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Economics: Government Policies Killed the Two Parent Family
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March 19, 2015, 10:09:46 AM »
This liberal article goes halfway to the truth of causation, IMHO.
"Yes, Culture Helped Kill the Two-Parent Family. And Liberals Shouldnt Be Afraid to Admit It."
They suggest more liberal policies as the solution.
Causation is a little more simple than this deep article suggests. Government took over the role of the husband and father. And would like to take over the role of the mother too!
The solution, in law of holes - when you realize you are in one, is generally to stop digging.
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Re: Economics: Government Policies Killed the Two Parent Family
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March 19, 2015, 07:37:19 PM »
Quote from: DougMacG on March 19, 2015, 10:09:46 AM
This liberal article goes halfway to the truth of causation, IMHO.
"Yes, Culture Helped Kill the Two-Parent Family. And Liberals Shouldnt Be Afraid to Admit It."
They suggest more liberal policies as the solution.
Causation is a little more simple than this deep article suggests. Government took over the role of the husband and father. And would like to take over the role of the mother too!
The solution, in law of holes - when you realize you are in one, is generally to stop digging.
Insufficient opportunity for power and graft with a traditional family.
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WSJ/Tavris: How homo economicus went extinct
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May 16, 2015, 11:27:57 AM »
Some dangerous thinking here , , ,how do we respond?
Carol Tavris
May 15, 2015 4:20 p.m. ET
As a social psychologist, I have long been amused by economists and their curiously delusional notion of the rational man. Rational? Where do these folks live? Even 50 years ago, experimental studies were demonstrating that people stay with clearly wrong decisions rather than change them, throw good money after bad, justify failed predictions rather than admit they were wrong, and resist, distort or actively reject information that disputes their beliefs. In recent years, a new field has emergedbehavioral economicsto propose an alternative to the rational man of traditional economics. A spate of popular books and empirical studies have been published exploring human irrationalityin decision making, beliefs and actions. Researchers in this field are making up for lost time, or perhaps realizing that they are social psychologists after all.
As the offspring of traditional economics and experimental social psychology, behavioral economics shows remarkable hybrid vigor, and Richard Thaler, one of the new fields founders, acknowledges its debt to psychological science throughout his highly enjoyable intellectual autobiography, Misbehaving. Indeed, his opening aphorism is Vilfredo Paretos 1906 claim that the foundation of political economy and, in general, of every social science, is evidently psychology. A day may come when we shall be able to deduce the laws of social science from the principles of psychology. That day is here, as Mr. Thaler explains.
By Richard H. Thaler
Norton, 415 pages, $27.95
For all of his creative career spanning 40 years, Mr. Thaler, who is a professor of behavioral science and economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, has been studying the myriad ways in which people depart from the fictional creatures that populate economic models. As human beings who arrogantly and often wrongly consider ourselves sapiens, we simply dont match the model of human behavior favored by economists, one that replaces homo sapiens (whom Mr. Thaler calls Humans) with a fictional creature called homo economicus (whom he calls Econ). Econs do not have passions; they are cold-blooded optimizers, he says. Compared to this fictional world of Econs, Humans do a lot of misbehavingthus the books title.
The problem, Mr. Thaler argues, is that although economists hold a virtual monopoly on giving policy advice, the very premises on which that advice rests are deeply flawed. That is why economic models make a lot of bad predictions: some small and trivial, some monumental and devastating. It is time to stop making excuses, he admonishes his colleagues. Mr. Thaler calls for an enriched approach to doing economic research, one that acknowledges the existence and relevance of Humans. By injecting economics with good psychology and other social sciences and by including real people in economic theory, economists will improve predictions of human behavior, make better financial and marketing decisions, and create a field that is more interesting and more fun than regular economics. In that way, Mr. Thaler believes, economists will finally produce an un-dismal science.
That enriched (and fun) approach is on display in Misbehaving. Mr. Thalers goal in this conversational, informative book is to tell the tale of how it all happened, and to explain some of the things we learned along the way. He tells us that he began having deviant thoughts about economic theory as a graduate student in the 1970san unsettling experience for a not-yet-professor, comparable to having deviant thoughts about Freudian theory when it dominated clinical psychology.
The books organization is both chronological, describing Mr. Thalers discoveries over time and productive collaborations with scholars from other fields, and topical, devoting long sections to findings from four areas of particular interest to him. These are mental accounting (with chapters on bargains and sales, sunk costs, budgets and gambling), self-control (the difference between people who plan and people who impulsively act), finance (including the irrationality of peoples behavior in the stock market), and fairness games (why people often prefer fairness to self-interest). In a two-person game in which one person must allocate, say, $50, most recipients would prefer to walk away with nothing than accept an offer they consider unfair (such as $5).
