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Title: Great economic content
Post by: Elliot on November 15, 2010, 07:59:05 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUY16CkS-k&feature=player_embedded#
Title: Re: Great economic content
Post by: 38thBeatle on November 15, 2010, 08:23:36 PM
I don't know whether to laugh not ( if you get my meaning).
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Post by: Plexi Ken on November 15, 2010, 08:52:07 PM
Propaganda is so much more digestible in cartoon form  :P
Title: Re: Great economic content
Post by: Philly Q on November 16, 2010, 01:05:44 AM
I don't understand enough about economics to argue for or against the points they're making, but I found that curiously.... mesmerising.
Title: Re: Great economic content
Post by: JDC on November 16, 2010, 03:03:22 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9wRq6C2fgo

probably the best thing I've seen for explaining QE, even if they do avoid going into the details about if you get it wrong
Title: Re: Great economic content
Post by: Jonny on November 16, 2010, 09:59:36 AM
They are so CUTE! Not to sound like homosexual. But I love this.

It is bias obviously, but it's a good way to emphasise one side of the argument.

Twilight Zone, lmao...
Title: Re: Great economic content
Post by: Afghan Dave on November 16, 2010, 12:12:05 PM
I really enjoyed that. Thanks for posting.  :D
Title: Re: Great economic content
Post by: Ratrod on November 16, 2010, 12:16:11 PM
Whenever you hear an economist with a prediction or a plan he'll either present it with mathmatical rules and figures and forget about the human influence or he'll present it based on human emotion and forgets about the mathmatical rules.

Economy is always about both. It's a combination of math, physics, sociology and psychology. I rarely hear an economist incorporating all these together. In fact, most economists look at the stock market as THE economical barometer. The stock market is driven by paranoid speculants (gamblers) looking to make a quick buck without producing anything. Stocks don't really tell you anything about how good a company is doing.

They should look more at small and medium sized businesses, retail and people's spending power.

The money market is even more crazy and abstract. Some people spend the day buying  yens for their dollars, then buy  euros, then pounds and then dollars again but they now have more dollars than they started with.

So people are making money out of thin air without producing anything (product or service). That can only mean one thing: devaluation of cuurency. So if you wanna know how much a currency is really worth, check out the Big Mac index.

Some claim that currency should be linked to gold again. That may not be perfect but sometimes I think it wouldn't be a bad idea in a time like this.
Title: Re: Great economic content
Post by: nfe on November 16, 2010, 01:18:13 PM
Whenever you hear an economist with a prediction or a plan he'll either present it with mathmatical rules and figures and forget about the human influence or he'll present it based on human emotion and forgets about the mathmatical rules.

I think most new-Keynesian economists combine the two admirably.

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Economy is always about both. It's a combination of math, physics, sociology and psychology. I rarely hear an economist incorporating all these together. In fact, most economists look at the stock market as THE economical barometer.

Out with groups like the Adam Smith Institute, I don't think that's true at all.