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Thursday, May 31, 2018

The Economics Profession Is Broken — But this Isn't the Answer





THe whole profession has made itself narrowly focused which hardly provides insight that helps in macro decisions.

This describes why this came about.  Mostly it is the lack of a rigorous foundational theory but who is listening?

Poverty can be eliminated and must be to produce universal prosperity.  No one else knows where to start except to somehow allow them to spend more of your money.



The Economics Profession Is Broken — But this Isn't the Answer


TAGS History of the Austrian School of EconomicsOther Schools of ThoughtPhilosophy and Methodology

05/17/2018David Gord




https://mises.org/wire/economics-profession-broken-%E2%80%94-isnt-answer


Eric Posner and Gen Weyl claim that economics has become too timid. Posner is an influential law professor at Chicago, and Weyl is a principal researcher at Microsoft. Their article appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education on May 6. Their diagnosis of economics is accurate, but their cure is worse than the disease.

Economists today, they say, have become narrow technocrats. “Economists sought to develop a science on the model of physics because they believed that scientific methods were most conducive to discovering the truth.. . . Policy reforms advocated by mainstream economists were almost always what we call ‘liberal technocratic’— either center-left or center-right. Economists suggested a bit higher or lower minimum wage or interest rate, a bit more or less regulation, depending on their external political orientation and evidence from their research.”

The situation is even worse than that. Economists who reject this standpoint are suppressed. “Economists have maintained this narrow range of methodological and political commitment through their control of academic journals, hiring, and teaching — as well as through the informal enforcement of community norms. We see this in the treatment of the ideological extremes, the ‘Austrians’ (on the right) and the Marxists (on the left), who have been ostracized from the profession.”

In the nineteenth century, things were different. Economists were not narrow specialists but had the broad knowledge of the social sciences needed for visionary measures of reform. “Political economists drew on all the streams of academic speculation — they were as much philosophers as social scientists, and they recognized none of the distinctions among the various contemporary social sciences. Moreover, they saw themselves as reformists, often radical reformists.”

So far, so good: but Posner and Weyl soon go off the rails. The great movement in the 18th and 19th centuries was the destruction of state-controlled mercantilism and the creation of a free market economy. The struggle for laissez-faire, though never fully completed, led to unprecedented economic growth and prosperity.

Posner and Weyl ignore this. Instead, their notion of “vision” stresses equality, not economic liberty. To them, Marx and Keynes rank among the visionaries. They fail to see that Marxism and Keynesianism are not, as they imagine, progressive movements for social change but rather reactionary attempts to interdict the movement toward freedom and restore state control. The Keynesian system is ne-mercantilist and Marxism in practice has been marked by even more ruthless state control. On these matters, Murray Rothbard’s great essay, "Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty” offers unparalleled guidance. 

They acknowledge that free market economists like Friedrich Hayek had a broad perspective, but these economists do not count as visionaries in the progressive sense they favor: “But unlike the political economists of old, they did not offer radical social reform or innovation. Instead they advocated a return to institutions that had prevailed in the 19th-century Anglo-Saxon world.”

Posner and Weyl fail to see that Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard sought to counter the statist tyranny that disfigured the twentieth century and to reinstitute the great movement toward freedom begun by the classical liberals. To those not enamored of egalitarian illusion, that is surely a vision worth fighting for.
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Study: GM Soy Kills Baby Rats in Just 3 Weeks



How real is this implied threat?   These reports are not encouraging and the blatant corruption of the approval process gives us no comfort.


What we need badly is a full press study that also processes the big numbers along with geographic variation.  Monsanto can pay for this but integrity is so necessary to get past where we are at.


We need to trust the food we eat.

Study: GM Soy Kills Baby Rats in Just 3 Weeks

http://humansarefree.com/2018/05/study-gm-soy-kills-baby-rats-in-just-3.html

The best food on store shelves to buy is that food which DOES have holes and nicks where the insects ate some. That proves it's edible.

Recent documentaries show entire fields of genetically modified corn that all looks plastic, with not a bug or bird in sight, not a butterfly or a gnat or a fly, but why? 

Did you know that a diet containing GM soy and maize fed to rats for just 90 days caused a wide range of toxic effects, including DNA damage, blood changes, and damage to the liver and kidneys? 

If you consume GMOs regularly, your gut is actually creating pesticide. You are consuming the genes of organisms that destroy the digestive tracts of beetles and worms.


Bug-less corn?

Currently, about 250,000,000 Americans are guinea pigs for the HUGE GMO experiment going on. America is one big laboratory, and GM food is the ominous variable with untested outcomes for humans.

It's a long-term, scary test that at least 80% of Americans undergo, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, every day. 

