Comments on: CAPITAL & THE THRUST OF HISTORY http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/12/capital-the-thrust-of-history/ Macro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology, and Digital Media Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:43:00 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: daveNYC http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/12/capital-the-thrust-of-history/comment-page-1/#comment-130302 daveNYC Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:21:45 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=11442#comment-130302 We may thrive on creativity, but recently we've mostly been creative in the realms of accounting techniques, regulation bypassing, and financial instruments. We may thrive on creativity, but recently we’ve mostly been creative in the realms of accounting techniques, regulation bypassing, and financial instruments.

]]> By: constantnormal http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/12/capital-the-thrust-of-history/comment-page-1/#comment-130287 constantnormal Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:33:10 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=11442#comment-130287 A pity the author could not have worked Hyman Minsky's theories of congenital economic instability into this, perhaps in the flipping from inflation to deflation via the collapse of debt bubbles ... I long for a cure for the "too big" syndrome. Perhaps a modification of the antitrust legislation, such that enterprises that exceed certain metrics of GDP and/or market share are broken up into smaller entities, no fault, no punishment, just carve them up and let the game begin anew... A pity the author could not have worked Hyman Minsky’s theories of congenital economic instability into this, perhaps in the flipping from inflation to deflation via the collapse of debt bubbles …

I long for a cure for the “too big” syndrome. Perhaps a modification of the antitrust legislation, such that enterprises that exceed certain metrics of GDP and/or market share are broken up into smaller entities, no fault, no punishment, just carve them up and let the game begin anew…

]]> By: Mark E Hoffer http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/12/capital-the-thrust-of-history/comment-page-1/#comment-130272 Mark E Hoffer Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:29:11 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=11442#comment-130272 the use of the Lewis Carroll-device is truly apt. when the 'blue pill' is presented as the 'red pill', you know you've slipped 'through the Looking Glass'. the use of the Lewis Carroll-device is truly apt. when the ‘blue pill’ is presented as the ‘red pill’, you know you’ve slipped ‘through the Looking Glass’.

]]> By: Bruce in Tn http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/12/capital-the-thrust-of-history/comment-page-1/#comment-130262 Bruce in Tn Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:16:07 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=11442#comment-130262 What happens if, instead of a global currency, we have global ZIRP? http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aSuEqEz717Dg&refer=worldwide Any ideas? What happens if, instead of a global currency, we have global ZIRP?

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aSuEqEz717Dg&refer=worldwide

Any ideas?

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