Thanks, this is interesting. ...and furthermore: Conveniently (and some would say too conveniently). the research community can sigh of relief. Hopefu...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Wrong. Please know the reality. Social Security Trust Fund currently holds about $2.9 trillion in U.S. Treasury securities. (See Congressional Researc...
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...
OK, now I understand better your point. On the other hand, optimism, remembering those joy and happy moments might be good in countering OVERemphasizi...
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. ...
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...
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 (...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Partly yes, because the dollar is used globally. Inflation is exported to other countries: See How does the United States export inflation? Naturally ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Well, at least here the normal bickering over normal political issues (taxes, immigration, economic policy, etc.) is similar, yet when shit hits the f...
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...
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...
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...
No. In September 3rd 1939 Great Britain declared war and immediately went ahead with the National Service Act, which imposed conscription on all males...
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...
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...
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 ...
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