However, it's worth noting that research revealed lab rat liver damage as early on as 30 days, and half the babies died in just three weeks!

Are you eating GM corn and GM soy daily? How will YOU feel next month? How about your kids? There is research you should be aware of, and it's from a VERY detailed study done in 2014.

Also, according to a separate published study by the same team of researchers, GM food may also have the ability to "reactivate dormant viruses, create new viruses, and cause cancer by causing over-expression of normal genes." 

They describe the body ingesting fragments from the CaMV-35S "promoter" used in many GM crops. It shows up "incorporated" in the blood, liver and BRAIN TISSUES of experimental rats.

Chronic toxicity from horizontal GMO gene transfer

The biological impact and outright danger of GMO genes transferring into humans and their tissues is the subject of great concern here. The negative impact of genetically modified (GM) food HAS BEEN evaluated. Liver cells in animals show aberrations and increased ratios of DNA fragmentation. 

What does that mean in layman's terms? — That if you are an animal, as rats and humans both are, then your cells are mutating too, weakening, and will soon be multiplying uncontrollably, because the mechanism that controls normal reproduction is broken or mutated. Some of your cells will experience a programmed cell death. 

This makes it easier for cancer cells to take over an organ or some already damaged area of the body, including the brain. This cancer you may be "experiencing" could come from biochemical alterations that create health hazards linked to the ingestion of GM components.

This new "biotech" bug-less cancer food is no kind of food at all. If it gives you disease, it cannot be considered food. Period. It is our job as humans to protect Mother Nature, without altering the genes of what we all consume. We are the only animals with the ability to modify genes in laboratories.

Startling findings reveal deaths of baby rats in 30 days

Rats given certain GM vegetables were found to have DEADLY amounts of toxicity in the kidneys, liver, testes, sperm, blood and DNA. Studies have linked GM feed to sterility and infant mortality.

Enzymes resistant to the famous weed-killer "glyphosate" were found in the blood of rats. These are chromosomal aberrations. 

Nearly every organ observed during research showed DNA damage from a GM soy diet. Soy and corn are two of the most commonly grown GM crops because they are fillers in thousands of popular food products. 

As a walking lab rat that consumes GM "feed" regularly, do you experience hives, itching or scaly or dry skin regularly? Do you experience asthma and wheezing chronically, like after every big meal or when you try to jog or work out?

Are you experiencing abdominal pain, a tingling sensation in the mouth and some nausea from what you thought was a nice meal at a nice restaurant?

Maybe you're making trips to the BUG-FREE food bar. Most canola, you know, is GMO.

Attention, parents: note that the above research also showed that half the babies fed GM soy diedwithin three weeks. 

Sure, rats are just animals in a lab, but where are you "standing" right now? People want their bug-free, inexpensive food, but is cancer a price worth paying? So, do you still want that food that the bugs won't eat? What about that "food" that gives lab rats cancer tumors the size of golf balls within three months? 

You can't live without your kidneys, so you may want to switch to 100% organic food or, at least, avoid GMO like the plague, because it really is one.
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This is the last material since 22 may.  Plenty has been happening and i do think that it is all about North Korea.  Yet that is not resolved at all so silence can be fully justified.

Sources also tell June 11 will be important but experience tells me we may not know why until long after.

At least we are all paying attention to the turnover of top officials.  What is certain is that members of the past regime are been steadily silenced.


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Re_read.
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Did you see the Ryan [PR] interview a short time ago?
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RAPID FIRE.
'Flood is coming'
Future proves past.
[CNN].
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Once the 'extremely guarded & highly classified' information is finally revealed to House investigators, DNI, public etc., RR must recuse or forcefully terminated.
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What was RR's Senate Conf Vote?
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Who do you TRUST?
[RR] recuse/fired who has direct oversight of Mueller?
Sessions un-recuse or #3 [until refill]?
Who is Rachel Brand?
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"The succession question is actually a bit complicated. By default, under an obscure statute known as the the Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, Brand’s temporary successor as the “acting” associate attorney general is her principal deputy, Jesse Panuccio. That same statute would also allow the president to choose someone else to serve as the “acting” AAG on a temporary basis for up to 210 days; the pool of individuals from which the president could draw in this case includes individuals already holding Senate-confirmed positions elsewhere in the executive branch (like EPA administrator Scott Pruitt) or senior civil service lawyers in the Justice Department, specifically."
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New York Attorney General Schneiderman Resigns After Abuse Allegations


This is perhaps the biggest head to fall among what is a huge number of folks leaving the corridors of power.  Most of those resignations appear to represent bricks in the Great Natural Conspiracy or GNC.  GNC is that constellation of souls intent on sexual predation who support each other through to the highest ranks of governance.

