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2021-04-02 Government Corruption

The real reasons money doesn't matter...

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Posted by M. Murcek 2021-04-02 08:50|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 is the field of economics just pseudoscientific nonsense?

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-02 10:19|| 2021-04-02 10:19|| Front Page Top

#2 No: economics isn't downstream
of politics. We've just been a combination of lucky and ruthless. Within three years we are all going to learn a hard, once-in-a-lifetime lesson about what the word "inflation" means.

Posted by Secret Master 2021-04-02 11:35|| 2021-04-02 11:35|| Front Page Top

#3 I think the true test will be when the music stops. The easy money will be gone, but the voters will still be voting for "moar."

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-04-02 13:40|| 2021-04-02 13:40|| Front Page Top

#4 I can remember the old timers in the 1950's lamenting... "where is it all going to end?"

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-02 13:47|| 2021-04-02 13:47|| Front Page Top

#5 We've been here before -- the 1970s. We'll see a huge shift internally but America itself will remain (relatively) strong for the simple reason that the other possible alternate hegemons are so unattractive.

Europe is a joke, the Russians are puny economically and totally dependent on a handful of natural resources - one of which we're now the dominant player in -- and the Chinese are chaotic and growing old fast.

America will become more corrupt, more oligarchic, more skewed and divided politically.

Eventually we'll have two distinct nations loosely United by a federal structure, sharing a military and a currency and an interstate highway system but little else.

If I were advising a hostile power, I'd tell them to do everything in their power to split the two Americas from each other and try to ignite another Civil War. Oh wait…

Posted by Unick Clusolet8326 2021-04-02 14:12|| 2021-04-02 14:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Gee, what happened in 1971? Asking for a friend.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-04-02 19:45|| 2021-04-02 19:45|| Front Page Top

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