FT paywall.

Essentially, come next Thursday the ECB is going to reveal a mass bond-buying scheme known as quantitative easing. It's a form of monetary stimulus--used to increase the amount of money in the economy--which should put the Eurozone back on track. It'll be closer to the policies of Mark Carney and Ben Bernanke (who's a brilliant economist) at the BoE and Fed respectively.

However, the German Bundesbank exerts a lot of influence over Eurozone monetary policy, and they are exceptionally afraid of inflation to the point of ridiculousness. It's expected that the German governors on the ECB will reject or hamstring the QE efforts.

Hopefully, however, the ECB will be able to raise inflation and stabilise aggregate demand.

Now you look obsessed.

Not really, I just want to see him get banned for my own amusement to be honest.

Quote from: Casper on January 16, 2015, 05:53:00 PM

I could, but I'm having an existential crisis.

just know that you're going to be ugly when you're older anyway, may as well kill yourself now

Goddamn, it's like you're looking for a ban.

Let me help you on your way.

Even that is pathetic. Why do you care at all what others post? You participating at all is counterproductive and only solidifies it being derailed when you could have simply ignored it.

Why do you even care about the fact that I care in some minimal capacity.

Caring about somebody's minimal amount of caring is surely worse?

When will you change your name plate

When somebody makes me one.

um... would you rather be able to change the color of your clothes whenever, or be able to have your clothes grow with you?

I don't even fucking know what you're asking me.

Quote from: Meta Cognition on January 16, 2015, 05:39:04 PM

Quote from: Simseo on January 16, 2015, 05:37:52 PM

What did you think of the SpaceX barge landing attempt?

Was that the one today where the thing fucking exploded?

Yep. Although the entire thing was a huge success, apart from the rapid unplanned disassembly.

Yeah, I gotta hand it to SpaceX. They're doing amazing work, I just hope the general public isn't turned off by the occasional fireball.

You mean the massive rule clarification project that was announced weeks before it was posted in the Flood for review and comment? That was done to make moderating users less subjective.

It is actually an improvement, if I say so myself. So well done for pulling it off.

What did you think of the SpaceX barge landing attempt?

Was that the one today where the thing fucking exploded?

There really is no way. Power always corrupts. The income tax made it all possible, and they never had such an authority.

Well considering the government clearly had the power to impose an income tax, it seems a bit redundant to say the income tax enabled it.

Quote from: Meta Cognition on January 16, 2015, 05:26:43 PM

Wait a fucking minute.

You let Kiyo know you'd be revoking powers from her before you revoked said powers?

Yes, I did. I did trust her enough not to do something stupid (and she never had the ability to nuke anyone's account but her own). I'm really sad to see this kind of thing happen and blow up this big, but well, there's nothing I can do.

Oh, thank God for that. For a second I thought you'd risked having other people nuked.

Wait a fucking minute.

You let Kiyo know you'd be revoking powers from her before you revoked said powers?

Mr Psy says all will be explained shortly.

How exactly could a despot be corrupt though? I mean everything they do and say is legal.

Corruption=/=legality.

I'd call pork-barreling corrupt to a degree, but it's still legal.

I mean, isn't the entire point of anti-corruption legislation to fight corruption not previously deemed illegal?

Despotisms are the worst for corruption, democracies are historically the best.

Nobody eliminates corruption, but certain societies manage to suppress them fairly well.