Says psychologist David Lewkowicz of Florida Atlantic University, who led [a] study published yesterday…
’The baby in order to imitate you has to figure out how to shape their lips to make that particular sound they’re hearing,’’
Can you “figure out” why this is utter nonsense? I should as obvious as monkey see, monkey do. With this sort of thing passing for science, we are surely doomed.
Watching Herman Cain duel with his female accusers is like watching the Jerry Springer Show. Not a pretty picture. If you partake, be sure an wash you hands afterwards.
During the housing bubble people bet on rising home prices by taking out loans on to-good-to-be true terms and investment banking made bets on the rising home prices by lending on to-good-be-true terms. Everyone drank the Kool Aid. Prices went down. Having made bad bets, home owners should default on their loans and bankers should take their losses. This is the simple-minded logic of every-man-for-himself market economics.
The nations that joined the EU placed bets on rising economic prosperity that would come from joining the EU and adopting the Euro and borrowing from the EU banks on to-good-to-be-true terms. The EU investment bankers made speculative bets on EU member nations by lending them billions on to-good-to-be-true terms. The borrower economies went down not up. Everyone drank the Kool Aid and having made bad bets the borrowers should default on their loans and the bankers should take their losses. This too, is the simple-minded logic of every-man-for-himself market economics.
So how do the bankers hold the world hostage to their bad bets? They claim they are too big to fail. In other words, the only game they know is heads they win, tails we lose.
The Greeks are threatening to boycott the game.
My response to Paul Krugman’s NTY column today, “Party of Pollution“.
Profit-seekers who plunder national resources and despoil the environment that we all share, rich and poor alike, exact a price that must be paid at some point in the future. Payment WILL be made in the form of clean-up costs, lost opportunity, degraded life styles, depleted resources, ill health and even death.
It should be obvious that relaxing the regulation of polluters is a form of universal taxation, the proceeds of which are given to the polluters to keep them swimming in profits. Lax regulation is just a backdoor version of corporate socialism in which government redistributes the wealth of our nation to profit-seeking business interests.
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