Dense with fascinating examples, each of Mr. Thalers topical areas tells, in a way, the same story: Traditional economics predicted X; evidence failed to confirm X and indeed often contradicted X; establishment explained away the evidence as an anomaly or miscalculation. For example, by the 1980s, investment guru Benjamin Grahams classic, decades-old work on value investingin which the goal is to find securities that are priced below their intrinsic, long-run valuehad become passé. Mr. Thaler explains that Grahams evidence of the benefits of buying cheap stocks rather than expensive, fashionable darlings had become inconsistent with the Efficient Market Hypothesis, which said that value investing simply could not worknot that anyone had bothered to refute Grahams claim empirically.
Therefore, when the accounting professor Sanjoy Basu published a thoroughly competent study of value investing that fully supported Grahams strategy, in the late 1970s, Mr. Thaler writes, he had to offer abject apologies for the results in order to get it accepted for publication; indeed, Mr. Basu stopped just short of saying I am sorry. When another economist found that the assumption of market efficiency was not supported by his data, he concluded that there must have been a pricing model mis-specification. When Mr. Thaler and Werner De Bondt, his psychology-and-economics graduate student, did their own research, using psychological principles to predict market anomalies that occur because of what they called the markets generalized overreaction, the researched showed why the Efficient Market Hypothesis was wrong. Their paper, ultimately published in 1985, got in through the back door thanks to their having an ally on a major journalwithout an apologetic conclusion. Werner was too principled to write one, says Mr. Thaler, and I was too stubborn.
Time after time Mr. Thaler cheerfully reports how many of his most famous papers in behavioral economics, often written with scholars across enemy lines (that is, noneconomists), were pure heresy that got peoples blood boiling. One article directly attacked the core principle underlying the Chicago Schools libertarian beliefs, namely consumer sovereignty: the notion that people make good choices, and certainly better choices than anyone else could make for them. By empirically demonstrating that consumers often do precisely the opposite, because rationality and self-control are bounded by human perceptual distortions, their paper undercut this principle. This was treacherous, inflammatory territory, he writes. In 1998, Christine Jolls, then an assistant law professor at Harvard, Cass Sunstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago, and Mr. Thaler published their groundbreaking paper, A Behavioral Approach to Law and Economics, which infuriated members of both professions in one blow.
Mr. Sunstein and Mr. Thaler then collaborated on another scandalous claim, that human beings are susceptible to cues in the environment that affect their behaviora fact that governments and businesses can use to promote healthy behavior and wiser choices. Needless to say, many economists and others were outraged by the implication that the authors were promoting paternalism and intervention by government bureaucrats. Not at all, says Mr. Thaler. They were simply noting that the knee-jerk claim that it is impossible to help anyone make a better decision is clearly undercut by the research. No matter how often they added that bureaucrats are Humans, with their own biases, their critics wouldnt listen, even when Mr. Sunstein kept repeating that they were not pro-paternalism but rather anti-anti-paternalism. Mr. Thaler preferred the term libertarian paternalism, but that didnt catch on either. Eventually they found the right word to capture the gist of their argument, using it for the title of their book Nudge.
Accordingly, the final chapters of Misbehaving take on the key issue of nudging: Could we use behavioral economics to make the world a better place? And could we do so without confirming the deeply held suspicions of our biggest critics: that we were closet socialists, if not communists, who wanted to replace markets with bureaucrats? Yes, he argues, and yes. Because people make predictable errors, we can create policies and rules that lower the error rate, whether it has to do with reducing driving accidents, getting men who use public urinals to aim better or enticing people to save for retirementand do it in a way that makes people themselves happier with the results.
Reading this book made me think of (one version of) the classic story of Jascha Heifetzs American debut at Carnegie Hall in 1917, when he was 16 years old. At intermission, the violinist Mischa Elman turned to his friend, the pianist Leopold Godowsky, wiped his brow and said, Its awfully hot in here! Godowsky replied, Not for pianists. Mr. Thalers research doesnt raise my temperature, but thats because I am not a traditional economist. Pianists will enjoy this book, but violinists need it.
It is long past time to replace Econs with Humans, both in theory and in the practice of prediction. Mr. Thaler believes that, soon enough, all economists will be behavioral, and his field will vanish. But the Econ-oriented theorists who have been major players in (mis)predicting the stock market and consumer behavior willI predictcontinue to resist its message. Psychologists, and Mr. Thaler, know why.
Ms. Tavris is co-author, with Elliot Aronson, of Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me), forthcoming in a revised edition in the fall of 2015.
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"even when Mr. Sunstein kept repeating that they were not pro-paternalism but rather anti-anti-paternalism.
Means that They, Sunstein, Thaler, were "paternalistic".
That is, behavioral economics can improve economic choices.
A stretch.
I agree completely that over-reaction and attachment to sunk costs are irrational behaviors that are noneconomic and make many predicitions wrong. More rational actors might use such to make money, however, and then sentient beings on the wrong side of markets should use feedback to improve their rational thinking. Is it not fun to write books that claim everyone is wrong but me?
