MeFi comment:
"Don't be a hater just because we have big vocabularies.
Or because my vocabulary consists mostly of words like "QI" and "ZA."" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by box, merelyglib
10 days ago
Ask comment:
"Everyone hates financial accounting.
Not me. I love financial accounting--it's the only thing keeping me sane in this chaotic world.
Only in financial accounting is there truly and literally balance.
For every dollar in assets there is a..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by velvet winter
13 days ago
Ask comment:
"Depends on what you want to do...if you're very ambitious, I tend to agree with the saying caddis mentions about only a top 10 school being worthwhile. If you are indeed very ambitious, I'd get the accounting degree, work at a Big 4 accounting firm..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Mjolnir
3 weeks ago
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"I grew up and went to school in the Phoenix area. I moved away for a couple years and then had a strong desire to move back. I was sick of my job in NYC and missed my old college and high school friends and my family. The first couple months were..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Mjolnir
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Asparagirl said: As mentioned, if IndyMac's assets are sold off -- literally marked to market! -- then many other banks' assets must finally be dragged out into the light and marked to market.
I don't follow your logic here (and it's not because..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spiderwire
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Well, if you don't make it an FPP, we'll never get the MeTa callout when someone says "What do you expect from a state whose official motto is a threat?". Wouldn't want to miss out on one of those again...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mudpuppie, dirtdirt
Last month
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"...fight hard against the Republican Congress to push through the Clinton tax hike for the highest income earners
Er, let me re-phrase that: he had to fight hard against Republicans in Congress to push through the 1993 plan. Republicans didn't..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yort
Last month
MeTa comment:
"That was the AskMe version of "My penis is so big that it's uncomfortable to ride a bicycle. What other problems will my big penis and I encounter?..." [
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favorited 99 times, recently by lumensimus, [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST], blacklite, electroboy, Greg Nog, snoogles, lekvar, jayder, Smallpox, yhbc, dersins, kittens for breakfast, besotted
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The United States has a population of over 300,000,000 while Canada comes in at a little over 30,000,000 with 80% of that population within hours drive of the U.S. border.
We got all the people, they got all the oil and water...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by SassHat, Afroblanco
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Stop responding to konolia, you dorks. No one reads your special snowflake retort because everyone is too busy trying to come up with their own." [
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favorited 23 times, recently by tehloki, swerve, oaf, klangklangston, Rock Steady, Richard Daly, Ludi, nasreddin, 235w103, anthill, PostIronyIsNotaMyth, SassHat, unmake, xthlc, Senor Cardgage, mudpuppie, the other side, homunculus, theclaw, Skorgu, dyoneo, Mayor Curley, wtdoor
Last month
Ask comment:
"I'm a proponent of index fund investing, as I've repeated on AskMe many times. But if I could think of one major drawback to that strategy, it is ikkyu2's point #2 (that an index fund will invest in companies you may consider socially irresponsible)...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by LC, any major dude
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Where do the US presidential candidates stand on the issue of fixed gear bikes? It may come down to that for me." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Telf, Jahaza
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Moodstream sliders
I was expecting little greasy hamburgers, so now my mood is shitty." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dmd
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Back Story: Gore Vidal Interview.
C'mon, ericb, the money quote from that article deserves quoting:
Me: You had a calling. You knew what you wanted to do from an early age -- you needed to write. So many people today in the world suffer because..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
Last month
MeTa comment:
"I think the problem is that, essentially, people are cheap...
I agree that people are cheap. They come here looking for a little context about their problem so that they aren't totally head-over-heels confused when they go on the clock with an..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by davejay, cjets, mudpuppie
Last month
MeTa comment:
"dersins: No, I'm just challenging your assertion that a lawyer who gave "free advice" would be out of a job. Clearly that's not the case. This and your overall whole black-and-white approach to legal questions on AskMe just strike me as..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cjets
Last month
MeFi comment:
"For baseball, meanwhile, sacrifice is an actual statistic: The best fail in 70 percent of their at-bats.
This isn't right either. On-base percentage is a better stat to use and the top 10 hitters end up in the .400 - .500 range. In basketball, the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by peacheater, rokusan
Last month
Ask comment:
"Teenagers should go to as many concerts as they can." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by nenequesadilla, infinitefloatingbrains, Brainy, samthemander, thisisnotkatrina, Bigfoot Mandala, gursky, Who_Am_I, Floydd, fishfucker, Julnyes, thetenthstory, contraption
Last month
Ask comment:
"I sometimes get strange looks when I say I’m searching for a partner who is outgoing, liberal, likes sports, and likes the same type of music/food/movies.
This look means: Yeah, you and everyone else. Stop acting like you're special...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fleacircus
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"This leaves me unsure whether or not to post my grainy out-of-focus possibly-fake cellphone video of a drunken cokehead smashing into the First Annual Take Back The Streets Vagina Bicycle Race.
