Helps me refine by debate points and often times I learn different ways of looking at things. I debate a friend on another site (MMT advocate),...
There is NO entitlement to anything. Our situation as Humans existing as we do, is fairly absurd but here we are. We can cooperate or not. I'm...
People freely chose to accept Gold in (a medium of) exchange, that made it money. People were given the choice to pay taxes in fiat or go to jail,...
There are still plenty of good jobs in fields such as electrical, plumbing and such, many companies in my location will OJT them, with or without...
Hard money coupled with Fractional Reserve Lending. I think it was speculation caused by excessive paper receipts (dollars) in relation to actual...
Sounds like "We" humans need to slow down and enjoy the simpler things for a while maybe. One of the things pushing this tech boom is easy money...
Living standards are already contracting and this is hardly the first time humanity has had a run-in with "money printing" (currency debasement)....
I'm not trying to avoid anything, I'm pointing out the "ideology" that brought us here. This isn't the way things have to be.
Ok, I will (argue this (lol). What are some of those jobs "that can't be filled because people are not trained/qualified for them" (In the "new...
I won't argue that but I could, it doesn't cover the reality of a monetary system based on debt (has to be borrowed into existence), a population...
So current economic conditions are a success by your measure Kurt? And who's denying "macroeconomics even exists"? I've told you before I don't...
And that is the unwarranted arrogance a "formal (Keynesian) economics education" produces. (lol) "There are men regarded today as brilliant...
Interest rates are prices and prices are signals. We've been led (signaled) to an economic dead end IMO. That's why the markets are tracking...
True story and GE isn't still around because it earned it or deserves to be, it's around because it won the "SIFI" award, (systemically important...
Had to quote just to (lol)!
I think current mainstream ideology (Keynesianism) could be viewed as a "mania" of sorts. Considering Keyne's disdain for savings, I'm betting...
No key dates that I'm aware of yet and the oldest dime (1877) is paper thin but finding them creates numismatic value for me! Picked up a buffalo...
That is correct.
In normal times I wouldn't argue against the OP's point but these are not normal times. Price discovery has been destroyed via QE, ZIRP, NIRP and...
Oh jeez, bt*d? Go with what you know... Any charts that track the German Mark and Markets thru 1945? (lol)
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