dforrestwilson1
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Comment · 9 years ago
This. The real irony about the banks is that by heavily regulating banks and explicitly backing them, we also implicitly allow this sort of abusive behavior towards customers.
Comment · 9 years ago
A good primer, but more like SIGINT 101 CIRCA 1970. No mention of China, Iran, North Korea, or the use of SIGINT against terrorist or insurgent networks.
Comment · 9 years ago
Correct
Comment · 9 years ago
Sorry but Paul Krugman is biased trash.
Requiring employers to shop for and provide health insurance is only going to complicate the already complex system and lead to crappier less competitive outcomes.
Comment · 9 years ago
If you don't think that Pakistani and Iranian intelligence did not pass along the lessons learned to insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan then I don't know what else to say other than this:
Comment · 9 years ago
What? How can you put Manning in the same category?
Sure he established the trend and legitimized Wikileaks, but most of what he released was tactically valuable to enemies of the U.S. Arguably Manning did endanger the lives of U.S. service members and for that I will have a hard time forgiving her/him.
Comment · 9 years ago
^ This. Here is a good Planet Money episode about it.
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/02/12/171814201/episo...
Comment · 9 years ago
What you neglect to mention is that Europe and the US had high import taxes to protect their industries from eachother.
Somehow the US still managed to become a superpower. China will be fine if it can transition to a better system of government. Globalization doesn't seem necessary for a country with a huge domestic market.
Demanding better working conditions for Foxconn employees is called having a conscience not hypocrisy.
Comment · 9 years ago
You turn them into machines, manufactured overseas and sold to Walmart and McDonalds.
Comment · 9 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxx1KdGXti0
^ I was listening to this earlier and I can't help but point out the creeping government overreach in all aspects of our lives. We drop bombs at the drop of a hat, and send people to prison for thought crimes.
I really hope everyone can see that we must roll back the powers of the federal government, or it is going to roll over us.
Comment · 9 years ago
I think you might be underestimating the impact of slackening demand. Emerging market airlines put in a ton of orders over the past 10 years, now we're seeing them slash airfare prices and/or cancel orders due to continued pressure. You can also point to state-owned/supported enterprises in the Middle East and China which are terrible allocators of capital and have therefore encouraged the glut. Nevermind the strategic imperative of the U.S. and Europe to have exclusive access to a producer of worldwide transports during times of war.
There are many examples of duopolies who do just fine. I think you are ignoring the negative influence of ambitious countries in this industry.
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