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vivafrance
8y ago
> we're built differently both mentally and physically You're incredibly sexist. You undoubtedly are part of the reason women are paid 60% what men are. I hope you are fired from wherever you work as you're part of the p
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vivafrance
8y ago
That's only because of cultural biases. If women were treated the same as men throughout childhood you'd see equal representation.
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vivafrance
8y ago
Yes, it was.
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vivafrance
8y ago
> When house prices go up, this measure goes up by a similar measure. That’s only true if you assume interest rates aren’t falling. Artificially low interest rates have inflated the actual price of housing while keeping monthly payments
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vivafrance
8y ago
You’re wrong. House prices aren’t included anymore in CPI. Imputed rents are. These are very different things. Anyways, I’m sure all this falls on deaf ears. If you used the same calculation the Fed used in the 80s to measure inflation we’d
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vivafrance
8y ago
> Monetary policy may have prevented a worst case depression I vehemently disagree with this claim. The central banks of the world have merely masked a massive default on debt by inflating it away in a coordinated manner. The owners of t
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vivafrance
8y ago
Inflation is rampant in many areas right now. It’s dishonest to claim inflation is low because TVs are still cheap when house prices, healthcare, and education are exploding. Furthermore, if the unemployment rate was as low as is advertised
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vivafrance
8y ago
The ECB should just do more QE. Monetary policy solved all the US’s problems following 2008 - should work for Europe too. Printing money to buy bonds definitey doesn’t cause inflation in asset prices or real estate. Furthermore, buying bond
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vivafrance
8y ago
The Fed and the government in general are incentivized to make inflation appear much lower than it actually is. If you use the same calculation the Fed used in the 80s to measure inflation then we’d be at 10% today.
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vivafrance
8y ago
Most comments in a community are unsupported speculation. Those commenters that parrot popular opinions are rewarded.
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vivafrance
8y ago
Get an x1 carbon, install FreeBSD with gnome. Hardware and software blow windows and macOS out of the water. I can’t fathom how people think MacOS has angood desktop is — everything is a struggle with their os.
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vivafrance
8y ago
Your facts are measuring something different. The first measures the service payments. The second measures debt to gdp. Talk about moving the goal post.
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vivafrance
8y ago
> Household debt is not at record highs Ummm, yes it is: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/13/total-us-household-debt-soar...