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Battle of Ideas: The Credit Crunch Demystified

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Michael A. Thompson Avatar
Michael A. Thompson
Posts: 21
Posted: 11.19.08, 06:45 PM
They need to take a few courses in public speaking. I found their constant use of "eh" to be VERY distracting!
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daftrhetoric
Posts: 0
Posted: 12.11.08, 01:39 AM
I'm not certain that this man has a complete grasp of postindustrialism. He's covered the financial sector, but he's totally omitted the designers, engineers, teachers, and artists that make the ideas that keep post industry viable.
Additionally he seems not to understand that consumption is required to uphold employment rates. Without American consumption all of the 'nonessential' manufacturing jobs would fall through leaving the Chinese workforce (a third of the world's population)jobless and with no marketable skills.
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Vivaskove
Posts: 1
Posted: 12.31.08, 04:29 AM
I wish Savage was joking. Clearly such a single-minded speech could not deserve him the place he is in. He has no idea how the world economy works together, only assuming dumping trash over the other side of the wall is the way out. If you want to stop the crisis, stop producing the trash! "They don't have all the luxury things we have in the West..." Savage, you must be living in your own cube world, don't you? Haven't you heard people laughing around you? Get a room.
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brushes9
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Posted: 12.31.08, 03:32 PM
If you look down on large, Chinese cities from Google Earth, you see rows and rows of "apartment buildings," (similar to the South Side of Chicago). This "Government Housing" cannot hold much "stuff." Perhaps, we will be saved by a future Chinese Suburbia. Is that what your vast intelligence has to offer, Michael Savage?
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