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Wrong, NOS, he specifically said to use the military. You simply cannot deny that he asked for the military to be used do this, to confiscate the voti...
January 08, 2022 at 20:37
Still, nearly a million dead Americans, even if the vast majority were old, shows that we haven't put aside the threat of pandemics yet.
January 06, 2022 at 19:42
Yeah, just an ex-National Security Advisor (and former US general) of Trump insisting that Trump should use the military to confiscate the voting mach...
January 06, 2022 at 19:38
What lengths countries like the US go because of less than a million deaths in couple of years because of such a puny pandemic. A mere two thousand de...
January 06, 2022 at 18:58
Surely some church or religion will attempt this. Still I think that the vast majority of organized religions will hold on to their old "sacred" thing...
January 05, 2022 at 15:29
You don't have free markets anywhere. Didn't have much even before the pandemic. Especially what isn't tolerated at all is that the market would corre...
January 05, 2022 at 12:54
Oh no worries, economists themselves have very different ideas about how the economy functions. As the saying goes, when two economists meet three alt...
January 05, 2022 at 11:20
If the inflation persists and the economy tanks (stagflation), it might result in an out of control monster. We have to understand that the actions ta...
January 04, 2022 at 18:08
I agree with @"frank" here. First, money supply isn't fixed. Second, money isn't transferred from the poor, because, uh, they don't have money in the ...
January 04, 2022 at 02:25
Of course one might ask the reason why women are getting children older. But I guess the reasons for that don't matter. So give an example as we are t...
December 28, 2021 at 13:10
I think a better option is simply to close the thread if it's going nowhere. And leave the line "this thread has been closed by moderator y because of...
December 27, 2021 at 19:07
Thanks @"ArguingWAristotleTiff", Hey, happy holidays also to you and your family!!! Let's hope that the next year is better than this one. (Or if it i...
December 27, 2021 at 14:13
I'm for this too! :up:
December 27, 2021 at 13:41
Why??? It was totally an ordinary thread. People can ask stupid question, can they? Can people start a topic and then it can drift? Or not? Deleting t...
December 27, 2021 at 13:30
OK, With modern medicine and health care morbidity has fallen throughout the World, even if there are difference between the poorest countries and the...
December 27, 2021 at 13:27
Question: What happened to the thread Russel's set? Was it removed and why?
December 27, 2021 at 13:15
Hmm... a new member that came to this forum 14 days ago who's first post basically without anything else than a long quote. Yeah, talking about "milit...
December 26, 2021 at 00:06
Russia and China have already held military exercises together, China has been a large arms customer for Russia and the vast majority of both Russians...
December 25, 2021 at 23:50
The link between wealth and fertility is quite well understood. https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2016/december/-/media/project/frbstl/stlouis...
December 24, 2021 at 12:36
This is actually easy, but people simply don't understand it. Population growth will end when the fertility rate is below 2.0+. That fertility rate lo...
December 24, 2021 at 11:36
Indeed they weren't monetarists, but they did understand that just printing more money to cover expenses of the government will create inflation. Keyn...
December 23, 2021 at 21:49
Current ideologies and indeed promoted with similar ardor as with traditional religion, that is true. You have evangelists that spread the true word. ...
December 23, 2021 at 17:44
Lol. Have to say that the Trump administration was the most transparent administration as various people paint the same exact picture you could see fr...
December 23, 2021 at 17:34
There you said it yourself. Technically they aren't. (That's the norm with central banks, actually) Remember it was the Wall Street banks who created ...
December 23, 2021 at 10:53
Don't you remember Whitewater and Kenneth Starr, who was initially appointed to investigate the suicide of deputy White House counsel Vince Foster and...
December 23, 2021 at 09:46
Oh, just LIKE WITH THE BILL CLINTON ADMINISTRATION! :grin: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/VT8AAOSwllpbGsS9/s-l300.jpg
December 22, 2021 at 19:26
Talk about passive aggressiveness. The new term is to escalate things by laying out de-escalation demands. It would be hilarious, if it wouldn't be so...
December 22, 2021 at 17:05
Well, I honestly believe that the lab-leak hypothesis is a real possibility. The Chinese officials surely did actively try to hide the pandemic and th...
December 22, 2021 at 16:54
This was picked up even in our local newspapers here: The interesting thing is how we report these issues. When it's a poor Third World country, we op...
December 22, 2021 at 16:45
A sloppy self-defeating chaotic riot that the inept former President hoped somehow would get him turn obvious election result somehow to something els...
December 22, 2021 at 16:35
OK, let's concentrate first at the most important issue. The obvious question is the following: when is a central bank doing the basic thing which it ...
December 22, 2021 at 12:56
Uhh... I do believe in economic history. Been a believer for a long time. And btw it's not just monetarism, it's classical economics going back to Ada...
December 21, 2021 at 20:53
Actually, the government then didn't recommend avoiding contacts. We had just "opened up" and for those a) that have two vaccination shots and b) aren...
December 21, 2021 at 18:48
Yes. Japan used biological weapons against Chinese during the war with the infamous unit 731. And killed Japanese soldiers also, but that naturally ha...
December 21, 2021 at 18:13
Of course. Only retired officers open their mouth ...and for a reason. Basically it's the Commander of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that speaks on behalf...
December 21, 2021 at 17:13
Well, the Canadian army doesn't have to publicly state that it acknowledges the election results when there is an election. And Canadian politicians a...
December 21, 2021 at 12:19
From the OP's Washington Post article: I think this is the actual problem: the politization of all branches of the government. And that every issue ou...
December 21, 2021 at 09:39
We'll see. Especially about this line: I guess the question is how long is something 'transitory'. Especially the idea that the spending will end duri...
December 21, 2021 at 07:50
That is actually true. Perhaps better to say that things could get even worse. Nah. Those who have it the worse now will be the ones hit the hardest i...
December 21, 2021 at 07:29
So how long are you going to believe the official "supply chain" argument? First, no, not in this way. The alphabet soup of programs they went through...
December 21, 2021 at 07:18
Yeah, having a debate about the actual issues is enabling denialism. Doom is nigh and we have to repent our sins!!! (?)
December 21, 2021 at 07:11
Market mechanism creates the obvious limits. But if those are disregarded, then simply you will have "official" prices that nobody can get the stuff a...
December 20, 2021 at 20:41
The few rare times I agree with @"StreetlightX". But of course, if you print so much money, you will get inflation. And finally that has happened. Inf...
December 20, 2021 at 18:04
Do notice what I said. If alternative energies ARE MORE CHEAPER than fossil fuels, then the transformation will be rapid. And do notice what is happen...
December 20, 2021 at 16:48
I guess @"Xtrix" is in the camp that endorses the juxtaposition of either we "solve the climate change" or "we think of economics" where "economics" i...
December 20, 2021 at 14:37
Actual appropriate steps would be more of investments in the "Manhattan project" -scale to tackle climate issues and simply get non-fossil fuels and e...
December 19, 2021 at 18:21
You definitely are of the evangelist sort, just looking at the loaded terms you use and from the debate with others. I have no desire to debate an iss...
December 19, 2021 at 18:11
So... when it comes to Russia, it's all a hoax, anti-Russian or russophobe propaganda, Russia is the one under attack, but with Turkey, it's the real ...
December 18, 2021 at 12:24
I think this is the main point. It's the evangelist attitude, the "your are bad and I'm better" and I'll tell you that. People don't like evangelists,...
December 18, 2021 at 11:50
Or basically that some Vegans, not all, have the attitude of actively judging what other humans as omnivores eat. That they feel nauseated of others e...
December 17, 2021 at 10:27