It is noteworthy that Q drew attention to him.

I do not think that the Deep State solely the GNC, but the GNC is its internal glue and enforcement arm.  Remove it and attrition and rotation will bring command and control back into the hands of the executive.



New York Attorney General Schneiderman Resigns After Abuse Allegations 

By  Kartikay Mehrotra ,
Erik Larson , and
Henry Goldman


May 7, 2018, 6:49 PM PDT Updated on May 7, 2018, 10:04 PM PDT

Four women alleged physical violence in New Yorker article

Schneiderman “strongly” contests allegations in statement 


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-08/ny-attorney-general-schneiderman-resigns-after-abuse-accusations

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has resigned after a report alleged that he physically abused 4 women

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said he’s resigning as the state’s highest law enforcement official, hours after a report in which four women accused him of physical violence.

Schneiderman, who built his reputation as a courtroom foe of President Donald Trump, a tough enforcer of Wall Street and a self-styled advocate for women, announced his decision late Monday in response to a New Yorker article that outlined claims of abuse, including violent slapping and choking.


“In the last several hours, serious allegations, which I strongly contest, have been made against me,” Schneiderman, 63, said in a statement. "While these allegations are unrelated to my professional conduct or the operations of the office, they will effectively prevent me from leading the office’s work at this critical time.”


Schneiderman’s stunning and swift collapse, coming just hours after the New Yorker published its story, is a blow to the national Democratic party following the December resignation of Minnesota Senator Al Franken amid allegations of groping. Schneiderman had earned national recognition for playing a central role in resisting the Trump’s administration policies. His legal filings on behalf of New York against the travel ban, rescission of protections for children of undocumented immigrants, anti-LGBT measures and women’s access to contraception were accompanied by scathing remarks against Trump’s agenda.

Schneiderman’s resignation will be effective at the close of business Tuesday. The New York City native, in office since 2011, had planned to run for re-election in November. Under state law, the New York legislature has the authority to appoint Schneiderman’s successor.




New York Solicitor General Barbara Underwood, 72, a former Yale Law School professor who once worked as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, will temporarily succeed Schneiderman, spokeswoman Amy Spitalnick said. Underwood, who is next in the line of succession, served as acting U.S. solicitor general from 1998 to 2001 and has argued 20 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. In New York, she worked in senior positions in state and federal prosecutors’ offices in Brooklyn and Queens.


For at least the short term, it will be Underwood’s decision on whether to press ahead with Schneiderman’s agenda.

Schneiderman’s resignation comes amid a national reckoning spurred by the "Me Too" movement and reports of sexual abuse and harassment by powerful men. In public Schneiderman has vocally defended the rights of women, only to see critics including Donald Trump Jr. and senior White House aide Kellyanne Conway hurl his words back at him on Twitter Monday night.

“Gotcha,” Conway tweeted Monday, after posting Schneiderman’s October 2017 tweet to Trump that “No one is above the law.”

Women’s Rights

The allegations against Schneiderman are especially dramatic because they follow years of legislative and legal advocacy for women’s rights, including protecting women from physical and sexual abuse. Among the laws he helped pass during his 12 years in the New York state senate was a penalty for strangulation.
“If a woman can’t control her own body, she isn’t truly free,” Schneiderman said on Nov. 2, 2017, while joining a lawsuit to protect women’s access to birth control. “With men in Washington doing whatever they can to undermine women’s freedom and equality, I’ll do everything in my power to fight back and protect New Yorkers.”
Two of the women who accused Schneiderman, Michelle Manning Barish and Tanya Selvaratnam, spoke on the record to the New Yorker. They didn’t report their allegations to the police at the time, yet both eventually sought medical attention after having been slapped hard and choked, according to the magazine.
After the article was posted online, Governor Andrew Cuomo called for Schneiderman to step down. Cuomo added that he would ask an appropriate district attorney to immediately open an investigation into the claims “and proceed as the facts merit.”

Denies Claim

Shortly before his resignation, Schneiderman denied assaulting anyone.

“In the privacy of intimate relationships, I have engaged in role-playing and other consensual sexual activity,” he said in a statement in response to the article. “I have not assaulted anyone. I have never engaged in non-consensual sex, which is a line I would not cross.”

Like others who have held the post in recent years, Schneiderman has been a regular foe of Wall Street, helping secure billions of dollars in settlements from investment banks over issues stemming from trading in their dark pools to deceptive practices in the sale of residential mortgage-backed securities. UBS Group AG in March agreed to pay $230 million to resolve its part in the probe.


Schneiderman’s departure marked the fourth time in New York that a statewide elected official has either resigned in disgrace or been forced out of campaigning for election.


