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Economy Title: A very secret agent There is a charade playing out in Washington at the moment in respect of the completely meaningless "debt ceiling" which the US maintains as a relic from the days of the gold standard. We are told that at the US Treasury's account at the Federal Reserve Bank there will soon be no more taxpayers' dollars, and therefore the Fed will soon be unable to make any more payments or issue any more cheques on behalf of the Treasury. The money has run out. This is nonsense. It is a myth, and moreover it is a myth that Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke exploded in his recent testimony to a US congressional committee. Asia Times">Click for Full Text! Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 33. #3. To: Badeye, A K A Stone, hondo68, Fred Mertz, Godwinson, go65, war, no gnu taxes, Skip Intro, ferret mike, jwpegler, brian s, mcgowanjm, Capitalist Eric, Mininggold (#0) The debt ceiling is a myth because there is no need to borrow to finance public expenditure and the creation of public assets. As Ron Paul points out, the Fed - which is ludicrously receiving interest from the Treasury in order to pay it right back again as profit - could actually waive or tear up the US$1.6 trillion Treasury debt it has bought through quantitative easing (QE), and it would make precisely no difference other than to reduce the National Debt at a stroke by that amount.
#18. To: lucysmom (#3) "...all of the equations in neoclassical economics are rubbish. The differential equations describe nothing. Economics is not about mathematics, it is about the human being." Sandeep Jaitly The fact that you not only accept such nonsense as truth,but even think it is profound truth says a lot about you. What next,"Engineering ain't about building a safe airplane,it's about the people who fly in the plane. If it gets off the ground."?
#22. To: sneakypete (#18) What next,"Engineering ain't about building a safe airplane,it's about the people who fly in the plane. If it gets off the ground."? Economics is one of the "soft" social sciences. It is by definition, about human behavior. Engineering is a "hard" physical science. It is about stuff and how stuff works. Human beings can discover how stuff works and use that information to design lots of products that human beings use, but it isn't about human behavior.
#32. To: lucysmom (#22) (Edited) It is by definition, about human behavior. No,it is about numbers. If it were about human behavior,it would be called sociology.
#33. To: sneakypete (#32) If it were about human behavior,it would be called sociology. Economics is a social science. Definition of ECONOMICS
a: a social science concerned chiefly with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services
Replies to Comment # 33. a: a social science concerned chiefly with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services You must be promoting slavery.
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