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The idiot is you - that is the moron who lacks reading comprehension skills. Point out where I ever said that these people give a fuck about you and that they are doing all this for the greater good. Does it make you feel like a big and powerful man to build those straw men to mow 'em...

What? How dare he question the declarations of the Goracle's consensus? Or Larry David's ex wife? Ivar will be burned at the stake for heresy. Besides, Algore's Nobel Prize is cooler than Giaever's because he made an awesome cool movie with special effects to win his. Totally rad.

Rich, I can't give you a full response now, but I almost choked with with horror at your example of a free market. You are horribly misinformed. The banking and mortgage industry (including investment banks) is incredibly heavily regulated. When I worked in investment banking, I couldn't...

Okay. Where have you encountered a free market recently? I'm just asking for one. Since you claim to be surrounded by them, it should be easy to name just one. One, unregulated market.

Oh, rich....that's just sad. To be ignorant is one thing, but to smear it all over a public message board for all to snicker at does you no favours. Now you sound like your Marxist ideologues. Where oh were did you notice any free market policies in the Bush administration? Name one...

No thanks. Limbaugh is too partisan for me. He's your obsession.

See? Saying stuff like that just makes you sound like an idiot. I know liberals have a thing for Limbaugh. I've never listened to him personally, so I have no idea what he says. But, leftists just can't seem to get enough of him. It's an obsession.

Rich, I'm a gal and I'm really not that nice. I'll bet you're nicer. I just get straight to the point because I can't be bothered with the niceties. I don't know how considerable or valuable your knowledge of human character - whatever that means - is. However, you have definitely...

Oh, right. Because dipshits like you haven't learned the definition of "externalities" and "unintended consequences". In your neat little pretend world the smart people can plan everything from a central point. The only reason central planning has failed in the past is that central planners...

Rich, V.I. Lenin had a name for guys like you - "Useful Idiot". It's sad because you don't seem like a bad guy. Cluelessness does not make you a bad person. But, you are incredibly naive, ill informed and ignorant of both history and basic economics - and very much a true believer. If...

Actually, WWII did not get us out of the Depression. All it did was soak up unemployment, but no economic growth occurred until after WWII, when the economy was liberalized from the strangulation of some of the New Deal's policies. Another fact: the market rallied after FDR was elected in...

I think it's pretty clear that Bernanke is no idiot. I also think it's pretty clear he has no idea what he's doing - that is, he has no idea what the effects of what he's doing will be. This is no surprise and it is due to the fact that he is trying to centrally plan millions of individual...

absolutely.

Well, I've had to put up with economic idiots my whole life, so I'm used to it. I find it particularly hilarious that you think that if everyone just sat around unarmed singing "Kumbaya" and building levies nobody would ever bother you. Of course, you'd have to be completely ignorant of...

Achilles, Bubbles have occurred throughout history and economies have developed and grown. Bubbles themselves are not the problem. I fear the Argentina scenario because, unlike throughout most of history, governments now take much more active roles in economies and spring into action when...

Rich, your original article was a partisan bit of fluff. Aggressive assertion is not an argument and data free assertions are not factual. As for education - as a former math teacher I can assure you that it's almost all wasted money. We spend more per student than Europe and we get much...

Huh...I don't think I got the hang of this quote thing yet. My attempt looks like the cut and paste job of a serial killer.

First of all, the Mexicans have already mostly gone home since there's less work for them here. Secondly, preventing immigrants sure won't help that upside down population pyramid, will it? Especially since a.) jobs will still go abroad or disappear altogether if American labour becomes too...

You can't be for real. 1.) Volcker decreased the money supply to squeeze out inflation. The recession was a direct and predictable result. 2.) Aggressive assertion is not an argument. Either you have data that proves that heavy spending (which would have been inflationary and completely...

Whoever told you that should be shot. The Recession of '82 was <i>caused</i> by a tightening of the money supply necessary to squeeze inflation out of the economy. The recession was precipitated by the Fed on purpose and was necessary. Spending would have been inflationary. Huge tax cuts...