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posted by takyon on Sunday June 12 2016, @06:00PM   Printer-friendly

A suspected Islamic terrorist opened fire at a gay nightclub in Florida, killing 50 people and wounding another 53 before he was killed by police. While authorities continue to investigate to determine whether this man had ties to ISIS, the terror organization has not been quiet in praising the attack. This comes three days after ISIS announced they would attack somewhere in Florida. Today's attack marks the largest act of terrorism on US soil since 9/11.

takyon: The gunman reportedly called 911 emergency services to pledge allegiance to ISIS. The President will hold a briefing momentarily. Compare this article to the original submission.


Original Submission   Late submission by physicsmajor

 
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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday June 13 2016, @07:19PM

    You'd be correct if the rich left their money in mattresses. Unfortunately for your theory, they invest nearly every penny where it will make them more money. Which is putting it back in circulation and blows your entire line of reasoning out of the water.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 13 2016, @08:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 13 2016, @08:28PM (#359588)

    Buying a stock certificate doesn't create anything.
    It simply moves that existing thing from one set of hands to another.
    What you are talking about is EXTRACTING wealth from the economy while producing nothing.

    The rich buying each others' mansions and yachts at ever-inflated prices doesn't improve the economy either.
    At best, the economic activities of the uberrich creates economic bubbles and drives up prices for Joe Average.

    Now, if that money was spent hiring a worker or building a factory, -THAT- would actually be useful for the economy.

    ...then there's the 1 Percenters using their excessive wealth to buy up gov't.

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    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday June 14 2016, @02:10AM

      You've obviously never worked in the business end of any publicly traded company to say something that foolish. Your stock price (which increases when people buy your stock) directly effects your ability to take out loans. Which directly effects your ability to grow, hire more employees, and pay the ones you have better. No, my friend, trading stock does in fact make a damned big difference to someone other than the two people trading.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 14 2016, @02:36AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 14 2016, @02:36AM (#359716)

        Your stock price (which increases when people buy your stock

        Take off your rose-colored glasses and put down your pom-poms.
        Stock prices also go down.
        (That's when the smartest Capitalists buy.)

        Again, nothing new is created when stock is sold.
        Ownership of that simply exchanges hands.
        It's no different from moving your wallet from your right pocket to your left pocket.

        ...and, with fewer and fewer actual customers for actual goods each week, you guys who think that unearned income, aggregated by people with more money than they can spend, is useful to the economy are a hoot.

        -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday June 14 2016, @03:09AM

          Yes, stock prices do go down. Until someone buys the stock. Then it stops going down. Which means buying stock kept a company from being utterly unable to get a loan and having to fold its doors and put people out of work.

          Oversimplifying something as complex as the meta level of our economy is foolish. I expected better of you. Your reasoning generally tries to at least be not blatantly and provably false.

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