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creeper1
Joined: 30 Jan 2007
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 Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 7:42 am Post subject: Nassim Taleb - His views on US election. |
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Here is Nassim Taleb's thoughts on the American elections.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6s8a6H7Qts
I think Nassim Taleb knows his stuff. I read his stuff. He is a good thinker.
I'm not a US citizen and have no right to vote but anyway I still find this mildly interesting.
And I have to say I'd like to see Obama get a fright. |
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slothrop
Joined: 03 Feb 2003
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Gorf
Joined: 25 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:19 am Post subject: |
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Supports Ron Paul? Instantly discredited. Anyone who supports that racist loon dismantling everything that people like about America is a moron.
Derrrrrp |
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fermentation
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Too bad Paul doesn't have a chance. Doesn't matter how many delegates he wins, to the establishment, he'll always be "unelectable." |
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tideout
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:32 am Post subject: |
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I read Black Swan and thought it was incredibly interesting.
Having said that, I can't tell whether he's a genius or just making the sh*t up as he goes.
On yet another contradictory note - Ron Paul seems to correctly diagnose the problems and then comes up with "fixes" that are so weird you wonder how he got elected. His son is a fruitcake. |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 8:47 am Post subject: |
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| tideout wrote: |
I read Black Swan and thought it was incredibly interesting.
Having said that, I can't tell whether he's a genius or just making the sh*t up as he goes.
On yet another contradictory note - Ron Paul seems to correctly diagnose the problems and then comes up with "fixes" that are so weird you wonder how he got elected. His son is a fruitcake. |
Ron Paul and his son understand economics. There are few that do, including most people who pretend to be economists and pretend to teach economics.
As a result, Ron Paul is one of the few who is able to correctly diagnose America's problems and one of the few who has been able to predict the bubbles and cycles in the economy that have been caused by the government and the Federal Reserve.
His solutions are weird because they are also based on the laws of economics and the principles of liberty, something that the others don't understand or follow. However, Ron Paul's solutions, and his son's are essentially the same, are the only ones that will actually work. |
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slothrop
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fermentation
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
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I don't get what's so "Crazy" about Paul. He's the only one who talks about cutting deficits dramatically, cutting needless government programs/agencies, against going to another war, and against ending the failing War on Drugs that disproportionally targets blacks. Yet he's the crazy racist?
Sure, I don't agree with everything he says but he seems like the only sane candidate out there. Or at least actually believes in what he's saying. Taleb makes a good point. From a practical economic standpoint, Paul seems like best choice. As far as I could tell, America is going to get more of the same from Romney and Obama. |
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tideout
Joined: 12 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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I don't get what's so "Crazy" about Paul. He's the only one who talks about cutting deficits dramatically, cutting needless government programs/agencies, against going to another war, and against ending the failing War on Drugs that disproportionally targets blacks. Yet he's the crazy racist?
Sure, I don't agree with everything he says but he seems like the only sane candidate out there. Or at least actually believes in what he's saying. Taleb makes a good point. From a practical economic standpoint, Paul seems like best choice. As far as I could tell, America is going to get more of the same from Romney and Obama. |
I actually agree with much of what Ron Paul says. I was fairly hopeful when he and Bernie Sanders were on TV together addressing whether or not they'd form a 3rd party. Apparently that idea went out the door?
Ending the war on drugs is 30 years late. I've been against almost every military operation we've pulled since 9-11. I never said he was a racist. Maybe he gets accused of that? Honestly, just don't know.
There are plenty of people talking about "cutting deficits" and "austerity" and there are a number of ideas about how to do that. What do you cut? What do you spend money on? Honestly, simple "austerity" looks like it's failing on a large scale in a lot of countries.
I'm sorry I don't have the link at the moment but I just came across a report/graph on development vs. austerity for a wide range of countries - Chile to Indonesia, Poland etc.. It may have been from the UN or the OECD. Virtually all of the countries with serious drops in employment, job creation - informal & formal are on austerity measures. The countries that have invested in infrastructure and re-tooling industry have all shown employment gains.
So, anyone (not directed at R.Paul spec.) w/out more than the mantra of austerity is hard to take seriously.
Ron Paul's the only Republican I could conceive of voting for and I think I'm pretty much down to Bernie Sanders on the Dem side. I think I'll be throwing away my vote on a 3rd party this coming election.
I think we agree on more things than not but we certainly agree that no one as interesting as Paul or Sanders will get a serious look in our election process.  |
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fermentation
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
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Paul has been accused of being racist multiple times by the media because of his newsletters back in the 80s despite him addressing that issue several times. Yet some people still think he's racist. The guy acknowledged the newsletters, took responsibility for it and disowned it.
Even if he's racist, it still wouldn't matter because his policies and principles would actually be beneficial to racial minorities and all individuals. If his personal beliefs on race really matters, then a non-Christian shouldn't vote for any American candidate. Paul isn't going to make America a racist nation no more than Romney is going to make it a Mormon nation.
If I were American I'd vote for Paul or Libertarian. Too bad Korea doesn't have a candidate worth looking at. |
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