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You'll need to be patient. In the U.S. the justice system moves uncommonly slow when it comes to prosecuting anyone who can afford to appeal any and every subpoena and motion issued and filed by would be prosecutors. We already have a very good idea of what Trump's crimes are, and it is a very...

Soros is doing what needs to be done. Things no one else will do. For years, he's been the focus of an international campaign of half truths and outright lies aimed at discrediting him, all to no avail. He's an old man, and he does not care what you or I or anyone else thinks. He will persist...

Is it possible your information is "contaminated." Have you considered that the Russian Army, under Putin, has made disinformation their weapon of choice? In this age of the internet, we all must be on guard against disinformation.

This is a practical point you make, and a keen observation. But it does nothing for the amazing Russian nation or the wonderful people of Russia. And don't Russians, and the rest of us too, believe we should be long past the age when national boundaries are determined by force? If the the...

There is something beyond that though; something personal. In Putin's case, something that can only come from earned respect. Sadly for Putin, poisoning and jailing one's political rivals is not the way to earn respect: fear yes, but not respect. You can say Putin didn't do these things, others...

Maybe you should consider that Putin may be wrong? That maybe Putin is the one "weakening" Russia.

You seem to not realize the self-contradictory nature of what you have written. Who do you think will be building and repairing highways, bridges, grade schools, public utilities, high speed rail, broadband resources, etc., etc? The Army? And where will the teachers come from that will teach...

We have no word to describe what the treasury is doing when they appear to be borrowing due to deficit spending. What they are actually doing is not borrowing but exchanging new money created, and already spent into the economy, for Treasury securities. When they do this, the money comes out of...

I understand, we are now in the sound bite era.

I see what to me are questionable assumptions being made by some of the MMT economists when proposing certain policies, actions, or programs, but as far as seeing any flaws in MMT itself, I am unaware of any having been discovered. MMT itself is just based on fact and Treasury Fed balance sheet...

Totally agree with your remarks on Friedman. I have read him too. He was , y'know , a member of Hayek's Mount Pelerin Discussion group as a young man. It was only much later that he began to appreciate the flaws in Austrian economics. Lets just say that Austrians are better at skiing, and...

According to this offender data for 2020, Blacks committed hate crimes at 1.44 times the rate that whites committed hate crimes. This is based on total population of 329.5 x E6 of which 57 % are white non-Hispanic and 12.1% are Black. I used the offender data that you showed for 2020 also...

You might be confusing First Amendment Rights in the United States with totally unfettered speech. They are not entirely congruent. The Court has ruled on this matter. In the U.S., there are established legal limits to your freedoms, and that includes your freedom under the First Amendment...

Do you understand what virtually zero means? It does not mean zero. For example, the probability of being struck by lighting is virtually zero (0.000002), but it is not zero.

None of this should matter to you personally. The only thing that should matter to you is that three, free, painless, shots of mRNA vaccine can reduce your chances of getting seriously ill from a covid infection to virtually zero with virtually zero probability of experiencing serious side...

Just look at the data from a reliable source, not info wars, and make up your own mind. Just because you read something on the web does not make it factual.

"The story is on the web." Only an idiot would believe something on the web so obviously false.

This post of yours is off the wall crazy. The evidence of the great effectiveness of these new mRNA vaccines is evident in the data. Since in the U.S. ~60+% are now fully vaccinated, if vaccines have no beneficial effect, then those dying that are vaccinated should out number those that are...

But of course they don't on a long time frame. The long term trend of the equities market, at least least, is certainly not random. It is up if for no other reason than inflation. But there are other reasons of course. Sometimes what we believe is not so.

Because I have been a student of economics since ~2010 and my main focus has been money theory since ~ 2014. And yes, I admit that I have read even more than "a book or two". I have posted reading recommendations for those interested in money theory in another thread in this forum. If you...