Essential Economics for Politicians
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I was working with a guy from new england the other day.
He said he left to get away from the shitty weather and all the self important assholes.
Wez
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Lol, I'm sure Lion will be here to give you a crop duster comment any second...
Hüsker Dü
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. . . and he came all that way to end up with "THE" most self important . . . well, you know.
From colonial times until 1800 or so, most mills took advantage of falling water to cut timber, grind grain to flour, grind and polish stone, and run simple industrial processes like extracting starch from grains and vegetables. Towns grew up from New England to Georgia on the fall line, where upland rivers descended to the coastal plain with enough force to turn waterwheels. Some rivers were highly developed after textile spinning machines were invented, such as the Merrimack River that provided the power for the big mill towns of Lowell, Mass and Manchester, NH. The Amoskeag Falls in Manchester were high enough and powerful enough that two ranks of factories used water directed into canals above the falls, the water coming out of the upper rank directed to the mills on the lower rank, each paying the according to the amount of water they used.
As the iron industry grew, smelting furnaces were powered by wood and charcoal. Early steam engines, for steamboats, railroad engines, and stationary factory power where water power was not available, were powered by the wood that was everywhere, an advantage over England and Continental Europe where wood became so scarce that laws restricted the charcoal makers. When coal was first introduced to replace wood powering steam engines, they had to be redesigned to handle the hotter fires and increased steam pressure.
Bruddah IZ
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Snapshot according to your article with 8 of the 10 top causes of death trending down....in America
from the article :
"One year does not form a trend," said Dr. Jiaquan Xu, an epidemiologist with the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.
Hüsker Dü
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Talk about cherry picking something without context.
Bruddah IZ
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Thatʻs what your article did.
Thanks rat.
Wez
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Arrogant Elitist.
Bruddah IZ
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You know all about cherry picking...
Apparently you didn't entirely read or comprehend the article. The sky is not falling.
"One year does not form a trend," said Dr. Jiaquan Xu, an epidemiologist with the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. "We need more data. If you look back to 1993, it decreased but hasn't decreased again (until now). Hopefully, that's what we're seeing here."
Xu, the report's lead author, said preliminary data from the second quarter of this year show further declines in eight of the top 10 causes of death, compared with the first quarter of 2016. He declined to recommend specific policy changes but said "everybody should do their part" to reverse this downturn.
The biggest takeaway: Heart disease and cancer are still far and away the top killers of both men and women. The good news is that there are three things you can do to drastically reduce your risk of developing both: eat right, exercise and don't smoke.
It sounds like simple advice, but it's easier said than done. Follow it, and you may exceed expectations when it comes to your projected lifespan.
Sounds like Boston, or anyplace in Connecticut except Groton and New London.
Bruddah IZ
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Interest rates are prices. They impart information. They tell a business person whether or not to undertake a certain capital investment. They measure financial risk. They translate the value of future cash flows into present-day dollars. Manipulate those prices — as central banks the world over compulsively do — and you distort information, therefore perception and judgment.
Interest rates ought to be discovered in the market, not administered from on high. They can’t do their essential work if someone, say a central bank, is muscling them around. Let’s get the central banks out of the business of using interest rates — and stock prices and exchange rates, too – as instruments of national policy. Today, investors live in a hall of mirrors: They don’t know which values are real and which are distorted by monetary manipulation. Market-determined rates will help restore clarity.--http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441128/james-grant-monetary-manipulation-must-end
Interest rates ought to be discovered in the market, not administered from on high. They can’t do their essential work if someone, say a central bank, is muscling them around. Let’s get the central banks out of the business of using interest rates — and stock prices and exchange rates, too – as instruments of national policy. Today, investors live in a hall of mirrors: They don’t know which values are real and which are distorted by monetary manipulation. Market-determined rates will help restore clarity.--http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441128/james-grant-monetary-manipulation-must-end