No discussion of economics on BITOG?

[CivicFan]

Originally Posted By: genynnc
Originally Posted By: sangyup81
Economics always turns political because there's always two sides to every economic topic.


Correct. We have one ideology that believes in self-interest and human action and we have the other who believes in altruism and central planning. The Austrian School vs. Keynesians. Praxeology vs. Marxism. Volutnary exchange vs. coercion. Free market vs. State Socialism. Lots and lots of politics in there.

You can talk about it but is has to be in large over-hanging philosophical platitudes.



When you go beyond the leissez faire bazaar trade, economics is inevitably tied with government policy. So it's no surprise that a topic about economics will turn into a political discussion.

 

[daves87rs]

Agreed.

 

[PeteTheFarmer]

Originally Posted By: sangyup81
Economics always turns political because there's always two sides to every economic topic.


And because it's the only field where two people can share a Nobel Prize for saying the opposite thing.

 

[mechanicx]

Originally Posted By: genynnc
Originally Posted By: sangyup81
Economics always turns political because there's always two sides to every economic topic.


Correct. We have one ideology that believes in self-interest and human action and we have the other who believes in altruism and central planning. The Austrian School vs. Keynesians. Praxeology vs. Marxism. Volutnary exchange vs. coercion. Free market vs. State Socialism. Lots and lots of politics in there.

You can talk about it but is has to be in large over-hanging philosophical platitudes.



I think those are two ends of the extreme and pretty common views. There's also a middle ground. Maybe the middle ground is not as common a view but it's usually more correct IMO.

 

[TurboLuver]

Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
Do you refute the existence of the Bilderberg group? They meet every year. Plenty of people cover the meetings and video tape the attendees, but you won't see it in TMSM.




I think it is pretty safe to say that 120+ of the worlds most powerful people don't "get together" every year to play Texas hold'em.

 

[Stu_Rock]

Originally Posted By: TurboLuver
Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
Do you refute the existence of the Bilderberg group? They meet every year. Plenty of people cover the meetings and video tape the attendees, but you won't see it in TMSM.
I think it is pretty safe to say that 120+ of the worlds most powerful people don't "get together" every year to play Texas hold'em.
True. I'm sure there's a lot of discussion about big global issues.

That said, there's no way that Bilderbergers or alleged Illuminati have sufficient consensus to engage in a major conspiracy. They are diverse people with, in many cases, interests at odds with each other.

Greenaccord02 is right; notions of a conspiracy for a new world order are "completely tinfoil-hat ridiculous."