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Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

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Content aside, that article had some real clunkers for sentences.
 
Kepler said:
Come the revolution, politicians who approve taxpayer money for stadiums will be crucified upside down.
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I always throw a caveat in there: for a single sports team.

Cities generally need an arena for things like concerts, the circus, high school graduations, etc.

If you're building a civic multipurpose arena and happen to get a major tenant or two, great. But don't build an arena specifically for that tenant. And make sure you know how you'll fund it without one.
 
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Just remember, we sent a spacecraft to Pluto for less than the Vikings stadium. And we don't even own it.

I hate taxpayer-funded stadiums.
 
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Anybody care to take a crack at this?

On CNBC this morning Drumpf suggested that one strategy he'll use for reducing the national debt is having bond holders accept "haircuts". To be clear what that means, he'll try to get people who own US Treasury bonds and are owed X to accept X/2, or some reduced amount of what they are owed.

That's called defaulting on a debt obligation.
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As the world passes us by...

The idea of granting every citizen a no-strings-attached universal basic income is still treated as a utopian idea in America. In Switzerland, they’re a month away from voting on it.
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It's just a vote and it is not expected to pass, but can you imagine America ever being grown up enough even to debate it?
 
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Kepler said:
Anybody care to take a crack at this?
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Haircuts, most often that I've seen, are more like trims than cuts. X/2 would be extreme, clearly written for dramatic effect, and any Fed debt would probably not exceed something like 5%, unless we're willing to absolutely sh** the sheets.

Still, no haircut would be seen as a good signal to any of our creditors, and any new issuance would have to carry a much higher interest rate. At the same time, if we want to ever see how Janet Yellen would act under great pressure, this is the way to find out because Trump would've just completely jacked the nation's interest rates for the entire economy.
 
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It's just a vote and it is not expected to pass, but can you imagine America ever being grown up enough even to debate it?
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If America functioned under the same constitution it surely would have been petitioned for and thus debated. But it doesn't, and hopefully ever won't, but I suspect that won't ever stop you from ignoring all sorts of context so as to try to make some sort of point that isn't really a point at all. Though it probably makes you feel real nice, so carry on...
 
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If America functioned under the same constitution it surely would have been petitioned for and thus debated. But it doesn't, and hopefully ever won't {ad hom spleen}
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Nothing in our system prevents any issue from being debated in the public square. Far, far more outlandish ideas (flag burning amendments, fetal personhood) are debated all the time.
 
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Hmm...so Facebook edits the results of their hit-count algorithm before posting top hits to their "Trending" section.

Guess which way their edits consistently lean!

Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project.
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Several former Facebook “news curators,” as they were known internally, also told Gizmodo that they were instructed to artificially “inject” selected stories into the trending news module, even if they weren’t popular enough to warrant inclusion—or in some cases weren’t trending at all.
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The former curator was so troubled by the omissions that they kept a running log of them at the time; this individual provided the notes to Gizmodo. Among the deep-sixed or suppressed topics on the list: former IRS official Lois Lerner, who was accused by Republicans of inappropriately scrutinizing conservative groups; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker; popular conservative news aggregator the Drudge Report; Chris Kyle, the former Navy SEAL who was murdered in 2013; and former Fox News contributor Steven Crowder. “I believe it had a chilling effect on conservative news,” the former curator said.

Another former curator agreed that the operation had an aversion to right-wing news sources. “It was absolutely bias. We were doing it subjectively. It just depends on who the curator is and what time of day it is,” said the former curator. “Every once in awhile a Red State or conservative news source would have a story. But we would have to go and find the same story from a more neutral outlet that wasn’t as biased.”

Stories covered by conservative outlets (like Breitbart, Washington Examiner, and Newsmax) that were trending enough to be picked up by Facebook’s algorithm were excluded unless mainstream sites like the New York Times, the BBC, and CNN covered the same stories.
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According to Facebook, apparently, only conservatives are "biased" but progressives are not.
 
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FreshFish said:
Hmm...so Facebook edits the results of their hit-count algorithm before posting top hits to their "Trending" section.

Guess which way their edits consistently lean!




According to Facebook, apparently, only conservatives are "biased" but progressives are not.
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Surprisingly enough, I checked Facebook and this story is trending.
 
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FreshFish said:
Hmm...so Facebook edits the results of their hit-count algorithm before posting top hits to their "Trending" section.

Guess which way their edits consistently lean!

According to Facebook, apparently, only conservatives are "biased" but progressives are not.
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So Facebook, which isn't a news outlet should be unbiased, but sites like Breitbart, Washington Examiner, and Newsmax that claim to be actual news outlets shouldn't?
 
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I think we should let the free market decide. Aggrieved conservatives can start their own social network that is Fair and Balanced (tm).
 
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unofan said:
I think we should let the free market decide. Aggrieved conservatives can start their own social network that is Fair and Balanced (tm).
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They've tried. They've walled themselves off from reality with their own "news," their own Wikipedia, their own "science" (LOL). Hasta la vista, babies.
 
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