Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: The Base, in reply to Rob Stowell,
someone has to
Still true.
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I can understand the internal 'logic' in pulling Cunliffe but why not at least send Parker along? Empty chair just before a Budget is unbelievably stupid.
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OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to Keir Leslie,
Nothing personal intended. I was saying the real world doesn't function like 'free' market economic theory suggests. Would be great if supply and demand actually worked.
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OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to Keir Leslie,
if in fact we have an undersupply of scientists, we ought see the wages paid to them rise, until it becomes an attractive career, and then the supply will increase until equilibrium is reached. Is there a reason this process shouldn’t occur?
The labour market doesn't seem to work that way for fruitpicking or nursing for example, in the real world rather than a Chicago textbook.
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OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to BenWilson,
Yes, I know it's hard to quantify brilliance. Which is exactly what's wrong with making claims that you must have more of it. You can't even measure when you've got it, nor what it was worth.
Trying to define value only by what you can measure is the usual flaw of accountants and other counters of beans, magic or otherwise.
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OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Philosophistry
teeworthy
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OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to Russell Brown,
'sputter'
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OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to Russell Brown,
prefer to pretend
more like angrily deny :)
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OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to Russell Brown,
China's success in technology manufacturing isn't only a result of competitively low wages -- but of the state's decision to train many more engineers than would typically be trained in a western system.
And they sent huge numbers of them to be trained *in* those Western systems - notably, US universities.
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Hard News: Where do you get yours?, in reply to Bart Janssen,
It sounds trivial but it really isn't.
like many access features.