ROFL.

What a strawman. Which hypothetical investment banker will take Uber and what happened to his limousine and private driver?

Unless they intend to get forgiveness... or default. I am not sure that Greece is "too big to fail" where they can do that.

It is. EU is not a nation, it's a collection of nations, and "European identity" is weak at best. Anti-EU movements are already growing, and won't have any trouble taking power if it starts to look like EU is a threat to the nations people actually identity with.

Because other people will pay for your desire.

Economists are big fans of auctions and say that's the most fair method to distribute resources. Economists, however, are not known for taking social, cultural or human values into account in their simple models.

So yes, I would. Man, it really isn't so difficult. Get some history lessons on when and why the taxi business became regulated.

Ah, Americans and their "mammoth snowstorms" - try living on a rock in the middle of the North Atlantic. You know what we call a snowstorm with gale-force winds and copious precipitation? Tuesday ;) Our last one was... let's see, all weekend. The northwest gets hit by another gale-force storm tomorrow. The southeast is predicted to get hurricane-force winds on Thursday morning.

Here's what the job of someone dispatched to maintain antennae for air traffic control services has to deal with here. ;) (those are guy wires)

This certainly explains the observed tendency of economies to collapse randomly no matter how they're run.

However, unlike in game economies, decisions in real economies affect people in addition to economy. Even if austerity actually was a cure to euro's problems, it cannot continue without destroying EU itself. People aren't going to tolerate endless misery just to boost some number, no matter how necessary politicians (who don't share the misery) deem it.

Either EU gets euro to work without austerity, or it has to abandon it. Demanding sacrifices from the common people who's reward is having less say in their own local affairs is quickly discrediting the entire union.

The factor that limits the number of cabs on the street is not the willingness of cab drivers to work, it's the number of medallions the City issues. If they wanted more cabs, they could just issue more mediallions.

The main problem with that is that the (public) streets have limited capacity, and more cabs would cause more traffic jams, with the end result that nobody could get through the (public) streets. I know that every day at 6pm 9th Avenue is jammed with bumper-to-bumper traffic, and I can walk faster than a cab.

Or have you considered that the AG office understands basic economics and realizes that these claims of shortages unless we have surge pricing are bullshit?

I love the pharmaceutical companies that sell their cancer drugs for $100,000 a year, and say, "This is value pricing. This is what your life is worth."

Even when the original research for the drug was done by academic researchers with federal government grants. Even when they sell the same drug for half the price to national health care systems in Canada, England, and other places where the government is a tough negotiator.

I've gotten cabs in blizzards in New York City just like any other days. There are lots of cab drivers willing to drive in any weather for $25-30 an hour.

My friends from Michigan tell me that a major storm in New York City is like their daily commute to work in Ann Arbor in winter.

I see people who act like mindless robots when it comes to politics,

"Act like mindless robots" is a bit vague. Can you detail what it entails and how you've studied it?

You did actually study the reasoning behind political behaviour and not just conclude that because your candidate lost, people must be idiots?

fail to understand mathematics, believe in magical sky daddies for which there is no evidence,

People typically hold metaphysical positions based on personal subjective experience and channel these through whatever cultural imagery is available. Obnoxious as the result can be, the strawman of "magical sky fairy" has nothing to do with it.

and do all sorts of other tremendously illogical and irrational things despite the education we attempt to give them; that makes me conclude that most people are hopeless.

Illogical, such as jumping to conclusions the evidence does not warrant? Given the rather obviously non-sequiter nature of ("There exist education that isn't working, therefore no education can") I can only assume you're holding it for irrational reasons, such as egomania.

Trying to psychoanalyze other people over the Internet just makes you look like an idiot in my eyes. It isn't even relevant to the conversation.

...This one's so obvious I'm not even going to bother.

From what I heard on the radio, it sounds as if the cops will enforce the ban with discretion. If you're driving to the hospital in an emergency, they'll let you go. If you're a cop or a doctor getting to his job, they'll let you go. Otherwise, there's a fine of about $1,000.

The risks and hazards of driving in bad weather are part of the job, and no big deal. If the risks were too great the police would close the roads. There are plenty of cab drivers who are willing to drive in the snow for $25 or $30 an hour. They have plenty of drivers driving snow plows.

And if there are hazards to driving in bad weather, who would you rather drive you -- a cab driver who's been driving in all kinds of weather for 60 hours a week, for 20 years, or some kid who's doing it a couple of hours a month in his free time?