Eliot Spitzer, the former governor, stepped down in 2008 after disclosures that he’d consorted with high-priced prostitutes. His successor, David Paterson, the lieutenant governor, chose not to run for election in 2010 after he was caught accepting free World Series tickets and having intervened on behalf of a political aide accused of domestic abuse. Alan Hevesi, a state comptroller, had to step down in 2006 after pleading guilty to corruption involving his stewardship of state pension funds.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Strawberry Crops Are the Most Pesticide-Ridden (Full List Here)














Obviously the residue level is low but also not zero which may well be impossible.  I do not like cocktails though as risk does not improve with numbers.  The argument for organics improves accordingly.

Then we have Roundup in all our soils as well to think about.  This one is now impossible to avoid as it is in all our grains and derived processed foods.

We do rely on our liver to dispose of all this, but we do need a deeper understanding of overall efficiency.  Just now long does it take to be completely free?.

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Strawberry Crops Are the Most Pesticide-Ridden (Full List Here)

http://humansarefree.com/2018/05/strawberry-crops-are-most-pesticide.html


Eating fruits and vegetables is vital for overall health, but what if every juicy bite contains a cocktail of toxic pesticides?

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) analyzed samples of conventionally grown produce tested by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and found that nearly 70 percent were contaminated with pesticide residues.

The USDA detected a total of 230 different pesticides and pesticide breakdown products on the thousands of produce samples analyzed, and EWG’s analysis showed that there are variations between the different types of produce.

Each of these food items tested positive for a number of different pesticide residues and contained higher concentrations of pesticides than any other fruits and vegetables.


According to the EWG findings, more than 98 percent of samples of apples, cherries, nectarines, peaches, and strawberries tested positive for residue of at least one type of pesticide. A.
The fruits and vegetables found to contain the highest pesticide residues among the produce samples are apples, apple sauces, blueberries, grapes, green beans, leafy greens, pears, peaches, potatoes, plums, spinach, strawberries, raisins, sweet peppers, tomatoes, and winter squashes.

Meanwhile, the ones in the low to moderate pesticide residue score are apple juice, avocados, bananas, beans, broccoli, cabbages, cantaloupes, carrots, cauliflower, celery, corn, eggplants, grapefruits, lentils, lettuce, onions, oranges, orange juices, peas, prunes, summer squashes, sweet potatoes, tofu, tomato sauces, and zucchini.

EWG singled out the top 12 fruits and vegetables with the highest loads of pesticide residues. See if your favorite made it on the infamous “Dirty Dozen” list:


Strawberries


Spinach


Nectarines


Apples


Grapes


Peaches


Cherries


Pears


Tomatoes


Celery


Potatoes


Sweet bell peppers
EWG also added hot peppers among the produce samples for being highly contaminated with insecticides that are toxic to the human nervous system. 

The USDA found residues of three highly toxic insecticides (acephate, chlorpyrifos, and oxamyl) on a portion of 739 tested samples of hot peppers in 2010 and 2011, at concentrations high enough to cause concern. 

Fast forward to 2015, California regulators still detected some residues of these three insecticides after testing 72 unwashed hot peppers. 

If you can’t afford or find organic or locally grown hot peppers, cooking them is said to diminish the pesticide residues.

These results underscore the health risks that pesticide-ridden crops pose. One study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine found a link between eating high-pesticide-residue foods and fertility problems.

The study involved women who reported consuming two or more servings per day of produce with higher pesticide residues. They were found to be 26 percent less likely to have a successful pregnancy during the study than participants who ate fewer servings of these foods.

Another study, this time with male subjects, found similar associations between consumption of foods with higher pesticide residues and reproductive health.

Moreover, pesticides and other toxic chemicals generally cause various side effects, ranging from hormone disruption, brain and nervous system damage, to many forms of cancer.

These findings raise important questions about the safety of pesticide use on produce, and highlight the importance of buying the organic versions of fruits and vegetables, particularly the Dirty Dozen, to help people skip the toxic chemicals.

The EWG’s Senior Analyst Sonya Lunder explains how their team comes up with lists such as the Dirty Dozen in a video titled “Shopper’s Guide to pesticides in produce.” 

Lunder also highlights the Clean Fifteen list, which features 15 fruits and vegetables with the least amount of pesticide residues among the thousands of samples the EWG tested. The list includes avocado, grapefruit, and cauliflower.

The guide can help people know which foods rank high in the pesticide-laden category and encourage them to buy organic or locally grown versions to ensure getting all the health benefits without the chemical exposure.
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Trump administration to provide records on Obama-era gun-smuggling probe




Sooner or later we will have this sordid story.  So far it sounds like a rogue operation that blew up and everyone then hid rather than coming clean. So it is high time to out the record and be done with it.

