Well, again that seems simplistic to me. Keynes said you could just bury money in the ground and let people dig it up, and it'd have a stimulative effect, and I'm sure that's true. But I do think it makes a difference what you spend money on. The government should spend money on things like infrastructure that improve private sector productivity when the economy turns around.

That is pretty much Keynes' point. Digging up money in jars (an analogy to mining gold for money - a similarly pointless exercise) would be better than nothing because it would create a stimulatory result, but a much smarter use of that same labour would be to do something useful like, say, building houses.

What's bizzare is watching all these economists try to come up with theories about why wages aren't going up during full employment. A few are finally saying "Unions are dead so workers have no bargaining power" but _very_ few.

Well, if there really was full employment, the lack of unions wouldn't be particularly important.

The real reason is because the economy isn't anywhere close to full employment.

LOL.

Boring propaganda is boring.

âoeInvestmentsâ come out of revenue before it is taxed. You donâ(TM)t get taxed âoeinvestingâ in your business.

The problem is, most every country other than the US recognizes that receiving tax revenue is a good thing, and having people invest in factories, fabs, etc is good for your country. As Barak Obama said "if you want people to do less of something, tax it". The US taxes investment. They have high taxes on factories, fabs, development centers - companies - because apparently they want people to do less building of companies in the US. Other countries aren't so stupid. They WANT companies like Dell, Google, and Apple to put their operations in their countries, so they don't tax the hell of that like the US does.

Aren't taxes on profits ?

There's a massive oversupply of labour and not enough jobs.

So employers use degrees (or lack thereof) as a quick way to cull the applicant list for the few jobs they do advertise.

Nobody disagrees the Earth will make it through this.

It's modern human society we're less confident of.

Wage transparency is bad for everyone.

Wage transparency is good for employees and bad for employers (because it means they are dealing with employees more as a group than individuals).

Your definition of "left" and "right" seem diametrically opposed to reality. Are you a Libertarian ?

No really, this question is beyond stupid. It's obviously because someone still needs it for old hardware. They wouldn't bother selling it if nobody was buying.

If you want to see a trailer that does deserve nomination, you should look at the trailer for Crawl. Excellent voice acting and writing, and it describes the game really well.

Apple has been trying to belittle its opponents since the beginning. It's how they roll. Just look at the old mac vs pc commercials. I have to agree though, the days of innovation at Apple are dead under Cook's leadership. When your best idea is removing features, it's time to rethink your strategy.

Finally, someone who gets it. It's funny how libs are always screaming to censor people's thoughts and ideas, but when someone censors them they scream bloody murder.

This statement is incredibly dumb. Trump is independently wealthy already, what exactly makes you think he needs to be on anyone's payroll? One of the points in favor of Trump was that he didn't need to suck on anyone's teat for a payday. Yet, far left supporters seem to think it's the only reason he's there even though that argument makes no sense whatsoever. It's just grasping at straws.

There's still no evidence the Russians were even involved. This is what really irritates me - not that it may or may not have been Russians, but that with zero conclusive evidence you've already made up your mind that you know who the bad guy is. What this says to me is that you're a proponent of the far left, which is just as bad if not worse than the far right. You have your head so far up your own ass that you're trying to use hyperbole as facts.

Did the Russians hack, or at the very least attempt to hack the election? It's possible, but we don't really know. Even if we had something conclusive in that direction we don't know what the motive was, or if it was government sponsored or just some guys doing it for the lulz. We have some IPs and a time of day but any junior network technician can tell you that isn't really actionable evidence because it's possible to proxy yourself around the world in order to hide your true origin. The only thing we've got right now is a potential lead. If you're truly interested in facts then you have to stop letting emotion dictate your conclusion and start allowing the collected intelligence tell you the story. Right now, the story barely fits in a paragraph.

Twitter used to be about the free exchange of ideas and thoughts. Now it's an SJW infested viper pit where the slightest deviation from SJW opinion is banned. Twitter forgot their original mission and is suffering as a result. If they can't figure out what their users actually want they don't deserve to survive.