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by lzw 16y ago
Of course, he "claims" that, but it sure reads like a rant from a guy who got snubbed when he wanted to be buddy-buddy with potential sources of information. I think this is really all about Mike ego not being stroked enough. And no, I don'
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by lzw 16y ago
I cannot meet those "accredited investor" requirements, which if you think about it, are really meant to cut off dealflow for anyone who isn't already rich. Meanwhile, I have easily lost an angel investment's sized amount of money in equiti
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by lzw 16y ago
I don't know Chris Sacca and I've never met Mike Arrington, but reading this email and the original article Mike wrote, Chris has a lot more credibility than Mike to my eyes. OF course, Mike wasn't actually there so his allegations are pre
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by lzw 16y ago
No, punting out that the author is not someone trying to spread secret info, but someone who wrote things that are embarrassing. If he'd had really classified Info in the book, he'd be facing charges. This is all about embarrassment.
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by lzw 16y ago
Currencies are a really interesting thing. After I started to get into commodities and read up on the history of central banks-- the creature from jekyll island is a good book on the subject-- I found I started tobsee money fundamentally di
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by lzw 16y ago
Right, just imagine how much blood loss the patient would have experienced if we hadn't used the leeches! His is the kind of nonsense you guys trot out to defend every program... No matter how much damage to the economy, you just claim th
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by lzw 16y ago
In an inflationary environment, the US Stock market will likely go up due simply to the value of each dollar going down, meaning that a given amount of economic value delivered results in more dollar profits and more dollars in the stock pr
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by lzw 16y ago
Fortunately, free market economists, such as the Austrian School and the Chicago School are so marginalized by the dominant neo-Keynsians that you can't make the claim that they have had enough influence to make their predictions into self
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by lzw 16y ago
Bad analogy. Here's a better one: When a patient is dying of blood loss, you don't continue to put more leeches on and make charts showing how his cheeks will be rosy if only we add more leeches. The "stimulus" destroys jobs, it is a leech
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by lzw 16y ago
You mentioned the evidence that it made things worse, by obama's own numbers, the unemployment rates are much higher than he claimed they would be if we DIDN'T pass the bill. The "stimulus" destroyed jobs, as all government spending does, a
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by lzw 16y ago
I would like to point out that the understanding of real world economics is developed enough to make very accurate predictions. For instance, I knew in late 2000 or early 2001 that there would be a housing boom, a housing bubble, and a bank
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by lzw 16y ago
Specifically, he does not understand monetary economics on a fundamental level. He could be called a Keynsian, but this would be an insult to Mr. Keynes. (Who only advocated inflation as a short term measure, not as a way of life, and who
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by lzw 16y ago
You repeatedly use the words "inneffective" and "marginal" and things like that to claim that the policy I propose will not be as effective as a policy that you propose, even though you admit that the policy is a damaging one. I believe you
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by lzw 16y ago
IT would take a very long time to read all the krugman articles, and he doesn't write in a very straightforward manner anyway. However, you can save a bunch of time, and get counter arguments to krugman along with citations of his articles
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by lzw 16y ago
Actually, economics is not that complicated, and not that hard to figure out, or to influence. The reason there's so much effort to pretend like it is complicated is because it is profitable for those in government to do so, to cover up t
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by lzw 16y ago
And between getting training on a job where you actually do the work involved and "watching videos online".
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by lzw 16y ago
How is this relevant to hacker news? I'm curious.
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by lzw 16y ago
It is easy to understand. Government spending comes out of the economy via taxes and inflation. Taxes reduce company and personal profits reducing budgets for the next year, and thus reducing spending on purchases or expansion that would c
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by lzw 16y ago
Our deficits have exploded, and that's because nobody has an interest in reducing spending. Reagan, bush, Clinton and bush all grew their deficits by trillions, and now Obama is adding a trillion a year. Meanwhile, taxes have not grown lik
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by lzw 16y ago
Nothing stopping you from going after something more technical and more challenging. Every time I've been in the job market- back when I still deigned to work for other people- I got a range of offers, some of which were mundane and some o
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by lzw 16y ago
These are not new, they are old filings.
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by lzw 16y ago
The really pathetic thing about this is that trademark law requires ebay to protect their rights, so all they need to do, really, ask you to pay them a license fee for infringing on their trademark. This could be just a dollar, and they wo
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by lzw 16y ago
Global warming.... A hilarious topic you hear a lot of lies about. It is actually a simple topic since the ear is getting cooler and it is easily proven. What's complicated is the extensive lengths the global warming religion will go to t
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by lzw 16y ago
They're dumbing it down, but they are patronizing you so that you will feel smart...so you won't listen to someone who tries to correct the carefully planted misconceptions.
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by lzw 16y ago
Yep, all the best propaganda makes you think you're learning something while actually feeding you a careful set of lies to keep you from realizing the truth. Like the fact that Clinton and Bush causes this catastrophe, not the wall street
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by lzw 16y ago
You are so ignorant, you don't even know what inflation is. Yet you respond with this snide statement, so confident that, by repeating the nonsense you heard from the airheads on tv that you have sure, shown me! If you'd made an argument,
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by lzw 16y ago
Stock investing takes maybe 20 hours a year of time. Meanwhile, those bank CDs are going to not let you keep pace with inflation.... If You had used bank CDs anytime in the last decade you would have lost money in real terms. I am amazed t
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by lzw 16y ago
Gold will be in a bubble when my mentioning it doesn't always produdpce someone like you saying it is in a bubble. Bonds are a massive bubble that has expanded since 2008 enormously. Rates are at historical lows and the amount of new issua
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by lzw 16y ago
The CPI is not inflation, it is government propaganda. Even it has shown %20 inflation in recent years if you read the report and do the math, rather than listen to the talking heads on CNN. Impossible to have monetary deflation when the
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by lzw 16y ago
Facebook started out excluding everyone who wasn't a college student, keeping it private without oldsters...then when it opened up, it kept things private so only your fiends could see.... Then, later, they made these private things public

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