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William Penn Or, I’d be working without multi tasking and who would arrive approved by whom I trusted and as I worked who would open my email account without having to know the password and go through that, or make sure the NYTimes.com and Washingtonpost.com were visible somewhere on one of my screens while checking the exegesis work I’d done and report how correlations were unfolding between the news stream and my blog (s) about the news stream, or what financial indicators… xref: “It looks like we’ll be taking turns taking care of one another,” How to work around a person without bothering them, but helping them perfect their work flow: look at all these video files uploaded over fourteen days ago, but not het processed. This would then turn into A.I. expert software that would learn how who all worked together on whose hard drive so when who moved on the work would continue via the trained A.I.
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William Penn The videos to the left here point out live streaming via Ustream would permit screen sharing and voice communication by watching each other’s Ustream channels. If you had access to shared files in a cloud you each have your own copy of the file and pull it up and do things and ooh at the other screen and see what who else was doing with it, but it wouldn’t be like a page coming to life with a paragraph being written and then five windows opening and copying and pasting that paragraph into them and each developing the paragraph in their own way breaking for searches and browsing as who goes along or taking requests to do what…until who chooses what to copy from where and paste it back into the main page… with independent second opinions being built on other pages… all unfolding on the same screen at the show while the band plays on.
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Do we need to be more inclusive in accounting for our assets and reappraise the true value of our assets upward?
Why would sovereign net present value possibly have a negative discount rate?
Is a ton of gold on shore which can be delivered at a future date worth more than a ton of gold now on a sinking ship in deep water? [thnk\]
Is who trying to hide the good fishing holes by not reporting them or adequately appraising them? xref: Greek swimming pools.
Is it impossible for the rule of law and fairness to permit us to more honestly account for the value of the assets bestowed upon us and to be bestowed upon the progeny deriving from us so we can adequately finance the events we need to have occur now to get to those greener pastures later?
The old micro-economic capitalist model of
Are all our assets criminally undervalued by well meaning people who think worshipping the graven images accounting for what has already happen are sufficient transferable receipts of sovereign authority to make work the needed permutations and combinations of how who decides to utilise scarce productive resources which have alternate uses to make goods and services for consumption now or in the future, then is there enough money to permit whom to account for the fine grain of whose decision making?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
7 billion people
600,000,000 years
$100,000 trillion dollars
About 2,460,000 google search results in 0.47 seconds [frig/]
If economics is the study of how who deciders to utilise scarce productive resources which have alternate uses to make goods and services for consumption now or in the future, then is there enough money to permit whom to account for the fine grain of whose decision making?
Also, is the intrinsic value of our progress sufficiently respected regarding our estimated net present value of our future consumable or recyclable profits?
Also, is our appraisal of the relative net value of good and services sufficient?
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By Matt O’Brien December 29 at 6:46 PM
Alexis Tsipras, head of the anti-bailout Syriza party (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Beware Greeks bearing the same political crisis over and over again. Because eventually this will be how the euro crisis ends: not with a bailout, but a ballot.
It’s a tale as old as Homer, or at least it seems that way. The Greek government, you see, has once again collapsed under the weight of the country’s austerity program, and anti-bailout parties are leading the polls ahead of new elections. This time, not that it really matters, the ruling coalition led by the right-of-center party New Democracy fell apart after it couldn’t get its presidential nominee, a largely ceremonial role, confirmed in three tries. What does matter, though, is whether New Democracy, which is still running a close second, can hold on to power in the snap elections scheduled for Jan. 25. If it can’t, then the far-left party Syriza will get its chance to lead Greece in a high-stakes game of chicken with Germany.
Syriza’s platform is as simple as it is sensible. They want more spending and less debt. Specifically, they want to spend €1.3 billion, or $1.6 billion, more on food stamps, health care, and restoring electricity to households that can no longer afford it all to alleviate the worst of the country’s suffering. And they also want to renegotiate how much of its debt, which even after getting written down before is still over 175 percent of gross domestic product, Greece will pay back. Bankers, of course, think this is “worse than communism,” because Syriza is admittedly a little too sanguine about how much money it could raise by—stop me if you’ve heard this before—cracking down on tax evasion. But, as Wolfgang Münchau points out, there’s nothing radical about what Syriza is asking for even if the party itself is. It’s pointless to try to make somebody pay back money that they can’t pay back. It will fail, and, until you admit that, push them even deeper into poverty. Or, in Greece’s case, into the worst depression in history.
