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Fri Jan 16 17:49:05 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> http://www.contravex.com/2015/01/16/go-ahead-jim-prentice-raise-taxes-in-alberta-and-see-if-by-2025-the-province-isnt-an-economic-shithole-like-quebec-and-ontario/ << what good is a blog if you can't take a run at local politicians, amirite?
Fri Jan 16 05:16:50 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> yet somehow their inability to score girlfriends or be the life of the party does not even begin to hint to them that perhaps they're ill prepared to judge economic phenomena.
Fri Jan 16 05:14:46 UTC 2015 <decimation> kodak is an excellent example of a company selling off its economically viable business for no reason
Fri Jan 16 03:25:58 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> npw i finally understand what they mean by boosting the economy.
Thu Jan 15 23:56:45 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> Matt O'Brien is a reporter for Wonkblog covering economic affairs. He was previously a senior associate editor at The Atlantic. He is also an idiot soon to be permanently unemployed.
Thu Jan 15 23:52:38 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> consider my alt economy where the currency is teeth. every person can be guaranteed a job as selftooth extractor, paying 30 teeth over their lifetime.
Thu Jan 15 19:15:56 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> Some $12 trillion in new money has been created since the global financial crisis by the major central banks in a broad attempt to bolster hobbled banking systems, ease debt service and revive a damaged global economy. << deflation, surely, is right around the corner
Mon Jan 12 20:58:31 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> yeah obv. just, imo better economics all around once that's on the table.
Mon Jan 12 19:29:45 UTC 2015 <bitcoin_charlie> I planon teaching Bitcoin and economics while inside
Mon Jan 12 17:24:48 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "Gavin is, by and large, a mentally retarded doofus displaying a shocking amount of Dunning-Kruger syndrome in his assorted dabblings in economics and other hard fields."
Sun Jan 11 22:39:27 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> kakobrekla this is a point. all the people derping about "economy" fail to have read that old mpoe-pr article about buffett and textile industry on the forum.
Sun Jan 11 22:22:25 UTC 2015 <adlai> with the economic issues that arise from optimizing a tax system
Sun Jan 11 17:54:33 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> having someone to say "hey, this is great" "omfg that's fucking stupid" is the very essence of economy. you can disagree with them, or pick a different one, or create special methods for their working or measuring or announcing or whatever, it's endless. but if you remove it altogether, creating essentially a flat surface instead of a 3d shape, you WILL be poorer.
Sun Jan 11 09:55:05 UTC 2015 <Vexual> your secondary business is the world economy, and theres no exceptions
Sat Jan 10 21:41:38 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> the author thought he "covered" the economics involved. then it turned out the author had no fucking idea.
Sat Jan 10 04:27:56 UTC 2015 <decimation> like those magnets you stick to your gas tank to improve fuel economy
Sat Jan 10 02:30:46 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo am i thick or is the answer about as related to what it quotes as gavin's "covered" is related to economy ?
Fri Jan 09 00:08:36 UTC 2015 <BingoBoingo> <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo why ? it's the same tribal, pretentious, inept culture. << At least Botswana's economy accepts that it exists simply as a tool for extracting raw resources.
Thu Jan 08 21:22:25 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 08-01-2015 17:32:25; mircea_popescu: but, fair warning to the ones still left inside the beast : nano, prior to his vacation, was a law abiding economy teacher, a bright kid and a very loyal and honorable fellow all around.