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> Economists, board members, bankers, c-level execs - the shot callers of the world are much less clever and equipped to lead than they collectively think they are. I completely ag…

legal != smart

Agree with Jacques M on solar, and would also add that much of the battery tech is Panasonic's and self-driving is a long ways away from being road-ready.

"Shorts" didn't cause the CEO to invent a $420/share offer for the company out of whole cloth, nor did they force him to smoke a blunt on video. The mental gymnastics you have to d…

"Wall Street" is not betting on them to go bankrupt. Collectively, investors value this company that produces, at best, 7K cars a week at $45 billion. The idea that one quarter of …

Yes, it was what passes for a joke attempt on a Friday afternoon.

I'll pick one up in the liquidation sale.

"Most of the other units are Airbnb rentals." Now there is some fodder for the anti-short term rental crowd.

Protectionism would benefit some U.S. farmers, but certainly not all. The U.S. is a net exporter of corn, soybeans, dairy, etc. to Mexico and they are our third largest agricultura…

The US air system also used to be much more expensive and served far fewer routes, pricing out a significant portion of consumers: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/…

Definitely sarcasm. Bone dry delivery.

I'm not sure they vision you're describing is the direction private equity would take it, but with the major tech buyers shying away it does seem like a private exit is the most li…

It turns out Pew found the opposite in their 2016 poll of global opinion of the United States. Favorability of the U.S. increased from 50% favorable to 57% in Germany from 2015 - 2…

> Yeah he is controversial, but is he worthy of so much attention? He is running to be the most powerful political figure in the world...so yes.

Cool. What do you call RT and Fox News?

If you haven't seen "a shred" of NYT coverage of Hillary's email scandals then all that means is you haven't looked for it. They covered it ad nauseum.

The argument that someone was wrong about something once and thus should no longer be listened to about anything is both pervasive and dangerous.

Please, the media covers Hillary extensively and it is almost always negative. This story is a great example - tantalizing headlines about impropriety but then actually nothing tha…

While there is certainly a credentialed labor issue in higher education, we don't exactly have a shortage of PhDs and it's not like there has been a rapid ramping up in compensatio…

“Over the past two years we’ve been focused on growth, operational excellence, and customer satisfaction with a primary focus on profitability,” AptDeco’s co-founder Kalam Dennis t…

If you are interested in political participation one place to start would be state and local races - you are more likely to find unconventional candidates at those levels that don'…

Per your second point, there is certainly a strong profit motive for keeping terminally-ill patients alive longer than they otherwise might want on the part of health-care provider…