Germany, though, will never let Greece have less debt and less austerity. It’s the If-You-Give-Greece-A-Cookie principle of the euro crisis. Anti-austerity parties like Podemos in Spain, which in just a year of existence has become the country’s most popular, and the Five Star Movement in Italy would demand any and all concessions that Syriza got. So Germany is holding to the same tough line as before. Greece has to keep doing austerity and reforming a labor market that’s the reason the word “sclerotic” exists, or, it’s implied, Germany will kick it out of the eurozone. And if that’s not enough to scare people out of voting for Syriza, the ECB will not-so-gently remind them, as it did to Ireland, that it will then withdraw the central bank funding they need to keep their banks afloat.
What’s the German word for hardball?
Now, I could have written the exact same paragraph two years ago, the last time Greece had elections. But as much as it might seem like nothing has changed since then, one big thing has: Germany and Greece both think that they have stronger hands now than they did before. And that means there’s a greater chance that both of them will try to call each other’s bluff, only to find out that the other actually wasn’t bluffing—which would force Greece out of the euro.
Germany, you see, couldn’t afford to let Greece leave the euro in 2012, as much as it would have liked to, because panic over Greek bonds was spreading to Spanish and Italian ones. It was the domino theory. If Greece could exit the eurozone, markets thought, then the other crisis countries could too, in which case, you wouldn’t want to be left holding their debt that might get redenominated from euros into less valuable pesetas or lire. Even worse, this panic was self-justifying. The more markets pushed up Spain’s borrowing costs, the more it looked like Spain would be forced out of the euro—which only pushed up their borrowing costs even more. This went on until the ECB decided to stop it. Specifically, it used the three magic words of central banking—”whatever it takes”—and promised to buy a country’s bonds in unlimited amounts, if necessary, to keep their borrowing costs low. Since then, of course, borrowing costs have fallen to all-time lows. And, as Neil Irwin points out, not even this latest Greek blowup has been enough to send Spanish or Italian bond yields up. That might make Germany think they can toss Greece out without it being the end of the world, let alone the end of the euro.
Greece, though, couldn’t afford to leave the euro in 2012 either. It had what economists call a primary deficit: even if ignored all the money it owed in interest, it was still spending more than it was taking in as taxes. That’s why defaulting on its debts and exiting the euro wouldn’t have meant the end of austerity. It would have meant even worse austerity. Think about it like this. Even if it didn’t have any debt to pay off, Greece would have still had a deficit. But nobody would lend money to Greece if it defaulted, and nobody would bail it out if it left the euro. So it would have had to balance its budget immediately, or print what it needed and watch inflation soar. Greece, in other words, wasn’t threatening to cut off its nose to spite its face if Germany didn’t give it more money. It was threatening to shoot itself in the head to spite its face—not very credible. Today, though, Greece is projected to have a primary surplus of 3 percent of GDP, which makes ditching the euro something approximating plausible. Greece would still have to bail out its banks, probably by printing money, and its economy would still go into another tailspin, forcing it to print even more money, but it’d be a manageable disaster. Especially when it already has 25 percent unemployment.
So, more than ever before, Germany feels like it can let Greece leave, and Greece feels like it can leave. Neither of them want that, but neither of them don’t want it so much that they’ll do anything to avoid it. That’s why there’s never been a greater chance of Greece dumping the common currency as there is right now. It’s a gamble that Germany shouldn’t want to take, not when there are so many anti-austerity parties popping up all over Europe. Markets, after all, have a way of only taking things in stride until they actually have to take a step—and then melting down. Just because there’s no contagion today doesn’t mean there won’t be tomorrow.
But whether it happens in Greece or Spain or Italy, this is the endgame for Europe. The euro crisis is a financial crisis that morphed into an economic crisis, before ending as a political one. Now, it’s true that the common currency still has a lot of moral authority in Europe’s postwar world, but you can’t eat moral authority. And, at some point, voters will get tired of paper monuments to peace and prosperity that make the latter impossible.
