You can mark them up for whatever you want, but at some point, if you mark them up too high, and your product is in demand, you will exhaust the...
How the heck does anyone "pay you 20% interest" when the gold supply is only growing, on an aggregate basis, by 1-2%/year? When you start...
But they're lending dollars, to be repaid in dollars. They're not lending gold, to be repaid in gold + gold interest. Big difference.
Keep in mind that you would get repaid in gold, not dollars that have, over the previous 30 years, depreciated. The interest rate would only need...
I'd suggest that a gold debt should be repayable at a rate of interest equal to the production of new gold. Which is 1-2% per year (payable in...
Maybe stocks are rising because, a collapse of the long-term bond market, would also collapse businesses' existing debts, and make it much more...
Yes, this is heavily at the root of the problem. You now have an entire decade of engineering graduates who are chronically unemployed or...
Of course, as long-term interest rates go up, it becomes very difficult for firms to borrow, and hence, the value of existing productive assets...
No way! The people who would be 'grandfathered' into the system are the ones who paid the least into the system, and acted the most irresponsibly...
Yeah but them immigrants are a net drain on the economy and push the system into an even greater deflation. Just look at the past decade. Many...
But printing money actually may be making house prices go down, as such monetary expansion pushes up interest rates on the long end of the curve....
Proprietary trading against client order flow. Data fees.
Shut down 90% of the US banking system and the federal government immediately. Make having more than 1 chequing account and 1 credit card...
Trading, commercial banking and investment banking is also a 'commodity skill'. But we don't see rampant outsourcing there, for instance. The...
Yeah Achilles, there's still plenty of engineers who never were able to recover from the 2001 recession. Having more engineers running around...
Yeah China's engineering salaries are just fine....in CHINA! In fact, they're upper middle class salaries. Big problem in the USA is...
I know engineers who graduated during the 2002-2003 recession who still haven't found jobs afterwards. In the high tech sector. A complete...
Yeah, we've cooked our own gooses (geese??) by such poor attitudes in the workforce. Instead of supporting science and engineering endeavours...
Internet company business plans are still as broken today as they were in the late 90s. Amazing that a decade hasn't change much of anything.
At some point, there will be enough cash out there, and prices will have declined so much that houses will be cash-purchase items. All...
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