Not a surprise. The entire engineering team is in China. This is a disaster waiting to happen. China knows how to work the American system better than Americans.
Infrastructure is naturally monopoly. Every so often the companies will have a bunch of customer facing shill companies that customers buy. The shill companies then send purchase the infrastructure from the main provider. Examples are MVNO's, natural gas, etc.
Spot on. The inflation number is based on a basket of goods and apparently they count an iPad as a necessary good. Then there are things like packaging staying the same size and less food in each package. If the old counting methodology was used inflation would be 10%.
Its more important how the numbers are generated than numbers itself.
I see so many posts that have the wrong idea. So many of our politicians and lobbyists are former lawyers. Even the accountants are in on it. The laws are written to be purposely complicated so mega corporations keep smaller entrepreneurs down and lawyers/accountants big fees for knowing the rules inside out(they wrote them).
Why do you think large companies give stock options as compensation instead of straight cash. It is to avoid taxes.
The average American has one source of income a W2. A simple tax filing. Next time you do your tax filing, look at the questions TurboTax or FreeTaxUSA asks you and then look at the offical government tax doc(this is what gets filled out with your answers).
Most large companies have transitioned to giving shares (RSUs) rather than stock options (NQSOs in the case of large companies) for non-executives. Compliance risks/costs are lower and payouts to employees are more predictable (and therefore valued more highly by employees).
