We don’t know if it happened. The only person who knows if it actually happened are Woody Allen and his daughter, who may not be remembering the events exactly as they happened.

It’s hard to explain the appeal of an artist. Some people will love, say, Andy Warhol, while others will look at his work and scratch their heads. Same goes with film.

Perhaps they genuinely don’t think Allen is guilty or, at the very least, they don’t really know if he’s guilty.

Some of the people on the list may think Woody Allen is innocent, just as others who have worked with him, like Firth, likely think he’s guilty.

I don’ t think that most people spend their days thinking about how much stock Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates own. Meaning, those who complain about “wealth inequality” are really talking about the amount of economic stress on the bottom, say, 40%.

Okay, I’ll answer the question. Bring back the top marginal rates to the levels of, say, 1980- enough to, with this economy, balance the budget and fund a pretty strong national healthcare program- and we’re good.

I don’t think Trump’s latest remarks surprise anyone except those saying they were surprising. In fact, I didn’t think they were nearly as bad as many of the things Trump has said over the past two and a half years.

No, it’s actually very much in the news. However, it seems that countries are kind of keeping their fingers crossed and hoping that they don’t jinx what may turn out to be some sort of agreement.

And this, more than perhaps anything else, was why I was more than happy to support Hillary Clinton.

Lol

It’s absolutely not a gotcha question; I’m trying to understand your logic here, as you talked about redistributing “all” wealth downwards.

“There is literally no reason not to...”

Perhaps they’re clever enough, but not particularly intellectually or emotionally deep.

Yeah, the importance of market cap cannot be overstated, both for an individual investor (smaller cap, greater growth potential) and to a company (larger cap companies will invest much more in growth than a small cap company with the same amount of cash on the books).

Well, let’s look at it another way. If the bottom fell out of the economy stock market dropped 99% today, there wouldn’t be much wealth inequality, would there? However, life for everyone would pretty much suck, as unemployment would skyrocket.

Most of the commentary around wealth nowadays has more to do with inequality rather than the actual conditions of those outside of the top 1%. Meaning, even though many of those in the upper ranks of the lower 99% are worth well over a million, they’re considered by some to be part of the proletariat since they aren’t…

Yes, being overweight is about as unhealthy as smoking or doing cocaine.

I understand that- and, as I stated in my original post, a good place to start with a safety net expansion would be a strong national healthcare policy.

Not exactly. You have a very, very low rate of infant mortality in Scandinavian countries, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan. And, those markets are booming as well.

That’s essentially what they do in Switzerland, and it works well. Those who cannot afford the premiums obviously get help.