tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post97245153208938251..comments2023-10-25T08:46:20.242-05:00Comments on The Distributist Review: Follow Up To "Utopia"John Médaillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16463267750952578888noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-19935618008113415522007-08-17T09:37:00.000-05:002007-08-17T09:37:00.000-05:00I thought it was clear that I was already invested...I thought it was clear that I was already invested. And that I hadn't taken a position on Reagan, btw. Straw men are people too, John. Why are you <A HREF="http://www.hobbitmanor.com/fisks/johnm_1.html" REL="nofollow">always</A> picking on them?Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11638909905103945267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-15730285161023185062007-08-16T09:11:00.000-05:002007-08-16T09:11:00.000-05:00The advice to put your money where your mouth is i...The advice to <I>put your money where your mouth is</I> is always good advice, but it does work two ways. If the "smart money" is still bullish, Kevin ought to sell the farm and buy stocks. Good luck! And Kevin seems obsessed with the Laugher Curve, despite the fact that no one can locate it. Can Kevin tell us where we are on the curve, or what shape this curve has? If he can, he has declined to do so.<BR/><BR/>But one wonders why he thinks it matters. As I pointed out, Reagan <I>raised</I> taxes, not lowered them; he didn't use the curve. Either way, he looses. If the curve is true, he abandoned it; if it is false, he used it rhetorically to justify a lot of foolish actions. <BR/><BR/>So tell me again how the Laugher curve (true or false) helps your case?John Médaillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16463267750952578888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-45947390768409442092007-08-16T08:14:00.000-05:002007-08-16T08:14:00.000-05:00BTW, don't let John's erudition scare you. He sin...BTW, don't let John's erudition scare you. <A HREF="http://www.hobbitmanor.com/fisks/johnm_intro.html" REL="nofollow">He sings well, but his lyrics are nonsense.</A> There lots and lots of Very Smart Analysts who aren't panicing right now. The total stock market is still up for the year, and that's after nice gains in 2006. The run up from the late spring has turned around, is all.Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11638909905103945267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-75645253893038641172007-08-16T08:07:00.000-05:002007-08-16T08:07:00.000-05:00Roy, I think you're being a little hysterical. If...Roy, I think you're being a little hysterical. If you are so sure that disaster is looming, why don't you make some easy money and short the market? Its relatively easy to do, just call up a broker. If the market tanks, you'll make out like a villain. But if things go well, you could lose money. Put your money where your mouth is! Mine is betting on the stength of the economy, not against it.Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11638909905103945267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-31937615383594049472007-08-15T16:00:00.000-05:002007-08-15T16:00:00.000-05:00I don't know how. All I do know is that if we don'...I don't know how. All I do know is that if we don't get rid of our debts, we'll all risk ending up on the streets penniless or starving to death. This is scaring me like nobody's business. I don't want that happening to you or me or anyone.<BR/><BR/>Just today, the NYSE dropped another 120 some-odd points. Food prices are going up. More hedge funds are shaking on the edge of bankruptcy. <BR/><BR/>I don't want to go through what my folks and their folks went through in the Great Depression. I don't want to see that happen to you or anyone else in this country. And the only thing I know what to advise for the moment, along with what John suggested, is to get out of debt a.s.a.p.<BR/><BR/>Along with prayer, I don't know what else to advise.Roy F. Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02404597899864235343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-13207889693448425732007-08-15T13:05:00.000-05:002007-08-15T13:05:00.000-05:00How would you propose one got out of thousands of ...How would you propose one got out of thousands of dollars in college debt that will take me 30 years to repay if I had a good job!Athanasiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11857043218277004727noreply@blogger.com