Just another "attempted terrorist attack" coordinated by our government. I find it hard to believe that a group of rebels on the run from the strongest nation in the world, fighting with antique weapons, and living a meager existence in mountains, are really doing the attacks that have been falsly attributed to them. When we invade New Guinea, we'll probably start seeing terrorists in loin-clothes, wearing white face paint, carrying bows. :roll: ...sounds strikingly similar to the Native Americans that were demonized before they became the most impoverished culture on the planet besides the Haitians, and which are dying at a rate unprecedented.

[QUOTE="Juggernaut140"][QUOTE="Raikoh_"]

I bet he would have sold out to get more fans.

-DirtySanchez-

I'm not a huge fan of Nirvana, and I actually preferred Insesticide and Bleach to Nevermind and In Utero, but I don't think you are in any position to say anything that I should take with more than a grain of salt on the issue of Kurt's death. You nor I really understand what he was going through, and people go through the same trials he went through everyday, some whom take the "losers way out", as you say, but which I prefer not to regard it as. Think about what you say before you say it.

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which I give a 9/10.

[QUOTE="TheAbbeFaria"][QUOTE="coolbeans90"]

Wealth as opposed to less wealth is a good thing. I do not think that countries should be impoverished to encourage it. There were plenty of booms and busts with the gold standard. It is part of the capitalist system. People in Vietnam working for corporations I doubt are worse off than they would be without employment.

What the Fed targets with the money supply, is the price level. Keeping it stable provides a fair amount of predictability, and confidence in the market. Sure, the system is prone human error, but so does every other system.

coolbeans90

Alright, I do not know much latin. I just used a phrase which is commonly used in economics.

I think that priorities can be skewed, while exploitation is an unfavorable outcome, I think that central banks really do not play a role.

The key central bankers are appointed by our elected representatives.

[QUOTE="TheAbbeFaria"][QUOTE="coolbeans90"]

I think that wealth is generally a good thing, ceteris paribus.

I do not think that the exploitation of poorer nations has anything to do with whether or not the Fed should be abolished. But being the one who suggested that it should be, the onus is on you to state why.

coolbeans90

Wealth as opposed to less wealth is a good thing. I do not think that countries should be impoverished to encourage it. There were plenty of booms and busts with the gold standard. It is part of the capitalist system. People in Vietnam working for corporations I doubt are worse off than they would be without employment.

What the Fed targets with the money supply, is the price level. Keeping it stable provides a fair amount of predictability, and confidence in the market. Sure, the system is prone human error, but so does every other system.

[QUOTE="TheAbbeFaria"][QUOTE="coolbeans90"]

As opposed to poor countries dying under the boot of "wealthy empires" without central banks?

coolbeans90

I think that wealth is generally a good thing, ceteris paribus.

I do not think that the exploitation of poorer nations has anything to do with whether or not the Fed should be abolished. But being the one who suggested that it should be, the onus is on you to state why.

[QUOTE="TheAbbeFaria"][QUOTE="coolbeans90"]

Then the status-quo remains. Fine by me.

Countries with central banks are wealthy now.

coolbeans90

As opposed to poor countries dying under the boot of "wealthy empires" without central banks?

[QUOTE="TheAbbeFaria"][QUOTE="coolbeans90"]

I see nothing in your post that indicates that things were better without a central bank, nor that suggests that the Federal Reserve should be replaced. Those "wealthiest empires" would hardly pass as second world modernly.

coolbeans90

Then the status-quo remains. Fine by me.

Countries with central banks are wealthy now.