<p>didn’t you say that you were majoring in natural sciences?</p>
<p>once you realize that almost all the funding for research in biology comes from the government you’ll learn to love the government quickly enough.</p>
<p>Big government top-down socialism is.</p>
<p>Economic plans should be effected by grassroots action and cultural change, not some economic “advisor” to some federal agency answering to the president, playing with the apparently magical interest rate dial-switch.</p>
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<p>Hahahahhaha no.</p>
<p>Especially since we’re just getting out of the George Bush era. He cut down federal funding to real biological research by drastic amounts.</p>
<p>with the exception of pharmacology it’s almost all government funded, it’s not like someone’s gonna make a profit by re-introducing sea otters to california for example</p>
<p>The economic recession is a baron wasteland that runs very deep.</p>
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<p>Government fiat is not the only way of resolving an externality.</p>
<p>Accumulating cash does wonders in a recession.</p>
<p>so the otters should pull themselves up by their bootstraps? old fossils should wake up and tell us about ancient human cultures?</p>
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<p>It’s not like I am opposed to all taxation. Taxation must occur in the absence of more sophisticated information mechanisms. Some taxation can gradually be replaced with the emergence of more sophisticated cultural mechanisms. But it’s no more like lovely than hemispherectomy for resolving a child’s seizures.</p>
<p>hahaha I don’t know what’s funnier, the OP’s comments or the fact that you guys are still responding to him seriously. people with phd’s in econ don’t know what they’re talking about, but this kid just finished econ 101 so let’s all listen to him as he informs us the recession is all in our imaginations. recession? what recession? My girlfriend got a job that’s more than minimum wage, therefore there’s no recession y’all!</p>
<p>Tell us more, Galoisien. What about global warming? Is it real? what should we do about it? what about the otters? how can we save the whales galoisien? what’s your master plan?</p>
<p>it’s totally worth asking those questions, his responses are hilarious, you should cum join the fun</p>
<p>Actually my current interest is economics in biology, e.g. evolutionarily stable strategies and ecology.</p>
<p>I got 5s on the relevant AP exams a long time ago.</p>
<p>stargazerlilies: of course global warming is real? W T F?</p>
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<p>I think you need to calm down. Do you know the meaning of “rhetoric”? I guess not.</p>
<p>listen guys, i got a 5 on a high school econ exam. obviously i know what i’m talking about. i mean, AP!</p>
<p>Well of course I’ve followed it up with relevant coursework, but the 101-level was passed a long time ago.</p>
<p>Also, what the heck is with your academic elitism, you guys. Even if I were a farmer or a street hustler who never went to college,I’d still have a right to make my assertions. The change of the identity of the speaker doesn’t affect the truth value of the statements uttered by the speaker.</p>
<p>I bet you all would be the type who would indulge in fascistic measures like “give the college-educated two votes”. College qualifications matter only when sending resumes and cover letters for a job application, not intellectual pursuits. What, you should be barred from sending actual peer-reviewed findings and research papers to Nature because of the lack of an appropriate degree?</p>
<p>galoisien: do you know the meaning of sarcasm? i guess not, cause no one’s taking you seriously here lol…you’re a kid saying the economists are wrong and asking “what recession?” hate to break it to ya, but there’s a recession going on, and it’s kind of a problem. </p>
<p>but after you’re done telling us how to fix the global economy, maybe you can apply your genius to evolutionary stable strategies…meaning how can we save the whales galoisien? they have no bootstraps to pull themselves up with.</p>
<p>Um, ESS’s apply to dynamic, information-propagating, self-modifying systems. Relevant applications are to be found in embryology, neural net development, genetic engineering and forms of social organisation (from invertebrate to human). Saving the whales is part of environmental activism, not ecology.</p>
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<p>of course there’s a *<em>**ing recession, but my point is that a fundamental solution is resolving that *</em>*ing despair</p>
<p>note the indefinite article “a”</p>
<p>Some of the economists are wrong. They can’t all be right. The “right” economists are Andrew Mellon, the economists of the Chicago School, and the economists of the Austrian School, and most libertarian economists.</p>
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<li>your original post pretty much said you didn’t think there was a recession</li>
<li>you are taking this way 2 srsly</li>
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