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Corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation

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Re: Corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation

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DropInIn wrote: post #464
ETH_start wrote: post #461

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>>Plenty of nation that are not lawless but are effectively unregulated in the matters being discussed. I think you have basic misunderstandings of economic concepts and the state of the world economy. Can you provide an example of poorly performing economies which "are not lawless but are effectively unregulated in the matters being discussed"?

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You're moving the goalposts, while launching a torrent of insults without provocation.

You wrote:

>>>>How are the citizens in the least regulated doing on that front?

Now you're noting that some countries don't have specific workplace condition mandates. Not having said law doesn't mean they meet the ideals noted, of having laws establishing a free market, while lacking regulations that restrict voluntary exchange. To elaborate: in order to prove classical economists' and libertarians' claims about the free market being optimal are wrong, you'd have to show far more than these cherry-picked examples.

Your argument is sloppy, and when I request for more vigor, you lash out to create a flame war. This is not intellectual or scientific.

I'm absolutely justified in demanding you support your claims with evidence, and your belligerent responses are not justified, no matter how morally superior you believe yourself to be.

Re: Corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation

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Post by DropInIn »

ETH_start wrote: post #471
DropInIn wrote: post #464

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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You're moving the goalposts, while launching a torrent of insults without provocation. You wrote: >>>>How are the citizens in the least regulated doing on that front? Now you're noting that some countries don't have specific workplace condition mandates. Not having said law doesn't mean they meet the ideals noted, of having laws establishing a free market, while lacking regulations that restrict voluntary exchange. T…

Now you're being disingenuous, framing an answer to your explicit query as anything other than that.

You said "Can you provide an example of poorly performing economies which "are not lawless but are effectively unregulated in the matters being discussed"?" And that's what I was replying to.

I provided an entire class of people who are harmed in such nations, of which too many exist.

Just because they don't share your preferences doesn't change the fact they meet the criteria you set forth.

Re: Corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation

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Post by DropInIn »

ETH_start wrote: post #470
DropInIn wrote: post #465

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And Sealioning is in action, and thus so is Poe's law. No reasonable person could believe you're acting in good faith, right? Really...

I don't see any tautology in my statement so I asked for an elaboration, in good faith. But your caustic response is anything but, so you've become the very thing you imagine me to be: a bad faith interlocutor.

Your action is definitional Sealioning from my perspective.

If you can't see it then take a step back and analyze the thread until you can see how others would perceive your reply as such.

Re: Corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation

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Post by ETH_start »

DropInIn wrote: post #473
ETH_start wrote: post #470

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see any tautology in my statement so I asked for an elaboration, in good faith. But your caustic response is anything but, so you've become the very thing you imagine me to be: a bad faith interlocutor.

Your action is definitional Sealioning from my perspective. If you can't see it then take a step back and analyze the thread until you can see how others would perceive your reply as such.

Again, I don't see the tautology in my statement, and I know I'm asking for elaboration in good faith, so there's no way I could see it from your perspective.

Re: Corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation

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Post by DropInIn »

DropInIn wrote: post #468
ubercow13 wrote: post #466

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No, bonds held by the federal reserve are rolled over. The debt is paid back but it is immediately replaced with new debt of equivalent value, off of the open market. The process is described here: https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/treasury-rollover-faq >On the auction settlement date, the maturing Treasury securities are exchanged for the newly issued Treasury securities. In net, the debt is only paid back when the…

The level of disingenuous is absurd at this point. Do investors get paid in exchange for returning the bonds? Yes. The fact that the government repeats the process is irrelevant to the simple fact that the Cash printed is done so by first securing an equal amount of funds to back them which is then returned with interest to the bond holder, inherently meaning that the Cash is not printed out of nothing but rather pri…

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Re: Corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation

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Post by DropInIn »

ETH_start wrote: post #474
DropInIn wrote: post #473

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your action is definitional Sealioning from my perspective. If you can't see it then take a step back and analyze the thread until you can see how others would perceive your reply as such.

Again, I don't see the tautology in my statement, and I know I'm asking for elaboration in good faith, so there's no way I could see it from your perspective.

If you can't see it from my perspective despite other readers clearly having been able (upvotes) then the problem is You, isn't it?
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