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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 11:50 PM Original message |
Poll question: Which of these players can a healthy market do without? |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
1. The answer is multiple. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 11:57 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. PBS is replaying "Ascent of Money" and it got me wondering. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 12:31 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. They only act as an intermediary between the company and the investors. |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 01:22 AM Response to Reply #2 |
11. What exactly does a stock broker provide that a computer program couldn't accomplish? -nt- |
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lindisfarne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 02:28 AM Response to Reply #2 |
19. They also talked about how the Catholic church wouldn't allow interest payments - we've gotten over |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 12:12 AM Response to Original message |
3. The entire "financial industry" is not only unnecessary, but is a net drain |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 12:17 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Do you know enough about the Federal Rerserve to explain it to someone (me)? |
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TreasonousBastard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 12:30 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. It's not, really. it's quasi-governmental and independant... |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 12:50 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Thank you. n/t |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 01:20 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. Disparaging remarks aside, the Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1912 |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 02:44 AM Response to Reply #10 |
22. Two questions ... |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 04:41 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Too late tonight, but I'll try to get back here tomorrow. n/t |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 06:16 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Second question first; He unilaterally canceled the Bretton Woods system, |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 06:13 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. Ihave heard that the cost to Americans of each gallon of oil has remained |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 08:17 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. I don't know, but it seems plausible. Gasoline, OTOH, has continually gone up |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 10:58 PM Response to Reply #25 |
33. Fascinating! Thank you. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-12-09 07:55 AM Response to Reply #33 |
37. Since all currencies today are completely arbitrary and only measured against each other |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-12-09 12:29 AM Response to Reply #4 |
36. Because certain banking families found it to their |
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TreasonousBastard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
5. All are necessary... |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 01:37 AM Response to Reply #5 |
13. Why do we need "large enterprises?" |
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TreasonousBastard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 01:48 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Would you like to live in a drafty old cabin with oil lights? Look... |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 01:54 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Gosh, maybe undertakings such as these should be nationalized |
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lindisfarne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 01:18 AM Response to Original message |
9. Somewhere in the US there's a fairly extensive barter market in a community - all that market has is |
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TreasonousBastard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 01:37 AM Response to Reply #9 |
14. There are a few places using barter currency, but... |
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lindisfarne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 01:50 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Bartering allows you to avoid a lot of taxes. Although technically, you're supposed to assign a |
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napoleon_in_rags (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 01:27 AM Response to Original message |
12. Its good to see corporations is number 1. |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 01:59 AM Response to Reply #12 |
18. Corporations wouldn't be so bad if they existed only as they did originally |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 02:34 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. What are corporations doing now that they didn't do when they were first started? |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 02:43 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Yeah that's probably how it started, but the court upheld it ever since |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 03:21 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. What were corporations allowed to do before, that they don't do anymore, but should be? n/t |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 06:21 PM Response to Reply #20 |
27. Continuing to exist and entering multiple businesses. |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 06:32 PM Response to Reply #20 |
28. In early US history, corporations usually terminated after their charter was fulfilled. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 11:05 PM Response to Reply #28 |
35. Regarding the activist clerk's comments ... |
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The Gunslinger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 06:19 PM Response to Original message |
26. I chose other |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 07:09 PM Response to Original message |
29. corporations, CEOs, shareholders, investors, the market itself. |
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greguganus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 08:20 PM Response to Original message |
32. Unions? |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 11:00 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. Personally, I think you're just kidding, but on the offhand chance you're not ... |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-12-09 07:57 AM Response to Original message |
38. On the condition they're all competent and they all help each other when a mistake is made, |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-12-09 07:58 AM Response to Original message |
39. All are necessary, unless we are adopting a conception of "healthy market" |
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