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Re: The Green New Deal

Post by dualstow » Wed Feb 27, 2019 6:51 pm

nematodes are tiny worms. C is a genus abbrev. and elegans is the species. I think.
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Re: The Green New Deal

Post by dualstow » Wed Feb 27, 2019 8:16 pm

She wormed her way into the Senate. O0


I don’t hate AOC. However I do dislike all the undeserved attention and the people who are giving it to her.
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Re: The Green New Deal

Post by WiseOne » Thu Feb 28, 2019 7:10 am

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From Wikipedia
Ocasio-Cortez attended Yorktown High School, graduating in 2007.[20] She came second in the Microbiology category of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a microbiology research project on the effect of antioxidants on the lifespan of the nematode C. elegans.[21] In a show of appreciation for her efforts, the International Astronomical Union named a small asteroid after her: 23238 Ocasio-Cortez.[22][23] In high school, she took part in the National Hispanic Institute's Lorenzo de Zavala (LDZ) Youth Legislative Session. She later became the LDZ Secretary of State while she attended Boston University. Ocasio-Cortez had a John F. Lopez Fellowship.[24] In 2008, while Ocasio-Cortez was a sophomore at Boston University, her father died of lung cancer.[25][26] During college, she served as an intern in the immigration office during the final year of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy's tenure.[27] "I was the only Spanish speaker, and as a result, as basically a kid—a 19-, 20-year-old kid—whenever a frantic call would come into the office because someone is looking for their husband because they have been snatched off the street by ICE, I was the one that had to pick up that phone," Ocasio-Cortez said. "I was the one that had to help that person navigate that system."[27]
Although I don't doubt she's a hard & ambitious worker, I detect a hint of "Member of Most Favored Minority" advantages in here. Did the other Intel ISEF winners get asteroids named after them? And I'm afraid I find it hard to believe that she was the only Spanish speaker in Ted Kennedy's immigration office.

Hopefully, people will eventually realize that there's little substance behind all the blather.
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Re: The Green New Deal

Post by Libertarian666 » Thu Feb 28, 2019 10:42 am

WiseOne wrote:
Thu Feb 28, 2019 7:10 am

From Wikipedia
Ocasio-Cortez attended Yorktown High School, graduating in 2007.[20] She came second in the Microbiology category of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a microbiology research project on the effect of antioxidants on the lifespan of the nematode C. elegans.[21] In a show of appreciation for her efforts, the International Astronomical Union named a small asteroid after her: 23238 Ocasio-Cortez.[22][23] In high school, she took part in the National Hispanic Institute's Lorenzo de Zavala (LDZ) Youth Legislative Session. She later became the LDZ Secretary of State while she attended Boston University. Ocasio-Cortez had a John F. Lopez Fellowship.[24] In 2008, while Ocasio-Cortez was a sophomore at Boston University, her father died of lung cancer.[25][26] During college, she served as an intern in the immigration office during the final year of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy's tenure.[27] "I was the only Spanish speaker, and as a result, as basically a kid—a 19-, 20-year-old kid—whenever a frantic call would come into the office because someone is looking for their husband because they have been snatched off the street by ICE, I was the one that had to pick up that phone," Ocasio-Cortez said. "I was the one that had to help that person navigate that system."[27]
Although I don't doubt she's a hard & ambitious worker, I detect a hint of "Member of Most Favored Minority" advantages in here. Did the other Intel ISEF winners get asteroids named after them? And I'm afraid I find it hard to believe that she was the only Spanish speaker in Ted Kennedy's immigration office.

Hopefully, people will eventually realize that there's little substance behind all the blather.
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Re: The Green New Deal

Post by Libertarian666 » Thu Feb 28, 2019 10:44 am

dualstow wrote:
Wed Feb 27, 2019 8:16 pm
She wormed her way into the Senate. O0
Actually she's in the House, not the Senate. Which is bad enough.
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Re: The Green New Deal

Post by dualstow » Thu Feb 28, 2019 11:09 am

Excuse me, yes: House.
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Re: The Green New Deal

Post by pmward » Thu Feb 28, 2019 12:24 pm

Apparently Powell bashed MMT to both the House and Senate the last few days. Of course, AOC was not present for this: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fed-powe ... 29640.html
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Re: The Green New Deal

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Thu Feb 28, 2019 12:24 pm
Apparently Powell bashed MMT to both the House and Senate the last few days. Of course, AOC was not present for this: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fed-powe ... 29640.html
At the center of MMT: the idea that tax policy would be more effective at controlling inflation. Instead of asking the Fed to stabilize prices through tools like interest rates, MMT suggests that when prices get too high, Congress can just raise taxes. If prices dip too low, Congress can cut taxes.
Yeah, seems like something that Congress would be into, but the Fed would not.
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Re: The Green New Deal