Bad things happen.

Good guys get played.  No one is safe from that.  It is also natural for a new admin to want this out and be  done with rather than actually risk owning it..



Trump administration to provide records on Obama-era gun-smuggling probe

Sarah N. Lynch

WED MAR 7, 2018 / 1:54 PM EST


FILE PHOTO: Then U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, addresses a Justice Department news conference in Washington, U.S., March 4, 2015.


https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1GJ2KH?

(Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to provide congressional investigators confidential records on a failed gun-trafficking operation during the Obama administration known as "Fast and Furious" that long has been criticized by Republican lawmakers.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department would hand over documents to the Republican-led House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that had been withheld by Democratic former President Barack Obama's administration.

The agreement reached by Republican President Donald Trump's administration will effectively end a six-year long legal battle in which the committee had gone to federal court to try to enforce a subpoena it had issued to obtain the records.

Congressional Republicans have been pressing the Justice Department for years about the operation. Named after a movie about car racing, the operation sought to curb gun-trafficking criminals who were selling weapons to Mexican drug cartels.

In June 2012, the Republican-led House voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder, an Obama appointee, in contempt for failing to turn over documents about the operation. The committee sued Holder for access to the documents in August 2012. Obama asserted executive privilege to block the disclosure of the documents.

Democrats at the time accused Republicans of engaging in a partisan witch hunt.

In an effort to build bigger cases against major gun traffickers who were selling arms to Mexican cartels, U.S. law enforcement officials elected not to prosecute lower-level offenders transporting more than 2,000 illegal guns.

The operation and its flaws became public after two of those firearms were found in Arizona at the scene of a fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

In September 2012, the Justice Department's inspector general released a report faulting 12 department employees for failures related to the operation. The report vindicated Holder, concluding he neither conceived the operation nor attempted a cover-up.


Holder, now a partner at the law firm Covington and Burling LLP, could not be immediately reached at his office on Wednesday.

(Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch; Editing by Howard Goller and Will Dunham)
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Facebook Faces Class Action Lawsuit for Saving Text and Call Logs of Users




Facebook has a wonderful platform that is capable of becoming the richest company on Earth.  That is the real potential that I have identified.  They are far from seeing this.  Instead, they have chosen to compete for the same dollars as all else.

That has led to reckless data mining for third parties and this cannot ever end well.  Now we start the real lawsuits.  Odds are they will continue to provide a valuable platform and do a lousy job in terms of monetizing it. 


Sad outcome really.

Facebook Faces Class Action Lawsuit for Saving Text and Call Logs of Users

by LUCAS NOLAN
11 May 2018



Facebook is facing a class-action lawsuit following the revelation that the company logged users’ text and call logs using the Facebook smartphone app.


http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/05/11/facebook-faces-class-action-lawsuit-for-saving-text-and-call-logs-of-users/amp/? 


Facebook is now reportedly facing a class-action lawsuit relating to the company’s collection of user text and audio logs via the Facebook smartphone app, Fast Company reports. A lawsuit filed in the northern district of California names John Condelles III as the main plaintiff and states that Facebook “presents several wrongs, including a consumer bait-and-switch, an invasion of privacy, wrongful monitoring of minors and potential attacks on privileged communications.”


It was revealed recently that Facebook was collecting and storing logs of users phone calls and texts, including the recipients of texts and duration of conversations. According to the lawsuit, “Facebook has collected and stored information in a scope and manner beyond that which users knowingly authorized. The practice is ongoing.” The complaint alleges that this practice violates California’s Unfair Competition Law in relation to three counts as well as fraudulent business practice and violation of the Consumer Legal Remedies Act and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.




According to the filing: “The terms of service and privacy notice materials do not inform (and in the past have not informed) the ordinary and reasonably attentive Facebook user that installing the application on a mobile device will result in the logging of all the user’s phone and text communications — including recipients, dates of communication, length of communication and mode of communication — on Facebook’s servers for Facebook’s own use.”



The issue specifically affected Android phone users as until an update was issued in 2012, Android applications could access users phone calls and text messages without asking for explicit permission. “By granting this access, Android users were also automatically and unknowingly granting Facebook permission to ‘scrape’, or automatically gather, Android users’ call and text logs,” states the lawsuit. “In other words, Facebook scraped years’ worth of call and text data, including whether the call was ‘incoming’ ‘outgoing’, or ‘missed;’ the data and time of each call; the number dialed; the individual called; and the duration of each call.”



Condelles is looking for approximately $5 million in damages and would like to make the complaint a class-action lawsuit across the entire United States.

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The Calculation Flaw in Marx’s Socialism





Quite simply, you cannot establish value without human participation through the creation of a market.  The leap forward was the creation of a common unit of trade, first with metal ingots and ultimately with paper currency.

