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Hello piezoe: Your Soros quote "After nearly half a century of what now appears as excessive regulation, we have been moving towards excessive deregulation. The sooner we recognize that some kind of regulation is necessary in order to maintain stability, the better our chances of preserving...

Hello piezoe: Thank you for your repy: You finally answered in part a question I asked at the very beginning in post 147, p 15 which you said you cannot answer. But if you had it would have saved a lot of time. In that post I said "Can you give your definition of a free market and the role of...

Hello piezoe: You say about free markets that "such a market does not exist in reality, except perhaps as a localized example in microeconomics.", "there is no disagreement about their existence in the macroeconomic world -- they don't exist." But the below college economics textbooks both...

Hello piezoe: You don't have a good understanding of economics if you can't even define a free market or value. Claiming free markets hardly ever exists and then claiming “there is no disagreement about their existence in the macroeconomic world -- they don't exist.” begs the question. How...

Hello piezoe: You say “In reality, there is hardly ever a free market where, as in in your scenario, labor and employer are equally free to accept or reject an offer.” Later you say “We disagree on a premise, viz., that free markets actually exist on other than a localized micro scale.” I...

Hello piezoe: I did not find that article particularly helpful in telling me what you mean when you say you are a libertarian. Perhaps you can give a more direct answer. The first sentence in the article says: "Libertarianism (Latin: liber, "free") is a political philosophy that upholds...

Hello piezoe: Thanks for the answer. Perhaps you basically mean the minimum wage sb a living wage. I don't understand what you mean by the statement. “The rationale behind this is simple, If any one of these components is missing the worker will be, by definition, unemployable.” Please...

Hello piezoe: I read the http://www.businessinsider.com/minimum-wage-effect-on-jobs-2016-5 article and also the paper it was based on "Raise Wages, Kill Jobs? Seven Decades of Historical Data Find No Correlation Between Minimum Wage Increases and Employment Levels." The paper's claims...

Hello piezoe: I asked in my post what is do you think the minimum wage should be and how exactly do you decide what it is. So what is your answer if you don't mind ?

Hello nitro: This "initiative was put on the ballot by a group of artists, writers and intellectuals". No doubt they are starving artists, starving writers and leftist pseudo intellectuals who think they can just vote every one an increase in salary with no bad consequences. This idea of just...

Hello piezoe: Isn't it a bit illogical and counter productive to say raising the minimum wage is “not a problem for any employers except those few who shouldn't be in business anyway.” The businesses that will fail with the higher minimum wage will result in higher unemployment and will lower...

Too bad we can't build a wall to keep uktrader2016 out. He is not a US citizen but he tries to tell us how to run our lives like Obama tries to tell Britain to run theirs. Obama's Brexit Intervention Makes Waves in U.K., Ripples in U.S...

Hello Frederick Foresight, Sorry to hear that. So which of the candidates do you prefer and why ?

Hello Frederick Foresight, Your criticism is tilting at windmills. Trump says he is financing his campaign and doesn't need donations. And yes he accepts individual donations. But he does not accept donations from corporations. He has said that him self and so I don't see how that is...

Hello wildchild, So who would you vote for that is better than Donald Trump ? And why.