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- “It is ironic that the Great Depression was produced by government but was blamed on the private enterprise system. The Federal Reserve System explained in its 1933 annual report how much worse things would have been if the Federal Reserve had not behaved so well, yet the Federal Reserve was the chief culprit in making the depression as deep as it was. So the government produced the depression, the private enterprise system got blamed for it, and there was a tremendous change in attitudes…
- “And it is quite fitting that “volatility” comes from volare, “to fly” in Latin. Depriving political (and other) systems of volatility harms them, causing eventually greater volatility of the cascading type. This section, Book II, deals with the fragility that comes from the denial of hormesis, the natural antifragility of organisms, and how we hurt systems with the very best intentions by playing conductor. We are fragilizing social and economic systems by denying them stressors and randomness,…
- “Can anyone explain to me how the Italian banking crisis, which has been swept under the rug for years, fits the liberal American, Bernie/Warren narrative that greedy and reckless U.S. mortgage lenders and Wall Street’s greedy and fraudulent securitization of these “risky” mortgages caused the financial crisis? As I understand it, Italy didn’t have a housing bubble/bust…
- “Nobel Laureate in economics (for asset prices like housing/stocks/bonds & bubbles) Robert Shiller says we still (in 2017!) don’t know what caused the mid-1990s to mid-2000s, housing bubble, but liberal politicians like Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, FCIC Chair Phil Angelides and their friends in the liberal Press, had no trouble calling (and continue to this day) for crisis era bankers to be jailed anyway, like totalitarian societies like Russia or Cuba (or like American McCarthyism),…
- “In high school English, most of us were taught to write essays by developing a thesis and providing three or more facts, to support this thesis. I’m not sure, but I suspect this has created a huge problem and a lot of fake news. Today, there were articles in my LA and NY Times discussing individual “victims” of the Trump Administration enforcing our existing immigration laws (which Congress, the people’s representatives, can change at anytime and has chosen not to). The “spin” was negative for Trump and his immigration policies…
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