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Frayed Ends: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 3.0

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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
On a bit of side note, one of the reasons I bought the annual book What Color is Your Parachute was because of all the hyperventilating about "golden parachutes" at the time. I wonder if Dick Bolles had a lucky spike in sales among Millennials that year.
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That book is like Strunk & White. The initial edition was outstanding. Since then it's just become more and more bloated and stupid. Of course, in the case of S&W, the irony is lethal.
 
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Kepler said:
That book is like Strunk & White. The initial edition was outstanding. Since then it's just become more and more bloated and stupid. Of course, in the case of S&W, the irony is lethal.
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Every year, his book draws the same conclusion - it's all about who you know/blow.
 
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σκατά just got real.

With almost all the ballots counted, results from the Greek referendum show voters decisively rejecting the terms of an international bailout.
Figures published by the interior ministry showed nearly 62% of those whose ballots had been counted voting "No", against 38% voting "Yes".
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joecct said:
The Spectator on Greece. There are more articles over there if you so choose.

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/alex-m...along-whoever-you-are-and-whatever-you-think/
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That's a great piece.

The opposing view.

Both sides have merit. And I love the tag line that the important thing about an event is it proves you were right all along, no matter who you are or what you believe. That's pure gold and should be the secondary headline on every political article or editorial ever written. :)
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
How about another view, also looking at the build-up to where we are now. https://truthandsatire.wordpress.co...-biggest-lie-you-are-being-told-by-the-media/
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I recall listening to a story on NPR about 5 years ago that predicted exactly where this was all going. It also cited "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man." This was a good overhead view for how the scam is actually done, however.

There has to be a way to scour vulture finance out of our economic system. People who preach about the free market should know better than to defend these predators, who are a thousand times more destructive than any army. If need be libertarians should remind themselves that these guys use governments to commit their crimes, since that should kick in the "gubbmint bad!" gag reflex. Anything to help them realize that if your Kapitalist Paradise extols the efforts of entrepreneurs, small business, and competition to develop excellence, the international financial sector is your worst enemy, too.
 
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Kepler said:
I recall listening to a story on NPR about 5 years ago that predicted exactly where this was all going. It also cited "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man." This was a good overhead view for how the scam is actually done, however.

There has to be a way to scour vulture finance out of our economic system. People who preach about the free market should know better than to defend these predators, who are a thousand times more destructive than any army. If need be libertarians should remind themselves that these guys use governments to commit their crimes, since that should kick in the "gubbmint bad!" gag reflex. Anything to help them realize that if your Kapitalist Paradise extols the efforts of entrepreneurs, small business, and competition to develop excellence, the international financial sector is your worst enemy, too.
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Oh, it's very obvious that the majority of monopolies in today's world have some form of government involvement, whether it be financial support (NFL), law enforcement (health care mergers), or some other means. If there was no or limited government support, some philanthropist could start a small business to compete and start driving away share, at least until the larger competition either adjusted to crush the cockroach, because it's pretty obvious there'd be no buy out.
 
Kepler said:
I recall listening to a story on NPR about 5 years ago that predicted exactly where this was all going. It also cited "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man." This was a good overhead view for how the scam is actually done
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That's a good book, easy read
 
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Almington said:
The argument can be made that if WWI had not started, we'd be at that point already.
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That's a really good alt-hist hypothesis. Taking the world wars as one Great War with a truce in the middle, what would have happened had the war never occurred?

Do the monarchies fall or evolve into symbolic tourist attractions like the British?

Does the Russian revolution happen, or does a more industrialized country (for instance, Germany) have a Marxist revolution, and what does that do to the advance of socialism?

Can the British and French hold onto their empires any longer, and does that provoke conflict with a growing America? Does colonialism wither away slowly, allowing African economies and political systems to get up and running?

Assuming the Japanese - Chinese rivalry is unchanged, does that spread and become a Pacific War?

All fascinating questions.
 
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Kepler said:
That's a really good alt-hist hypothesis. Taking the world wars as one Great War with a truce in the middle, what would have happened had the war never occurred?
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Germany was the rising European economic power with Great Britain in decline. The U.S. was also a rising economic power but with limited political influence in European affairs and a strong internal political leanings towards isolationalism and/or a strong pro-Pacific expansionist view. We very could be talking about Pax Germania in Europe as opposed to a Pax Americana in the last half of the 20th century.

Russia was headed for a revolution of some type for the 20+ years before WWI, with the crown prince being a hemophiliac, odds are that a succession crisis would have resulted in some type of revolution/civil war occurring.

A U.S.-Japan conflict is still very probable, but very much depends on how the U.S. respond to the Japan-Dutch/French/British conflict that would arise over the colonial possessions and what path and timetable was follower for phllippinian independence.
 
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