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> Venezuela has a legitimate elected president You mean an illegitimate president: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_presidential_electi... . > Brazil ousted a honest one Yo…

Antimatter has opposite charge, not opposite mass. Antimatter is not antigravity.

Which comment do you consider incendiary? And two can play that game. Judging by your incendiary comment history on your account, why should I believe your question is in good fait…

> What entitles companies to hire cheap labor anyway? What entitles you to decide what labor companies hire?

Why do you think U.S. government healthcare spending would decrease if it had to cover more people?

> The US spends a disproportionate amount on healthcare because its system is privatized. Healthcare is cheaper relative to the degree of nationalization, as your own data shows. S…

> There isn't "still" slack, the slack is growing as the laborforce participation rate is lower today than it was in 2013. The labor force participation rate is currently about 62.…

> That’s the reality of privatized healthcare. What makes you say this a problem with "privatized healthcare" rather than a systemic problem with how it works in the U.S.?

How is that an "indictment" of "the capitalist system"?

Interesting that you mention that. Relative to the size of its wealth, the U.S. spends a disproportionate amount on health care. Even as a high income country, the U.S. spends more…

The same article the GGP linked to explains why wages haven’t grown as quickly: Economists believe that the unemployment rate can dip even further because there's still slack in th…

> Not the parent, but how about all of Western Europe? You're going to have to be more specific. What about "all of Western Europe"? > As much as economics wants to tout itself as …

> Chavez and Maduro are not leftist. Are you serious? Do you know anything about the beloved "Bolivarian Revolution" and its policies?

> More than half of the country support the government Please provide a credible source for this claim.

> Brazil is a real dictatorship, Venezuela isn't What's your evidence for this outrageous claim?

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One of the most important lessons of economics is that “good intent” does not always mean “good results”. Do you have any reason to believe that higher taxes and spending will lead…

> taxes and regulation are substantially lower than periods of broader prosperity Source?

> first thing that came to mind was how anti-communism played out in vietnam, chicago boys of chile, and the contras in nicaragua What does this have to do with the Chicago school …

> Lowest unemployment rate since 1969 > an indicator that our current ideology... is broken Read the very article you linked to: The jobless rate ticked down to 3.8% in May, anothe…

How is this relevant to my question? This is a classic case of "I'm going to cite bad statistics and blame X without explaining its causal relevance or why not-X would be better."

> I meant counting in the broadest sense, which is where numbers themselves emerge from. Are you asking how define quantity without quantity? Also, I think it's fair to say there a…

Just wanted to say there's nothing wrong or embarrassing about sharing our mistakes. Take heart in the likelihood that, by sharing this, you've probably saved a reader from a simil…

Why is this (or the demo I linked to earlier) not a satisfactory representation? https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-1ab704621d3c845630ab6f... .