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The moral of the story is that the governorship of Arkansas is an audition for hell for terrible people, Democrat and Republican alike.

My heart goes out to Claudia. Everything she said was...familiar. Read more

Appeals to nostalgia now encompass the Internet as well. Read more

I think there’s a hierarchy for most people: Read more

During World War II, the Army tried to figure out how little they could get away with feeding the soldiers in order to conserve food (or, more generously, to determine the ideal calorie content for what would, after the war, become the Meal, Combat, Individual.) Read more

I’m with you. I have an accounting degree and found to my horror a couple of years into my education that actual accounting work made my skin crawl. But it was too late to turn back at that point, so I figured “as long as I have a debt that I don’t have any real hope of paying off, might as well at least get a college… Read more

You pretty much nailed it. America is a nation of people who profess to be good Christians and then completely forget the part about love thy neighbor. Read more

I’ve been “the fraud detection guy” for two different companies (a bank and a retailer.) The hot second someone starts grilling me about what I think fraud would be, I’d be watching and counting every red cent of everything they had their hands on from that point forward. Read more

If I had a good Speyside single malt on demand along with someone willing to be beaten senseless and possibly also a pair of boxing gloves when the Drunken Monster came out (I am a brutally violent drunk, which is why I’ve been sober since 1996), I might well fall off the wagon.

Thanks for the mental image. Read more

That’s fair (and correct), and that’s why I’m a comments-section gadfly and not a professional finance journalist. Read more

If you could “easily” beat the market, everyone would do it. Day traders and system gamblers all think they’ve got it figured out, but I have both a finance minor on my accounting degree (and I was a semester’s worth of FIN electives shy of a dual-major had I decided it was worth the extra effort) and years of… Read more

The problem with democratization is that everything is reduced to the level of at best the median and at worst the lowest-intelligence participant in whatever’s being democratized. Read more

He wouldn’t have made himself the franchisee. He’d have put Don Jr. or Eric in charge of it to give them something to do while still enriching his family.

The problem with “the only folks that were hurt” is that it discounts the exact reasons why laws are in place to prevent these sorts of shenanigans. Read more

The funniest possible outcome for Barron Trump would be if he continues to grow at a freaky rate and ends up power forward or center-sized... Read more

Furthermore, long-term, nobody ever beats the market. You can beat the house in the short term and have a lucky run, just like any casino, but in the end, the entire market economy is more efficient and more effective than any individual or even sizeable group unless they’re a criminal enterprise, and even they… Read more

“The biggest lesson he taught us was “always keep at least 51% of the shares of your company”.” Read more

In point of fact, it may technically qualify as a crime. Securities law prohibits what’s known as a “pump-and-dump” scheme*, and one presumes that once this group of Redditors forces the short sellers to buy to cover the squeeze, they’ll sell their own holdings and pop the bubble themselves. Read more

Oh, this one is easy. (note: prerequisities for this involve installing a deep fryer in the White House kitchen and being able to obtain frozen bags of fries from McDonald’s) Read more