Irrationality of markets provides ammunition for the statists among us, unfortunately, and since it is not a universal principal (there are people who make perfectly good decisions for themselves and families after all), then what occurs in practice is that a central agent makes "good choices" that turn out to be good for some at the expense of others, a la the ACA.
Power User
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Re: Economics
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May 16, 2015, 12:24:29 PM »
Free markets have a much better track record then command and control economies. Yet totalitarians like Sunstein keep going back to the Marxist well, hoping a new rebranding on rthe same failures will finally work this time.
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Krugman's errors
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May 23, 2015, 03:43:34 PM »
Haven't read this yet , , ,
This seems intriguing , , ,
Last Edit: May 23, 2015, 03:45:43 PM by Crafty_Dog
Power User
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The Depression that cured itself
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June 03, 2015, 03:55:07 PM »
Power User
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SERIOUS READ: Gilder calls for a return to the Gold Standard
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July 08, 2015, 09:03:55 PM »
Power User
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Re: SERIOUS READ: Gilder calls for a return to the Gold Standard
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July 12, 2015, 07:55:54 PM »
Quote from: Crafty_Dog on July 08, 2015, 09:03:55 PM
Okay, I read this. Did anyone else read it? Let's discuss.
I am a big fan of Gilder. That said, I'm not fully following his logic here. Will come back to this to post some quotes. This is a long scholarly piece. At the end, out of the blue, he is saying that the world will turn to a de facto gold standard. I think he is also implying that we could save ourselves a lot of heartache and economic damage if we would do that now rather than later.
An easier solution would be to simplify the mission of the Fed and appoint a Federal Reserve board that would competently pursue that mission, namely maintainng a US dollar as stable, as strong and as predictable as gold. Same goes for all other countries and currencies if they want to succeed and prosper.
Power User
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Re: Economics
Reply #358 on:
July 12, 2015, 08:05:42 PM »
I believe in buying gold and silver. Even more, I believe in guns, ammo and canned food.
Power User
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Re: Economics
Reply #359 on:
July 13, 2015, 12:35:43 AM »
Quote from: G M on July 12, 2015, 08:05:42 PM
I believe in buying gold and silver. Even more, I believe in guns, ammo and canned food.
Then if our currency was tied to gold, would you buy and hold money instead? Nothing's perfect in the bunker; canned goods are damaged by freezing and guns can damage with moisture.
(Frustrating that I can't cut and paste from the pdf, but...) Gilder says in effect, with QE and other tampering, money moved from being the neutral medium of exchange to being the message itself. Only if the channel (money) is changeless can the message in the channel [clearly] communicate changes. In 2003, Milton Freidman acknowledged failure of his money supply target theory.
8 canons of Gilder's information theory, slightly shortened and paraphrased:
1. The economy is not an incentive system, but an information system. (An odd distinction.)
2. Creativity comes as a surprise. Planned economies don't produce it.
3. The capitalist economy is not an equilibrium system (static, as taught) but dynamic domains of entrepreneurial activity.
4. Money should be / needs to be - a stable and reliable standard of measure.
5. Interference (The Fed, QE, etc.) is noise and makes it impossible to distinguish between content and channel.
6. Gyrating currencies are deadly to the commitment of long term enterprise.
7. Profits and losses are unexpected outcomes. The real interest rate represents average return.
8. Velocity is not a constant, therefore the effective supply of money is not controlled by the central bank but by free decisions made by individuals.
Bonus point, time is the scarce resource.
As Crafty said, serious read. 103 pages, 87 sources cited. All this should be in the monetary thread also.
Last Edit: July 13, 2015, 12:56:21 AM by DougMacG
Power User
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Re: Economics
Reply #360 on:
July 13, 2015, 05:41:18 AM »
People will recognize gold and silver as having value when the current dollar is being used to kindle fires.
Power User
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Re: Economics
Reply #361 on:
July 13, 2015, 12:31:08 PM »
Glad to see the discussion here but while I am in Germany on a small computer I will not have time to respond, but I hope you guys will continue to do so.
Power User
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The Superior Morality of Capitalism
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September 16, 2015, 09:38:30 AM »
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Re: Economics: Taxing the externality, carbon tax
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October 27, 2015, 11:33:59 PM »
Can anyone else see anything that could go wrong with this?
The Key Role of Conservatives in Taxing Carbon
Economic View
By N. GREGORY MANKIW
This summer, a friend sent me a remarkable headline from The Seattle Times: Green Alliance Opposes Petition to Tax Carbon.
My initial thought was that this doesnt make sense. It is like reading Democrats Rally to Cut the Minimum Wage or Republicans Unite to Hike Income Taxes.
But the political debate in Washington State is a case study about why smart environmental policy is so hard to enact.
First, some background.
Scientists have been telling us for years that the earth is warming and that one of the culprits is human emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. Some believe that global warming has contributed to the current severe drought in California.
Sure, there are skeptics about the climate science behind these claims. But science is always a matter of probabilities, not certainties. Even a reasonable skeptic should be willing to embrace modest steps to curb carbon emissions.
