Quote:Original post by HostileExpanse
I'm still curious about possible responses to the questions I asked about Austrians. Perhaps that Maelstrom guy will take a turn at responding...

Quote:Feel free to post an example of a useful [predictive and real-world applicable] Austrian "theorem" that is wholly derived solely from postulates such as, "humans act"

Quote:We travelled to Sweden to find out more about how their adoption of independent schools within the state school system has apparently encouraged parental choice and increased competition across the board, as well as exploring how Swedish style approaches are already been applied here in the Britain

Quote:The Finns' excellence in education is inspiring. A British teacher visits to learn from their experience, and sees learning by doing, smaller classes and mutual respect making a huge impact.

Quote:The quality, authority and credibility of the resource
The great strength of the video clip is its honesty. This is a real class with un-primed children. Johanna runs into real problems of communication, over-high expectations, cultural difference and behaviour. She shows her exasperation and disappointment in ways that will be familiar to many ITE students and teachers and has a very authentic, heated, conversation with the English class teacher at the end of a particularly challenging session. ITE students will relate to the difficulties she has and the lessons she plans and delivers.

Quote:Original post by Naurava kulkuri
Concerning the last one, 35 pupilis in a class was way too much and evidently it caused problems to learning: poor results and disrupting behaviour. All the reserchers seem to agree with this notion. Related to this, there was a delegation of teachers from the UK (I believe they made a documentary of it and was aired in some BBC Teacher's Channel or something over there) not too long ago that were seeing how we are teaching and teaching themselves in Finnish class rooms too.

Quote:Original post by LessBread
The fairtax is another gimmick to fool people into going along with massive tax cuts for the super wealthy. You want a fair tax system? Jack up the top rates to the 70% rate they were back in the 1960's. Then pay down the national debt. Once the debt is paid down, bring the top rates down to 50%. Do you want to know why that's fair? It's fair because the wealthiest make their money off the backs of everyone else. When the wealthiest get tax cuts, they don't invest that money into productive endeavors, they use it to gamble in the stock market. Tax cuts free them up to take unreasonable risks. Easy come, easy go. Tax hikes on the other hand force them to behave as sober investors. The fair tax raises rates on the poorest of the poor while massively cutting rates for the richest of the rich. It's a total sham pushed by charlatans.

Quote:Original post by dbzprogrammer
Do you have statistics to back your claim that the wealthy just play in the stock market? Are you aware that they are inclined to play in the stock market because of a lower rate of taxation? Perhaps if the cost of investing in productive endeavors went down, which is what the FairTax...

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Quote:Original post by dbzprogrammer
Do you have statistics to back your claim that the wealthy just play in the stock market? Are you aware that they are inclined to play in the stock market because of a lower rate of taxation? Perhaps if the cost of investing in productive endeavors went down, which is what the FairTax...

To me it looks contradictory to ask for statistics to back-up a claim, but then to go on by yourself to give an opinion piece why it is so – that is if you are opposing and consequently asking for statistics. Anyway, Krugman wrote related to playing in stock-markets in his article Rewarding Bad Actors. I have a strong feeling that investments to high-performance computing have soared during these past few years. Not least because those were the assets that were instantly sold from bankrupt companies to other financial institutions.