Funny that you would post this on an article about bubbles. Real estate is like free money!!! Not realizing how highly you are levering yourself to expose yourself to a single asset class is a recipe for disaster.

Not to mention that most landlords lose money.

This is how most bills are written. That is not a cynical but rather purely factual statement. The shock and surprise on TPP just makes you look ignorant.

"personal" and "responsibility"

I'm not new here, as I'm sure you know. You said that for effect and to be true in spirit, not because you believed it literally to be true in every respect.

Follow me so far?

Great, now apply the same understanding to my original post. Slashdot leans heavily in support of subsidized technology spending, green or otherwise, and now there are a bunch of clowns complaining about the subsidies being used.

When the left talks about austerity, they are referring to increasing deficit spending a little more slowly than originally planned. YoY govt spending growth of +3% when the plan was 3.3% is austerity in their warped minds.

Dude, come on. Note how you had to say "spend money on productive economic projects". Of course it would be beneficial to spend money on things that are productive. That is circular logic. The problem is that government has an extremely poor track record of doing this, because it requires central planning.

Your attempts at convincing yourself you're highly intelligent are incredibly boring and I have lost interest.

Good lord. Nobody gives a f about one terrorist. The target was the command and control center. Collateral damage? I get so tired of this kind of BS comment that comes from zero details in the story and is also incredibly unlikely given its a command and control center (unless they are intentionally using human shields or trying to look like a civilian building). No, it didn't come from any facts in the story. It came purely from your unrealistic personal worldview.

Would read again!!! You totally destroyed all those nonexistent people arguing that technology will take bad education and make it good education.

Most people in EdTech are major supporters of reform and are hoping their technology helps enable that reform. Nobody is thinking their technology fixed education absent reform.

Great service. I would tip Showtime but as it turns out I only have $100 bills. I'll get you next time.

You all supported creating these idiotic subsidy programs to encourage businesses to do certain behaviors. Then you act shocked that certain businesses do certain behaviors in order to take advantage of the subsidies? And have some underlying tone implying there is something nefarious about this? #REF!

There is no free lunch

Call me when someone is offering genetic testing with some consequence to them if they get it wrong. Until then, this should be treated as if it were a scam.

You seem to have wandered off somewhere that has nothing to do with this conversation. I am not interested in your opinions about the best country to live in. In support freedom to choose where you live and reduction of all barriers, to the extent possible, in the way of you choosing where you live. The safety net provided by Germany has nothing to do with this. I claimed that the min wage reduced output and increases unemployment. You said the opposite. I asked how you would explain per capita GDP, a measure of output, being higher when min wage is lower. I asked how you would explain unemployment rate being lower when min wage is lower. These are two results directly in conflict with your assertion. You ignored both points in your response and instead essentially said these things are okay because of a better safety net. That is a non sequitur and I am not really interested.

Peer-to-peer communication... Like prices? This is just getting funny. You keep insisting you have some novel perspective and all you do is make an argument for why free and competitive markets are the utopia you seek. You are an example of what I see so frequently, which is someone who understands markets very well as far as what needs to exist to function well, yet has no idea that markets actually provide all those requirements already, if left alone.