mpweiher

Looks pretty scammy to me...no links to actual apps produced as far as I can see. Update: via the "press" link you get to articles that show apps. Mostly free, low single digit total reviews...low r…

"The former. There was no mechanism to allow someone to leave the Euro" Hmm...this is once again conflating defaulting with leaving the Euro. From the article you cited: "Actually, a second [default]…

"But then the question becomes, what do you do when countries actually increase spending and debt when the economy is good, and therefore have nothing to spend when the bad times arrive." "So it beco…

Following a default or possibly just a Euro exit: pre-Euro rates in the late 90ies were 10-25%! http://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/cb/articles/?id=2264 …

They screwed the European establishment, not the other way around...running up huge debts that they knew they would never be able to repay. What Europe is doing now is trying to save their sorry asses…

Interest rates should then also be fixed to central bank AAA rates...no risk, no fun.

Yes, as far as I know this is correct. In fact, reports by the monitors said that there wasn't even a capability to actually collect taxes in the tax collecting agencies, apart from no willingness an…

"[Public & Private bank debt] effectively the same [under TARGET2]" Interesting assertion, as it would mean there effectively are no private banks and "too big to fail" is enshrined in basic EU me…

"The idea that you can spend your way out of debt has been shown to be disastrous over and over," The idea is not that you can spend your way out of debt, that would be silly. The idea is that you ca…

What makes you think the elites are not good at playing this game? They seem to be doing an admirable job protecting their interests.

So not "being able" to default is not a result of being in the Euro, but of wanting to remain in the Euro...

The problem is that the ones paying for it are not the tax evaders and corrupt politicians that caused the mess. And as usual, it is easier to divert blame to "evil foreigners". Not that there isn't i…

"Because as part of the Eurozone your national bank and sovereign state has monetary and fiscal obligations to the ECB and Eurozone creditors." But the point was that these were private bank deb…

I am pretty sure defaulting is independent of the currency that you decide not to pay your debts in... Anyway, the default has already occurred, so I must have missed the news on the Euro exit: http…

Not so fast: Greek "prosperity" for the last decade has largely rested on indirect transfers due to being able to borrow at "German" interest rates, which they did with abandon. So Greece was able to…

Not sure how Ireland was "in deeper": they were under no obligation to make up for the private losses of the banks. How did being part of the Euro require the Irish state/tax payer to bankrupt the s…

Evidence to the contrary: http://smallbutkindamighty.com/2012/12/16/guns-dont-kill-men... …

The lowest I could find (outside of basecamp) were here: http://i.imgur.com/U6GaL.jpg Did anyone find climbers lower in the icefall?

Yeah, panning with the mouse was awful, but with the keyboard it became a real joy, and I started finding the climbers.

Surely you see the irony of completely missing the point of what I wrote?

"What you are saying is that if the firearms are available, some of them will be used for violence." No, I am saying that greater availability of firearms is correlated with greater number of deaths c…

"...and a majority reach for thought ful answers like gun control" TFTY. :-)

They didn't have the chance to drop by the same amount, because they were much lower to begin with. And are still much lower. But drop they did. So what's the evidence again for higher incarceration…

So are you claiming that the substitution rate is 100%? Any evidence for that? If it's any less than that, we've saved some lives. Which I consider a Good Thing™, but you're obviously entitled to yo…

Except that crime rates dropped the same way in just about every other western country without harsher sentencing, and without locking up large sections of the population. Update: Thanks "lostlogin",…

Well... (a) the US seems to working its way to tyranny just fine with the 2nd amendment intact. (b) many other countries seem to do a pretty passable imitation of freedom without a 2nd amendment. Upda…

AFAIK, it's copiers, not printers. Color copiers in particular will fail with an obscure error code if you try to copy money. If you call that code in, your visitor won't be the technician... (I use…

"As for the cause and effect line you draw, hardly so clear cut. Switzerland has assault rifles in every home and a low crime rate. The UK has an effective gun ban and a very high crime rate." Thanks …