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Lindq since you are using an evolutionary biological argument for the value of sex and masturbation in terms of procreation should I assume you are in favor of polygamy? Polygamy after all would lead to greater variation and diversity in the gene pool. Why should government sanction any...

Why is it there are so few Christians who choose to be chaste? Why sin by using birth control or leave it up to chance with the unreliable rhythm method? Choose to NOT have sex with a woman. Choose to NOT masturbate. Choose to do that for the rest of your life. Hey let's make it...

How many straight men do you know who have decided not to have sex with a woman? How many guys do you know that have chosen not to masturbate? Strictly speaking all the above are choices. But how many of us would say they are realistic choices? Let's face it even marriage is entered...

I don't know the specifics of the Chrysler case very well but I don't see the inconsistency. What's a pension fund doing with these high risk securities? Will anyone offer to buy the company afterwards? We'll just have to see. The case could be made that if none of these companies had...

Anyone who was still holding U.S. automaker debt was speculating. Last time I heard speculating is often an aggressive form of making money that entailed a lot of risk. Considering it was a U.S. automaker we are talking about, the political risks associated with the investment should have...

It seems I'm the only one who thought her performance was ordinary. Competent but nothing to merit all the attention. I don't get what all the fuss is about.

If it comes to that the government should just nationalize all the banks right now. The nationalized banks would probably retain more value for eventual sale then under your scenario which risks shock to the economy. The loss of confidence and state of anxiety in having all the biggest...

The following is what scares economists and what makes all those people saying let them fail look rather reckless. From Wikipedia article on The Great Depression: "Banks began to fail as debtors defaulted on debt and depositors attempted to withdraw their deposits en masse, triggering...

Chinese treasury holdings are $2 trillion? To put things in perspective the US has spent $1 trillion on Iraq. If China could find somewhere better to put its money it would but it hasn't and I doubt it is only because it doesn't want to.

The problem China had for a long time is that it had a lot of unproductive resources: people. Money in the form of credit allows these previously unproductive people to be productive. As long as the money is helping to make these people more productive than they previously were, it is a net...

They tried that before with the banks during something called The Great Depression. Hasn't been too popular since then. I wonder why? Nevertheless, they tried something following the same logic recently with Lehman Brothers---and backtracked the very next day after the feared cascading...

Let's say the money was given to the people directly. Then they spend it or save it in which case it just goes back into the broken system. That will tide people over for a while but then what? The financial system is still broken. Bottled water deliveries are not an adequate replacement for...

You can print all the money in the world but if people are not productively employed it will all be for naught. Goods and services people. Goods and services. Giving money to the people directly is not a permanent solution. The problem is the financial system is broken. The water pump...

It took less than a day for the evidence to pour in that you cannot allow a financial company of that size to go under i.e. Reserve money market fund breaking the buck.

If Cramer is taken as a contrarian indicator this is good news for America.

Maybe you can address the points made here: http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/Politics/whynotthegoldstandard.html

How do you prevent screwing around with the money? The gold standard? Didn't prevent financial panics in the 19th century.

From what I can gather Austrian economics has no strategy whatsoever when it comes to combating a deflationary spiral. It's all leave the market alone since it knows best or blame the Fed. Of course neither explanation comes close to adequately giving reassurance. One only needs to look...

Would a reference to Jindal suffice?

Glad to hear you solved your problem. Unfortunate that none of us were able to provide you with the key advice earlier. I notice, however, looking back through the thread you said the following: Seems like you were providing misleading information.