Post by pmward » Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:13 pm

Yep. That's why I think it's inevitable that the government will eventually go down that road. I don't think the politicians will be able to resist giving themselves both a blank check to spend whatever they want, and also to feel like they could give themselves the power to bypass the fed and control inflation. It's pretty much the backbone behind all of AOC's crazy spending ideas, that the government can get away with assuming infinite debt and spending infinite money so long as they keep taxes at a level that controls for inflation. It's pure craziness to think that there is no line that you can cross that would create a crisis.
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Re: The Green New Deal

Post by Cortopassi » Thu Feb 28, 2019 3:07 pm

pmward wrote:
Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:13 pm
It's pure craziness to think that there is no line that you can cross that would create a crisis.
I'm sure there are people who have been out of the market since 1987 and 2000 and 2008 thinking it can't keep on going up, there is too much debt, unsustainable.

Every few years people seem to come to the conclusion that our debt is too big and the party is over. Yet it keeps on growing and we have yet to be called on it.

I certainly don't know a timeline or what the line is that can't be crossed. Only that many, many supposedly smart people have called for it a long time ago (or call for it perpetually) and it still hasn't happened.

And if you've been out of the market during that time (I was for a chunk before 2014) and highly into gold waiting for that time, you've pretty much been screwed.

PP is better.
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Re: The Green New Deal

Post by pmward » Thu Feb 28, 2019 4:21 pm

Cortopassi wrote:
Thu Feb 28, 2019 3:07 pm
pmward wrote:
Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:13 pm
It's pure craziness to think that there is no line that you can cross that would create a crisis.
I'm sure there are people who have been out of the market since 1987 and 2000 and 2008 thinking it can't keep on going up, there is too much debt, unsustainable.

Every few years people seem to come to the conclusion that our debt is too big and the party is over. Yet it keeps on growing and we have yet to be called on it.

I certainly don't know a timeline or what the line is that can't be crossed. Only that many, many supposedly smart people have called for it a long time ago (or call for it perpetually) and it still hasn't happened.

And if you've been out of the market during that time (I was for a chunk before 2014) and highly into gold waiting for that time, you've pretty much been screwed.

PP is better.
I agree that we don't know where the bounds are. That's also no reason to intentionally test them, haha. That's really what they are proposing, is printing money and binging on debt to do whatever they want. Guaranteeing jobs for everyone, having a "new green deal", paying for college and health care for all, etc all by simply printing money and binging on debt. Then increasing and decreasing taxes, not to pay the debt or generate revenue, but as a way to keep inflation in check. Interest rates would permanently be 0, so they would be substituting taxes for interest rates as the way to attempt to control the currency values.

I also agree that it's best to have a balanced portfolio, to benefit come what may. But I also don't think that if we go to MMT it's going to end well. While we here will do ok with a PP, we are the minority. It's not going to end well for the average stock and bond only investor. All kinds of people that were saving all their lives to be independent in retirement will wind up being forced into dependence on the government. I don't think the central bank system is great either, it's a flawed system as well, but at least it separates politics from monetary policy and does not give congress a blank check to spend as much money as they want and hope there will be no consequences.

That being said, I do always look at both sides of the argument. If anyone is interested, this is a lecture from a very pro-MMT professor. It's very much the counter-argument against what I'm saying. This is kind of the 101 lecture on MMT, and it's kind of the pillar that AOC and the more socialistic Dems policies and opinions are based on. It's always good to look at things from both angles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5JTn7GS4oA
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Re: The Green New Deal

Post by Xan » Thu Feb 28, 2019 5:07 pm

MMT has been discussed here in great detail many years ago. I believe it's a "fork" of MMT that is more interesting: Monetary Realism, or "MR".

MR is the factual parts of MMT without the opinions. That is, MR attempts to describe the system as it exists without the "therefore we should..." of MMT. MR does include all the MMT bits about how a country being in debt denominated in its own currency is not (BY ITSELF) a problem.

It may well represent other problems: government doing too much, being too big a part of our lives. But other than the inflation constraint, running a deficit doesn't actually have much of a downside.
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Re: The Green New Deal

Post by Libertarian666 » Thu Feb 28, 2019 5:31 pm

Xan wrote:
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MMT has been discussed here in great detail many years ago. I believe it's a "fork" of MMT that is more interesting: Monetary Realism, or "MR".

MR is the factual parts of MMT without the opinions. That is, MR attempts to describe the system as it exists without the "therefore we should..." of MMT. MR does include all the MMT bits about how a country being in debt denominated in its own currency is not (BY ITSELF) a problem.

