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  • Ranked: Which Cars Depreciate the Fastest?

    12/18/2023 9:15:53 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 31 replies
    Visual Capitalist ^ | 12/18/2023 | By Marcus Lu, Article/Editing: Pallavi Rao, Graphics/Design: Miranda Smith
    It’s a fact of life that vehicles depreciate - some say by almost 50% as soon they’re driven out of the lot. Some depreciate less, but which cars depreciate the fastest?In the graphic below, Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu and Pallavi Rao show the top 10 vehicles with the highest depreciation rates over five years, based on data from iSeeCars.They analyzed over 1.1 million used cars from model year 2018, sold between November 2022 to October 2023. Models no longer in production as of the 2022 model year were excluded.Luxury Cars Struggle to Hold Their ValueAt the top of the list,...
  • Ranked: Which Cars Have the Best Resale Value?

    12/17/2023 10:09:24 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 48 replies
    Visual Capitalist ^ | 12/17/2023 | Marcus Lu, Article/Editing: Pallavi Rao, Graphics/Design: Miranda Smith
    For three years now, the used-car market has been booming, after the pandemic disrupted new car supply chains, sending secondhand vehicle prices skyrocketing.But which cars have the best resale value?In the graphic below, Visual Capitalist's Marcu Lu and Pallavi Rao show the top 10 vehicles with the lowest depreciation rates over five years, based on data from iSeeCars.They analyzed over 1.1 million used cars from model year 2018, sold between November 2022 to October 2023. Models no longer in production as of the 2022 model year were excluded.Porsche is Still (Almost) Perfect After Five YearsHeading the list, Porsche has two...
  • Apple Is Dangerously Close To Losing Its Spot As The Most Valuable Stock

    11/26/2023 5:40:14 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 16 replies
    Investors Business Daily ^ | 11/26/2023 | Matt Krantz
    Look out, Apple (AAPL)! Microsoft (MSFT) is right on your tail and gaining fast. Supercharged by its AI chops, Microsoft's market value is now $2.8 trillion — just 5.7% shy of Apple's at $2.98 trillion. That means Microsoft's share price only needs to hit 400.53 — it's already at 377.80 — to dethrone Apple as the most valuable S&P 500 company. Given Apple's reliance on now-ubiquitous smartphones, it's only a matter of time when it bows out to faster-growing Microsoft, analysts say. "As markets and investors start to wrap up the year, Microsoft seems destined to be the most valuable...
  • The nine U.S cities where home owners are losing THOUSANDS on their house values: Median sale price in San Francisco drops a staggering $220,000 from a year ago

    05/29/2023 11:48:22 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 58 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | May 29 2023 | ALEX HAMMER
    The US housing market is currently in the midst of an unprecedented decline in home prices - with properties in some cities selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars less than they were just a year ago. The concerning data was laid bare last week by Redfin, and marks a significant shift in the American real estate landscape following a historic surge seen during the Covid-19 pandemic. Somewhat unexpected, the numbers unveiled two cities in the Bay Area as some of the worst offenders when it came to decline by dollar amount, a phenomenon researched said is fueled in part...
  • This Just Killed the Future of Electric Cars

    05/07/2023 6:22:51 PM PDT · by Leaning Right · 71 replies
    YouTube ^ | May 7, 2023 | Scotty Kilmer
    In this video Scotty talks about how expensive EVs are to maintain, and how quickly they lose value once they are driven off the dealer’s lot.
  • New Study: EVs Losing Value Twice As Fast As Petrol Vehicles

    05/03/2023 11:44:43 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 51 replies
    climatechangedispatch.com ^ | MAY 3, 2023 | FELIX REEVES
    When someone buys a new car, the value will naturally decrease over time given the wear and tear of the vehicle, as well as the mileage and age. But for some electric car owners, they could be seeing the value of their car depreciate at twice the rate of petrol cars. According to a new study, EVs on average will lose 51 percent of their purchase value from 2020 to 2023, compared to just 37 percent for petrol vehicles. [emphasis, links added] This equates to a massive £15,220 [$18,786] loss for electric car owners, with petrol drivers seeing a decrease...
  • My latest liberal conversation [vanity]

    11/21/2022 1:35:09 PM PST · by Attention Surplus Disorder · 26 replies
    Quora ^ | 11/20/22 | Attention Surplus Disorder
    In a non-continuing non-series..... original Q: Is capitalism basically saying that you have to work and pay for the right for basic life necessities? How is that freedom? me: Well, how would it be freedom for the people who would have to provide you with such things? You want free medical care? No problem, find a doctor who is willing to treat you for free. You want a free house, no problem, find carpenters and a lumber yard and a plumbing supply joint that is willing to provide you those things for free. JB: You don't know how a society...
  • What is a college education really worth? And shouldn't that be what consumers actually pay for?

