Politics Thread

[Caf]

Oh, still waiting on that stock market correction...

Were you on vacation in February?

[XU 87]

I see. So economists have nothing to offer on the question of economic policy because they don't agree with your bias?

Huh?

My point, which is apparently lost on you, is that just because someone is a "liberal economist" does not then make such person an "objective economist". By your posts, you equate them as one of the same.

[Nigel Tufnel]

Burr for President in 2020...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fdphbmIZ4nI

[Strange Brew]

Um, how did they make things worse? I thought you had studied some economics at Xavier. If you had learned anything, you would know that (1) recessions, particularly those triggered by financial market meltdowns (makes Say's Law inoperable) take several years to work through, and (2) monetary policy won't work very well under these circumstances (particularly when they have hit the ZB constraint) so fiscal policy (the kind that Republicans prevented Obama from implementing because they were SO WORRIED about deficits back then...now, not so much) must be used under those circumstances. But hey, your friend XU87 claims economists know nothing. So people trained in these areas should be ignored in favor of lawyers and political hacks who base all decisions on policy solely on their philosophical biases.

I understand where you come from on the economic spectrum so your take is expected (you're biased politically yourself). I was actually taking Grad level Econ at in 2010 and we had many discussions about the policies of the time. The professor I had at the time would joke about how silly the policies were and we'd be better off doing nothing except rolling back corp taxes. That said, what exactly was Obama's fiscal policy? Spend trillions on gimmicks, keep interest rates at 0 (actually agreed with that one), print tons of money and regulate the energy sector so that energy prices soar hurting the purchasing power of consumers (esp poor ones). Yeah, recipe for a boom time for sure..

[GoMuskies]

I have not seen anything like religion in Europe in the US except maybe the Bible Belt. It is not the case here.

I'm not sure where you were hanging out in Europe (or in America), but by any objective measure (which, to be fair, is tricky with religion), the US is overwhelmingly more religious than Europe.

[Caf]

I'm not sure where you were hanging out in Europe (or in America), but by any objective measure (which, to be fair, is tricky with religion), the US is overwhelmingly more religious than Europe.

Zona why are you holding onto this? There are tons of people in America who think the pope is liberal! Ireland voted to allow abortion! Even being generous I'd say Europe v. US could be equal, but Europe is definitely not more religiously conservative especially as far as government goes.

[X-man]

I understand where you come from on the economic spectrum so your take is expected (you're biased politically yourself). I was actually taking Grad level Econ at in 2010 and we had many discussions about the policies of the time. The professor I had at the time would joke about how silly the policies were and we'd be better off doing nothing except rolling back corp taxes. That said, what exactly was Obama's fiscal policy? Spend trillions on gimmicks, keep interest rates at 0 (actually agreed with that one), print tons of money and regulate the energy sector so that energy prices soar hurting the purchasing power of consumers (esp poor ones). Yeah, recipe for a boom time for sure..

As usual, you have no idea what you are talking about. You know nothing about where I fall on the economic spectrum (Hint: my training in grad school was by faculty largely from the University of Chicago school of thought; my macro training, in particular, was from someone definitely in that camp). Where does your "grad level" econ instructor fall on that spectrum, BTW?

[XU 87]

As usual, you have no idea what you are talking about. You know nothing about where I fall on the economic spectrum

You're a liberal economist. And you think Paul Krugman is brilliant.

[GoMuskies]

Europe is definitely not more religiously conservative especially as far as government goes.

He said that. But it's not even close to as religious (conservative or not). Half the people in basically all of Western Europe identify as non-religious.

[ArizonaXUGrad]

I'm not sure where you were hanging out in Europe (or in America), but by any objective measure (which, to be fair, is tricky with religion), the US is overwhelmingly more religious than Europe.

Germany and I lived there. What is your experience?


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