Economics - some rational ideas

[Ferretfancy]

The European country with the best figure for growth is Belgium. They haven't had a government for 15 months, Hmmm!

[amateur51]

But it may slow things down until somebody comes up with a better idea ... Also, people who go down this route will find it easier to survive when the ultimate crash comes. In the meantime, start making a study as to which berries are edible and which poisonous.

A task for Esteemed Member cavatina, surely??

[amateur51]

I have a teensy problem with Mr Grew's master-plan. The current world population is some 6.94 billion ; the estate of chateau d' yquem only produces 200,000 bottles each year. That means less than 0.00003 bottles per person. I need more than a literal drop of such a wine.

I don't think the incorruptible robots will be able to increase the production of ch. d' yquem.

Therefore this plan is a Bad Idea.

That's a deuced big bluebottle in the ambrosial ointment, I do agree vinteuil!

I admire your priorities!

[Serial_Apologist]

A task for Esteemed Member cavatina, surely??

[teamsaint]

The European country with the best figure for growth is Belgium. They haven't had a government for 15 months, Hmmm!

Now that is a piece of information I WILL be passing around my fellow citizens !!
Good work FF.

Governments are the source of our problems, not the solution.

[eighthobstruction]

You will be pleased to know that 8thO and his good friend Rooooosta Sings....Cecil....have absolutely no wish to enter into this discussion [nor the intelligence....avarice....£$£$ ambition]....but will only say, SUSTAINIBLITY....(this is our normal interjection into such debates)....{in fact as with the Bank of England and interest rates}....our position is unchanged for 23 months....there will be no rise this month....

[scottycelt]

The European country with the best figure for growth is Belgium. They haven't had a government for 15 months, Hmmm!

Of course Belgium has a government!

It just doesn't have any group of useless, self-serving politicians who are willing and daft enough to take official responsibility when things start to go very badly wrong ...

[cavatina]

I have a teensy problem with Mr Grew's master-plan. The current world population is some 6.94 billion ; the estate of chateau d' yquem only produces 200,000 bottles each year. That means less than 0.00003 bottles per person. I need more than a literal drop of such a wine.

I don't think the incorruptible robots will be able to increase the production of ch. d' yquem.

Therefore this plan is a Bad Idea.

A few weeks ago, I was talking to a French wine importer about why Grand cru Bordeaux is vastly overvalued in comparison with Premier Cru Supérieur Sauternes. He said it's largely due to demand from the Asian market: "Once the Chinese catch on to how good Sauternes is with chinese food, the price is going to explode."

Consider yourself warned...stock up now!

[vinteuil]

Consider yourself warned...stock up now!

wise words here from cavatina.

I think I have enough sauternes to keep me going for the next few years, and enough left-bank claret to see me through to about 2020... but yes, maybe now wd be a good time to stock up...

Going back to maître Grew's original post - if he had specified that all and only fungible* goods shd be divvied up between everyone, he might have been on to something...

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungibility

[Lateralthinking1]

The best idea would probably be to listen to the experts and act on their advice. The world's richest man of the last decade, self-made multi millionaire, aged almost 81, says that tax breaks for the extremely wealthy only benefit the extremely wealthy.

Why on earth should anyone believe the opposite arguments put forward by people half his age, who effectively could be his grandchildren, with millions owned through inheritance but little in the way of a track record?

[vinteuil]

interesting Will Hutton piece in today's Observer -

https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/18/euro-crisis-recession-europe