Policy wonks like me have long argued that the best way to curb carbon emissions is to put a price on carbon. The cap-and-trade system President Obama advocates is one way to do that. A more direct and less bureaucratic way is to tax carbon. When polled, economists overwhelmingly support the idea.
One reason is that putting a price on carbon alters incentives in many ways. It encourages utilities to switch to cleaner forms of generating electricity, like wind and solar instead of coal. It encourages people to buy more fuel-efficient cars, form car pools with their neighbors, use more public transportation, live closer to work and turn down their thermostats. A regulatory system that tried to achieve all this would be heavy-handed and less effective.
Motivated by this thinking, Washington Carbon, an advocacy group in the state, is now trying to put a carbon tax on the 2016 ballot. Initiative Measure 732 would institute a tax on fossil fuels of $25 a metric ton of carbon dioxide (which translates to about 25 cents a gallon of gasoline).
Most of the revenue from the measure would be used to reduce the state sales tax by one percentage point. A smaller amount would be used to reduce taxes on manufacturing companies and to fund a tax rebate of up to $1,500 for low-income working families. The overall plan is progressive and revenue-neutral. If passed, the initiative would yield a tax shift, not a tax increase.
That is why some environmentalists are opposed. Rather than rebating the money the carbon tax would raise, they want to spend it on environmental and other government programs.
To be sure, a person can favor both a more environmentally friendly tax policy and greater government spending. But there is no good reason to marry these policies. If the goal is to build a political consensus to tackle climate change, there is good reason not to.
The size of government is an issue that divides the political right and the political left, and it will most likely always do so. The same need not be true of climate change.
Bob Inglis, the former Republican congressman from South Carolina, heads the Energy and Enterprise Initiative at George Mason University A recent winner of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, which is given to public officials, he has been pushing for climate change solutions that are consistent with free enterprise and limited government.
Environmentalists in the United States would do well to look north at the successes achieved in a Canadian province. In 2008, British Columbia introduced a revenue-neutral carbon tax similar to that being proposed for Washington.
The results of the policy have been what advocates promised. The use of fossil fuels in British Columbia has fallen compared with the rest of Canada. But economic growth has not suffered.
What is most noteworthy, however, is that the policy was championed by a right-of-center government that did not previously have close ties to the environmental movement.
It was a Nixon-goes-to-China moment: Gordon Campbell, British Columbias premier, had more credibility by acting against type. Because of the governments conservative credentials and its commitment to make the policy revenue-neutral, it brought along the crucial support of the business community.
Could such a situation happen in the United States? Right now, it is hard to imagine, as many of the Republicans vying for the presidential nomination pander to the deniers of climate change. But the experience of British Columbia suggests that this attitude could change.
This brings me back to my friend, Yoram Bauman, who sent me that headline. He is an environmental economist and stand-up comedian (yes, an unusual combo). He is also one of the leaders of the effort in Washington State to pass a carbon tax. He has been working tirelessly to build support.
Based on his experiences, he has a message for environmental activists: I am increasingly convinced that the path to climate action is through the Republican Party. Yes, there are challenges on the right skepticism about climate science and about tax reform but those are surmountable with time and effort. The same cannot be said of the challenges on the left: an unyielding desire to tie everything to bigger government, and a willingness to use race and class as political weapons in order to pursue that desire.
Yoram Bauman is a funny guy, but this time he is not joking.
N. Gregory Mankiw is the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University.
© 2015 The New York Times Company
Power User
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Re: Economics
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October 28, 2015, 11:22:46 AM »
Ego Alert!
I have been making exactly this point here on the forum for years now.
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Re: Economics
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October 28, 2015, 11:27:30 AM »
Quote from: Crafty_Dog on October 28, 2015, 11:22:46 AM
Ego Alert!
I have been making exactly this point here on the forum for years now.
Climate action?
Power User
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Re: Economics
Reply #366 on:
October 28, 2015, 12:42:55 PM »
No, about taxing pollution and reducing taxes on good things in equal or greater measure.
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Re: Economics
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October 28, 2015, 01:37:48 PM »
Quote from: Crafty_Dog on October 28, 2015, 11:22:46 AM
Ego Alert!
I have been making exactly this point here on the forum for years now.
Yes. I was going to give you 'credit' in the intro.
"taxing pollution and reducing taxes on good things in equal or greater measure"
Yes and that is what the supposedly conservative author* has in mind too. *former chief economist for Pres. Bush and head of the Harvard Economics dept.
That said, I have a couple of questions...
1) Per GM's follow up, what is the 'external cost' of adding carbon, not pollution, to the atmosphere when the current concentration is .000400, (400 parts per million)? The hard answer after rounding is nothing, right?
2) Per my criticism of the national sales tax, what is the safeguard that after creating this new tax (that will clean up nothing) that the new tax will not be used a) to change behaviors according to bureaucratic preferences and b) to raise the total burden of taxation? The answer is that of course it will be used for arbitrary social engineering and of course it will be used to increase the total tax burden.
