No other ships were impacted by the storm. If the captain was a European or American national he'd be all over the news. His identity is newsworthy. My guess is that the Western media is having trouble confirming the identity of the captain and/or finding any details of his identity.
To some degree, the EU (and Canada's similar practice) forces US consumers to underwrite the cost of R & D that creates many of these drugs in the first place.
Related question, on the demand side. I'm looking to have a pdf of a world war two unit book printed and hardcover bound, to recreate it as a gift. I'd like high quality but the online services in this space seem low-quality. Is there a web service for transforming pdfs into high quality books?
The other solution is shrinking the size, scope, and complexity of government. Trump is able to abuse the tax system because the code is impossible to understand, which creates the conditions for corruption.
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I don't think this is true at the CEO level. A big reason why CEO's get big pay packages is to incentivize all the aspiring middle managers to work hard.
The F35 is the Space Shuttle of the military budget. Does everything, but nothing well. Is so complicated and un-maintainable that it consumes the entire budget. Let's hope the F35 doesn't cost as many lives as the Space Shuttle or a similar project, the Osprey.
The FDA blocked private testing at a critical point early in the coronavirus. The FDA keeps many lifesaving treatments out of the US, at a large and unseen cost. For example, the FDA blocked UVB sunscreens for a decade after they were permitted in Europe. Those extra US skin cancer deaths are "unseen" but are casualties of the FDA. In turn, the FAA allowed Boeing to "self-regulate" approvals of the MAX and after the first plane went down, still deemed it to be airworthy.
I agree but why supersonic passenger jet (a product category with a high profile failure) versus starting with a next-gen regional jet? Or a luxury private jet?
Business travel is lucrative but only like 12% of the air travel market. It seems the market opportunity is a modern Zeppelin, not the next Concorde. An airship that is environmentally efficient, fun to travel on, has plenty of passenger space, and is perceived as safe. Airships could have far more landing sites than traditional aircraft, let alone a plane with a sonic boom. Also the future may feature SpaceX rockets for super fast global transport.
A wealth tax would have limited the amount of early investment available to Amazon (and the start-up ecosystem as a whole), and it very well might have forced liquidation of shares at critical points in the company's early history when Bezos was wealthy on paper as an Amazon shareholder.
Brigade's opinion of the situation does not make it a mistake. The question is more the process at Citibank and Revlon. And prepayment isn't really a mistake in the sense that Brigade received an unjustified windfall. I think Brigade will win, and Citibank will have to take the loss.
But the hedge fund is owed that exact amount of money from Revlon. It is an accidental pre-payment by Citibank, it isn't just a clerical error where the recipient has no claim on the funds. And it is likely that Revlon is going to default on their loan in the future, which probably factored into the the hedge fund's decision-making.
Yeah another thing that happened in 1981 was Congress created the first R & D tax credit. I wonder if that impacted the structure of labs-- it definitely has increased net research spending but has a lot of rules.
It is pretty strange to blame the "more relaxed antitrust environment in the 1980s" when it was the 1982 anti-trust breakup of Ma Bell that destroyed Bell Labs and ended the monopoly profit flows that subsidized the telecom labs.
Agree 100%. The reason is that the big tech contractors hire legions of H1-B visa holders (and lobbyists to protect the H1-B program). These workers are paid less than Americans and are tightly bound to their employer-- they risking losing their US status and will eventually be deported if they lose their jobs. Its another way corporate America uses the political system to abuse American workers, create a compliant workforce that can't easily get hired away. It limits opportunity here.
Congress, when passing a law, can't anticipate and prescribe what to do in every possible case or scenario. That implementation detail is the role of the executive branch, with oversight by the courts. That's already played out with the successful litigation on the original blanket ban by MIT and Harvard. Of course Congress can always step in and explicitly amend the law, or refuse to fund the executive's implementation.