Comments for Bracket Bending http://bracket.freecapitalists.org A blog of not so random thoughts on various issues. Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:17:49 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Proping up prices. by Henry Prenter http://bracket.freecapitalists.org/2009/02/14/proping-prices/#comment-6 Henry Prenter Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:17:49 +0000 /Community/blogs/bracket/archive/2009/02/14/proping-up-prices.aspx#comment-6 I have been looking at a 2008 Lexus IS 350 since august. My local dealer has 3 in the color options package. They won’t negotiate on price so the cars just sit there for months on end. By the time they are ready to get rid of the 2008′s the 2010′s will be out.

]]> Comment on The NY Times expects us to feel sorry for: by Livemike http://bracket.freecapitalists.org/2009/02/20/ny-times-expects-feel/#comment-7 Livemike Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:58:05 +0000 /Community/blogs/bracket/archive/2009/02/19/the-ny-times-expects-us-to-feel-sorry-for.aspx#comment-7 If he had a real understanding of how the market works he’d have shorted any of dozens of stocks and would be buying a car for himself and his sweetheart probably off on of the less successful brokers, extended his trip to Paris and paid off the student loan in full (just to get it out of the way).

]]> Comment on Here we go again…. by jimmy http://bracket.freecapitalists.org/2009/01/31/here-we-go-again/#comment-5 jimmy Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:43:37 +0000 /Community/blogs/bracket/archive/2009/01/31/here-we-go-again.aspx#comment-5 I just can’t get over how Bastiat keeps coming back again and again (Hazlitt was so right). The majority of economic fallacies stem not from any lack of knowledge about economics, but directly from people’s stupidity. I’m starting to seriously wonder if there’s anything anyone can reallly do about it.

]]> Comment on The money of science fiction. by bracket_bender http://bracket.freecapitalists.org/2009/01/20/money-science-fiction/#comment-4 bracket_bender Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:13:25 +0000 /Community/blogs/bracket/archive/2009/01/19/the-money-of-science-fiction.aspx#comment-4 I’ve never seen a mention of a ‘credits’ type system in original BSG. As to transport, gold is fungible so transport may not have been needed to any large extent. Also it is supposed to be a people that have been traveling in space for thousands of years so costs should have been low.

]]> Comment on The money of science fiction. by FutbolGuru http://bracket.freecapitalists.org/2009/01/20/money-science-fiction/#comment-3 FutbolGuru Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:45:57 +0000 /Community/blogs/bracket/archive/2009/01/19/the-money-of-science-fiction.aspx#comment-3 Interesting. Given the highly advanced state of the 12 Colonies however, does Gold really make sense? In order for separate planets to transact business this would imply that gold would have to be moved from one planet to another at great expense. Did they ever mention credits on BSG or was it implied that they always used hard currency?

]]> Comment on The Motorama Dystopia, version 2 by MonsieurMetal http://bracket.freecapitalists.org/2008/12/06/motorama-dystopia-version-2/#comment-2 MonsieurMetal Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:14:07 +0000 /Community/blogs/bracket/archive/2008/12/06/the-motorama-dystopia-version-2.aspx#comment-2 Very enjoyable little story, in the sense that it is depressingly prescient.

I live in Edmonton, Alberta, where our city transportation chief is on record as saying he wants to suspend road construction and scale back maintenance, as well as jack up downtown parking rates to outrageous levels, in order to force people to use public transit. In your first Motorama Dystopia, you mentioned that the plan is to force people into public transit, then make public transit worse. Edmonton has streamlined the process by not having any kind of decent public transit system in the first place. You Americans are just so inefficient in your statism!

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