Heraclitusstudent's threads
Cost of healthcare in France
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 7 Sep 2016
37 comments, latest
9 years ago
1st person experience: - 1 doctor visit: 23 euros (This is a private doctor office. 1 day wait time to get an appointment. He did a test to diagnose ...
5,300 Wells Fargo employees fired over 2 million phony accounts
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 8 Sep 2016
16 comments, latest
9 years ago
http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/0 Here we have bank employees caught stealing from customers, and apparently the punishment is a fine, restitution, fired employees. Shouldn't people go to prison for theft? ""At Wells ...
Iwog 20% correction soon?
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 2 Sep 2016
53 comments, latest
9 years ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/view Global growth is weak, and will be eroded further by Brexit. Oil prices are low, and likely to plunge further. The world has excess capacity and a wage-depressing ...
Why Voters Dont Buy It When Economists Say Global Trade Is Good
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 29 Jul 2016
Posted 9 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07 They provide 3 possible reasons: isolationism, nationalism, ethnocentrism. They reeaallly can't understand that people don't like working commodity jobs for the minimum wage and then taking debt to ...
Psychiatric hospitals filling up with time travellers...
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 29 Jul 2016
2 comments, latest
9 years ago
...sent back to kill Trump. http://newsthump.com/2016/03/0
Apple is failing
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 25 Jul 2016
1 comment, latest
9 years ago
http://wccftech.com/iphone-6se Looks like the biggest improvements on iphone this year will be the removal of the 3.5mm headphone jack and a change in the color offering. At the same ...
Hillary to ask for knives control soon?
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 25 Jul 2016
1 comment, latest
9 years ago
At least 19 dead in knife attack in Japan: reports https://www.yahoo.com/news/lea
EU should 'undermine national homogeneity' says UN migration chief
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 27 Jun 2016
Posted 10 years ago
Ok, this is an older article from 2012 but it illustrates how our elites think are leading us into a deadend. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-pol Peter Sutherland is the closest thing to ...
In defense of guns
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 16 Jun 2016
64 comments, latest
10 years ago
There is a lot of emotions about gun controls, and I'm in favor of some level of gun control, and licenses requiring specific training to own guns. But we ...
What the Orlando attack says: US strategy against Islam is not working
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 13 Jun 2016
12 comments, latest
10 years ago
Radical Islamic organizations like ISIS are hoping the west will attack Islam because they know Islam is a defensive cult. This would allow them to use the narrative of ...
One more anti-gay republican...
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 12 May 2016
6 comments, latest
10 years ago
... Outed as Former Drag Queen. http://issuehawk.com/igor/2014
Chinas financial system: The coming debt bust
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 9 May 2016
Posted 10 years ago
http://www.economist.com/news/ http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ Interesting stuff...
Free Speech and Islam: The Left Betrays the Most Vulnerable
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 6 May 2016
2 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://quillette.com/2016/05/0 No better evidence of this strain of illogical, muddled intolerance of free expression exists than the suspicion and ire regressive leftists reserve for former Muslims and Muslim reformers ...
Female teachers abusing male students
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 6 May 2016
8 comments, latest
10 years ago
Apparently not that rare... http://www.cbsnews.com/picture
Sam Harris: The End of Faith
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 29 Apr 2016
4 comments, latest
10 years ago
www.GnWM0osZp4Y I agree with much he says: - points out the stupidity of religious beliefs and the problem they create - singles out Muslims for the violence they cause ...
We're doomed
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 15 Apr 2016
1 comment, latest
10 years ago
Why There’s Hope for the Middle Class (With Help From China) http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04 "Better times may be ahead, though. Higher wages in China — and other emerging nations — are ...
Why Trump can't be president
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 2 Mar 2016
37 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ " We've been telling Trump supporters that he is a racist, a sexist, and a bigot, as reasons for why Trump should not and cannot be the next ...
NYT explaining wages are set by biases not markets
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 18 Mar 2016
3 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03 "In fact, another study shows, when women enter fields in greater numbers, pay declines — for the very same jobs that more men were doing before." "Once women ...