Even a really cool wooden horse couldn’t make people forget that.
Matt O’Brien is a reporter for Wonkblog covering economic affairs. He was previously a senior associate editor at The Atlantic.
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Do we need to be more inclusive in accounting for our assets and reappraise the true value of our assets upward?
Why would sovereign net present value possibly have a negative discount rate?
Is a ton of gold on shore which can be delivered at a future date worth more than a ton of gold now on a sinking ship in deep water? [thnk\]
Is who trying to hide the good fishing holes by not reporting them or adequately appraising them? xref: Greek swimming pools.
Is it impossible for the rule of law and fairness to permit us to more honestly account for the value of the assets bestowed upon us and to be bestowed upon the progeny deriving from us so we can adequately finance the events we need to have occur now to get to those greener pastures later?
The old micro-economic capitalist model of
Are all our assets criminally undervalued by well meaning people who think worshipping the graven images accounting for what has already happen are sufficient transferable receipts of sovereign authority to make work the needed permutations and combinations of how who decides to utilise scarce productive resources which have alternate uses to make goods and services for consumption now or in the future, then is there enough money to permit whom to account for the fine grain of whose decision making?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_f…
7 billion people
600,000,000 years
$100,000 trillion dollars
About 2,460,000 google search results in 0.47 seconds [frig/]
If economics is the study of how who deciders to utilise scarce productive resources which have alternate uses to make goods and services for consumption now or in the future, then is there enough money to permit whom to account for the fine grain of whose decision making?
Also, is the intrinsic value of our progress sufficiently respected regarding our estimated net present value of our future consumable or recyclable profits?
Also, is our appraisal of the relative net value of good and services sufficient?
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magnifco1000
7:46 PM PST
There is a big difference in the Greek and German mentality and attitudes. Germany also has very strong labor unions (ie, worker guilds), and environmental laws. So, what’s the difference? Germans know how to work, it’s in their psyche. Greeks know how to goof off and sham. It’s also in their psyche.
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DontLoot
7:42 PM PST
Greek economy is a mess of corruption and labor unions and guilds that restrict every move toward free enterprise and hard work. Let them founder.
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Yu Brown
7:00 PM PST
the socialists that plunged Greece into chaos are promising to fix everything …. as usual with no comment on consequences and no mention of where the money will come from …. and the self-serving low-information voters buying it !! The story of the left !
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magnifco1000
7:25 PM PST
What are printing presses for?
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kitchendragon50
6:41 PM PST
And I thought the EU would kick out Greece since they are a burden dragging down the rest of the union. Time to cull the weakest link.
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erbkon
5:53 PM PST
The author is essentially right but takes too many words to say it. Mrs. T. was right over 20 years ago: the productive capacity of some countries in the E-zone vastly exceeds that of others, and those others don’t belong in the same economic sphere using the same currency except at much lower wage levels to match their productivity. The sheering forces will drive them apart. Luckily SWIFT, major E-zone banks and Greek banks themselves have had an extra 3 years to retrofit their systems to handle revived pre-euro currencies. It will be painful, but they can do it. There’s also a private firm that literally prints currency for other countries, and it can be hired on short notice to create neo-drachmas. Ironically, that company is German.
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bobnpvine1
5:40 PM PST
Yo, Germany…
It takes money to make money…
Austerity is going to take down the EU if you keep up with your Scrooge policies…
WAKE UP!!!
Bob
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RealChoices
6:06 PM PST
If your neighbor was living way beyond his means and came to you asking you to make up the difference between his income and his expenses, would you just hand over the cash in perpetuity, or suggest he change his ways?
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bahntemps
6:52 PM PST
It depends… how much do I benefit from my neighborhood’s common currency, how much has that common currency contributed to my neighbor’s impoverishment, and how many of my neighbor’s children should I expect him to sacrifice in order to pay me back? Also, how big is my neighbor’s navy?
We’re not talking about a family of four; we’re talking about large countries, with complex economies, acting in deep and interconnected markets. In this case, it may very well be in my best interest to pay my neighbor… or let my neighbor print his own currency.
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