I wasn't referring you to. I was talking about policy decisions that were made. As in you you believe that they are purposefully exploiting...
I see ignorance where you see malice.
I did my first degree for interest in the subject. The second was for professional certification. The third is for money. The fourth one will...
This is just blatantly false. Your article is discussing the PMI which isn't a measure of prices, it's an index of employment, exports, new...
Inflation exists. Depending on the country, usually between 1-3 percent. This is a not a bad thing - the oil that greases the labour market, and...
Which part is a confidence trick? Who owns government debt? The holders of US treasury bills and bonds. Anybody can buy them in bond markets....
Oh Jesus, this again. Since the end of the gold standard, fiat currency has been created by central banks. The quantity of money in the economy...
Tiny, quiet and introverted. Will give anyone the shirt off her back. Loves food, travelling and trying new things. A much better person than I am.
The Northern half of the Korean Peninsula was significantly more industrialized than the South, which was almost entirely agrarian.
It's best not to think about. Stinky tofu is a delicacy there. Except it takes a long time to ripen, so sometimes they mix in human excrement to...
If you're comparing between groups, maybe. But one group over time? Not so much.
Everytime I forgot to pick one and it got really big, it was only good for baking with.
Hunter-gatherers were taller than subsequent farmers but shorter than the average citizen of the developed world. Neolithic and Mesolithic...
You're such a character. I get it - you have some romanticized, Rousseau-based idea about the "noble savage". By almost every metric, they were...
Have you ever seen real poverty? I've yet to meet the person who lived a subsistence lifestyle that spoke highly of it.
Economists do measure the value people place on their own life based on what their willing to pay for healthcare and insurance policies.
I don't share your negative views of politicians as a group. I think public service is important. Telemarketing by it's very nature is intrusive...
Ok. And I think you're projecting negative experiences from the past onto me. I'm not rude to telemarketers - I screen my calls. But I don't...
There are better options. People choose not to exercise them (primarily relocation and education), either through ignorance or laziness or poor...
I give people more credit for agency than that.
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