[Verbiage]

Originally Posted by duck fat

Verbiage You have inspired me to start using the app again.

Just added the coffees I had for breakfast. *Phew* that was hard work.

Hopefully, you will soon start to feel guilty when you don't log.

[jtodd_fl]

Originally Posted by Biorin

I have not read it. Fiat currency ...I mean, that 500X is fugly.

You made a money pun. Hehe...

[Mr Tonka]

Originally Posted by Verbiage

Added you man!

Hope my dick pic avatar doesn't offend you.

[jtodd_fl]

Originally Posted by Mr Tonka

Hope my dick pic avatar doesn't offend you.

Went to look - saw the following - was disappointed in your Dick pic.

[Mr Tonka]

Originally Posted by jtodd_fl

Went to look - saw the following - was disappointed in your Dick pic.

Did you mistakenly look in the mirror again?

[ASBSECU E93]

Originally Posted by Biorin

I have not read it. Fiat currency ...I mean, that 500X is fugly.

^this - what the big brain said

[jtodd_fl]

Originally Posted by Mr Tonka

Did you mistakenly look in the mirror again?

Was going to find a witty pictorial comeback... aborted.

Pro-tip: Don't google "pictures of famous dicks"

[Mr Tonka]

Originally Posted by jtodd_fl

Was going to find a witty pictorial comeback... aborted.

Pro-tip: Don't google "pictures of famous dicks"

[Banana Hammock]

Originally Posted by Verbiage

Hopefully, you will soon start to feel guilty when you don't log.

I hope so. If anything, reading posts here in OT should slap some sense into me

Originally Posted by jtodd_fl

Was going to find a witty pictorial comeback... aborted.

Pro-tip: Don't google "pictures of famous dicks"

Against my better judgement, I decided to play with fire. I'm okay with this...

[jtodd_fl]

Originally Posted by Verbiage

@jtodd_fl

Check this out... it is done with their Patrimony World Time, but it is the same movement. Just the entire outside is different.

It is really an ingenious design. The dark area around the Lambert Projection of the earth at center, is actually a shaded sapphire disk that rotates and is an accurate representation of which of those timezones are in darkness vs the ones in light. It is actually a really neat complication.

[ASBSECU E93]

Originally Posted by jtodd_fl

This talk of books sort of got me thinking.
Hey finance personages... Biorin ASBSECU E93 and others who's financiality (yep, made it up) may yet be a mystery to me...

Have any of you read Stephenson - specifically either the Baroque Cycle of Reamde? Interested in your thoughts on some of the financial themes - from regional currencies, to unified currencies, to commodity backed-currencies, to non-backed currencies, to virtual and crypto currencies... curious how interesting his thoughts are to be people who are for smarter than I am in the field. To me, it is probably "pearls before swine"... interested what the non-swine community has to say.

Edit: added "unified" above.

The illusion here - currency and commodity values are just that...an illusion.

Regardless of what standard is used - very few people have 'real control' to insulate for fluctuations of supply/demand.

Prime example of this: Milk

When fuel was $4/gallon, milk cost X price.

When fuel cost fell to $2/gallon, milk still cost X price.

The commodity of fuel fell by $2/gallon, but the cost of the related commodity did not...

[Mr Tonka]

Originally Posted by jtodd_fl

Was going to find a witty pictorial comeback... aborted.

Pro-tip: Don't google "pictures of famous dicks"

Call 480 DICK.

[Biorin]

Originally Posted by ASBSECU E93

The illusion here - currency and commodity values are just that...an illusion.

Regardless of what standard is used - very few people have 'real control' to insulate for fluctuations of supply/demand.

Prime example of this: Milk

When fuel was $4/gallon, milk cost X price.

When fuel cost fell to $2/gallon, milk still cost X price.

The commodity of fuel fell by $2/gallon, but the cost of the related commodity did not...

"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." I love Hayek.

[jtodd_fl]

Originally Posted by Biorin

"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." I love Hayek.

Me too. She was great in that movie about that Mexican artist. I didn't know she was into economics also.

[Biorin]

Originally Posted by jtodd_fl

Me too. She was great in that movie about that Mexican artist. I didn't know she was into economics also.

When you're married to a billionaire, it's best you know a little bit about money. That being said, I came across this joke earlier...

Einstein dies and goes to heaven. His first day, he meets someone and asks, "What's your IQ?

"145

"Wonderful, we can talk about physics".

The next day, Einstein meets someone else, and asks their IQ.

"100"

"Wonderful, we can talk about music and the arts".

The next day, Einstein meets someone else and asks.

"85"

"What do you think interest rates are going to do?"

[jtodd_fl]

Originally Posted by Biorin

When you're married to a billionaire, it's best you know a little bit about money. That being said, I came across this joke earlier...

Einstein dies and goes to heaven. His first day, he meets someone and asks, "What's your IQ?

"145

"Wonderful, we can talk about physics".

The next day, Einstein meets someone else, and asks their IQ.

"100"

"Wonderful, we can talk about music and the arts".

The next day, Einstein meets someone else and asks.

"85"

"What do you think interest rates are going to do?"

Hah. Funny. Good to know you aren't a Keynesian. though. I would've had to worry.

[Biorin]

Originally Posted by jtodd_fl

Hah. Funny. Good to know you aren't a Keynesian. though. I would've had to worry.

Picked this up on my last trip to B&N (granted, the last trip was almost a year ago).
http://www.amazon.com/Where-Keynes-W.../dp/1604190442

[jtodd_fl]

Originally Posted by Biorin

Picked this up on my last trip to B&N (granted, the last trip was almost a year ago).
http://www.amazon.com/Where-Keynes-W.../dp/1604190442

OK, shit just got real. Since you are actually into it, I have a question. So, I have a question about the "recovery" from the economic meltdown and whether it is a validation of Keynesianism and whether quantitative easing is a counterforce to the Keynesian ideal of government created demand by lowering interest rates to the point of pushing private investment to "lighten the load" carried by the government. I have heard some say that Keynesianism has been largely validated by the last 7 or 8 years of US policy and I have heard others say that QE had a greater effect and that, given it was done in deficit spending, we have yet to settle the bill created by the Keynesian path taken by Bernanke et al. What are your thoughts?

(Maybe this should be in Ask A Girl Anything - Lups was just complaining about it being quiet over there.)

[MKSixer]

Originally Posted by jtodd_fl

OK, shit just got real. Since you are actually into it, I have a question. So, I have a question about the "recovery" from the economic meltdown and whether it is a validation of Keynesianism and whether quantitative easing is a counterforce to the Keynesian ideal of government created demand by lowering interest rates to the point of pushing private investment to "lighten the load" carried by the government. I have heard some say that Keynesianism has been largely validated by the last 7 or 8 years of US policy and I have heard others say that QE had a greater effect and that, given it was done in deficit spending, we have yet to settle the bill created by the Keynesian path taken by Bernanke et al. What are your thoughts?

(Maybe this should be in Ask A Girl Anything - Lups was just complaining about it being quiet over there.)

Shall the Thread Jackers pay a visit?

[jtodd_fl]

Originally Posted by MKSixer

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Shall the Thread Jackers pay a visit?

Whenever I need something jacked, you're the man I call.





Wait wut?

[Mywifes335]

Originally Posted by Biorin

I have not read it. Fiat currency ...I mean, that 500X is fugly.

Wow. I like your homophonic use of the word Fiat.

[jtodd_fl]

Originally Posted by Mywifes335

Wow. I like your homophonic use of the word Fiat.

#nohomophone