his buddy Gerber knows the liquor and entertainment business. built a fortune on it. got friends with a vacation house next to his Canadian one... they too vouch for his knowledge of liquor.
Sears was such a dominant player at EXACTLY what Amazon does that at one point... more Americans had Sears catalogs than indoor plumbing.
It use to be normal to take the Sears catalog out to the outhouse and use it for toilet paper.
Retail is flat circle, you just move the counter between the seller and the customer. Some generations like picking out the products, some generations like having someone pick it out for them. Some like it getting delivered, some like picking it up.
Not much changes... people need goods... but no one makes all the goods they need.
Some Fedex Ground routes are awarded to independent companies, as in a local company that bids on the region or route. But it's not all Fedex deliveries and I can't vouch for every company that has one of theses routes as to the employment status of their drivers. And as far as I know, Fedex is not giving our Ground routes to individual contractors. And as far as I know Fedex Express is not handled by any outside contractors. Express and Ground are essentially 2 separate businesses within Fedex.
As an aside, I have pondered the viability of an escrow service aimed specifically at people who want to wager about topics like these.
I see this at verious forums, someone says Company A will be bankrupt in a year and another one says that won't happen. One of them frequently pipes up to say, "I'll bet you $100 that I'm right!"
Yet, nobody ever takes the chance to capitalize on those potential bets.
Basically, they would set their terms, agree on those terms, upload those terms in a verifiable way as the terms they agreed to, pay their money, and then wait for the time period to end.
At that point, someone at the escrow company will review the wager and the evidence and decide who gets the payout, less the fees associated with it. Not all bets are easy to judge, so writing accurate terms would be important. The service will supply, if needed, impartial judging of the merits. I suppose the company would also need to have the ability to refuse to accept certain bets, perhaps insisting that they make the goals clearly articulated and demonstrable success or failures would be important.
They might even enable it for multiple parties. Each bet would require a deposit of the entire amount due. I suppose people could even go so far as to set odds, if they wanted.
That's pretty close, though not quite what I was looking for. I'm comfortably retired but maybe I should look into making something along these lines. They don't have to be long, for example.
Saudis are LPs in a lot of funds and funds of funds.
So are most not super human rights friendly sovereign wealth funds like Singapore... where it's technically illegal to be publicly gay and I know they use to ban WSJ but not sure if they still do.
Something like 0.79% assessed value in my country on average. It's supposedly one of the lowest in the nation. The general cost of living is pretty low when compared to most places in the States and being so close to Yellowstone and other national and state parks is nice.
