hilariously, this will happen on or about when dictation is Wispr quality or better and you won't need your keyboard as much. I do second the Select All item, it's beyond frustrating.
if we are not going to export dollars, and we are going to make countries spend more of thier own money, then thier cost of borrowing will go up, they will need to rotate out of dollar assets and then traders who use the carry trade will need to unwind them as the source of borrowing (other countries very low interest rates) are no longer very low, as we now see in UK, Germany, and Japan—each hitting very fast highs for interest rates for their govt debt.
It's much more straightforward math then reading of political or vibes tea leaves.
A lot of the value of the USD is that it's the defacto currency for oil and other markets.
Other countries do business in dollars. This makes the dollar valuable as a trade currency. This means large foreign governments like(and need) to hold large amounts of USD.
The confidence in the USD is dropping very quickly, especially in Europe and Asia. This means countries will move to do business in other currencies, as those currencies will be viewed as more stable(or whatever other reason).
Are employees at google not being paid for what they're risking?
An investor risks their post tax capital, and then when it works like google gets the upside and when it fails they get...shares in blackberry or IBM.
An employee risks their time, which they are guaranteed by law at least for the time they risk, to be compensated in cash and benefits.
An employee also risks their reputation and career opportunity cost for which they get...checks notes...options that go up/down the same as an investor.
An employee is participating in both value buckets, and one might argue at Google specifically, in the most compensatory bucket proportion in the history of all people ever.
I have no knowledge of the deal and am not involved in anyway; this sounds like the 409A for the common stock came down not the preferred valuation. Valuations can't be moved without someone buying stock at a lower price to make the lower price "real". If there was no investment, they didn't Lower the valuation. 409As are different, happen every year to enable common equity grants to the team. What is probably happening is the team's option grants are at a lower price because the inputs to the 409A formulae (including how the stock market is doing) have come down.
Beyond that, I do my level best to avoid touching it. The volume and brightness features are nice but it would be better to not have had it as I mis-key it all the time and it exits me from where I'm working.
There's logic in these arguments; however, they ignore securities laws.
If BTC is a security, which the regulators probably think it is, then yes—you have to have a mechanism to bring concepts like splits, tenders, dividends to holders of the security if you are going to hold them for their benefit.
Developers considering forks will likely be required to follow yet unclarified rules around how much, how often, waiting and disclosure periods, etc.
(It's useful to consider how rules and systems have evolved governing how often Apple can split its stock or how Facebook investors are notified about tender offers, etc.)
The funny thing is that Bitcoin, because of its decentralized nature, doesn't have an entity tied to it (like Apple and AAPL). So who has the authority to "split" bitcoin? To "spin off" bitcoin? And under what obligation are the exchanges required to accept those modifications/additions to bitcoin?
It's more like I announce tomorrow that I am going to issue a Pear stock at 1:1 for each existing AAPL stocker holder. Would Stock Brokers like Scottrade need to accept Pear stock on behalf of their customers that owns AAPL stock? Under what authority can I "spin off" an AAPL stock?
I don't think Coinbase is under any obligation to honor any Bitcoin spin-off/fork/split, unless it is done by an authority of bitcoin (like Apple and AAPL), which for decentralized crypto currency like bitcoin means no one.
I try to routine-ize as many of them as possible so it's on autopilot. Sunday afternoons get time scheduled in the calendar to take care of one off items.