    06/10/2022 1:09:14 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 62 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 06/10/2022 | Mike Robinson
    The last time I checked, the price of a four-year bachelor's degree at the state college that I once graduated from was "slightly less than $325,000." The apparently now routine "lab cost" of a required engineering lab that meets for one hour two times a week is now, according to the website, $8,500. Therefore, today, hundreds of thousands of students are buried in debt before they reach the age of twenty-one. They cannot throw this yoke off their shoulders. Yet this "enormous debt" has nothing to do with the actual cost of providing the thing that they supposedly bought...which, across...
  • The Car That Got Away (Vanity, Sunday Fun)

    01/09/2022 5:54:08 AM PST · by super7man · 89 replies
    Self | January 9, 2022 | Super7man
    Let's get right to business. What car have you owned and then sold, that you wish you could get back? When did you buy it and what did it cost? When did you sell it and for how much? Why did you sell it? What is it worth today? Pictures are allowed. I'll start.
  • Wow! Former NFL player gives ‘bold and brave’ answer on ‘Black Lives Matter’ hardly anyone saw coming

    07/03/2020 4:20:18 PM PDT · by Grandpa Drudge · 9 replies
    BPR ^ | July 3, 2020 | Tom Tillison
    Retired NFL defensive end Marcellus Wiley may soon get a first-hand taste of just how intolerant the left is today, after the host of FOX Sports 1’s “Speak For Yourself” opted to explain why it’s a bad idea for the NBA to paint “Black Lives Matter” on the floor of basketball courts.
  • What is your cost to learning the Founding Fathers?

    12/20/2019 4:30:21 PM PST · by ProgressingAmerica · 21 replies
    I'd like to have a frank discussion about the cost of entry for you or others who wish to discover more about the Founding Fathers, and even moreso the barrier that presents toward educating others. As we approach the completion of the audiobook version of James Madison's Notes, one of the goals for this project is cost reduction. I would like for you to consider three aspects: Time costMoney costExclusivity or efficiency I assume people will automatically think in terms of money, and it is true that the scope of what I'm looking for could have been better asked in...
  • Definition of Chutzpah

    04/08/2018 8:17:57 AM PDT · by Oldpuppymax · 14 replies
    The Coach's Team ^ | 4/8/18 | Unknown
    Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, sheer guts and arrogance. It's Yiddish and, as Leo Rosten writes, "No other word and no other language can do it justice." Read the story below and you will understand. A little old lady sold pretzels on a mid-town street corner for 25 cents each. Every day a young man would leave his office building at lunch time and as he passed the pretzel stand, he would leave her a quarter, but never take a pretzel. This went on for more than three years. The two of them never spoke....
  • Bitcoin Is Now Worth More Than Wal-Mart (The Entire Company)

    12/18/2017 7:02:41 AM PST · by Enlightened1 · 103 replies
    The Economic ^ | 12/17/17 | Michael Snyder
    Would you rather own 100% of Wal-Mart or every Bitcoin in existence?  At one point such a question would have been completely absurd, but now things have changed.  As I write this article, Wal-Mart has a market cap of 287.68 billion dollars.  Wal-Mart is the king of the retail industry in America, and nobody else is even close.  Bitcoin, on the other hand, is an entirely digital creation that did not even exist until 2009.  No government or central bank in the entire world recognizes it as a legitimate currency, and there are very, very few retail establishments that are...
  • The Federal Reserve is setting America up for economic disaster

    09/19/2017 7:24:05 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 75 replies
    The Hill ^ | September 18, 2017 | Armstrong Williams
    I recently had the opportunity to read "The Creature from Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin, a prodigious tome dealing with the circumstances surrounding the creation of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. I was taken aback by some of its provocative assertions. America joined World War I largely to help a few bankers profit off the war (despite a long-standing Monroe doctrine that prohibited our involvement in European affairs) The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 was supported by international financial interests in order to destabilize Russia and steal the wealth of the Russian people; and So-called "foreign aid" is merely a...
  • Should the United States Abandon the Federal Reserve System?