Theoretical arguments for new sources of government revenues need to be held up to political realities.
Social security was passed because it was it was a 1% tax on up to 3000 of income, a $30 tax. It was capped to not exceed 3% up to the same maximum making it never more than a $90/year tax, not indexed for inflation or wage levels.
Great idea, but FDR's law has nothing to do with the system we have now.
Power User
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CATO: Singapore, power, economic freedom
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November 28, 2015, 06:36:28 AM »
I wonder what the stats would look like for Venezuela?
What is strange, is that Marxism is scientific. Or so I have been told.
Last Edit: November 28, 2015, 10:57:54 AM by Crafty_Dog
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Andy Grove's challenge to simple free trade policies.
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March 26, 2016, 11:54:21 AM »
The praise this week for Andy Grove, who died on Monday at age 79, has been wrapped up in praise for Silicon Valley, where he was a towering figure in the semiconductor revolution and the longtime leader of Intel, the worlds biggest supplier of microprocessors.
Lost in the lore is Mr. Groves critique of Silicon Valley in an essay he wrote in 2010 in Bloomberg Businessweek. According to Mr. Grove, Silicon Valley was squandering its competitive edge in innovation by failing to propel strong job growth in the United States.
Mr. Grove acknowledged that it was cheaper and thus more profitable for companies to hire workers and build factories in Asia than in the United States. But in his view, those lower Asian costs masked the high price of offshoring as measured by lost jobs and lost expertise. Silicon Valley misjudged the severity of those losses, he wrote, because of a misplaced faith in the power of start-ups to create U.S. jobs.
Mr. Grove contrasted the start-up phase of a business, when uses for new technologies are identified, with the scale-up phase, when technology goes from prototype to mass production. Both are important. But only scale-up is an engine for job growth and scale-up, in general, no longer occurs in the United States. Without scaling, he wrote, we dont just lose jobs we lose our hold on new technologies and ultimately damage our capacity to innovate.
And yet, an all-out commitment to American-based manufacturing has not been on the business agenda of Silicon Valley or the political agenda of the United States. That omission, according to Mr. Grove, is a result of another unquestioned truism: that the free market is the best of all economic systems the freer the better. To Mr. Grove, that belief was flawed.
The triumph of free-market principles over planned economies in the 20th century, he said, did not make those principles infallible or immutable. There was room for improvement, he argued, for what he called job-centric economics and politics. In a job-centric system, job creation would be the nations No. 1 objective, with the government setting priorities and arraying the forces necessary to achieve the goal, and with businesses operating not only in their immediate profit interest but also in the interests of employees, and employees yet to be hired.
When Mr. Grove wrote his critique, he was concerned about the corrosive social and economic effects of high unemployment, then 9.7 percent nationally. Unemployment has dropped considerably since then, but problems persist. Insecure, low-paying, part-time and dead-end jobs are prevalent. On the campaign trail, large groups of Americans are motivated and manipulated on the basis of real and perceived social and economic inequities.
Conditions have worsened in other ways. In 2010, one of the arguments against Mr. Groves critique was that exporting jobs did not matter as long as much of the corporate profits stayed in the United States. But just as American companies have bolstered their profits by exporting jobs, many now do so by shifting profits overseas through tax-avoidance maneuvers.
The result is a high-profit, low-prosperity nation. All of us in business, Mr. Grove wrote, have a responsibility to maintain the industrial base on which we depend and the society whose adaptability and stability we may have taken for granted. Silicon Valley and much of corporate America have yet to live up to that principle.
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Grannis on Trade
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March 31, 2016, 07:57:43 AM »
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Re: Economics, Milton Friedman: Cause of the Great Depression
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April 08, 2016, 12:44:36 PM »
This is important today. 9 out of 10 economists or news agencies getting this wrong doesn't make wrong right. it wasn't caused by a failure of private businesses. It was caused by a failure of the federal government.
Who is the Milton Friedman today? Besides being brilliant, he explained economic things in a way that everyone can understand and he openly debated anyone.
The above takes about 7 minutes of your life for you to not be wrong about something that caused a decade or more of misery. The wrong lessons learned from the Great Depression are central to the problems we face today.
Here is another, Friedman on wealth inequality and inheritance taxes, 4 minutes. MUST SEE.
Ted Cruz needs to watch this and speak this clearly and persuasively on economics.
Glenn Beck has been doing a series of Milton Friedman on radio. These are two clips are heard there and found on youtube.
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Wes and Stephen's games are mirror images of each other, IMO. They are both great shooters, who use the fear of their shot to get dribble penetration. They're the same height, and close to the same weight, and they both get their teammates involved.
That may be taking it a little far based on 1.5 games, but I hope you're right!
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That may be taking it a little far based on 1.5 games, but I hope you're right!
He's certainly looked good so far though.
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Nice close in the troll thread Linden. You are the Mariano Rivera of CF. We just hit Enter Sandman and Linden comes in takes care of business.
