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by kaonashi 11y ago
Depends on your position in the current situation.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
Interestingly, Minsky had a large influence on the MMT economists, and you're essentially paraphrasing his financial instability hypothesis http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp74.pdf
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by kaonashi 11y ago
The worst you can be imposed on you (outside an embargo situation) is balanced trade, paying for real imports with fx acquired through real exports.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
> MMT completely ignores floating exchange rates I'm not sure where you're getting this from, but I learned the difference between fixed & floating exchange rates by reading MMT economists.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
The purpose behind the engineering of the printers is to drive the sales of as many ink cartridges as possible while being as cheap as possible to produce. From this perspective, offering many additional features which turn off when the ink
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by kaonashi 11y ago
The promise is to accept for settlement of tax obligations.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
Doesn't really say what's left over after the plastic gets broken down.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
Neither of these things is money. Money is by definition a purely financial asset, a liability on somebody's balance sheet. Gold (and bitcoin for that matter) is a real asset, it is nobody's liability.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
> Speaking of the US Border, it is way more porous than many people think. Why would I think it wouldn't be porous? It's been that way the entire history of the world, why should we change it now?
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by kaonashi 11y ago
When the single issue is basic human rights, it's hardly hysterical.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
Note, a gender gap in salaries does not imply an absence of a large differential in proportional representation. In fact, given the tech sectors large salaries compared to the population at large, the presence of proportionate salaries and
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by kaonashi 11y ago
You seem to have simultaneously missed the point, and largely agreed with me.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
This is why it drives me nuts when politicians say they want to run government 'like a business'. It usually means by charging usurious fees to the poorest citizens and turning the criminal justice system into a revenue generating
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by kaonashi 11y ago
Snapchat
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by kaonashi 11y ago
> Any country that relies on natural resources for its wealth will suffer when those resources dry up and are not replaced with some form of productions Tell that to the free trade/comparative advantage crowd.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
I don't think it's just the racism that's propelling him in the polls, it's racism combined with populism. For some people, being economically liberal can only occur when they feel that the 'other' groups a
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by kaonashi 11y ago
For starters, one's a stock, the other a flow.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
Which is fraud.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
I can't think of a metric more meaningless than debt/GDP.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
I'm just wrong.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
Homelessness is a byproduct of capitalism in the first place, in feudal societies there is no homelessness.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
In the Hunger Games, the people of the Capitol actually needed the people in the districts.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
What the world really needs is more dudes taking the devil's advocate position on sexism issues.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
Is there a technical reason to limit the content provided, or is it all for commercial exploitation?
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by kaonashi 11y ago
There is no such thing as a distinction between 'unprinted' and 'printed' money.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
> Impossible, even. On an aggregate level, perhaps, but on an individual level, not at all.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
Which was instituted to criminalize minorities.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
not a lot of sight gags; his observational comedy about observational comedy is a chuckle
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There is a spoon.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
> Share Holder value is its primary purpose No, it isn't. Corporations are given a public charter which declares its purpose. Increasing share-holder value is a nice side-effect at most.

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