It may well represent other problems: government doing too much, being too big a part of our lives. But other than the inflation constraint, running a deficit doesn't actually have much of a downside.
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Re: The Green New Deal

Post by boglerdude » Fri Mar 01, 2019 2:14 am

MMT folks bring ethics into it, which is not economics. I agree with the "job guarantee" but in the form of removal of minimum wage. Ironically, socialist "progressives" wont allow that to happen, and so our parks here in socal are filled with folks sitting around.

MMT cant go mainstream because it undermines faith in the dollar. If people start questioning the dollar they run out and buy real things like commodities and we get hyperinflation.
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Re: The Green New Deal

Post by boglerdude » Fri Mar 01, 2019 2:35 am

And there's the problem of how the unlimited money you print, and the 0% rates you offer, will play out in the international markets. Which I havent looked into.

http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014 ... aints.html
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Post by WiseOne » Fri Mar 01, 2019 6:45 am

It isn't only about the money. All this infrastructure work has to be done by union labor, remember. How long do you think it will take to build a high speed rail network that can take over all our intercity travel needs? Or upgrade every existing building? It took NYC ~10 years to revamp the GWB bus station that was supposed to be done in 2 years. And 100 years to finish just PART of the Second Avenue subway line. OK, 10 years if you ignore the 90 years spent dithering about it.

For my 100 year old, historic building, we already know what upgrades are needed to improve energy efficiency. Money would help get them done, but between planning and executing a project that disrupts residents' lives and requires city oversight, it would still take years. Not to mention that there are a lot of NYC ordinances that get in the way of things like putting solar panels on rooftops, which is why very few buildings have them even though probably the majority of coops have tried - our electricity rates are so high that it's a no brainer to get solar if you can. If AOC really wanted to help in this area she should call for reducing building regulations, and simplifying the building permit process.
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Re: The Green New Deal

Post by Libertarian666 » Sat Mar 02, 2019 7:29 am

boglerdude wrote:
Fri Mar 01, 2019 2:35 am
And there's the problem of how the unlimited money you print, and the 0% rates you offer, will play out in the international markets. Which I havent looked into.

http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014 ... aints.html
That probably won't affect the "dollar" relative to the other paper currencies in the world that much.
But if other countries like China and Russia switch to a new gold-backed currency, the "dollar" will be so much toilet paper.
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Post by Kriegsspiel » Fri Jul 12, 2019 3:11 pm

“The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all. Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”
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Re: The Green New Deal

Post by jacksonM » Fri Jul 12, 2019 4:57 pm

Kriegsspiel wrote:
Fri Jul 12, 2019 3:11 pm
“The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all. Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”
- Saikat Chakrabarti link
I think of it as how can we most quickly turn America into a totalitarian socialist/communist country thing. Actually turning down the thermostat on the planet by a fraction of a degree has nothing to do with it.
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Re: The Green New Deal

Post by Mountaineer » Sat Jul 13, 2019 10:25 am

jacksonM wrote:
Fri Jul 12, 2019 4:57 pm
Kriegsspiel wrote:
Fri Jul 12, 2019 3:11 pm
“The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all. Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”
- Saikat Chakrabarti link
I think of it as how can we most quickly turn America into a totalitarian socialist/communist country thing. Actually turning down the thermostat on the planet by a fraction of a degree has nothing to do with it.
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Re: The Green New Deal

Post by Kriegsspiel » Sat Jul 20, 2019 1:53 pm

After reading this post, or better yet the original 44-page document, you’ll understand why the Green New Deal is a bad idea. This is a cautionary tale worth paying attention to.

The goal of Energiewende was to make Germany independent of fossil fuels. But it hasn’t worked out. The 29,000 wind turbines and 1.6 million PV systems provide only 3.1% of Germany’s energy needs and have cost well over 100 billion Euros so far and likely another 450 billion Euros over the next two decades. And much more than that when you add in the extra cost of maintaining fossil generation systems to back up the lack of wind and sunshine from seconds to weeks.

Because of their extremely low energy density and need for a great deal of space, forests are being cut down, pits dug, and filled with hundreds of tons of reinforced concrete for wind turbines to stand on, 5 acres per turbine. With the forest no longer protecting the soil, it is now vulnerable to wind and rain erosion.

Because wind and solar farms get a guaranteed price for 20 years, they have no need to innovate, do research, or please customers, who paid them 176 billion euros for electricity with a market value of just 5 billion euros from 2000-2016. This is money that taxpayers could have used to build bridges, energy efficient buildings, or renovate schools, which would create even more jobs than the wind and solar industry claims so they can tout themselves as good for society, perhaps they aren’t so great when you look at other ways and jobs that could have been created with all the subsidies (Vernunftkraft 2018).

Germany’s electricity rates have skyrocketed to the highest levels in the EU because of the Energiewende debacle. link
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