General Reservation Questions And Comments

[lafrisbee]

Altoid
The second graph showing the projected sales as a straight line? I think that the action in the real numbers on the graph has an exponential growth component. So wouldn't the growth "curve?"

 

[AltoidBox]

Altoid
The second graph showing the projected sales as a straight line? I think that the action in the real numbers on the graph has an exponential growth component. So wouldn't the growth "curve?"

I added a second sheet to that spreadsheet (the "Monthly Data" tab at the bottom) that uses monthly data rather than the sometimes sporadic updates with inconsistent intervals. I calculate the increase in reservations per day from the previous month and use the FORECAST spreadsheet function to create a linear regression for the change in reservations. This I believe captures the curve you were looking for. Of course, actual growth is likely to vary greatly from either of the graphs.

 

[lafrisbee]

I added a second sheet to that spreadsheet (the "Monthly Data" tab at the bottom) that uses monthly data rather than the sometimes sporadic updates with inconsistent intervals. I calculate the increase in reservations per day from the previous month and use the FORECAST spreadsheet function to create a linear regression for the change in reservations. This I believe captures the curve you were looking for. Of course, actual growth is likely to vary greatly from either of the graphs.

Very true...."news" will generate sales.

 

[c094728]

S & L bailout cost (according to the General Accounting Office 1996) nearly half a trillion dollars with more than $130 billion from tax payers. Adjusted for inflation is $193,811,854,684 in todays money. Auto bail out cost $80 billion, but $54.6 billion has been recovered..........Then there's Walmart, how much do they cost taxpayers? They are not paying employees enough so they qualify for aid. The amount is staggering. So we can argue all day about programs costing tax payers money.

While I agree that these companies should have been allowed to fail, I get tired of people bashing Walmart all the time. They're obviously doing something right to be the #1 us retailer. Nobody is forcing you to work there. If you think you can get better pay elsewhere then leave. Some of the idiot employees should be paying Walmart for the free on the job training (called internship). Walmart helps the economy as much as any other company, maybe more, since were else can a parent get a decent winter code for their kid for $25. That's money in the parents pocket that can be used elsewhere.

 

[Ty]

The big three didn't take bailout money... Only two of them did. Ford makes good enough stuff and minds their own house.

 

[Ty]

This sounds like a good investment... given the choices...

CAR estimated that a complete shutdown of the [auto] industry that was bailed out in 2009 would have resulted in the loss of 2.63 million jobs and those losses would still have stood at more than 1.5 million in 2010. If only GM had been shut down, the job losses would have been almost 1.2 million in 2009, shrinking to 675,000 in 2010.
While U.S. Treasury's final loss on the bailout is estimated at $13.7 billion including $11.8 billion related to its investment in GM, it avoided the loss of $105.3 billion in unemployment benefit payments and the loss of personal and social insurance tax collections, according to CAR.

It looks like the government paid $13.7B to avoid losing $105.3B.

 

[DBN477]

While I agree that these companies should have been allowed to fail, I get tired of people bashing Walmart all the time. They're obviously doing something right to be the #1 us retailer. Nobody is forcing you to work there. If you think you can get better pay elsewhere then leave. Some of the idiot employees should be paying Walmart for the free on the job training (called internship). Walmart helps the economy as much as any other company, maybe more, since were else can a parent get a decent winter code for their kid for $25. That's money in the parents pocket that can be used elsewhere.

Walmart is being subsidized by taxpayers.
http://www.businessinsider.com/wal-mart-relies-on-taxpayers-to-subsidize-low-wages-2013-6
and it's been happening for some time
http://money.cnn.com/2004/05/24/news/fortune500/walmart_subsidies/

http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/31/news/companies/walmart-food-stamps/index.html
So in other words taxpayers are subsidizing your purchases at Walmart. Is that fair?

 

[drift]

How is it Walmarts fault that Wisconcin subsidizes workers at such a high level? How many of those workers don"t have cable tv or all of their family have cell phones? It's all a matter of priorities. They have chosen to needlessly subsidize necessities so that those workers can have luxuries. As has been stated if they don't like the pay get a better job. You can't pay everyone a ceos' salary.

 

[drift]

This sounds like a good investment... given the choices...

CAR estimated that a complete shutdown of the [auto] industry that was bailed out in 2009 would have resulted in the loss of 2.63 million jobs and those losses would still have stood at more than 1.5 million in 2010. If only GM had been shut down, the job losses would have been almost 1.2 million in 2009, shrinking to 675,000 in 2010.
While U.S. Treasury's final loss on the bailout is estimated at $13.7 billion including $11.8 billion related to its investment in GM, it avoided the loss of $105.3 billion in unemployment benefit payments and the loss of personal and social insurance tax collections, according to CAR.

It looks like the government paid $13.7B to avoid losing $105.3B.

Here's why GM failed and unless something has changed will fail again. They directly employed somewhere between 60 and 90 thousand employees but due to union contracts were paying 1.2 million people. You can't run a business like that and expect to survive.

 

[goofyone]

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