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Thanks, this is interesting. ...and furthermore: Conveniently (and some would say too conveniently). the research community can sigh of relief. Hopefu...
August 19, 2022 at 07:49
A co-opt or a stock company are far closer to each other than you think. They have to abide to the existing laws. You cannot deny that. Look, there is...
August 19, 2022 at 07:08
Bit ironic when your life's work was actually the dissolution of the Soviet Empire. Think about it, the Soviet Empire was basically the continuation o...
August 18, 2022 at 07:42
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2 Days and 26 posts... that was quick.
August 18, 2022 at 07:33
If you own something, you are responsible for it. What's insane about that?
August 18, 2022 at 07:22
Ownership creates that accountability. If you have started a business, invested in it and operate it, it's success or failure depends on you. Even in ...
August 18, 2022 at 05:33
I would suspect that with the financial deregulation in the 1980s. The Savings & Loans crisis still went along "the old" lines with people actually en...
August 17, 2022 at 19:17
Old time mourning and repentance! Classic things that philosophers also have cherished.
August 17, 2022 at 19:10
Observation: Financial regulation of the financial sector was done after the '29 crash and usually referred to laws like the Banking act of 1933 (the ...
August 17, 2022 at 08:10
There's one thing to know about schools of economic thought: they all have a point. Taken as an ideology is wrong. Yet they have, be it Keynesianism, ...
August 17, 2022 at 05:53
Not in the quantity now they would have had to. The simple fact is that the Federal Reserve was the largest buyer of this huge increase in debt until ...
August 16, 2022 at 22:13
Wrong. Please know the reality. Social Security Trust Fund currently holds about $2.9 trillion in U.S. Treasury securities. (See Congressional Researc...
August 16, 2022 at 22:02
Really? Tell me just what single owner is bigger? Actually, yes. Technicalities aside (actual paper money wasn't printed). Last year (2021) the US fed...
August 16, 2022 at 21:29
OK, now I understand better your point. On the other hand, optimism, remembering those joy and happy moments might be good in countering OVERemphasizi...
August 16, 2022 at 21:08
Reconciliation Bill would have been a better name, but if Americans worry about inflation, the name has to be Inflation Reduction Act.
August 16, 2022 at 20:48
Fraction means also a bit, little. Yes, there are others holding the debt. However: The Federal Reserve is the largest single owner of US treasuries. ...
August 16, 2022 at 20:42
My point is that you cannot have just positive feelings (love, joy, happiness etc.) You will sure feel sadness and anger too. That simply is part of l...
August 16, 2022 at 20:13
Is this the antinatalism thread again? Or going there? Besides, as humans live in a society, so I guess there's a lot of people deciding what others (...
August 16, 2022 at 19:59
If you want to minimize the role of the central banks, be my guest. But that's nutty in this World, in my view. You should understand the link that mo...
August 16, 2022 at 15:39
Have we? How much is enough depends on us ourselves. Some can be bitter if they feel they haven't gotten something, where others would be totally cont...
August 16, 2022 at 15:19
If Trump would have used his passports to go to another country would have been ironic. (Russia, UAE or Morocco among others don't have an extradition...
August 16, 2022 at 11:50
One has to notice that the simple things in life are what actually life so wonderful. Especially if your other option is not to live, to be dead.
August 16, 2022 at 11:39
Since the money went to create asset inflation. (And with this we seem to agree on) Ok, think about this for a moment. Why do you forget that this has...
August 16, 2022 at 11:15
If you argue that inflation doesn't export itself in a globalized world, you are simply going against the facts. The global economy has had low inflat...
August 15, 2022 at 21:44
Your life is the real life, respect it. And if you are 25, don't think you've seen it all. I had fears about my life when I was your age: I didn't hav...
August 15, 2022 at 20:33
Everything has it good sides and it's downsides. Marriage, which ends in a nasty divorce/breakup, can be traumatic and make you extremely unhappy and ...
August 15, 2022 at 14:09
Wow. That ought to be unusual.
August 15, 2022 at 10:03
Ah, of course. Well, there's a lot to do if we want to make the place like the surface of Venus. :wink:
August 15, 2022 at 09:42
Partly yes, because the dollar is used globally. Inflation is exported to other countries: See How does the United States export inflation? Naturally ...
August 15, 2022 at 08:58
I wonder why the term "greenhouse effect" isn't used today. Or global warming.
August 14, 2022 at 22:16
Well, just look at what we have done in the last 2000 years. In good and bad. So I guess to worry what will happen to us in the next 10,000 years is a...
August 14, 2022 at 22:11
The future for the next 10,000 years isn't our problem. Or to put it correctly, doesn't happen because of just our generations. We understand that our...
August 14, 2022 at 21:22
With Ukraine, Russia is a genuine Great Power. Without Ukraine, Russia isn't a Great Power, but just a regional power.
August 14, 2022 at 21:18
I hear you. But do you understand that this is the way the two parties want you to polarize? The best way for the duopoly to continue is to have the v...
August 14, 2022 at 21:13
Really? You really think that the ECB multiplying the monetary base many times over won't in the end create inflation? (Euro area (changing compositio...
August 14, 2022 at 20:59
If you don't personally lose your job (or your wealth). Otherwise recession and even economic depressions can be great! What they surely aren't are th...
August 14, 2022 at 13:54
But here's the interesting question to everyone. Yes, it's a problem. But can we cope with it on the short-to-medium time range? Yes. And here do note...
August 14, 2022 at 12:41
You do understand that assisting ordinary people (by printing a lot of money) was partly the cause of the inflation now? Just giving money to people w...
August 14, 2022 at 12:16
It doesn't need to be hyperinflation. Just look what couple years of (actual) double digit inflation will do. I think we will have stagflation, just a...
August 14, 2022 at 12:12
The whole US Middle East policy has been for a long time an absolute train wreck. It's not a tragedy, it's a tragicomedy. Now the focus is on Trump. A...
August 14, 2022 at 12:05
Well, at least here the normal bickering over normal political issues (taxes, immigration, economic policy, etc.) is similar, yet when shit hits the f...
August 14, 2022 at 11:49
Why? Whatever Trump does, it doesn't matter for his supporters. Because it's all just fake news, even if they hear about the issues. What would change...
August 12, 2022 at 13:39
Sometimes Ukrainians can score. Quite fitting that Russia first said it was an accident. But how about the actual winners in this war: Qatar https://w...
August 12, 2022 at 12:00
HAHAHAA! That would be soooo fitting to the Trump administration. They already reinstated the Taliban into power by stabbing in the back the Afghan re...
August 12, 2022 at 11:52
Seems that Isaac see's a lot of difference.
August 12, 2022 at 11:43
No. In September 3rd 1939 Great Britain declared war and immediately went ahead with the National Service Act, which imposed conscription on all males...
August 12, 2022 at 09:16
Heck, he can be made even the Speaker of the House. Which is unlikely (because he wouldn't give a rats ass about the job), but all things are possible...
August 12, 2022 at 09:03
So, the last time your own country faced a possible threat of invasion, that time conscription was OK. :roll: Because then, the enemy was exceptionall...
August 12, 2022 at 07:04
This discussion has gone for 7 pages. Hence it is probable that Leibniz and his views have come up. Or should have come up. (If not, in my disgusting ...
August 10, 2022 at 11:11
I fear this thread will go on still.
August 10, 2022 at 10:29