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What a bizarre reply. Where you perhaps reading someone else's post, or you just had no response so that was the best you could come up with?

So you believe that once people have voted on a subject, any subject, it can never be revoted on again, ever? Obviously that's absurd, under that logic everyone would be elected for life or until they quit and every referendum would be forever and unchangeable even if the majority no longer...

To be fair, if a democracy voted for the UK to build a faster than light spaceship, it's not "nullifying by Elites" if the government doesn't make that happen. And it's not really democracy if folks voted for something and nearly 3 years later when there's far more information available you ask...

A brilliant summary of the Brexit situation I unfortunately can't take credit for writing: UK to EU: "So, we have voted to leave" EU to UK: "That’s a shame, OK what’s your proposals?" UK to EU: "We don’t have any, we are leaving." EU to UK: "Yes, but what about the Good Friday Agreement and...

If you haven't read it already I highly recommend Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem trilogy, I think you'd enjoy it given this discussion.

Commodity cheese! The truth behind that is even better, it was (is?) the best cheese U.S. socialism could provide. Government subsidies to farmers to produce milk that wasn't required by the market made that cheese!

But actually that's not true at all and is exactly my point! I (who am not an economist but have at least taken a number of courses) and any economists not on a certain political party's payroll could and did predict with absolute certainty that a major tax cut would drive up deficits...and lo...

I find the fact they call it "American cheese" hilarious. It's a subtle insult to American's being representative of fake processed product, but the majority of us don't get subtle and so don't even realize it, and a substantial minority are right proud that we've got our own 'murican cheese...

I'd challenge your idea that economists are wrong more than 10% of the time. What basic tenant of micro or macro economics have economists been wrong on in the last 20 years? Quick, off the top of your head? Not cutting edge stuff (after all, how many rockets have blown up and that's bounded...

"Beyond us" says who? Life is full of questions we can answer without having the thing in question. What is life like without water? How can you even answer that without water? Or to be more esoteric, how does the human brain work? How can you even answer that without a human brain. Screw it, no...

That's not exactly true. For example, I spent a couple years in a job forecasting the appropriate level of spare parts for several large aircraft fleets spread across the world. There was limited funding, long lead times on some parts, and most were mission critical meaning if we ran out of...

Since I've advocated for pretty much the opposite of that on the S&P at least right here on ET, that statement is about as wrong as everything else you've said. And common sense says the earth is flat and the sun revolves around it, that's why the opinion of someone who's spent no time studying...

At the point that you don't agree that lending grinds to a halt when in a deflationary economy is the point you're living in la la land. Did you seriously just say that Warren Buffet with what, $500B in shareholders market cap, is going to ride a white horse in to save the $19T 'murican economy...

The difference is that scientists are actively trying to answer "What was the universe doing before it existed". We may never know the answer but think it's worth trying to figure out nonetheless. The religious folks I grew up with would tell you that you were a bad person who was questioning...

It's really unclear what you're trying to say. Let's just have you provide yes or no answers to two simple questions. 1. Does anyone have an incentive to lend when they get less money back than they lent out? We call this deflation, by the way. 2. If no-one lends, can significant money supply be...

I prefer to buy block cheese, make america grate again!

But apparently not lacking basic logic about how lenders don't lend in deflationary environments?

Next time can you just lead with "Build the wall" so we can realize that what follows will best be described as "one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational...

First off you might want to check a dictionary on "myopic" and "one dimensional", your sentence doesn't really make any sense. But let's talk "myopic". Are you saying that a deflationary environment is fine because, lending? Do you even realize how self contradicting that statement is? Why in...

Calling that "my assertion" to be taken "at face value" would be like saying "taking your assertion that plate tectonics are real". It's the dominant view of anyone who has taken a basic macro course or even thought about macro, not "my assertion" for you to dismiss as such! Hint: Having the...