Here comes the other economic shoe dropping...
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Soros: US Is Already in Double-Dip Recession http://www.cnbc.com/id/44621082
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Clinton: Obama's approach to the deficit is confusing: http://realclearpolitics.com/video/2011 ... using.html
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Capitalism, it seems to me, is about to fundamentally change. Hold on to your hats and hope you still have one this time next year!
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Where is this "capitalism" of which you speak? I thought the western European countries had eschewed capitalism ages ago, in favor of a more social-democratic mixed economy.Rum wrote:Capitalism, it seems to me, is about to fundamentally change. Hold on to your hats and hope you still have one this time next year!
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Which includes capitalism.Coito ergo sum wrote:Where is this "capitalism" of which you speak? I thought the western European countries had eschewed capitalism ages ago, in favor of a more social-democratic mixed economy.Rum wrote:Capitalism, it seems to me, is about to fundamentally change. Hold on to your hats and hope you still have one this time next year!
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Well, it's highly socialist. Most of the Europeans around here tend to descry American "capitalism" in favor of their kinder, gentler socialism. Maybe Europeans are evil capitalists now....eXcommunicate wrote:Which includes capitalism.Coito ergo sum wrote:Where is this "capitalism" of which you speak? I thought the western European countries had eschewed capitalism ages ago, in favor of a more social-democratic mixed economy.Rum wrote:Capitalism, it seems to me, is about to fundamentally change. Hold on to your hats and hope you still have one this time next year!
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I suggest you look up the meaning of socialism. While their means of production are owned privately rather than by society at large, the western European countries are capitalist in nature.Coito ergo sum wrote:Well, it's highly socialist. Most of the Europeans around here tend to descry American "capitalism" in favor of their kinder, gentler socialism. Maybe Europeans are evil capitalists now....eXcommunicate wrote:Which includes capitalism.Coito ergo sum wrote:Where is this "capitalism" of which you speak? I thought the western European countries had eschewed capitalism ages ago, in favor of a more social-democratic mixed economy.Rum wrote:Capitalism, it seems to me, is about to fundamentally change. Hold on to your hats and hope you still have one this time next year!
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Seraph wrote:I suggest you look up the meaning of socialism. While their means of production are owned privately rather than by society at large, the western European countries are capitalist in nature.Coito ergo sum wrote:Well, it's highly socialist. Most of the Europeans around here tend to descry American "capitalism" in favor of their kinder, gentler socialism. Maybe Europeans are evil capitalists now....eXcommunicate wrote:Which includes capitalism.Coito ergo sum wrote:Where is this "capitalism" of which you speak? I thought the western European countries had eschewed capitalism ages ago, in favor of a more social-democratic mixed economy.Rum wrote:Capitalism, it seems to me, is about to fundamentally change. Hold on to your hats and hope you still have one this time next year!
I know full-well what socialism means. I can point you to some economic discussions, however, where Europeans descry capitalism in favor of whatever their system is. Apparently, many Europeans seem to think that they are living in socialist countries, and that fact is, it appears in their view, what makes their systems superior.
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Do go ahead. I suspect those discussions will turn out to be about their superior variants of capitalism - a capitalism with a humane face, which socialists will probably regard as capitalism with a humane facade - to the dog eat dog style laissez faire capitalist ones. Until the western European countries start nationalising privately owned means of production they do not eschew capitalism. Their policies confine themselves to making capitalism more user friendly instead. Once again, I suggest you familiarise yourself with the differences between socialism and social democracy.Coito ergo sum wrote:I know full-well what socialism means. I can point you to some economic discussions, however, where Europeans descry capitalism in favor of whatever their system is.
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They have better beer, too. Oh yeah, and mustard. We only have yellow mustard.Coito ergo sum wrote: I know full-well what socialism means. I can point you to some economic discussions, however, where Europeans descry capitalism in favor of whatever their system is. Apparently, many Europeans seem to think that they are living in socialist countries, and that fact is, it appears in their view, what makes their systems superior.
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We even have faster neutrinos than you losers.laklak wrote:They have better beer, too. Oh yeah, and mustard. We only have yellow mustard.Coito ergo sum wrote: I know full-well what socialism means. I can point you to some economic discussions, however, where Europeans descry capitalism in favor of whatever their system is. Apparently, many Europeans seem to think that they are living in socialist countries, and that fact is, it appears in their view, what makes their systems superior.
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They go even faster in Oz!Clinton Huxley wrote:We even have faster neutrinos than you losers.laklak wrote:They have better beer, too. Oh yeah, and mustard. We only have yellow mustard.Coito ergo sum wrote: I know full-well what socialism means. I can point you to some economic discussions, however, where Europeans descry capitalism in favor of whatever their system is. Apparently, many Europeans seem to think that they are living in socialist countries, and that fact is, it appears in their view, what makes their systems superior.
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That's because there's not as much stuff for them to bump into I expect.JimC wrote:They go even faster in Oz!Clinton Huxley wrote:We even have faster neutrinos than you losers.laklak wrote:They have better beer, too. Oh yeah, and mustard. We only have yellow mustard.Coito ergo sum wrote: I know full-well what socialism means. I can point you to some economic discussions, however, where Europeans descry capitalism in favor of whatever their system is. Apparently, many Europeans seem to think that they are living in socialist countries, and that fact is, it appears in their view, what makes their systems superior.
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Rum wrote:That's because there's not as much stuff for them to bump into I expect.JimC wrote:They go even faster in Oz!Clinton Huxley wrote:We even have faster neutrinos than you losers.laklak wrote:They have better beer, too. Oh yeah, and mustard. We only have yellow mustard.Coito ergo sum wrote: I know full-well what socialism means. I can point you to some economic discussions, however, where Europeans descry capitalism in favor of whatever their system is. Apparently, many Europeans seem to think that they are living in socialist countries, and that fact is, it appears in their view, what makes their systems superior.

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And, "chips" of course.laklak wrote:They have better beer, too. Oh yeah, and mustard. We only have yellow mustard.Coito ergo sum wrote: I know full-well what socialism means. I can point you to some economic discussions, however, where Europeans descry capitalism in favor of whatever their system is. Apparently, many Europeans seem to think that they are living in socialist countries, and that fact is, it appears in their view, what makes their systems superior.
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