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oh i see what you mean. i thought you meant the upper class as in rich people holding on to cash but i would argue that the money isn't circulating that much either. so much of it is just sitting as excess reserves accruing the same interest as required reserves. the demand for cash is huge due...

i like the cut of your jib son

some argue that the gold standard is a 'policy straight jacket'. this is demonstrably false. politicians have always reserved the right to suspend convertibility, alter the rates of convertibility, confiscate gold, and accumulate huge debts. well, the gold standard didn't stop queen anne pissing...

so a little harm is okay a little stealing from legitimate copyright holders is okay a little ss-totenkopfverbande is okay so what's your real objection to copyright owners controlling access to their products. is the only reason SOPA and PIPA are bad is because the gubermint is doing it?

do you think the internet should be publicly/commonly/democratically owned though

politicians have more control over a gold standard bro

this is a recognition of a fundamental inequality aboriginals were here first

the 'business interest' rhetoric is a bit off. this isn't about business, this is about copyright holders (businesses just so happen to hold a lot of copyrights). it will empower small and big copyright holders alike. you might also mention how this issue has been framed ('theft of...

not necessarily. it's entirely a thought experiment. and it depends what kind of gold standard anyone means (is it a system with notes 100% backed by a fixed amount of gold, or less?). its more likely to be a mixed metal standard anyways considering gold and silver prices behave differently to...

i think aboriginals are tops

the same style of censorship china utilises on its own citizens, much like fluoridation is the same style of water sanitation china utilises on its own citizens ipso facto fluoridation is bad

nope

you mean like having a great financial crisis instead? america will weaken itself WHEN IT DAMN WELL WANTS YOU ESSAY, YOU ESSAY

no, he wants to make gold and silver legal tender for public-private transactions. he can't do anything about the constitutionality of fiat currency. our current situation is the aberation also he could never make it happen. it'd be like deriding a candidate for endorsing a federally funded...

there has been a clear change in circumstances in the minority government again though (peter slipper)

jolia gizzard is also famous for other commitments such as there will not be car ban tacks under moi government

one does not have the right to dispose of one's property as one sees fit. one has the right to do with one's private property as one sees fit - this entails the freedom to dispose of one's property on one's property without interference. given that disposal cannot completely occur in isolation...

i see what you're saying; either way, huntsman is maneuvering. i just think it's a pretty big move for him to support romney. at the very least it indicates that he thinks romney will be the candidate for 2012, i agree its a bit more of a stretch to imply confidence in romney's loss. i find it...