Free Enterprise. WE Win!

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Once the dust settles on this fraudulent, fascist, socialized debt filled economic structure; impact and socially responsible investing will be the trend that emerges. Love not war makes more; thanks JC.

BlackRock CEO Tells Companies To Contribute To Society

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

That thing where years of data turns into information from the horses mouth... Theorem...

‘Make Trade, Not War’ is China’s daring plan in the Middle East

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

More like the death of the facist liberal world order. The idea China hasn't been "Westernized" is laughable. The idea of the silk road not being fully supported by "The West" is laughable. What I do love is how this idea of America dreading a mulipolar world. It has been my assertion since post one of this thread that it has been an underlying strategy to build China up because it's easier to walk with two legs. (See post #425)

The Death Of The Liberal World Order

Thus it’s fairly likely that the current crisis of liberalism will definitively bury the unipolar Western system of hegemony.

And the budding movements of populism and regional protectionism can serve as the basis for a new, multipolar world order.

Strong nations within a global financial market where we all service our own economy.

Thanks JC

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Too much credit given to President Trump, but there is always a catalyst for change. Early in calling the trend, always seems to be the case. But early is how you stay a head of the curve.

Debt jubilee. Hard assets and sustainability.

Stock investors confront the once unthinkable: a new world order

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

The themes throughout this thread:

-The world - as we all do - would walk better on two legs.
-Data shows China and US are working on military strategy because;
-US business is why China is No. 2 economy, and;
-UST and currency is how China needs to keep building, therefore;
-US vs. China is great news, but it's really about business not bulits;
-But Piper must be paid have to get paid;

The following stories sums that up:
-As China-U.S. friction rises, their armies hold joint disaster drills
-China matches Nato in information arms race with deal for ‘Ferrari of war room software’

Free Enterprise, we the people win! Thanks JC.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

I have heard for years now, from both sides of the isle, that China will their treasuries to "punish" the US.... Hyperbole always loses to the fact of mutually assured destruction. At one point that meant weapons, it's now evolved into economics; as was the plan oh so many centuries ago. All the big players agree, love, not war, makes more. Problem is a death cult wants us all to submit to their value system. But it's all about FREEDOM!!!!

Exclusive: China not seriously considering U.S. Treasuries as trade war weapon

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

A nice clear picture of what Seth Klarman has only just realized in the last couple years. What we call, after the jubilee!

Dear Socialists: The People HAVE Seized the Means of Production… Using Capitalism.

The proletariat did not have to seize the means of production in a violent socialist coup.

Capitalism handed the means of production to the workers voluntarily.

And it did so for a profit.....

....Production costs have dropped so low that basically anyone can accumulate the capital to launch an independent endeavor.

And that has revealed that it was never really about the capital…

Socialists are right about one thing: labor is the main driver behind production.

Unfortunately, they fail to see the value in the labor of the capitalists and managers.

Allocating capital to productive endeavors takes skillful labor. Organizing and running a business takes skillful labor. That’s why most new businesses fail.....

....Example 2: Jeff Bezos, Socialist Hero.

Starting a book store requires capital for real estate, books, marketing, and labor costs.

Starting e-commerce giant Amazon in a garage and working 12 hour days for years required less capital.

Bezos seized the means of production from the capitalist book store owners and became the richest man in modern history.

Yet if Jeff Bezos distributed all of his $134.5 billion to all 736 million people on earth living in extreme poverty, he could more than double their standard of living… for three months, and six days.

Then all his money would be gone. He wouldn’t be making any more from Amazon, having liquidated his 16% of the company in order to distribute his wealth. And the people in poverty would be no better off than they were 96 days earlier.

But Bezos’ platform Amazon allowed two million sellers worldwide to earn $42 billion in 2018.

