A portion of that stock valuation has to do with competitors adopting TESLA charging standards. At this point it might be the growth factor Elon needs with faltering sales due to increased competition.

Chasing sales is never a strong business model when your margins start to suffer. 

The issue has always been about State’s Rights and how citizens exercise them. In the case of Abortion Care, simply by getting it on legislative agendas and getting popular vote is the corrective solution on State Ballots. Looking to the Federal System is pointless. When the topic of Abortion Rights is discussed the…

Ah, this is more akin to $12,000 a year in registration costs...

The disclosure statements for Federal Employees require the listing of vehicles and how they were paid for. It’s mostly pro-forma garbage that have no real implications UNLESS you are being upgraded or hold certain levels of Clearances. Lots of people filing those forms every April where the accounting system flags…

Getting 2/3 of both Houses of Congress to vote to amend? As currently made-up? Or getting States to call for a Constitutional Convention? Then waiting for States to ratify?

One issue I can offer is having several acres and a driveway that is too long to shovel by hand. A battery powered snow blower can’t do the job necessitating the tractor... so that time sink in the summer comes back as a savings in the winter.

There’s too much connect the dots in the economic thesis presented and it’s making me cringe at the result.

I’m aware of all those things, including the profit taking some individuals would flip tickets just to pocket some money rather than go see the Jets minus Rodgers. (this game might have been flexed out of the schedule if it had occurred later in the season.)

It’s the column lengths that people are going to putting so much weight on this romance(?). I think Travis Kelce is a very good player and seemingly a good guy, so no bone to pick with him or really Taylor Swift.

The people who were willing to pay large sums to sit in an 82,000 person stadium simply because Taylor Swift was somewhere in the building is sad. The NBC Nightly News (NBC broadcast the game) spent 4 minutes covering this?

6'3" before turning 12... I feel your pain with having grown 7 inches over the course of 3 1/2 months. This would have been in the mid-80's when they absolutely thought it was “all in your head”. Most of the time my classmates came up to my armpits and they would hold me out of gym classes because they thought I would…

You can blame TV for that one. The 1960 Debates between JFK and Richard Nixon gave people an opportunity to see and hear from someone right in their living room. It’s a Keynesian Beauty Contest perverted by monied interests simultaneously offering the world but delivering nothing.

At the time I was living in Boston and there was a guy in New Hampshire who worked in a sketchy business park. He passed along everything he knew to his son, currently 70 years-old! But when he’s gone, I may need to pray nothing major happens.

My grandfather saved every dime for 5 years and worked weekends just to be able to afford it. He didn’t have money but he loved the idea of the car, so he sacrificed things to get it. When he died, I got the car and had to scrimp to pay the insurance due to still being in college. My nephew knows the car will be his…

The polling current shows 30% blaming Republicans, 23% blaming Biden specifically and 21% blaming Democrats. (These are blended averages since the numbers go wild for dem vs. Rep!)

General Leland Zevo:
Put this place on red alert. They’re as good as dead.

I think the worst thing I’ve ever had to explain to a foreign born individual was “The Electoral College”. Trying to formulate a relatable situation where direct elections only resort in another body making the ultimate choice boggled the mind. (It’s a necessary evil to compensate for population distribution, but…

I’m fortunate that I inherited this example. My grandfather never drove it in winter, stored it properly and made sure the consumables were regularly swapped out for new. (Having all the paperwork since purchase made picking through other people’s work much easier!)

My investment from 2008 would be closer to $35K today in just dollar inflation. The specialist who did the work might be charging more for labor and who knows what the true market is for original parts! (Which in my case was a couple carriage bolts and some suspension, otherwise I have a numbers matching example.)