We're not at war with China. China is our largest trading partner. Realistically we could never be at war with China because our lives would be terribly hard without them. Stop wanting to be at war with China. Do they realize what that means???
moujikman
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Yeah, it's a major consideration when determining if a merger should happen, e.g. Krogers. Just because its more efficient doesn't mean you get consumer benefit because you should expect them to profit maximize with monopoly rents. I mean definitely +1 on nationalize them rather than let capitalism go unfettered, but I'm making a general observation that large companies can only be large because they can extract monopoly rents, rather than just a barrier to entry to match efficiencies of scale thing.
I hope they know they'll become old one day and will need your help, I hope you remind them of how shitty they treated you and you get closure.
Large companies can only exist if they receive monopoly rents. Otherwise incumbents would be outcompeted by challengers and we'd see a convergence of many small firms with low profit margins. So yeah, its the responsibility of the government to regulate monopolization and they aren't doing it.
Glad they'll overflow so I can still go rat spotting.
Meat glue (Transglutaminase) is a heavily used food additive in the US and is GRAS (generally recognized as saf). Manufacturers don't need to report in their ingredients because supposedly the enzyme deactivates when it heats up. I was playing around with it in bread making to increase the amount of gluten in bagels. I stopped when I read some research papers that the health effects were not clearly understood and some people have raised some alarm bells that it might not be.
My grandfather gave me some dilapidated house in some place called Stardew something. It was a dump so I stayed at my job at Joja corporate. Some guy named Pierre wanted to buy it for like a fraction of what it was worth, real predatory guy. Last I checked it was infested with some sort weird bug. It almost sounded like it could talk, the weirdest things. Sometimes, I think about visiting, just out of curiosity, but then the quarterly reports come due, and keep forgetting about it. Recently, Pierre’s emails has gone from predatory lowball offers to ranting about the 'soul of the valley' and how my land is supposedly pivotal to some community revival fantasy. Honestly, if the bugs are half as persistent as Pierre, maybe they deserve to inherit the place.
Accidentally chewing apple seeds release hydrogen cyanide, a fast-acting toxic chemical. They don't us munching on that part.
100%, it can get even crazier too, if people think there is inflation then it causes inflation. Macro-economics isn't real and its 80% in peoples heads, 20% material conditions.
Inflation is governed by the supply of money. Monetary Policy controls how much money is in circulation and managed by the central bank. Fiscal Policy controls selling bonds to the public to make up for finance budget deficits without increasing inflation, and is managed by the government.
So the government borrows (e.g. sells bonds to the public) to raise money without increasing inflation.
Any blockers. Yes many.