And they will keep earning that money year after year. That’s how poverty has been reduced by over 90% in the last 120 years.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

As outlined extensively for years - as if AOC and the new "socialists" in the US weren't enough evidence - socialist propaganda and islamofacists have been trying to tear us apart from the inside. They bent, not broke us; and now we are on a MAGA springboard into the new world!

Thanks JC!

Moscow secretly funded US anti-fracking groups. Is it now attacking US energy companies? (So, who are Russian puppets again?!?)

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Capitalism (aka Self-Ownership) Is the Only Moral Economic System

naming capitalism—making it seem that the owners of capital gain and others are hurt. But capitalism is better defined as a system of private ownership of resources, including one’s labor, not simply ownership of capital, coordinated by solely voluntary arrangements. Private property prevents the physical invasion of a person’s life, their liberty, or their property without their consent. By preventing such invasions, private property is an irreplaceable defense against aggression by the strong against the weak. No one is allowed to be a predator by violating others’ rights. In such a system, capitalists need the voluntary consent of laborers in their arrangements, preventing capitalists from exploiting laborers. In Herbert Spencer’s words, “far from being, as some have alleged, an advocacy of the claims of the strong against the weak, [capitalism] is much more an insistence that the weak shall be guarded against the strong.”....

....In capitalism Free Enterprise (which is actually inconsistent with the government- created or enabled crony capitalism we see all around us), even those who would be tyrants, if given the opportunity, must focus their efforts on providing willing service to others to induce their voluntary cooperation. In contrast, the drive for power that animates these politicians who condemn a capitalism they plainly don’t comprehend would increasingly turn others into their unwilling servants.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Keeping with the theme of tying things together; this thread - the last couple of pages specifically - is what I was referring to in the latest post made on the thread, A Different Perspective on the Deep State. The article below address some points from the "Deep State" post, and ties into this thread perfectly.

You see, it's not some conspiracy that the British have been trying to bring the US back into the fold. The Fabian society and the institutions outlined in the articles I have been posting have been well documented and it's been no secret what they have been aiming to achieve. It just hasn't been discussed much, and put into perspective how they have bent, not broken, The American System! You see, something had to be done after the war, because it wasn't over, it just turned cold.........

How the ‘Real’ America Is in Harmony With the Belt and Road Initiative

The fact that the American Revolution was an international affair is made evident by the fact that without the collaboration of the leadership of Russia, France, as well as many powerful forces in Poland, Spain, Germany the revolution could never have succeeded. Catherine the Great led the League of Armed Neutrality ensuring arms and funding to the rebelling colonies while the great Polish general Kosciusko working with German and French military officers were organized to help train and lead the American farmers during this battle....

.....Many of these international forces were organized over decades by the brilliant planning of Benjamin Franklin who wrote extensively that America should model itself on the best principles of Confucianism and even argued for the modelling of America’s civil service upon China’s meritocracy. Franklin’s discoveries in electricity were directly tied to his concept of natural law and statecraft earning him the reputation of the “Prometheus of America”. Even the greatest artists of Europe such as Mozart, Schiller, and Beethoven were inspired by the idea that the American experience was merely the precursor to a new age of reason that would soon liberate Europe from the shackles of oligarchism. Not only was Schiller’s great poem Ode to Joy an homage to this hope for a brotherhood of mankind, but so was Beethoven’s later musical expression of it in his 9th Symphony......

....Gilpin famously said:

“Salvation must come to America from China, and this consists in the introduction of the “Chinese constitution” viz. the “patriarchal democracy of the Celestial Empire”. The political life of the United States is through European influences, in a state of complete demoralization, and the Chinese Constitution alone contains elements of regeneration. For this reason, a railroad to the Pacific is of such vast importance, since by its means the Chinese trade will be conducted straight across the North American continent. This trade must bring in its train Chinese civilization. All that is usually alleged against China is mere calumny spread purposefully, just like those calumnies which are circulated in Europe about the United States”...

Continued below....