IMO, he's the biggest surprise of the season so far. Much like the other Wesley was two years ago. This team still has a long ways to go. I hope they can settle on a rotation of about 8 or 9 guys. Does anyone know if it's too late to redshirt DB and/or Clinton Mann?
I'm curious to see what happens later between UC-Davis and Wisc-Milw.
What I love about Wes, besides his obvious shooting stroke, is that he's a gym rat. He has a very high basketball IQ. You can tell already he has those intangebles - confidence, court awareness, anticipation, knowing when and where to spot up and wait for the pass, etc.
I know it's very very early, and I know the opponents haven't been very good, but I can tell already that he's going to be a big part of the future.
Brackens, Thompson, JVB, and Hamilton better be extra nice to Wes because when he's on the court, it will open up all kinds of space down low.
So he's somewhere between John Neal and Stephen Curry.
Originally Posted by Ciclone
So he's somewhere between John Neal and Stephen Curry.
Let's narrow that done a little. I'll say somewhere between a young Jake Sullivan and Stephen Curry.
More athletic than John Neal, that's for sure!
He's got a chance to be something special. I hope HB likes players from Nebraska:)
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Wes Eikmeier reminds me of Kirk Hinrich. A slightly smaller version.
I posted several messages indicating that I am hopeful about Wes. Each time, several people would mention that they didn't think he would do anything until his junior or senior years, that we should redshirt him, etc. From the early signs, it looks like I was right.
Harrison Barnes was sitting in the student section today
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Serperior waited in the the branches in an over hanging tree, trying to blend in with the greenery. She had been practicing this technique for weeks and finally she had perfected it now it was only a matter of time until an unsuspecting victim walked underneath. She hadn't eaten for days and was just waiting for the right moment.
You walked along the quiet path with the sun beaming down on your face. Suddenly the Serperior loosens its grip on the branches and drops swiftly onto your shoulders like a coil of rope loosely around your neck. Startled you fall to the ground and as the Serperior tightens its coils around your body. You start to struggle, not that it is of any use.
The Serperior is surprised he was just hoping to catch a Zigzagoon or something not a whole trainer. "But a meal is a meal" she thinks to her self. You wince as she slowly opens her gargantuan maw and unleashes wave after wave of hot, stale breath onto your face. The Serperior wastes no time in shifting your head neatly into her mouth. "No no no no Wait stop" you plead but the Serperior pays no attention to you.
Instead she tightens her coils around you and moves you forward, further into her mouth. Can feel her palatal valve against your face as you are forced into the pulsating throat. Every time you struggle the Serperior tightens her coils around your body, and eventually you decide that it is probably best to let her have her way with you. Upon realizing that you have given up the Serperior loosens her coils allowing you some room but not enough for you to escape. You can feel the powerfully rings of muscle gradually working your head deeper into the Pokemon's long body.
You were so distracted by the throat muscles contracting and relaxing that you did not realize that the Serperior had used her tail to unbutton your shirt and remove your shoes. Then after relieving you of the rest of your clothes she concentrates entirely on swallowing you. As your shoulders pass though into her throat you can feel her tongue exploring your torso.
After getting bored of this the Serperior decides to pick up the pace and uses her coils again to force more of you in to her mouth. But once your waist was nearing the impressive entrance to the gullet the Serperior lets go completely and decides to let her hot slimy throat do the rest of the work. Her warm breath shelters your bare legs from the cold morning air and you can feel her close her mouth gently around your knee's. You realize that if she wanted to kill you she would've bitten you by now. But in the mind of a Serperior there is no connection between swallowing something and killing it, in-fact she actually feels very affectionate towards you.
Now as the throat muscles push you deeper towards Serperior's stomach you can feel the last of your feet being pulled slowly into Serperior's mouth. The huge snake Pokemon now leans back and pauses to feel you slowly sliding down its slick body. Eventually you are squeezed in to a part of the snakes body that gives you some more room but it is also a lot hotter.
The Serperior smiles and gently rests its head on the bulge in its body feeling your squirming inside before slithering back to the base of a tree and beginning to climb up its branches. Then eventually feeling its meal settle a bit retires to its nest in the tree tops, happy and full.
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At least I have Ezzy!
At least I have Ezzy!
I want out.
No! Let me out!
Nice Story! I like them!
Walk in the forest and OMG what's on me, how I would react. Great story though.
"You were so distracted by the throat muscles contracting and relaxing that you did not realize that the Serperior had used her tail to unbutton your shirt and remove your shoes. Then after relieving you of the rest of your clothes she concentrates entirely on swallowing you." wait so the serperior took off ALL your clothes?!
Basically the perstaits action of the esoghaus muscles was so soothing he didn't know that the snake had removed his closes.
XD this is dirtier when your a girl.
This isn't fatal, right? we hate fatal vore. we always release our prey afterwards. what happened to the trainer?
