Recent content by buckhorn_cortez

Hardly "stunning." Jewelry is priced on "keystone" or 100% markup every time it gets sold. The manufacturer sells it to a wholesaler = 100%. The wholesaler sells it to the distributor = 100%. The wholesaler sells it to the retailer = 100%. The retailer sells it to the customer = 100%. Now...

You need to ask him "why"? A lot of the financial planners are simply telling you this because that's what their standard investment planning guidelines tell them you need. There's no reason you really "need" $50K available if you have a cash plan as part of your entire investment strategy...

Selling stock isn't difficult if you know how to do it. I have a direct account with Pershing - the clearing house for buying and selling stock. Any transaction (buy / sell) costs 42 cents - and you wonder how people like Ameritrad and Scott Trade can offer "low trade" costs. Simple, it...

If you're younger (I'm not) you can afford to invest in stocks and speculate on stock price appreciation alone as the payoff for the investment. I need regular cash flow - so I don't do that. If you want cash, you need to invest in instruments that pay interest like short term corporate bonds...

The ITAR Part 120 8 USC 1101(a)(20) So the ITAR definition of a "U.S. person" is from a United States Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and it is not different from any other definition used by the US government. If you are not a citizen of the US, but have been "lawfully admitted for...

I'm not sure I understand this statement. "ITAR" is International Traffic in Arms Regulations administered by the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) at the State Department. ITAR (regulations) are "the feds" since it is a United States Government regulation administered by the...

Not according to the BATF. Question: Answer:

I worked as an engineer for 30 years. Two things, which I could not control, often had more effect on the outcome of the final design than I did - the client and management. You might not like the final design when you have to build it, but you're not the guy caught between the proverbial hard...

Before you report anybody you need to read and understand the range rules. It could be that YOU were breaking one of the rules. You need to verify the rules before you report anyone. Exactly. Which is why you need to find out whether you were following the rules or not. If you were...

I have to question the statistics given as xx number of guns per 1,000 residents. Firearms are not registered in the State of New Mexico, any number given as xx / 1,000 is purely an extrapolation of some type as the State does not track gun sales. Where did the numbers come from and how did...

Uh..huh...that's what we hear all the time on Internet gun forums. I just figure the people you're shooting with aren't very good. When you win a regional IPSC or USPSA championship with "those guns" - then I'm a believer. Until then, the claims fall into the camp fire stories after...

Can you explain this statement further? Since 1994, 85% of Colt has been privately owned by Zilkha & Company, a financial group that is owned by Donald Zilkha. How can the Connecticut Teacher's Retirement System have any affect on Colt, if Colt is owned by Zilkha & Co.?

In addition to what you've outlined, I can think of: Overhead costs: rent / lease / mortgage, facility / equipment insurance, real estate taxes, fixed asset taxes, cost production equipment (purchase or lease), utilities, salaries, benefits, training, office equipment (purchase or lease)...

The major problem with journalism today is that the media, in general, have abandoned simply reporting facts in favor of advocacy journalism. They are more intent on skewing the story to fit the agenda than accurate reporting. In the past, this type of advocacy journalism was balanced to some...

I prefer the MattV2009 term "clipazine" as it's all inclusive...