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You and that lunatic Rand Paul are very fortunate neither of you is running the economy. You're a smart guy, not a lunatic like Paul. You're just misinformed. You'll figure it out eventually. Rand Paul never will.

What you call the national debt is actually the national savings. If there is no government deficit then there is no surplus on the private sector side. No deficit means everything the government spends into the private sector has been withdrawn back out of the private sector in taxes and fees...

There is a reason Henry Kissinger can not travel freely outside the United States. Kissinger is a war criminal plain and simple. He deserves prosecution, but sadly, it's not going to happen. In 1998, Clinton was President, 60 nations ratified the Rome Statute that laid the foundation for...

Would you prefer we go back to the era when the United States had a real national debt? There was no fed then , and no income tax!!! Do you enjoy riding horses. If so, you might like to go back to those days. You'd just have to be careful not to get an infection while working around the...

Baron, please see my response to Bhr17.

The Ray Dalio video Baron posted is excellent in almost all respects, except Dalio gets the role of the Central bank not quite right and he makes one horrible mistake when he says or suggests that the Central Bank (our Fed) loans money to the Government (@25.35). This is of course impossible...

You give me power I don't have . It's not possible for me to mis-state the fed's mandate as I never stated it in the first place. Why would I? We all know what it is. I simply described some Fed-Treasury interactions and Fed-Bank interaction as the way they "functionally" appear with the...

I'll have to disagree with you. The Fed nowadays is clearly a part of the government. The President appoints the board members and the Senate approves or rejects the appointments. any profits made by the Federal reserve system flow directly back to the U.S. Treasury. The Federal Reserve, as a...

see: /whatisnuclear.com/thorium.html General Atomics was experimenting with a helium cooled thorium based reactor in the 1970s. I am quite confident that this is where the action will be in the very near future.. Great Britain has ~40 gas cooled reactors operating, France Spain and Japan a...

An astute observation!

I am pretty much up to speed on the nutty, but very dangerous cult within the Republican party marching lockstep (should that be Goosestep?) to their charismatic, pussy-grabbing leader's dangerous tune. But I was not familiar with what is apparently an example of a kind of "jive" talk used by...

You hide your flexibility well. You appear the opposite of flexible. If you can overcome your black and white, left and right, myopic world view, you'll recognize that Soros's thinking is too nuanced and runs too deep to allow him to be pigeon holed as a "lefty". His thinking is more expansive...

I offer the following Zakaria opinion piece that appeared on CNN this past Sunday as support for my view expressed in the lead post in this thread.

OK. But what to do about it? Better informed voters perhaps? I can't see how abandoning public education in the red states is helping much. Headstart is constantly under funded and under attack. So are our primary and secondary schools in most Red States. The Republican idea of education seems...

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Maybe study the Gore - Bush 2000 election before making up your mind. If we can't get what we want, shouldn't our votes be based on what causes the least damage? Assess the greatest risk and choose accordingly. Our U.S. democracy is at risk. That seems a much greater danger than that posed by...

What's to gain by voting for trump because you don't like Biden. You lose either way but you lose the most if you vote for trump. You lose if you stay home. You lose the least by voting for Biden, assuming he runs. It's not at all certain he will. Sometimes we just don't have the choice we want.

For anyone who thinks as you do, That's a mistake! A BIG MISTAKE. It's like burning down your house to fix a bad leak in the roof. Sometimes we are forced to make choices we'd rather not have to make...

It could be! By rights it should be! But how can the Republicans shed the Democrats' best weapon, Donald Trump? Trump was a somewhat known TV personality and pussy grabber last time around but relatively unknown to much of the electorate. Now ~70% of the country has learned he is a lying...

No. I'm not! I'm just refusing to answer a question based on an Abbott and Costello like comedy skit. You can't be serious. The Zeitgeist video has nothing to do with reality. It is totally off the wall and wrong in virtually everything it claims. The Fed does not buy bonds from the...