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They probably spent the bulk of their myst/riven fortune on Uru (a puzzle solving MMO, a year before World of Warcraft). It was bold and a very cool idea but didn't work out. They …

Thanks for replying in good faith, that's not usual in this day and age. In the US, the economic left is a minority wing of the Democratic party. Neoliberals are the majority and h…

Tilting the scale towards capital is a good idea when capital is the limiting factor on economic growth. A dollar invested rather than consumed brings two dollars in a few years ti…

Ah, the "let them eat iPhones" argument. No, cool tech does not make up for the ruinous cost of health care, housing, and education vs median wages. Maslow's Hierarchy still exists…

It mischaracterizes the mask but accurately describes the face beneath it.

In r>g world, this is cosmically incorrect.

Yeah, but that's hard. Taking lunch money from the poors is much easier.

"Grow the pie" is the phrase used by proponents, because they understand that "trickle down" invites uncomfortable discussions about "are you sure this will actually help me" while…

I'll pick up the conversation if GP won't (GP = grand parent, your post is the parent of mine and the post above is the grandparent of mine). You're missing the forest for the tree…

No, no such thing, only a hundred spectacularly regressive tax, trade, and benefit decisions sold on promises of growth that would supposedly benefit everyone and then didn't. Tota…

"Supply-side economics" is a technocratic rebranding of trickle-down economics, adding just enough nuance to force the draw rhetorically while advocating policy that is completely …

So you're saying that when the Fox News talking head drags out the Laffer Curve to smuggle into the conversation the assumption that the next round of tax cuts for billionaires wil…

If only big players had KPIs like us little folks! r>g is close to a complete debunk of the trickle-down narrative, today and through history, and it's a remarkably sturdy result.

Those are both capital tax cuts. The hikes on labor come later, when the debt needs to be paid and Democrats are once again tricked into being fiscally responsible.

Exactly: in political rhetoric, the Laffer Curve is 5% an honest examination of tax tradeoffs and 95% a trojan horse designed to smuggle into the conversation the assumption that w…

OBBB Opportunity Zones? Bonus depreciation? If you are unfamiliar with these or their applications to tax avoidance, you are outing yourself as a wagie running defense for your eco…

I've been reading about the US progressive era of 100 years ago and I am seeing from Robber Barons many of the same arguments that I heard growing up from my Reagan-worshipping par…

You're right, it's not one lie, it's a pack of lies, trotted out every time congress needs to justify another capital gains tax cut or rationalize why the next tax hike needs to ta…

When what happened to the luddites happens to you, you'll understand.

The jobs numbers are notoriously laggy. On the way up, lag means constant upwards revisions. On the way down, lag means constant downwards revisions. ADP Payrolls are a lower laten…

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Louis Brandeis would like a word. In particular: no, the fact that tech advances and economies of scale dropped oil prices at the same time Rockefeller was building his monopoly do…

American Labor: + cheap iPhones, - jobs American Capital: +++++++++ money America: ------- industry Behold the responsible economic management.