[$h@key J0nEZ]

Originally Posted by Swerve22

Let's be honest, the stupid people are voting for Obama and Romney. Ron Paul has the people that want freedom re-legalized.

Fixed for accuracy.

[licence2kill]

QE3 just ended Romney's chance at becoming president.

It's a lock for Obama now.

[licence2kill]

obama intrade share prices

[Matt.is.back2011]

Originally Posted by licence2kill

obama intrade share prices

What does that graph show?

[$h@key J0nEZ]

Originally Posted by licence2kill

QE3 just ended Romney's chance at becoming president.

It's a lock for Obama now.

It's also gonna be a lock for the Chinese.

[licence2kill]

Originally Posted by Matt.is.back2011

What does that graph show?

intrade is a betting market where you can buy share betting on future events

so the higher the price for an obama share = higher chance he will be elected

[Matt.is.back2011]

Interesting find haha. Thank you for the explanation.

[Swerve22]

Originally Posted by licence2kill

QE3 just ended Romney's chance at becoming president.

It's a lock for Obama now.

I remember when some of my liberal friends used to get angry about Bush printing money back in the day.

[licence2kill]

swerve, that doesn't even make sense

the only other time we've hit the zero lower bound was the great depression

[Swerve22]

They still accused him of it.

[licence2kill]

what they probably meant was running up needless debt, which is true. but thats not money printing.

[Tin-Man]

Originally Posted by licence2kill

what they probably meant was running up needless debt, which is true. but thats not money printing.

That may be true. To many people throw the term around without clearly knowing the factors.

[licence2kill]

Romney is, undoubtedly, upset:

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/0...st-fr-now.html

[$h@key J0nEZ]

It's like Obama broke the Koolaid Dam and washed away Romney's campaign.

[Iamamartianchurch]

Originally Posted by Blake360

Then how did he become a doctor and a 12-term congressman, and predict the recession? Have you done any of those?

I dont have it out for Ron Paul by any means, but how can you qualify either of these things?

Doesn't Obama have a prestigious pedigree himself? I'm confident you believe he is a fool.

[licence2kill]

Matt Yglesias on Paul Ryan:

M.J. Lee in Politico attacks "budget wonk" Paul Ryan on the grounds that his stump speeches about debt and the budget are totally devoid of specifics:

On the trail, the way the Wisconsin lawmaker speaks broadly about the need to cut spending and rein in the national debt stands in in stark contrast to how the congressman crunches numbers with ease in presentations on Capitol Hill, sometimes with the help of a graph or a chart. He is known as an unapologetic truth-teller, bearing fiscal bad news with political confidence that has helped elevate him into a conservative hero.
But on the national campaign trail where the risk is much greater, Ryan’s rhetoric has been fuzzier.

I think this is unfair—Ryan's always been vague. There's absolutely nothing new in his campaign rhetoric. If you look at the various iterations of his budget, by far the biggest savings occur by simply stipulating the non-Medicare, non-Medicaid, non-Social Security, nonmilitary spending will shrink to its tiniest level ever. He doesn't say anything about what that will look like. He doesn't say how regulatory agencies will be staffed (or not staffed), what programs will be eliminated (or not eliminated), or in general what America will look like if the federal government makes a radical change in its commitment to nonmilitary, nonhealth spending.

His Medicaid program is the same. He wants to "block grant" the program so that states have more flexibility and then just ... spend way less money. What's that going to look like? He doesn't say. His rhetoric implies that somehow the magic of block granting will make this work, but the reality is that it means a bunch of people who currently get health care or nursing home care covered won't get it. But Ryan never gets into the weeds of how his new, stingier plan will work.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/09/13/politico_on_paul_ryan_an_unfair_attack_on_a_man_wh o_s_always_been_vague_.html

[Tin-Man]

Sorry, after Romney said that his concept of 'Middle-Class Households' made ~$250k that's enough for me...

[licence2kill]

Paul Ryan calls for fewer jobs and higher unemployment

[licence2kill]

This campaign is pretty much dead.

[TheSilentAssassin]

Anyone catch Romney's new gaffe about the 47%? This campaign is becoming a joke...

[Rampager2000]

He means this one, for the record.