Our failed democracy is the product of idiocy and this man is too much of a coward to say it. He can't alienate his customer base.  At the end of the day he needs those stupid people to buy his book  ;) But, more seriously I agree with you.  He was a bit too diplomatic at the beginning of the talk.

Subsequently when confronted with aspects of the real world that contradict their theory they refuse to accept it. For example the ship full of global warming scientists stuck in the ice that recently made the news. Not sure what you are trying to say here.  What theory does that real world news it...

Good link.  Some venting follows: What puzzles me is how people identify themselves with labels such as "liberal", "conservative", "libertarian", etc. and very willingly take on all the baggage that comes with those labels.  Rick mentioning about Republicans believing t...

I've been a lurker for 1+ year, and this is my first post.  You've got a really great forum going on here. One, inflows of capital tend to push up exchange rates and threaten exports. So governments are increasingly prone to intervene—that is, to restrain the rise in their currencies by selling them...