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I'm not racist. Asians and Whites are certainly pretty much equal. But there is evidence that aboriginals are significantly less intelligent. It would certainly explain a lot. I'm not saying aboriginals should be treated any differently. They are still people. But there is nothing wrong with...

I lol'd. But seriously, what a nutter. What can you say other than I hope he dies in jail.

I just explained it as "the axiom that the initiation of force is morally wrong." I never claimed it was objective. But at some point we do have to make some difficult moral decisions one way or another. Take it easy mate. It's pretty obvious I was not advocating slavery. But it is possible...

That's exactly what they try to do, and they consistently fail. What is wrong with basing your reasoning on certain axioms? Most importantly, what is wrong with the axiom that the initiation of force is morally wrong? If mainstream economics is truly value free, why doesn't it consider the...

The whole idea that a complex matrix of inter-related decisions made by millions of people can be captured in a mathematical model is ridiculous. We can not treat economics like the natural sciences because it is impossible for us to gain the sort of data that would be necessary to conduct such...

What a retarded assumption. Who do you define as an economist anyway?

Ah yes, the death of hundreds of thousands of people is just collateral damage. I wonder if you'd see it that way if someone did that to us in Australia.

Who cares. I don't give a fuck what the PM's personal beliefs are. As long as they don't try to impose it on everyone. I'd rather a fundamentalist Christian who believes in small government and respects others right to live differently than an athiest with a vision for a "great society" that...

I didn't realize Follz21 was a 9/11 truther. Still, JohnathanN is using that to dismiss everything he has said, which is quite pathetic. He still made some very valid points about the destruction of key infrastructure and the killing of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Gnriles: So at the end of the day, after all your ranting, you admit that just like any other economists, Austrian economists may or may not be indoctrinated, and may or may not be correct. Nice work. In the time you spent typing out that shit you could have contributed something interesting to...

Wow JohnathanN got owned.

Yep, plus public threats for a third war in Iran. Not to mention the vast empire of overseas military bases and the torture and illegal imprisonment of captives without trial. He has continued all of Bush's war mongering policies, he is just more elegant, and throws in a lot of positive...

So you accuse Austrian economists of being indoctrinated and ideological, yet you make the sweeping assumption that anyone who mounts an argument based on Austrian economics is automatically full of shit. You have provided no evidence or explanation as to why you think Austrian economics is...

Very true. Although analogies are not even needed. As you said, the free market interest rate is determined by a matrix of millions of interactions. No matter how brilliant a businessman or forecaster may be, it is simply impossible to accurately estimate how millions of people would behave in...

No you misunderstand me friend. I was expressing exasperation that you are fully aware of how destructive an artificially low interest rate is, yet you supported the RBA decision to make it artificially low. Way to doublethink.

Sigh.

Because the economy is like a car or some shit, so wise leaders need to put their foot on the gas for a while, then slam on the breaks. Sometimes they should even have their foot on the accelerator and the break pedal at the same time. We can't have the "market" set interest rates because...

In a state of anarchy, how can you suppress capitalism?

Turns out the best way to ensure prosperity is to have massive reserves of oil. Nice work Norway. HDI is bullshit anyway. It uses metrics like school attendance without taking into account quality of education or placing any value on alternatives to formalized education. Things like...

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