Recent content by Shikica

The problem isn't Oligopolies persay, but rather oligopolies that cooperate with each other to manipulate the market (thus acting as a monopoly). Boeing is not an example of that. Boeing has what is considered a monopoly on many airplane related markets, but it's considered okay because of how...

Ah..? I'll give you an example of monopoly, just pick a country. United States? The DoL has an absolute monopoly on the sale and issuance of drivers licenses, among other things.

They've been talking about this exact earthquake for 50 years here. It is definitely going to happen, but no one knows when... I'm skeptical of OP's claim that it is going to happen with a year because we've heard that before. Not sure if it's related to climate change either.

Everything you said was reasonable but it doesn't make much of an attempt to attack common free market doctrine.

Ultimately I agree with you that a completely libertarian economy would fail in the modern age to deliver on several key indicators (Note: every libertarian believes in some degree of government monopoly, just with respect to few industries). However if you are frustrated with people on the...

So to you the purpose of economics is to understand how society behaves?

Milton Friedman was the first economist that I ever studied and he introduced many concepts to me for the first time. But since then I've expanded by understanding of the diversity in economics (as well as its history) and while Friedman's contributions on the whole are valuable his final...

I have my own opinion but I'm uninterested in a dialectic right now, I'd rather just hear what arguments others have come up with on their own. You can respond to each others' arguments but please contribute to the list of positions if you can :)

LMAO the people who have posted in this thread so far don't even get it... just goes to show that not only is Hillary's campaign full of dipshits but so is this forum. The Venn Diagram says that only 10% of Americans and 16% of gun owners support universal background checks, which Clinton...

Did you know that India, a country with a government 5 times more corrupt than the United States (India still has slavery folks! Even though it's technically illegal there are many millions of slaves in India and the government knows about most of them!) as a large and powerful nuclear arsenal...

We have the highest per capita private soldier count in the world. We have the most powerful and plentiful nuclear arsenal and the latest planes, ships, drones, and tanks and guns. Why do we have these things? To kill poor people wearing sandals in some country ravaged by poverty and terrorism...

Even if guns were completely unregulated, there would be many places where almost nobody would bring a gun, and no one can protect themselves while watching a concert when some psychopath empties every clip into the crowd or detonates a bomb even if they are carrying a weapon themselves. Why...

I'm not a liberal and I actually think that gun access should be slightly expanded (though regulations more properly enforced). But this is not a good argument for it. You're right that it's possible that he would pick a different target, like, say, a sports game where no one would bring their...

Yeah if more guns were easier to obtain there's no way that the stabber would have gone into the mall stabbing people... obviously once all guns are legalized and deregulated crazy people will automatically become sane.

If no one ever printed money we would run out of currency in 50 years or so. It leaves the country or it gets torn up or forgotten or accidentally thrown away etc. I'd address the Fed more generally but you don't seem to understand basic economics so I won't bother.