Trade message being felt: the theory doesn't work
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 15 Mar 2016
28 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03 "What seems most striking is that the angry working class — dismissed so often as myopic, unable to understand the economic trade-offs presented by trade — appears to ...
Economists still don't get it on trade
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 10 Mar 2016
31 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03 "Annual imports of Chinese tires increased to 46 million in 2008 from 15 million in 2004, and American tire makers shed several thousands of jobs. So the Obama ...
The establishment paying lip service to the problem
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 8 Mar 2016
5 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03 "The political system is in shock at the insurrection of the white working class, which has flocked to Mr. Trump's candidacy. On the wrong side of globalization and ...
Trump's donations to Clinton
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 8 Mar 2016
4 comments, latest
10 years ago
"I support politicians. In 2008, I supported Hillary Clinton, I supported many other people, by the way, and that was because of the fact that I'm in business." I ...
Why millennials like Bernie
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 23 Feb 2016
67 comments, latest
10 years ago
It's not free stuff. It's really not complicated: "Asked to identify the country's top problems, respondents saw corruption as the chief challenge, with 38% listing it. In his stump ...
Male Sellers on eBay Have an Edge Over Women, Study Finds
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 22 Feb 2016
13 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02 “The basic point — that people have different expectations of women versus men and so we treat them very differently in the world — it's fascinating and depressing,” ...
Donald Trump finally went too far for Republicans
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 14 Feb 2016
41 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.vox.com/2016/2/14/1 "Trump said that invading Iraq was a disaster, that the country was misled into invading Iraq by the Bush administration, and that the claim that Bush kept the ...
DNC stole New Hampshire primary
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 11 Feb 2016
12 comments, latest
10 years ago
After Crushing Defeat, DNC Quirk Still Gives Hillary More New Hampshire Delegates Than Sanders http://dailycaller.com/2016/02 It's supposed to be a democracy?
Chris Christie out
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 10 Feb 2016
7 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02 He will be remembered for slapping Rubiot unconscious at the debate.
American Students Know Almost Nothing About Their College Loans
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 3 Feb 2016
38 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ - "just 38 percent of those with loans were able to identify how much they had borrowed" - "Only 8 percent knew the interest rate on their loan" ...
Toxic Loans Around the World Weigh on Global Growth
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 3 Feb 2016
Posted 10 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02 "Some analysts estimate that China’s troubled credit could exceed $5 trillion" Oh no! Guess negative rates will come to the rescue: forcing deadbeats to borrow even more. "Wherever ...
Military Researchers Develop Corpse-Eating Robots
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 21 Jan 2016
7 comments, latest
10 years ago
"From the file marked “Evidently, many scientists have never seen even one scary sci-fi movie”: The Defense Department is funding research into battlefield robots that power themselves by eating ...
Not to retire...
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 28 Aug 2015
1 comment, latest
10 years ago
https://www.facebook.com/georg
U.S. Will Track Secret Buyers of Luxury Real Estate
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 13 Jan 2016
4 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01 It is the first time the federal government has required real estate companies to disclose names behind all-cash transactions, and it is likely to send shudders through the ...
China to Track Renminbi Based on Basket of Currencies
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 11 Dec 2015
Posted 10 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12 Uh Oh... that means devaluation of Yuan, leaving the dollar to shoot up and moving down toward the euro. These guys really don't want to give up their ...
U.S. rejects charge that Turkey involved in ISIS oil smuggling
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 2 Dec 2015
8 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://news.yahoo.com/u-reject State Department spokesman Mark Toner told a news briefing that U.S. information was that Islamic State was selling oil at the wellheads to middlemen who in turn were ...
Helicopter money coming
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 25 Nov 2015
2 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/
The other problem in the fight against terrorism...
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 20 Nov 2015
Posted 10 years ago
The West’s denial regarding Saudi Arabia is striking: It salutes the theocracy as its ally but pretends not to notice that it is the world’s chief ideological sponsor of ...
The future of Islam
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 18 Nov 2015
75 comments, latest
10 years ago
Good discussion here. On the one hand we will not convert 1+B of Muslims to atheism overnight. On the other liberals need to do more to call out evil ...
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