To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (513227 ) 10/12/2012 3:30:51 PM From: X Y Zebra Respond to of 794041 ok.... i will accept this much.... anyone with practical (and successful) business experience will be able to (provided you do not have a schizophrenic government changing fiscal policy every year, *and similar) budget, project, and making reasonable assumptions (which do not necessarily would include extensive ventures into debt) that would lead to a successful operation. in theory, i would agree (as i shudder -gg) that a CONSERVATIVE economist (who aligns with misses and/or friedman) is best equipped to execute on what you suggest...... my only problem is that in their "black box" models.... they tend to ignore 'human behavior', which in extreme cases can be a very influential factor to the point of rendering ANY projection completely useless.... this problem is enhanced when you have these voodoo priests elevated to levels of arrogance that kills whatever objectivity they could have had, including the idea that chaos theory and similar, pretend to tell me that consider such erratic human behavior...... to add to the problem, you have organizations like the nobel prize giving clowns who tell us all that OBAMA deserved the peace prize.... and now in their latest clownish performance tell us that the "european union" is the recipient of same..... that deserves a ...lmao... ask nigel farage ...... -lolzerohedge.com In an epic rant, trumping Biderman, UKIP's Nigel Farage appears to have reached the limit of his frustration with his 'peers' in the European Parliament after the Spanish bailout. Rajoy's proclamation that this bailout shows what a success the euro-zone has been, sends Farage over the edge as he sees the Spaniard as just about the most incompetent leader in the whole of Europe (up there with favorites like Van Rompuy and Barroso). The erudite Englishman notes that by any objective criteria "The Euro Has Failed" expanding on the insane farce of Italy funding Spain's banking bailout at a loss (borrowing at 6% to fund a loan at 3% as we discussed here). "This 'genius' deal makes things worse not better" as it merely drives other nations towards needing bailouts themselves and while his socialist colleagues in the room are mumbling and checking their blackberries, he reminds them that Spanish national debt will surge and that 100 billion does not solve the problem, and that if Greece leaves, the ECB is failed, is gone, and to rectify this there will be a cash call from the very same PIIS (Ex-G) that are tumbling towards the abyss. Blood pressure surges as he screams "you couldn't make this up" concluding that "the Euro Titanic has now hit the Iceberg and sadly there simply aren't enough lifeboats." the point is... most economists are participant of these charades, which add to my skepticism and resistance to accept economists as anything else but... voodoo sacerdotal clowns.... we need in the USA senate and house of representatives people like mr. farage... it may help us all.