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Jesus you're dense.

He's a chip off the old block alright. His father missed going to prison by the skin of his teeth for embezzlement of government funds. Trump is just more evidence the apple does not fall far from the tree.

This is true, he's been a bully since childhood. He hasn't changed his "style."

like jamming the airports with stranded passengers after issuing an illegal executive order. Like creating chaos for businesses that import and export. like pulling out of the Paris Climate accord. Like pulling out of the Iran Nuclear Deal. Like reversing almost every decision he announces...

It's effective with a minority of the population and those without recourse to good lawyers. It is the kind of childish behavior that will eventually get one in very hot water.

A problem, or should I say yet another problem, for Trump is going to be the quality of Vanity Fair's journalism. Their investigative journalism has been first rate for years and they hardly ever have to retract. It's a highly reliable source of detailed, accurate information.

Jesus, I hope that's not a real letter.

Sadly, he's going to miss it this year, but why not just tweet that they offered the prize to him, but he turned it down. And then just keep tweeting, over and over, "Turned it Down, Turned it Down." It is going to work with Devin Nunes and 41% of Americans.

Harry's got a kool outfit on.. I wish I had something like that to wear.

When the Fed embarked on a program of QE in 2009 many were convinced QE would lead to hyperinflation and that the Fed's actions were dangerously irreversible. There were many posts here on ET to that effect. Interestingly, all of these dire predictions proved wrong. The reason is clear. Very...

Your understanding is like mine used to be, over simplified. Large deficits in boom times run the risk of inflation. They do pump money into the economy, do increase savings and investment, etc. But just spending money into the economy, which is what all governments do, doesn't necessarily...

That's not quite what I said. He couldn't obtain financing from U.S. banks. He did, as The Donald's ever helpful son has indicated, obtain funding from Deutsche Bank (Conveniently, They have a Moscow branch not far from the Kremlin) and other Russian related sources. In fact for a while owning...

You've slightly misunderstood my mindset. I am not at the moment advocating government as ELR in good times and bad, as the MMT economists are. My view is that they are right certainly about how the Fed and Treasury work in contrast to the incorrect views of the "old school" economists who...

If this ever were to happen in the United States, there would be evidence of such. And someone would have to find that evidence to make a credible charge. Simply saying that something is true, does not make it true, but it can make it true in the minds of the naive whether there is evidence or...

Let's suppose that some of the findings in the Steele report were found to be correct and backed up by further investigation. Would the fact that the DNC funded a part of that report make those findings wrong? Would it make independent verification by the FBI inadmissible in court?

I'd recommend reading modern money theory as a starting point. Reading is best, but you can glean some understanding from the many YouTube lectures and round tables held on this subject. Just search MMT. Here are a few places to start. After that, read, read and read some more.

As I thought, you can'r answer my question truthfully so you find a way not to answer it. But it doesn't fool anyone.

I guess you'd have to actually read my post to even know what my question to you was. Are you pretending to not have read my post so you can avoid my question?

I'd be very interested then in your view of the argument made by Bowen, et al. (1960) in "The Public Debt: A Burden on Future Generations?" (American Economic Review, 50, pp. 701-6.) . You, having studied MMT economics, I am certain will be familiar with the MMT argument, since it, and Abba...

As I said the criteria are arbitrary. "Treat and Street" -- which is the M.D.'s term for what you decribe -- may be great to you and not great to someone else.