Instead of escorting him out, let’s lock him in!

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Saturday November 07, 2020 · 11:00 AM PST

2020/11/07 · 11:00

Seems to me the way to deal with Don the con refusing to leave the Whitehouse is to simply say “ Okay, you stay here we’ll put Joe up somewhere else” and proceed to put a sentry at every door, cut the phone and power lines. No internet. No microwave for his frozen nuggets

He’d last about 2 hours max before he’d be begging to get out. Even better we could turn it in to a prison for him. Deny him the ability to leave and we’d know where he is at all times, or tell him he can leave when he releases his tax returns.

Im more worried about what he’ll do once he goes to some foreign country and sets up shop using Twitter to keep his deplorable riled up and throwing wrenches into every progressive policy enacted by the next administration, so let’s just keep him here under 24 hour surveillance in the Oval Office.

What I'd do if I could

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Friday August 24, 2012 · 1:11 PM PDT

2012/08/24 · 13:11

Its been a while since I've had anything that I felt was worth posting about. This is going to be a different take on an earlier post of mine where I imagined a day when a part of our country seceded and examined how they might go about setting up their own monetary system. I imagined an interview of someone else in the position of creating a country/monetary system and tried to see what kind of questions would need to be asked and answered. I would write that post a little differently today because I have acquired new information in the interim and have developed some of my thoughts to a greater depth but the overall view of that post remains; If your going to start your own country you need your own money and whatever money is used there will be a "state" making a choice about some very important things. The choice they make will mean differences in levels of freedom and levels of aggregate wealth.

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Wednesday November 16, 2011 · 7:38 AM PST

2011/11/16 · 07:38

This diary is motivated as a rebuttal to many wrongheaded ideas I hear in the blogosphere. Some I even held myself in the not too distant past. Not because I had ever put much thought into them but precisely because I hadnt put much thought into them. Funny how really thinking about something can clear the muddle away.

The idea I want to address in this diary is the nature of a loan. Specifically a loan from a bank

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Tuesday September 13, 2011 · 11:09 AM PDT

2011/09/13 · 11:09

I have an idea for businesses to pay less in taxes that would also stimulate our economy

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Tuesday August 09, 2011 · 2:40 AM PDT

2011/08/09 · 02:40

Of all the irrational things we do and expect on a regular basis, and there are many, one just keeps on popping up again and again on blogs I read and in the comment sections. The thing is, I think I may be the only one who sees it as irrational. Ive never seen anyone else comment on it nor has anyone ever responded positively to my comment/question when I make it. I think it is because it involves questioning that thing which everyone just takes for granted and never questions. Its never even entered their mind to question it. Its the idea of interest on saving.

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Saturday August 06, 2011 · 10:33 AM PDT

2011/08/06 · 10:33

Thought experiments can be very useful and powerful tools. Designed to make you consider things you've never considered before they ask you to question orthodox ways of thinking. Its easy for us to just go with what we think we know. Much of what we know isnt really known, in the sense that its a proven fact. It just functions as a working definition of the reality we find our selves in. Agreed upon conventions function as knowledge until something comes along which upends that convention. When what we thought we knew cant explain a new set of circumstances we are in a quandary. Do we do the work to reexplain the circumstances or do we tell a convenient story which satisfies us and allows us to move on? The first response is hard the second can simply be the product of a creative mind.

The current economic situation has given us much fodder for debate and many areas where we should question things we've always understood to be true. A prime area is the nature of money. How did money or does money come to be? There are some varied historical explanations which revolve around barter societies discovering money on their own and stories about a state making the determination what will be used as money. I find the state theory of money more persuasive but I certainly cant say the evidence settles it.................historically. I do think that regardless of where you stand on the historical evolution of money, today states play a very large role in determining somethings degree of "money-ness" .

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Saturday July 16, 2011 · 11:41 AM PDT

2011/07/16 · 11:41

It was entirely predictable. Calls for a balanced budget amendment by the GOP this week are right in line with modern republican ideology. When in control, ignore deficit levels, spend like mad and cut taxes. When you lose control demand a balanced budget amendment. They did this during the Clinton years and they are doing it now. I'm really only surprised that the call for a balanced budget came before a flag burning amendment was put to a vote. I think they may have finally seen the flag burning amendments as the lost causes they always were. I only hope that soon both parties realize a balanced budget amendment is asking the impossible.

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Wednesday June 22, 2011 · 11:02 AM PDT

2011/06/22 · 11:02

I was in college when I first heard the term service economy. President Ronald Reagan used the term to describe the changes our nation was going through following the 70s. It described a situation where, due to globalization and cheap and abundant oil, "we" could afford to have China or any other number of populous low wage nations build stuff cheaply and then ship it to us. We could then focus on service industries and knowledge industries, using our superior resources in those areas to accomplish this. America would become a net importer of finished manufactured goods and a net exporter of ideas, know-how and financialization schemes.

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Sunday June 12, 2011 · 12:18 PM PDT

2011/06/12 · 12:18

Most discussions of our economic problems today eventually get around to the idea that, in some way, something needs to be redistributed. Those on the right see govt as needing to redistribute something to the private sector. Usually that means taking less of their income via taxes, taking less of their choices via regulation or taking less of their buying power by devaluing the currency via central bank activities. They never admit though that their policies involve a zero sum game within the non government sector. They are fond of saying to those who talk about taxation of the rich, that this is just a redistributionist policy, taking from one hard working group to give to another, slothful group. They claim to be above this rhetoric, this class warfare, and simply want all to prosper. Their policy prescriptions however tell a different story. They show them to in fact be very intrenched zero sum thinkers. believing that when one person gets something it must come at the expense of another. They just like it when the ones paying the expenses are the other 90% of Americans or the rest of the world.

Either you believe we live in a zero sum world or you dont, it cant be both ways.

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Sunday June 05, 2011 · 7:16 AM PDT

2011/06/05 · 07:16

Many economic analysts are taking a very bearish position on our stock markets at the moment. We've seen almost unprecedented rises in all the indexes since the inauguration of President Obama in spite of mostly poor news on the employment front. What does this mean? To me it means there is a huge disconnect between the stock market and the health of the overall economy much of the time. The stock market is really the rich guys playground and is not a driver of real economic growth. In fact its not even DRIVEN BY real economic growth much of the time. I for one, am embracing another sharp downturn in our stock markets, so should you.

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Thursday March 31, 2011 · 2:16 PM PDT

2011/03/31 · 14:16

Debt debt debt! That little four letter word is being repeated every minute of every day by politicians and economists of all stripes. Its quite an interesting word. It implies that you've done something for someone that you would like reciprocated at some point. One thing I notice though is that in too many situations we get the power relationship wrong and we make the mistake of equating all types of debt. I hope to show that much of what we call debt, shouldnt even be called debt at all because it distorts and confuses the real flow of power in the debtor/creditor relationship.

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Tuesday November 16, 2010 · 4:51 AM PST

2010/11/16 · 04:51

In a daze this morning I heard NPR and an interview with Judd Gregg talking about the deficit commission and the processes it went through. He was quite pleasant in his tone and seemed earnest in his desire to be part of something that was going to set our country on a new sustainable path. He talked about needed tax increases, in the form of eliminating certain tax write offs, and needed spending cuts. All this was a bipartisan effort to address our "exploding" fiscal budget and avoid a currency collapse a few years down the road but if everyone on the panel had some of Judd Greggs misconceptions we are in trouble.

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