    03/09/2017 8:07:43 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 54 replies
    Economics Wire ^ | March 9, 2017 | Viliyana Filipova / Mr. Conrad
    The Federal Reserve gives us the freedom to buy things now that we would otherwise have to wait for.In looking at the Federal Reserve, it is important to note that this is a money system, not just a group of people sitting in a conference room controlling everything having to do with the US dollar. The Fed is a system just like the government of the US is a system. What that means is that no one controls it, and that it is much bigger than any one person or group of people could ever control. They can guide it,...
  • <h1>The Importance of Creating a Family Culture</h1>

    07/04/2016 4:37:57 PM PDT · by vannrox · 11 replies
    The Art of Manliness ^ | July 2013 | Brett & Kate McKay
    Have you ever met one of those families that just seem to have it all together? Maybe you knew such a family growing up and loved hanging out over at their house – there was such a great atmosphere there that you kind of felt like you were coming home whenever you stopped over. The parents were happy. The kids were all well-adjusted and generally did the right thing. Everyone in the family seemed to genuinely love, respect, and care about each other. They all truly enjoyed each other’s company and had a blast doing things together. Sure, they...
  • Uber is now more valuable than Ford, GM, and a bunch of huge public companies

    12/04/2015 9:44:57 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 24 replies
    Business Insider ^ | 12/04/2015 | Matt Rosoff
    Uber is reportedly shopping itself to investors for another round of funding, and this time it's seeking a valuation of $62.5 billion. As this chart from Statista shows, that means Uber is now more valuable than the major U.S. car companies Ford and GM, more than media giants like Fox and Time-Warner Cable, and almost twice as much as eBay. This is despite the fact that Uber almost certainly loses money, and has a fraction of these companies' revenue. Uber was expected to have net revenue of about $2 billion this year, compared with 2014 revenues of almost $18 billion...
  • Suicide... thinking about it. pros/cons?

    08/14/2015 7:48:39 PM PDT · by proud American in Canada · 226 replies
    August 14, 2015 | self
    Hi, I feel like I have relied on FR so much recently. Everything is breaking down around here. My husband checked himself into a hospital a couple of days ago; he needs heart bypass surgery. My son and daughter are in the Gaspe peninsula visiting their grandmother. They will come back in a week, except my son will be stopping in Montreal to go to college. Our house is falling apart; we have no exterior back wall and the insurance won't pay for it, that will cost $15K Canadian. I am a lawyer in Colorado, but don't really know the...
  • The intangible value of a college education

    06/13/2015 5:32:07 AM PDT · by TurboZamboni · 28 replies
    Oakland Press ^ | 6-9-15 | Hunter Rawlings
    Pick up any paper or magazine, and you’re likely to see a front-page article on college: It costs too much, spawns too much debt is or isn’t worth it. I entered academia 52 years ago as a student of Latin and Greek expecting to enter a placid sector of American life, and now find my chosen profession at the center of a media maelstrom. With college replacing high school as the required ticket for a career, what used to be a quiet corner is now a favorite target of policymakers and pundits. Unfortunately, most commentary on the value of college...
  • The Value of Everything: Why the price of things are a mystery ISN'T a mystery

    04/06/2014 7:10:29 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 10 replies
    National Review ^ | 04/06/2014 | Jonah Goldberg
    Prices are storehouses of knowledge.​ One person whose grammar is impeccable except on the rare occasions when it isn’t is Kevin Williamson. He had a great piece the other day on the mystery of prices. I loved his opening sentence: “Prices are a mystery, and why that is is a mystery.” This reminded me of a great line from this wonderful video essay on Hayek’s “On the Use of Knowledge in Society” over at the Marginal Revolution University. It’s arguably Hayek’s most important contribution — which is saying a lot. It’s like saying Michael Jordan’s best slam dunk or Bill...