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

....continued

.....China’s “founding father” Sun Yat-sen, an avowed follower of Abraham Lincoln composed his International Development of China (1920) calling for international construction of rail, ports and resources from China throughout Eurasia connecting to Europe and Russia (a precursor to today’s BRI). In his work he echoed Gilpin’s vision by saying “The nations which will take part in this development will reap immense advantages. Furthermore, international cooperation of this kind cannot but help to strengthen the Brotherhood of Man.”.....

....China’s President Xi Jinping recently said:

“To respond to the call of the times, China takes it its mission to make new and even greater contribution to mankind. China will work with other countries to build a community with a shared future for mankind, forge partnerships across the world, enhance friendship and cooperation, and explore a new path of growing state-to-state relations based on mutual respect, fairness, justice and win-win cooperation. Our goal is to make the world a place of peace and stability and life happier and more fulfilling for all.”

-Opting out: Some of China’s '996' tech tribe quit, seek less stress

The U.S. Has An Edge On GDP Growth, And It's Thanks To Millennials

Over the next several decades, the growth rate of the U.S.’s working age population will outpace other developed economies. Right now, Japan, Europe and China are feeling the economic pinch as their societies age. However in the U.S., with the Baby Boomer generation entering retirement, the workforce has backup from two legions of young people: Millennials and Gen Z.....

....The relative youth of the U.S. population is an unmatched advantage among major developed economies. Comprehensive research from Morgan Stanley estimates that the favorable growth impact from demographics over the next several decades will surprise and exceed those baked into the official Congressional Budget Office (CBO) outlook. It projects that average consumption levels should grow from 1.7% in 2018 to 2.5%, heading into the 2030s.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Jan 10, 2011 20:41:25 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

When has a military strategy been to build up other nations so that they are equal to you? Something had to be done after the forties because the war wasn't over, just turned cold. I know that we as humans can walk better with two legs. Why can't the world?? Don't fool yourself, or listen to the media that is always looking for the decline of America. It is possible that short term loss in jobs will lead to long term gain in prosperity for everyone. We are not talking about sections of the planet this is the whole world that is involved.

These are current market events that tie this all in together!!!

China says joint interests with U.S. greater than differences

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Love it! Literally enough data a head of the curve around here that all that needs to be done is updateds!

Oct 23, 2017 22:22:30 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

I have been looking for this quote for a bit; thanks for posting on some old threads Mr. Lucki

Aug 4, 2014 16:45:30 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

Those workers will be going to the Mid East to fight the global jihad because it's the only force big enough to stop it. While we here will provide aerial support.

When the troops move home, social reforms will be forced and democracy will follow, and yes will support that too.

The convergence of the debt wall jubaliee, global war blocking China's liquidity trap exit and then; Chinese democracy, the end of the command govt structure and Free Enterprise with two legs for the world to walk on? Thanks JC.

-Why The Ambiguity Of China's Belt And Road Initiative Is Perhaps Its Biggest Strength(or why they know war is stopping project management)
-October 2017 – “Should I Stay or Should I Go?"
-Charting China's 'great purge' under Xi
-Xi tells Communists to do more to meet democracy aspirations of Chinese
-China and the U.S.: Clash or convergence?

Are the missing points in this article: The Coming Crisis of China’s One-Party Regime

I've said it before and it's starting to happen... let's all help the Chinese get their democracy.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

From the start of this thread it was love not war makes more. Missing Putin's delusions, means I missed the regional war going global. Not understanding the IRRATIONAL, made me miss that we are going to have to go through this one more time before it's fully understood.

China's liquidity trap only exists because of a wall of war, and that war is the only reason we aren't all talking about helping the Chinese get their democracy right now.

The fact is though, love does make more than war. And by LOVE, I mean free enterprise. Where we are all free to take part in the process that will lift the meek out of poverty, and then we shall inherit this world. Ironically, I now understand that it's the necessity of the 99% factor while made it so this program took so long to debug.

