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And here’s a couple deep thoughts of the day for ya to get ya thinkin’.

PIMCO’s Bill Gross could tip $20k to 10,000 waiters, cabbies, drivers, servers — basically EVERY service person he comes into contact with this year and he’d have about as much left from his insider-politicking-talking-his-book-by-begging-for-policy and marketing his face “job” as I think he’s worth. That is, $200MM salary –$200MM in tips = $0.

We just sent coinbase.com an email telling them that if we ever get another email scam payment request from any of their users again, we will immediately pull our account and take the few bitcoins we have there somewhere else. Hi support@tradingwithcody.com, admin+pentest@shubh.am just sent you a request to pay 1.00 $BTC (worth $469.18 USD) using Coinbase. Click here to create an account and complete this payment Kind regards, The Coinbase Team @bgallo Thought you’d want to know.

Economic Deep Thought of the Day- Why don’t corporations which are making record profits but paying minimal taxes get hit with some sort of AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax)? If corporations are citizens and citizens have to pay an AMT…what am I missing?$CAT $AAPL $GE