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Debt is something one should not hold for long, as simple logic dictates. An EMD is still a debt, and as much interest as one can collect from buying the bond, there isn't any point in holding it for too long because your capital is at stake there. And your capital is always larger than the total interest earned in the bond. It is compounding that makes big money, but the longer a debt is owed, the more likely it is going to be a bad debt; there isn't any time for the compounding to churn out a 500% profit. While one may argue that this isn't a problem because the investors are pooling in their money, they forget that most, if not all investors, use something called leverage. And where does the proportionate money from the leverage come from? Central banks. And where does the money from the central banks (as of 2009) come from? The government. And where does the money from the government come from? *sarcastic* I wonder if this is the cause of math being taught in school around the world - the East teaches drilling, while the West simply skim over it. Nobody is teaching the application of critical thinking and case studies to it - just formulae and concepts.
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2011-07-09, 22:07 | Link #14702 |
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Pakistan army says New York Times report is a "direct attack"
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...7681SM20110710 Are they serious ? The more inneficace they are, the biggest the ego, or what ?
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2011-07-09, 22:14 | Link #14703 |
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In light of of the abortion discussion I was actually planning to to post a video of an illegal abortion done using a coat hanger and no anesthesia. It's one of the most horrifying things I've ever seen. Medically justifiable abortion has it's standards, and abortion itself comes with a metric f-ton of possible dangerous complications even in the most well equipped hospitals.
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2011-07-09, 22:34 | Link #14704 | |
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And they only need one semester of statistics... what? Derp.
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2011-07-10, 00:03 | Link #14705 | |
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But yeah, the problem is precisely that nobody teaches using proper case studies and applications of the theories and formulae that's taught in textbooks. Really doesn't give people the opportunity to think about what they're studying and simply being taught to think. Statistics is nothing but tables and record-maintenance, really. Especially when it comes to something of a more practical nature. |
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2011-07-10, 00:36 | Link #14706 | |
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2011-07-10, 04:30 | Link #14707 | |
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Australia to tax nation's worst polluters
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2011-07-10, 05:13 | Link #14709 |
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I am usualy saying than tabloids are shity newspapers but to tallk of them as ''polution''... the classified advertissement section can't be as bad as the others sections, no ?
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2011-07-10, 05:26 | Link #14710 | |
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2011-07-10, 05:29 | Link #14711 | |
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If you ever play a game like Railroad Tycoon 3 this is quite apparent. I often max out my loans when the interest rate gets low enough. In this way it's very easy for a company to accumalate large amounts of debt. Of course you shouldn't be taking out debt to cover actual regular expenditure, and you should be careful with the type of debt you take out (fixed rate is likely a much better choice). I recall a guy who built himself a "buy to let" empire during the boom, whereby he'd buy properties, charge rent on them, and use that income from previous properties to secure against 100% loans to get even more properties. In all cases his income from rent was always greater then his expense in interest, so he just kept on buying more properties with money he essentially didn't have. A clevel scheme, but unfortunately he used variable loans and when interest rates went up.... |
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2011-07-10, 11:17 | Link #14712 |
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White House: US suspending $800M in Pakistan aid
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...07-10-10-05-36 It's about the third of the help than the US give to them.
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2011-07-10, 17:16 | Link #14713 | |
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2011-07-10, 19:32 | Link #14716 | |
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Me thinks a used condom is more useful at running the country than them.
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2011-07-10, 21:47 | Link #14719 |
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Gaddafi government in talks with France: report
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...76A00020110711 Is France changing his position ?
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