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We are all flawed. Self-realization of that won't make us very much less flawed, but perhaps it will help to make it easier for others to tolerate us.

I don't speak for all Americans, I speak for most.

I wasn't aware of that, obviously. And I still don't know if it is true or not. Why would someone do that?

Most of the time I am happy to be an American citizen; but there are times, just like the late Judge Scalia, when I want to hide my head in a bag. The post above is one such time. Please, if your nationality is other than USA, do not think that the post I have quoted is representative of the...

Many of you, I suppose, are far to young to recall why it was that Castro was able to rally people to his cause, other than those whose property his government confiscated of course. He seized power in Cuba with hardly a shot fired. There was a reason for that.

Making fun of someones language skills when they are doing their best to communicate in a language that is not their native tongue is rude.

What a refreshing change Sanders represents!

Or if you want to develop critical thinking ability, good judgement, and writing skill. You can steal more money with a pen than a gun.

I just wanted to comment that only when income is fairly evenly distributed would the average income be a useful statistic. In the US the income distribution is far from uniform. If you want to understand income in the US versus other countries you must compare the actual distributions in the...

You can't change our instincts and nature with government action. We should stop expecting it.

You my have noticed that there is a surprisingly large fraction of the US adult population that are attracted to a very simple solution to an assortment of very complex problems. Their solution is to reduce the size of government, but of course no details are ever forthcoming. Just reduce...

I have posted elsewhere on the disincentives to work. I don't want to repeat what I wrote, but I my provide a link later if you care to read it. I will very briefly hit the main point. The disincentives can be addressed by reducing taxes, reducing benefits, increasing wages, or some...

For me as an American the US election process is nothing but a circus.

The ECB began QE long after the Fed. These things take time and the ECB has a tougher job than the Fed. Be patient.

Agreed. A flat tax removes all progressiveness. Drastically reducing progressiveness by compressing upper brackets in combination with the compounding of taxing unearned income at a lower rate than earned is how we got to where we are. We need to do the opposite.

Well, somehow I got half a post off. As I was attempting to explain, I am in agreement with this paper. But I would point out that we can make the most progress toward correcting the present flaws by raising wages at the bottom end so that wages once again compete with benefits and taxes. This...

There is little new here. Economists have always understood that the wealthy spend disproportionately less than the middle class. Particularly the lower middle class that spend close to 100% of their after tax income. But this study quantifies very nicely why Demand side economics works so...

This is not really a scientific study, as I understand it. It is based purely on statistics and the nature of the questions asked. There was a very high correlation between the authoritarian score on this "quiz" and Trump voters across all demographics. That was by far the best predictor of a...

No one denies reality. If Disney World sinks out of sight, so be it, but what does this have to do with CO2? That is the point that the worlds climate experts are trying to get across to the media and politicians, but failing miserably. Maybe James Hansen will drown and we can return to real...

The scale of this chart makes it useless as a means of estimating how accurate the models are. May I point out to you that all models 'predict' past temperature with near perfection!, because they are fit to past data and have so many parameters that they can be made to fit any data. The...