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by skylan_q 11y ago
Over-deliver, you're anti-competitive. Over-charge, you're being a monopolist. Provide what everyone else provides at the price they provide it, you're colluding. Businesses are trying to make a buck. The people coming up wit
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Some reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abenomics#Implementation They've been attempting to stimulate the economy already. As you mention, viability of pensions is very important in Japan. Much of their saving
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But if you have a few people develop and ship a product, what's everyone else going to do besides look stupid?
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Because it's 2015
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>Which is exactly what got us out of the recession. It's what caused it in the first place. i.e. 2% interest ninja loans, CRA, "home ownership society", gov't-sponsored entities, etc...
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It blows my mind that Keynesians can't identify busts that were caused by bubbles. When the US real estate market started tanking, how was the boom supposed to continue? More construction in an over-supplied housing market? Re-train wo
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A decent human being always has perfect foresight and never has to make tough decisions that impact people. If anyone is ever fired or laid off, the CEO should be immediately replaced. Or alternatively, no one should ever be fired.
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We do the same thing with physical servers and network ports. If no one knows what it does, unplug it and see what breaks or who complains. :)
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Agreed. I can't even find examples of transgressions. It's not sexist and homophobic to perform software development, so why can't she just ignore any of those comments or subtexts? She harps on about lack of professionalism
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Remember when Toyotas (made by a Japanese company) in the US were killing people on their own and no one could replicate it?
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Doing the right thing only when it benefits me: isn't democracy great?
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/banks-got-114b-from-governme... Our banks did get bailed out. Even more than the American banks on a per-capita basis.
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We've gutted productive jobs in central Canada. The federal gov't should have taken a more direct role in energy policy at least in Ontario.
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I'd say real estate is another ailment here. When Bloomberg decided to publish opinion pieces was there any question it would be nothing but shameless liberal propaganda? That's called "news about Canada". Albertans do
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Maybe it's biology that allows men to lead less balanced lives It can't be ignored. Males are nature's crapshoot. In many measures when comparing men against women, we'll see more men at the extremities. Most bay area
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He threatened to run independent if they didn't give him the nomination. That would be enough to ruin it for the republican party. The party is devouring itself right now and it's Trump vs. the rest.
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Simple. Inflation is 8%. :)
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The fed is paying interest to the banks for excess reserves they have parked at the fed. If they lower the interest rate they're paying out on the excess reserves, banks might move some of that money out of the fed and into other inves
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We've been helping to kill that dream when we pushed for net neutrality. We played right into it. Getting to the circus on time (i.e. watching king of thrones after torrenting it) was so important we had to hand over the Internet to th
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People are coming to the defence of man-eating lions in a place where lions eat people. How are there 7 billion of us when we hate ourselves and each other so much?
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encroaching the animals rightful land. What is a human's rightful land? Do realize there is no "rightful land" in nature, which is the only sphere in which lions operate?
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I'd say it isn't. How many is the right number of either of those?
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Amazon is only worth its current market cap if it can increase sales by at least 5x. The market disagrees. The market capitalization is set by what people are willing to buy and sell ownership of the company for. It is not set by the amou
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There different ways to value a company beyond their ability to profit in the near term. Walmart perfected 20th century shopping and are reaping dividends for it in terms of current monetary profits. Amazon is working on perfecting 21st cen
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I have to agree that monetary stimulus alone isn't enough. Some call this the "zero lower bound" and that fiscal policy needs to drive inflation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_lower_bound Mind you I
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The gov't decides the policy of the central bank, so it's always political. Right now, the scheme is to drive inflation which pours newly printed money into gov't coffers as that's how new money makes it into the economy
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The Austrians have been saying this since about the same time or earlier. Read only if you're interested in the theory of economic bubbles. The Austrian business cycle theory (ABCT) is an economic theory developed by the Austrian Scho
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In fractional reserve systems you create money when you borrow from the bank This isn't true. Banks can only loan out money deposited with them.
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My God, why didn't Roosevelt and Churchill think of giving billions in relief to the Third Reich. That would have solved everything. Chamberlain was a forgotten hero! They would have, but they gave it to the Soviets instead.
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Iran is a country much more aligned with the US in many more ways than Saudi Arabia is. It's really a "natural ally" for the US in the middle east.

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