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MEH - is also good for Mass taxpayers. ]]> Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:54:31 -0500
MEH - is also good for Mass taxpayers. ]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/172906-are-markets-headed-for-an-800-point-blow-off-day?source=feed#comment-756898 756898 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:16:26 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/news/market_currents/post/36270?source=feed#comment-755047 755047 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:43:13 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/172656-sidelined-cash-fuel-for-the-fire?source=feed#comment-755040 755040 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:34:31 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/172550-is-a-weak-dollar-creating-a-bubble?source=feed#comment-754667 754667 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:24:07 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/160996-buying-apple-today-like-buying-microsoft-in-1998?source=feed#comment-753756 753756 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:12:09 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/172262-the-unsustainable-lie-of-inflation?source=feed#comment-753547 753547 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:06:43 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/172146-watching-the-usd-drop-here-s-what-you-should-really-be-watching?source=feed#comment-753523 753523 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:39:43 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/172170-may-the-lloyd-be-with-you-blankfein-doing-god-s-work?source=feed#comment-752101 752101 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:14:47 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/171819-10-2?source=feed#comment-749647 749647

On Nov 07 07:40 AM Dan in mpls wrote:

> You may think that minimum wage is for kids but that is because you
> don't know many people who live on it and do survive. In many towns
> across America one can rent a 2 bedroom apartment for $400.00 very
> easily. I know that I have not been able to raise the rents on my
> rental housing in Minneapolis for the last 8 years. Apartment rentals
> are therefore getting cheaper by the year. Across the globe families
> do live in multi generational households. This will most probably
> become the norm as families pull together to fill the Mc Mansions
> that dot the countryside sucking energy and now commonly house two
> people.
> Most of the millionaires who are reading this seem rather sure that
> our country isn't gong to be the same free spending country we have
> all grown accustomed to yet most here cannot fathom life at a five
> dollar an hour wage. It would be better for millions more people
> to be working and creating something than sitting out this great
> recession in depression and helplessness. I would expect that we
> will have to wait for inflation to lower the minimum wage before
> we will see hiring on a large scale. Vast swathes of the younger
> generations have no work ethic so they should not expect to have
> what their parents did, nor will they. At some point the free ride
> legions of the poor are getting from the government will have to
> end as America joins most other nations of the world in what we must
> call a more normal (poorer) lifestyle. We really are no longer the
> land of the free and the home of the brave. The current Administration
> is working desperately to mold the nation into one that is a lot
> more like Europe. This will have to include unemployment levels similar
> to what they have suffered unless we create a wage that matches the
> skill set of the poor and lower middle classes We need a lower
> minimum wage to help the newly employed build job skills like showing
> up to work the day after they get paid and staying sober and drug
> free.
> At the current levels of Federal deficit spending, the lower middle
> class will be basically reduced to the living on the minimum wage
> that you think is so beneath the American worker as it stands now.
> It would be far better to put people to work than to create debt
> and and wait for inflation to do the job for us.]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:56:34 -0500

On Nov 07 07:40 AM Dan in mpls wrote:

> You may think that minimum wage is for kids but that is because you
> don't know many people who live on it and do survive. In many towns
> across America one can rent a 2 bedroom apartment for $400.00 very
> easily. I know that I have not been able to raise the rents on my
> rental housing in Minneapolis for the last 8 years. Apartment rentals
> are therefore getting cheaper by the year. Across the globe families
> do live in multi generational households. This will most probably
> become the norm as families pull together to fill the Mc Mansions
> that dot the countryside sucking energy and now commonly house two
> people.
> Most of the millionaires who are reading this seem rather sure that
> our country isn't gong to be the same free spending country we have
> all grown accustomed to yet most here cannot fathom life at a five
> dollar an hour wage. It would be better for millions more people
> to be working and creating something than sitting out this great
> recession in depression and helplessness. I would expect that we
> will have to wait for inflation to lower the minimum wage before
> we will see hiring on a large scale. Vast swathes of the younger
> generations have no work ethic so they should not expect to have
> what their parents did, nor will they. At some point the free ride
> legions of the poor are getting from the government will have to
> end as America joins most other nations of the world in what we must
> call a more normal (poorer) lifestyle. We really are no longer the
> land of the free and the home of the brave. The current Administration
> is working desperately to mold the nation into one that is a lot
> more like Europe. This will have to include unemployment levels similar
> to what they have suffered unless we create a wage that matches the
> skill set of the poor and lower middle classes We need a lower
> minimum wage to help the newly employed build job skills like showing
> up to work the day after they get paid and staying sober and drug
> free.
> At the current levels of Federal deficit spending, the lower middle
> class will be basically reduced to the living on the minimum wage
> that you think is so beneath the American worker as it stands now.
> It would be far better to put people to work than to create debt
> and and wait for inflation to do the job for us.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/171819-10-2?source=feed#comment-749645 749645 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:51:00 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/239719-james-quinn/34621-what-if-john-mccain-was-president?source=feed#comment-748842 748842 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:58:08 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/171741-gold-transforming-into-a-completely-demonetized-wealth-asset?source=feed#comment-748635 748635 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:22:50 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/171413-thursday-outlook-commodities-global-markets?source=feed#comment-746767 746767 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:58:11 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/171491-are-reports-of-the-dollar-s-death-premature?source=feed#comment-746519 746519 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:31:06 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/98115-john-lounsbury/34415-financial-greed-and-christianity?source=feed#comment-746511 746511
Unless, ... Are they long Christianity? LOL. ]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:25:57 -0500
Unless, ... Are they long Christianity? LOL. ]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/170298-grantham-greenblatt-see-value-in-quality-10-guru-strategy-stocks?source=feed#comment-743977 743977 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:13:52 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/170485-utilities-get-dividends-paid-in-euros?source=feed#comment-743971 743971

