Michael Moore's Movie WHERE TO INVADE NEXT

Page 3 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.

ivwshane

Lifer
May 15, 2000
33,512
17,016
136
Classic doc move! He runs away with his tail between his legs when challenged and claims he doesn't have time for a rebuttal!

LOL!
 

Greenman

Lifer
Oct 15, 1999
22,237
6,432
136
Classic doc move! He runs away with his tail between his legs when challenged and claims he doesn't have time for a rebuttal!

LOL!

I get that. There isn't any point in posting an idea or position that can't be expressed in one short paragraph. It's an investment of time and effort that will never produce a return, and never make a difference. That time would better spent pounding your head on a rock.
 

realibrad

Lifer
Oct 18, 2013
12,337
898
126
Show me an economic theory without criticisms.

I mean, ffs, there's an Austrian in there making a critique when the next prediction an Austrian gets right will be the first. Deficits crowd out private investment? Where's the evidence of that? We've run massive deficits recently and interest rates are as low as they've ever been. If two implications are possible from an equation and one of them isn't borne out in the real world... well....

Usually Crowding out should raise interest rates. That happens in a closed system though. The problem here is that we live in a global world.

As the us has increased Deficits, investment has flowed into the US. Globally, the US is considered to be the safest place to invest right now. Europe, South America, China are all too risky. China is in a huge housing bubble right now. Way bigger than the US bubble. So, while the US did increase its deficits, and lower its interest rates, capital investments have still been coming in.

You must look at the markets globally.

There is also a bias towards shorter-term investing with 46% of respondents preferring outcomes within one to two years.

At the same time, only 23% of global investors say they will seek professional advice to change their investment strategy, while more than a third intend to invest in the same way as in previous years.

This unwillingness to seek advice, combined with a preference for shorter-term and lower risk investments, could mean that achieving the desired 12% investment return may prove challenging.

http://www.schroders.com/en/uk/priv...markets/global-investment-trends-survey-2015/

Investors are seeking low risk investments, and government bonds are considered just that.
 

flexy

Diamond Member
Sep 28, 2001
8,464
155
106
Anyone have the hotline for escaped mental patients?

Talking politics and being left and right are one thing, but sucking Michael Moore's dick and basing your knowledge of politics based on television produced by a slanted sloth of a Hollywood director is clearly listed in medical journals as a serious psychiatric disorder.

How is basing one's knowledge of politics, say from the ramblings of a madman like Donald Trump, Cruz or Carson different than basing one's knowledge of politics on what a liberal/cynic/critic like Michael Moore says?

Is Michael Moore "a bad choice" simply because he's a leftist, pointing out what's wrong with the system, COMING ACROSS as "anti-american"?

What's wrong with looking at, say, Italy, Germany, Poland or whatever he did in the movie and show *single examples* of how some things can be done better? (As I understand it, no-one says that Europe AS A WHOLE is "better", that would be a naive, silly statement!)

American "pride" and patriotism so over the top already that looking at other nations to actually SEE how things could be done better is now considered a sin? And someone watching a Moore movie would need to call a mental health hotline? Seriously people, really? :)
 

hal2kilo

Lifer
Feb 24, 2009
26,036
12,271
136
For many on this forum, a mention of Michael Moore in the OP title is a trolling offense.
 

ElFenix

Elite Member
Super Moderator
Mar 20, 2000
102,402
8,574
126
Usually Crowding out should raise interest rates. That happens in a closed system though. The problem here is that we live in a global world.

As the us has increased Deficits, investment has flowed into the US. Globally, the US is considered to be the safest place to invest right now. Europe, South America, China are all too risky. China is in a huge housing bubble right now. Way bigger than the US bubble. So, while the US did increase its deficits, and lower its interest rates, capital investments have still been coming in.

You must look at the markets globally.
globally, interest rates are in the can pretty much everywhere that isn't a complete shithole (say, russia).

Investors are seeking low risk investments, and government bonds are considered just that.

to me, that says that gov't bonds are qualitatively different, and so don't necessarily crowd out private investment opportunities. gov't bonds serve a different function in a portfolio than private investments.
 

cubby1223

Lifer
May 24, 2004
13,518
42
86
You do not see this "us against them" mentality.
You do not treat people and especially minorities as we do in America.
You have absolutely no clue what you are talking about.

But as is the norm here in P&N, continue saying whatever the fuck you want because it is your right to do so. There is no standard minimum level of correctness to any post.

At least you were so horribly wrong so early in your post I didn't have to waste any more of my life reading the remainder of your drivel. I do appreciate that, and thank you :D
 
Last edited: