Exactly. Economic/political discussions on HN are painful because people who are capable of generating meaningful insights when the topic is technical are redu

Exactly. Economic/political discussions on HN are painful because people who are capable of generating meaningful insights when the topic is technical are reduced to wishful thinking and trotting out tired, simplistic misrepresentations of economics. Let the country's biggest banks become insolvent, then "reboot" them in a week? When you start proposing that the world's largest economy model itself on theoretical notions only tested in a country 3% it's size, ideologically oriented in a completely different direction, and founded on a radically different social contract, then you are not arguing anymore. It's not an argument, in the sense of debate and intellectual exchange, it's dogma.