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Lecture on executive pay and the crisis

Started by Sheilbh, November 06, 2011, 10:05:05 AM

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Ideologue

#75
November 07, 2011, 08:49:15 PM
Quote from: fahdiz on November 07, 2011, 08:37:32 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 07, 2011, 08:13:52 PM
Would you like to hear my plan for making Social Security solvent? :)

Yes. Does it involve killing a bunch of elderly people?

Not all of them are elderly.
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Razgovory

#76
November 07, 2011, 11:38:43 PM
Quote from: fahdiz on November 07, 2011, 07:54:12 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 07, 2011, 07:36:18 PM
But they still want to put Social Security in the Wall Street Casinos.

Out of curiosity, Raz, what's your plan for making Social Security solvent?

Raise taxes.  Also stop taking money out of it for other stuff.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Tamas

#77
November 08, 2011, 02:37:27 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 07, 2011, 07:36:18 PM
Quote from: DGuller on November 07, 2011, 07:29:08 PM
Yeah, that's what I thought as well, though I wasn't very sure, so I just waited for JR to chime in.  Letting banks invest speculatively with federally insured money is a concept so stupid that even Republicans wouldn't allow it.  Again.  At least for now.

But they still want to put Social Security in the Wall Street Casinos.

:lmfao:

"stock market casinos" was the chief propaganda line for nationalizing the pension funds here. Good going Raz, you have the makings of a populist!

Martinus

#78
November 08, 2011, 04:39:13 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on November 07, 2011, 02:30:20 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on November 07, 2011, 12:50:50 PM
IMO Martinus is right. 
:o
If anything, financial misdeeds have become over-criminalized in the US in recent deeds.

If he had gotten this one wrong we would have known for sure his claim to being a lawyer was more than merely dubious.

And now you can't know for sure again.

I'm a Schroedinger's lawyer.

Martinus

#79
November 08, 2011, 04:41:53 AM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on November 07, 2011, 07:00:46 PM
GLBA allowed the holding companies of deposit-taking banks to do investment banking through non-bank affiliates. 

So it's the gays' fault? :(

The Minsky Moment

#80
November 08, 2011, 10:39:51 AM
Quote from: Martinus on November 08, 2011, 04:41:53 AM
So it's the gays' fault? :(

They made banking too fabulous.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

fhdz

#81
November 08, 2011, 11:08:36 AM
and the horse you rode in on
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