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"Is this OP some sort of spill over from Facebook?" No. There's only two options really. One, he's a deliberate troll. Two, he's really stupid enough to not see a difference between what most posters here believe and what Romney believes. If it's the second, it's most likely because he's just your typical tribal American
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There is no functional difference between Romney and Obama on pretty much any policy issue that matters. Their 'plans' for America are slightly different versions of the same blueprint. Obama is probably slightly less likely to start WWIII, or less likely to escalate it very quickly if you're of the opinion that it already started. He likes
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I think such websites are very interesting since they contrast the type of 'information' people use to try and manage the lives of others with the kind of information you use to make decisions about your own life. They're also interesting in that they call into question just what the hell it is so many of us think we 'know,' how
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I always liken the presidential elections to two guys breaking into your house and letting you choose which one of them gets to rape you. The debates would basically be them offering a perfuntory explaination for each of their tecniques before they "let" you choose.
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"On that note, I find that many leftists have trouble understanding scarcity at all. Why is that?" How do you mean? Some understand it and simply think stealing is an appropriate and neutral response. The basic problem with economic calculation is you can't divorce the system from the information; they are one and the same. Market signals
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Isn't one of the risks here of usury charges because of the devaluation of the dollar and the implied 'interest rate' of repayment?
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" But the system was developed by those who run it. The ones who run it can change it for the better simply by reducing governmental intervention bit by bit will allow for more and more economic growth. Hong Kong became the 'freest' country in the world due to a Scottish bureaucrat John Cowperthwaite who helped lead the country (in 1961
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" But aren't we talking about interest rates here? Interest rates don't convey information about what people want, do they?" Not directly, but if you make the entrepreneurial judgement that people want yo-yos, you then have to make the capitalist judgement as to whether or not you can manufacture and sell them at a profit. Interest
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Some people observed the success of Michael Moore and other 'documentarians' and emulated their approach, but with different biases and audiences in mind.
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It would be easier to 'answer' if it were formatted better. One point worth mentioning is price stability or instability is largely irrelevant; what matters is that prices be an honest representation of people's judgements on the state of supply and demand at the time. And if that means unstable, then better that information get disseminated