Nothing like a picture to finish of the thousand words.

Love not war makes more. Thanks JC.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

And let's not forget anymore, this is the whole world that is involved in this mess.

How Everyone Messes Up at Once: Austrian Business Cycle Theory, Summarized

The price system is a thing of beauty. F.A. Hayek was exactly right when he said that it would be considered among humanity’s greatest achievements had it actually been designed, created, and implemented. Instead, it just emerged without central planning or a wise order from a wise ruler.

Wrong. It emerged from the wisest ruler.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

I could file this one under the death of socialism, however, the end of the article sums up what's next and ties into the previous post on this thread nicely.

Thanks JC.

History Was Supposed to End. What Happened?

The exalted experts who rose to power in the postwar period built gigantic state-based systems of social management and control and took over vast swaths of private society, imposing planning schemes across many sectors of economic life. They imagined themselves to be permanent fixtures of the socio-economic system. After all, this approach won the war (so they said), so why couldn’t it win the peace?

But there was a problem: over time nothing worked as it was supposed to. There were massive internal contradictions within the model, as Amity Shlaes shows in her new book on the Great Society. The new systems relied on bureaucratic command, not market signals. There was another problem: they were hugely imposing on people’s lives and property, and people don’t like that. Or rather: they will put up with it so long as they perceive that the benefits exceed or at least match the costs.....

.....F.A. Hayek had long demonstrated about socialism, the movement was in fact nothing of the sort. It was originated by elites and largely served elites: intellectuals, the people who knew better than the masses, the people in power or wanting power, the winners in the game of political manipulation....

.....The experts we put in charge of the state apparatus to rule us through compulsion and coercion had proven to be an enormous flop. Their wars on everything from poverty to drugs to illiteracy to terrorism had made each of the targetted areas actually worse, while market forces themselves – mercifully neglected by the state – were creating vast new technologies in the newly dawned digital age and creating glorious new opportunities for everyone. It was markets, not welfare, that lifted billions out of poverty, opened up information economies, created dazzling new modes of communicating and living, and blasted open the possibilities for progress like we’ve never seen in human history......

.....The next paradigm of history – once we stop experimenting with mad ideologies, populist reactions, fake paths to manufactured progress, and top-down means of enforcement – needs to be human liberty itself.

[djAdvocate]

May 21, 2017 13:43:09 GMT -5 verrip1 said:

Aman, re your Austrian economics reference:

If Big Business is believed to be bad, why is not Big Government, with its far greater power over the citizenry, considered worse?

Last I heard, it is government who makes war in places like Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan .  I have yet to see the standing armies of Exxon Mobil and Goldman Sachs .

that is because they use the US military to fight their wars.

this is actually well understood to students of history.  if you want just one slice of it, try looking up the sordid history of United Fruit Company.

the combination of standing armies and the influence of major corporations is a recipe for disaster, which is why Jefferson hated both of these ideas to the point of protest.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Jan 20, 2020 16:17:24 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

May 21, 2017 13:43:09 GMT -5 verrip1 said:

Aman, re your Austrian economics reference:

If Big Business is believed to be bad, why is not Big Government, with its far greater power over the citizenry, considered worse?

Last I heard, it is government who makes war in places like Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan .  I have yet to see the standing armies of Exxon Mobil and Goldman Sachs .

that is because they use the US military to fight their wars.

this is actually well understood to students of history.  if you want just one slice of it, try looking up the sordid history of United Fruit Company.

the combination of standing armies and the influence of major corporations is a recipe for disaster, which is why Jefferson hated both of these ideas to the point of protest.

On the other hand, corporations are responsible for lifting more out of poverty - a lot of it caused by wars - than anything else in human history. So, while no all good, not all bad.

Now, crony capitalism is another thing all together, especially highly subsidized "green" tech that is far from clean.

The governments are no longer afraid of the ppl. Smaller government, means a more level playing field in the business world.

Viva la Revolucion!