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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Post by Rum » Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:27 pm

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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Post by Coito ergo sum » Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:49 pm

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!
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.

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Post by eXcommunicate » Fri Sep 23, 2011 12:31 am

Coito ergo sum wrote:
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!
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.
Which includes capitalism.
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Re: Here comes the other economic shoe dropping...

Post by Coito ergo sum » Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:47 pm

eXcommunicate wrote:
Coito ergo sum wrote:
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!
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.
Which includes capitalism.
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....

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Coito ergo sum wrote:
eXcommunicate wrote:
Coito ergo sum wrote:
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!
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.
Which includes capitalism.
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....
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.
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Re: Here comes the other economic shoe dropping...

Post by Coito ergo sum » Sat Sep 24, 2011 10:30 pm

Seraph wrote:
Coito ergo sum wrote:
eXcommunicate wrote:
Coito ergo sum wrote:
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!
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.
Which includes capitalism.
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....
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.

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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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.
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.
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Post by laklak » Sun Sep 25, 2011 2:45 am

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.
They have better beer, too. Oh yeah, and mustard. We only have yellow mustard.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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laklak wrote:
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.
They have better beer, too. Oh yeah, and mustard. We only have yellow mustard.
We even have faster neutrinos than you losers.
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Re: Here comes the other economic shoe dropping...

Post by JimC » Sun Sep 25, 2011 8:51 am

Clinton Huxley wrote:
laklak wrote:
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.
They have better beer, too. Oh yeah, and mustard. We only have yellow mustard.
We even have faster neutrinos than you losers.
They go even faster in Oz!
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Re: Here comes the other economic shoe dropping...

Post by Rum » Sun Sep 25, 2011 8:56 am

JimC wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:
laklak wrote:
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.
They have better beer, too. Oh yeah, and mustard. We only have yellow mustard.
We even have faster neutrinos than you losers.
They go even faster in Oz!
That's because there's not as much stuff for them to bump into I expect.

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Rum wrote:
JimC wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:
laklak wrote:
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.
They have better beer, too. Oh yeah, and mustard. We only have yellow mustard.
We even have faster neutrinos than you losers.
They go even faster in Oz!
That's because there's not as much stuff for them to bump into I expect.
:hehe:

They have to move quick to escape the poisonous things...
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I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"

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Re: Here comes the other economic shoe dropping...

Post by Coito ergo sum » Mon Sep 26, 2011 11:54 am

laklak wrote:
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.
They have better beer, too. Oh yeah, and mustard. We only have yellow mustard.
And, "chips" of course.

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