Don’t count on it. Pedantic must have been the word of the day on his calendar.

Except home loans were built under the assumption that the home would never lose value so a buyer putting 40% of their monthly income into a home was a risk, but the risk was borne by the people buying the packaged loans, not the institution making the loan.

Oh, please.

A Toyota Camry LE with basic equipment (power windows, doors, A/C, automatic transmission, etc) has barely budged in price since the late 1990s. One out the door in 1998 would run you about $19,000 plus tax ($20,218 MSRP). Today that will run you about $20,000 ($24,020 MSRP). The MSRP has only gone up a…

All across the US (http://www.graeters.com/where-to-find-…)

Ooh... only slightly worse than Carly Fiorina. Maybe he should be running for president, too...

I don’t see Graeters on here, so this list is useless. :)

Hmmm... most every one I’ve ever seen has the limitations written down - albeit in VERY fine print.

Well, legally they generally have to have a key work at some point in the event. The catch is they aren’t required to restrict the “event” to one dealership - it can be spread out over 1000 dealerships, with just one winning key mailed out. The odds of the person who gets the key actually showing up are very low, and…

Heck, I won’t hesitate to schedule my Mazda for its free oil change when they run one of these events. I’ve managed to get free first aid kits, tool kits (very cheap but still), target gift cards, etc from them all the time.

Nothing like taking your car in for a free oil change, and then stopping by Target on the way…

How anybody cannot look at anything that unhinged David Siegel does and not mock it is beyond me. That he drives an Escalade is all the proof I need that Escalades are for pompous idiots.

Of course in most of these deals, they only will give you the $5k trade in allowance if the car is no more than x years old or y miles.

Don’t think I haven’t thought of showing up in my 18 year old 165k mile beater to try to get them to give me $5k in trade. :)

Who the hell is willing to pay $95k for a Cadillac Escalade? I had no idea those things could get anywhere near that expensive. That is just f’ed up in every way imaginable.

It’s the result of a quirk more than anything. The 39.6% bracket didn’t exist after the George Bush tax cuts. During those years, as always, the tax brackets adjusted for inflation and slowly inched up in $ figures (meaning taxes dropping if your income was unchanged). The Bush tax cuts were “temporary” (because…

Not at the state and local level - there isn’t one state in the country that doesn’t have a regressive tax structure. California is one of the very least regressive - but even there, those in the bottom 20% pay 10.5% of their income in state and local taxes while the top 1% pay 8.7%.

The 85th percentile of traffic speed? I can guarantee you without a shadow of a doubt that well more than 15% of drivers are complete unsafe idiots who wouldn’t know a reasonable speed limit if a cool million rode on it. I’m terrified of the prospect of speed limits set this way.

Any “rolling coal” mods. It does absolutely nothing to improve the performance of your vehicle - in fact it makes it worse in most every way. All it does is show the world you’re a sociopathic asshole.

I give them a pass until either :

I use it on our new(er) car, but not on my 18 year old beater. The dealership has learned now not to recommend any service not in the manual when dealing with me. They’ve always been polite about it, I’ll give them that. And despite their astronomical labor rates, I’ll pay for them to do some things. Tire rotation,…

Different rockets for different missions, simply put. You need a launch site with reasonably decent weather and large expanses of uninhabited earth (generally water) to launch over. This means each launch site has geographic limitations that prevent it from being able to launch to all but a small portion of the orbits…

Nothing at all to do with the bone...