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Strategies & Market Trends : Heinz Blasnik- Views You Can Use -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: yard_man who wrote (4631)	6/12/2010 12:05:48 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4904

<I think calling the market "everything" misses the point.> Agreed... but so is separating it out. <There is good public policy regarding pollution and there is bad public policy regarding pollution. > Of course, but that wasn't the topic. The issue is need there be ANY... which of course I would say yes. <Obviously -- allowing people to dump lead was bad and law that moved the industry toward recovering the lead in lead acid batteries was good. This was a measure that did not seek to shut down an industry or use the government to "engineer" a shift to some hitherto unforseen, unproven technology.> Actually one could say a "measure" should be designed to protect people and environment to a certain level... if a basic level of decency DID shut down the industry or eliminate certain products... it may be best. As I said, these are NOT simple... "people", and in our society they operate through various levels of what we call the "government", need to decide "baselines" for "externalities" that then "Mr. Market" can (much more "efficiently" than cetralized systems) operate within. Because "Mr. Market's" raison d'etre is profit in the form of paper currency, and not "well being" of people via pollution levels (for example, but "housing criteria" or any other idea can be imagined). Value of life, or health is a "value call"... and EVERYONE has different values. As for the rest, as I said, this is complex, and NOT simple... and as to "cap and trade", my commentary here is basic and unrelated to that. Seeing that this is a "sacred thread" I will not be posting any further on the topic... don't want to take away from the spirit here. DAK