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I can deal with something that has flaws; I don't know how to deal with something that doesn't represent items about which I'm trying to make decisions. I guess this is one of the reasons I don't grok economics and running a country.

Query: isn't this going to be self-defeating? IOW, innovation feedback spirals down. I probably just used a bad word (spirals) because that has a context within economics.

Except it has a bias of the latest food diet craze. I suppose that popular atbreastude needs to be included somehow but isn't this atbreastude a more major factor than needed in the BigMac index?

The problem is the phenomena that, once a majority uses it as a measurement tool, it's no longer useful because all it measures is the measurers, not the economic trends. I wrote that badly.. I don't write it better. The rule is sort of like an economic HUP. dollars absolute Therefore

I understand that. It was his timing that bothered me.

Yes but just in time for the elections. The timing bothered me; that's all. I can't forget that he was a protegee of Ayn Rand who had a serious reality filter.

We were talking about it; weren't we? REmember, this was at the time of the Y2K and dotcoms insanity. Or am I misremembering dicussions?

Think outside the box, Morten. First of all, dump all the implicit buttumptions that they will obey the rules. They do not; their goal is to remove all those rules. Then begin to think. measurement structure.

And because of that, all comm usage in the US is getting gouged

Translation nitpik: not reduct...reduce

BTW, that approach never made sense to me.

Only at the point of insection of the lines where one is going up and the other is going down.

The worst part of that era was removing checks and balances in savings and loan banking laws such that no collateral was needed for 0% of the value of the loans.

Be prepared for another cycle of higher taxes, more public spending stupidity in the US area. People have forgotten.

BAH