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crazyideaman

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    Comment #31622645

    I just ran across my 3.5" disks for this along with some of the support tools! Finding this book in the mall bookstore and seeing the ad in the back was a revelation for me. Best $…

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    Comment #26560959

    Funniest rejection I've gotten: I once applied to mid-size company and during the phone screen helped them understand the role they wanted/needed was actually a senior program mana…

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    Comment #25484509

    Looks like the report I was looking at was a bit dated and they don't provide the same chart in the 2019 annual report. Here is an older one though on page 92. https://www.goldmans…

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    Comment #25482261

    They are investigated for shorting a market? I find that unlikely. I'm not trying to pick on Goldman. They were just an example of a large institution that makes huge amounts of mo…

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    Comment #25482129

    No. They sold an equal number of future contracts so they were flat and did not need to take inventory. That part is a routine shorting scenario. The odd part of this is that marke…

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    Comment #25481964

    The TAS contracts required them to buy at settlement price. They obviously did not want inventory so they sold an equal number of contracts. (Sell high, buy low). That much is a ro…

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    Comment #25481879

    A group of retail traders buy contracts requiring them to buy at settlement price. (TAS) They then sell contracts to get them to a flat position so they don't actually have to take…

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    Comment #25481849

    53% of their revenue is from sales and trading. I'm only saying is that if Goldman Sachs had done this short there would not have been any outrage, calls for investigation and so o…

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    Comment #25481718

    Last year Goldman Sachs made 18 billion dollars and were profitable 236/251 days. 41 of those days they made more than 100 million dollars. Institutional traders like this routinel…

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    Comment #17474000

    Vue's single file components (SFC) require a build tool such as Webpack or Browserify. See https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/single-file-components.html

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    Comment #10125701

    You could remove all perverse incentives by putting all fines, fees, etc into a state fund that is paid back annually to citizens via a rebate of some sort. All funding of governme…