A lot of people seem to forget that most car purchases are either impulse buys or need buys, neither of which tend to warrant the scrupulous research that we as enthusiasts are likely to do.

A person comes into a bunch of money and can now afford their dream car (I’ve always wanted a Lamborghini), so they go to a…

When I worked in the industry (for a top rated Honda dealership down here in Tampa) there were two incontrovertible rules we had to follow as newbies: 1. Don’t outright quote the final price to the customer until you’ve spoken to a sales manager and 2. Before the customer leaves, always bring the manager out to speak…

I was looking at a ‘94 Corvette a few years back, called in the morning of and the salesperson I spoke to said they had it. Drove about an hour to the dealership, turned out a different salesperson had sold it that very same morning.

Having worked in the industry, you’d be surprised at how dismal the communication is…

This is all too common here in Tampa where most dealerships (namely new ones) are dominated by a handful of conglomerates that merge their offerings on a single page. While it’s becoming clearer for the customer to recognize that car A is at dealer B even though they see it on website C, it was a pain when I was in…

People say this, and while I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, think about it this way.

If a sales person tells someone that car A is notorious for having problems, there’s a good chance that the potential buyer will now be wary about all of the other cars (especially the used ones) on the lot. Then the question…

Economically, the Justice Department is in a bit of a bind.

The barriers to entry for many of these industries are huge. Not just because the largest entities can gobble up the smaller ones whenever they’d like (often with a DoJ rubber stamp), but also the fact that they control enough free capital that they can often…

Hmm, I watched it last night (rather, early in the morning) and I don’t recall seeing him. I’ll have to rewatch it for his appearance.

EDIT: Just saw the scene, and it was one I actually skipped through (which, unfortunately, was all too common an occurrence).

While Johns is a creator himself, he’s still an executive and a producer, and the ultimate goal is for the movie to make as much money as possible. Because of that, it wouldn’t surprise me if his colleagues and others on that level basically leaned on him to shy away from using Cyborg as the centerpiece (or audience…

My apologies. I should’ve been more clear.

I’m in favor of raising the minimum wage. I’m sure that we will get to $15 come hell or high water. But the combination of the economic realities (small businesses are reeling) and political realities (the Dems don’t have the votes and attempting to force Manchin or Sinema…

Dolemite was really good, and R-rated. This movie really showed that it was written by a committee of writers (namely Kenya Barris), and outside of a few moments, it didn’t feel like an Eddie Murphy movie but instead a long-form episode of Black-Ish (with all of Barris’ worst writing traits coming through).

Wesley…

I could see the premise being the heirs of Winston and Mortimer Duke coming after Billy Ray and Louis and attempting to bankrupt them after what they did to their fathers/grandfathers/family name. You can handwave Winston and Mortimer getting the stack of money from Prince Akeem in Coming to America as them having…

I thought Clerks 2 was a funnier movie than the original, but overall I agree with your sentiment.

Honestly, aside from Eddie doing other characters, Wesley Snipes is the funniest part of the movie.

You do realize that survey was taken at the start of 2020, before Covid-19 hit? Business owners are always optimistic when the economy was doing well, but after this downturn, and after so many business went belly-up even with PPP loans and other government intervention, attempting to tack on minimum wage increases…

So if there is no subsidy, how does this tax help small business who are gonna be on the hook for the $15/hr wage hike as well? If people are making the claim that it will somehow expand the labor force, the entities who can least afford the increase in the minimum wage are small businesses. Unless the phase-in for…

You make excellent points, and I think you make my salient one as well.

Like Bitcoin, you can easily flip Rolexes, as you said, irrespective of the fact their prices have been going up due to a mixed demand (people who want one on the rest + those who want to resell them). Much of the value is tied to perceived…

Honestly, Trump was hilariously ineffective at whipping votes for things that he particularly wanted done. He couldn’t stay out of his own way. His two areas of good fortune was that he had a strangehold on the GOP base of voters (meaning that GOP House and Senate members wouldn’t want to oppose him for fear of losing…

But it doesn’t resolve the underlying issue for small businesses. Assuming they institute the tax on large corporations, what is the government going to do? Subsidize small businesses? What then constitutes a small business? What’s to stop a business a few employees over the cutoff from simply eliminating positions so…

Hmm, I’m assuming you meant “they’d start giving/providing” dividends and not “buying” dividends, so I’ll bite.

I disagree with your professor. BH stock, historically, has been both a relatively safe investment due to the nature of their diversification and the good stewardship by Buffet, Munger, and the rest of the…

You’re absolutely right.

However, the fact of the matter is this. The $15/hr hike is an idea put forth by Dems who, based upon their state and/or district, are in safe seats. We just picked up both Senate seats in red Georgia based upon Warnock and Ossof promising not $15/hr minimum wage hike, but $2k in stimulus…