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...audience accepts that it goes on, because Soderburgh shows us the alternative--not a happy-go-lucky bunch of youngsters smoking up and getting the munchies, but the descent of the drug czar's teenage daughter into a cocaine/heroine hell. He shows us the people who profit from selling self-destruction to a bored, insensate American upper class, but he also shows us that those people are ruthless and evil, and that someone--even the woefully weak agents of our criminal justice system--needs to stand against them...
...effect. The indictment claimed that Rich's firm bought petroleum for as little as $5 per bbl., then ran the crude through a series of complex transactions that obscured its origin before selling it back to a Rich subsidiary at a markup as high as 400%. Much of the profit went to a Rich company in Switzerland, which paid no U.S. taxes on the allegedly ill-gotten gains...
That virtuality translates into remarkable profit margins. eBay's gross margins last quarter were a stunning 82%. Amazon, which actually has to acquire goods and ship them out, has gross margins averaging 20%. And because so much of eBay's customer recruitment is viral--sellers attracting buyers to the site, and buyers attracting sellers--its customer-acquisition costs are just half of Amazon...
...public utilities thought that it was just a splendid idea to be able to buy wholesale in a free market and turn around and sell at a capped rate to consumers," says Wilson, "because for a long time, at least, they would enjoy the ability to make a profit doing so." But they were gambling that they could wheel and deal their way through the marketplace without exposure to price swings...
...dullest barb can hook my attention for hours. As the opportunity cost of stealing away time from studies increases, my irrational desire for shenanigans becomes unbearable. An hour and a half on amihotornot.com playing God of aesthetics. Forty-five minutes re-reading an utterly boring Times story on the profit margins of foreign car manufacturers. An hour faux-drumming to Led Zeppelin. The only procrastination that I have found to be acceptable to the efficiency-monitoring system of my mind is physical exercise. The other jaunts into extreme inefficiency don't even recharge my batteries, they just remind...