I think any investor guide gives you the basics for normal investing, which is very good to understand. I would give one advice: understand where just...
Talk about animal spirits. Philosophical animal spirits, I would say. Stock investment as a recreation. I would take this as an obvious indicator that...
Precious metals are at best in the long term a somewhat good hedge, but basically the spot prices are are controlled with paper. Hence if the market m...
HIV/AIDS doesn't spread like a flu, and the only one obviously different is the Spanish Flu. Let's remember the comparison, the one argument made many...
Good old Radio Free Europe. :up: I think it's just actually that 20 years is far too much of one leader in one country...if the people aren't Finns, I...
Well, my father knew well the Hong Kong flu of 1968-1969, but he is a virologist. Otherwise it wasn't on the radar of people when thinking of the 1960...
My son had as homework in history a question if he has experienced a historical event. He immediately answered the Covid-19 pandemic and, as a 12-year...
You would want that? :wink: Those who rule make the decisions. If people don't know much about economics, here is one of the best simple explanations ...
Deficits don't matter. Now it's just official. The Federal Reserve can buy the debt.. .as it has and now is the largest single owner of the debt. Natu...
I think that when the US basically defaulted on the Bretton Woods system, the people deciding it genuinely thought that it would be a temporary move, ...
Well, if the market cap of the company is collateral for any debt, it might be an issue. (I think mentioned this already) Anyway, This whole Gamestop ...
Well, to say it is a tax is actually is one easy way to understand it, yet the phenomenon is actually far more complex. Who actually benefits isn't so...
Well, you had a politician, Richard Nixon, declaring money isn't what it had used to be for thousands of years...and that was planned just for a tempo...
Forgetting the 2008 Financial Crisis and the recession? (Ah yes, I do see the small blip of the 1990's recession) https://cdn.knoema.com/infographics/...
Which does represent a limit to a totally reckless monetary policy. I think the best formulation of what would be close to a gold standard is to think...
Yes, the index is most defined by the largest stocks that make it. Better to say it more clearly as you do. Also it should be mentioned that indexes a...
Well, don't political issues have philosophical views behind them? But I do agree: When the US had it's Savings & Loans crisis in the 1980's, bankers ...
Yet in the US, just to give an example, the most rapid economic growth happened during the gold standard in the 19th Century. I disagree on the idea t...
But the whole idea is that the pyramid scheme doesn't collapse, because central banks come to the rescue and push the prices back again into la-la-lan...
Thanks, that indeed is worth listening to. Varifoukas describes very well why the 2008 Crisis never went away, but how the financial bubble was kept a...
Yes, Nemtsov was in the camp of being basically Pro-Ukrainian. And coming from the Yeltsin camp he was quite pro-Western, but only up to a point (as w...
One result the Pandemic will have: no more huge passenger aircraft. Both the Boeing 747 and the Airbus 380 will cease or has ceased production. Just l...
I don't know so well the UK educational system to comment that. However I could point some things about the housing prices. They haven't just inflated...
Wasn't social media around during the Arab Spring? Russian youth have had the net for a long time. One fact to notice is that actually the Russian Opp...
Of course, but I'm not so sure about it. Yet quite high numbers of arrested. Remember Belarus? The mass demonstrations there? For what I know, Lukashe...
Who sits in the Science Party I would ask. The way I see it there would be leftists, centrists, conservatives, greens in that party. Likely that party...
The enlargement of the middle class has been the real factor as when you talk about a demographic transition, the timescale is far longer than we usua...
To different audiences, I would say. We can see this phenomenon quite well even today. What people say publicly and what they say behind closed doors ...
Thank you? :wink: Fertility rates have plunged also in countries with free education and adequate housing. The most important reason is that with pros...
If he was a mediator between the Protestants and the Catholics, he surely meant it. Yet I think that many politicians could honestly agree with Montai...
No. I didn't. What you think is awesome is just the clear evidence of the simple partisanship on this issue, just as in anything else. If you think th...
Well, It's you who started with generalization like the progressives being hell bent of canceling conservative thinking all-together. My point was tha...
Or at least some conservatives and especially Trump supporters (who I don't think actually are conservatives) themselves think so. Of course this is n...
Actually not. To have soldiers filling inside the halls of the Capitol was a deliberate photo op to show response after the security had been breached...
Yet doesn't Shklar also note in "Liberalism of Fear" that: Because replacing freedom with "welfare" seems quite a specific agenda, if telling to pursu...
We simply shouldn't forget that even ages ago people understood to whom you are talking defines the message. It's not just that Machiavelli isn't maki...
More honest, more realistic, when there has been in "recent years a considerable literature on Machiavelli, most of it admiring his most ‘realistic’ p...
Probably. The headline was a give away, but then sometimes (if rarely) someone can make a genuine inquiry. (I just pity the philosophy beginner who ha...
How would Machiavelli know about Enlightenment? For a philosopher who built her career in Post-WW2 American academics in one of the most famous Ivy Le...
Perhaps it's telling of our times that Peterson is referred to being a philosopher. Anyway, I have become extremely sceptical to anyone who today is a...
And do people in the US refer to Americans as those living in the American continent? Next time someone refers to 'Americans', do they mean also Chile...
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