You nailed a portion, a job’s skill gap. Gen Z isn’t being trained in most vocational skill positions and some high schools are placing such a large emphasis on college that they are ignoring other good paying jobs. Simple 5-6 week programs run through the local CC and outplacement in apprenticeships go a long way.

Structural unemployment has always been a thing. An economy considered to be healthy has roughly a 4.5% unemployment rate. The numbers people argued about this week are 18 months old in part and well known to the Fed given they are just State data that was used to smooth out the Household Survey from the BLS. (Trump…

This is why you put banking info, or frankly anything you don’t want easily accessed, in a secure folder requiring a passcode. Last time I checked they need a warrant to access given the 5th Amendment protections.

I think he’s conflating totals - Duke University (9,000 employees) with Duke Health adding 44,000 between campus and the network? No connection with HD at all...

$24K for the upgrades in 2024 money not the purchase price in its entirety.

Not with the Board in its current make-up. There aren’t enough shareholders to even force the issue... 

Doing the math... $24,593 in today money! Maybe if they had thrown in the SHO engine upgrades, but not for some struts and seats.

The perception that Musk is some Tech Genius and saw an underlying value to Twitter others were missing started this mess. Add in the extreme over-valuation he made in the initial bid (which he was forced to pay after the courts were brought in), his backers should have done better diligence.

Credit Ratings...

You were off by the purchase price of any of the cars listed in Erin’s piece! (see other comment in thread)

Harvey Mudd... 2024-25!

Now we have Tesla’s longer-term problem, pricing vs sales. They may never achieve the cost levels needed to not be a 1st World purveyor of vehicles. Model 3s may be a commodity in the US/Europe/China, but South/Central America or Africa? Decades before the infrastructure can support those types of vehicles.

Musk can’t get his car below the reduced tariff $35k threshold without raising questions in other markets.

Secretary of Transportation designate?

It’s possible he just did the online application and never bothered to follow through when they sent him the Letter of Rejection with whatever reasoning they used. Just heard no and fell for the lies at the dealer.

Part of the On-boarding is talking about their TSP (retirement) and it no longer being an Opt-In system. They also have base personnel whose singular job is to keep them out of these situations.

Car Dealerships around military bases are the worst. Kids with signing bonus are walking targets for these scumbags. The number of BH/PH lots around Ft. Meade filled with E-class, 5 Series and way too many Range Rovers waiting for their 3rd owner tells me they aren’t beating into the recruits about actually listening…

So, you’re ignoring Volvo EX40 and C40? (We’ll let the EX30 slide since it’s US on-sale date has been pushed by tariffs! Even Jalopnik wrote about the high affordability of that particular model.)

Some of that “profit” was a result of the easy money they were able to get from banks and using it towards payroll to artificially juice the numbers. There were also offsets from the Government for keeping people on payrolls but not having them do anything which led to outsized numbers. (Not having the lights on is a…

The New York Fed put out a paper talking about how groceries and their pricing structure was not a sign of corporate greed. Rather a result of wages growth and increased input costs and not meeting Wall Street numbers.