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Tue Nov 24 06:36:41 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> "In the past, when companies implemented labor-saving technology -- whether assembly lines or computers -- their workers didn’t simply go on the unemployment rolls. They became more productive than before, and commanded higher wages. If they got laid off, they eventually found jobs at other companies -- and since the economy overall was more productive because of the innovation, more new companies were started
Sat Nov 21 14:23:35 UTC 2015 <assbot> sciencehatesyou comments on London School of Economics Shits on Bitcoin VC Investments ... ( http://bit.ly/1I64xow )
Sat Nov 21 14:23:34 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/3pohex/london_school_of_economics_shits_on_bitcoin_vc/cw8mub0 <<< why do you figure the only thing random something awful tard can say is omaigawd rape & mysogeny ?
Fri Nov 20 23:06:04 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> the main thing running through my head while TRYING to read about ancient greek economics, what that point mircea_popescu made in a footnote recently about 'economists need businessmen but not vice versa'
Thu Nov 19 05:43:41 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> must be great to inhabit reality-free world. as alf says, the commonplace, sane constraint of being economically +ev - isn't there.
Thu Nov 19 04:33:59 UTC 2015 <assbot> Police Civil Asset Forfeitures Exceed All Burglaries in 2014 | Armstrong Economics ... ( http://bit.ly/1SZVqMs )
Thu Nov 19 03:34:44 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> (because the commonplace, sane constraint of being economically +ev - isn't there)
Tue Nov 17 02:04:36 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> actually, this would be useful for a change economics research. obviously lice agreement on lice-ing only works provided the largest lice is cutting his own throat. but by what factor ?
Tue Nov 17 02:03:48 UTC 2015 <adlai> economies of scale don't, um, scale
Sun Nov 15 05:17:17 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 06-11-2015 22:08:54; ascii_field: 'Ministers have no plans to ban sex because it has an important role in the protection of legitimate economic activity such as creating bank users and lottery players. But there is concern over some aspects of so-called end-to-end fuck where only the thruster and recipient of thrust can feel it.'
Sun Nov 15 01:04:00 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> His research interests, on which he has published several papers in finance and economics journals, are in International Finance and Corporate Finance and Strategy. He has been on the editorial board of a number of finance journals. He teaches International Finance, Corporate Finance and Financial Institutions at Anderson. He has also organized and taught Executive Education programs on Financial Derivatives, Corporate
Sun Nov 15 00:57:48 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> yes, well, again : this is how this goes. the entire point of "economy" is the redefinition of work.
Sun Nov 15 00:33:46 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> https://www.nknews.org/2015/11/conversations-with-north-koreans/ << “This so-called South Korea thing,” he sneered, “it’s just America.” “You say isolated. We say self-reliant. That’s our ideology. That’s how we weather economic crises caused by America,” << damn. spot on !
Sat Nov 14 05:27:07 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> whaddayawant, it's a jail, cans of sardines are currency, usg is the only economic actor here, yes
Sat Nov 14 05:25:31 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> fucking united states of kermit are an "economic actor" now, fancy that. what do they act, the chinese handpuppet ?
Sat Nov 14 05:24:37 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 14-11-2015 03:17:59; asciilifeform: all i can say is that usg is the only major economic actor remaining, or at least in so far as is visible from my dismal tower
Sat Nov 14 03:17:59 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> all i can say is that usg is the only major economic actor remaining, or at least in so far as is visible from my dismal tower
Thu Nov 12 19:06:07 UTC 2015 <BingoBoingo> But stf621 if you must plant trees I recommend Toxicodendron, economically valuable for lacquer production
Wed Nov 11 18:02:14 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "More substantively?and this is what I want to focus on in this post??paying? for highway spending with Fed capital is not paying for it at all in any economically meaningful sense. Rather, this maneuver is a form of budgetary sleight-of-hand that would count funds that are already designated for the Treasury as ?new? revenue."