Im not sure a sword can Eat... Let alone be Sentient.... Unless its the Eyelander but MEH
I wish it was real
the trainer better live.........or else
This is awesome
Nice work^^
becouls it has nothing to do with...
if this was campain on war thunder it would be...
Does the trainer get to live
When the trainer is getting eaten you said "palatal valve" only alligators and crocodiles have that. It's a fleshy valve that crocodilians have in the back of their throat to stop water from flowing in when they bite something underwater.
Nice story but is the Serperior going to digest the trainer or keep him or her as a belly pet ?
What happens next?
That had so much detail, that I loved it, but it was kind of scary because of the detail, it was like I could feel it happening.
you should do another Serperior Vore literature or art thing because I love it!
Me: Ok this just makes me nervous.*walks sits down and leans against the Serperior's tree*
oh so much amazing detail in such a short text, wonderful, it's quick and potent.
I just hope that serperior doesn't eat Nigel
yea i found a mistake on here.The Serperior is surprised he was just hoping to catch a Zigzagoon or something not a whole trainer. "But a meal is a meal" she thinks to her self.You see it it says he first,then she.
I found a misspell in the writing I don't know what to call it. He wrote "palatal valve" when the trainer is being eaten and only alligators and crocodiles have that. It's a fleshy valve that crocodilians have in the back of their throat to stop water from flowing in when they bite something underwater.
Willing or unwilling hmm I'd just say sudden
you know, you explained so well that it would almost sound like what I would say if it was my point of view!


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|DISPOSABLE CLIP FOR COUPLING BINDING ELEMENTS AND COMBINATION OF BINDING ELEMENTS WITH DISPOSABLE COUPLING CLIP - The invention includes a combination of coupling clip structure and a plurality of binding elements for binding stacks of perforated sheets for delivery to an automated machine. The combination comprises at least two binding elements, and at least one coupling clip discrete from said at least two binding elements. At least one of the coupling clip or the binding element(s) comprises at least one recess, at least a portion of at least one said binding element being disposed in said recess in the coupling clip and/or at least a portion of the coupling clip being disposed in said recess in the binding element, the coupling clip coupling the at least two binding elements together in a predetermined adjacent spatial relationship. The coupling clip may be separated from the binding elements by the automated machine. The invention further includes a method of coupling a plurality of binding elements together with at least one coupling clip for delivery to an automated machine.
|Apparatus and Methods for Automatically Binding a Stack of Sheets With a Nonspiral Binding Element - The present invention includes an automated binding machine configured for binding a stack of perforated sheets with a binding element. The automated binding machine includes a support member supporting the stack of perforated sheets, a binding element feeder, a plurality of binding elements supported by the binding element feeder, a receiving member configured to receive a first binding element from the plurality of binding elements and to insert at least a portion of the first binding element through the stack of perforated sheets, and a binding mechanism configured to engage the inserted portion and couple the inserted portion to a non-inserted portion of the first binding element.
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In uncertain times, there are those who believe natural and man-made disasters of this world can be healed through prayer and art.
The ancient art of Sanskrit, called a Mandala is being produced at East Carolina University by Buddhist Monks from Tibet.
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What a great theater! Our first time. Really high-energy community production with large cast and some strong leads. The toddlers were ridiculously cute as a flock of sheep... Good cookies, too, but priced to raise funds for future efforts.
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I had no idea this was a local community theatre - with children doing parts. I was glad I brought my 12 & 13 year old daughters, because it was very cute.
As community theatre goes, I enjoyed it very much.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, "The Speckled Band" Lesson
Seventh graders read a number of Sherlock Holmes adventures so that they can compare them. They examine how author's use tension to build up to a climax and determine how Sherlock Holmes uses critical thinking to solve cases.
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What are the characteristics that define a short story
Ninth graders discover the characteristics of a short story. Students read short stories. They investigate elements such as climax, resolution, exposition, conflict and point of view. Students apply the elements to the composition of...
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Students continue to read the story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek". In groups, they define the word foreshadowing. They identify the points in the story that they believe are the rising action, climax, falling action and resolution. They...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Film Language and Elements Of Style
The frame, the shot, the sequence. As part of a unit study of Robert Mulligan's film version of To Kill a Mockingbird, class members learn to read the visual text of the film, examining the composition of frames and shorts, camera...
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The movie "Armageddon", which was watched in class, involved impending doom due to an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Bruce Willis, the best oil-driller in the world, as well as his crew, including Ben Affleck, are selected by the U.S government to go into space and detonate nuclear warheads inside the asteroid. After a slingshot maneuver around the moon using the force of gravity, they drill and set the warheads, and other drama and exciting subplots ensue. Willis stays behind to detonate the warheads, just before the zero-barrier mark, and the Earth is saved. The rest of the crew returns home, and life continues.