Even that was not good enough and we discovered how to create credit and to manage it.  That began around two centuries ago and we are still learning.  It is very much a work in progress.

Sadly, the political attraction of socialism is that you can buy votes and power without creating wealth and that simply collapses as poverty naturally increases.



The Calculation Flaw in Marx’s Socialism


 by Jacob G. Hornberger

 May 8, 2018 

https://www.fff.org/2018/05/08/calculation-flaw-marxs-socialism/ 


Mark my words: American leftists who are celebrating the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birthday will not make any mention of the problem of economic calculation under socialism. The reason? The calculation problem reveals that socialism is an inherently flawed economic paradigm. It makes sense that American leftists would not want to talk about something that shows that the economic system they favor is fundamentally flawed.


Imagine a socialist society as envisioned by Marx. The state owns and produces everything. That is what is meant by the socialist term “public ownership of the means of production.” All the factories, the businesses, stores, and enterprises are owned and operated by the state. Everyone in society is a government employee.


Suppose state officials decide that it’s important to produce sweaters. How many do they produce? How many factories should be built to produce them? How much money should be spent on them? How many government employees should be allocated to the project? How much should they be paid?


As Austrian economists Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek demonstrated, it is impossible to answer these questions with any degree of rationality. The reason for that is because under socialism, there are no prices. Without prices, it is impossible to calculate the costs of projects or evaluate their worth.


The result is what Mises called “planned chaos.” That’s what socialism always and inevitably produces — chaos. Just look at Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. Nothing but economic chaos in all of them.


In a private-property, free-market economy, people are free to enter into economic trades with one another. In every trade, a person gives up something he values less for something he values more. Such trades establishe prices for various items, based on the supply of items and the demand for them.


Suppose, for example, that Peter and Paul enter into a trade in which Peter gives Paul an apple and Paul gives Peter a dollar. The price of the apple, then, is $1. If suddenly lots more people show up at Paul’s farm and express a desire for an apple, it is likely that the price of an apple will go up. If neighboring farms suddenly put their apples up for sale, it is likely that the price of an apple will go down.


It’s all based on the relative value that people subjectively place on the thing they are purchasing and the item (e.g., money) that they are giving up.


Thus, in a free market, people have a way to calculate the costs of what they are purchasing. They know what they have to give up in order to get what they want. If they subjectively decide it’s worth it to them to make the trade, they’ll do it. If not, they will walk away. The price system enables them to make a rational calculation in terms of their own personal, subjective values.


But note something important: The reason that prices come into existence is because of trades between people. Without trades, there would be no prices and, therefore, no way to make rational economic calculations.


Under socialism, there are no trades that take place because there are no traders. Everything is owned by one entity — the state. The state can’t trade with itself. Since there are no trades, there are no prices. The state’s decision to produce and distribute items, such as sweaters, becomes an entirely arbitrary process. Government officials simply decree the production of sweaters based on their own feeling that people will buy them. They do the same thing with respect to quantity and colors. They allocate arbitrary amounts of resources to factories and stores that sell sweaters even though people might want something other than sweaters.


Since it revealed an inherent and critically important flaw in the socialist paradigm, the socialist calculation critique that Mises and Hayek leveled at socialism was devastating. It has gone down in history as the “Socialist Calculation Debate.” Socialists have never been able to refute the point that Mises and Hayek made, which is why you will not find any mention of it in any of the paeans that American leftists write today celebrating Marx’s birthday.


This post was written by: Jacob G. Hornberger


Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. He was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas. He was a trial attorney for twelve years in Texas. He also was an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas, where he taught law and economics. In 1987, Mr. Hornberger left the practice of law to become director of programs at the Foundation for Economic Education. He has advanced freedom and free markets on talk-radio stations all across the country as well as on Fox News’ Neil Cavuto and Greta van Susteren shows and he appeared as a regular commentator on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show Freedom Watch. View these interviews at LewRockwell.com and from Full Context. Send him email.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2018

European Companies Rushed to Invest in Iran. What Now?



To start with, it has not been working so well and that means that those who came, looked, read the agreement and mostly backed off.   In short, consensus opinion conforms to that of Trump.  Fake peace at any price is a bad bargain.

What comes next is a new paradigm crafted by Trump.  It likely includes regime change and that means hunkering down while he reworks the terms of trade and it is likely to be beneficial.


My real point is that change has been frozen for forty years.  The agreement meant to freeze the current political dispensation which is no longer supported by the Iranians has now been set aside.  Now real change is possible.
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European Companies Rushed to Invest in Iran. What Now? 