This is what Projects is for...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Nattie, Inspector.Gadget
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"klangklangston: I'll pay you $500 for your blocks and send them to kmennie if you can create a set that match the quality of the Novanatural blocks. We can send them to some third-party to make the determination. And you'd have some limited amount of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by flatluigi, padraigin
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"He's an idiot, but that doesn't mean he's a pedophile.
As someone who just took a ride in an elevator without remembering to choose a floor, I am very relieved to hear this...." [
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favorited 45 times, recently by gjc, justonegirl, deborah, M Edward, mykescipark, AV, theredpen, Esoquo, palomar, peacheater, Brainy, DevilsAdvocate, bendy, gordie, Dormant Gorilla, ChuqD, pyrex, oneirodynia, shmegegge, M.C. Lo-Carb!, nola, Drastic, bonaldi, flibbertigibbet, bkudria, roll truck roll, UbuRoivas, trondant, ORthey, hototogisu, GoingToShopping, davejay, SassHat, Etaoin Shrdlu, socratic, hjo3, ThePinkSuperhero, Espoo2, konolia, CunningLinguist, subbes, rux, OmieWise, spaceman_spiff, Riki tiki
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"The 5 star funds at morningstar will generally beat index funds, thats why they're 5 star funds. There ARE fund managers out there (like bill miller, legg mason) who very reliably have beaten the index by significant amounts over a decade or longer...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by peacheater
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"This is probably not the best place to ask for stock picks. There are quite a few websites out there that do that, with varying degrees of quality. Fat Pitch Financial has a bunch of links (and here's another blog they left out). One of the top..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rongorongo
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"Do you already get the big glossy Barneys and Saks mailers? Like the men's mailers here." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by AceRock
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"A hedge fund that focuses on equities invests primarily in stocks (and derivatives, like put and call options, with stocks as the underlying asset). Usually there is a theme--one hedge fund may specialize in technology stocks while another looks for..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by onalark
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"This McSweeney's entry by Andy Richter has some of my favorite "non-jokes."" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jbickers
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"You Can Be a Stock Market Genius
I think Joel Greenblatt is great--his track record as an investor is incredible. He's definitely the real deal and his other book is good too. But it's not exactly "personal finance"--Greenblatt talks..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fondle
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"Learn about corporate finance and get an MBA or a CFA. Get a job investing in the equity markets. Become a successful enough investor that you can raise your own fund. Your fund will then employee a socially responsible activist strategy. The fund..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by salvia, niccolo, onepapertiger
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"These financial arms may have started out as a use of excess capital and/or a vehicle for funding the customers of the industrial segments, but that's not the case anymore. GE Capital, Textron Financial (subsidiary of Textron, which makes Bell..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by geoff., MattD
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Hi, I'm an admin for a tag called bestoftheweb, and we'd love to have this added to the group!" [
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favorited 11 times, recently by lattiboy, roll truck roll, Pinback, delmoi, flatluigi, regicide is good for you, paddysat, neustile, Silly Ashles, amarynth, vbfg
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"If we were in a calm economic environment and Bear, for non-systematic reasons, failed—say they put all their money into cheesesandwich.com or something, and they failed for that reason, then it might be appropriate to let them go bankrupt because..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by blacklite, lattiboy
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"The biggest weakness of most pick-up players is their inability to move intelligently without the ball. It's also the most overlooked talent, as evidenced by the other answers here (aside from tarvuz's, which is by far the best in the thread)...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sweetkid
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"I quit my investment banking job three years out of college and planned to get a "normal job." Unfortunately, when I got that "normal job", I hated it after two months and started to yearn for the rush of my old job.
Turns out..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ivanka, ignignokt
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"There are tomes of data dealing with this question.
Here are some quotes from David Swensen, who runs Yale's endowment:
"Domestic stocks play a central role in investment portolios for theoretical and practical reasons. The expected return..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ill3
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"People following the credit crisis will probably recognize the name of Border's activist shareholder, Pershing Square Capital. That's William Ackman's fund. The same guy who has been hounding the Fed about the financial guarantors (MBIA and Ambac,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by malaprohibita
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Q: Which of the Three Stooges do you like best?
A: Larry. I like the middleman. You can't really like Moe because he's always poking people in the eyes.
SCANDAL ALERT: Tina Fey disses Moe, accuses him of using torture techniques in violation of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Goblindegook
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Credit Suisse has like 1.2T in assets under management. 1.2T. Please stop posting terrible posts.
There's a lot of hand-waving on MeFi, but you just committed the opposite crime. Credit Suisse does have CHF 1.4T in assets, but only 44B in..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MLIS
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Also, CIT, one of the largest independent commercial finance companies, had a bit of a liquidity crisis yesterday. It drew down $7.3 billion of bank lines, the maximum it had available, and announced that it would seek to sell of $5 - $7 billion in..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MLIS
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm not sure if this has been discussed here, but the Swedish banking crisis of the early '90s is an interesting case study. Especially in comparison to Japan's problems around the time.
Excerpt from a report by Merrill Lynch’s David Rosenberg..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Free word order!
4 months ago
