quad that's wrong. the savings rate is simply the proportion of unspent income in a given period....
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quad: your point is well-taken, but my argument still stands. you seem to be discussing the consumption and savings behavior of individuals over...
yes, everytime i type on this mac the only thing i can think of is: resale...value...dropping...with...every...keystroke...
paying off a mortgage is always weakly optimal to paying upfront, all else equal. assuming you have the value of the house in assets now, that...
psik you are coming at these issues from the p you didn't. i am simply illustrating one of the reasons why quoting ndp's can be misleading....
have taken two finance courses. but wouldn't call myself an "expert." what do you want to know?
I read the Bible a long time ago. I don't know if I have the names correct, but it goes something like this: Isaac had two sons Esau and Jacob....
this is a problem of education, not economics. or at least the economics of education.
psik why are you obsessed with some plot by economists (*cough* economists *cough*) to mask depreciation. there are at least two problems with...
i respect that you have a healthy skepticism of what economists say and do. but i think you're slightly paranoid. economists DO study production...
im not arguing against using net worth. i just don't understand how net worth can be used as a standard of living, which is an index that must be...
??? psik you have the most randomass posts. what does net worth have to do with a standard of living. standards of living be indices that...
this is a very good point. where havea all the intelligent or at least educated people on sciforums gone? it seems that they have all become...
i've seen a lot of arguments against capitalism lately...but i don't think capitalism per se is the problem. heard about this on npr the other...
check this out. bhutan gives the finger to gdp/gnp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_national_happiness
anyone want to take a stab at the value of an mpa/mpp degree? i'm thinking of the degrees offered by kennedy at harvard, sipa at columbia, sais at...
anyone know of a good website where you can watch old tv shows online (preferably for free). i am looking to watch old episodes of "get short" and...
quite the opposite i would argue. time is the abstraction. money exists. money is the incarnation, a proxy for time as we know it. hence the...
swivel: well, the examples you give arise because two goods (like DVDs and VHS or tea and coffee) are substitutes. or a civil war is a supply...
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