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Was today the day that Trump pardons Manafort? :D

In many states the breakdown into republican and democrat votes was/is dramatically different for election day voting versus advance, mail-in voting. In some states, mail in votes were not counted until the Polls closed. Mail in votes posted on or before Nov. 3rd, continue to arrive. Even if...

The above follows from unimaginative and conventional thinking. The thinking behind my statement is neither unimaginative nor conventional.

Just as the highest and best use of computers is to provide insight, the highest and best use of robots is to relieve mankind from the drudgery of stultifying, mind numbing, repetitive work, and in doing so generate more time for the arts, athletics and intellectual pursuits.

Oh, my gosh. Several big ones. Perhaps the biggest change is my thinking on medical care. For years I thought the answer was more competition and trading more risk for deregulation -- More or Less a Milton Friedman "free market" approach. But at some point a few years ago I woke up and...

I was raised by Edwardian parents born well before the first world war. One said "please" and "thank you," sat up straight at the dinner table. Bad manners were not tolerated and would occasion a withering stare. Words were superfluous. One knew instantly that a boundary had been crossed that...

C'mon. You've got to be better informed than that!

I liked it, even though I'm not in favor of the death penalty. Didn't the penalty for treason used to be death by firing squad? If it happens to Trump, well what could we say, other than he got what he deserved.. Robbing a liquor store is one thing, but stealing from a nation is another.

You have me confused with Trump. Trump is the one that insisted that Obama was born in Kenya, that Obama tapped his phone, that Mexico will pay for a border wall, that the reason we have so many covid deaths is we test too much, that Biden and Hillary should be in jail, that he's done more...

She's an unusual person. Intellect is apparently not one of her attributes. Apparently Donald had her and her family checked out to make sure they weren't your usual "rapist-murderer" type of immigrant. Although she worked illegally in the U.S. on a tourist visa, she somehow avoided being kept...

I'm sticking with my original allegation that Trump is a pedophile. And to that I will add that there is ample evidence to strongly suggest he is also a horrible racist. He's covered with crumbs from head to toe, and that's enough for me. I also believe he has committed bank fraud and felony...

Why do I feel as though I've got myself into a 3rd grade playground fight, that I started?

Deficits can be too high. MMT economists will acknowledge that. One of their main contributions in my opinion is not so much in formalizing the idea that deficits can be too high or too low*, but rather in articulating why. There is general agreement that currency must not be radically...

They use money terminology more precisely than you. They distinguish between outside money and inside money. The latter is controlled by credit demand which responds weakly and non-linearly to interest rate and the general state of the economy as perceived. They recognize that the government...

I'm afraid it is only based on accounts of him roaming into the girls dressing room at pageants and the rape accusations of underage girls (one age 13 at the time) filed in New York and then suddenly withdrawn just before the 2016 election. So its not much. Gislaine would be a better one to...

But Trump IS a pedophile! What difference would it make?

Oh mon Dieu, tragique !

Sorry, was having a senior moment, got Bill Mitchell and Warren Mosler mixed in my brain. It's Warren Mosler, not Bill.

Bone, I laughed when I saw this. Thanks for posting it. I imagine that the results of asking these same to questions of only MMT economists would be exactly the same! They would strongly disagree. These questions are, I think, coming from old-school economists' perception of MMT. I have...

Thank you for posting this. I haven't finished the AMT critique yet, but I was a bit taken aback when I noticed the authors had taken Wray's words out of context. I happen to have the referenced work in my library, so I looked up the origin of their quote. I found that the authors of the AMT...