Image A Peugeot 206 at the state-run Iran Khodro automobile manufacturing plant near Tehran. European officials want to protect their companies by finding ways to shield them from American sanctions while they continue doing business in Iran.CreditEbrahim Noroozi/Associated Press


By Jack Ewing and Stanley Reed

May 9, 2018 


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/business/iran-nuclear-trump-business-europe.html 


FRANKFURT — European companies moved quickly to invest in Iran after it agreed in 2015 to mothball its nuclear weapons program in return for an end to economic sanctions.


Automakers like Daimler and PSA Peugeot Citroën linked up with Iranian partners to sell vehicles. Siemens of Germany struck a deal to deliver locomotives. Total of France began a project to explore offshore natural gas.


Yet even before President Trump pulled out of the agreement with Iran, many companies had already tempered their expectations and limited their investment. Now their prospects look murkier as European leaders try to determine whether there is a path forward without the United States.


Officials in Europe want to protect its companies by finding ways to shield them from American sanctions while they continue doing business in Iran.


The United States, however, has not struck an optimistic tone. Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, has already said licenses that allow Boeing and Airbus, the American and European aircraft giants, to sell to Iran “will be revoked.”


“The objective is to put and maintain maximum sanctions on Iran,” Mr. Mnuchin said.


With a population of about 82 million and substantial oil reserves, Iran represented a largely untouched market with the potential for fast growth, a rare opportunity for Western companies with global ambitions.



While players like General Electric and Boeing lined up orders, many American companies, including oil giants like Chevron and Exxon Mobil, had to watch from a distance; even with the deal in place, they were still effectively blocked by sanctions imposed by the United States from working in Iran. European businesses did not have the same restrictions.


For Europe, Iran was a particularly promising example of the kind of fast-growing emerging country that helped lift the region out of a severe debt crisis in recent years. German companies, for instance, have thrived by selling factory machinery, power grid infrastructure and construction equipment that growing nations need to build modern economies.


Despite its potential, however, Iran has largely been a disappointment for European investors. In a dysfunctional economy, many failed to gain traction in a huge bureaucracy rife with political power struggles.


Companies have also been stifled by a reluctance of foreign banks to provide financing, and fears — fully justified, as it turned out — that the nuclear détente would not last.



Image A Total booth at an event on Sunday organized by Iranian Ministry of Petroleum. The French company signed the only significant deal to invest in Iran’s energy industry after the sanctions were lifted.CreditFatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency, via Getty Images




Although exports from the European Union to Iran increased by about one-third last year to 10.8 billion euros, or about $12.8 billion, the country still ranked only 33rd among the bloc’s trading partners, behind the likes of Kazakhstan and Serbia.


“German-Iranian economic relations are lagging their potential,” Volker Treier, head of the exports department at the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry, said in an email.


After Mr. Trump’s decision not to extend a moratorium on sanctions, Mr. Treier said, “the moderately positive development in business with Iran comes with a big question mark.”


In the end, expectations may simply have been too high.


After sanctions were lifted, Airbus of France signed a deal to remake Iran Air’s aging fleet with more than 100 aircraft, including a dozen super jumbo A380s.


So far, Airbus has delivered just three jets, none of them super jumbos, a company spokesman said on Tuesday. Two of the three have been leased.


In 2016, Daimler signed an agreement with Iran Khodro, a vehicle maker based in Tehran, to distribute Fuso brand trucks. Demand has been limited, however, because of Iran’s weak economy, Daimler spokesman Florian Martens said Tuesday.



Even the Iranian oil industry was having trouble attracting foreign investors — the only significant deal the country signed after sanctions were lifted was with Total for an offshore natural gas development.


Whether Total can stay in the deal is open to question. Although Europe may yet carve out protections for companies from the region, the company fears the imposition of so-called secondary sanctions by the United States against non-American businesses and individuals as part of the decision to pull out of the nuclear accord.


Patrick Pouyanné, Total’s chief executive, recently said that the company would argue that because it had signed its Iran deal before Mr. Trump’s decision, Total should benefit from a “grandfather clause” and would ask for a waiver from the United States to continue. Total also might turn its share over to its minority partner CNPC, a Chinese state-owned oil company.


European Union officials said on Tuesday that they were making plans to blunt the impact of Mr. Trump’s withdrawal — presumably helping insulate companies like Total.


“We are working on plans to protect the interests of European companies,” Maja Kocijancic, a spokeswoman for the European Commission, told reporters on Tuesday.


It was unclear, however, what those measures might be.


France, for example, hopes to engage in more detailed dialogue with the Trump administration to press for waivers for its companies. But it was too soon to say whether Mr. Trump would be swayed, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. It was also not immediately clear whether Mr. Trump would recognize the “grandfather clause” arguments favored by Total, the people said.



