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To: RetiredNow who wrote (881132)8/20/2015 8:48:16 AM
From: TideGlider3 Recommendations

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Brumar89
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RetiredNow

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They do the same thing with brush. They used too clear it, burn it off intentionally in small areas at a time. Some time in the 90s the greenies decided that was wrong. The Feds stopped clearing the bush build up and now we have massive fires.



To: RetiredNow who wrote (881132)8/20/2015 10:50:32 PM
From: SilentZ2 Recommendations

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>Has anyone stopped to think that business cycles are normal and that we should just let them play out, because downturns clear out the excesses of the boom portion of the business cycles?

*Emerges from lurking for some quick snark*. Yes, we call them the policymakers of the 18,19th, and early 20 centuries...

en.wikipedia.org

(Non-US events deleted)
18th century[ edit]
- Panic of 1792 New York
- Panic of 1796–1797, Britain and United States

19th century[ edit]
- Panic of 1819, a U.S. recession with bank failures; culmination of U.S.'s first boom-to-bust economic cycle
- Panic of 1837, a U.S. recession with bank failures, followed by a 5-year depression
- Panic of 1857, a U.S. recession with bank failures
- Panic of 1873, a U.S. recession with bank failures, followed by a 4-year depression
- Panic of 1884, United States and Europe
- Panic of 1893, a U.S. recession with bank failures
- Panic of 1896, acute U.S. recession


20th century[ edit]
- Panic of 1901, a U.S. economic recession that started a fight for financial control of the Northern Pacific Railway
- Panic of 1907, a U.S. economic recession with bank failures
- Great Depression, the worst systemic banking crisis of the 20th century


*Crickets for half a century*


then... oh, huh?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School


Although the Austrian School has been considered heterodox since the late 1930s, it began to attract renewed academic and public interest starting in the 1970s


And back to:


- Savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s in the U.S.
-1998 collapse of Long-Term Capital Management

21st century[ edit]

- Late-2000s financial crisis, including: Subprime mortgage crisis in the U.S. starting in 2007

-Z



To: RetiredNow who wrote (881132)8/24/2015 9:50:40 PM
From: John Vosilla  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574575
 
Has anyone stopped to think that when we don't allow the downturns to clear out those excesses (misallocation of capital, sky high asset prices), then we end up with chronic over-indebtedness, zombie companies, and permanent low to no growth in productivity and GDP?

Yes plus a dwindling middle class and younger generation with less and less purchasing power. Is it any wonder so many people fleeing high cost liberal cities of the NE and west coast to have any shot at the American dream? Can't say I buy everything the GOP says either but it is the lesser of two evils these days. I am fearing this asset bubble goes parabolic during the next administration given very low rates remain in place for years to come with collapse in oil prices and Chinese economy a house of cards speculative bubble in need of more intervention.. Both parties will push for more debt and easy financing to get J6P and boomerangs and millenials into home ownership at sky high prices at the end of the cycle..