This country would work a lot better if the central government were limited to only those powers enumerated in its constitution.
We tried that. Then we had a civil war, and Mr. Lincoln decided that a too-strong federal government was better than none at all.
Realtors and buyers and auditors were not actually determining the real value of the houses they were trading, but were merely checking to see what everyone else thought the value was. So the result was a spiral of home prices that rose far beyond the true value.
The value of anything is always what everyone else thinks the value is - everything from stocks to houses to cheeseburgers. That's the magic of the economy. If everyone thinks a chicken is worth two loaves of bread, then that's the value of a chicken, by definition. If everyone then decides a chicken is worth three loaves of bread, that becomes the new value. There's no such thing as "true" value, in an objective sense. It's all just make-believe.
Real programmers don't write in BASIC. Actually, no programmers write in BASIC after reaching puberty.
