Nice. :07
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Only if you qualify it as a service worth $300T lol. But really though I don't think it can even be classified as a transfer payment since the IOU is worthless to the issuer.
The joke about economists asking each other to eat dogshit does increase GDP if you qualify eating dogshit as a service. It's why the inclusion of services in GDP is very questionable because of how difficult it is to measure.
Another example would be healthcare, in the US Healthcare is measured in GDP at price you pay for the final service so you get a bloated GDP. In other countries with universal Healthcare it's not directly measured and the sector itself is measured at factor cost (wages, equipment etc).
Yet another one, bank charges eg overdraft fees are included in GDP as a service even though it's closer to a direct tax than a service.
Only if you qualify it as a service worth $300T lol. But really though I don't think it can even be classified as a transfer payment since the IOU is worthless to the issuer.
The joke about economists asking each other to eat dogshit does increase GDP if you qualify eating dogshit as a service. It's why the inclusion of services in GDP is very questionable because of how difficult it is to measure.
Another example would be healthcare, in the US Healthcare is measured in GDP at price you pay for the final service so you get a bloated GDP. In other countries with universal Healthcare it's not directly measured and the sector itself is measured at factor cost (wages, equipment etc).
Yet another one, bank charges eg overdraft fees are included in GDP as a service even though it's closer to a direct tax than a service.
This is yet another form of debt, but that massive accumulation of pesos immediately becomes a ticking bomb
A future admin could freeze those pesos or prevent US Treasury from selling it for Dollars (i.e. capital controls), since its held at the BCRA (or through a BCRA authorized commercial bank). Or it could set its own exchange rate, like what Iceland did, which acts as a penalty.
In response, the U.S. could threaten sanctions. But still, when its your own currency you can freeze it.
from what i read its for raw earf metals
India has 30-40% unemployment for graduates, India's 'growth' rate is very cooked, it has a large informal sector and formal sector data is used to impute informal sector growth. Informal sector meanwhile has been destroyed by multiple self-inflicted and external shocks.
For India to grow:
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Domestic private sector must be willing to spend: It is refusing to do so, they are swimming in profits, all they can do is rent-seek using state resources.
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Foreign sector is unreliable, they can exploit India's resources, and they have that's how some of the decent growth occurred in the 2000s global bubble but it hasn't translated to employment.
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Government is unwilling to spend. I do believe that they legitimately believe in neoliberal propaganda of 'Government is a household'.
Some blame Modi but his Government only continued the neoliberal legacy, the neoliberal policies hit the limit in 2011 or so.
This site is pretty good: https://rupeindia.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/i-mountains-of-cash/
China is the only country with a large population that successfully industrialized and grew using the external sector growth strategy (and that too with the help of the state). All the other Asian tigers had smaller population and thus needed less foreign investments to develop.
Unlike the US which never does worse using financial tricks.
AirVPN is the major one with port forwarding, you can forward 5 ports both TCP and UDP.
While it's good, they still have to get the Yuan somehow.
Kenya imports $3B worth of goods from China and exports mere $200M to China. Meanwhile, it imports $737M from the U.S. and exports $780M to the U.S. Meanwhile, most of their capital inflows like FDI/FPI (which finances their trade/current deficits) comes from mainly Western countries.
U.S. hasn't won a war since WW2 and even then it barely played a role.
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Charlie Kirk, founder and president of the conservative organization Turning Point USA, suggested in a recent episode of The Charlie Kirk Show that children should watch public executions.
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of killing someone as punishment for a convicted crime. According to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), there are 27 states that carry out the death penalty and 23 states that have abolished the lethal practice.
Meanwhile, several executions are scheduled to take place in the United States this year, starting with what was the nation's first execution using nitrogen gas in Alabama.
Twenty-four inmates were put to death in the U.S. in 2023, according to the DPIC. Texas carried out the most executions—eight—followed by Florida with six and Oklahoma and Missouri with four each. Alabama carried out two executions, one in July and another in November, following a series of flawed lethal injections in 2022.
Charlie Kirk, founder and executive director of Turning Point USA, speaks on July 15, 2023, in West Palm Beach, Florida. Kirk suggested in a recent episode of "The Charlie Kirk Show" that children should watch public executions. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images
On his weekly panel discussion, "ThoughtCrime," Kirk was discussing death penalties of those convicted of crimes, adding that not only does he believe there should be public executions, but that children should watch them.
"Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, its an initiation...What age should you start to see public executions?" Kirk asked.
Kirk, along with his co-hosts Jack Posobiec, Tyler Bowyer and Blake Neff, continued to discuss at what age should children watch the public executions, with one co-host pointing out as young as 12 years old.
"I think maybe age 12, sixth grade or so when you are old enough... " Neff said.
While Bowyer pointed out that it should be at an age when someone "can embrace the meaning" of the execution.
In response, Kirk said, "I think it should be taken in a holy way and I don't mean holy in a bad way, I mean that this is heavy.
In addition, Kirk asked whether crime would go up or down if children were to watch public executions, "Here's a question for anyone that might be not persuaded. Would crime go up or down?"
Bowyer said, "It would go way down," with Kirk then asking, "So why is this even a question?"
This is not the first time Kirk, a supporter of former President Donald Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has been at the forefront of controversy before as pastor Darrell Scott, a radio host and another Trump supporter, said earlier this month that Kirk is attempting to inspire a new generation of the "Hitler youth."
Scott, pastor at the New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland, Ohio, appeared on The Tudor Dixon Podcast, hosted by Dixon, a former Michigan gubernatorial candidate, where they discussed Kirk and another conservative commentator, Candace Owens.
"In those years right after high school but before you enter all the way into full adulthood, those are some critical years in a person's life," Scott said. "Those years can make or break the rest of your life...and Charlie is trying to grab them right then and there and form these opinions in their mind of white oppression, white victimhood, Black man bad, white man better. He's really trying to infect this [Republican] Party with that ideology to turn this party into what this party's detractors say this is.
"I even said he's trying to raise up a new generation of Hitler youth...I know I was kind of extreme in my statements, but I'm drawing the comparison to him because this guy thinks he's slick. He thinks he's the smartest guy in the room and he's not."
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They got German citizenship ffs. "Ethnic cleansing".