My example is intended to show that the so-called "employer contribution" is of course factored into the process of determining an employee's pay....
"Penny" is a commonly-used synonym for "cent". It's pedantic to insist people only use the latter. Not only that, it goes against the more common...
It's useful to remember that a lot derivative trading that's nominally based on a commodity is conducted without any party to the transactions...
Spoken like somebody who's never run a business. When an employer decides a job is worth net, say, $15 an hour, he'll then adjust the offer he...
My question was rhetorical; I didn't expect anybody to think I didn't know the answer. But I enjoyed the condescension implied, anyway.
England is noted for its respect of tradition, even when doing so results in apparent absurdities. Modern English coinage is made with more regard...
Nonsense. A working person pays an effective 15.3% of his gross income in Social Security and Medicare taxes. Anybody who spends a dollar...
Semi-retired at fifty-one, I pretty much fit the definition I mentioned above. I have my accountant, and my attorney, and so on. Although I'm no...
Exactly so. So to express "sour grapes" about rich people, a non-rich person would say that he wouldn't want to be rich, anyway. I didn't see...
By the 1950's, pennies were grotesquely large and cumbersome in comparison with their worth. With a value slightly more than one US cent, they...
I accused nobody of crime. Tax avoidance is legal, tax evasion is not. The difference is that most rich people have the tools to engage in legal...
The relative scarceness of 1909 "VDB" cents was recognized at the time. Newsboys in San Francisco were selling them at a premium as soon as the...
"Fair" is what you are required by law to pay. People who work for a living have little means to do otherwise, because their employers report...
Think of the smartest, most educated man on Earth in 1010. Could he have, even in his wildest flight of fancy, come close to imagining the world...
I know that people with something to hide are among the quickest to complain about invasion of privacy. I agree that we all have a right to...
Unless you value it for special reasons, the buyer will value it for his reasons. That won't be a coin collector; it will be a collector of...
The problem is that rich people have abilities few others do. And I'm not talking about the ability to buy Rembrandts, private islands and livers....
The real mystery to me is the marking on the Queen's neck.
They have unfolded gutter folds. Almost impossible to detect by looking. Seems the paper is prone to developing them during the addition of the...
It's been a long time since I read about it, I think in the Numismatist. The coins were minted in a "private" coining session, and the records...
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