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Re: One Night of Romance

RogerMexico — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:31:54 -0000

Fucking A right. Obama deserved to win, but we truly need to remember that we are a free people whose ultimate destiny lies in our own, individual choices. Best of luck, President-elect Obama.

Re: Getting the Numbers Right

RogerMexico — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:29:28 -0000

Anyone know the extent to which GM has filled the UAW trust fund, and what their remaining obligation is?

Re: Look On the Bright Side of Strife

RogerMexico — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:18:48 -0000

I agree that the fixation on Wall St is all out of proportion. But I do think that financial markets' performance has a huge impact on the "real" economy, primarily through credit. I'm no expert, but it strikes me that the full effect of the credit crunch may not be showing up in the data yet: economic news from month to month still seems to be trending solids downwards. I just saw on Calculated Risk for example that the non-manufacturing sector of the economy contracted 7% in November. Ouch.

Mulligan seems to point mostly towards historical trends of dissociation between Wall St and the rest of the economy, but the current crisis is substantially different - because of the credit effects - from most stock-market downturns or general recessions. Not by any means an expert, but that's my $0.02.

Re: Winning the debate

RogerMexico — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:13:13 -0000

Every time I start to become convinced that libertarians are the rational and objective creatures they claim to be, I am brought back from the brink by remembering one thing: their religious insistence that science must be rejected whenever it leads to certain policy implications.

Re: Winning the debate

RogerMexico — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:00:18 -0000

vidyohs,

The science would be every single peer-reviewed academic paper published on the subject. It would be the extraordinarily simple-to-understand mechanism by which carbon emissions raise the global mean temperature. It would be the obvious implications of those temperature rises, in the range they are projected to reach.

Your comments here, with their ultra-narrow focus on pollution that you, personally, have witnessed, are very telling: you are clearly not capable of looking beyond anecdotal evidence at the big picture. I have many political sympathies with libertarians, but their glib dismissal of the scientific method (when it suits their ends) is a fatal flaw.

Re: Latest visit to Kareem in prison

RogerMexico — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:33:25 -0000

Very inspirational site. Best of luck to you and Kareem, and all of Egypt.