Keeping the interest rates low, and making them lower, is only ultimately to protect the property prices (and by proxy the banks). When people...
It's a pay cut if you want to buy anything that is imported or in some way uses imported goods. That makes it a pay cut for pretty much everyone...
Only in the sense that getting a big pay cut is more positive than losing your job.
Democracy is wonderful! EDIT: Democracy is freedom!
Yep, no real scapegoats to be found. Sorry people. All we can do is hopefully learn our lessons. And I'm not real confident that is going to...
If you owe the bank a million dollars you have a problem. If lots of people collectively owe the bank billions of dollars and there isn't a boom...
I would never be one to say everything's all right, but 25 year recession? Seems more like depression porn to me.
The end of marriage as we know it, is as inevitable as the end of slavery. ;)
It's a government service, what do you expect? Throwing more money at the government doesn't really improve their performance in case you hadn't...
:) Well, I personally just hang around for the economic and social talk now myself. Wouldn't be surprised if there are others that are the same.
It could just be someone going through the stages of grief that so many of us have gone through, when the false reality we perceived as real dies...
Your average taxpayer expects much more than that and makes it very clear around election time. There's just no incentive for the government to...
You say all this like it's certainties, yet I see no reason to agree with it at all. I could pick away at little parts of it, but honestly, my...
So what you are saying is that you think you can centrally plan the economy?
Inflation benefits those with significant assets the most and those with large debts (ie. property investors). And those benefits are paid for...
I have real problems with this statement. Who decides who owes what? A bunch of politicians. This hardly an objective way of going about...
The political right and left are basically the same. The only question is, who gets exploited. The real spectrum is totalitarianism to freedom....
I'd like to see the evidence for this. I put it down to having freedom and a free market mostly. Something that's being eroded more and more....
That would most likely mean reducing salaries of career bueracrats and/or firing many of them. Then it would be public sector union propaganda...
But the problem would not that they are privately-owned, the problem would be that there is a state sanction on competition. EDIT: I also always...
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