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If nothing can be known for certain then "Nothing can be known for certain" is known. It is a self-contradicting position.

If the position is legitimate, than at least one thing can be known for certain.

Where is inflation figured in? With inflation at 5%, this completely destroys the figure. There is a benefit to having freed up capital ,

@invisobill808 Really? How do you know that awLaki was guilty of anything without having a trial...because the government said so? You should read the 5th amendment again.

For all of you who don't know what the repeating in unison is about, that is their PA system. Megaphones are not allowed, so by the crowd repeating what is said, more people can hear.

@NobleHam The Fed has a great deal to do with the debt and deficits. They are the enablers. Recently it was revealed that the Federal Reserve purchased over 75% of T-bills at auction. It is because the Fed is buying the bonds that interest rates are staying low. If the Fed was not pushing int...

Your argument against deflationary effects on investments ignores a major point - the money you are returned will buy more. It seems you are treating dollars nominally, rather than in respects to purchasing power. A smaller return during widespread price deflation can still generate a higher rea...

Aren't ideas outside space and time? Defining space as the three physical dimensions, and time as the order of events occurring, it seems very clear that things exist outside of this. Ideas may originate during a particular time, but their after their origination, what real 4-dimensional constr...

Bob, when you talk about the money supply versus money stock, under a gold standard, money supply seems like it would actually be an adequate description. In the sense that once the value of gold breaks a certain level, like any other raw material, it becomes more economical to produce. It woul...

Your observation that private armies may devolve into a "state", defined as a monopoly on the use of force is insightful, and quite thought provoking.

However, absent of the initiation of force, how can it be said that individuals (or private contractors they may hire) have a monopoly on force? ...

@ohlukkyman There is no causation between inflation and employment, as the Phillips Curve would have you believe.

The entire Phillips curve is a load of rubbish that needs to be thrown out with the rest of the Keynesian nonsense.

@eqsmooth What about human freedom? Is that irrelevant?

Classifying FDR as a "great President" is absurd, unless you mean it in the strain of Alexander the Great. What other President caused an economic downturn to span decades?

@wntoply6 Governments are qualified to decide when life begins or ends?

You can't really believe that.

Wasn't this disproven by the 1970's stagflation? There are also historical examples in the 1880s of falling prices with high employment levels (Americas Gilded Age).

How is the premise that inflation and unemployment being mutual exclusive hold true then?

Really? Terrorists are outpacing the FBI with twitter and Facebook? I call shenanigans.

How much of what you have attributed to the original skunk smell is due to the volatization of the hop oils? Many attributes of the aroma are very volatile. The aroma should dissipate quickly. In place of that, you may be smelling off-notes from the yeast. Additionally, the malt may play a la...