HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

ihdncj849593

-16 karma · joined July 6, 2016

submissionscomments
ihdncj849593··on Top White House Economist Dismisses the Idea of a Universal Basic Income
Nice, I like how you ignore that the government made all its money back in a few years plus interest.
ihdncj849593··on Top White House Economist Dismisses the Idea of a Universal Basic Income
Why would you bring in probably the least authoritative source on the topic you could? I thought this forum had higher standards than that. Why not just link to the actual research mentioned, such as "universal basic income versus unemployment insurance" published by FRB St Louis?
ihdncj849593··on Top White House Economist Dismisses the Idea of a Universal Basic Income
I like how well you took a very complex issue and made it feel like it's this obvious black and white thing.
ihdncj849593··on Do Women Really Want Equality?
Very click-baity title, no thanks.
ihdncj849593··on How do police handle violence in countries where officers don’t carry guns?
So now that there's over 300 million guns in the hands of American citizens, what are they supposed to do? We are where we are, this article doesn't help shit.
ihdncj849593··on How do police handle violence in countries where officers don’t carry guns?
Anybody remember the Battle of North Hollywood?
ihdncj849593··on The Fintech Bubble
You didn't define what those assets are, you didn't acknowledge that central bank solvency works nothing like a regular corporation, you called QE "money printing" rather than an asset swap (showing your lack of practical knowledge even more), you redefined the meaning of fraud, and you act like the most powerful government in the world demanding its citizens pay a yearly sum in those same dollars isn't a form of backing. You fail to acknowledge the ECB serves the same mechanical function as the Fed, you fail to acknowledge that central banks are a slave to demographic forces and thus the supply/demand for capital (aka money) and try to follow a natural rate, and you fail to understand the most basic functioning of modern currencies in the most mechanical ways - ways that are openly explained by the same aforementioned central banks in white papers on their websites. You also act like their function as a lender of last resort in the event of runs on banks caused by maturity mismatches that tend to happen once every few generations isn't explicitly and historically one of the primary reasons for their continued existence - your "purge the system" rhetoric aside, society seems to be ok with the banking sector not getting wiped out when things like that happen, because most people aren't naive enough to think anything good comes from total economic collapse. In fact, the same country you seem to hold up as a bastion of responsibility ended up with a collapsed economy within living memory, but no, it all turned out for the better... Yeah, I wonder why Europeans ex-Germans are pretty sick of German economic logic. (Brexit.)

As for relative credibility, at least the Fed didn't try to raise rates in 2010/2011, causing a further recession and much of the ongoing troubles there. German arrogance and 19th century moralizing-economic thinking is actually one of the major forces holding the continent back, while the US continues to shine.

ihdncj849593··on The Fintech Bubble
The ECB has more credibility than the Fed? Can you please share some of whatever you just smoked?