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To: mishedlo who wrote (53064)	2/8/2006 11:02:35 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110194

<Perhaps you are agreeing with something else that I did not see.> Yes, I am seeing a great deal that you do not see -- that the living, breathing core of the US economy is about new ideas and the actions that people and companies take to develop and use new ideas to improve things and make a profit. I see it -- you don't. I also see the US in a global context -- you don't. You live in some weird economic fringe counter-culture time warp that believes our central challenge is to convince enough people to return to the good old days of the gold standard. You are a century too late to have a clear view of the world around you.

To: mishedlo who wrote (53064)	2/8/2006 12:08:01 PM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 110194

Much of that R&D will not produce anything useful, and even if it does it will show up in the GDP in due time down the road as products and services. GDP doesn't make judgements about the future value of investments, just counts up what was spent on capital investments. The investment portion of the GDP never takes into account whether or not the investment will yield positive results in the future. Many investments in capital equipment result in losses. The sum total of all R&D (failures+successes) equals all future patents, copyrights and product ideas. The question you have to answer is, can we view R&D as a capital investment? If it isn't an investment, if it is purely an expense like toner, phone service, utilities, etc. then you'd have to be able to argue R&D creates no future value in aggregate.

To: mishedlo who wrote (53064)	2/8/2006 12:15:42 PM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

More hedonic BS. Hold up Mish - what is the imputed value of 27 million new blogs and growing! I hear all that hot air going back and forth will keep global warming going strong and we wont have to worry about cold winters! Brittney and Christina are adding to our society with sites like this : thesuperficial.com February 08, 2006 Paris Hilton is restrained A court commissioner issued a restraining order Tuesday against Paris Hilton, ordering her to stay away from event producer Brian Quintana, who claimed she threatened and harassed him. Quintana testified that Hilton shoved him on at least three occasions and badmouthed him. Quintana said his relationship with Hilton soured after she interrupted a conversation in which Quintana was urging Hilton's boyfriend Stavros Niarchos to reconsider dating her. Much of that R&D will not produce anything useful, Self cleaning bathrooms so I dont have to pay a latin maid anymore! science.slashdot.org Breakthrough cure for aids so the africans can GROW thier population! and the hooker cant tell me to wear a condom anymore! science.slashdot.org Genetic research of sharks sixth sense will give you electroreceptors - talk about electric personality! science.slashdot.org Superman supervision! science.slashdot.org Damn - the future is so bright I got to wear SHADES! hehe But as we all know - until I have the wegmans open up down the road from me - all that other crap is nothing and I am still a poor loser :(