Fascist: someone one millimetre to the right of a Leftist.
jgh
1 year ago
Markets don’t create problems, *people* do. People who refuse to acknowledge that the universe runs on its rules, not their feelz.
jgh
1 year ago
Silke: Yea Glod! Are the Germans really that imbecelic? Defying gravity by dictat and information gathering? Any profit you make more than before will be confiscated by the state? Come back Erich Honecker.
BniC
1 year ago
Wasn’t it Dylan Thomas described an alcoholic as someone you didn’t like that drank more than you
The operative piece was someone you didn’t like
The Meissen Bison
1 year ago
jgh – why invoke the shade of Erich Honecker or even Walter Ulbricht when there’s Lauterbach and Habeck?
Steve
1 year ago
jgh – I know that, you know that, and no doubt Joe Stiglitz knows that also.
But he’s the same Nobel Prize winning shameless huckster who, in the very same interview, deliberately implied Net Zero would save us money.
Mr Stiglitz’s professed beliefs are the most expensive luxury beliefs. Western Civ is being done in by the insincere inanities of its public figures. It’s all rather unreasonable.
Marius
1 year ago
I confess it is amazing how little difference there is between the thoughts of Stiglitz and Spud.
One of you lurkers on his site ought to tell him this, “Richard, was prof. Stigliz an influence on your thinking?’ just to add a little bit of resentment to the pile.
RichardT
1 year ago
BniC said:
“Wasn’t it Dylan Thomas described an alcoholic as someone you didn’t like that drank more than you”
The old definition was someone who drinks more than their doctor.
RichardT
1 year ago
Marius said:
”I confess it is amazing how little difference there is between the thoughts of Stiglitz and Spud. One of you lurkers on his site ought to tell him this, “Richard, was prof. Stigliz an influence on your thinking?’ just to add a little bit of resentment to the pile.”
I don’t expect it will get through his arrogance; he’ll just claim it was he who influenced Stig.
As a former government bureaucrat I always liked markets.
They meant someone other than me was doing the work.
Progressive: Someone who thinks markets acting in a manner they don’t like is the result of a giant capitalist/corporatist/Jewish conspiracy.
Socialist: Someone who thinks markets acting in a manner they don’t like is the result of a giant capitalist/corporatist/Jewish conspiracy.
Communist: Someone who thinks markets acting in a manner they don’t like is the result of a giant capitalist/corporatist/Jewish conspiracy.
Nazi: Someone who thinks markets acting in a manner they don’t like is the result of a giant capitalist/corporatist/Jewish conspiracy.
“Markets are very good at creating crises and problems, but often they can’t solve the problems they’ve created.”
–Nobel Prize winning compulsive liar Joe Stiglitz.
Richard Murphy: an irascible, delusional, and self-important tw@t or cvnt,
I think this is somewhat connected to this topic:
https://www-welt-de.translate.goog/politik/deutschland/article251420972/Gestiegene-Lebenshaltungskosten-Linke-will-Teuerung-mit-Preisbehoerde-bremsen.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Fascist: someone one millimetre to the right of a Leftist.
Markets don’t create problems, *people* do. People who refuse to acknowledge that the universe runs on its rules, not their feelz.
Silke: Yea Glod! Are the Germans really that imbecelic? Defying gravity by dictat and information gathering? Any profit you make more than before will be confiscated by the state? Come back Erich Honecker.
Wasn’t it Dylan Thomas described an alcoholic as someone you didn’t like that drank more than you
The operative piece was someone you didn’t like
jgh – why invoke the shade of Erich Honecker or even Walter Ulbricht when there’s Lauterbach and Habeck?
jgh – I know that, you know that, and no doubt Joe Stiglitz knows that also.
But he’s the same Nobel Prize winning shameless huckster who, in the very same interview, deliberately implied Net Zero would save us money.
Mr Stiglitz’s professed beliefs are the most expensive luxury beliefs. Western Civ is being done in by the insincere inanities of its public figures. It’s all rather unreasonable.
I confess it is amazing how little difference there is between the thoughts of Stiglitz and Spud.
One of you lurkers on his site ought to tell him this, “Richard, was prof. Stigliz an influence on your thinking?’ just to add a little bit of resentment to the pile.
BniC said:
“Wasn’t it Dylan Thomas described an alcoholic as someone you didn’t like that drank more than you”
The old definition was someone who drinks more than their doctor.
Marius said:
”I confess it is amazing how little difference there is between the thoughts of Stiglitz and Spud. One of you lurkers on his site ought to tell him this, “Richard, was prof. Stigliz an influence on your thinking?’ just to add a little bit of resentment to the pile.”
I don’t expect it will get through his arrogance; he’ll just claim it was he who influenced Stig.