On Nov 03 01:23 AM THofler wrote:

> To Gaucho's point,
>
> My French Total (TOT) gets hit with a 15% div. withholding tax. In
> an IRA this is lost, but if it were being held in a taxable account,
> I can declare the withholding on my tax return and get it fully refunded.
>
>
> My Italian ENI (E) gets hit with a 35% withholding tax. If the total
> foreign withholding taxes I declare on my return is less than a few
> thousand dollars, then I get a full refund. If I have a much larger
> withholding to declare then I only get refunded at the 15% level.
>
>
> So Total's withholding is good (fully refunded) if I'm a rich guy,
> but ENI's is not.
>
> I believe that neither the U.K. nor Brazil has any withholding tax.
>
>
> Does anyone know the story with Germany's withholding tax??]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:07:53 -0500

On Nov 03 01:23 AM THofler wrote:

> To Gaucho's point,
>
> My French Total (TOT) gets hit with a 15% div. withholding tax. In
> an IRA this is lost, but if it were being held in a taxable account,
> I can declare the withholding on my tax return and get it fully refunded.
>
>
> My Italian ENI (E) gets hit with a 35% withholding tax. If the total
> foreign withholding taxes I declare on my return is less than a few
> thousand dollars, then I get a full refund. If I have a much larger
> withholding to declare then I only get refunded at the 15% level.
>
>
> So Total's withholding is good (fully refunded) if I'm a rich guy,
> but ENI's is not.
>
> I believe that neither the U.K. nor Brazil has any withholding tax.
>
>
> Does anyone know the story with Germany's withholding tax??]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/170526-property-values-set-to-fall-43-from-current-depressed-levels?source=feed#comment-742719 742719 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:05:11 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/170492-unresolved-financial-troubles-three-more-warning-shots?source=feed#comment-740060 740060 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:40:08 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/169488-george-soros-the-guru-outlook?source=feed#comment-736740 736740
I believe from his investing style he doesn't see politics, just the "truth" of how to make money on a position. You may not like him politically, but if you learn from him, you'll have a heck of a lot more money in your pocket.

I'm still wrestling with this reflexivity idea, but the guy is a savant so I take his investing commentary quite seriously.


On Oct 29 09:29 AM p church wrote:

> If Soros is so smart, why is he a liberal?]]> Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:55:17 -0400
I believe from his investing style he doesn't see politics, just the "truth" of how to make money on a position. You may not like him politically, but if you learn from him, you'll have a heck of a lot more money in your pocket.

I'm still wrestling with this reflexivity idea, but the guy is a savant so I take his investing commentary quite seriously.


On Oct 29 09:29 AM p church wrote:

> If Soros is so smart, why is he a liberal?]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/168697-why-apple-is-worth-80?source=feed#comment-733750 733750 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:21:40 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/168890-inflation-vs-deflation-battle-hits-key-inflection-point?source=feed#comment-731131 731131 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:02:43 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/news/market_currents/post/34904?source=feed#comment-727409 727409 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:10:41 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/168421-john-meriwether-is-back-risk-must-be-too?source=feed#comment-726804 726804 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:29:01 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/168208-meriwether-when-failed-genius-is-rewarded?source=feed#comment-726796 726796 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:26:20 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/167745-hands-off-goldman-bonuses?source=feed#comment-723174 723174 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:13:22 -0400