An Iran Air Boeing 747 at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran. Boeing and its French rival Airbus both stand to be hurt by the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.CreditBehrouz Mehri/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images




Mr. Trump’s decision to pull out of the deal with Iran may not automatically prompt governments to choke off trade.




Having ripped up an international deal, the president may have trouble recruiting allies and cutting off exports of Iranian oil, the country’s most valuable product.


Iran’s crude exports have risen to about 2.4 million barrels a day in recent months, after being around 1 million barrels a day in the months before sanctions were lifted.


“It is going to be hard to get people on board,” said Richard Nephew, a former State Department official who was the lead sanctions expert in the Iran negotiations under President Barack Obama and who successfully persuaded other customers of Iran to stop buying its oil in the years leading up to the eventual nuclear deal.


Mr. Nephew, now a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, forecast that of Iran’s major customers, Japan and South Korea would most likely cooperate on sanctions because they are worried about Washington’s negotiations with North Korea.


He said European customers, however, would probably be slower to come around. And China and India, which in some months have been buying more than 1 million barrels a day from Iran, may continue to buy Iranian crude in the same quantities.


All told, the impact of renewed sanctions would be an estimated loss of 300,000 to 500,000 barrels a day of Iranian exports, Mr. Nephew said. That would be a significant amount, but much less than the 1.4 million barrels a day or so that Mr. Obama’s sanctions achieved.


In the meantime, Iran is running its oil industry at full tilt, analysts say. “It is obvious that they are anticipating potential new sanctions and running full speed before it happens,” said Antoine Rostand, president of Kayrros, a Paris-based market research firm.



But the sanctions would nonetheless create major complications. Iran has quickly pumped up oil production in existing fields, but these will eventually become tapped out. It won’t be able to bring new fields online without partners and capital.


Still, giant oil corporations have not given up on Iran.


“We continue to be interested in exploring the role Shell can play in developing Iran’s energy potential within the boundaries of applicable laws,” Royal Dutch Shell said in an email on Tuesday.


The same principle applies to other investors, provided they are big enough — and wealthy enough — to handle the risk, said Andreas Schweitzer, managing director of Arjan Capital, a firm in London that advises companies on investing in Iran.


“Those who want this 80-million-person market and have a long-term strategy,” he said, “will go there with or without Mr. Trump.”



Correction: May 9, 2018


Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misspelled the surname of the chief executive of Total. He is Patrick Pouyanné, not Pouyannée.
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Two major advances in autonomous technologies that rival human abilities



We are really getting better at all this.

Useful hardware has become credible.  What i am looking forward to is the machine able to service crops plant by plant.  This can include collecting unwelcome pests beside the obvious of collecting the harvest..

This future once looked far-fetched and even silly, but that is because we needed to imagine those applications.  .


Two major advances in autonomous technologies that rival human abilities


Google Duplex voice technology and Boston Dynamics' robot advances push the boundaries

May 12, 2018


The voice of singer John Legend, shown here at Google I/O, will be among six celebrity voices to come to Google Duplex voice technology and Google Assistant later this year, along with phones and home speakers. (credit: Google)


http://www.kurzweilai.net/two-major-advances-in-autonomous-technologies-that-rival-human-abilities


Google Duplex


Google’s new artificial-intelligence Google Duplex voice technology for natural conversations, introduced at the Google I/Oevent this past week, cleverly blurs the line between human and machine intelligence.


Here are two impressive examples of Duplex’s natural conversations on phone calls (using different voices):


Duplex scheduling a hair salon appointment: 


Duplex calling a restaurant: 


Google Duplex is designed* to make its voice on phone conversations sound natural** — “thanks to advances in understanding, interacting, timing, and speaking,” according to Google AI Blog. For example, it uses natural-sounding “hmm”s and “uh”s, and the appropriate latency (pause time) to match people’s expectations. “For example, after people say something simple, e.g., ’hello?,’ they expect an instant response.”


Google also said at its I/O developer conference that six new voices are coming to Google Duplex, including singer-songwriter-actor John Legend’s. Legend’s voice, among others, will also come to Google Assistant later this year, and will be included in phones and home speakers.


* “At the core of Duplex is a recurrent neural network (RNN) … built using [Google's] TensorFlow Extended (TFX).”


** To address “creepy” concerns right out of a Westworld show, a Google spokesperson provided an email statement to CNET: “We are designing this feature with disclosure built-in, and we’ll make sure the system is appropriately identified.”

Boston Dynamics


Boston Dynamics has announced two significant autonomous robot developments.


The dog-like SpotMini robot is now able to navigate a set path autonomously, as shown here:


And the humanoid Atlas robot is now able to run and jump over objects:
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