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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-09-10 08:05 AM Original message |
'Hysteresis': An ugly word for an increasingly ugly economic situation |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-09-10 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
1. The 20th Century solution to this cycle was World War. Mass destruction of surplus labour -- |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-09-10 08:26 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Only that really wasn't the case |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-09-10 08:37 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. The Great Depression was a global phenomenon that in large part led to World War Two |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-09-10 09:22 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. Yes, the war would have happened, however |
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WhiteTara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-09-10 08:27 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. hopefully we will look to the 21st century |
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Cirque du So-What (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-09-10 08:31 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Particularly worrisome |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-09-10 08:51 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Sort of how the PRC and US military encouraged cigarette smoking after the Surgeon General's Report |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-09-10 08:45 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Capitalism may turn to the 20th century solution ... |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-09-10 09:01 AM Response to Original message |
8. And this why we need a serious Jobs/New Deal legislation. |
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area51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-09-10 12:15 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. +1 |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-09-10 09:12 AM Response to Original message |
9. The thin veneer of civilization is wearing out |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-09-10 02:23 PM Response to Reply #9 |
20. The point of No Return? |
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divvy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-09-10 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
11. The Economic outlook is far better than the political speech implies |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-09-10 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
12. Another way to think of this is that a system can have multiple stable states. |
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IDemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-09-10 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
13. Hysteresis isn't an inherently ugly word |
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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-09-10 10:34 AM Response to Original message |
14. I think the Post is misunderstanding the word |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-09-10 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
15. FACT: Sustainability is impossible with finite resources. PEAK OIL! |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-09-10 12:53 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Yes, we are all DOOOOOOMED! Let just go into a cave and kill ourselves! |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-09-10 01:53 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Go on smoking ya crack and ...enjoy your ride on the Titanic. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-09-10 02:29 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. I'm not the one treating oil as some magical substance. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-09-10 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
19. "we're only three years into this economic crisis" - *only*? |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-09-10 02:26 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Yep, "Only"... |
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