The second film, "Deep Impact", was released in the same year as "Armageddon", and has a nearly identical crisis, except with a comet, instead of an asteroid. U.S and Russia build the biggest spaceship ever, to drill nuclear warheads into the comet. These warheads breaks the comet into two, but a barrage of missiles are fired to stop the two comets, but these fail as well. The first comet hits, with massive tidal waves. The second, bigger part of the original comet is destroyed when the spaceship beats it back to earth, turns around, and torpedoes directly into the comet with yet even more nuclear warheads that are left over inside. Millions are lost from the tidal wave, but life goes on.
"Armageddon", which I feel was a better movie, seemed to have a good deal of false science involved in it. However, three major parts of the movie stand out.
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Whiting Petroleum Corporation was founded in January, 1980 in Denver, Colorado by Kenneth R. Whiting, with co-founder Bert Ladd. Mr. Whiting served as President and Chief Executive Officer until 1993. In 1983, the company merged with Keba Oil & Gas and Hingeline-Overthrust to become a public company.
In 1992, Alliant Energy, a Midwest public utility, acquired Whiting Petroleum Corporation for $27.5 million. In November, 2003, Whiting again became a public company when our IPO was completed at $7.75 per split share.
Since our founding, we have been an independent oil and gas company that acquires, exploits, develops and explores for crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids, primarily in the Rocky Mountain states, the Permian Basin, Mid-Continent, the Gulf Coast and Michigan regions of the United States. Today Whiting is focused in the Bakken and Three Forks plays in North Dakota, the Redtail Niobrara play in northeast Colorado and its enhanced oil recovery field in Texas.


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Update on Maria AbigailMaria Abigail is a 66 year old teacher and is single. She has worked for MINED for 20 years as an elementary school teacher in a rural school where the gives the gift of knowledge to the children of the community.
She is requesting her tenth loan with the objective to continue improving her house, building an annex that will provide more comfort and space. With the previous loan she was able to build a wall and repair the roof of her house, improving her family's living conditions a little. She hopes to be able to continue with the support of Kiva and Afodenic to be able to see her dream become reality, a nice and secure home for her family.
Esta solicitando su 10mo credito con el objetivo de continuar mejorando su casa construcyendo un anexo que le servira para tener mayor comodidad y espacio en su casa. Con el credito anterior logro hacer una pared y reparar el techo de su casa mejorando un poquito las condiciones de vida de su familia. Espera poder seguir contanto con el apoyo de kiva y afodenic para poder ver su sueño hecho realidad, una vivienda bonita y segura para su familia.
Previous Loan DetailsMaria Abigail is single. She has worked for MINED for 20 years as an elementary school teacher in a school in Santo Domingo, Chontales. She is requesting her 9th loan so that she can improve her house by building a wall and replacing her roof which is in a bad state. She hopes to improve her... More from Maria Abigail's previous loan »
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Well guys, I'm now engaged on an endless hunt for shiny Absol. After forever, I finally got a swarm of them in my game, and I got it so that the swarm will go on forever. I did this by saving my game on my Phat with the Absol swarm in effect, then switched back to my new Lite to work on the chain. Provided that I don't save my game, it will continue to think I've just changed systems and not cycle the swarms as usual.
Previously, I described this sort of thing as "shifty, but acceptable", but after all this time, I've earned an Absol.
And it's not like it's suddenly super easy. I'm also quite starved for spare time with my crappy job and all.
I'll let Yami take care of all these crazy dudes claiming to have wads of shinies with no explanations for them, because he actually has a clue what's going on.
Aside from Absol, I'm starting on box #17 of Chikorita. Since I moved to Emerald, I haven't seen one with flawless Speed yet. And HP won't crop up randomly either. I've switched out my triple flawless WO male breeder for a QI with flawless HP in the hopes of hatching a flawless HP Bold female and switching back to my main male breeder. If I could get a triple flawless WO female with two of those flawlesses being HP and Speed, I'd quit it with these boxes and just release the Chikos from my party.
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England player county availability
The ECB today announced the availability of England players for the next round of domestic fixtures following the conclusion of the fourth npower Test at Headingley Carnegie yesterday.
England captain Andrew Strauss will miss the LV= County Championship match against Essex this week and the NatWest Pro40 fixture against Leicestershire on Sunday.
Five members of the team which played in the fourth Test against Australia will be available to their counties for the next round of championship matches, starting tomorrow. They are: Ian Bell, Ravi Bopara, Alastair Cook, Graham Onions and Graeme Swann.
Managing director, England Cricket, Hugh Morris said: "Following discussions with the England team management, it has been decided to make a number of players available to their counties for four-day cricket this week.
"We are aware that we underperformed with bat and ball at Headingley and this decision is designed to give players an opportunity to spend time in the middle and get overs under their belt ahead of the decisive fifth npower Test at the Brit Oval next week."
The full list of availability for this week's championship matches is as follows:
Andrew Strauss (Middlesex) unavailable v Essex
James Anderson (Lancashire) and Andrew Flintoff unavailable v Durham
Ian Bell (Warwickshire) available v Nottinghamshire
Ravi Bopara and Alastair Cook (Essex) available v Middlesex
Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire) unavailable v Warwickshire
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