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"I'm sorry, but this is totally absurd and without foundation." --> No need to be sorry. Let me explain. "The thousands of young men and women who went from Asia, Africa, Europe and Russia to Syria went because they wanted to fight the genocidal al-Assad, who was using Russian weapons to slaughter i...

Just firing away "this is utter nonsense" and "that is absurd" does not a point make. Neither does Rand Paul = Gen-Xer => Stupid John not= Gen Xer => Smart. Let's stick to the points and have a valid discussion on foreign policy. Yes, this president is responsible because he selected Hilary. Hilary ...

"There were no jihadists heading for Syria during the Bush administration, and there were no jihadists heading for Syria during Obama's first term, so neither Bush or Obama can be held responsible for creating ISIS. " Oh my. I am reading further down and interesting to see how many things you get wr...

"In the political news the last few days, it seems that both the Democratic President Barack Obama and the Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul have come to full agreement that ISIS was created by the Republicans. This conclusion is absurd on its face, since ISIS was formed in Syria, not Iraq...

A really good article in my opinion. To say that Chinese government is in a strong position to fight an asset bubble because of its huge assets is a mistake, because the assets are in USD.

http://mpettis.com/2010/02/never-short- ... -reserves/

A headline from yesterday morning (not this morning as I previously indicated) that pertains to our discussion of last night. While the investment community and ratings agencies do not frame the issues in the way we do here, they've begin to sniff out the "disparity" using the same theme of mortgag...

I was playing the game in my head follows. There are two types of debts, those with collateral and those without. a) For those without collateral (like the $2000 Prada purse the woman bought on her credit card), all the debt is forgiven. She was complaining she couldn't pay this back. b) For those ...

Your statement of the "Fed is unable to target all aspects of the economy equally" is basically saying that the economy has so many pieces that it is hard for the Fed to control all pieces. That is what I meant by this being a hard "control-system" problem. However, consider a thought experiment. T...

In the 1970s, all the millions of businesses that had been created out the Depression were in full bloom, creating a huge demand for employees, resulting in wage inflation and a high velocity of money, causing general inflation. John John, without any comment on the rest of your passage (my limited...

The second paragraph where I described the Fed MBS purchases gets to your point about moving the right amount of money into the system. This is in my opinion what the Fed is trying to do; however, this "disparity" I am talking about refers to the fact that the Fed is unable to target all aspects of...