iPhone Launch Price Over Time

via Adhiboy: For anyone curious: the first couple iPhones were subsidized by phone carriers, so the iPhone cost the consumer $X, and the carrier would take care of the majority of it. This was factored into your phone plan price. Around …

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Keiser Report: Fatal price spikes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCQZR77DYFU In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss how much pharmaceutical prices have shot up since ObamaCare passed and look, in particular, at rising insulin prices and how many diabetic patients are unable to afford their …

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The energy sector is starting to price in a global slowdown; Once that default occurs…watch out Europe watch out globe

The energy sector is starting to price in a global slowdown#OOTT pic.twitter.com/2t3oWGO2PO — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) August 16, 2018 The Emerging Market Sudden Stop: 1. Build massive fiscal and trade domestic imbalances because “we have margin”2. Mirage fades. Capital flights.3. …

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Price inflation, the sinister byproduct of printing more and more fiat currency (which is the literal definition of ‘inflation’), means that even though the average US hourly wage has risen from about $4 in 1971 to $22.65 today, in actually buys less.

via pewresearch: On the face of it, these should be heady times for American workers. U.S. unemployment is as low as it’s been in nearly two decades (3.9% as of July) and the nation’s private-sector employers have been adding jobs for …

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Is Facebook Worth Its Current Price?

by John Coumarianos All assets are worth the present value of their future cash flows. Even if you haven’t been to business school and heard this financial theory, you probably have some intuitive sense that if you buy a piece …

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