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by neffy 10y ago
It's entirely possible. They have a history of this kind of activity going right back to the 1920's. Survivors of a regime that routinely pulled stunts like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_of_Trotsky
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by neffy 10y ago
There's really no evidence for that. The evidence is that the American banking system doubles its money (and direct lending) every decade, and has done for the last 50 odd years. If there was actual weak demand, you would expect it to
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by neffy 10y ago
The other way to cross check this is to look at the relevant M2/M3's (definitions vary between countries), but otherwise knows as "the total sum of bank deposits" in a countries banking system. i.e. compare and contrast:
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by neffy 10y ago
I would beg to differ. The monetary system might be described as something that is trying to abstract time and labour in the way you describe. But money itself is just a token of exchange. The monetary system, is an attempt to use money, an
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by neffy 10y ago
Anyone who was already doing it? There's nothing new about offshore tax havens - cf Switzerland.
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by neffy 10y ago
It's a function of their money supply growth - which is now extremely low. Back in the 70's and 80's during the Japanese Bubble, it was relatively much higher. Prices are a rather fuzzy function of the money supply, total pro
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by neffy 10y ago
Well, speaking as a completely non-representative sample (size 1) of the scientific community, I thought the evidence was fairly convincing - they looked at the different rates as a function of when lead was removed from petrol which varied
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by neffy 10y ago
There are certainly collective behaviour instincts that can kick in with groups and which can be manipulated to cause people to run amok, but it's not any group by any means. Take for example the English Society of Friends (Quakers), a
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by neffy 10y ago
Kind of sort of, but at the same time they were also former soldiers, who thought they'd been forced to surrender when they still had a chance of winning, who organized themselves into a political party.
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by neffy 10y ago
I think this is it. Cars. The Fitbit general population statistics - which I would presume is a self-selected group of at least activity interested people, are quite scary in terms of the large number of people in the <5,000 steps bracke
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by neffy 10y ago
Because the nice thing about IEEE standards is that we have so many of them ;)
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by neffy 11y ago
Ah, the infamous Goodyear Balloon Simulation mistake: http://www.gkstill.com/CV/PhD/Chapter4.html I go two ways on that one. As you point out, on the one hand it is hard to beat Mother Earth when it comes to massi
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by neffy 11y ago
Extra details would indeed be interesting. There are known global climate impacts linked to single volcanic events e.g. Tambora in the 19th century, Krakatoa, etc. "All" you have is START 1, which resulted in an 80% reduction of n
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by neffy 11y ago
Bear in mind that the Nuclear Winter estimates weren't published until 10 years later... http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_uranium15.... and it was after that they started getting a bit more serio
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by neffy 11y ago
Yup. The lunatics have taken over the asylum.
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by neffy 11y ago
Exactly, it's short term vs. long term thinking. I remember listening to a German Businessman once talking about the new eastern (former USSR) countries - and he said, "What these people need to learn is that you can cheat somebod
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by neffy 11y ago
So true - I didn't realise there was a name for it. There's both a lot more natural variation than I suspect this article writer wants to believe - and a lot more training benefit if people want to learn to read faster. Just like
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by neffy 11y ago
Yes, that is the issue. Economics makes the mistake of assuming Banks can be modelled like other companies - it's not really the markets directly though. Banks make profit from the interest they make on their loans, minus the interest
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by neffy 11y ago
Go deep enough into Banking mechanisms and regulation, you will find that loan securitization was/and is (nothing has really changed) a huge exploit on the regulatory controls that had been developed around banking up to that point. We
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by neffy 11y ago
It's worth reading the book. Ballot box mismanagement, especially on that scale isn't free - and it seems quite clear that he was not only receiving cash handouts for his own campaign, but he was also acting as a channel for money
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by neffy 11y ago
Hmm. Carter may be telling the truth as he knows it - but Robert Caro's biographies of LBJ make it quite clear that there has been enormous monetary corruption in US politics - going back to well before LBJ. See especially how his firs
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by neffy 11y ago
This is the old epic circuit switching vs packet switching religious divide dressed up in new clothing. The reason why data networking is done in "declarative" mode rather than "imperative" aka centralised mode, is that
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by neffy 11y ago
Since most of economics treats the real world as a special case - I can't see this working out well for industry.
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by neffy 11y ago
Yes, it's something of a selection problem. The assumption behind this belief set is that they were the select few who could do this. There is an alternative hypothesis that out of the large number of people with poor background who di
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by neffy 11y ago
It's complicated. The precise chain of events is: 1) 2006 Father of wife sells Toyota dealership at a very favourable price to a consortium of business men who use a bank loan to pay for it. 2) Wife inherits/is given money by fath
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by neffy 11y ago
There is a continuity to human social organisation and behaviours that transcends both time and ideology.
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by neffy 11y ago
Right, because at no time in its entire history has Russia actively supported organisations whose sole goal was "the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and for the creation of an international Soviet republic as a transition st
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by neffy 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Fixx
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by neffy 11y ago
First I would suggest that being able to teach oneself and having a university degree are not mutually exclusive - and indeed a lot of courses are so bad you need to be able to teach yourself in order to successfully escape them That said,
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by neffy 11y ago
I rather suspect they know they will die without this, and the more astute also probably realise they will die with it, but in the interim they can continue to draw good salaries and bonuses. And for the institutions in the loan agreement t

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