Comments by "Edward McLaughlin" (@edwardmclaughlin7935) on "Econ Lessons" channel.

  1. "Ukraine will not lose because they've stated they will not lose and that's all there is to it" That's a very interesting syllogistic construction.
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  2. If I had Bitcoin I'd certainly choose this as a good time to sell; just before it does one of its customary bungee-jumps. Then I'd buy some more on the dip. Just where ethics comes into any of this is a puzzle. As for your Wife's crypto? In what way was it your Wife's if she had no say in its sale? Your ethics seems to have at its base, some sort of antipathy with anyone who tries to avoid the dollar system." India, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Colombia, Mexico, Brasil, Nigeria and.........shock horror........Russia". How do you think this will sit with people who are viewing you from those countries? This 'non-transparent way' you portray as being somehow unethical, has been devised and is being adopted by increasing numbers, because they have witnessed the weaponisation of the Dollar - they don't want to be next to get hosed-down by Washington, on the pretext of 'defending democracy'. A lot of people are indeed trying to avoid sanctions. Who gets to impose these sanctions and on what basis? How is it supposed to be right and good, that people should trust their hard-earned currency in a system that is so corrupted? This' free market' - where is it, because it's not anywhere I can see in the Western economies.
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  3.  @toby9999  So why did Ukraine pull out of the peace deal that had been struck in April 2022?
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  4. Russophobia of Zeihanic proportions.
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  5. vulkanofnocturne You have a safe place to store your fiat currency? Nobody is going to degrade or dilute it while it sits there?
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  6.  @ocean_monster1  There was a peace deal. You are wrong and you are desperate. Best wishes.
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  7. martin Wake up to what? And do what?
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  8. floxy20 And the Soviet system was ended, when?
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  9. So the water supply in Florida carries chemicals that rots pipes? Do you all drink bottled water then? Really, the levels of Russophobia here are off the chart. Reference is made to the Soviet Union that was disbanded over thirty years ago. All Russian economic figures are held to be fictional; so are we to believe everything that comes out of the US Treasury and the Fed'? The basic motivator here seems to be a virulent hatred of Russia and Russians, based on deep-seated personal ethnic history. This precludes you from making any fair and objective assessment of the current situation. The whole of Russia is portrayed as a land populated by turnip-seeking paupers; these are the people whose sons have been sent to the front armed with shovels and firing missiles - including their Tsirkon hypersonics that evade everything the US has to offer - guided by washing machine circuit boards. I wonder if an 'academic economist' in Russia would not be able to afford to pay for his house repairs?
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  10. Back then, when you were a kid, and people were casting doom over the US, I was a kid too and I knew it to be nonsense. Then is not now. Back then, what is happening now wasn't happening. Back then, the dollar had not been debased and the insanity of the $34 trillion debt clock running red-hot could not have been dreamt of I love the true American, freedom-loving ethos, and all who live by it; but they're not in power. Those in power are in the business of taking down that ethos and way of life.  Who bombed Nordstream? Who paid the Crocus assailants? Who promised not to move 'one inch further east' and then did just that? Who scuppered the peace settlement between Ukraine and Russia in April 2022? Who sponsored ISIS in Syria? Who invaded Afghanistan? Who invaded Iraq? Who bombed Serbia? Who is destroying the $ and in so doing, sweeping away the wealth of ordinary people? Lastly, which 'soft power' is it that operates almost 800 military bases across the globe?
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  11. Your thinking is in need of an update. As so many more people, you seriously neglect how Russia has transformed itself from what it was when your scythe was made. So close to the 'fighting with shovels' meme that was worn-out as soon as it was coined. You posit a 'free market' US/West, as against a Russian 'oligarchy'. So how should we look upon the exploits of the likes of Larry Fink and Jeff Bezos? Are they oligarchs? What of the antics of the Federal Reserve which wields dictatorial power as clumsily as the most hidebound commissariat; presiding over a US economy that is now $34Trillion in debt and increasing exponentially. How does a monetary economist think that is going to end? Organic farming in California, you hold up as a beacon? The US, along with countries right across the 'free' West, is in the process - by means of so many 'climate crisis' measures - of evicting farmers from their land so that the Bill Gates elite class of property barons can own it all. Honestly mate, you need to catch yourself on. The only evidence you have any sense of sound judgment here, is the very nice raincoat; I'd be grateful if you could tell me what make it is please?
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  12. "...vapourised because of the refinery..."? In your rabid hatred of all things Russia, you are stumbling over your own ideas. Spliffology.
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  13.  @zulubeatz1  Sleep on my pet, sleep on.
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  14.  @zulubeatz1  It entailed and end to the killing. That's not what you want?
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  15.  @zulubeatz1  That's how it went in Afghanistan is it? In Iraq? In Libya? In Syria?
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  16.  @jarcadipane2849  Exactly the same tautology operating in your statement as in the quotation.
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  17.  @PDXDrumr  How original. Anyone who doesn't fall-in with the narrative is a Russian spook eh?
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