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N... not really how pricing works. Prices can only go up so much, particularly in the short term, before consumers give the company trying it the finger and either go to another company that's willing to make smaller margins to keep sales up (and there's good reasons to do that even if the raw profit is kinda' iffy), start seeking substitute goods, or just go without.

Further, with a increase in market buying power, even with reduced gain per unit sold from higher employment expenses it's very likely overall profits still increase. Unless, of course, the idiot company decides margin is more important than profit (in which case they'll be outperformed and irrelevant in short order).

So... no. Market forces aren't nearly that simple. Profit calculation doesn't work like that, at least to any substantial degree.

I mean, I can dig it was kinda' throwaway or whathaveyou... but you've still got me confused, a bit. Why would you have a problem with it from the reporters' perspective? One reporter or another basically doing X group/person/whatever's work without being explicit about it is... just kinda' normal? Very, very normal? These days, at the very least. Pretty sure for a while. Haven't noticed too many of them being particularly troubled by getting some extra renumeration for doing something they probably would have been doing anyway. Maybe there's some sort of concern to be had from some kind of idealized sort of journalistic integrity? But, uh. If you haven't noticed, journalistic integrity hasn't been the largest concern for a lot of journalists for longer than the two of us combined have been alive. Bills paid be bills paid, et al, and money in the pocket means more to be spared towards doin' other stuff. Ain't much difference between that sort of thing and reviewers being paid/bribed with goodies to review a game on the down low or somethin'.

As for two, I guess? I'unno, we don't even know who that was from. It was to the DNC, but if it was coming from someone explicitly advocating or preparing for the possibility of a clinton run, it referring to her as the candidate isn't exactly some sort of revelation. Even beyond that, there wasn't really anyone running at the time the DNC had much of a reason to care about beyond clinton, y'know? Biden was uncertain, bernie wasn't really of much concern,* and if there was anyone else really worth noting that hadn't pretty explicitly said hell no, I can't remember them. Wasn't much of a field to pare down, heh.

*And had previously given the DNC a lot of reasons not to cooperate much with 'im. Make no mistake, the guy was and still is mostly running an independent campaign, just trying to leech off the democratic party in the process. I don't blame the guy for it, and so far as his campaign went it was almost certainly a good idea, but that is kinda' how you burn bridges before they're built when you're dealing with getting support from an organization you were previously (and will quite possibly be so again in the future) in an adversarial relationship with.

... how is basic campaigning strategies a gem? Hell, that's adversarial PR in general, not just major politics focused...

... not going to lie, the thought of a gimmick match kinda' makes me want to set one up where nothing in the game has any mapmove, but every commander can free cast one of the army movement rituals.

People seem to need to be reminded occasionally, for whatever reason...

GBP/USD exchange rate looks to be normalizing at ~1.36. Dead cat bounce or hasty financiers reining in the horses?

Who can say~

Actually, I seem to remember someone or another mentioning a fair amount of the current stabilization was due to (re)investment in gold mining? Something along those lines, anyway. Which is another way of saying it may be a bounce :V

Some of it's due to the banks doing the whole flail about panicking trying to mitigate the damage thing, too, though.

His point is that the myth that the rich don't pay any taxes is just that.

Of course it is? There's only a few that would say otherwise, really, save in hyperbole. S'just not what most folks that are rumbling about rich folks and taxes are complaining about...