Forum: General Chat
2009-04-19, 18:10
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Replies: 395
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Link please?
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Link please?
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/pubs/statebudgetgaps.pdf
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=868
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=711
Oops, wrong link + failed reading...
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Forum: General Chat
2009-02-22, 22:39
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Replies: 395
Views: 28,328
You got it. :)
Government spending...
You got it. :)
Government spending crowds out the private sector. It's hard to mathematically quantify this, but I think it should be true as the bottom line is government does not have to be...
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Forum: General Chat
2009-02-19, 09:38
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Replies: 395
Views: 28,328
Just something. :eyespin:
I have no problem...
Just something. :eyespin:
I have no problem with government spending in a theoretical world since any number of assumptions can be made. And government spending can help build infrastructure, etc....
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Forum: General Chat
2009-02-19, 00:28
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Replies: 395
Views: 28,328
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Forum: General Chat
2009-02-17, 10:14
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Replies: 395
Views: 28,328
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Forum: News & Politics
2009-02-09, 23:00
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Replies: 36,582
Views: 6,922,605
He's saying QE worked.
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He's saying QE worked.
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Japan's bank spreads were too low. No matter how much money was provided they could not lend because nobody wanted the money. So they ended up pushing rates lower...
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Forum: General Chat
2009-02-04, 03:09
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Replies: 395
Views: 28,328
Problem is almost no company has been...
Problem is almost no company has been responsible. Leveraging isn't just speculation. Shorts aren't the ones to blame for what has happened. I think that's what you're trying to say anyway.
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Forum: General Chat
2009-01-30, 13:53
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Replies: 879
Views: 83,117
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Forum: General Chat
2009-01-29, 09:09
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Replies: 395
Views: 28,328
I wouldn't mind this being the answer if the...
I wouldn't mind this being the answer if the government by any stretch of the imagination could pay for it.
Bond yields shot up as an answer to what they were planning earlier, and it's pretty...
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Forum: General Chat
2009-01-29, 00:44
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Replies: 395
Views: 28,328
I think you're mistaking excess capacity for...
I think you're mistaking excess capacity for supply.
Equilibrium is really just what is sustainable.
Basically the credit bubble shifted demand up, and this shifted supply up too to a degree...
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Forum: General Chat
2009-01-29, 00:11
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Replies: 395
Views: 28,328
No...this is a misdiagnoses of the problem.
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No...this is a misdiagnoses of the problem.
If you are above the equilibrium it doesn't matter how much money you pump into the economy. The retracement cannot be stopped that way. In fact by...
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Forum: Manga
2009-01-28, 23:56
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Replies: 310
Views: 57,294
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Forum: General Chat
2009-01-28, 22:48
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Replies: 395
Views: 28,328
Yeah, I wonder about that too sometimes.
I...
Yeah, I wonder about that too sometimes.
I think it involves magical ponies.
Anyway, WSJ breakdown of the simulus: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-STIMULUS0109.html
I...
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Forum: Code Geass
2009-01-28, 16:05
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Replies: 18,335
Views: 9,000,342
http://f.imagehost.org/t/0989/CC.jpg...
http://f.imagehost.org/t/0989/CC.jpg (http://f.imagehost.org/view/0989/CC)
Close enough I hope.
Class was boring. :eyespin:
Also, you draw really well Bonzo! Nice.
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Forum: General Chat
2009-01-28, 02:16
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Replies: 395
Views: 28,328
I believe about 66% of the money is going to...
I believe about 66% of the money is going to states, not toward federal spending.
Some is for "investment" and such, but a large portion will be going toward balancing state budgets.
You know,...
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Forum: General Chat
2009-01-27, 10:07
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Replies: 89
Views: 7,959
There is a balancing point. Very low interest...
There is a balancing point. Very low interest rates will entice expansion. Just like inflationary spirals are broken in a natural setting, deflationary spirals are also broken. It is only with...
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Forum: General Chat
2009-01-27, 09:40
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Replies: 89
Views: 7,959
Sorry, I didn't mean for it to sound like a...
Sorry, I didn't mean for it to sound like a flame. I thought it was pretty clear I directed it at the article since I quoted it. It's not something that just pops up once in a while, a lot of the...
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Forum: General Chat
2009-01-27, 01:58
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Replies: 89
Views: 7,959
Repeat after me. There is no such thing as a...
Repeat after me. There is no such thing as a savings glut. There is no such thing as a savings glut. There is no such thing as a savings glut. There is no such thing as a savings glut. There is no...
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Forum: General Anime
2009-01-27, 00:35
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Replies: 233
Views: 45,661
-{A} Action/Fighting: Ga-Rei: Zero
-{B}...
-{A} Action/Fighting: Ga-Rei: Zero
-{B} Adventure/Fantasy: Spice and Wolf
-{C} Mecha/SciFi: Code Geass R2
-{D} Mystery/Horror: Kara no Kyoukai - The Garden of Sinners
-{E} Comedy: Kannagi
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Forum: General Chat
2009-01-26, 16:46
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Replies: 879
Views: 83,117
FDIC is supposed to insure up to $100k. The...
FDIC is supposed to insure up to $100k. The problem is that there is no way the FDIC has enough cash to handle the bank failures. It's gone on far too long.
Yeah at this point it's really just...
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Forum: General Chat
2009-01-26, 16:19
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Replies: 879
Views: 83,117
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Forum: Video Games
2009-01-25, 00:28
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Replies: 2,905
Views: 996,711
I should really be working...
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I should really be working...
http://f.imagehost.org/t/0147/2810329.jpg (http://f.imagehost.org/view/0147/2810329) http://f.imagehost.org/t/0908/2818477.jpg...
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Forum: General Chat
2009-01-24, 23:46
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Replies: 395
Views: 28,328
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Forum: General Chat
2009-01-24, 01:52
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Replies: 879
Views: 83,117
Didn't read this carefully enough on the first...
Didn't read this carefully enough on the first pass...
No...QE was a disaster. It's not a flight to quality in Japan in the way that it is in the US, there are similarities, but it's really not...
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Forum: General Chat
2009-01-24, 01:22
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Replies: 879
Views: 83,117
Yen has the carry trade unwind. :) That is the...
Yen has the carry trade unwind. :) That is the most important part.
Also there is a lot of gaming in the system. Just two days ago there was a giant options rollover which dropped the rate. When...
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