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Tue Sep 16 20:48:34 UTC 2014 <bounce> what makes a palace economy? >50% of the population on the dole?
Tue Sep 16 20:45:48 UTC 2014 <gribble> Palace economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_economy; "Palace economy" In: The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah06237/pdf; Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies | American Journal of ...: http://www.ajaonline.org/forum/905
Tue Sep 16 20:45:47 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> ;;google palace economies
Tue Sep 16 20:22:56 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> in fact items as expensive as 50k are consumer products just fine, because of the finance economy.
Tue Sep 16 20:21:44 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> re kako's "cost 18k usd" thing : a financial economy has one benefit exactly, and that is, making the price point not a consideration anymore.
Tue Sep 16 18:00:53 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> "Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history -- which is no doubt true -- but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a war-time economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Am
Tue Sep 16 15:37:35 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> kakobrekla that's not econometry you hater you :D
Tue Sep 16 15:36:59 UTC 2014 <kakobrekla> first econometric task could be to measure the circumference of a bitcoin
Tue Sep 16 15:35:34 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> i think he's looking for more ppls to do econometric type of work
Tue Sep 16 15:34:44 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> pete_dushenski he's an economist actually
Tue Sep 16 03:12:42 UTC 2014 <decimation> lol Florida: "Washington’s economy has clearly prospered from federal spending; lobbying and government contracts are significant sources of its wealth. But its economy is not entirely or even predominantly parasitic. "
Tue Sep 16 03:03:31 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> "Florida's theory asserts that metropolitan regions with high concentrations of technology workers, artists, musicians, lesbians and gay men, and a group he describes as "high bohemians", exhibit a higher level of economic development."
Tue Sep 16 02:48:32 UTC 2014 <decimation> "These questions are being raised, not in some anti-capitalist rag from the extreme Left, but in the staid pro-business pages of the Harvard Business Review, in a seminal article by Roger Martin, the former dean of the Rotman School of Business and the academic director of the Martin Prosperity Institute: “The Rise and (Likely) Fall of the Talent Economy.”"
Mon Sep 15 17:57:54 UTC 2014 <ThickAsThieves> "We predict that Bitcoin’s lasting legacy will be the innovations it has spurred to payment technology, although the payment system will remain dominated by large processors because of economies of scale."
Sun Sep 14 14:57:15 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> ent any male?s say-so in the process of reproduction. Create and protect alternative structures of economic and psychological support for independent women ? women not attached to men ? who are child-bearers and child-raisers. . . .
Fri Sep 12 16:55:28 UTC 2014 <ThickAsThieves> “I guess the markets aren’t seeing what I am seeing. An entire economy is being rebuilt. I have a price target of $10,000 in three years. Even that may be pessimistic.”
Thu Sep 11 23:45:36 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> t, shops, warehouses. The crowd has - a correct instinct. It would like to destroy the city - the citadel of power of the political and economic kind - the root cause of its travails. The crowd is stopped in its tracks by those who have plans for the city hall, for the presidential palace. We will not stop the crowd.' (Limonov, 'The Other Russia.') - translation mine.
Thu Sep 11 14:50:41 UTC 2014 <ThickAsThieves> so at first i was frustrated at this 1bTCXE trading challenge because basically what it is is they gave everyone a fake account with half BTC / half USD credits and people are set wild to trade the assets. However, there is no tie to the real market so it's mostly a psychological/economical experiment. In this case, is there theory on how such a market would play out?
Thu Sep 11 12:36:30 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> but i would have suspected 1.5x ish is more the range where it could be borne economically