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Go back and re-read "Ascent of Man."
I burnt my copy.
TAFAKSE
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2/28/2008 11:01:11 PM
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The stock market doesn't seem to be rational.
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Bowser
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2/27/2008 5:24:40 PM
Still Bullish
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podrock
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2/28/2008 4:31:46 AM
The market loves rate cuts.
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alcaray
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2/27/2008 5:54:19 PM
At some point, they better quit.
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TB
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2/28/2008 4:26:34 AM
re: Not yet.
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TAFKASE
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2/28/2008 2:38:49 PM
You have a strange love-hate relationship with capitalism.
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alcaray
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2/28/2008 6:13:04 AM
Not really. I just know how it's supposed to work.
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TB
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2/28/2008 7:30:10 AM
People with stashes of $100 dollar bills will be the real losers.
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TAFKASE
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2/28/2008 2:51:31 PM
You imagine that inflation will shoot up?
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alcaray
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2/28/2008 8:10:39 PM
Once capital was invented there have been booms and busts.
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alcaray
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2/28/2008 10:44:26 AM
re: Once capital was invented there have been booms and busts.
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gbaikie
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2/28/2008 11:09:40 AM
Pretty much when coinage was invented.
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alcaray
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2/28/2008 8:08:53 PM
re: Pretty much when coinage was invented.
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gbaikie
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2/29/2008 1:24:55 AM
Why is it that you guys always confuse economics with politics?
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alcaray
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2/29/2008 3:16:54 AM
Because politics and economics are entertwined in a double-helix
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TAFKASE
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2/29/2008 4:41:54 PM
No. They are quite separate.
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alcaray
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2/29/2008 7:49:37 PM
Different subjects: You mean like science and religon?
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TAFKASE
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2/29/2008 11:05:01 PM
Get serious.
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TB
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2/29/2008 8:17:17 PM
It is possible to discuss biology without talking about electron shells.
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alcaray
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3/1/2008 2:24:28 AM
At a 1st grade level maybe.
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Lee
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3/2/2008 8:07:55 AM
What is with the 4 of you?
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alcaray
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3/2/2008 11:53:31 PM
Then stop with the unintelligent comments.
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Lee
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3/3/2008 1:46:27 AM
re: barter
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TB
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3/1/2008 10:38:16 PM
see what I mean?
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alcaray
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3/2/2008 1:57:53 AM
I can't think of a single economic activity that does not involve the govenment in some way...
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TAFKASE
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2/29/2008 11:08:23 PM
About the time someone invented fire.
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TAFKASE
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2/28/2008 2:43:27 PM
Actually, more like the invention of agriculture.
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TB
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2/28/2008 8:47:51 PM
You must be biased against intangible assets!
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TAFKASE
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2/28/2008 10:31:06 PM
Go back and re-read "Ascent of Man."
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TB
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2/28/2008 10:54:32 PM
Not only human behavior. It is the way evolution works as well.
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alcaray
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2/29/2008 3:57:56 AM
I burnt my copy.
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TAFAKSE
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2/28/2008 11:01:11 PM
Avoiding a hangover by staying drunk.
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Bowser
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2/27/2008 9:56:53 PM
Certainly not.
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alcaray
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2/28/2008 3:34:58 AM
Yes, Bernanke's No Greenspan or even Volker.
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marsby
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2/28/2008 2:06:26 AM
You just noticed that?
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TB
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2/27/2008 5:27:52 PM
re: You just noticed that?
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Hans
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2/28/2008 12:13:30 AM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.