Denmark Was Like Greece, Now It’s Really Happy

[Sig]

It's not arbitrary. USD is the most used currency in any financial transaction. More than a dozen countries peg their currency to the USD. If gold is not being manipulated, it would be a much better indicator of if a countries GDP is growing or shrinking. In 2010 a lot of people were going out of business. People with 4 year degrees were going to work at Jack-in-the-box. Our GDP probably shrank a lot worse than the government let on in 2010.

Obama was pumping over a trillion dollars extra per year into the economy to try to get the GDP to seem more "stable".

Dude, still waiting for your data source on the countries you incorrectly lost 15% of GDP, and that the US produces 25% of the world's GDP? Are you completely impervious to facts that don't fit your preconceived narrative? Also still waiting to hear about how Bush caused a 40% drop in GDP with the dollar's fall, another inconvenient paradox of your fantasy world you're ignoring? Is this crap about people with 4 year degrees working at Jack in the Box the best you can come up with to address the many legitimate points by every other poster on this thread that you're full of shit? (again something you probably made up, although there are homeless people with PhDs so doubtless in 2010 and every other year you could find someone at Jack in the box with a 4 year degree). You are just wrong on so many levels and so obstinate that you refuse to see what's staring you in the face. Take a macro course, learn how the scientific method works, then come rejoin the adult conversation. At this point you're just making yourself look more and more ignorant every time you post.

 

[Martinghoul]

It's not arbitrary. USD is the most used currency in any financial transaction. More than a dozen countries peg their currency to the USD. If gold is not being manipulated, it would be a much better indicator of if a countries GDP is growing or shrinking. In 2010 a lot of people were going out of business. People with 4 year degrees were going to work at Jack-in-the-box. Our GDP probably shrank a lot worse than the government let on in 2010.

Obama was pumping over a trillion dollars extra per year into the economy to try to get the GDP to seem more "stable".

Well, what can I say... You're certainly entitled to your views, however outlandish and bizarre they might be. Just don't expect people to take you seriously.

 

[prc117f]

“Now, the country is among the absolute strongest with a record-high current account surplus and strong public finances.
Denmark is unlike the US, which was lead down the primrose road of deficits by Bush and Obama. when it comes to the economic health of the US, Trump seems as clueless as the two prior presidents.

plus the US is not as happy as it was in the past.

I wonder what would happen if we pull out of the world and just worry about our country. With no free American tax payer funded security, they will have to start spending on their own militaries.

 

[Sig]

I wonder what would happen if we pull out of the world and just worry about our country. With no free American tax payer funded security, they will have to start spending on their own militaries.

There's no need to wonder, lot's of the top economists in the world have quantified the benefit of international trade and a safe, stable globe for the interests of the U.S. Turns out that your idea is the worst possible one out there, for almost more reasons than one can count. In a way, you're much like the Islamic extremists trying to return us to some dark ages point in history where we all live behind a moat in a castle with "our" people (and were willfully ignorant, to top it off). They called it the dark ages for a reason you know!

 

[OddTrader]

There's no need to wonder, lot's of the top economists in the world have quantified the benefit of international trade and a safe, stable globe for the interests of the U.S. Turns out that your idea is the worst possible one out there, for almost more reasons than one can count. In a way, you're much like the Islamic extremists trying to return us to some dark ages point in history where we all live behind a moat in a castle with "our" people (and were willfully ignorant, to top it off). They called it the dark ages for a reason you know!

With other countries' sharing of huge financial expenses and worldwide physical infrastructure, the US alone could not implement her desired/expected airstrike early warning system below.

Australia's key role in missile shield


By Brendan Nicholson
January 7, 2006

http://www.theage.com.au/news/natio...-missile-shield/2006/01/06/1136387625745.html

AUSTRALIA'S secret Jindalee radar network, capable of "seeing" over the horizon, is a key link in a new anti-ballistic missile shield that will protect much of the globe.

The missile defence system, designed to protect America and its allies from missiles launched by "rogue states", will integrate defensive missile systems on land and at sea with spy satellites and the navy's new generation air warfare destroyers. The warships are still to be built and are scheduled to be operating by 2013 to 2015.

US scientists who have examined the Australian-invented Jindalee system, which operates across Australia's northern frontier, were impressed by its range and capability and confirmed that it could detect a missile launch far away in Asia.

Officials from US aircraft and weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin told The Age the Australian system, officially known as Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN), would be a highly effective part of the global missile defence shield being developed by the US.

It significantly increased the time available for a defence system to intercept missiles.

They would not give details of the radar's range but said Jindalee, with its giant aerials across the Top End, would be part of an electronic network, including spy satellites and the yet-to-be built air warfare destroyers, able to pick up the launch of a missile and, by tracking it, work out its target. The ship or a land-based anti-missile system would then shoot the missile down.

On the face of it, the missile shield system is designed to protect the US and its allies from missiles fired by "rogue states" such as North Korea.

 

[OddTrader]

With other countries' sharing of huge financial expenses and worldwide physical infrastructure, the US alone could not implement her desired/expected airstrike early warning system below.

Typo:

Without other countries' sharing of huge financial expenses and worldwide physical infrastructure, the US alone could not implement her desired/expected airstrike early warning system below.

 

[ironchef]

Year 2015 data update :

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/...-compares-internationally-paid-parental-leave

China had the one child policy (now two), the US has the no paid time off policy. Both should achieve the same outcome - limiting population growth from legal residents.

 

[OddTrader]

China had the one child policy (now two), the US has the no paid time off policy. Both should achieve the same outcome - limiting population growth from legal residents.

Good policy? I don't think so!

In Australia, having various incentives of different kind for new birth babies locally, we still want more migrants (skilled & others).