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You still didn't answer the question. All politics between left and right is blackmail. It is called compromise. I don't have a problem with putting raising taxes on the table if there is a concrete, economic reason for doing so. Doing so just to make everybody feel better or because Warren...

I will play along. How are increasing taxes on whomever your target group is going to improve the lot of the OWS crowd? Nobody, even some of the smarter supporters and smarter economic minds in this country have no answer to this question. Remember the collection of additional taxes, at...

This sure is worth a good laugh: https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2011/10/30/occupy_wall_street_shrugged.html

With side dishes of Kahneman and Tversky, sprinkled with Tetlock.

OWS is asking for things that can't be fixed, only muted until they take shape in another form that nobody will be able to predict. Lack of regulation, too much regulation, regulators not doing their job, greed, corruption, etc. are not system problems, they are human problems. Regulation is...

Horses. Now it is getting good.

Hence the Occupy problem. The Washington clan is more than happy to watch the movement from a far like it is some reality show and let everybody in the movements cross hair take the heat. Either the movement is avoiding Washington by design due to the fact that the large majority of them voted...

At least the Tea Party figured out the right targets of their rage.

That is pretty much a given.

Classic Bills highlight. Thanks YB. Why don't you just kick me in the nut sack why you are at it.

YB, I was in Vegas in August. Had to hit a Wal Mart to get some supplies. Sitting there doing a charity signing all by himself was Cliff Branch. Nicest guy in the world and nobody knew who he was as we spent about 1/2 hour chatting. Got some cool pictures and he let me try on a Super Bowl...

Perhaps the fact that they don't have a coherent message says more about them collectively than we want to admit.

Thanks for the heads up YB. With all due respect to Mr. Jobs, probably MNF was the greatest invention/development/creation in my life to date. I am not smart enough to articulate how big this was for our generation. YB can probably add more to this, but where I lived we received two games...

It will only become really be fun if the dogs, firehouses, tear gas, and riot gear make an appearance.

Don't do it. Rode Amtrak to California from SLC last year. Double the pain if you don't spring for a sleeper car. If you are doing this by riding coach you will be a raving lunatic by the time you get to NYC. Did I read this correctly in that it is cheaper to fly?

Jerry wouldn't have run any plays for him.

The problem is that garbage like this wildly overstates the profitability of corporate america and understates the taxes they pay. Most businesses, even most of the corporate titans, have single digit net margins and are really crappy businesses. Verizon is a crappy business. The margins...

I am no Ben Graham when it comes to comprehensive financial statement analysis and even less competent when the light is focused on the corporate tax particulars. It seems pretty obvious that paid $2.4 Billion of some type of taxes in 2010.

You actually hit on something here. It is a bit of a circular logic in terms of the current corporate tax debate. Tax breaks, bringing money back from offshore, or whatever your particular tax angst to grind is the fact remains that this is largely a consumer balance sheet problem, not our...

It clearly states in the referenced 10-K of the amount of provision for income taxes in the income statement and the break out section discussing income taxes. This is a completely fabricated accusation. This is not a defense of Verizon. I don't care about them, but if you are going to...