conclusions.

See, when I need to visit a doctor for a cold or a checkup, or a preventative procedure, I could take the time to shop on price. Even a colonoscopy I was able to shop for. But those things are CHEAP. You know what isn’t cheap? Open heart surgery. Hip…

Neutral :

One thing I’d like to see is for them to push for a removal of the ban on tenured shares. Ford should readily agree to this, as their current stock structure mirrors tenured shares already through the extra voting power of the family’s stock.

But most companies are banned from using that sort of structure. For…

Yep.

Senior Executives should have good, but not insane salaries. All additional compensation should be based on LONG term performance. Yes, today much of it comes in stock options that don’t vest for a few years, but they tend to vest at very low prices, meaning minimal returns could still lead to outrageous…

1st:  It’ll be nearly impossible to convince me this is anything but empty platitudes as long as Jamie Dimon has anything to do with it.

A picture from the aftermath of his attempts blowing up in his face:

But when your argument is that those standards are too difficult to meet and therefore unrealistic, but the makers are all saying “no, we’re fine, actually”, it kinda defeats the argument as to why a weakening of standards is needed.

“The Carnival Cruise Lines, which continue to go in and out of California ports, emit more greenhouse gas on their own than entirety of Europe but god forbid someone wants to change the air filter on their car.”

So, with the EPA reportedly struggling to find scientific rationale for the rollback,

The Outback basically is a CUV at this point - it has been raised significantly over the years.  It’s actually taller than a Ford Escape. I wouldn’t consider it a car by any stretch of the imagination.

The addition of the two EVs essentially signals the end to U.S. production of the slow-selling Lincoln Continental, which Ford builds at Flat Rock Assembly alongside the Ford Mustang

This is STILL a start-up car company.

Strangely, the bit about “doubling the number of service centers in Germany to 17 locations” implies that there are 8.5 service centers there now.

There’s a reason why Ford pipes in fake engine noise into the cabin of some Mustangs - it doesn’t matter how fast it actually is to some people if it doesn’t sound fast.

0-60 times are pretty much stupid for any buyer to worry about. Few cars are actually slow on those measures anymore. Realistically a 0-60 in the 8s will be more than fast enough for nearly all normal driving.

They SHOULD concern themselves with handling - you know, the thing that might help you avoid an accident even…

2nd:  Reminds me of all the people I know who worked for Stephen Wolfram (of Mathematica fame)...

More palatable in a city than on a highway, absolutely. But even then people raise holy hell over it at times. There’s one major N/S thoroughfare near me that was 2 lanes each direction, no turn lanes, and only occasional widening for street parking. One of the VERY wealthy cities it ran through was refusing to pay…

Meh - if you look up their rents and equipment costs for those, it still doesn’t explain things... not even close.