Recent content by qdog

Gee that is going to be hard, since questions have to be asked in order to find concrete evidence. I can't find any flaw in the logic. So, I quess I'll keep asking the question, with your permission of course. Its funny how thing work. I've seen a few news stories speculating that Goldman...

Great! But, any reason why we shouldn't ask the questions?

Is that a reason that the questions need not be asked?

That is all fine but something is left out. Just expose all of that to the domocrartic process for a number of years and we will see the shape of things after a few years have passed.

Those who deman answers at this time don't have a loud enough voice. This is issue is a gift to Democrats. But Democrats are lazy. Democrats won't consider an issue that can't be explained to them in one sentence. Republicans aren't interested because they think private accounts are a...

1.) The only way to privatize social security is to do away with it. 2.) Private accounts are not a free market solution. 3.) Private accounts are a new government program. 4.) Private accounts are a subsidy to the securities industry. So called "free market solutions" easily become...

Is it true that? 1.) George Bush's Treasury Secretary, Paulson, has but together a consortium of privateer firms that is artificially pushing the stock market to new highs. 2.) The participating firms will be rewarded when the republicans are successful in creating private accounts...

In a democracy, leaders cannot be reelected to office unless they promise and deliver uninterrupted economic growth. Once tools of monetary and fiscal policy are fully exploited leaders start looking for other ways to boost economic activity. The newest tools are what I call asset enhancement...

I am not yet worried about deflation. I do question some cherished assumptions that are made in economics. One, is the idea that all money that is available will be borrowed. Although it has worked out that way so far. In our current economic situation, one exception could be a big problem...

I am familiar with that kind of stuff. There are ways to present an argument without attaching some wierd agenda. Lets seperate arguments from entertainment. q

Can anyone here make an argument that the U.S. faces a deflationary risk? q